TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - A novel approach to the physiological measurement of mental workload
JO  - International journal of psychophysiology
A1  - Miller, Matthew W.
A1  - Rietschel, Jeremy C.
A1  - McDonald, Craig G.
A1  - Hatfield, Bradley D.
SP  - 75
EP  - 78
VL  - 80
IS  - 1
N2  - While performing a visuo-motor task under incrementally-varied levels of difficulty, individuals were probed with a variety of novel, task-irrelevant, auditory stimuli. To determine the effect of task load on cerebral-cortical processing of these stimuli, event-related potentials were recorded while participants performed the task. We found that N1, P2, P3 and late positive potential (LPP) component amplitudes were inversely related to task-difficulty. This suggests that a variant of the oddball paradigm--in which the stimulus stream comprises novel sounds--is capable of providing a reliable index of mental workload.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0167-8760
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.02.003
ID  - ref1
ER  -