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Event-related brain dynamics of electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in a continuous compensatory tracking task (CTT) and in a continuous driving simulation were analyzed by independent component analysis (ICA) and time-frequency techniques. We showed that changes in the level of subject performance are accompanied by distinct changes in EEG spectrum of a class of bilateral posterior independent EEG components. During periods of high-error (drowsy) performance, tonic alpha band EEG power was significantly elevated, compared to that during periods of low-error (alert) performance. In addition, characteristic transient (phasic) alpha and other band increases and decreases followed critical task events, depending on current performance level. These performance-related and event-related spectral changes were consistently observed across subjects and sessions, and were remarkably similar across the two continuous sustained-attention tasks.
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Huang, RS., Jung, TP., Makeig, S. (2007). Event-Related Brain Dynamics in Continuous Sustained-Attention Tasks. In: Schmorrow, D.D., Reeves, L.M. (eds) Foundations of Augmented Cognition. FAC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73216-7_8
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