08:30 - 10:00
Mon-H5-Talk 1--10
Mon-Talk 1
Room: H5
Chair/s:
Martin Baumann, Stefan Brandenburg
Does the perception of hand-arm vibration interfere with cognitive control?
Mon-H5-Talk 1-1002
Presented by: Anne Voormann
Anne Voormann 1, Andreas Lindenmann 2, Alejandra Rodríguez 1, Diana Fotler 2, Sven Matthiesen 2, Andrea Kiesel 1
1 University of Freiburg, 2 IPEK, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hand-arm-vibration emerges almost always when using hand craft tools. More importantly, in many cases the vibration cannot be avoided nor can the handicraft activities be replaced by automatization as the expertise of the craftsmen is importance for those tasks (e.g., grinding, drilling). But especially for tasks involving massive forces, it is essential for the craftsmen to be attentive in order to avoid accidents or damages. To provide technical assistance for craftsmen and in the best case to form a symbiosis (Inga et al., 2023) between the human worker and those tools, it is necessary to investigate the challenges and advantages of hand-arm vibration on cognition in a first step. However, so far there exist only few studies investigating the impact of hand-arm vibration on cognitive processes. The present study presents a first systematic investigation of the impacts of perceived hand-arm vibration on cognitive control. We compare the performance in a Flanker task of two conditions in which participants experience hand-arm vibration (either in random or in constant frequencies) while conducting the task to a control condition without hand-arm vibration. Both, the challenges as well as the advantages of the experienced hand-arm vibration on cognitive processing are going to be discussed.
Keywords: hand-arm vibration, cognitive performance, cognitive control