Brain potentials reveal the timing of face identity and expression judgments

Münte, Thomas F.; Brack, Martina; Grootheer, Olaf; Wieringa, Bernardina M.; Matzke, Mike; Johannes, Sönke

doi:10.1016/s0168-0102(97)00118-1

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“…Thus, the results from the Face task, unlike the Pattern task, can be considered separately. The reaction times to same person's faces were shorter (priming effect) than to non-matching faces; similar results were reported for the categorical comparison of non-familiar faces (Munte et al, 1998). The priming effect in the brain electrical activity was manifested mainly in the amplitude reduction of the N400-like components in the ERPs elicited by the pairs of photographs of the same person as compared to the pairs of pictures showing different persons.…”

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“…The difference in 150-170 ms was significant for the activity of the source 7 (left IT cortex), while it was overlooked in scalp ERP analysis. The early priming effects were reported at about 200 ms for the categorical comparison of non-familiar faces (Munte et al, 1998), and for earlier latencies in the studies with face and shape repetition (George et al, 1997).…”

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“…Familiar faces trigger parallel analysis of personal identity, which may be related to components with latencies around 400-600 ms (Eimer, 2000). At the same latencies, the phenomena of priming (or expectancy, or congruity) were first described in verbal tasks (Kutas and Hillyard, 1980) and later found also for non-linguistic stimuli (Jemel et al, 1999;McPherson and Holcomb, 1999;Munte et al, 1998). There is evidence for multiple components at these latencies: N300 and N400 for pictures (McPherson and Holcomb, 1999;Barrett and Rugg, 1990), and N350 and N380 for faces (Jemel et al, 1999).…”

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Familiar-face recognition and comparison: source analysis of scalp-recorded event-related potentials

Mnatsakanian

Tarkka

2004

Clinical Neurophysiology

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Objective: We studied the event-related potentials elicited by categorical matching of faces. The purpose was to find cortical sources responsible for face recognition and comparison.Methods: Nineteen healthy volunteers participated in the study. Each trial began with one of the two cues (S1) followed by consecutive pictures (S2 and S3). Each picture was a photograph of a familiar face with a superimposed abstract dot pattern. One cue directed attention to compare faces and another to compare patterns. 128-channel electroencephalogram was recorded. Spatio-temporal multiple dipole source models were generated using Brain Electromagnetic Source Analysis 2000, for the window of 80 -600 ms from S3 onset.Results: The obtained model for face recognition and comparison contained 8 dipoles explaining 97% of grand average and about 90% of individual data and showing temporal and spatial separation of sources: in the frontal region, in the occipital cortex, and in the bilateral medial temporal and inferotemporal regions. Different faces elicited larger components than same person's faces around 400 ms, mainly explained by frontal dipoles.Conclusions: The sources in our models estimate the activity common for both Face task conditions (the recognition of a familiar person) and also differential activity, related to the match/mismatch item processing.

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Familiar-face recognition and comparison: source analysis of scalp-recorded event-related potentials

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Tarkka

2004

Clinical Neurophysiology

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“…A number of studies have reported emotion effects with larger N170 recorded in response to emotional faces, especially fearful expressions, compared to neutral faces (e.g., Batty & Taylor, 2003;Blau, Maurer, Tottenham, & McCandliss, 2007;Caharel, Courtay, Bernard, Lalonde, 2005;Leppänen, Hietanen, & Koskinen, 2008;Leppänen, Moulson, Vogel-Farley, & Nelson, 2007; also see Hinojosa, Mercado, & Carretié, 2015). However, as seen for the P1, a lack of sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion has also been reported for the N170 component in many studies (e.g., Ashley, Vuilleumier, & Swick, 2004;Balconi & Lucchiari, 2005;Herrmann et al, 2002;Krolak-Salmon, Fischer, Vighetto, & Mauguière, 2001;Münte et al, 1998;Pourtois, Dan, Granjean, Sander, & Vuilleumier, 2005;Shupp, Junghöfer, Weike, & Hamm, 2004;Smith et al, 2013). Therefore it remains unclear whether facial expression processing, in particular that of fearful faces, interacts with the processing of the face structure, as indexed by the N170.…”

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Neural processing of fearful and happy facial expressions during emotion-relevant and emotion-irrelevant tasks: A fixation-to-feature approach

Neath-Tavares

Itier

2016

Biological Psychology

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Research suggests an important role of the eyes and mouth for discriminating facial expressions of emotion. A gaze-contingent procedure was used to test the impact of fixation to facial features on the neural response to fearful, happy and neutral facial expressions in an emotion discrimination (Exp.1) and an oddball detection (Exp.2) task. The N170 was the only eye-sensitive ERP component, and this sensitivity did not vary across facial expressions. In both tasks, compared to neutral faces, responses to happy expressions were seen as early as 100-120ms occipitally, while responses to fearful expressions started around 150ms, on or after the N170, at both occipital and lateral-posterior sites. Analyses of scalp topographies revealed different distributions of these two emotion effects across most of the epoch. Emotion processing interacted with fixation location at different times between tasks. Results suggest a role of both the eyes and mouth in the neural processing of fearful expressions and of the mouth in the processing of happy expressions, before 350ms.

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“…In fact, if behavioural studies have demonstrated that emotions are extracted pre-attentively and influence subsequent perception (e.g., Kunst-Wilson & Zajonc, 1980), few studies (before 1999) have reported neurophysiological correlates for these 'early' processes. Rather, most prior studies found emotion-modulated ERP components considerably later, typically between 250 and 600 ms (Münte, Brack, Grootheer, Wieringa, Matzke, & Johannes, 1998). However, since 1999, many studies examined early markers and their modulations by emotions.…”

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Insights from ERPs into Emotional Disorders: An affective neuroscience perspective

Campanella

Philippot

2006

PSYCHOL BELG

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Psychologica Belgica 2006, 46-1/2, 37-53.-----S. Salvatore is affiliated to the CHU Brugmann with the Psychiatry Department (EEG Lab); P. Philippot with the ECSA Unit of the Psychology Faculty of Louvain-la-Neuve.Studies described in this article were made possible thanks to FSRM 3458303F and Rodin Foundation.Correspondence concerning this article should be sent to Salvatore Campanella, CHU Brugmann, Service de Psychiatrie, 4, Place Vangehuchten, 1020 Bruxelles. E-mail: Salvatore.Campanella@chu-brugmann.be INSIGHTS FROM ERPS INTO EMOTIONAL DISORDERS: AN AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE PERSPECTIVESalvatore CAMPANELLA & Pierre PHILIPPOT CHU Brugmann, Brussels and Catholic University of Louvain Affective neuroscience disposes of complementary imaging tools, some identifying which neural regions are involved in a specific cognitive function, others defining the temporal sequences of these activations with an optimal temporal resolution. The aim of the present manuscript is to show how event-related potentials (ERPs) may help us to enhance our understanding of psychopathological conditions. To do so, three experiments from our laboratory will be presented. An emotional oddball design was used, in which participants are confronted with frequent stimuli (neutral faces) and deviant stimuli (emotional faces) which they have to detect as quickly as possible. These studies address anxiety, the long-term consequences of ecstasy consumption and schizophrenia. Our main purpose is to show that, if previous studies have shown for generalised anxiety disorder, as well as for drug abuse or schizophrenia, P300 alterations, the impaired processes leading to such an identical disturbance are different from one population to the other.

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Brain potentials reveal the timing of face identity and expression judgments

Cited by 115 publications

References 49 publications

Familiar-face recognition and comparison: source analysis of scalp-recorded event-related potentials

Familiar-face recognition and comparison: source analysis of scalp-recorded event-related potentials

Neural processing of fearful and happy facial expressions during emotion-relevant and emotion-irrelevant tasks: A fixation-to-feature approach

Insights from ERPs into Emotional Disorders: An affective neuroscience perspective

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