An Event Related Potentials Study on Discrimination and Categorization of Auditory Affect Bursts

Diplôme Master An Event Related Potentials Study on Discrimination and Categorization of Auditory Affect Bursts eng 2017 author Ogi Manuel 544743 director Grandjean Didier Maurice 502006 We perceive emotions in the voices we hear, but do we handle positive and negative emotions the same way? Even more so if we expect, or not, a specific emotion? We tried to address this question using EEG to analyze activity generated by the categorization or the discrimination of auditory affect bursts. We found a greater activation for the categorization task at P200, suggesting a greater cognitive load in that type of task. We found a more negative activation for happiness than for fear at N100, suggesting that emotion is perceived very early through its physical characteristics. Some interaction effects showed that discrimination of happiness is lateralized at N100 according to whether it is a target emotion or not. Emotions receive a lateralized different processing depending on whether they are categorized or discriminated at P300. Consequently, the type of perceptual decision making has to be considered when studying emotion perception. Dewey 150 Dewey 616.8 Maîtrise universitaire en neurosciences 16 Centre interfacultaire de neurosciences 0D9 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 594 Neuroscience de l'émotion et dynamiques affectives (NEAD) 2626c5b6-14ed-4a6b-87d5-78e484765b0c Master thesis Restricted MasterThesisOgiVERSION2.pdf 1246206 application/pdf restrictedAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire de neurosciences Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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