Estimation of Human Workload from the Auditory Steady-State Response Recorded via a Wearable Electroencephalography System during Walking

Workload in the human brain can be a useful marker of internal brain state. However, due to technical limitations, previous workload studies have been unable to record brain activity via conventional electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) devices in mobile participants. In this study, we used a wearable EEG system to estimate workload while participants walked in a naturalistic environment. Specifically, we used the auditory steady-state response (ASSR) which is an oscillatory brain activity evoked by repetitive auditory stimuli, as an estimation index of workload. Participants performed three types of N-back tasks, which were expected to command different workloads, while walking at a constant speed. We used a binaural 500 Hz pure tone with amplitude modulation at 40 Hz to evoke the ASSR. We found that the phase-locking index (PLI) of ASSR activity was significantly correlated with the degree of task difficulty, even for EEG data from few electrodes. Thus, ASSR appears to be an effective indicator of workload during walking in an ecologically valid environment.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in human neuroscience - 11(2017) vom: 11., Seite 314

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yokota, Yusuke [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Shingo [VerfasserIn]
Miyamoto, Akihiro [VerfasserIn]
Naruse, Yasushi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Auditory steady-state response (ASSR)
Electroencephalogram
Journal Article
N-back task
Real world recording
Workload

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Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fnhum.2017.00314

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM27337172X