Where to display vital information? ERP evidence for background changes.

Critical decision systems require expeditious and accurate responses to the displayed information. In addition to content, location and background are equally important. Several visual search studies have pointed out the differences and compared modes of top-down attention allocation: distractor suppression and attentional capture.

Effective Stress Management through Meditation: An Electroencephalograph-Based Study.

Introduction: Stress among college students is a common health problem that is directly correlated with poor cognitive health. For instance, cognitive mechanisms required for sustenance can be affected due to stress caused by daily mundane events, not necessarily by chronic events. Thus, it becomes essential to manage stress effectively especially for college students.

Effect of Complexity on Frontal Event Related Desynchronisation in Mental Rotation Task.

A complexity (orientation and shape of stimuli) in the mental rotation (MR) task often affects reaction time (RT) and response accuracy, but the nature of such reflections in neuroscientific research is commonly undocumented. A number of studies have explored the effect of complexity and subsequently noted down the differences in performance. However, a few studies explored complexity (in the term of angular disparity) and cognitive strategies with respect to correct responses only.

Corrigendum: Influence of Landmarks on Wayfinding and Brain Connectivity in Immersive Virtual Reality Environment.

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Influence of Landmarks on Wayfinding and Brain Connectivity in Immersive Virtual Reality Environment.

Spatial navigation is influenced by landmarks, which are prominent visual features in the environment. Although previous research has focused on finding advantages of landmarks on wayfinding via experimentation; however, less attention has been given to identifying the key attributes of landmarks that facilitate wayfinding, including the study of neural correlates (involving electroencephalogram, EEG analyses). In this paper, we combine behavioral measures, virtual environment, and EEG signal-processing to provide a holistic investigation about the influence of landmarks on performance during navigation in a maze-like environment.

Brain connectivity during encoding and retrieval of spatial information: individual differences in navigation skills.

Emerging evidence suggests that the variations in the ability to navigate through any real or virtual environment are accompanied by distinct underlying cortical activations in multiple regions of the brain. These activations may appear due to the use of different frame of reference (FOR) for representing an environment. The present study investigated the brain dynamics in the good and bad navigators using Graph Theoretical analysis applied to low-density electroencephalography (EEG) data.

Workload regulation by Sudarshan Kriya: an EEG and ECG perspective.

Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) is a type of rhythmic breathing activity, trivially a form of Pranayama that stimulates physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being. The objective of the present work is to verify the effect of meditation in optimizing task efficiency and regulating stress. It builds on to quantitatively answer if SKY will increase workload tolerance for divided attention tasks in the people sank in it.

Effect of Sudarshan Kriya (meditation) on gamma, alpha, and theta rhythm during working memory task.

Aims: The present study focuses on analyzing the effects of Sudarshan Kriya yoga (SKY) on brain signals during a working memory (WM) task. To envision the significant effects of SKY on WM capacity (WMC), we chose a control group for contriving a cogent comparison that could be corroborated using statistical tests.

Subjects And Methods: A total of 25 subjects were taken in the study, of which 10 were allotted to a control group and 15 to an experimental group.