Research question
What blocks task initiation across school, work, and home, and where do existing executive-function tools support organisation without helping users begin?
Open research
What we are asking, how we are testing, and what we cannot claim.
NeuroBridge publishes project status beside every research stream. Frameworks, mock data, pilots, and real findings are never treated as the same thing.
Plain-language summary
One executive-function research framework is built but not validated with real users, and its preliminary five-page user-research plan is now published. One Music × EEG pilot is still being designed. None of these materials is a clinical test or an effectiveness result.
Available nowPlan published · framework readyPilot in developmentPlanned
R / 01
Plan published · framework ready
Task Initiation & Existing Tool Research
Lead: Catalina · Impact & Data Analyst
Method
Desk research, a semi-structured interview plan, a structured tool-evaluation rubric, feedback-theme codebook, data dictionary, and reproducible R Markdown analysis scaffold.
Current material
A five-page preliminary research plan is published below. It maps three broad participant groups, four starting sources, five proposed research gaps, and seven interview questions. The evaluation framework and analysis structure are also complete.
Limitation
The plan is a scoping document, not a validated study. Its claims about gaps in digital tools still need a broader evidence review; mock rows and planning materials are not user findings or evidence that a tool works.
Core data dictionary
- tool_id
- Anonymous tool identifier
- task_fit
- User-rated fit for the intended task
- cognitive_load
- Perceived effort required to use the tool
- access_barrier
- Language, cost, sensory, device, or diagnosis-access barrier
- feedback_theme
- Coded theme with an auditable definition
R / 02
Pilot in development
Music, Task Engagement & Individual Patterns
Exploratory Music × EEG protocol
Research question
How do music conditions relate to task engagement, performance, and self-reported experience across individuals?
Measures considered together
Behavioural task performance, brief self-report, condition notes, and exploratory EEG features. No single measure is treated as ground truth.
Ethics boundary
Voluntary participation, age-appropriate consent, withdrawal without penalty, data minimisation, de-identification, and a protocol for incidental distress.
What EEG cannot establish
It cannot read thoughts, diagnose ADHD or autism, directly measure “attention,” or prove a universal or personal optimum from a small pilot.
Method boundary informed by research that combines EEG with behavioural and self-report indicators rather than treating physiology as a standalone explanation. Halderman et al., neural correlates of engagement ↗
Open research principles
Every output carries a visible lifecycle status.
Behaviour, self-report, context, and exploratory physiology can challenge one another.
An indicator is not a diagnosis, inner truth, or impact result.
User feedback can reveal where a scientific category or tool fails in context.