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EEG Correlates of Pleasant and Unpleasant Odor Perception

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Olfaction-enhanced multimedia experience is becoming vital for strengthening the sensation of reality and the quality of user experience. One approach to investigate olfactory perception is to analyze the alterations in brain activity during stimulation with different odors. In this article, the changes in the electroencephalogram (EEG) when perceiving hedonically-different odors are studied. Results of within and across-subject analysis are presented. We show that EEG-based odor classification using brain activity is possible and can be used to automatically recognize odor pleasantness when a subject-specific classifier is trained. However, it is a challenging problem to design a generic classifier.

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      cover image ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
      ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications  Volume 11, Issue 1s
      Special Issue on Multiple Sensorial (MulSeMedia) Multimodal Media : Advances and Applications
      September 2014
      260 pages
      ISSN:1551-6857
      EISSN:1551-6865
      DOI:10.1145/2675060
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      • Published: 1 October 2014
      • Accepted: 1 June 2014
      • Revised: 1 February 2014
      • Received: 1 November 2013
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