Using Electroencephalography to Measure Cognitive Load

Pavlo Antonenko; Fred Paas; Roland Grabner; Tamara van Gog

doi:10.1007/s10648-010-9130-y

Using Electroencephalography to Measure Cognitive Load

Pavlo Antonenko^*, Fred Paas, Roland Grabner, Tamara van Gog

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Abstract

Application of physiological methods, in particular electroencephalography (EEG), offers new and promising approaches to educational psychology research. EEG is identified as a physiological index that can serve as an online, continuous measure of cognitive load detecting subtle fluctuations in instantaneous load, which can help explain effects of instructional interventions when measures of overall cognitive load fail to reflect such differences in cognitive processing. This paper presents a review of seminal literature on the use of continuous EEG to measure cognitive load and describes two case studies on learning from hypertext and multimedia that employed EEG methodology to collect and analyze cognitive load data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	425-438
Number of pages	14
Journal	Educational Psychology Review
Volume	22
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-010-9130-y
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cognitive load
Educational psychology
Electroencephalography

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