Prediction of Pilot's Reaction Time Based on EEG Signals

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

卷:14

Dariusz Myszor¹  Krzysztof A. Cyran²  Bartosz Binias³  Henryk Palus³ 

[1] Department of Algorithmics and Software, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland;

[2] Department of Computer Vision Graphics and Digital Systems, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland;

[3] Department of Data Mining and Engineering, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland;

关键词: aircraft control human factors;    cognitive workload;    data mining;    electroencephalography;    reaction time;    safety;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fninf.2020.00006

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The main hypothesis of this work is that the time of delay in reaction to an unexpected event can be predicted on the basis of the brain activity recorded prior to that event. Such mental activity can be represented by electroencephalographic data. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a novel experiment involving 19 participants that took part in a 2-h long session of simulated aircraft flights. An EEG signal processing pipeline is proposed that consists of signal preprocessing, extracting bandpass features, and using regression to predict the reaction times. The prediction algorithms that are used in this study are the Least Absolute Shrinkage Operator and its Least Angle Regression modification, as well as Kernel Ridge and Radial Basis Support Vector Machine regression. The average Mean Absolute Error obtained across the 19 subjects was 114 ms. The present study demonstrates, for the first time, that it is possible to predict reaction times on the basis of EEG data. The presented solution can serve as a foundation for a system that can, in the future, increase the safety of air traffic.

【 授权许可】

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