An Event-related-potential Study of Emotional Processing in Adolescence

Peixia, Gao; Liu, Huijun; Ni, Ding; Guo, Dejun

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2010.00342

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“…The results are broadly in line with prior work, which found that the LPP was smaller among older compared to younger 8- to 13-year olds (Kujawa, Klein, et al, 2012, 2013) and smaller among older compared to younger 12- to 21-year olds (P.-X. Gao et al, 2010).…”

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“…We used an affective face matching task previously validated for use with ERPs (MacNamara et al, 2013), in order to assess developmental effects on both behavioral and ERP measures. We expected to observe overall, age-related reductions in both the P1 (Hileman et al, 2011; Meaux et al, 2014) and the LPP (P.-X. Gao et al, 2010; Kujawa, Klein, et al, 2012, 2013), rather than specific decreases in affective processing.…”

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“…Gao, Liu, Ding, & Guo, 2010; Kujawa, Klein, et al, 2012, 2013) – two of these used emotional and neutral scenes (P.-X. Gao et al, 2010; Kujawa, Klein, et al, 2013) and one used a combination of scenes and faces (Kujawa, Klein, et al, 2012).…”

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Age‐related changes in emotional face processing across childhood and into young adulthood: Evidence from event‐related potentials

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Kujawa

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Developmental Psychobiology

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Socio-emotional processing is an essential part of development, and age-related changes in its neural correlates can be observed. The late positive potential (LPP) is a measure of motivated attention that can be used to assess emotional processing; however, changes in the LPP elicited by emotional faces have not been assessed across a wide age range in childhood and young adulthood. We used an emotional face matching task to examine behavior and event-related potentials (ERPs) in 33 youth aged 7 to 19 years old. Younger children were slower when performing the matching task. The LPP elicited by emotional faces but not control stimuli (geometric shapes) decreased with age; by contrast, an earlier ERP (the P1) decreased with age for both faces and shapes, suggesting increased efficiency of early visual processing. Results indicate age-related attenuation in emotional processing that may stem from increased efficiency and regulatory control when performing a socio-emotional task.

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Age‐related changes in emotional face processing across childhood and into young adulthood: Evidence from event‐related potentials

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“…Age was also included as a covariate in all analyses to account for the shift in the LPP from occipital regions in children to centroparietal regions in adults (Gao et al 2010; Kujawa, Hajcak, et al 2012). In an attempt to replicate Kujawa, Hajcak, and colleagues (2012), we first examined the effect of parental depression on the LPP and conducted a mixed-measure ANOVA with valence and location as within-subjects factors, depression risk (present vs. absent) as a between-subjects factor and age as mean-centered continuous covariate.…”

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Familial risk for distress and fear disorders and emotional reactivity in adolescence: an event-related potential investigation

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Background The late positive potential (LPP) is an event-related potential component that is sensitive to the motivational salience of stimuli. Children with a parental history of depression, an indicator of risk, have been found to exhibit an attenuated LPP to emotional stimuli. Research on depressive and anxiety disorders has organized these conditions into two empirical classes: distress and fear disorders. The present study examined whether parental history of distress and fear disorders was associated with the LPP to emotional stimuli in a large sample of adolescent girls. Methods The sample of 550 girls (ages 13.5–15.5) with no lifetime history of depression completed an emotional picture-viewing task and the LPP was measured in response to neutral, pleasant, and unpleasant pictures. Parental lifetime history of psychopathology was determined via semi-structured diagnostic interview with a biological parent, and a confirmatory factor analysis was used to model distress and fear dimensions. Results Parental distress risk was associated with an attenuated LPP to all stimuli. In contrast, parental fear risk was associated with an enhanced LPP to unpleasant pictures but was unrelated to the LPP to neutral and pleasant pictures. Furthermore, these results were independent of the adolescent girls’ current depression and anxiety symptoms and pubertal status. Conclusions The present study demonstrates that familial risk for distress and fear disorders may have unique profiles in terms of electrocortical measures of emotional information processing. This study is also one of the first to investigate emotional/motivational processes underlying the distress and fear disorder dimensions.

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“…The LPP in adults is typically apparent over centro-parietal electrode sites, whereas early findings suggest that the LPP in early to middle childhood may be maximal over more occipital sites (Hajcak & Dennis, 2009; Kujawa et al, 2012). In addition, there is some evidence of a developmental shift in the scalp distribution of LPPs in response to IAPS images, with younger adolescents showing enhanced positivities at occipital sites compared to older adolescents and young adults (Gao et al, 2010). Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies suggests that the neural circuitry underlying emotional processing may change from childhood to adolescence, with a shift from enhanced processing in subcortical regions to greater involvement of the prefrontal cortex (Monk, 2008; Yurgelun-Todd & Killgore, 2006).…”

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Electrocortical reactivity to emotional images and faces in middle childhood to early adolescence

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2012

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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The late positive potential (LPP) is an event-related potential (ERP) component that indexes sustained attention towards motivationally salient information. The LPP has been observed in children and adults, however little is known about its development from childhood into adolescence. In addition, whereas LPP studies examine responses to images from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS; Lang et al., 2008) or emotional faces, no previous studies have compared responses in youth across stimuli. To examine how emotion interacts with attention across development, the current study used an emotional-interrupt task to measure LPP and behavioral responses in 8- to 13-year-olds using unpleasant, pleasant, and neutral IAPS images, as well as sad, happy, and neutral faces. Compared to older youth, younger children exhibited enhanced LPPs over occipital sites. In addition, sad but not happy faces elicited a larger LPP than neutral faces; behavioral measures did not vary across facial expressions. Both unpleasant and pleasant IAPS images were associated with increased LPPs and behavioral interference compared to neutral images. Results suggest that there may be developmental differences in the scalp distribution of the LPP, and compared to faces, IAPS elicit more robust behavioral and electrocortical measures of attention to emotional stimuli.

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An Event-related-potential Study of Emotional Processing in Adolescence

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Age‐related changes in emotional face processing across childhood and into young adulthood: Evidence from event‐related potentials

Age‐related changes in emotional face processing across childhood and into young adulthood: Evidence from event‐related potentials

Familial risk for distress and fear disorders and emotional reactivity in adolescence: an event-related potential investigation

Electrocortical reactivity to emotional images and faces in middle childhood to early adolescence

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