Before being the leading researcher in the SMART project, Lucía Vaquero was involved and acted as the local Principal Investigator (from UCM) for the EU-funded project ‘tEchnology for Multimodal inter-BRain dynAmiCs invEstigation (EMBRACE)‘ (also funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Program; specifically, it was awarded with an H2020-MSCA-RISE grant, which support international and intersectoral research projects).
The EMBRACE project aims to develop a new mobile and wireless dry-electrode EEG system suitable for monitoring brain activity during full body movements, in a hyperscanning setting, that will allow the simultaneous recording of neural, physiological and kinematic signals from two interacting subjects. To do so, a consortium of academic and industry-allocated researchers collaborate in order to develop both the hardware and software (analytical) components of this novel multimodal system. The specific experimental paradigm with which EMBRACE system will be tested is table tennis games. This ambicious project will improve the ways in which we are able to study human interaction in cooperation and competition conditions.
A new article describing the study protocol of the EMBRACE project has just been published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The paper can be consulted here (open access), and the MSCA fellow and main researcher of SMART, Lucía Vaquero, is a co-author in it.
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