The paper briefly describes the main assumptions and preliminary results of an ongoing project that aims to propose objective methods for assessing the mental state of the patient with locked-in syndrome. The primary assumption of the project is to utilize eye movements as it is frequently the only way to communicate with such patients. During the project, specially designed cognitive tests were prepared and conducted with - to date - over 50 patients with different states of consciousness. As the project is still unfinished, the paper only reports some assumptions and a few demographic data.
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Kasprowski et al. (2024) studied this question.