Increased oscillatory theta activation evoked by violent digital game events

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 435, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-72

  Salminen, Mikko ^a   Ravaja, Niklas ^a  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour; Alpha frequency; Brain oscillations; EEG; Theta frequency; Video games

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AROUSAL; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM; VIDEO GAMES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 41149132690     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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