Here's looking at you, kid? Maternal depression and adolescent attention to self- or other-directed emotional faces

Seidman, Samuel; Danzo, Sarah; Patton, Emily; Connell, Arin M.

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.149

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“… Watters et al (2018) , employing the same covert passive viewing task in first-degree relatives of MDD patients under masked and unmasked conditions using a linked mastoid reference, found no effect on the N170 but the early frontocentral positivity (150–225 ms) showed an emotion modulation (negative vs. happy) only in the non-risk group, being attenuated in the high-risk group. A similar finding was reported by Seidman et al (2020) in a passive viewing task with expressions directed forward or averted away in adolescent girls with maternal depression history. N170 amplitudes were greater for forward vs. averted faces only in the group without maternal depression history, while such difference was absent in the maternal depression group.…”

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“…Several have reported no effects ( Buodo et al, 2015 ; Xu et al, 2018 ; Chilver et al, 2022 ). In the two studies on high-risk depression relatives, Watters et al (2018) reported attenuated frontocentral N200 to negative vs. happy faces (co-occurring with the EPN) for first-degree relatives compared to non-relatives, and Seidman et al (2020) attenuated EPN to forward vs. averted faces in daughters with maternal depression compared to girls without depression history.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To summarize, all of the face emotion studies in subclinical depression [with the exception of Dai et al (2016) ] have employed a covert emotion task. Results have been mixed: some have reported no effects of dysphoria on the N170 ( Buodo et al, 2015 ; Dai et al, 2016 ; Xu et al, 2018 ), and others have found an attenuation of emotion modulations in the subclinical depression group relative to controls ( Watters et al, 2018 ; Seidman et al, 2020 ; Chilver et al, 2022 ). None of such studies have manipulated top-down attentional demands, contrasting covert to overt emotional tasks.…”

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“…More recently, Seidman et al (2020) recorded EEG during passive viewing of sad, happy, or neutral expressions facing forward or averted away in two groups of adolescent girls with low or high depression risk (maternal depression history). In an early (N170) and intermediate (EPN) time window, greater voltage N170, and EPN amplitudes were present in response to forward vs. averted faces only in low-risk girls.…”

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Covert vs. Overt Emotional Face Processing in Dysphoria

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Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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People at risk of developing clinical depression exhibit attentional biases for emotional faces. To clarify whether such effects occur at an early, automatic, or at a late, deliberate processing stage of emotional processing, the present study used high-density electroencephalography during both covert and overt processing of sad, fearful, happy, and neutral expressions in healthy participants with high dysphoria (n = 16) and with low dysphoria (n = 19). A state-of-the-art non-parametric permutation-based statistical approach was then used to explore the effects of emotion, attentional task demands, and group. Behaviorally, participants responded faster and more accurately when overtly categorizing happy faces and they were slower and less accurate when categorizing sad and fearful faces, independent of the dysphoria group. Electrophysiologically, in an early time-window (N170: 140–180 ms), there was a significant main effect for the dysphoria group, with greater negative voltage for the high vs. low dysphoria group over the left-sided temporo-occipital scalp. Furthermore, there was a significant group by emotional interaction, with the high dysphoria group displaying greater negative amplitude N170 for happy than fearful faces. Attentional task demands did not influence such early effects. In contrast, in an intermediate time-window (EPN: 200–400 ms) and in a late time-window (LPP: 500–750 ms) there were no significant main effects nor interactions involving the dysphoria Group. The LPP results paralleled the behavioral results, with greater LPP voltages for sad and fearful relative to happy faces only in the overt task, but similarly so in the two dysphoria groups. This study provides novel evidence that alterations in face processing in dysphoric individuals can be seen at the early stages of face perception, as indexed by the N170, although not in the form of a typical pattern of mood-congruent attentional bias. In contrast, intermediate (EPN) and late (LPP) stages of emotional face processing appear unaffected by dysphoria. Importantly, the early dysphoria effect appears to be independent of the top-down allocation of attention, further supporting the idea that dysphoria may influence a stage of automatic emotional appraisal. It is proposed that it may be a consequence of a shift from holistic to feature-based processing of facial expressions, or may be due to the influence of negative schemas acting as a negative context for emotional facial processing.

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Covert vs. Overt Emotional Face Processing in Dysphoria

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Goertzen

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“…Event‐related potential (ERP) components were defined based on grand means and analyzed in time windows that are typically used to explore the N400 effect (Chen et al, 2014; Fields & Kuperberg, 2015; Kutas & Federmeier, 2011; Watson et al, 2007; Xia et al, 2021; Zhu et al, 2018) and LPC (Chen et al, 2014; Herbert et al, 2008; Herbert, Herbert, et al, 2011; Herbert, Pauli, & Herbert, 2011; Wu et al, 2014; Zhou et al, 2013). The mixed‐effect models were used to analyze mean amplitudes in the following intervals: 300 to 400 ms for word‐locked N400 (Chen et al, 2014; Fields & Kuperberg, 2015; Herbert, Pauli, & Herbert, 2011; Seidman et al, 2020; Zhu et al, 2018) and 400 to 650 ms for word‐locked LPC (Herbert, Herbert, et al, 2011; Herbert, Pauli, & Herbert, 2011; Hudson et al, 2020; Kissler et al, 2009; Rubianes et al, 2021). Topographical analyses were based on mean amplitudes measured more than 40 electrodes distributed over the entire scalp.…”

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An event‐related potential study of self‐positivity bias in native and foreign language contexts

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Self-positivity bias is a common psychological phenomenon in which individuals often associate positive information with themselves. However, little is known about how self-positivity bias is modulated by different language contexts (e.g., a first vs. second language). To this end, we analyzed behavioral and electrophysiological data to examine whether first or second languages play differential roles in the self-positivity bias effect. We used a modified self-positivity bias task which required Chinese-English bilinguals to judge strings of letters or characters as realwords or not and match associations between identity (self, other) and a geometric shape (circle, triangle). The target words in the experiment consisted of positive, negative, and neutral emotional words. The results showed that in the L2 context, the self-positivity condition elicited a smaller N400 effect relative to the self-negativity condition and a larger late positive component effect relative to the self-negativity and self-neutrality conditions. Furthermore, the other-positivity condition elicited a stronger N400 effect than the other-neutrality condition. These patterns did not emerge in the L1 context. We discuss the implications and contributions of these findings to better understand the interaction between emotion and self-concept in different language contexts.

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Development of emotion processing and regulation: Insights from event-related potentials and implications for internalizing disorders

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Politte-Corn

Kujawa

2021

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Here's looking at you, kid? Maternal depression and adolescent attention to self- or other-directed emotional faces

Cited by 5 publications

References 59 publications

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Covert vs. Overt Emotional Face Processing in Dysphoria

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Covert vs. Overt Emotional Face Processing in Dysphoria

An event‐related potential study of self‐positivity bias in native and foreign language contexts

Development of emotion processing and regulation: Insights from event-related potentials and implications for internalizing disorders

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