University of Tasmania
Browse
131539 - Brain electrodynamic and hemodynamic signatures against fatigue during driving.pdf (2.39 MB)

Brain electrodynamic and hemodynamic signatures against fatigue during driving

Download (2.39 MB)
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-20, 02:04 authored by Chuang, C-H, Cao, Z, King, J-T, Wu, B-S, Wang, Y-K, Lin, C-T
Fatigue is likely to be gradually cumulated in a prolonged and attention-demanding task that may adversely affect task performance. To address the brain dynamics during a driving task, this study recruited 16 subjects to participate in an event-related lane-departure driving experiment. Each subject was instructed to maintain attention and task performance throughout an hour-long driving experiment. The subjects' brain electrodynamics and hemodynamics were simultaneously recorded via 32-channel electroencephalography (EEG) and 8-source/16-detector functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The behavior performance demonstrated that all subjects were able to promptly respond to lane-deviation events, even if the sign of fatigue arose in the brain, which suggests that the subjects were fighting fatigue during the driving experiment. The EEG event-related analysis showed strengthening alpha suppression in the occipital cortex, a common brain region of fatigue. Furthermore, we noted increasing oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO) of the brain to fight driving fatigue in the frontal cortex, primary motor cortex, parieto-occipital cortex and supplementary motor area. In conclusion, the increasing neural activity and cortical activations were aimed at maintaining driving performance when fatigue emerged. The electrodynamic and hemodynamic signatures of fatigue fighting contribute to our understanding of the brain dynamics of driving fatigue and address driving safety issues through the maintenance of attention and behavioral performance.

History

Publication title

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volume

12

Article number

181

Number

181

Pagination

1-12

ISSN

1662-453X

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

Frontiers Research Foundation

Place of publication

Switzerland

Rights statement

Copyright 2018 Chuang, Cao, King, Wu, Wang and Lin. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Repository Status

  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Intelligence, surveillance and space

Usage metrics

    University Of Tasmania

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC