The Cognitive Science Research Initiative is one of the latest ventures taken up by BVRIT. The lab is being headed by Dr I.A.Pasha who is also the head of the Electronics and Communication Engineering department. The lab boasts of the prestigious DST fund which primarily aims at building brain-computer interfaces for people with no muscle control. In addition to this major project, students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas and extensive support is given to expand their ideas, carry out their own research work and conduct experiments. BVRIT proudly claims to be one of the very few colleges in India to have established a Cognitive Science lab which is a virginal ground, especially in India.
Objectives
The centre focuses research on intelligence and behaviour, especially focusing on how information is represented, processed, and transformed (in faculties such as perception, language, memory, reasoning, and emotion) within human nervous systems and machines (e.g. computers).
Major Hardware / Software
| S.No | Major Hardware / Software |
| 1 | EEG Machine 24 channels with ERP |
| 2 | NI LABVIEW |
| 3 | NI ELVIS II |
| 4 | NI CRIO |
| 5 | NI DAQ |
| 6 | Ms Kinect Sensors |
| 7 | LENOVO COMPUTERS |
Activities
| To undertake R&D funded Projects |
| To conduct value added courses on cognitive sciences |
| Research publications |
| To develop an EEG-based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system to assist ALS patients |
| To build a battery of cognitive assessment tests to monitor cognitive changes in patients with neurological disability. |
| To conduct different user trials of BCI assistive device for persons with motor disabilities to help them with mobility & patient care. |
| On-going: Matlab Programming Workshop, Classes on Cognitive Science and Brain Computer Interaction, Experiment Design using Phychtoolbox and Machine Learning. |
| Offered Courses: An open elective titled “Principles of Cognitive Sciences” is being taught to 3rd years students from different departments. |
| Planned Programs: Lecture series on Cognitive Phycology and Cognitive Neuroscience. |
Publications |
| D.Hari Krishna, I.A.Pasha and T.SatyaSavithri, ‘Multi-level voting method to classify motor imagery EEG signals’, Dec 2017 (in review) |
| Patel J, Pasha I.A, ‘Detection of imagery vowel speech using EEG and cross correlation’, March 2017 (In review) |
| Patel J, Pasha I.A, ‘An SSVEP based Speller for Hindi’, Dec 2017 (In review). |
| D.Hari Krishna, I.A.Pasha and T.Satya Savithri, “Classification of EEG Motor imagery multi class signals based on Cross Correlation”, presented at International Conference on Computational Modelling and Security, CMS 2016 (Elsevier conference) held at RLJIT, Bengaluru during 11th-13th February 2016. |
| D.Hari Krishna, I.A.Pasha and T.SatyaSavithri, “Autonomous Robot Control based on EEG and Cross-Correlation”, presented at 10th IEEE international conference on intelligent systems and control (ISCO) 2016 held at Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore during 7th-8th January 2016 |
| VamshiSarath Danam, Praveen Kumar, D. Hari Krishna, I. A. Pasha and RakeshSengupta, “Temporal oddball and auditory p300 based BCI”, 2nd Annual Conference on Cognitive Science (ACCS-2015) held at IIT Kanpur during 5th to 8th July 2015 |
| D.Hari Krishna, Jigar Patel, Praveen Kumar, I. A. Pasha and RakeshSengupta, “Multi-class pattern classification of EEG signals for brain-computer interface implementation”, 2nd Annual Conference on Cognitive Science (ACCS-2015) held at IIT Kanpur during 5th to 8th July 2015 |
| RakeshSengupta, Praveen Kumar, VamshiSarathDanam, Jigar Patel, I. A. Pasha and D. Hari Krishna, “Oscillatory cortical dynamics in cursor control based EEG-Brain computer interface”, 3rd International Conference on Cognition, Brain and Computation(CBC 2015) held at IIT Gandhinagar during 5th-7th Dec 2015 |
| Praveen Kumar, VamshiSarathDanam, Hari Krishna, RakeshSengupta, Jigar Patel and I A Pasha, “BCI based cognitive assessment tests”, 3rd International Conference on Cognition, Brain and Computation(CBC 2015) held at IIT Gandhinagar during 5th-7th Dec 2015 |
| I.A.Pasha, D.VamshiSharath, D.Hari Krishna, V.Praveen Kumar and RakeshSengupta, ” Temporal oddball and auditory p300 based BCI”, accepted for poster presentation in 2nd Annual Conference on cognitive Science(ACCS 2015) to be held at IIT Kanpur during 5-8 July, 2015. |
| I.A.Pasha, D.Hari Krishna, V.Praveen Kumar, Jigar Patel and RakeshSengupta, “Multi-class pattern classification of EEG signals for brain-computer interface implementation”, accepted for poster presentation in 2nd Annual Conference on Cognitive Science (ACCS 2015) to be held at IIT Kanpur during 5-8 July, 2015. |
| D. Hari Krishna, RakeshSengupta, I. A. Pasha, and T. SatyaSavithri (2014) “Brain Computer Interface for mobility-a case study with ALS patient”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 9(24) pp: 26055-26070 |
| D.Hari Krishna, I. A. Pasha, N V Jagadeesh, T.Satya Savitri, ”BCI Controller Based on Imagery activity using shortest path algorithm”, IEEE Primeasia-2013, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, DOI: 10.1109/PrimeAsia.2013.6731180 |
| I.A. Pasha, DivyaKodali, GauravAnand, Geethamsi S (2013), “Eye-tracker based test for Assessing Cognition”, IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT), Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Gwalior, India dated 5th-8th April, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/CSNT.2013.23 |
| Paper titled ‘P300 based assistive technology for ALS Patients’, published in International Conference for Biomedical Engineering and Assistive Technologies (BEATS), 2012 |
Proposals Submitted: Status : Under Review
| “EEG Resting State Functional Connectivity of Skill Acquisition”under the SYST (Scheme for Young Scientists and Technologists) . |
| Status : Under Review |
| “Development of Open Source Brain Computer Interface Toolbox and Large Scale Public Database of EEG Data for BCI Research” under CSRI (Cognitive Science Research Initiative). |
