TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Frontal theta EEG dynamics in a real-world air traffic control task
JO  - Conference proceedings - IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society
A1  - Shou, Guofa
A1  - Ding, Lei
SP  - 5594
EP  - 5597
VL  - 2013
IS  - 
N2  - Mental workload and time-on-task effect are two major factors expediting fatigue progress, which leads to performance decline and/or failure in real-world tasks. In the present study, electroencephalography (EEG) is applied to study mental fatigue development during an air traffic control (ATC) task. Specifically, the frontal theta EEG dynamics are firstly dissolved into a unique frontal independent component (IC) through a novel time-frequency independent component analysis (tfICA) method. Then the temporal fluctuations of the identified frontal ICs every minute are compared to workload (reflected by number of clicks per minute) and time-on-task effect by correlational analysis and linear regression analysis. It is observed that the frontal theta activity significantly increase with workload augment and time-on-task. The present study demonstrates that the frontal theta EEG activity identified by tfICA method is a sensitive and reliable metric to assess mental workload and time-on-task effect in a real-world task, i.e., ATC task, at the resolution of minute(s).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-170X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610818
ID  - ref1
ER  -