title: Emotivity, personality, and task-dependent EEG asymmetry.
abstract: In order to verify if task-dependent EEG asymmetry is related to emotivity or personality traits, the relationship between EEGraphic (EEG mapping) asymmetry, personality aspects, and emotional-affective state in 12 healthy volunteers was evaluated by means of standardized methods (SAD and CPI). Our subjects show an EEG asymmetry which is currently attributed in the literature to anxiety. In our subject the absence of anxiety and the presence of hyperthymic characteristics suggests that the different individual trends observed in various studies which have used methods similar to ours, could, at least partly, depend on interference on these variables.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical Psychiatry, Pisa University, Italy.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maremmani
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bonanni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pieraccini
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Santerini
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Murri
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Castrogiovanni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology