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EEG Brainwave Analysis for Research on Meditation Influence to the Concentration

명상이 집중도에 미치는 영향조사를 위한 EEG 뇌파 분석

  • Received : 2014.08.25
  • Accepted : 2014.12.15
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

Many people complain their big or little stress due to the complicated city life in modern times, so they are exposed of the mental illness. Especially, not only students and office workers but also most people suffer from degradation of efficiency at work and keeping the high quality of life because of the insufficiency of concentration ability. To improve the concentration ability, the meditation is a substitution. The influence of meditation for the concentration ability is experimented with EEG brainwave. Some experienced meditators are participated for the experiments, and the left and right portion of prefrontal lobe, AF3 and AF4, are measured and analyzed. As a result, the changes of rhythmic activity of a unique pattern and power spectra are observed.

현대의 복잡한 도시생활로 인하여 많은 이들이 크고 작은 정신적인 스트레스를 호소하고 있으며 이에 따라 각종 정신질환에 노출되어 있다. 특히, 학생이나 직장인 할 것 없이 많은 이들이 집중력 부족으로 인하여 일의 능률 저하나 양질의 생활 유지에 어려움을 가지고 있다. 이러한 집중력을 향상시키기 위해 명상이 대안으로 떠오르고 있으며, 이러한 명상이 집중력에 어떠한 형태로 영향을 미치는지 알아보기 위해 EEG 뇌파를 활용하여 실험하였다. 명상경험자를 실험대상으로 하였으며 뇌의 좌우반구의 전전두엽 영역에 배치된 AF3와 AF4영역을 중점적으로 관찰하고 분석하였다. 그 결과 리듬성 활동 뇌파의 특유한 패턴과 파워 스팩트럼의 변화를 관찰할 수 있었다.

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