Personality traits and its association with resting regional brain activity

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 215-224

  Tran, Yvonne ^a   Craig, Ashley ^a   Boord, Peter ^a   Connell, Kathy ^b   Cooper, Nicholas ^b   Gordon, Evian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Brain Resource Company   (Australia)

Author keywords

EEG; Gender; Individual alpha frequency; NEO FFI; Personality; Resting brain activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DATABASES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33646932654     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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