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Proposal Title
Investigator Team:
Reviewer Name (or ANON):
Link to Pilot Program
If the proposal is linked to a pilot program, does it adequately address the results of that program?
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Comments: This proposal is not linked to a pilot program.
Background & General Objectives
Does the proposed research build on and sufficiently go beyond prior work in this area?
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Are the aims clearly described?
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Link to Center Objectives & Potential Applications
Do the researchers make explicit links between their work and the Center’s objectives? (see last page)
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Do the researchers detail the potential applications of this work?
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Specific Objectives & Timeline
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Do the researchers provide specific experimental or developmental efforts outlined in their objectives?
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Have the researchers constructed a reasonable timeline for the work they have proposed with appropriate milestones?
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Is the budget reasonable given the scope of work?
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Overall Evaluation
Do you agree that this work is of sufficiently high quality to make a significant contribution to the objectives of the
center? (see last page)
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Reviewer Signature (if reviewer wishes to remain anonymous, leave blank)
Date
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Overview:
Topic Areas:
The Center for Applied Brain & Cognitive Sciences welcomes pilot and full program proposals
aimed at fulfilling the Center’s objectives to advance the state-of-the-art in applied brain and
cognitive sciences through interdisciplinary science and engineering. The Center provides an
innovative environment for supporting and conducting collaborative applied research focused on
measuring, predicting, and enhancing cognitive capabilities and human systems interactions for
individuals and teams working in naturalistic high stakes environments. See
www.centerforabcs.org for details.
Each year, the Center for Applied Brain & Cognitive Sciences will issue formal topic areas to guide
and constrain proposed efforts. Each proposal must be explicitly linked to at least one of the below
topic areas:
Topic A: Understanding Humans and Supporting Systems. Programs falling under this topic will
define fundamental principles governing the interactions between contextualized humans and
intelligent supporting systems. These include hand-held and person-borne devices (e.g., smart
phones, head mounted displays and tablets) and autonomous robotic platforms aimed at
augmenting and optimizing human cognition, affect, and/or physical capabilities in mixed initiative
teams.
Topic B: Monitor, Characterize, and Optimize Cognitive and Non-Cognitive States. Programs
falling under this topic will focus on establishing and testing multi-modal (physiological,
neurophysiological, behavioral, hormonal) measures and metrics for monitoring and characterizing
relevant cognitive and non-cognitive states such as frustration, mental workload, stress, readiness
for problem solving, fear, uncertainty and fatigue (cognitive and physical). Measures used to
monitor and characterize states will include (but are not limited to) electroencephalography (EEG),
functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), eye tracking, pupillometry, transcranial direct
current stimulation (tDCS), electromyography (EMG), galvanic skin response (GSR), and heart
rate (HR).
Topic C: Understanding the Immersed Ambulatory Human. Programs falling under this topic will
be aimed at examining human performance optimization systems on ambulatory humans engaged
in realistic cognitive and physical tasks and environments designed to emulate real-world
conditions and demands.
Topic D: Pioneering Individual to Team Translation. Programs falling under this topic will pioneer
the translation of cognitive science findings related to individualized human performance to realworld team-based contexts that demand interaction, communication, and cohesiveness among
multiple individuals engaged in collective tasks such as Soldiers, law enforcement officials,
emergency first responders, and medical personnel.