Analyzing brain activity in understanding cultural and language interaction for depression and anxiety
Human brain has always been considered as a black box and is the source of all emotions. Analyzing cultural and language role through human emotion by looking at the brain activity can thus help us understand depression and stress better. This paper focuses on understanding and analyzing undergrad...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2011
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/21775/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/21775/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/21775/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/21775/1/Analyzing_brain_activity_in_understanding_cultural_and_language_interaction_for_depression_and_anxiety.pdf |
| Summary: | Human brain has always been considered as a black box and is the source of all emotions. Analyzing cultural and
language role through human emotion by looking at the brain activity can thus help us understand depression and
stress better. This paper focuses on understanding and analyzing undergraduate students’ emotions with different
background and culture after completing their semester final examination. Brain wave signals were captured using
EEG device and analyzed through proposing an affective computation model. EEG signal was collected from 8
healthy subjects from different states of Malaysia with different dialects where each subject was emotionally induced with audio and video emotion stimuli using the International Affective Pictures and System (IAPS). Features were extracted from the captured EEG signals using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), which was then categorized into four basic emotions of happy, calm, sad and fear using the Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP). Results of the study show
potential of using such analysis in understanding stress, anxiety and depression. |
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