EEG analysis for understanding stress based on affective model basis function

Coping with stress has shown to be able to avoid many complications in medical condition. In this paper we present an alternative method in analyzing and understanding stress using the four basic emotions of happy, calm, sad and fear as our basis function. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals were captured from the scalp of the brain and measured in responds to various stimuli from the four basic emotions to stimulating stress base on the IAPS emotion stimuli. Features from the EEG signals were extracted using the Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and classified using the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), a neural network classifier to obtain accuracy of the subject's emotion leading to stress. Results have shown the potential of using the basic emotion basis function to visualize the stress perception as an alternative tool for engineers and psychologist.