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The Effect of Sensation Seeking on Frontal EEG Asymmetry during Resting Baseline and Viewing Emotional Stimuli

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2011, v.23 no.4, pp.533-548
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2011.23.4.004

(2011). The Effect of Sensation Seeking on Frontal EEG Asymmetry during Resting Baseline and Viewing Emotional Stimuli. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 23(4), 533-548, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2011.23.4.004
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This study examined the effect of sensation-seeking on the pattern of frontal EEG asymmetry during resting baseline and viewing emotional stimuli. Experimental participants were separated into high sensation seekers and low sensation seekers by sensation seeking scale(Zukerman, 1994). Participants also completed PANAS before baseline measurement. Mean alpha power density asymmetries were extracted in midfrontal, lateral frontal, inferior parietal and posterior temporal sites during resting baseline and viewing 4 emotional clips inducing neutral, adventure, pleasure and relationship emotions. At baseline, FBAs were not significantly different between high sensation seeking and low sensation seeking, but high sensation seekers showed higher positive affect(PA) than low sensation seeker did. During viewing both adventure and pleasure clips, high sensation seeking group displayed higher left midfrontal activation and lower arousal feelings than low sensation seeking group did. The current findings implicates that high sensation seekers have a strategy to enhance hedonic well-being through increasing arousal from engaging in sensation seeking activities.

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감각추구, 전두 EEG 비대칭성, 긍정적 정서, 좌측 중전두 활성화, 쾌락적 안녕감, sensation seeking, frontal EEG asymmetry, left midfrontal activation, positive affect, hedonic well-being

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