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Despite clear evidence of connections between chronic stress, brain patterns, age and gender, few studies have explored stressor differences in stress detection. This paper presents a stressor-specific evaluation model conducted between stress levels and electroencephalogram(EEG) features. The overall complexity, chaos of EEG signals, and spectrum power of certain EEG bands from pre-frontal lobe(Fp1, Fp2 and Fpz) was analyzed. The results showed that different stressors can lead to varying degree of changes of frontal EEG complexity. Future study will build the stressor-specific evaluation model under considering the effects of gender and age.
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Li, N., Hu, B., Chen, J., Peng, H., Zhao, Q., Zhao, M. (2013). Investigation of Chronic Stress Differences between Groups Exposed to Three Stressors and Normal Controls by Analyzing EEG Recordings. In: Lee, M., Hirose, A., Hou, ZG., Kil, R.M. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8227. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-42042-9_64
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