A Comparison of Averaged Evoked Response Amplitudes Using Nonaffective and Affective Verbal Stimuli

Young, Lamar L.; Horner, John S.

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“…That emotion, defined as subjectively experienced affective states, influences sensory processing is well-established in animal experiments (Brandao et al, 2005; Macedo, Cuadra, Molina, & Brandao, 2005; Nobre, Sandner, & Brandao, 2003; Poremba et al, 2003; Marsh, Fuzessery, Grose, & Wenstrup, 2002; Brandao, Coimbra, & Osaki, 2001; Kaas, Hackett, & Tramo, 1999; Erhan, Borod, Tenke, & Bruder, 1998; Kline, Schwartz, Fitzpatrick, & Hendricks, 1993; Ledoux, Sakaguchi, & Reis, 1984; Young & Horner, 1971). In studies using humans, converging evidence from a variety of methodologies has demonstrated the influence of emotion on sensory processing of visual (Williams et al, 2004; Balconi & Pozzoli, 2003; Batty & Taylor, 2003; Fischer et al, 2003; Holmes, Vuilleumier, & Eimer, 2003; Schupp, JunghÖfer, Weike, & Hamm, 2003a, 2003b; Campanella, Quinet, Bruyer, Crommelinck, & Guerit, 2002; Sato, Kochiyama, Yoshikawa, & Matsumura, 2001; Davidson & Slagter, 2000; Pizzagalli, Koenig, Regard, & Lehmann, 1998; Joost, Bach, & Schulte-Monting, 1992) and audiovisual (Armony & Dolan, 2001), and auditory stimuli (Alexandrov, Klucharev, & Sams, 2007).…”

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“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of emotion on auditory processing in humans, specifically to characterize when (time after stimulus onset) and where (topographically) the influence takes place. With respect to the when question, a growing body of literature clearly elucidates the early emotional influence in the auditory modality in animals (Macedo et al, 2005; Nobre et al, 2003; Poremba et al, 2003; Marsh et al, 2002; Brandao et al, 2001; Kaas et al, 1999; Erhan et al, 1998; Kline et al, 1993; Ledoux et al, 1984; Young & Horner, 1971); the specific effects of emotion on early auditory processing have not been characterized in humans. For humans, the earliest known influence of emotion on sensory processing is in the visual modality and hundreds of milliseconds after the stimulus onset (Müller, Andersen, & Keil, 2008), but the auditory system works on a faster time scale than the visual system.…”

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Emotion Modulates Early Auditory Response to Speech

Wang

Nicol

Skoe

et al. 2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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In order to understand how emotional state influences the listener's physiological response to speech, subjects looked at emotion-evoking pictures while 32-channel EEG evoked responses (ERPs) to an unchanging auditory stimulus ("danny") were collected. The pictures were selected from the International Affective Picture System database. They were rated by participants and differed in valence (positive, negative, neutral), but not in dominance and arousal. Effects of viewing negative emotion pictures were seen as early as 20 msec (p = .006). An analysis of the global field power highlighted a time period of interest (30.4-129.0 msec) where the effects of emotion are likely to be the most robust. At the cortical level, the responses differed significantly depending on the valence ratings the subjects provided for the visual stimuli, which divided them into the high valence intensity group and the low valence intensity group. The high valence intensity group exhibited a clear divergent bivalent effect of emotion (ERPs at Cz during viewing neutral pictures subtracted from ERPs during viewing positive or negative pictures) in the time region of interest (r Φ = .534, p < .01). Moreover, group differences emerged in the pattern of global activation during this time period. Although both groups demonstrated a significant effect of emotion (ANOVA, p = .004 and .006, low valence intensity and high valence intensity, respectively), the high valence intensity group exhibited a much larger effect. Whereas the low valence intensity group exhibited its smaller effect predominantly in frontal areas, the larger effect in the high valence intensity group was found globally, especially in the left temporal areas, with the largest divergent bivalent effects (ANOVA, p < .00001) in high valence intensity subjects around the midline. Thus, divergent bivalent effects were observed between 30 and 130 msec, and were dependent on the subject's subjective state, whereas the effects at 20 msec were evident only for negative emotion, independent of the subject's behavioral responses. Taken together, it appears that emotion can affect auditory function early in the sensory processing stream.

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Emotion Modulates Early Auditory Response to Speech

Wang

Nicol

Skoe

et al. 2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…[1] Emotion reduces the cost of additional distracting features, facilitating visual search;[14] moreover, for low-contrast stimuli, emotional cues improve the detection threshold. [46] In the auditory modality, there is a growing body of literature in support of emotional influence,[15, 33, 39, 56, 64] which has been shown as early as 20 ms after the stimulus onset for negative valence, and valence-dependent effects between 30-130 ms.[59] Furthermore, there are data showing attentional and perceptual modulation of transient and periodic sound processing in the human auditory nerve and brainstem. [7, 18, 24, 41] In this study, we examine the possibility that emotion could impact the human auditory brainstem response to speech.…”

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Emotion and the auditory brainstem response to speech

Wang

Nicol

Skoe

et al. 2010

Neuroscience Letters

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Effects of emotion have been reported as early as 20 ms after an auditory stimulus onset for negative valence, and bivalent effects between 30-130 ms. To understand how emotional state influences the listener's brainstem evoked responses to speech, subjects looked at emotion-evoking pictures while listening to an unchanging auditory stimulus ("danny"). The pictures (Positive, Negative, or Neutral, valence) were selected from the IAPS database and controlled for dominance and arousal. Utilizing an array of measurements to assess subcortical modulation, we have found that emotion does not significantly affect the brainstem response although there is a subtle effect of background noise suppression in both emotional conditions.

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“…A rather positive affective meaning corresponded to these tonic and phasic neurophysiological representations. Young and Horner (1971) have reported smaller N1 in response to affective than nonaffective verbal stimuli in those subjects to whom the emotionality was great. The authors have explained it with modulation of the sensory sensitivity, due to expectancy or anticipation.…”

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Cognitive and affective relations in perception of auditory stimuli in the presence of music.

Dalbokova¹,

Kolev²

1992

Psychomusicology: A Journal of Research in Music Cognition

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The present study explores the parallel between the affective and the masking effect of music on the auditory perception under passive and selective listening conditions. Seven subjects took part in the experiments. An auditory frequency discrimination task (target 1000 Hz tones, probability 20%; standard 1550 Hz tones) in a dichotic listening environment was employed. Music was presented binaurally through the same headphones. The investigation of the masking effect of music is extended by reporting the interaural and the interhemispheric asymmetry as revealed by the background EEG activity and the N1-P2 responses of the ERPs, recorded from C 3 and C 4 derivations. Connotative meaning of the auditory stimuli was measured over five scales of adjectives on a semantic differential. The variations in the background EEG activity and the N1-P2 amplitude, as well as their interhemispheric distribution under the passive condition with music, describe a brain state of hearing through relaxation with rather positive connotative meaning. Under selective listening the N1-P2 responses demonstrated a right ear/ left hemisphere advantage that was further enhanced with music. The perceived positive emotionality under the selective listening was reduced as compared to the passive condition, without any ear-attended differences. An attention-related increase of the N1-P2 responses with music was found over the right hemisphere, and particularly, in the left ear, indicating a greater processing effort under the more difficult discrimination. These findings suggest that the connotative meaning depends on the task performed. The most relevant scale for rating the affective meaning of tonal sequences in the presence of music was found to be the category pleasant-unpleasant.

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A Comparison of Averaged Evoked Response Amplitudes Using Nonaffective and Affective Verbal Stimuli

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Emotion Modulates Early Auditory Response to Speech

Emotion Modulates Early Auditory Response to Speech

Emotion and the auditory brainstem response to speech

Cognitive and affective relations in perception of auditory stimuli in the presence of music.

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