標題: Exploration of User's Mental State Changes during Performing Brain-Computer Interface
作者: Ko, Li-Wei
Chikara, Rupesh Kumar
Lee, Yi-Chieh
Lin, Wen-Chieh
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生物資訊及系統生物研究所
資訊工程學系
生醫工程研究所
National Chiao Tung University
Institude of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
關鍵字: electroencephalography (EEG);brain-computer interface (BCI);working memory;steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP);mental focus state;lost-in-thought state
公開日期: 1-Jun-2020
摘要: Substantial developments have been established in the past few years for enhancing the performance of brain-computer interface (BCI) based on steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP). The past SSVEP-BCI studies utilized different target frequencies with flashing stimuli in many different applications. However, it is not easy to recognize user's mental state changes when performing the SSVEP-BCI task. What we could observe was the increasing EEG power of the target frequency from the user's visual area. BCI user's cognitive state changes, especially in mental focus state or lost-in-thought state, will affect the BCI performance in sustained usage of SSVEP. Therefore, how to differentiate BCI users' physiological state through exploring their neural activities changes while performing SSVEP is a key technology for enhancing the BCI performance. In this study, we designed a new BCI experiment which combined working memory task into the flashing targets of SSVEP task using 12 Hz or 30 Hz frequencies. Through exploring the EEG activity changes corresponding to the working memory and SSVEP task performance, we can recognize if the user's cognitive state is in mental focus or lost-in-thought. Experiment results show that the delta (1-4 Hz), theta (4-7 Hz), and beta (13-30 Hz) EEG activities increased more in mental focus than in lost-in-thought state at the frontal lobe. In addition, the powers of the delta (1-4 Hz), alpha (8-12 Hz), and beta (13-30 Hz) bands increased more in mental focus in comparison with the lost-in-thought state at the occipital lobe. In addition, the average classification performance across subjects for the KNN and the Bayesian network classifiers were observed as 77% to 80%. These results show how mental state changes affect the performance of BCI users. In this work, we developed a new scenario to recognize the user's cognitive state during performing BCI tasks. These findings can be used as the novel neural markers in future BCI developments.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20113169
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/155184
DOI: 10.3390/s20113169
期刊: SENSORS
Volume: 20
Issue: 11
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