EEG Beta Range Dynamics and Emotional Judgments of Face and Voices

K. Hiyoshi-Taniguchi, M. Kawasaki, T. Yokota, H. Bakardjian, H. Fukuyama, F. B. Vialatte, A. Cichocki

2012

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify multi-modal brain processing related to human emotional judgment. This study aimed to induce a controlled perturbation in the emotional system of the brain by multi-modal stimuli, and to investigate whether such emotional stimuli could induce reproducible and consistent changes in the brain dynamics. As we were especially interested in the temporal dynamics of the brain responses, we studied EEG signals. We exposed twelve subjects to auditory, visual, or combined audio-visual stimuli. Audio stimuli consisted of voice recordings of the Japanese word ‘arigato’ (thank you) pronounced with three different intonations (Angry - A, Happy - H or Neutral - N). Visual stimuli consisted of faces of women expressing the same emotional valences (A, H or N). Audio-visual stimuli were composed using either congruent combinations of faces and voices (e.g. H x H) or non-congruent (e.g. A x H). The data was collected with a 32-channel Biosemi EEG system. We report here significant changes in EEG power and topographies between those conditions. The obtained results demonstrate that EEG could be used as a tool to investigate emotional valence and discriminate various emotions.

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Hiyoshi-Taniguchi K., Kawasaki M., Yokota T., Bakardjian H., Fukuyama H., B. Vialatte F. and Cichocki A. (2012). EEG Beta Range Dynamics and Emotional Judgments of Face and Voices . In Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: SSCN, (IJCCI 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-33-4, pages 738-740. DOI: 10.5220/0004184307380740


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@conference{sscn12,
author={K. Hiyoshi-Taniguchi and M. Kawasaki and T. Yokota and H. Bakardjian and H. Fukuyama and F. B. Vialatte and A. Cichocki},
title={EEG Beta Range Dynamics and Emotional Judgments of Face and Voices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: SSCN, (IJCCI 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={738-740},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004184307380740},
isbn={978-989-8565-33-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: SSCN, (IJCCI 2012)
TI - EEG Beta Range Dynamics and Emotional Judgments of Face and Voices
SN - 978-989-8565-33-4
AU - Hiyoshi-Taniguchi K.
AU - Kawasaki M.
AU - Yokota T.
AU - Bakardjian H.
AU - Fukuyama H.
AU - B. Vialatte F.
AU - Cichocki A.
PY - 2012
SP - 738
EP - 740
DO - 10.5220/0004184307380740