“…Early studies have used traditional statistical learning methods such as linear discriminant analysis (LDA), support vector machine (SVM), and common spatial pattern (CSP) to extract channel-wise spectrotemporal EEG features and apply spatial filters in high-dimensional Euclidean space to realize emotion recognition [15]- [17]. More recent studies have used deep learning methods such as convolutional neural networks (CNN), recurrent neural networks (RNN), and graph neural networks (GNN) to recognize emotion directly from channelwise EEG features in an end-to-end manner, treating EEG features as high-dimensional vectors or images in Euclidean space [18]- [21]. On the other hand, recent neuroscience findings have shown that emotion states are not only encoded in spatial-spectral-temporal EEG features but also encoded in functional network connectivity such as the covariance and coherence among different brain signal channels [22], [23].…”