Judging emotional congruency: Explicit attention to situational context modulates processing of facial expressions of emotion

Diéguez-Risco, Teresa; Aguado, Luis; Albert, Jacobo; Hinojosa, José Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.09.012

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“…Previous research has shown greater N170 responses to targets preceded by affectively congruent compared to incongruent primes (Hietanen and Astikainen, 2013; Hinojosa et al, 2015). A plausible explanation is that the enhanced N170 in response to affectively congruent vs. incongruent pairs may reflect the integrative activation of affective valence by the contexts (primes) and the target stimuli, and the effect of this activation on visual processing (Hietanen and Astikainen, 2013; Diéguez-Risco et al, 2015). Thus, the N170 modulation indicates that direct gaze is affectively more congruent with positive words than closed eyes.…”

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“…Prior studies have repeatedly reported that the LPP is modulated by affective congruence between the targets and preceding contexts, with affectively incongruent targets eliciting larger LPP amplitudes compared to affectively congruent targets (Werheid et al, 2005; Zhang et al, 2010; Herring et al, 2011; Hietanen and Astikainen, 2013). An enhanced LPP in response to affectively incongruent targets is interpreted as reflecting increased attentional resource allocation when the targets are unexpected or do not affectively match the preceding primes (Werheid et al, 2005; Zhang et al, 2010; Diéguez-Risco et al, 2015). Thus, the present LPP result indicates that direct gaze is affectively more incongruent with negative words compared with closed eyes.…”

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Affective Priming by Eye Gaze Stimuli: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Chen

Peltola

Ranta

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The present study employed the affective priming paradigm and measurements of event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate implicit affective reactions elicited by gaze stimuli. Participants categorized positive and negative words primed by direct gaze, averted gaze and closed eyes. The behavioral response time (RT) results indicated that direct gaze implicitly elicited more positive affective reactions than did closed eyes. Analyses of the ERP responses to the target words revealed a priming effect on the N170 and an interaction on late positive potential (LPP) responses, and congruently with the behavioral results, suggested that, compared to closed eyes, direct gaze was affectively more congruent with positive words and more incongruent with negative words. The priming effect on the N170 response indicated that gaze stimuli influenced the subsequent affective word processing at an early stage of information processing. In conclusion, the present behavioral and electrophysiological evidence suggests that direct gaze automatically activates more positive affective reactions than closed eyes.

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confidence: 99%

Affective Priming by Eye Gaze Stimuli: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Chen

Peltola

Ranta

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…11 also identified larger Late Positive Potentials (LPP) when subjects viewed pleasant and unpleasant pictures compared with neutral pictures. Researchers have also utilized facial expression pictures (happy and angry faces) as stimuli, and early brain electrical components (e.g., N170 and P1) were observed during the experiments 12–14 . Other studies have indicated that Late Positive Components (LPC, e.g., P300 and LPP) were produced when affective facial pictures were presented 15–19 .…”

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Neural Process of the Preference Cross-category Transfer Effect: Evidence from an Event-related Potential Study

Zhang

Pei

et al. 2017

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In business practice, companies prefer to find highly attractive commercial spokesmen to represent and promote their products and brands. This study mainly focused on the investigation of whether female facial attractiveness influenced the preference attitudes of male subjects toward a no-named and unfamiliar logo and determined the underlying reasons via neuroscientific methods. We designed two ERP (event-related potential) experiments. Experiment 1 comprised a formal experiment with facial stimuli. The purpose of experiment 2 was to confirm whether the logos that were used did not present a significant difference for the subjects. According to the behavioural results of experiment 1, when other conditions were not significantly different, the preference degree of the logos correlated with attractive female faces was increased compared with the logos correlated with unattractive faces. Reasons to explain these behavioural phenomena were identified via ERP measures, and preference cross-category transfer mainly caused the results. Additionally, the preference developed associated with emotion. This study is the first to report a novel concept referred to as the “Preference Cross-Category Transfer Effect”. Moreover, a three-phase neural process of the face evaluation subsequently explained how the cross-category transfer of preference occurred and influenced subject preference attitude toward brand logos.

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“…The engaged network of activated regions was found to peak at later time points (i.e., TR 5), in addition we identified slower response times for congruent conditions, indicative of the need for greater cognitive engagement (Theeuwes et al, 2000). Slower response times for congruency with prior expectations have been reported previously in the literature (Dieguez-Risco et al, 2015), particularly for stimuli that carry greater uncertainty and require evaluation of congruency. It is argued that when asked to judge emotional congruency in dynamic displays of emotion there is initially higher uncertainty because the emotional expression may suddenly change, and therefore the evaluator takes longer than when judging emotional incongruency, which is immediately evident to differ from the emotional cue.…”

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“…Social situations can rapidly change, requiring a fluid and adaptable system able to recognize and predict another's emotions (Palermo and Rhodes, 2007). Neuroimaging studies have found that recognition of emotion is influenced by 'prior expectations' about which emotions are likely to arise in certain contexts (Barbalat et al, 2013;Dieguez-Risco et al, 2015); however, the behavioural and neural influences of prior expectations on perception have been examined using static representations of emotion. Static images only represent a single facial pattern within a single modality and fail to capture the dynamic complexity of emotion perception relevant in everyday life.…”

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The neuroimaging and genetics of emotion perception in schizophrenia

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Impaired emotion perception is a core deficit in schizophrenia (SCZ) that is robustly associated with poor functional outcome. Studies to date have failed to delineate the critical cognitive, neural and genetic factors that underlie 'naturalistic' emotion perception deficits in SCZ. Recently it has been proposed that in SCZ reduced precision in prior expectations impairs perception. Normal perception relies on predictive processing from precise prior expectations, which prioritise attention to context-relevant stimuli. However, no studies to date have explored the aberrancy of prior expectations during naturalistic emotion perception in SCZ and the underlying abnormal neural circuitry or involvement of SCZ genes. The present thesis aims to develop a novel dynamic emotion perception (DEP) task, in order to examine (1) the influence of prior expectations on naturalistic emotion perception in healthy individuals, and (2) emotion perception impairment in SCZ by investigating aberrancy in prior expectations, neural circuitry, and genetics.The aim of Study 1 was to create a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm to examine the mechanisms of prior expectations and delineate the spatiotemporal activity of brain regions that contribute to emotion perception. The newly developed and validated fMRI DEP task has improved ecological validity, using dynamic, audio-visual videos, instead of static pictures as stimuli. The improved method provided new behavioural and neuroimaging insights into the influence of prior expectations on naturalistic emotion perception. Prior expectations facilitated emotion perception after repeated exposure and learning over the course of the experiment, engaging prefrontal regions and right amygdala. In contrast, emotions incongruent with prior expectations engaged neural correlates of automatic change detection, which in a complex dynamic environment allows for adaptive behaviours in potentially advantageous or threatening situations.In Study 2, the DEP task was utilised to delineate, in the healthy brain, the functional networks that subserve rapid recognition of threatening emotions in situations either congruent or incongruent with prior expectations. The results showed that fast detection of threat congruent with prior expectations engaged a right amygdala subcortical network, which has been previously implicated in fear conditioning and coarse processing of emotion. In contrast, there was a trend association between fast detection of threat incongruent with prior expectations and activity in inferior frontoparietal network connected to the right temporoparietal junction; this has been previously implicated in rapid reorienting of attention to Finally, in Study 4, the association between SCZ polygenic risk score (PRS) and brain activity during the DEP task in healthy adults was investigated in order to assess emotion perception as an endophenotype for SCZ. The results demonstrate that PRS is associated with higher recruitment of regions involved in emotion regulat...

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Judging emotional congruency: Explicit attention to situational context modulates processing of facial expressions of emotion

Cited by 68 publications

References 62 publications

Affective Priming by Eye Gaze Stimuli: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Affective Priming by Eye Gaze Stimuli: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Neural Process of the Preference Cross-category Transfer Effect: Evidence from an Event-related Potential Study

The neuroimaging and genetics of emotion perception in schizophrenia

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