Personality, affect and EEG: Predicting patterns of regional brain activity related to extraversion and neuroticism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 717-732

  Schmidtke, Jennifer Isom ^a   Heller, Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Emotion; Personality; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346392210     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00129-6     Document Type: Article

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