P300 Fixation-Related Potential affected by Facial Emotion in Virtual Reality
Conference Year
2023
Abstract
Although some EEG studies have begun to use naturalistic movie paradigms, few have taken advantage of recent advances in virtual reality (VR) to create immersive experiments that include active participation and a sense of presence. Therefore, we built a naturalistic task in a VR environment and recorded the brain’s responses to emotional faces in a natural setting. By comparing the fixation-related potentials from VR settings and normal lab settings, we aim to find out how naturalism affects FRP responses to emotional faces, which could eventually help with understanding how people with social anxiety process emotional faces in the real world.
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
David Jangraw
Status
Undergraduate
Student College
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Program/Major
Biomedical Engineering
Primary Research Category
Engineering and Math Science
P300 Fixation-Related Potential affected by Facial Emotion in Virtual Reality
Although some EEG studies have begun to use naturalistic movie paradigms, few have taken advantage of recent advances in virtual reality (VR) to create immersive experiments that include active participation and a sense of presence. Therefore, we built a naturalistic task in a VR environment and recorded the brain’s responses to emotional faces in a natural setting. By comparing the fixation-related potentials from VR settings and normal lab settings, we aim to find out how naturalism affects FRP responses to emotional faces, which could eventually help with understanding how people with social anxiety process emotional faces in the real world.