Use of wearable physiological sensors to predict cognitive workload in a visuospatial learning task.

Background: Increased cognitive workload, sometimes known as mental strain or mental effort, has been associated with reduced performance.

Objective: The use of physiological monitoring was investigated to predict cognitive workload and performance.

Methods: Twenty-one participants completed a 10-minute seated rest, a visuospatial learning task modeled after crane operation, and the Stroop test, an assessment that measures cognitive interference.

Dynamic motor tracking is sensitive to subacute mTBI.

Effective screening for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is critical to accurate diagnosis, intervention, and improving outcomes. However, detecting mTBI using conventional clinical techniques is difficult, time intensive, and subject to observer bias. We examine the use of a simple visuomotor tracking task as a screening tool for mTBI.

Gene name identification and normalization using a model organism database.

Biology has now become an information science, and researchers are increasingly dependent on expert-curated biological databases to organize the findings from the published literature. We report here on a series of experiments related to the application of natural language processing to aid in the curation process for FlyBase. We focused on listing the normalized form of genes and gene products discussed in an article.