Author(s)

Guoxia Zou

School of Artificial Intelligence, Guangdong Open University (Guangdong Polytechnic Institute), Guangzhou, China.

At present, the channels used for EEG acquisition are more than 16, which makes it difficult to wear EEG caps and has poor contact. Therefore, it brings difficulties to the collection of brain waves is not conducive to converting research into applications. It is a well worth studying work in researching how to find the key brain electrode in the existing brain wave, which will greatly reduce the number of EEG acquisition points during application, making it easier to translate the research into practical application. This paper takes emotional EEG as an example to study how to find the key brain electrode points of emotional EEG with deep learning method. Firstly, using the least square regression algorithm to calculate the characteristic coefficients of each electrode point; secondly, according to the law of the characteristic coefficient value, grouping the key EEG poles for experiment. In the grouping experiment, the Conv1d-GRU model used to train and verify the EEG data of the corresponding electrode points. Finally, from the results of various grouping experiments, it concluded that the selection method of the key EEG level points should be the electrode points with positive characteristic coefficient, and the accuracy of verification is 97.6%. With experiments, it confirmed that there are key electrode points in the detection of emotional EEG by 16-channel OpenBCI. There are only six key electrode points of emotional EEG; that is to say, the EEG data collected by only six key electrode points can identify seven kinds of emotional EEG.

Electroencephalogram, Least Squares Algorithm, Deep Learning, Emotion Recognition

Zou, G. (2023) Deep Learning to Find Key Brain Electrode Positions in Emotional EEG. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 13, 227-242. doi: 10.4236/jbbs.2023.1312015.