An EEG study on working memory and cognition

Poulami Ghosh, Ankita Mazumder, Saugat Bhattacharyya, D. N. Tibarewala

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Abstract

The primary objective of the brain is to collect information from the body via nervous system and then either process those information or store them. These stored information are basically known as memory. Over the years Electroencephalography (EEG) signals have been used quite efficiently to evaluate the cognitive state of brain. In this paper, we aim to study the cognitive functioning of the brain when a user memorizes and then recognizes an object from a list of similar ones. For this purpose, we have employed wavelet transform to extract the relevant features pertaining to the two mental activities and support vector machine to distinguish between the two states. The classification accuracy, thus obtained, is above 79% for all subjects. It is also inferred from this study that during memorization the signals from the frontal and temporal lobes are dominant and during recognition, signals from the frontal and parietal lobes are dominant.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2nd International Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence, PerMIn 2015 - Proceedings
EditorsDebasis Mazumdar, Soma Mitra, Sankar K. Pal, Santanu Chaudhury, Malay K. Kundu
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages21-26
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450320023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 26 Feb 2015
Event2nd International Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence, PerMIn 2015 - Kolkata, India
Duration: 26 Feb 201527 Feb 2015

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume26-27-February-2015

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence, PerMIn 2015
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityKolkata
Period26/02/1527/02/15

Keywords

  • Cognition
  • Electroencephalography
  • Memory
  • Recognition
  • Support vector machine
  • Wavelet transform

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