Brain mechanisms involved in angry prosody change detection in school-age children and adults, revealed by electrophysiology

Charpentier, Judith; Kovarski, Klara; Roux, Sylvie; Houy‐Durand, Emmanuelle; Saby, Agathe; Bonnet‐Brilhault, Frédérique; Latinus, Marianne; Gomot, Marie

doi:10.3758/s13415-018-0602-8

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“…The double peak pattern observed in this study has previously been reported in a vMMN study in children using simple nonsocial stimuli (Cleary et al, 2013), but also in the auditory domain in response to emotional sounds (Charpentier et al, 2018).…”

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Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children

Kovarski

Charpentier

Houy‐Durand

et al. 2022

Developmental Psychobiology

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Detection of changes in facial emotions is crucial to communicate and to rapidly process threats in the environment. This function develops throughout childhood via modulations of the earliest brain responses, such as the P100 and the N170 recorded using electroencephalography. Automatic brain signatures can be measured through expression‐related visual mismatch negativity (vMMN), which reflects the processing of unattended changes. While increasing research has investigated vMMN processing in adults, few studies have been conducted on children. Here, a controlled paradigm previously validated was used to disentangle specific responses to emotional deviants (angry face) from that of neutral deviants. Latencies and amplitudes of P100 and N170 both decrease with age, confirming that sensory and face‐specific activity is not yet mature in school‐aged children. Automatic change detection‐related activity is present in children, with a similar vMMN pattern in response to both emotional and neutral deviant stimuli to what previously observed in adults. However, vMMN processing is delayed in children compared to adults and no emotion‐specific response is yet observed, suggesting nonmature automatic detection of salient emotional cues. To our knowledge, this is the first study investigating expression‐related vMMN in school‐aged children, and further investigations are needed to confirm these results.

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confidence: 86%

Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children

Kovarski

Charpentier

Houy‐Durand

et al. 2022

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…While adults displayed a typical fronto‐central topography of the MMN, children presented a less frequent pattern with small frontal positivity and posterior negativity. The posterior topography of the MMN reported in children for complex deviancy is not typical, but it has already been reported elsewhere for neutral speech sounds (Charpentier et al., 2018). It could reflect a less mature change‐detection response than the classical response observed in adults, as such posteriorly distributed immature response has also been reported for the N1 component in response to tones (Bruneau, Roux, Guérin, Barthélémy, & Lelord, 1997; Goodin, Squires, Henderson, & Starr, 1978; Pang & Taylor, 2000).…”

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Brain responses to change in phonological structures of varying complexity in children and adults

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Language-related change-detection processes are often investigated using syllables that are very simple in terms of phonological structure. However, phonological complexity is known to be challenging for young typically developing children and pathological populations. We investigated brain correlates of phonological processing and their age-related changes with a passive change-detection protocol including stimuli of varying phonological complexity, which allowed comparing responses to simple and complex phonological deviancies. Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and Late Discriminative Negativity (LDN) responses were recorded in both school-age children (n = 22) and adults (n = 24). MMN was similar for simple and complex phonological deviancy in both groups, whereas LDN appeared to be modulated by phonological complexity, albeit with different patterns according to age. In response to complex phonological change, children displayed a larger LDN response with a typical fronto-central scalp distribution, while adults showed an additional rightposterior activity but no larger amplitude than for simple change. Thus, LDN appears to be a good electrophysiological index of phonological complexity processing. This study validated the use of the LDN through this protocol for the investigation of phonological complexity processing throughout the development.

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“…Vowels. Twenty productions of the vowel /a/ were selected from a larger material set, all produced with female voices 1 (Charpentier et al, 2018). All stimuli lasted 400ms and were equalized in RMS amplitude.…”

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Emotional prosody in congenital amusia: Impaired and spared processes

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Congenital amusia is a lifelong deficit of music processing, in particular of pitch processing. Most research investigating this neurodevelopmental disorder has focused on music perception, but pitch also has a critical role for intentional and emotional prosody in speech. Two previous studies investigating amusics' emotional prosody recognition have shown either some deficit or no deficit (compared to controls). However, these previous studies have used only long sentence stimuli, which allow for limited control over acoustic content. Here, we tested amusic individuals for emotional prosody perception in sentences and vowels. For each type of material, participants performed an emotion categorization task, followed by intensity ratings of the recognized emotion. Compared to controls, amusic individuals had similar recognition of emotion in sentences, but poorer performance in vowels, especially when distinguishing sad and neutral stimuli. These lower performances in amusics were linked with difficulties in processing pitch and spectro-temporal parameters of the vowel stimuli. For emotion intensity, neither sentence nor vowel ratings differed between participant groups, suggesting preserved implicit processing of emotional prosody in amusia. These findings can be integrated into previous data showing preserved implicit processing of pitch and emotion in amusia alongside deficits in explicit recognition tasks. They are thus further supporting the hypothesis of impaired conscious analysis of pitch and timbre in this neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Brain mechanisms involved in angry prosody change detection in school-age children and adults, revealed by electrophysiology

Cited by 13 publications

References 86 publications

Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children

Emotional expression visual mismatch negativity in children

Brain responses to change in phonological structures of varying complexity in children and adults

Emotional prosody in congenital amusia: Impaired and spared processes

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