Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks

Executive function is a set of mental processes commonly linked with the activation of the brain’s prefrontal cortex. While many studies have focused on EF in adulthood, the development of EF in children is yet to be understood. This paper proposes a new approach for understanding children’s re...

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Main Authors: Othman, Marini, , Abdul Qayoom, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Wahab
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2012
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/38080/1/Affective_Mapping_of_EEG_during_Executive_Function_Tasks.pdf
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description Executive function is a set of mental processes commonly linked with the activation of the brain’s prefrontal cortex. While many studies have focused on EF in adulthood, the development of EF in children is yet to be understood. This paper proposes a new approach for understanding children’s reactions during EF tasks by mapping their EEG signals onto the 2D valence-arousal affective space model. Brain signals of ten pre-school children aged between 4-6 years (male: 5; female: 5) were collected while they play the standardized version of the Dimensional Change Card Sort. Behavioral results in terms of percentage of correct responses and response time did not vary significantly across gender. Emotion mapping using the valence-arousal model showed that boys tend to be consistent in their emotion during preswitch and post-switch tasks. The emotion of girls, however, tends to shift towards neutral state during the post-switch test regardless of their initial emotions in the pre-switch phase.
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spelling iium-380802020-12-16T16:59:15Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/38080/ Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks Othman, Marini , Abdul Qayoom Abdul Rahman, Abdul Wahab T Technology (General) Executive function is a set of mental processes commonly linked with the activation of the brain’s prefrontal cortex. While many studies have focused on EF in adulthood, the development of EF in children is yet to be understood. This paper proposes a new approach for understanding children’s reactions during EF tasks by mapping their EEG signals onto the 2D valence-arousal affective space model. Brain signals of ten pre-school children aged between 4-6 years (male: 5; female: 5) were collected while they play the standardized version of the Dimensional Change Card Sort. Behavioral results in terms of percentage of correct responses and response time did not vary significantly across gender. Emotion mapping using the valence-arousal model showed that boys tend to be consistent in their emotion during preswitch and post-switch tasks. The emotion of girls, however, tends to shift towards neutral state during the post-switch test regardless of their initial emotions in the pre-switch phase. 2012 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/38080/1/Affective_Mapping_of_EEG_during_Executive_Function_Tasks.pdf Othman, Marini and , Abdul Qayoom and Abdul Rahman, Abdul Wahab (2012) Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks. In: 2012 15th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 22-24 December 2012, Bangladesh. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6509741&tag=1
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Othman, Marini
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Abdul Rahman, Abdul Wahab
Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks
title Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks
title_full Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks
title_fullStr Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks
title_full_unstemmed Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks
title_short Affective mapping of EEG during executive function tasks
title_sort affective mapping of eeg during executive function tasks
topic T Technology (General)
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/38080/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38080/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38080/1/Affective_Mapping_of_EEG_during_Executive_Function_Tasks.pdf