Decrease of prefrontal-posterior EEG coherence: Loose control during social-emotional stimulation

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 144-154

  Reiser, Eva M ^a   Schulter, Günter ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth M ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a   Rominger, Christian ^a   Papousek, Ilona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

EEG coherence; Emotional involvement; Hemispheric asymmetry; Social emotional stimulation; Top down modulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINATION; SADNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862760539     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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