Human brain EEG indices of emotions: Delineating responses to affective vocalizations by measuring frontal theta event-related synchronization

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1959-1970

  Bekkedal, Marni Y V ^a   Rossi, John ^b   Panksepp, Jaak ^c  

^a Two Steps Forward LLC   (United States)

^b FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective sounds; Alpha blocking; Auditory perception; EEG; Emotion; Event related cortical desynchronizations and synchronizations; Gender differences; Theta

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AROUSAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THETA RHYTHM; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 80053099778     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.05.001     Document Type: Review

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