Brain activity associated with personality

Tran, YH; Craig, AR; Wijesuriya, NS

Brain activity associated with personality

Tran, YH

Craig, AR Wijesuriya, NS

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Publisher:: The Australian Psychological Society Ltd
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Proceedings of the 2006 Joint Conference of the APS and NZPsS, 2006, pp. 455 - 459
Issue Date:: 2006-01

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dc.contributor.author	Tran, YH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1741-4205	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Craig, AR	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wijesuriya, NS	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Katsikitis, M	en_US
dc.date	2006-09-26	en_US
dc.date.issued	2006-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the 2006 Joint Conference of the APS and NZPsS, 2006, pp. 455 - 459	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	0-909881-30-8	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/2300
dc.description.abstract	People have long been facinated about the association between brain activity and the shaping of personaility and behaviour. Given oru interest in the brain, it is not surprising that there have been numerous studies that have investigated the relationship between personality and the properties of the brains' electrical activity. Our initial investigation between the personality trait introversion-extraversion and alpha (8013Hz) brain waves found strong differences between people who are introverted compared to those who are extraverted in terms of their frontal 8-13Hz amplitude reactivity. Extraverted persons in the sample were at least 3 times more likely to have larger amplitude in the 8-13 Hz frequency spectra. This study broadens the investigation to include personaility traits of the five-factor model using the NEO-Five-factr Inventory (NEO-FFI) and its association with resting brain activity. The NEO traits were found to explain small, though significant contributions to brain wave activity variance. The magnitude ofthese contributions was around 7% for delta wave activity and about 5% for theta wave activity.	en_US
dc.publisher	The Australian Psychological Society Ltd	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the 2006 Joint Conference of the APS and NZPsS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Psychology Bridging the Tasman: Science Culture and Practice	en_US
dc.title	Brain activity associated with personality	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
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Abstract:

People have long been facinated about the association between brain activity and the shaping of personaility and behaviour. Given oru interest in the brain, it is not surprising that there have been numerous studies that have investigated the relationship between personality and the properties of the brains' electrical activity. Our initial investigation between the personality trait introversion-extraversion and alpha (8013Hz) brain waves found strong differences between people who are introverted compared to those who are extraverted in terms of their frontal 8-13Hz amplitude reactivity. Extraverted persons in the sample were at least 3 times more likely to have larger amplitude in the 8-13 Hz frequency spectra. This study broadens the investigation to include personaility traits of the five-factor model using the NEO-Five-factr Inventory (NEO-FFI) and its association with resting brain activity. The NEO traits were found to explain small, though significant contributions to brain wave activity variance. The magnitude ofthese contributions was around 7% for delta wave activity and about 5% for theta wave activity.

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