It will also develop high-quality virtual reality stimulation that could impact octopuses' behavior in an underwater environment. The electrodes will be constructed so that they do not corrode in salt water. It will develop the first underwater EEG, first testing well-validated paradigms on humans performing task underwater and benchmarking against known waveforms. This research might reveal that the neural substrates of cognitive function in the octopus are organized according to principles that differ drastically from those found in in humans. Therefore, understanding whether and how octopuses' brains implement processes such as learning, attention, habituation, and surprise can produce new and important understandings of how neurobiological systems can support function. While the brain of the octopus is very different from that of the human, it does support well-defined cognitive functions. This will necessitate development of new engineering solutions for crafting electroencephalography (EEG) sensors that can record signal underwater, new solutions for removing noise artifacts from these highly complicated recordings, as well as careful design of experiments that could study such behaviors in a virtual-reality environment. This project aims to fabricate neuroelectric sensors and experimental protocols that would enable studying visual and higher level cognitive processes in the octopus while they are engaged in natural behaviors in an underwater environment. The octopus is a social animal, with high intelligence and problem-solving skills, that is very distant from humans in terms of its evolution. Primary Place of Performance Congressional District: Peter Tse (Principal Investigator) Sponsored Research Office:.Jonathan Fritz (703)292-7923 BCS Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci SBE Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
NCS-FO: Collaborative Research: Developing Underwater EEG Electrodes for Octopus Research NSF Org:īCS Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
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