An Auditory Vigilance Task for Mental Fatigue Detection

• Published in: Conference proceedings (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conf.) Vol. 2005; pp. 5284 - 5286
• Main Authors: Pang, Y.Y., Li, X.P., Shen, K.Q., Zheng, H., Zhou, W., Wilder-Smith, E.P.V.
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Batteries; Electroencephalography; Fatigue; Frequency selective surfaces; Hospitals; Monitoring; Safety; Support vector machines; System performance; Testing

An auditory vigilance task (AVT) as a validation criterion for monitoring mental fatigue was proposed in this study. The biological basis of this task design is on the understanding that mental fatigue is a cortical deactivation. This AVT is simple to perform, free of learning curve and independent...