Topographical changes in the ongoing EEG related to the difficulty of mental tasks

Brain Topography

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 17-25

  Gundel, Alexander ^a   Wilson, Glenn F ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain Electrical Activity Mapping; EEG spectral matrix; Task difficulty; Topographical EEG analysis; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SCALP; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0026474990     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01129966     Document Type: Article

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