Theta band activity in response to emotional expressions and its relationship with gamma band activity as revealed by MEG and advanced beamformer source imaging

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Luo, Qian ^a,b   Cheng, Xi ^c   Holroyd, Tom ^b   Xu, Duo ^a   Carver, Frederick ^b   James Blair, R ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Event related synchronization; Gamma; MEG; Theta

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; GAMMA RHYTHM; INSULA; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ORBITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84893252713     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00940     Document Type: Article

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