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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Task-Independent Cognitive Workload Discrimination Based on EEG with Stacked Graph Attention Convolutional Networks.

Chenyu Wei, Xuewen Zhao, Yu Song, Yi Liu

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Chenyu WeiTianjin Key Laboratory for Control Theory and Applications in Complicated Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China.
Xuewen ZhaoTianjin Key Laboratory for Control Theory and Applications in Complicated Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China.
Yu SongTianjin Key Laboratory for Control Theory and Applications in Complicated Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9295-7795
Yi LiuCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0947-8126

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 62103299
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Abstract

In the field of neuroeconomics, the assessment of cognitive workload is a crucial issue with significant implications for real-world applications. Previous research has made progress in task-based germane cognitive load classification, but decentralized studies focusing on task-independent assessment have often produced less than optimal results. In this study, we present a stacked graph attention convolutional networks (SGATCNs) model to tackle the challenges related to task-independent cognitive workload assessment using EEG spatial information. The model employs the differential entropy (DE) and power spectral density (PSD) features of each EEG channel across four frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, and beta) as node information. For the construction of the network structure, phase-locked values (PLVs), phase-lag indices (PLIs), Pearson correlation coefficients (PCCs), and mutual information (MI) are utilized and evaluated to generate a functional brain network. Specifically, the model aggregates spatial information on the dynamic map by stacking the graph attention layers and utilizes the convolution module to extract the frequency domain information from between the networks under each frequency band. We conducted a cognitive workload experiment with 15 subjects and selected three representative psychological experimental task paradigms (N-back, mental arithmetic, and Sternberg) to induce different levels of cognitive workload (low, medium, and high). Our framework achieved an average accuracy of 65.11% in recognizing the task-independent cognitive workload across the three scenarios.

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AttentionCognitionElectroencephalographyWorkloadAdultBrainFemaleHumansMaleNeural Networks, ComputerYoung Adultcognitive workloadelectroencephalogramfunctional connectgraph neural networkgraph theory

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