Neuroscience, technology, and society

Research Topic B

Neuroscience, technology and society

Projects within this topic focus on innovative research in cognitive science, and neuroscience applied to the emerging technologies and bearing societal relevance. Projects in this curriculum deal with psychological issues and opportunities raised by the tight interdependence between humans and machines and adopt investigation techniques that address such interdependence directly. Domains belonging to this curriculum include human-computer interaction, cybertherapy, brain-computer interfaces, assistive technologies for sensorial, perceptive and cognitive problems, computational cognitive neuroscience and biomedics as well as topics related to smart communities.