Mental workload during n-back task-quantified in the prefrontal cortex using fNIRS

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Herff, Christian ^a   Heger, Dominic ^a   Fortmann, Ole ^a   Hennrich, Johannes ^a   Putze, Felix ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

fNIRS; Mental states; n back; Near infrared spectroscopy; Passive BCI; Prefrontal cortex; User state monitoring; Workload

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893022713     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00935     Document Type: Article

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