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Area of Science:

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  • Cognitive Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Team coordination is vital for achieving goals, yet objective measures of interaction quality are challenging.
  • Mental workload assessment typically focuses on individual effort, not team dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between task difficulty and team coordination using synchronized electroencephalographic (EEG) data.
  • To develop objective measures of team interaction based on brain connectivity.

Main Methods:

  • Collected behavioral, subjective, and synchronized EEG data from couples performing a cooperative task.
  • Utilized multiple-brain connectivity analysis to assess the interacting neural system.
  • Analyzed local network properties, including strength and clustering coefficients.

Main Results:

  • Task difficulty significantly affected averaged local properties of brain networks.
  • Network strength varied with task difficulty.
  • Clustering coefficients strongly correlated with mental workload, decreasing in central and parietal areas at higher workloads.

Conclusions:

  • Reduced coordination in team members during high workload is reflected in less efficient brain network organization.
  • Synchronized EEG and network analysis offer objective insights into team coordination and workload.
  • Findings highlight the neural basis of team coordination under varying task demands.