Dynamic Variation in Pleasure in Children Predicts Nonlinear Change in Lateral Frontal Brain Electrical Activity

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 525-533

  Light, Sharee N ^a   Coan, James A ^b   Frye, Corrina ^a   Goldsmith, H Hill ^a   Davidson, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; lateral frontal cortex; pleasure

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HAPPINESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TWINS;

AFFECT; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TWINS;

EID: 63149112190     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014576     Document Type: Article

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