Neuroergonomics 816

Recent advances in neuroscience and engineering have allowed increasingly accessible, mobile, and wearable neurotechnologies that can record or alter human brain activity in natural everyday settings. Following significant conceptual and methodological improvements within the last decades, portable neuroimaging sensors are now widely adopted to study the neural mechanisms underlying human perceptual, cognitive, and motor functioning with a focus on real-world contexts. Similarly, non-invasive neurostimulation have led to a proliferation of research on brain and its enhancement, both in patients with neurological or psychiatric diseases, as well as healthy individuals for augmented cognition. Neuroergonomics, as an interdisciplinary emerging field, utilizes these tools and diverse methods to investigate the human brain function and its relation to everyday behavior. Neuroergonomic design principles and applications are poised to eventually be an integral part of the way we communicate, learn, work, and play.