Attention and emotion: an ERP analysis of facilitated emotional stimulus processing

Schupp, Harald T.; Junghöfer, Markus; Weike, Almut I.; Hamm, Alfons O.

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“…We found the EPN to be consistently enhanced to emotionally valent (positive and negative) as compared to neutral words, replicating previous results of native language research (Herbert et al, 2008;Kissler et al, 2009;Scott et al, 2009). Importantly, this valence effect showed a bilateral occipito-temporal negativity, which is the typical scalp distribution of the EPN (e.g., Schupp et al, 2003). However, the EPN emotion effect in the present study was observed slightly later than emotion effects recently reported by others (Herbert et al, 2008;Kissler et al, 2007).…”

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Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time

Opitz¹,

Degner²

2012

Neuropsychologia

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Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time

Opitz¹,

Degner²

2012

Neuropsychologia

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“…Typically, this takes the form of larger amplitudes to emotionally-valenced stimuli (Dolcos & Cabeza, 2002;Eimer, Holmes, & McGlone, 2003). When utilizing faces, fearful faces have elicited larger P300s than neutral faces (Eimer & Holmes, 2002;Holmes et al, 2003) but angry faces have also elicited larger P300s than both happy and neutral facial expressions (Schupp, et al, 2003(Schupp, et al, , 2004 which may reflect the greater arousal associated with viewing angry compared with happy expressions. Past P300 research showing larger responses to more arousing stimuli predicts larger P300s to angry expressions.…”

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Multiple cues in social perception: The time course of processing race and facial expression

Kubota

Ito

2007

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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The purpose of the present study was to examine the time course of race and expression processing to determine how these cues influence early perceptual as well as explicit categorization judgments. Despite their importance in social perception, little research has examined how social category information and emotional expression are processed over time. Moreover, although models of face processing suggest that the two cues should be processed independently, this has rarely been directly examined. Event-related brain potentials were recorded as participants made race and emotion categorization judgments of Black and White men posing either happy, angry, or neutral expressions. Our findings support that processing of race and emotion cues occur independently and in parallel, relatively early in processing.Faces convey important social information that is useful for a variety of inferences. For instance, information about racial group membership and emotional expression can be informative about an individual's likely traits, attributes, and behavioral intentions (Bodenhausen & Macrae, 1998;Brewer, 1988;Devine, 1989;Fiske, Lin, & Neuberg, 1999), and perhaps not surprisingly, extensive research has documented our ability to quickly and efficiently extract both types of information from faces ( Weike, Stockburger, & Hamm, 2004;Vanderploeg, Brown, & Marsh, 1987). While it is possible to consider how individual sources of information affect social inferences, such as how race affects evaluations, it is also important to consider the more naturalistic question of how multiple sources of social information are processed from faces. That is, we can consider how both race and emotion information are processed from the same face.Models of face processing suggest that information about social identity and emotional expression are processed separately and in parallel (Bruce & Young, 1986;Haxby, Hoffman, & Gobbini, 2000). According to Bruce and Young (1986), social category information such as age and gender and information regarding emotional expression are processed by functionally separate components of the face perception system. Moreover, these separable components are assumed to operate in parallel (see also Mouchetant-Rostaing & Giard, 2003), suggesting little interaction between the two types of information, at least in initial stages of perception. Haxby et al. (2000) have similarly argued that the perception of invariant,

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“…Negative-going waveforms are also greater within 300 ms following presentation of negative versus positive faces and liked versus disliked faces (Pizzagalli et al, 1999;Pollak and Tolley-Schell, 2003;Schupp et al, 2003). In particular, a posterior face-specific component, N170, is modulated by emotion (Batty and Taylor, 2003;Eger et al, 2003;Pizzagalli et al, 1999), and is greater in the right hemisphere (Bentin et al, 1996).…”

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Emotional face processing and attention performance in three domains: Neurophysiological mechanisms and moderating effects of trait anxiety

Dennis

Chen

2007

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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The rapid processing of emotional information adaptively regulates the allocation of attention, but may also divert resources away from attention performance, particularly for those showing elevated anxiety. The temporal organization of rapid emotional processing and its implications for attention performance, however, remain unclear. Participants were 18 healthy adults (12 females) who reported on trait anxiety. Tasks-irrelevant fearful, sad, and neutral faces were presented for 50 ms prior to each trial of a cued attention task measuring alerting, orienting, and executive attention. Electroencephalographic recordings were made from 64 scalp electrodes to generate event-related potentials (ERPs) to faces. Emotional face type and trait anxiety modulated ERP responses at three early stages around 200 ms, 250 ms, and 320 ms. Although behavioral findings showed enhanced orienting and executive attention following presentation of fearful and sad faces, the degree to which these faces modulated ERP responses, particularly around 250 ms, interfered with orienting and executive attention in the high trait anxiety group, and enhanced alerting in the low trait anxiety group. Results are discussed in terms of mechanisms in the emotional capture of attention and implications for understanding attentional processes in anxiety. KeywordsEmotional face processing; ERPs; Emotion-attention interactions; Trait anxiety Rapid and accurate detection of negative emotional information is highly adaptive because it provides critical information about potential danger in the environment. In this way, emotional processes regulate the allocation of attention by highlighting relevant information and inhibiting irrelevant information. On the other hand, preferential attention towards negative information is implicated in the etiology and course of anxiety and mood disorders (Beck and Clark, 1997;Compton, 2003;Derryberry and Reed, 2002). Studies using scalp-recorded eventrelated potentials (ERPs) are able to explore the time course of the emotional capture of attention at a very high temporal resolution. Links between early stages of emotional processing and attention performance, however, are poorly understood.The emotional face processing literature provides important information about rapid and automatic stages of emotional processing (Eimer and Holmes, 2002;Pizzagalli et al., 1999;Righart and de Gelder, 2006;Sato et al., 2001). Negative emotional faces are preferentially processed: As early as 80-100 ms, negative emotional faces compared to neutral faces elicit enhanced ERP activity (Eger et al

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Attention and emotion: an ERP analysis of facilitated emotional stimulus processing

Cited by 393 publications

References 26 publications

Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time

Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time

Multiple cues in social perception: The time course of processing race and facial expression

Emotional face processing and attention performance in three domains: Neurophysiological mechanisms and moderating effects of trait anxiety

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