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Main Authors: Yang, Xiaoxiao, Feng, Chao, Chen, Jiancheng
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23458
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author Yang, Xiaoxiao
Feng, Chao
Chen, Jiancheng
author_facet Yang, Xiaoxiao
Feng, Chao
Chen, Jiancheng
contents Portable and wearable consumer-grade electroencephalography (EEG) devices, like Muse headbands, offer unprecedented mobility for daily brain-computer interface (BCI) applications, including cognitive load detection. However, the exacerbated non-stationarity in portable EEG signals constrains data fidelity and decoding accuracy, creating a fundamental trade-off between portability and performance. To mitigate such limitation, we propose MuseCogNet (Muse-based Cognitive Network), a unified joint learning framework integrating self-supervised and supervised training paradigms. In particular, we introduce an EEG-grounded self-supervised reconstruction loss based on average pooling to capture robust neurophysiological patterns, while cross-entropy loss refines task-specific cognitive discriminants. This joint learning framework resembles the bottom-up and top-down attention in humans, enabling MuseCogNet to significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods on a publicly available Muse dataset and establish an implementable pathway for neurocognitive monitoring in ecological settings.
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spellingShingle Neuro-Informed Joint Learning Enhances Cognitive Workload Decoding in Portable BCIs
Yang, Xiaoxiao
Feng, Chao
Chen, Jiancheng
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Portable and wearable consumer-grade electroencephalography (EEG) devices, like Muse headbands, offer unprecedented mobility for daily brain-computer interface (BCI) applications, including cognitive load detection. However, the exacerbated non-stationarity in portable EEG signals constrains data fidelity and decoding accuracy, creating a fundamental trade-off between portability and performance. To mitigate such limitation, we propose MuseCogNet (Muse-based Cognitive Network), a unified joint learning framework integrating self-supervised and supervised training paradigms. In particular, we introduce an EEG-grounded self-supervised reconstruction loss based on average pooling to capture robust neurophysiological patterns, while cross-entropy loss refines task-specific cognitive discriminants. This joint learning framework resembles the bottom-up and top-down attention in humans, enabling MuseCogNet to significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods on a publicly available Muse dataset and establish an implementable pathway for neurocognitive monitoring in ecological settings.
title Neuro-Informed Joint Learning Enhances Cognitive Workload Decoding in Portable BCIs
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23458