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Extracting mental and task performance state-information from a human in real time is a challenging scientific endeavour. In this paper, we attempt to understand if there is a relationship between the frontal cortex activities in the F3 and F4 positions according to the 10-20 international system of electrode placement, which are known to correlate with executive control functions and working memory, and facial muscle activities. We demonstrate that in a highly demanding control, planning and problem solving task, as the human gets more engaged in the task, there is a consistent increase of correlation between the frontal cortex activities, an anti correlation between the cheeks and forehead muscles, and that the two correlations are perfectly anti-correlated with each other. The results suggest a resource shifting occurring during the task as the task progresses and the complexity of the task increases.
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Ren, S., Barlow, M., Abbass, H.A. (2012). Frontal Cortex Neural Activities Shift Cognitive Resources Away from Facial Activities in Real-Time Problem Solving. In: Huang, T., Zeng, Z., Li, C., Leung, C.S. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34478-7_17
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