Predicting Tacit Coordination Success Using Electroencephalogram Trajectories: The Impact of Task Difficulty
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Coordination Index (CI)
2.2. Experimental Design
2.2.1. Single-Epoch Analysis in EEG-Based Coordination Prediction
2.2.2. Procedure
2.2.3. EEG Recordings and Data Pre-Processing
2.2.4. Modeling Electrophysiological Spatial Coherence Similarity
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Model Performance Metrics
3.2. Classification Performance as a Function of Coordination Difficulty
4. Conclusions and Future Work
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Game | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
CI | 0.311 | 0.266 | 0.266 | 0.178 | 0.356 | 0.222 | 0.444 | 0.289 | 0.178 | 0.289 | 0.200 | 0.400 |
Game | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CI | 0.311 | 0.266 | 0.266 | 0.178 | 0.356 | 0.222 |
Recall | 0.857 (12/14) | 0.583 (7/12) | 0.667 (8/12) | 0.500 (4/8) | 0.937 (15/16) | 0.600 (6/10) |
Precision | 0.706 (12/17) | 0.778 (7/9) | 0.800 (8/10) | 1.000 (4/4) | 0.682 (15/22) | 0.857 (6/7) |
F1 score | 0.774 | 0.774 | 0.727 | 0.667 | 0.789 | 0.706 |
Game | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
CI | 0.444 | 0.289 | 0.178 | 0.289 | 0.200 | 0.400 |
Recall | 1.000 (20/20) | 0.846 (11/13) | 0.625 (5/8) | 0.769 (10/13) | 0.556 (5/9) | 0.944 (17/18) |
Precision | 0.606 (20/33) | 0.733 (11/15) | 1.000 (5/5) | 0.769 (10/13) | 1.000 (5/5) | 0.623 (17/27) |
F1 score | 0.755 | 0.786 | 0.769 | 0.769 | 0.714 | 0.756 |
Full model Recall: 0.784 (120/153); Precision: 0.718 (120/167); F1 score: 0.750 |
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Mizrahi, D.; Laufer, I.; Zuckerman, I. Predicting Tacit Coordination Success Using Electroencephalogram Trajectories: The Impact of Task Difficulty. Sensors 2023, 23, 9493. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23239493
Mizrahi D, Laufer I, Zuckerman I. Predicting Tacit Coordination Success Using Electroencephalogram Trajectories: The Impact of Task Difficulty. Sensors. 2023; 23(23):9493. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23239493
Chicago/Turabian StyleMizrahi, Dor, Ilan Laufer, and Inon Zuckerman. 2023. "Predicting Tacit Coordination Success Using Electroencephalogram Trajectories: The Impact of Task Difficulty" Sensors 23, no. 23: 9493. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23239493