HCI International 2013 Best Paper Award

Certificate for Best Paper Golden Award of the HCI International 2013
conferred to

Hyuk Oh, Rodolphe J. Gentili, Michelle E. Costanzo, Ronald N. Goodman, Li-Chuan Lo, Jeremy C. Rietschel, Mark Saffer, Bradley D. Hatfield
(University of Maryland, USA)

for the paper entitled

"Understanding Brain Connectivity Patterns during Motor Performance under Social-Evaluative Competitive Pressure"

Presented in the context of HCI International 2013
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
21-26 July 2013

Paper Abstract
"Previous studies have shown that psychological arousal impacts motor performance during social-evaluative tasks by its influence on cortical dynamics, which can translate into motor performance enhancement. Although these findings have established critical links between performance under mental stress and elevated brain activity beyond that required for performance, there is still a need to further investigate brain connectivity during cognitive motor performance under such conditions. Here both electroencephalographic (EEG) and shooting performance were obtained in a shooting task under both performance-alone and competitive conditions. Network connectivity was assessed for the localized EEG sources. The results are consistent with those previously obtained and suggest elevated statistical dependencies and causal interactions between motor and non-motor areas during the competitive condition relative to performance-alone. Such network analysis provides a complementary approach to more traditional EEG derived metrics allowing for examining brain dynamics during cognitive motor performance under varying conditions of mental stress."

The full paper is available through SpringerLink, provided that you have proper access rights.