Citation

Krause CM, Viemerö V, Rosenqvist A, Sillanmäki L, Aström T. Neurosci. Lett. 2000; 286(1): 9-12.

Affiliation

Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. krause@Ice.hut.fi

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10822140

Abstract

The reactivity of different narrow electroencephalographic (EEG) frequencies (4-6, 6-8, 8-10 and 10-12 Hz) to three types of emotionally laden film clips (aggressive, sad, neutral) were examined. We observed that different EEG frequency bands responded differently to the three types of film content. In the 4-6 Hz frequency band, the viewing of aggressive film content elicited greater relative synchronization as compared the responses elicited by the viewing of sad and neutral film content. The 6-8 Hz and 8-10 Hz frequency bands exhibited reactivity to the chronological succession of film viewing whereas the responses of the 10-12 Hz frequency band evolved within minutes during film viewing. Our results propose dissociations between the responses of different frequencies within the EEG to different emotion-related stimuli. Narrow frequency band EEG analysis offers an adequate tool for studying cortical activation patterns during emotion-related information processing.

Language: en