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Effect of Static Magnetic Field of Electric Vehicles on Driving Performance and on Neuro-Psychological Cognitive Functions

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  • Yaqing He

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China)

  • Weinong Sun

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China)

  • Peter Sai-Wing Leung

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China
    EMC Consortium Limited, Hong Kong, China)

  • Yuk-Tak Chow

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China)

Abstract

Human neuropsychological reactions and brain activities when driving electric vehicles (EVs) are considered as an issue for traffic and public safety purposes; this paper examined the effect of the static magnetic field (SMF) derived from EVs. A lane change task was adopted to evaluate the driving performance; and the driving reaction time test and the reaction time test were adopted to evaluate the variation of the neuro-psychological cognitive functions. Both the sham and the real exposure conditions were performed with a 350 μT localized SMF in this study; 17 student subjects were enrolled in this single-blind experiment. Electroencephalographs (EEGs) of the subjects were adopted and recorded during the experiment as an indicator of the brain activity for the variations of the driving performance and of the cognitive functions. Results of this study have indicated that the impact of the given SMF on both the human driving performance and the cognitive functions are not considerable; and that there is a correlation between beta sub-band of the EEGs and the human reaction time in the analysis

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  • Yaqing He & Weinong Sun & Peter Sai-Wing Leung & Yuk-Tak Chow, 2019. "Effect of Static Magnetic Field of Electric Vehicles on Driving Performance and on Neuro-Psychological Cognitive Functions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(18), pages 1-10, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:18:p:3382-:d:266765
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    1. Ronen Hareuveny & Madhuri Sudan & Malka N. Halgamuge & Yoav Yaffe & Yuval Tzabari & Daniel Namir & Leeka Kheifets, 2015. "Characterization of Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields from Diesel, Gasoline and Hybrid Cars under Controlled Conditions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-16, January.
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