Aesthetic appreciation: Event-related field and time-frequency analyses

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2012, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Munar, Enric ^a   Nadal, Marcos ^a   Castellanos, Nazareth P ^b   Flexas, Albert ^a   Maestú, Fernando ^b   Mirasso, Claudio ^a   Cela Conde, Camilo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

ERF; Experimental aesthetics; MEG; Neuroaesthetics; Time frequency analysis; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; EVENT RELATED FIELD; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84856790049     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00185     Document Type: Article

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