Trial reportPloS one2016
Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Young Driver Behaviour: A fNIRS Study.
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- How Do Drivers Perceive Risks During Automated Driving Scenarios? An fNIRS Neuroimaging Study.Human factors · 2024Article
- Gender Differences in Prefrontal Cortex Response to Negative Emotional Stimuli in Drivers.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- An fNIRS dataset for driving risk cognition of passengers in highly automated driving scenarios.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Carbon dioxide protects simulated driving performance during severe hypoxia.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- Effects of Personalized Cognitive Training with the Machine Learning Algorithm on Neural Efficiency in Healthy Younger Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluating mental workload during multitasking in simulated flight.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Optimized electroencephalogram and functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based mental workload detection method for practical applications.Biomedical engineering online · 2022Article
- Neuroadaptive TrainingFrontiers in neuroergonomics · 2022Article
- Investigating Differences in Behavior and Brain in Human-Human and Human-Autonomous Vehicle Interactions in Time-Critical Situations.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2022Article
- Driver's turning intent recognition model based on brain activation and contextual information.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2022Article
- Identifying Interactive Factors That May Increase Crash Risk between Young Drivers and Trucks: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- The Role of the Prefrontal Cortex and Functional Connectivity during Maritime Operations: An fNIRS study.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Functional Connectivity Within the Fronto-Parietal Network Predicts Complex Task Performance: A fNIRS Study.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2021Article
- A Methodological Review of fNIRS in Driving Research: Relevance to the Future of Autonomous Vehicles.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Influences of age, mental workload, and flight experience on cognitive performance and prefrontal activity in private pilots: a fNIRS study.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Impact of gender, organized athletics, and video gaming on driving skills in novice drivers.PloS one · 2018Article
- Demonstrating Brain-Level Interactions Between Visuospatial Attentional Demands and Working Memory Load While Driving Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Road traffic accidents consistently show a significant over-representation for young, novice and particularly male drivers. This research examines the prefrontal cortex activation of young drivers and the changes in activation associated with manipulations of mental workload and inhibitory control. It also considers the explanation that a lack of prefrontal cortex maturation is a contributing factor to the higher accident risk in this young driver population. The prefrontal cortex is associated with a number of factors including mental workload and inhibitory control, both of which are also related to road traffic accidents. This experiment used functional near infrared spectroscopy to measure prefrontal cortex activity during five simulated driving tasks: one following task and four overtaking tasks at varying traffic densities which aimed to dissociate workload and inhibitory control. Age, experience and gender were controlled for throughout the experiment. The results showed that younger drivers had reduced prefrontal cortex activity compared to older drivers. When both mental workload and inhibitory control increased prefrontal cortex activity also increased, however when inhibitory control alone increased there were no changes in activity. Along with an increase in activity during overtaking manoeuvres, these results suggest that prefrontal cortex activation is more indicative of workload in the current task. There were no differences in the number of overtakes completed by younger and older drivers but males overtook significantly more than females. We conclude that prefrontal cortex activity is associated with the mental workload required for overtaking. We additionally suggest that the reduced activation in younger drivers may be related to a lack of prefrontal maturation which could contribute to the increased crash risk seen in this population.
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