Experiencing the Light Through our Skin - An EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects: an EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects

Andreas Wulff-Abramsson; Mads Deibjerg Lind; Stine Maria Louring Nielsen; George Palamas; Luis Emilio Bruni; Georgios Triantafyllidis

doi:10.1109/BIBE.2019.00116

Experiencing the Light Through our Skin - An EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects: an EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects

Andreas Wulff-Abramsson, Mads Deibjerg Lind, Stine Maria Louring Nielsen, George Palamas, Luis Emilio Bruni, Georgios Triantafyllidis

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Abstract

Light is omnipresent, surrounding us at every given moment, promoting different sensations and emotions. However, as we sense the light we do not only perceive it through our eyes, but our skin as well, as the epidermal contains photosensitive receptors similar to the retina, the opsins. In this study the sensations from the skin were measured through electroencephalography (EEG) to understand its contribution to our experience of light. For this experiment the subjects were blindfolded and placed in a daylight isolated room with artificial light. Here they were exposed to red, green and blue light as well as darkness. Through a temporal spectrum evolution
(TSE) and a machine learning algorithm for visualizing highly dimensional data (t-SNE) the color based perception signatures were found to be distinguishable. T-SNE clustered the TSE maps into four separable segments, one for each scenario. Inside each of these clusters unique delta, theta, alpha and beta event related desynchronization and synchronization (ERD/ERS) biomarkers could be found. These biomarkers could cultivate the idea that when red and blue are sensed through the skin they elicit cortical arousal and awareness, while green promotes calmness
and relaxation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)
Number of pages	8
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	Oct 2019
Pages	609 - 616
Article number	8941636
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728146171
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2019.00116
Publication status	Published - Oct 2019
Event	2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE) - Duration: 28 Oct 2019 → 30 Oct 2019 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8936463/proceeding

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Conference	2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)
Period	28/10/2019 → 30/10/2019
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8936463/proceeding

Series	International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
ISSN	2471-7819

Keywords

Light
EEG
Electroencephalography
Machine Learning
Colored Light
Perception
Somato-sensory cortex
Data Visualization
Unsupervised learning
Opsins
Colored light

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Wulff-Abramsson, A., Lind, M. D., Nielsen, S. M. L., Palamas, G., Bruni, L. E., & Triantafyllidis, G. (2019). Experiencing the Light Through our Skin - An EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects: an EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects. In 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE) (pp. 609 - 616). Article 8941636 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2019.00116

Wulff-Abramsson, Andreas ; Lind, Mads Deibjerg ; Nielsen, Stine Maria Louring et al. / Experiencing the Light Through our Skin - An EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects : an EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects. 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE). IEEE, 2019. pp. 609 - 616 (International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering).

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Wulff-Abramsson A, Lind MD, Nielsen SML, Palamas G, Bruni LE , Triantafyllidis G. Experiencing the Light Through our Skin - An EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects: an EEG Study of Colored Light on Blindfolded Subjects. In 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE). IEEE. 2019. p. 609 - 616. 8941636. (International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering). doi: 10.1109/BIBE.2019.00116

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