Analysis of brain‐facial muscle connection in the static fractal visual stimulation

Abstract

Analysis of the coupling among the brain and various organs activities is an exciting and new research area of biomedical signal analysis. We decode the correlation among the brain and facial muscle activities during rest and visual stimulation. Fractal analysis is utilized to evaluate the alterations of complexity. In this study, we present different images with different complexities to participants and evaluate how complex structures of electromyography (EMG) signals and electroencephalography (EEG) signals are related. The findings indicate that the alteration of EMG signals' complexity was significant (P value = .0001). Besides, more significant alterations in the EMG and EEG signals' complexities in response to the stimuli with higher complexities were observed. We conclude that the brain and facial muscles activities are related. We can analyze other physiological signals using this method to investigate their relationship with the brain.

Decoding of the coupling between brain and skin activities in olfactory stimulation by analysis of EEG and GSR signals

“…Besides many studies that benefited from various techniques (e.g. fractal theory [9,10]) to analyze biosignals, many reported works employed various types of entropy. The reported works that analyzed eye movements [11], PCG signals [12], heart rate variability [13], and EMG signals [14] using different types of entropy are worthy of being mentioned.…”