Implicit emotional processing in peripheral vision: Behavioral and neural evidence

Rigoulot, Simon; D’Hondt, Fabien; Honoré, Jacques; Sequeira, Henrique

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.08.015

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“…A main, initial result is that ERP perception‐related temporospatial components PN1 and PN2 show an “Emo > Neu effect” (i.e., they are sensitive to the emotional load, showing greater amplitudes to emotional—spiders—than to neutral stimuli—wheels) even when stimuli are presented at the periphery of the visual field. This result is in line with previous studies showing efficient detection of emotional stimuli presented out of fixation and at different eccentricities (Bayle et al, ; Calvo et al, ; Carretié, Albert, et al, ; Carretié, Kessel, et al, ; Rigoulot et al, , ). Next, the spatial modulation of the Emo > Neu effect is described.…”

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“…Indeed, responses to both para-and perifoveally presented stimuli loaded similarly in PN2p factors showing these effects. This finding is in line with studies finding a differential ERP response to emotional stimuli (with respect to neutral) presented even 15 or more away from fixation Rigoulot et al, 2011Rigoulot et al, , 2012. Therefore, efficient perception of emotional stimuli seems not to be significantly modulated by eccentricity.…”

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“…Despite this, evolution has favored the nervous system to efficiently detect salient stimuli such as dangerous, appetitive or novel events even when they appear at nonfoveal areas of the visual field. Thus, these emotional events (they inherently trigger physiological, subjective, and/or behavioral emotional responses), such as threatening scenes or facial expressions, elicit differential neural responses with respect to neutral stimuli when they appear in the periphery (Bayle, Henaff, & Krolak‐Salmon, ; Calvo, Nummenmaa, & Hyönä, ; Carretié, Albert, et al, ; Rigoulot, D'Hondt, Defoort‐Dhellemmes, Despretz, & Honoré, ; Rigoulot, D'hondt, Honore, & Sequeira, ; but see De Cesarei, Codispoti, & Schupp, ). However, this “peripheral capability” to detect emotional elements of the visual context could not be homogeneous: the exact location in the periphery where the emotional stimulus appears could be a crucial factor determining the brain mechanisms involved in its processing and, ultimately, our response to it.…”

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Retinotopy of emotion: Perception of negatively valenced stimuli presented at different spatial locations as revealed by event‐related potentials

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Méndez‐Bértolo

Bódalo

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Scarce previous data on how the location where an emotional stimulus appears in the visual scene modulates its perception suggest that, for functional reasons, a perceptual advantage may exist, vertically, for stimuli presented at the lower visual field (LoVF) and, horizontally, for stimuli presented at the left visual field (LeVF). However, this issue has been explored through a limited number of spatial locations, usually in a single spatial dimension (e.g., horizontal) and invariant eccentricities. Event‐related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 39 participants perceiving brief neutral (wheels) and emotional stimuli (spiders) presented at 17 different locations, one foveal and 16 at different peripheral coordinates. As a secondary scope, we explored the role of the magnocellular (M) and the parvocellular (P) visual pathways by presenting an isoluminant/heterochromatic (P‐biased) and a heteroluminant/isochromatic version (M‐biased) of each stimulus. Emo > Neu effects were observed in PN1 (120 ms) for stimuli located at fovea, and in PN2 (215 ms) for stimuli located both at fovea and diverse peripheral regions. A factorial approach to these effects further revealed that: (a) emotional stimuli presented in the periphery are efficiently perceived, without evident decrease from para‐ to perifovea; (b) peripheral Emo > Neu effects are reflected 95 ms later than foveal Emo > Neu effects in ERPs; (c) LoVF is more involved than UVF in these effects; (d) our data fail to support the LeVF advantage previously reported, and (e) Emo > Neu effects were significant for both M and P stimuli.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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confidence: 99%

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Retinotopy of emotion: Perception of negatively valenced stimuli presented at different spatial locations as revealed by event‐related potentials

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Bódalo

et al. 2019

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“…This ensures that initial visual and emotional processing of the stimulus is lateralized to the contralateral hemisphere [39][40][41][42]. To examine emotional processing, we used pictures of emotional and neutral scenes as Nogo stimuli and unidentifiable scrambled versions of the same pictures as Go stimuli.…”

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Effects of Emotional Valence on Hemispheric Asymmetries in Response Inhibition

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Hemispheric asymmetries are a major organizational principle in human emotion processing, but their interaction with prefrontal control processes is not well understood. To this end, we determined whether hemispheric differences in response inhibition depend on the emotional valence of the stimulus being inhibited. Participants completed a lateralised Go/Nogo task, in which Nogo stimuli were neutral or emotional (either positive or negative) images, while Go stimuli were scrambled versions of the same pictures. We recorded the N2 and P3 event-related potential (ERP) components, two common electrophysiological measures of response inhibition processes. Behaviourally, participants were more accurate in withholding responses to emotional than to neutral stimuli. Electrophysiologically, Nogo-P3 responses were greater for emotional than for neutral stimuli, an effect driven primarily by an enhanced response to positive images. Hemispheric asymmetries were also observed, with greater Nogo-P3 following left versus right visual field stimuli. However, the visual field effect did not interact with emotion. We therefore find no evidence that emotion-related asymmetries affect response inhibition processes.

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“…For instance, studies that used event-related potentials (ERPs) revealed that negative stimuli such as unpleasant scenes (Alorda et al, 2007) or fearful faces (Pourtois et al, 2005; Vlamings et al, 2009) containing only LSF information elicit greater P1 (a positive ERP appearing around 100 ms after stimulus onset at occipito-temporal sites) amplitudes than their neutral counterparts in occipital areas, whereas no significant effects were found for equivalent stimuli containing only HSF information. This early emotional processing from LSF information may account for emotional responses occurring: (1) before the full-fledged visual processing (Vuilleumier, 2005; Rudrauf et al, 2008); (2) when the individual is engaged in a resource-consuming task (Carretié et al, 2012); and (3) when emotional stimuli are not the target of gaze (Rigoulot et al, 2011, 2012; D’Hondt et al, 2013). However, it should be noted that both the involvement of each stream and their connectivity with emotional regions might vary according to stimulus category, as shown by neuroimaging explorations and studies examining brain-damaged patients.…”

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Are visual impairments responsible for emotion decoding deficits in alcohol-dependence?

D’Hondt¹,

Leporé²,

Maurage³

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Emotional visual perception deficits constitute a major problem in alcohol-dependence. Indeed, the ability to assess the affective content of external cues is a key adaptive function, as it allows on the one hand the processing of potentially threatening or advantageous stimuli, and on the other hand the establishment of appropriate social interactions (by enabling rapid decoding of the affective state of others from their facial expressions). While such deficits have been classically considered as reflecting a genuine emotion decoding impairment in alcohol-dependence, converging evidence suggests that underlying visual deficits might play a role in emotional alterations. This hypothesis appears to be relevant especially as data from healthy populations indicate that a coarse but fast analysis of visual inputs would allow emotional processing to arise from early stages of perception. After reviewing those findings and the associated models, the present paper underlines data showing that rapid interactions between emotion and vision could be impaired in alcohol-dependence and provides new research avenues that may ultimately offer a better understanding of the roots of emotional deficits in this pathological state.

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Implicit emotional processing in peripheral vision: Behavioral and neural evidence

Cited by 53 publications

References 75 publications

Retinotopy of emotion: Perception of negatively valenced stimuli presented at different spatial locations as revealed by event‐related potentials

Retinotopy of emotion: Perception of negatively valenced stimuli presented at different spatial locations as revealed by event‐related potentials

Effects of Emotional Valence on Hemispheric Asymmetries in Response Inhibition

Are visual impairments responsible for emotion decoding deficits in alcohol-dependence?

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