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Castaldo, Rossana, Montesinos-Silva, Luis, Wan, Tim S., Serban, Andra, Massaro, Sebastiano and Pecchia, Leandro (2017) Heart rate variability analysis and performance during a repeated mental workload task. In: European Medical and Biological Engineering Confernce Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, Tampere, Finland, 11-15 June 2017. Published in: IFMBE Proceedings, 65 pp. 69-72. ISBN 9789811051227. ISSN 1680-0737. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_18
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_18
Abstract
We designed and conducted an experiment using a repetitive task to investigate associations between mental workload, performance, and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) features across repetitions. According to the literature, we define mental workload as the interaction between a person and a task that causes task demands to exceed the person’s capacity to deliver. Mental workload was triggered by the use of a highly-paced video game repeated over time. Before engaging with the task, each subject was assessed in controlled condition (i.e., relaxing period) for a short time. Short-term HRV features variations between the baseline (i.e., control situation) and each repetitive gaming session (i.e., mental task) were explored. The results show that HRV dynamics diminish with repetitions, while performance increases. Importantly, this suggests that HRV features can be well correlated with performance. Overall, this study advances the use of HRV analysis in the behavioral sciences at large, allowing the design of flexible neurophysiological lab-based experiments. Thus, it also opens the way to future autonomic behavioral neuroscience research.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Speech) | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QP Physiology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Science > Engineering Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Heart rate monitoring, Psychological tests, Video games | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | IFMBE Proceedings | ||||||
| Publisher: | International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9789811051227 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1680-0737 | ||||||
| Book Title: | EMBEC & NBC 2017 | ||||||
| Editor: | Eskola, H. and Väisänen, O. and Viik, J. and Hyttinen, J. | ||||||
| Official Date: | 13 June 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 65 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 69-72 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_18 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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| Conference Paper Type: | Speech | ||||||
| Title of Event: | European Medical and Biological Engineering Confernce Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics | ||||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||||
| Location of Event: | Tampere, Finland | ||||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 11-15 June 2017 | ||||||
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