REAL ES 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Frontal Lobe
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Problem 2: the two sides in emotion processing! Asymmetrical brain activity discriminates between positive and negative affective stimuli in human infants (davidson and fox) In adults: regions of left hemisphere processes positive affective stimuli, regions of right hemisphere processes negative affective stimuli. This asymmetry is mainly in the frontal lobe. Study 1: infant (age 10 months) was sat down in front of a tv showing video tapes of actress making happy and sad facial expressions. Eeg recording while children watch videos (18 girls born from right-handed parents) Study 2: infant (age 10 months) was sat down in front of a tv showing video tapes of actress making happy and sad facial expressions. Eeg recording while children watch videos (20 girls born from right-handed parents) + video camera focused on infants face used to detect whether the infant was fixated on monitor. Only eeg for periods when child was fixated was analyzed.
