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Aesthetic appreciation: event-related field and time-frequency analyses.
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PMID:  22287948     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Improvements in neuroimaging methods have afforded significant advances in our knowledge of the cognitive and neural foundations of aesthetic appreciation. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to register brain activity while participants decided about the beauty of visual stimuli. The data were analyzed with event-related field (ERF) and Time-Frequency (TF) procedures. ERFs revealed no significant differences between brain activity related with stimuli rated as "beautiful" and "not beautiful." TF analysis showed clear differences between both conditions 400 ms after stimulus onset. Oscillatory power was greater for stimuli rated as "beautiful" than those regarded as "not beautiful" in the four frequency bands (theta, alpha, beta, and gamma). These results are interpreted in the frame of synchronization studies.
Authors:
Enric Munar; Marcos Nadal; Nazareth P Castellanos; Albert Flexas; Fernando Maestú; Claudio Mirasso; Camilo J Cela-Conde
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2012-01-05
Journal Detail:
Title:  Frontiers in human neuroscience     Volume:  5     ISSN:  1662-5161     ISO Abbreviation:  Front Hum Neurosci     Publication Date:  2011  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-01-30     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101477954     Medline TA:  Front Hum Neurosci     Country:  Switzerland    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  185     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Human Evolution and Cognition (EvoCog), University of the Balearic Islands Palma (Mallorca), Spain.
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