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Study aim
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Evaluation of simultaneous use of biological signals and music acoustic content in music-induced emotion recognition
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Design
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Quasi-experimental clinical trial, Before-after design, One intervention group with 9 healthy subjects
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Settings and conduct
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This study focuses on recognizing music-induced emotions using biological signals and music acoustic content, at Tarbiat Modares University of Iran. The procedure: 1. Gathering validated emotional music pieces to induce basic emotions, 2. Biological signal acquisition from the participants before and after emotional interventions, 3. َBiosignal analysis and emotion recognition system design. In this step, we will focus on statistical analysis and classification methods based on information fusion of biosignals and acoustic content of played music. The recorded forehead biopotentials contain information about EEG, EOG and facial EMG signals, which will be separated at the signal processing step.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: Female, aged between 23 to 32 years, healthy, have normal or corrected-to-normal vision, university student. Exclusion criteria: Have history of neurological diseases, medication use, fasting.
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Intervention groups
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Intervention group: 9 healthy females. In one session: 1. Playing a piece of neutral music (the sound of waterfall) to induce neutral feelings, 2. Playing emotional music pieces to induce two basic emotions (Happiness, Sadness), while recording forehead biopotentials. The device FlexComp Infiniti (Thought Technology Ltd, Montreal, QC), along with the golden electrodes, will be used to record forehead biopotentials.
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Main outcome variables
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Forehead neural activity