Nightingale: A multimodal approach combining EEG signals and audio features to enhance music therapy

Zirui Chen; Nikhil Yadav

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0341497

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Nightingale: A multimodal approach combining EEG signals and audio features to enhance music therapy

Zirui Chen,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Webb Schools, Claremont, California, United States of America
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Nikhil Yadav

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nyadav@sandiego.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6651-902X

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Nightingale: A multimodal approach combining EEG signals and audio features to enhance music therapy

Zirui Chen,
Nikhil Yadav

Published: January 27, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341497

About the Authors

Zirui Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Webb Schools, Claremont, California, United States of America

Nikhil Yadav

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nyadav@sandiego.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6651-902X

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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