Independent Researcher · Computational Neuroscience · BCI · Physics
Building, testing, and questioning ideas at the intersection of brains, machines, and fundamental physics.
📍 Lagos, Nigeria / South Carolina, USA 🏷️ she/her 📫 folarera.kassim@gmail.com
Trial-level feedback timing × BCI selection accuracy
I'm extracting trial-level (L, Y) data from a public P300 BCI dataset on PhysioNet to test whether feedback timing predicts selection accuracy.
Current progress
- 🧩 Reverse-engineered channel encodings for Study M
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SelectedTargetdecoded as a cell index:(row − 1) × 8 + col - 🎯
CurrentTargetrepresents the actual target - 📊 30 trials extracted from one subject
- 🔁 Scaling the analysis to additional subjects
Goal: turn the timing hypothesis into a directly testable, trial-level analysis.
A falsifiable hypothesis about feedback timing in closed-loop systems.
NFOT investigates whether the timing of information returning to a system is systematically related to subsequent performance.
🧪 Status: preregistered test protocol 📄 Preprint: v3 — Zenodo
Hypothesis → prediction → measurement → falsification.
Open-source Socratic tutoring engine written in Python.
Designed around structured reasoning rather than simply giving students answers.
Core components
- 🧠 Local intent classifier
- 🔎 Misconception taxonomy
- 🧩 Accommodation adapters
- ♿ Support for ADHD, autism, and dyslexia
- 🐍 Python-based architecture
Goal: build tutoring systems that can adapt to how a learner is thinking, not just what they answered.
Exploring approaches to the emergence of spacetime from discrete causal structure.
📚 Currently focused on the literature surrounding the 3D phase transition, with the longer-term goal of developing a numerical study.
Learning path:
Single-variable calculus → Vector calculus → Electrodynamics
Python · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · LaTeX, TypeScript
NumPy · pandas · SciPy · Matplotlib · MNE-Python
MNE · BIDS · EDF · P300 BCI · PhysioNet
Git · GitHub · Jupyter · Google Colab
Noggin-Labs
An independent research and development space for projects spanning:
🧠 Neuroscience 🤖 AI / educational technology 💻 Scientific computing
ORCID: 0009-0007-2148-5675
Research Org: Noggin-Labs
📫 Contact: folarera.kassim@gmail.com
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