Spectral Perturbation of Theta and Alpha Wave for the Affective Auditory Stimuli


KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 451-456, Oct. 2014
10.3745/KTSDE.2014.3.10.451,   PDF Download:

Abstract

The correlations between electroencephalographic (EEG) spectral power and emotional responses during affective sound clip listening are important parameters. Hemispheric asymmetry in prefrontal activation have been proposed in two decades ago, as measured by power value, is related to reactivity to affectively pleasure audio stimuli. In this study, we designed an emotional audio stimulus experiment in order to verify frontal EEG asymmetry by analyzing Event-related Spectral Perturbation (ERSP) results. Thirty healthy college male students volunteered the stimulus experiment with the standard IADS(International Affective Digital Sounds) clips. These affective sound clips are classified in three emotion states, high pleasure-high arousal (happy), middle pleasure-low arousal (neutral) and low pleasure-high arousal (fear). The analysis of the data was performed in both theta (4-8Hz) and alpha (8-13Hz) bands. ERSP maps in the alpha band revealed that there are the stronger power responses of high pleasure (happy) in the right frontal lobe, while the stronger power responses of middle-low pleasure (neutral and fear) in the left frontal lobe. Moreover, ERSP maps in the theta band revealed that there are the stronger power responses of high arousal (fear and happy) in the left pre-frontal lobe, while the stronger responses of low arousal (neutral) in the right pre-frontal lobe. However, the high pleasure emotions (happy) can elicit greater relative right EEG activity, while the low and middle pleasure emotions (fear and neutral) can elicit the greater relative left EEG activity. Additionally, the most differences of theta band have been found out in the medial frontal lobe, which is proved as the frontal midline theta. And there are the strongest responses of happy sounds in the alpha band around the whole frontal regions. These results are well suited for emotion recognition, and provide the evidences that theta and alpha powers may have the more important role in the emotion processing than previously believed.


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Cite this article
[IEEE Style]
R. Du, "Spectral Perturbation of Theta and Alpha Wave for the Affective Auditory Stimuli," KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 451-456, 2014. DOI: 10.3745/KTSDE.2014.3.10.451.

[ACM Style]
Ruoyu Du. 2014. Spectral Perturbation of Theta and Alpha Wave for the Affective Auditory Stimuli. KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, 3, 10, (2014), 451-456. DOI: 10.3745/KTSDE.2014.3.10.451.