title: EEG-Based Cognitive Control Behaviour Assessment: an Ecological study with Professional Air Traffic Controllers.
abstract: Several models defining different types of cognitive human behaviour are available. For this work, we have selected the Skill, Rule and Knowledge (SRK) model proposed by Rasmussen in 1983. This model is currently broadly used in safety critical domains, such as the aviation. Nowadays, there are no tools able to assess at which level of cognitive control the operator is dealing with the considered task, that is if he/she is performing the task as an automated routine (skill level), as procedures-based activity (rule level), or as a problem-solving process (knowledge level). Several studies tried to model the SRK behaviours from a Human Factor perspective. Despite such studies, there are no evidences in which such behaviours have been evaluated from a neurophysiological point of view, for example, by considering brain activity variations across the different SRK levels. Therefore, the proposed study aimed to investigate the use of neurophysiological signals to assess the cognitive control behaviours accordingly to the SRK taxonomy. The results of the study, performed on 37 professional Air Traffic Controllers, demonstrated that specific brain features could characterize and discriminate the different SRK levels, therefore enabling an objective assessment of the degree of cognitive control behaviours in realistic settings.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy. gianluca.borghini@uniroma1.it.|BrainSigns srl, via Sesto Celere, 00152, Rome, Italy. gianluca.borghini@uniroma1.it.|IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Neuroelectrical Imaging and BCI Lab, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179, Rome, Italy. gianluca.borghini@uniroma1.it.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8560-5671
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Borghini
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.|BrainSigns srl, via Sesto Celere, 00152, Rome, Italy.|IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Neuroelectrical Imaging and BCI Lab, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aricò
authors.affiliation: BrainSigns srl, via Sesto Celere, 00152, Rome, Italy.|IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Neuroelectrical Imaging and BCI Lab, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179, Rome, Italy.|Dept. of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic & Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4426-051X
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di Flumeri
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.|BrainSigns srl, via Sesto Celere, 00152, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cartocci
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic & Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Colosimo
authors.affiliation: DeepBlue srl, Piazza Buenos Aires 20, 00185, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bonelli
authors.affiliation: DeepBlue srl, Piazza Buenos Aires 20, 00185, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Golfetti
authors.affiliation: École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, 7 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31000, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Jean Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Imbert
authors.affiliation: École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, 7 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31000, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Géraud
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Granger
authors.affiliation: École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, 7 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31000, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Railane
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Benhacene
authors.affiliation: DeepBlue srl, Piazza Buenos Aires 20, 00185, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pozzi
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.|BrainSigns srl, via Sesto Celere, 00152, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Babiloni
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001143:Arousal; D001359:Aviation; D032763:Behavior Control; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D000069550:Machine Learning; D009790:Occupations; D011340:Problem Solving; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis