
436
CHAPTER 48
Hemispheric Asymmetries
in the Perception of
Emotions
Sol I. Lim, Sangwoo Bahn, Jin C. Woo, Chang S. Nam
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
silim@ncsu.edu
, panlot@gmail.com, jwoo3@ncsu.edu, csnam@ncsu.edu
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is investigating differential hemispheric activations in
the perception of emotion. Electroencephalography (EEG) data were recorded while
subjects viewed pictures of three types of emotional contents (negatively arousing,
calm, and positively arousing) chosen from the International Affective Picture
System (IAPS). The results showed that in the upper alpha (10~12 Hz) frequency ...