Journal
BRAIN AND COGNITION
Volume 136, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2019.103613
Keywords
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy; Repetitive assembly task; Assembly line; Fatigue; Performance impairment; Motion stability
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [71271105]
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To investigate neural correlates of repetitive assembly tasks in ecologically-valid empirical settings, this study measured bilateral prefrontal (PFC) and motor activations when participants performed a carburetor assembly task using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Participants worked for one hour at a typical (low-) pace and at an accelerated high-pace. Before and after the task, a test was conducted to assess motion stability and fine motor control. The behavioral data revealed decreased motion stability after the assembly work in both conditions, with a significantly higher reduction after the high-pace task. The fNIRS data also revealed reduced activations in bilateral prefrontal and motor regions in both conditions over time. However, the low-pace task led to significantly greater activity decreases compared with the high-pace. Activity decrease in prefrontal and motor regions within the low pace also significantly related to minimal motion stability impairment, suggesting that the brain activation decreases in this and, potentially, findings of higher alpha in past repetitive-task studies using EEG, may be a result of not fatigue but worker adaptation or increasing efficiency.
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