During the experiment built for this study, we intend to test briefly explore the following areas:
– confirm if the EEG is a reasonable valid and reliable technique on the localization of activated brain’s structures during the visualization of short commercial movies;
– identify the key moments of a TV commercial;
– understand how brand perception influences when watching ads of the brand;
– differences between ads that have different scores (better score vs. worse score).
As it was said previously, neuromarketing is still a young field and in a growing stage, much more research is needed. General theories are yet to be created, validation is yet needed for some psychophysiological techniques, for how brands are perceived in the brain, and what mechanisms are really involved is still unknown. It is on these areas that we propose our work, hoping to create helpful guidelines for future researches. This work intends to add knowledge by using EEG and the three CNS measures (non hemispheric brain wave analysis, brain lateralization, and brain imaging analysis), and we aim to validate not only EEG as able to make the three CNS measures but validate the use of EEG in marketing research, specifically in advertising.
For these reasons we selected 30 TV commercials that with a specific experimental setting were presented to 20 participants. Recording of EEG was constant during all ads, and afterwards by selecting specific videos we perform the three measures hoping to find answers and conclusions supporting our goals. It is important to remember that this thesis is exploratory since using EEG for brain imaging analysis is very recent.