Author(s): Brooks M; El Chami R; Jourde HR; Savard MA; Coffey EBJ;

Introduction: Sleep quality is often thought to be a key determinant of cognitive performance, particularly in older adults who experience age-related changes in sleep architecture. However, the extent to which nightly variations in sleep quality impact next-day cognitive performance remains unclear-in part because it has only recently become practical to ...

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Author(s): Parent M; Albuquerque I; Tiwari A; Cassani R; Gagnon JF; Lafond D; Tremblay S; Falk TH;

With the burgeoning of wearable devices and passive body/brain-computer interfaces (B/BCIs), automated stress monitoring in everyday settings has gained significant attention recently, with applications ranging from serious games to clinical monitoring. With mobile users, however, challenges arise due to other overlapping (and potentially confounding) phy ...

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Author(s): Lessard-Tremblay M, Weeks J, Morelli L, Cowan G, Gagnon G, Zednik RJ

Traditional capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG) electrodes suffer from limited patient comfort, difficulty of disinfection and low signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the challenge of integrating them in wearables. A novel hybrid flexible cECG electrode was developed that offers high versatility in the integration method, is well suited for large-scale m ...

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