arXiv:2606. 25177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cognitive workload monitoring is important for adaptive rehabilitation and assistive interfaces, where task difficulty, pacing, and feedback should be adjusted according to the user's cognitive state to avoid overload and under-challenge.
By Guorui Lu, Shaohua Guan, Zhen Xu, Qinyu Chen
GazeFS is a model that predicts and stabilizes target‑centered gaze trajectories using a variable‑length gaze‑head history, without requiring target information during inference. It maps this history to the next target‑center direction and a short‑horizon Search/Focus estimate, improving focus target centering and reducing residual gaze error. Across 7,960 acquisition episodes from 30 participants, GazeFS reduces Focus episode bias, dispersion, and P90 target error by 0.182°, 0.257°, and 0.400°, respectively, while maintaining high phase‑balanced accuracy and AUPRC.
By Yaozheng Xia, Zaiping Zhu, Bo Pang, Minghao Xie, Hui Li, Shaorong Wang, Sheng Li
BioSync is a transformer-based model that fuses cardiac, neural, behavioral, and speech data from wearables and mobile devices into a continuous composite digital biomarker called the BioSync Index (BSI). The architecture uses multi-head self-attention on modality tokens and a linear branch for feature concatenation, inspired by latent-variable measurement theory. Evaluations on synthetic cohorts for cognitive decline and metabolic-autonomic conditions show BioSync achieving AUCs of 0.928 and 0.764 accuracy/F1 of 0.766, outperforming simple concatenation and other fusion strategies in most corruption scenarios.
By Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi
AOI-Net introduces a structural face AOI-guided Eye‑Gaze Track Network that jointly models short‑term temporal dynamics and AOI‑level structural organization for Autism Spectrum Disorder detection. The network uses a gating mechanism to adaptively combine complementary representations and incorporates class‑distribution‑aware learning to address the imbalance between ASD and typically developing participants. Experiments on a large clinical eye‑tracking database with over 1,300 participants demonstrate that AOI‑Net outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods and offers interpretable gaze‑behavior modeling for scalable AI‑driven ASD screening.
By Zhanpei Huang, Binbin Sun, Jialiang Chen, Yiou Wang, Taochen Chen, Yuzhu Ji, Yiqun Zhang, Yiu-Ming Cheung
arXiv:2607. 25679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal behavioral analysis offers a scalable approach to assessing depression, anxiety, and stress, yet generic fusion models often ignore the psychometric structure of questionnaire labels.
By Shiyu Teng, Haichen Yu, Jiaqing Liu, Hao Sun, Yu Song, Shurong Chai, Ruibo Hou, Lanfen Lin, Yen-Wei Chen
arXiv:2610.08809v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Depression severity among patients with chronic or acute medical conditions is influenced by a complex interaction of baseline psychological state, dem...
By Muhammad Jawad Chowdhury, Sultanus Salehin, Akib Jayed Islam
arXiv:2609.27729v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In neuropsychiatry, the primary goal is often not only to decode brain activity but to change it, for example to lessen a negative affective bias or...
By Marco Rothermel, Madleen Stenger, Soroush Daftarian, Svenja Jule Francke, Bita Shariatpanahi, Jos\'e C. Garc\'ia Alanis, Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani, Stefan G. Hofmann, Tim Hahn, Hamidreza Jamalabadi
The paper presents a method for zero‑shot cross‑subject continuous affect regression using synchronized EEG‑fNIRS data. It decomposes affect trajectories into a shared component across subjects and an individual component derived from a label‑free alpha‑band cross‑channel synchrony marker, which rescales the shared trajectory for each test subject. Extensive validation—including leave‑one‑subject‑out correlation, functional‑form comparison, component ablation, and ceiling analysis—shows the approach achieves lower mean absolute errors than EEGNet and ASAC‑Net baselines on unseen subjects.
By Xuan Wang, Bing Wang, Shuai Chang, Hao Yuan, Xinbo Qi, Xinyue Zhang
arXiv:2605.01238v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Engagement, which links to attentional, emotional, and cognitive dimensions, plays an important role in learning. In online and video-based l...
By Zikang Leng, Edan Eyal, Yingtian Shi, Jiaman He, Yaqi Liu, Thomas Pl\"otz
arXiv:2609.24370v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-attention is central to modern Transformer architectures, but its dense dot-product formulation makes it difficult to identify which internal dire...
By Vasileios Arampatzakis, Vasileios Sevetlidis, George Pavlidis
The paper introduces MC-TRCM, a Modality‑Conditioned Temporal Recursive Context Model that treats each feature source from mobile and wearable mental‑health datasets as a separate token and explicitly models missingness. By encoding observed values, summarizing missingness, and using learned absence tokens, the model refines predictions recursively and is conditioned on dataset and task embeddings. Evaluated on six endpoints from DepreST‑CAT and PSYCHE‑D, MC‑TRCM outperforms tabular baselines on PHQ‑9 and GAD‑7 severity prediction and matches or slightly exceeds reference performance on classification tasks, with ablations confirming the importance of feature‑wise modulation, absence tokens, missingness projections, and recursive refinement.
By Wentao Wang, Lifeng Han, Zining Ren, Hengyu Zhong, Guangyu Zou
The study examines whether a decodable "empathy" direction can be used as a reliable causal lever in language models. Using EPITOME-derived facets of Recognition (cognitive) and Resonance (affective) across three instruction‑tuned LLMs, the authors find that while affective steering can partially raise affective scores, cognitive steering shows inconsistent or unmeasurable effects. The results highlight that decodability does not guarantee reliable control, especially for cognitive empathy, and that measurement sensitivity must be explicitly checked.
By Haoran Jisun