Monitoring visual sustained attention with a low-cost EEG headset
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mheich, Ahmad; Guilloton, Juliette; Houmani, Nesma
- Source
- 2017 Fourth International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering (ICABME) Advances in Biomedical Engineering (ICABME), 2017 Fourth International Conference on. :1-4 Oct, 2017
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineering Profession
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Electroencephalography
Visualization
Electrodes
Brain
Headphones
Monitoring
Emotiv Epoc headset
Sustained visual attention
Healthy subjects
Arrows direction task
Brain topography
- Language
- ISSN
- 2377-5696
In this preliminary study, we explore the brain activity of healthy subjects during visual sustained attention task using a low-cost electroencephalography headset. The main objective is to study the ability of subjects to detect and respond to stimulus changes which occur infrequently during the time using Emotiv EPOC system. 14-Channels EEG data were recorded while subjects participated in 10 minutes arrows direction task. They were asked to press the left button when the arrow is directed to left and stop pressing when the arrow is directed to right. EEG data were analyzed using brain topography map. Results showed high activation in the brain areas in the beginning of the experiment and low activation over time for next trials. When the right arrow appears on the screen a high activation is observed on all the brain regions.