ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECORDING AND ANALYSIS DURING PROTRACTED CONTINUOUS WORK EXPERIMENTS

Citation
Ra. Pigeau et al., ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECORDING AND ANALYSIS DURING PROTRACTED CONTINUOUS WORK EXPERIMENTS, Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 39(3-4), 1993, pp. 323-332
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematical Methods, Biology & Medicine","Engineering, Biomedical","Computer Applications & Cybernetics
ISSN journal
01692607
Volume
39
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
323 - 332
Database
ISI
SICI code
0169-2607(1993)39:3-4<323:ERAADP>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
A system is described that allows electrophysiological data to be coll ected and analysed from sleep loss studies involving continuous cognit ive work. This system needed to satisfy two major requirements. First, the electrophysiological hardware had to be able to record extended p eriods of physiology (often lasting 80 h) from multiple electrode site s and yet be portable enough to allow subject mobility. Second, a comp rehensive yet flexible procedure had to be developed to temporally map the physiology to critical experimental events (e.g., all the behavio ural tasks, sleeping and napping periods). The resulting system uses t he Oxford Medilog 9000 for data acquisition and playback as well as a custom software environment to digitize and analyse these data.