Cognitive Workload Assessment Based on the Tensorial Treatment of EEG Estimates of Cross-Frequency Phase Interactions

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 977-989

  Dimitriadis, Stavros I ^a,b   Sun, Yu ^c   Kwok, Kenneth ^c   Laskaris, Nikolaos A ^a,b   Thakor, Nitish ^c   Bezerianos, Anastasios ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Brain decoding; Cross frequency coupling (CFC); Functional connectivity graph (FCG); Phase synchronization; Tensor; Working memory (WM)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DECODING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEUROIMAGING; TENSORS;

BRAIN DECODING; CROSSFREQUENCY COUPLINGS (CFC); FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY GRAPH; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MENTAL TASK; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RECORDING; WORKING MEMORY; WORKLOAD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84926196535     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1143-0     Document Type: Article

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