title: Relative electroencephalographic desynchronization and synchronization in humans to emotional film content: an analysis of the 4-6, 6-8, 8-10 and 10-12 Hz frequency bands.
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.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. krause@Ice.hut.fi
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Viemerö
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosenqvist
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sillanmäki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aström
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D003344:Cortical Synchronization; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D013997:Time Factors