Electroencephalogram Steady State Response Sonification Focused on the Spatial and Temporal Properties
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2014-06Author
Kaniwa, Teruaki
Terasawa, Hiroko
Matsubara, Masaki
Makino, Shoji
Rutkowski, Thomas M.
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This paper describes a sonification approach of multichannel
electroencephalogram (EEG) steady-state responses (SSR).
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility
of sonification as an analytic tool for SSR. The proposed
sonification approach aims to observe the spatial property
(i.e. location of strong brain activities) and temporal property
(i.e. synchrony of wave forms across channels) of brain activity.
We expect to obtain useful information on brain activity
locations and their dynamic transitions by taking advantage of
spatial sound with multichannel loudspeakers that represent
EEG measurement positions, while expressing the temporal
property of multiple EEG channels with timbre by integrating
respective auditory streams. Our final sonification evaluation
experiment suggests the validity of the proposed approach.