Resting frontal EEG alpha-asymmetry predicts the evaluation of affective musical stimuli

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 460, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-240

  Schmidt, Barbara ^a   Hanslmayr, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain oscillations; Emotion; Frontal cortex; Music

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REST; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AFFECT; ALPHA RHYTHM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67449149488     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.068     Document Type: Article

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