Students have to manage the strain of rising education level and their future career, accompanying the hormonal changes during their pubescence. This creates a great impact on their education as well as personal life. In this paper, an analysis has been made to study the impact of yoga on engineering students. To understand the impact. Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) approaches have been utilized. An EEG based BCI is used which will give a direct view of whats going on in the students’ brains.
Methodology:
In this work, an experiment has been performed on engineering students and their brain activity is recorded before and after practicing yoga. In the experimental procedure, EEG signals are acquired from 8 electrodes which are associated with the cognitive and memory-related tasks of the brain. During each trial, participants solve the set of mathematical questionnaire. EEG signals are acquired during test trials before and after the yoga session. A bandpass filter is applied to preprocess the EEG signals. A discrete wavelet transform is implemented for feature extraction of the preprocessed signals.
Results:
Different classification algorithms are applied to classify the EEG signals before and after the yoga session. To measure the classification performance, measures such as accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity are presented in the paper. The highest accuracy of 95 % is achieved with Probabilistic Neural Network. Classification concluded the variations in signals before and after yoga. Further, in this work analysis of frequency bands, accuracy and score of the subjects before and after the yoga session are also done.
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