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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2022.12.009

Research on Stress Reduction Model Based on Transformer  

Xu, Xin (School of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Zhao, Yikun (School of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Zhang, Ruhao (School of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Xu, Tingting (School of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.16, no.12, 2022 , pp. 3943-3959 More about this Journal
Abstract
People are constantly exposed to stress and anxiety environment, which could contribute to a variety of psychological and physical health problems. Therefore, it is particularly important to identify psychological stress in time and to find a feasible and universal method of stress reduction. This research investigated the influence of different music, such as relaxation music and natural rhythm music, on stress relief based on Electroencephalogram signals. Mental arithmetic test was implemented to create a stressful environment. 23 participants performed the mental arithmetic test with and without music respectively, while their Electroencephalogram signal was recorded. The effect of music on stress relief was verified through stress test questionnaires, including Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-6) and Self-Stress Assessment. There was a significant change in the stress test questionnaire values with and without music according to paired t-test (p<0.01). Furthermore, a model based on Transformer for stress level classification from Electroencephalogram signal was proposed. Experimental results showed that the method of listening to relaxation music and natural rhythm music achieved the effect of reducing psychological stress and the proposed model yielded a promising accuracy in classifying the Electroencephalogram signal of mental stress.
Keywords
EEG; mental stress; music; self-attention; Transformer;
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