INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT NOISE AND MUSIC ON THE HUMAN BRAIN BY USING A BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI).

Efforts to advance brain computer interface (BCI) to aid people who have lost communication and movement abilities (neuromuscular disorders) are becoming popular and are obtaining funding from many Institutes. But it has remained untapped in other areas e.g. manufacturing, the military, the law, etc. Hence, the aim of the project is to investigate the impact of environmental sound (noise & music) on human thinking using the Electroencephalography (EEG) tool. The project is started with a subject literature review and then concentrates on the investigation of the kind of BCI signals and how EEG works. The information will be analyzed and classified to serve as references in the analysis of environmental noise level and music. The project is divided into two scenarios of treatment: the noise - silent - noise - silent form and the second treatment using noise - the silent - music - noise form. The next step is measuring and then analyzing the brain signals in a variety of sound levels. In this state, the comparisons of impact sound from two treatments are presented. Finally, the project shows that the music sound treatment produces a stable graph of brain response when compared with the noise sound treatment. As a consequence, people within pleasant sound will be more relaxed and focused on doing the task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]