Estimating brain load from the EEG

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 639-651

  Holm, Anu ^a   Lukander, Kristian ^a   Korpela, Jussi ^a   Sallinen, Mikael ^a,b   Müller, Kiti M I ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assessment of workload; Brain; Cognitive; EEG; Work load; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; WAKEFULNESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349320104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2009.83     Document Type: Article

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