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Skin bioelectronics and cognitive processes
With a partner lab at University of Oslo, we investigate how bioimpedance signals can serve to infer cognitive processes.
Cognitive variables are often inferred from peripheral signals, such as skin conductance responses (SCR). With a partner lab at University of Oslo, we investigate how other bioimpedance signals can be brought into the same framework. Our collaborators have developed a novel measurement system based on AC measurements that quantifies skin conductance, skin susceptance, and skin potential simultaneously. We now seek to relate these signals to cognitive processes.
We seek either of these two profiles, depending on your background:
(1) You have a background in electrical engineering, physics, or related fields, and a strong interest in understanding biosystems.
(2) Your background is in neuroscience, biology, or related fields, and you have first experience with bioelectronics and mathematical modelling of biological (or physical) systems.
In either case, an ability to conduct data analyses (e.g. in Python, R, or MATLAB) is required.
Cognitive variables are often inferred from peripheral signals, such as skin conductance responses (SCR). With a partner lab at University of Oslo, we investigate how other bioimpedance signals can be brought into the same framework. Our collaborators have developed a novel measurement system based on AC measurements that quantifies skin conductance, skin susceptance, and skin potential simultaneously. We now seek to relate these signals to cognitive processes.
We seek either of these two profiles, depending on your background: (1) You have a background in electrical engineering, physics, or related fields, and a strong interest in understanding biosystems. (2) Your background is in neuroscience, biology, or related fields, and you have first experience with bioelectronics and mathematical modelling of biological (or physical) systems. In either case, an ability to conduct data analyses (e.g. in Python, R, or MATLAB) is required.
In the project, you will visit our partner lab and learn to use the new instrumentation, and then acquire data from a small range of tasks in Zurich. You will analyse the data, test LTI models of skin conductance and skin susceptance, and develop non-linear models of skin potential, based on an approximate bioelectrical model. The project can be adapted to a 12 month UZH or 6 month ETH MSc thesis.
In the project, you will visit our partner lab and learn to use the new instrumentation, and then acquire data from a small range of tasks in Zurich. You will analyse the data, test LTI models of skin conductance and skin susceptance, and develop non-linear models of skin potential, based on an approximate bioelectrical model. The project can be adapted to a 12 month UZH or 6 month ETH MSc thesis.