Neuroergonomics: Quantitative Modeling of Individual, Shared, and Team Neurodynamic Information:

Objective:The aim of this study was to use the same quantitative measure and scale to directly compare the neurodynamic information/organizations of individual team members with those of the team.Background:Team processes are difficult to separate from those of individual team members due to the lack of quantitative measures that can be applied to both process sets.Method:Second-by-second symbolic representations were created of each team member’s electroencephalographic power, and quantitative estimates of their neurodynamic organizations were calculated from the Shannon entropy of the symbolic data streams. The information in the neurodynamic data streams of health care (n = 24), submarine navigation (n = 12), and high school problem-solving (n = 13) dyads was separated into the information of each team member, the information shared by team members, and the overall team information.Results:Most of the team information was the sum of each individual’s neurodynamic information. The remaining team informa...