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Quantitative change of EEG and respiration signals during mindfulness meditation
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BACKGROUND: This study investigates measures of mindfulness meditation (MM) as a mental practice, in which a resting but alert state of mind is maintained. A population of older people with high stress level participated in this study, while electroencephalographic (EEG) and respiration signals were recorded during a MM intervention. The physiological signals during meditation and control conditions were analyzed with signal processing. METHODS: EEG and respiration data were collected and analyzed on 34 novice meditators after a 6-week meditation intervention. Collected data were analyzed with spectral analysis, phase analysis and classification to evaluate an objective marker for meditation. RESULTS: Different frequency bands showed differences in meditation and control conditions. Furthermore, we established a classifier using EEG and respiration signals with a higher accuracy (85%) at discriminating between meditation and control conditions than a classifier using the EEG signal only (78%). CONCLUSION: Support vector machine (SVM) classifier with EEG and respiration feature vector is a viable objective marker for meditation ability. This classifier should be able to quantify different levels of meditation depth and meditation experience in future studies.
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- Authors
- Ahani, A., Wahbeh, H., Nezamfar, H., Miller, M., Erdogmus, D., & Oken, B.
- Affiliations
- Northeastern University (US)
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Oken, Barry
- Venue
- Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
- Published
- 2014-05-14
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 87-87
- ISSN
- 1743-0003 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4060143
- OpenAlex
- W2153257584
- Cited by
- 159
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 4
- FWCI
- 9.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0914808, 1149570, 1136027)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (K24AT005121, K01AT004951)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Keywords
- mindfulness meditation, EEG, respiratory signals, support vector classifier, older adults, stress, frequency band analysis, phase analysis
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Brain, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Respiration, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Meditation, Support Vector Machine, Mindfulness
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