In this study, the electrical activities in the brain were classified during mental mathematical tasks and silent text reading. EEG recordings are collected from 18 healthy male university/college students, ages ranging from 18 to 25. During the study, a total of 60 slides including verbal text reading and arithmetical operations were presented to the subjects. EEG signals were collected from 26 channels in the course of slide show. Features were extracted by employing Hilbert Huang Transform (HHT). Then, subjectdependent and subject-independent classifications were performed using k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm with parameters k=1, 3, 5 and 10. Subject-dependent classifications resulted in accuracy rates between 95.8% and 99%, whereas the accuracy rates were between 92.2% and 97% for subject independent classification. The results show that EEG data recorded during mathematical and silent reading tasks can be classified with high accuracy results for both subject-dependent and subject-independent analysis.

In this study, the effects of feature selection on classification of the electrical signals generated in the brain during numerical and verbal operations are investigated. 18 healthy university/college students were chosen for the experimental study. EEG signals were recorded during silent reading and mental arithmetic operations without using any pen and paper. A total of 60 slides, 30 of which contained reading passages and the rest contained arithmetic operations, were presented in the experiment. EEG signals recorded from 26 channels during the slide show. The recorded EEG signals were analyzed by Hilbert Huang Transform (HHT), and then features were extracted. 312 features were classified by Bayesian Network algorithm without applying feature selection with 92.60% average accuracy. Consistency measures and Correlation based Feature Selection methods were, then, used for feature selection and the numbers of selected features are 8 and 39 on average, respectively. Classification accuracies by using these feature selection algorithms were obtained as 93.98% and 95.58%, respectively. The results showed that feature selection algorithms contribute positively to the classification performance.

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