Personality cannot be predicted from the power of resting state EEG

Autor: Kristjan eKorjus, Andero eUusberg, Helen eUibo, Nele eKuldkepp, Kairi eKreegipuu, Jüri eAllik, Raul eVicente, Jaan eAru
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 9 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00063
Popis: In the present study we asked whether it is possible to decode personality traits from resting state EEG data. EEG was recorded from a large sample of subjects (n=289) who had answered questionnaires measuring personality trait scores of the 5 dimensions as well as the 10 subordinate aspects of the Big Five. Machine learning algorithms were used to build a classifier to predict each personality trait from power spectra of the resting state EEG data. The results indicate that the five dimensions as well as their subordinate aspects could not be predicted from the resting state EEG data. Finally, to demonstrate that this result is not due to systematic algorithmic or implementation mistakes the same methods were used to successfully classify whether the subject had eyes open or closed. These results indicate that the extraction of personality traits from the power spectra of resting state EEG is extremely noisy, if possible at all.
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