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Measurement of Frontal Cortex Brain Activity Attributable to the Driving Workload and Increased Attention
- Toshiyuki Shimizu - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd ,
- Satoru Hirose - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd ,
- Hideo Obara - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd ,
- Kazuki Yanagisawa - College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University ,
- Hitoshi Tsunashima - College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University ,
- Yoshitaka Marumo - College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University ,
- Tomoki Haji - School of Medicine, Nihon University ,
- Masato Taira - School of Medicine, Nihon University
Journal Article
2009-01-0545
ISSN: 1946-3995, e-ISSN: 1946-4002
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Citation:
Shimizu, T., Hirose, S., Obara, H., Yanagisawa, K. et al., "Measurement of Frontal Cortex Brain Activity Attributable to the Driving Workload and Increased Attention," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars – Mech. Syst. 2(1):736-744, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-0545.
Language:
English
Abstract:
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) were used to measure subjects’ cerebral blood flow in order to investigate higher-order human brain function activity associated with cognition and attention while operating a vehicle. As a first step, the effects of the fundamental driving environment on brain activity was investigated on the basis of fMRI measurements, with simultaneous measurement of the frontal region by fNIRS. The experiments involved the presentation of visual stimuli by video clips and the execution of simple individual tasks corresponding to steering wheel and pedal operations. As a second step, a driving simulator was used to reproduce narrow road driving and car-following driving situations requiring cognition and attention. Drivers’ mental activity under these conditions involving different levels of attention was measured by fNIRS. The results showed that the level of activity in the lateral frontal region rose as the relative difficulty of the tasks increased based on subjective evaluations. In addition, under the narrow road driving condition, greater activation in the prefrontal region attributable to increased attention was found in a comparison with the results for ordinary driving tasks.