Positive evidence for Eysenck's arousal hypothesis: A combined EEG and MRI study with multiple measurement occasions

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 717-721

  Hagemann, Dirk ^a   Hewig, Johannes ^b   Walter, Christoph ^c   Schankin, Andrea ^a   Danner, Daniel ^a   Naumann, Ewald ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Central Interdisciplinary Ultrasound Municipal Hospital Trier Barmherzige Brüder   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Electroencephalogram; Extraversion; Skull thickness; State factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 67849100999     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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