EEG study on affective valence elicited by novel and familiar pictures using ERD/ERS and SVM-RFE

EEG signals have been widely explored in emotional processing analyses, both in time and frequency domains. However, in such studies, habituation phenomenon is barely considered in the discrimination of different emotional responses. In this work, spectral features of the event-related potentials (E...

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Autores: Hidalgo Muñoz, Antonio R., López, M. M., Galvao Carmona, Alejandro, Pereira, A. T., Santos, I. M., Vázquez Marrufo, Manuel, Tomé, A. M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad Loyola Andalucía
Repositorio:Brújula
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uloyola.es:20.500.12412/4746
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/4746
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Affective valence
EEG
ERD/ERS
Habituation
SVM-RFE
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Sumario:EEG signals have been widely explored in emotional processing analyses, both in time and frequency domains. However, in such studies, habituation phenomenon is barely considered in the discrimination of different emotional responses. In this work, spectral features of the event-related potentials (ERPs) are studied by means of event-related desynchronization/synchronization computation. In order to determine the most relevant ERP features for distinguishing how positive and negative affective valences are processed within the brain, support vector machine-recursive feature elimination is employed. The proposed approach was applied for investigating in which way the familiarity of stimuli affects the affective valence processing as well as which frequency bands and scalp regions are more involved in this process. In a group composed of young adult women, results prove that parietooccipital region and theta band are especially involved in the processing of novelty in emotional stimuli.