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Brushstrokes of the Emotional Brain: Cortical Asymmetries for Valence Dimension

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Understanding the neurophysiology of emotions, the neuronal structures involved in the processing of emotional information and the circuits by which they act, is key to design applications in the field of affective neuroscience, both to advance in new treatments and in applications of brain-computer interactions. With this objective, we have carried out a study of cortical asymmetries based on the spectral power and differential entropy (DE) of the electroencephalographic signal of 24 subjects stimulated with videos of positive and negative emotional content. The results have shown different interhemispheric asymmetries throughout the cortex, presenting opposite patterns for both emotional categories. In addition, increased activity has also been observed in the right hemisphere and in anterior cortical regions during emotion processing. These preliminary results are encouraging for elucidating the neuronal circuits of the emotional brain.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported in part by the Spanish National Research Program (MAT2015-69967-C3-1), the Spanish Blind Organization (ONCE), the Seneca Foundation - Agency of Science and Technology of the Region of Murcia and the Ministry of Education of Spain (FPU grant AP2013/01842).

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  1. Institute of Bioengineering, University Miguel Hernández and CIBER BBN Avenida de la Universidad, 03202, Elche, Spain

    Jennifer Sorinas & Eduardo Fernández-Jover

  2. Department of Electronics and Computer Technology, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

    Jennifer Sorinas & José Manuel Ferrández Vicente

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

    José Manuel Ferrández Vicente

  2. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

    José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez

  3. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Félix de la Paz López

  4. Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

    Javier Toledo Moreo

  5. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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Sorinas, J., Ferrández Vicente, J.M., Fernández-Jover, E. (2019). Brushstrokes of the Emotional Brain: Cortical Asymmetries for Valence Dimension. In: Ferrández Vicente, J., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., de la Paz López, F., Toledo Moreo, J., Adeli, H. (eds) Understanding the Brain Function and Emotions. IWINAC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19591-5_24

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