Santesso Diane L, Segalowitz Sidney J, Ashbaugh Andrea R, Antony Martin M, McCabe Randi E, Schmidt Louis A
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Biol Psychol. 2008 May;78(2):164-72. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.02.003. Epub 2008 Feb 17.
Sensation seeking has been characterized as a desire to seek novel, intense sensations, and the willingness to take risks in pursuing them. In two separate studies of young adults, we examined the relation between measures of sensation seeking and the pattern of resting frontal EEG asymmetry, thought to reflect a biological predisposition to approach new experiences. As predicted, high sensation seeking was related to a greater relative left frontal activity at rest in both studies, which may be specific to men. How greater relative left frontal cortical activity at rest is related to a tendency to engage in sensation-seeking and risky behaviors is discussed.
寻求刺激被描述为一种对寻求新奇、强烈刺激的渴望，以及在追求这些刺激时愿意冒险的意愿。在两项针对年轻人的独立研究中，我们考察了寻求刺激的测量指标与静息状态下额叶脑电图不对称模式之间的关系，这种模式被认为反映了接近新体验的生物学倾向。正如预测的那样，在两项研究中，高寻求刺激都与静息状态下相对更大的左侧额叶活动有关，这可能是男性特有的。本文讨论了静息状态下相对更大的左侧额叶皮质活动与参与寻求刺激和冒险行为倾向之间的关系。
