The research projects at the Lopez Valdes Lab fall within a framework that ties together four different concepts or categories:

  1. Embodied Cognition: Trying to identify the effects of the environment on our cognitive function.

  2. Novel Health Platforms: That are emerging and are needed in order to capture the nuances of individualized real-world data.

  3. Brain Health Biomarkers: That could be derived for individuals and provide valuable insights with respect to changes in cognitive function.

  4. Three-way Development: Of strategies, interventions, policies and technology that can empower individuals on their Brain Health journey.

Ongoing Projects

  • Effects of hearing aid technology on hierarchical speech encoding

    Aims to investigate the efficacy of hearing aid signal processing for restoring neural signatures of hierarchical speech processing

  • In-Ear Sensor Validation Framework

    Aims to create a platform for validation of in ear sensing technology, and provide a building block towards use case specific performance.

  • Hardware & Software based synchronization tool for portable Electrophysiology

    Aims at creating a simple tool for validating software based synchronization for portable electrophysiological amplifiers

  • Investigating group dynamics with Hyperscanning

    Aims and dive deeper into group dynamics and brain synchronization by looking and EEG-band specific synchronization and video informed analysis of data.

  • Validation of a non-verbal cognitive test battery.

    Aims at creating validation data set for a non-verbal cognitive test battery that can be used for assessing cognitive load under different noise conditions

Wrapped-up Projects

  • Context driven electrophysiology

    This project evaluated levels of brain synchronization for teams of individuals during collaborative tasks through hyper-scanning of EEG signals

  • Design of a wearable bio-sensing platform for coupled EEG and ECG

    This project aimed at enabling simultaneous, multi-modal acquisition of electrophysiological signals through portable technology

  • Resting state EEG measures as a cognitive battery baseline

    This project investigated the relationship of resting state electroencephalography (EEG) with readiness (HRV), self-reported mood and cognitive measures over 42 days

  • The role of degraded auditory information on cognition

    This project evaluated non-auditory cognitive performance of participants under different noise conditions.