Word-Stimulated Brain Activity and Verbal Responses

Abstract

After verbal presentation of “stimulus words,” latency and variety of associative response, emotional power, and EEG alpha and amount of beta-one bands energy were analyzed with two test groups (11 Czechoslovakians, 74 French). Emotional power of words measured on the Osgood scale was compared to both the cognitive and the EEG responses. The question as to whether it is the cognitive or the emotional effect which acts first in the electrical brain response was discussed.