Emotional Significance of the Stimulus and Features of the Personality as Factors Reflected in the Pattern of Evoked EEG Potentials

摘要

This review generalizes the data of modern studies of individual peculiarities of the spatial/temporaland amplitude characteristics of evoked EEG potentials (EPs) in humans. A brief description of EPs,characteristics of their components, sources of generation, and functional correlates is presented. Possibleeffects of the emotional significance of the stimulus and of individual peculiarities of the personality on theamplitude/temporal characteristics of EPs are considered. It is supposed that the aminergic cerebral systemsplay a crucial role in the formation of peculiarities of emotional responses, expression of the definite EPcomponents, and biologically determined features of the human personality.