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Some EEG Correlates of Face‐to‐Face Contact
Author(s) -
GALE ANTHONY,
LUCAS BONNIE,
NISSIM RUTH,
HARPHAM BRIAN
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1972.tb00822.x
Subject(s) - electroencephalography , gaze , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , audiology , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , medicine , psychoanalysis
Transoccipital EEG was monitored from 12 subjects during three conditions of gaze. The subject fixated continuously on the eyes of the experimenter. The experimenter smiled at the subject, looked at the subject or averted his eyes. Each condition was repeated six times (20 sec. per trial, overall viewing time 6 min.). The EEG was integrated automatically in 5 sec. epochs, to yield abundance scores. There is a general tendency for EEG abundance to be inversely related to the arousing properties of the viewed stimulus. This effect is statistically significant for 8ṁ5–11ṁ5 Hz (alpha frequencies), and for 2ṁ0–4ṁ5 Hz.