Neurophysiological Assessment of Information Environment Through a Multi-Sensor Platform

Rapid innovation in computer-mediated communication (e.g., social media) has created new channels for the spread of information. The proposed work will integrate Advanced Brain Monitoring’s neurological and physiological metrics (e.g., EEG, ECG, eye-tracking) with Cubic Intific Corporation’s Social Media Analytic Replication Toolkit (SMART) to yield a unified framework for analyzing information spread in different online contexts. The integrated system produced by this effort will provide a real-time window into a number of states including attention, affective, motivation, empathy, workload, and stress; support insight into the neural processing of different forms of information; identify neurological and physiological factors that affect information spread in the online environment.