Motivation, emotion, and their inhibitory control mirrored in brain oscillations.

By Gennady G. Knyazev. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Brain correlates underlying creative thinking: EEG alpha activity in professional vs. novice dancers (2009, positive): “In fact, alpha synchronization during creative thinking could reflect a state of enhanced concentration or alertness of involved brain circuits (cf. Knyazev et al., 2006; see also Knyazev, 2007).”
Physiological Signals-based Emotion Recognition via High-order Correlation Learning (2019, background): “Moreover, neurological researchers have recently made major breakthroughs on correlations of EEG oscillations with cognitive functions [19, 25, 29].”
Consumer neuroscience: Assessing the brain response to marketing stimuli using electroencephalogram (EEG) and eye tracking (2013, background): “Delta oscillations were identified previously in the literature as a signature of stimuluselicited activity in the brain’s reward circuit (Stefanics et al., 2010; Knyazev, 2007; Wacker, Dillon, & Pizzagalli, 2009).”
Using EEG to Predict Consumers’ Future Choices (2015, background): “…cognitive processes, including changes in mental state (Moretti et al. 2004), changes in attention allocated to a task (Klimesch 1999), memory processes (Klimesch 1996), motivation and emotional processes (Knyazev 2007), different sleep stages (Keenan 1999), and consciousness levels (John 2002).”
Electroencephalography of response inhibition tasks: functional networks and cognitive contributions. (2013, background): “For example, the reward deficiency syndrome genetically places subjects at risk for developing substance abuse and is associated with increased delta activity in situations of withdrawal and craving (Knyazev, 2007).”
Beta-band oscillations--signalling the status quo? (2010, positive): “Activity in the theta-band has been linked to working memory functions, emotional arousal and fear conditioning [7,9].”
The role of the nucleus accumbens and rostral anterior cingulate cortex in anhedonia: Integration of resting EEG, fMRI, and volumetric techniques (2009, methodology): “…density (i.e., decreased resting activity) in vmPFC/rACC; and (4) to probe the suggested link between EEG delta activity and the brain’s reward system (Knyazev, 2007) by assessing the correlation between striatal reward responses measured via fMRI and resting EEG delta current density in the…”
The functional significance of delta oscillations in cognitive processing (2013, background): “Data supporting an increase of delta power in motivationally relevant states (see Knyazev, 2007; for a review) also support this hypothesis.”
The Oscillating Brain: Complex and Reliable (2009, neutral): “As indicated by Kendall's coefficient of concordance (Legendre, 2005), the group statistical maps for the two measures (ALFF and fALFF) are highly similar, but not entirely concordant (W=0.9005).”
Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Enhances Individual Alpha Activity in Human EEG (2010, background): “Depending on the specific frequency band, neural oscillations can be linked to a variety of neural processes, including input selection, plasticity, binding, and consolidation [32], as well as cognitive functions including salience detection, emotional regulation, attention and memory [34].”
EEG Spectral Analysis in Chronic Pain During Rest and Cognitive Reasoning (2025, unknown): “In the cognitive domain, delta activity enforces an inhibitory function over the emotional and motivational states under the control of the prefrontal cortex and participates in suppressing task-irrelevant sensory input [59,60].”
Large-scale frontoparietal theta, alpha, and beta phase synchronization: A set of EEG differential characteristics for freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease? (2022, background): “On the other hand, prefrontal theta is phase-locked to hippocampal theta activity (Knyazev, 2007; Kawasaki et al., 2014).”
Working Memory and Transcranial-Alternating Current Stimulation—State of the Art: Findings, Missing, and Challenges (2022, background): “…band (13–30 Hz) All cortical structure Decision making, inhibition of motor planning, sensory processes, long-range synchronization, and attention Kopell et al., 2000; Gross et al., 2004; Hong et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2008 Gamma band (30–200 Hz) All brain structures Consciousness,…”