Estimating alertness from the EEG power spectrum
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Vol. 44 (1), 60-69
- https://doi.org/10.1109/10.553713
Abstract
In tasks requiring sustained attention, human alertness varies on a minute time scale. This can have serious consequences in occupations ranging from air traffic control to monitoring of nuclear power plants. Changes in the electroencephalographic (EEG) power spectrum accompany these fluctuations in the level of alertness, as assessed by measuring simultaneous changes in EEG and performance on an auditory monitoring task. By combining power spectrum estimation, principal component analysis and artificial neural networks, the authors show that continuous, accurate, noninvasive, and near real-time estimation of an operator's global level of alertness is feasible using EEC; measures recorded from as few as two central scalp sites. This demonstration could lead to a practical system for noninvasive monitoring of the cognitive state of human operators in attention-critical settings.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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