Ayaz Lab contributed 20 abstracts to the 6th International Neuroergonomics Conference, held July 13 to 16, 2026, at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. Our team and collaborators shared their research through oral and poster presentations. The conference theme, Neuroscience of the Everyday World, centered on how advances in mobile and wearable neuroimaging are helping researchers study the brain during everyday activities.
A highlight for our team was Dr. Cândida Barreto receiving a Parasuraman Award for her work on spatial short-term memory in children with Down syndrome. In her oral presentation, she described how the team used wearable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine brain activity while children performed a spatial memory task. Congratulations to Cândida and the study team!
Ayaz Lab also helped organize the meeting. Prof. Hasan Ayaz served on the conference Steering Committee, and Dr. Cândida Barreto and Dr. Adrian Curtin served on the Program Committee. Lab members co-organized two pre-conference workshops. One focused on using portable neuroimaging to study children’s brain activity during activities such as play and shared reading. The other gave participants hands-on experience using locally run large language models to adapt experiments and work with brain-computer interfaces.
Thank you to the lab members and collaborators who contributed to the studies, presentations, and workshops, and to the Boston University team for hosting us.
Neuroergonomics 2026 conference website · Conference program
