L-FAME: Longitudinal Focused Attention Meditation EEG Dataset and Benchmark

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Main Authors: Li, Angqi, Syed, Ab Basit Rafi, Alzweri, Hamzeh, Liu, Taosheng, Cohen, Barry H., Ravishankar, Saiprasad
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author Li, Angqi
Syed, Ab Basit Rafi
Alzweri, Hamzeh
Liu, Taosheng
Cohen, Barry H.
Ravishankar, Saiprasad
author_facet Li, Angqi
Syed, Ab Basit Rafi
Alzweri, Hamzeh
Liu, Taosheng
Cohen, Barry H.
Ravishankar, Saiprasad
contents We introduce a novel Longitudinal Focused Attention Meditation Electroencephalography (L-FAME) dataset and an accompanying benchmark, designed to foster research into the neural effects of various meditation practices and the evolution of these effects over a six-week training period. The dataset contains EEG recordings and psychological assessments from 74 healthy college participants, collected at two distinct time points: pre-intervention and post-intervention. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three distinct meditation groups: two mantra-based techniques (SA-TA-NA-MA and Hare Krishna) and one Breath Focus practice. Leveraging this unique longitudinal and comparative dataset, we propose a benchmark suite comprising three distinct classification tasks: (1) cognitive state decoding to distinguish between resting and meditation states, (2) fine-grained classification of the specific meditation techniques, and (3) cross-session adaptation to evaluate model generalization across the longitudinal time gap. We provide comprehensive baseline results for these tasks utilizing a range of classical machine learning algorithms and deep learning architectures. The complete dataset, preprocessing pipelines, and benchmark evaluation code will be publicly released, offering a valuable resource and a standardized framework for the development and comparison of new analytical methods in computational meditation research and EEG-based machine learning. The dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/L-FAME-Dataset-Benchmark/L-FAME
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spellingShingle L-FAME: Longitudinal Focused Attention Meditation EEG Dataset and Benchmark
Li, Angqi
Syed, Ab Basit Rafi
Alzweri, Hamzeh
Liu, Taosheng
Cohen, Barry H.
Ravishankar, Saiprasad
Signal Processing
Machine Learning
We introduce a novel Longitudinal Focused Attention Meditation Electroencephalography (L-FAME) dataset and an accompanying benchmark, designed to foster research into the neural effects of various meditation practices and the evolution of these effects over a six-week training period. The dataset contains EEG recordings and psychological assessments from 74 healthy college participants, collected at two distinct time points: pre-intervention and post-intervention. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three distinct meditation groups: two mantra-based techniques (SA-TA-NA-MA and Hare Krishna) and one Breath Focus practice. Leveraging this unique longitudinal and comparative dataset, we propose a benchmark suite comprising three distinct classification tasks: (1) cognitive state decoding to distinguish between resting and meditation states, (2) fine-grained classification of the specific meditation techniques, and (3) cross-session adaptation to evaluate model generalization across the longitudinal time gap. We provide comprehensive baseline results for these tasks utilizing a range of classical machine learning algorithms and deep learning architectures. The complete dataset, preprocessing pipelines, and benchmark evaluation code will be publicly released, offering a valuable resource and a standardized framework for the development and comparison of new analytical methods in computational meditation research and EEG-based machine learning. The dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/L-FAME-Dataset-Benchmark/L-FAME
title L-FAME: Longitudinal Focused Attention Meditation EEG Dataset and Benchmark
topic Signal Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22893