Congruence of happy and sad emotion in music and faces modifies cortical audiovisual activation

Jeong, Jeong‐Won; Diwadkar, Vaibhav A.; Chugani, Carla D.; Sinsoongsud, Piti; Muzik, Otto; Behen, Michael E.; Chugani, Harry T.; Chugani, Diane C.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.017

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“…Emotions are pervasive as well as contagious, and can be evoked while viewing or mimicking emotionally expressive faces [9,22]. The categorical perception and representation of emotionally expressive faces depend on mood [23], through mediating factors such as past experience [24], neutral faces [25], and music [26,27]. Such effects are consistent with the emotional response categorization theory [28], implying that humans are tuned to perceive things that are congruent with their emotional state.…”

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confidence: 57%

Body Actions Change the Appearance of Facial Expressions

Fantoni

Gerbino

2014

PLoS ONE

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Perception, cognition, and emotion do not operate along segregated pathways; rather, their adaptive interaction is supported by various sources of evidence. For instance, the aesthetic appraisal of powerful mood inducers like music can bias the facial expression of emotions towards mood congruency. In four experiments we showed similar mood-congruency effects elicited by the comfort/discomfort of body actions. Using a novel Motor Action Mood Induction Procedure, we let participants perform comfortable/uncomfortable visually-guided reaches and tested them in a facial emotion identification task. Through the alleged mediation of motor action induced mood, action comfort enhanced the quality of the participant’s global experience (a neutral face appeared happy and a slightly angry face neutral), while action discomfort made a neutral face appear angry and a slightly happy face neutral. Furthermore, uncomfortable (but not comfortable) reaching improved the sensitivity for the identification of emotional faces and reduced the identification time of facial expressions, as a possible effect of hyper-arousal from an unpleasant bodily experience.

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confidence: 57%

Body Actions Change the Appearance of Facial Expressions

Fantoni

Gerbino

2014

PLoS ONE

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“…Based on these evidences, we hypothesized that the induction of negative mood state in healthy subjects may increase neural responding to unpleasant stimuli in comparison with the neutral mood. On the other hand, because prior studies showed reduced attention bias for negative stimuli in the pleasant context, and less perception of sadness from faces during happy music [42], [46], we predict that the susceptibility to unpleasant stimuli may decrease under positive mood induction.…”

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“…In addition, it was consistently reported that listening to sad music enhanced the perceived sadness from the faces [42], [43]. Based on these evidences, we hypothesized that the induction of negative mood state in healthy subjects may increase neural responding to unpleasant stimuli in comparison with the neutral mood.…”

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Negative Mood State Enhances the Susceptibility to Unpleasant Events: Neural Correlates from a Music-Primed Emotion Classification Task

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BackgroundVarious affective disorders are linked with enhanced processing of unpleasant stimuli. However, this link is likely a result of the dominant negative mood derived from the disorder, rather than a result of the disorder itself. Additionally, little is currently known about the influence of mood on the susceptibility to emotional events in healthy populations.MethodEvent-Related Potentials (ERP) were recorded for pleasant, neutral and unpleasant pictures while subjects performed an emotional/neutral picture classification task during positive, neutral, or negative mood induced by instrumental Chinese music.ResultsLate Positive Potential (LPP) amplitudes were positively related to the affective arousal of pictures. The emotional responding to unpleasant pictures, indicated by the unpleasant-neutral differences in LPPs, was enhanced during negative compared to neutral and positive moods in the entire LPP time window (600–1000 ms). The magnitude of this enhancement was larger with increasing self-reported negative mood. In contrast, this responding was reduced during positive compared to neutral mood in the 800–1000 ms interval. Additionally, LPP reactions to pleasant stimuli were similar across positive, neutral and negative moods except those in the 800–900 ms interval.ImplicationsNegative mood intensifies the humans' susceptibility to unpleasant events in healthy individuals. In contrast, music-induced happy mood is effective in reducing the susceptibility to these events. Practical implications of these findings were discussed.

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“…From that perspective, it is not surprising that the multisensory percept is often influenced in an emotional congruent fashion (Boltz, Ebendorf, & Field, 2009;Ebendorf, 2007;Jeong et al, 2011). For instance, sad (happy) faces are perceived sadder (happier) in combination with music that evokes a sad (happy) emotion.…”

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Emotional Responses to Multisensory Environmental Stimuli

Schreuder¹,

Erp²,

Toet³

et al. 2016

Sage Open

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How we perceive our environment affects the way we feel and behave. The impressions of our ambient environment are influenced by its entire spectrum of physical characteristics (e.g., luminosity, sound, scents, temperature) in a dynamic and interactive way. The ability to manipulate the sensory aspects of an environment such that people feel comfortable or exhibit a desired behavior is gaining interest and social relevance. Although much is known about the sensory effects of individual environmental characteristics, their combined effects are not a priori evident due to a wide range of non-linear interactions in the processing of sensory cues. As a result, it is currently not known how different environmental characteristics should be combined to effectively induce desired emotional and behavioral effects. To gain more insight into this matter, we performed a literature review on the emotional effects of multisensory stimulation. Although we found some interesting mechanisms, the outcome also reveals that empirical evidence is still scarce and haphazard. To stimulate further discussion and research, we propose a conceptual framework that describes how environmental interventions are likely to affect human emotional responses. This framework leads to some critical research questions that suggest opportunities for further investigation.

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Congruence of happy and sad emotion in music and faces modifies cortical audiovisual activation

Cited by 59 publications

References 37 publications

Body Actions Change the Appearance of Facial Expressions

Body Actions Change the Appearance of Facial Expressions

Negative Mood State Enhances the Susceptibility to Unpleasant Events: Neural Correlates from a Music-Primed Emotion Classification Task

Emotional Responses to Multisensory Environmental Stimuli

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