The University of Houston neuroscience programs include the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience program in the Department of Psychology and various centers including Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science and the Center for Neuromotor, Biomechanics Research (CNBR). and the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab.

Web Information

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: http://www.uh.edu/class/psychology/dev-psych/research/

Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science: http://cnecs.egr.uh.edu/

Center for Neuromotor, Biomechanics Research: http://www.hhp.uh.edu/cnbr/about.php

Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab: http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~nbmis/

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

The Developmental Psychology graduate program in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston is divided into the following research laboratories:

Behavioral Neuroscience Lab, Director: Leigh Leasure Cognitive Development Lab, Director: Hanako Yoshida Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience, Director: Therese Kosten Laboratory for the Neural Bases of Bilingualism, Director: Arturo Hernandez The Texas Center for Learning Disabilities, Overall Project Principal Investigator: Jack M. Fletcher Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics, Director: David J. Francis; Associate Director: Coleen D. Carlson Visual Cognition Lab, Director: Bruno Breitmeyer

Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science

This center is the successor of the Cognitive Science Initiative, and its primary mission is to conduct basic and applied research in neuro-engineering and cognitive science.

Other important objectives include the education of students in a multi-disciplinary ...

Principal Investigator: Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, University of Houston Neuroscience Title:  Assaying neural individuality and variation in freely behaving people based on qEEG BRAIN Category: Individuality and Variation

The goals of this research are to uncover neural signals associated with the passive and interactive perception/production of art and to assess the long-term stability of neural activity acquired via quantitative electroencephalography (or qEEG).

Abstract

Award Number:#1533691

This project will deploy noninvasive Mobile Brain-body Imaging devices (MoBI) in a public museum with the goal of assaying individuality and variation in neural activity as it occurs (e.g., “in action and context”) in a large and diverse group of people, including children, experiencing fixed and interactive art exhibits. A natural setting such as an art museum attracts thousands of people with rich demographic factors such as age, sex, education level, occupation, and other factors such as health, medication and neurological status, thereby providing a unique opportunity to study the population distribution, accuracy and stability of neural activity and advance understanding of the dynamics of complex neural and cognitive systems in natural environments. The broader impacts of this research include integrating the arts, science and engineering to advance brain science; advancing the regulatory science of biomedical devices by uncovering biometric neural data ...

 

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computing Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering Principal Investigator, Brain-Machine Interface Systems

Dr. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal’s vision is to innovate neural, prosthetic and rehabilitation engineering by developing non-invasive intuitive bi-directional brain-machine interface systems that harness user’s intent from scalp EEG. We are also uncovering exciting applications in the arts and STEM training in K-12 education, as well as reverse engineering the brain while achieving reverse-translational benefits of co-robots.

 

Web Information

Department webpage: http://www.ece.uh.edu/faculty/contreras-vidal

Brain-Machine Interface Systems website: http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~nbmis/

University of Houston Neuroscience: http://brain2015.onair.cc/university-of-houston-neuroscience/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jose-l-contreras-vidal-ph-d/19/949/131

Contact Information

Email: jlcontreras-vidal%40uh.edu

Phone: 713-743-4400

Address:Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering N308 Engineering Building 1 Houston, Texas 77004-4005Biography

 

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Education:

Engineer’s Degree in Electronics & Communications, Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Motor Neuroscience, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Human Frontiers Science Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Fribourg, Switzerland

Professional Experience:

University of Maryland-College Park; Assistant (1999) and Associate (2005) Professor, 1999-2011

Awards & Honors:

Research and Development Award, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, 2011 President, International Graphonomics Society, 2013-2015 National Science Foundation Review Panel (Ad-hoc) NIH 2011/10 ZRG1 BBBP-V (10) B: Small Business: Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes across the Lifespan Study ...

The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed

Professor teams up with local artist to study aesthetic experiences in the brain.

Visitors to Dario’s Robleto’s conceptual art exhibit were given the option of wearing an EEG skullcap to record their brain activity while they observe Robleto’s artwork. The team of researchers from the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering were led by Jose “Pepe” Luis Contreras-Vidal, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Video published on  Nov. 3, 2014 by UH Cullen College of Engineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaad7eh9yH0Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaad7eh9yH0)

Professor teams up with local artist to study aesthetic experiences in the brain

by Audrey Grayson on Nov. 4, 2014 in  Cullen College of Engineering News

It’s rare to find science and art so inextricably tied together. It’s rarer still to find yourself playing the role of scientist, artist and art ...