Title

Tympanic Membrane Temperature, Hemispheric Activity, and Affect: Evidence for a Modest Relationship

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-18-2013

Abstract

Tympanic membrane temperature (TMT) offers a methodologically simple and noninvasive means to provide a physiological measure of hemispheric activation, although the mechanisms by which it may be related to hemispheric activity are not completely known. Here, the authors examined TMT at baseline and after a mood-induction protocol. They replicate baseline associations between increased absolute difference between left and right TMT and increased anger, and found evidence for a link between increased TMT and increased ipsilateral hemispheric activation after mood-induction. They also found tentative evidence for the existence of right-lateralized emotional hyperthermia after mood-induction.

DOI

10.1176/appi.neuropsych.12020027

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