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  • Cognitive Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Driver fatigue significantly increases accident risk due to vigilance failure.
  • Listening to the radio (RADIO) is an established in-car countermeasure for driver fatigue.
  • Traditional connectivity analysis for RADIO's alerting effect is hindered by signal mixing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel framework using clustering and entropy to enhance connectivity analysis for revealing RADIO's alerting effects.
  • To investigate how RADIO affects brain connectivity and driver alertness during prolonged driving.

Main Methods:

  • A new framework combining clustering algorithms and differential entropy (DE) was developed.
  • Functional brain connections were classified into categories to identify alerting effects.
  • The proposed method was compared against the Louvain-based community detection method.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method effectively revealed RADIO's effects, outperforming the Louvain method in complex functional connection matrices.
  • Active connection clusters shifted from frontal to parieto-occipital regions as fatigue progressed.
  • RADIO counteracted this shift, keeping active clusters in the frontal region and decreasing activity in the parieto-occipital region.
  • Differential entropy confirmed significant information content changes (p < 0.05) linked to cluster movements.

Conclusions:

  • Preventing the frontal-to-parieto-occipital shift of active brain clusters may be key to maintaining driver alertness.
  • The developed framework offers improved analysis of RADIO's alerting effects.
  • Findings can inform targeted upgrades for driver fatigue countermeasures.