MOOD AS A REAL PHENOMENON: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADJECTIVE ESTIMATION OF SUBJECTIVE STATE WITH SPECIFIC CORTICAL ACTIVITY

• Authors: Kaiser J. , Wyczesany M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the article the character of relationship between brain processes and subjective experience is considered. Based on the concept of consciousness as a emergent property of complex brain processes (Sperry, 1969), the authors postulate that mood, as a psychophysiological phenomenon, can be studied using laboratory methods. The experiment is an attempt to establish the relationship between reported mood, described by Thayer's Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List - ADACL (Thayer 1989) and spectral power density of the brain waves in spontaneous EEG. The results show, that estimation of mood on the Energy-Sleep dimension is correlated negatively with alpha activity and the Tension-Placidity dimension is correlated negatively with theta band power. This may lead to conclusion, that specific variability of brain activation states is differentiated in verbal reports.

Keywords

EN

ALPHA; EEG; MOOD; SUBJECTIVITY; THETA

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences jointly with the Committee on Psychological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kolokwia Psychologiczne (Psychological Colloquia)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 111-124
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kaiser J.

author

Wyczesany M.

• J. Kaiser, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Psychologii, ul. Golebia 13, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01743754