I conduct research using neurological and physiological measures to gain additional understanding about how people are affected by challenging, attention-demanding tasks. I am especially interested in tasks that require extreme vigilance, or sustained attentional focus, such as air traffic control, cyber network defense, and driving. My lab's applied neuroscience approach provides objective estimates of task-related stress, workload, and fatigue, which can be used in concert with subjective and performance measures to assess and improve the mental state and performance of individuals and teams as they are actively engaged in various real-world tasks.
