Neurocognitive Pattern Analysis of an Auditory and Visual Numeric Motor Control Task. Part 1. Development of Methods.

Abstract

New advances in understanding human neurocognitive functions must come from new technologies for measuring split-second changes in event related electrical and magnetic fields which may soon complement the anatomical information produced by CT and NMR brain scans and the static metabolic images of PET scans. As a contribution to this effort, the EEGSL is developing the method of Neurocognitive Pattern (NCP) Analysis to study both simple and complex cognitive tasks. A number of previous findings suggest that neither strictly localizationist ( single equivalent dipole ) nor equipotentialist ( hologram ) models of neurocognitive processing are realistic. Rather, a more appropriate model seems to be a distributed computational network in which there is continuous communication between many parallel, specialized processing elements. In order to better measure and model these complex processes, the initial thirty months of this project focused on developing experimental tasks and advanced recording and analysis technologies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA148809

Entities

People

  • A. S. Gevins
  • B. A. Cutillo
  • J. C. Doyle
  • N. H. Morgan
  • S. L. Bressler

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Medical Personnel
  • Operating Systems
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Psychophysiology
  • Recognition
  • Task Performance And Analysis

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  • Medical Imaging.
  • Operations Research
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.