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Abstract:
The aim of the study was to investigate influence of color hue saturation on emotional state of human. We use frontal EEG asymmetry to determine subject's emotional state. Our emotional stimuli summon opposite dynamics of frontal EEG asymmetry. Negative stimuli elicits decreasing of the value of frontal EEG asymmetry and positive stimuli increases the value of frontal EEG asymmetry in fronto-polar and frontal leads. Such dynamics of frontal EEG asymmetry point the emotional experience in accordance the stimulus modality. Blue and red color modification of stimuli leads changes in dynamics of frontal EEG asymmetry during presentation of emotional stimuli and after. In fact, that no one subject gave a report about color difference between stimuli during an experiment, we conclude that influence of color modification was unconscious. Our result shows the possibility of unconscious perception color modification to emotional state of human.
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