Personality and Augmenting/Reducing (A/R) in auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) during emotional visual stimulation

Pascalis, Vilfredo De; Fracasso, Francesca; Corr, Philip J.

doi:10.1038/srep41588

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“…The results suggest that the regulatory r-BIS system may be more closely tied to right frontal activity than the avoidance-motivating FFFS system. Our study supports recent advances in RST theory aimed at differentiated the functions and neural correlates of the r-BIS and FFFS ( De Pascalis et al , 2017 ).…”

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Regulatory control and impulsivity relate to resting frontal activity

Neal

Gable

2017

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Gray’s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) asserts three core personality systems: the behavioral approach system (BAS), the fight-flight-freeze system (FFFS) and the revised behavioral inhibition system (r-BIS). Past models of frontal activity link greater relative left frontal activity with Carver and White’s (1994) BAS scale and trait impulsivity and greater relative right frontal activity with Carver and White’s (1994) BIS scale. However, the original BIS scale assesses both FFFS and r-BIS. Past work linking the BIS scale and right frontal activity does not indicate which system is related to right frontal activity. The current study (n = 182) examined frontal asymmetric activity with personality traits associated with approach (BAS), withdrawal (FFFS-Fear), behavioral inhibition (BIS-Anxiety) and impulsivity (UPPS-P). Resting frontal cortical activity was recorded using electroencephalography (EEG), and the traditional alpha band was examined. Greater BIS-Anxiety related to greater relative right frontal activity. Impulsivity related to less relative right frontal activity. BAS and FFFS-Fear (approach and withdrawal motivation) did not relate to asymmetric frontal activity. Regulatory control processes associated with r-BIS and impulsivity, rather than withdrawal motivation associated with FFFS, may be more closely related to right frontal activity.

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Regulatory control and impulsivity relate to resting frontal activity

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Gable

2017

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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“…Kelley and Schmeichel (2016) found the right frontal cortex involved in the inhibition of both approach and avoidance behavior, a key function of the BIS. Research using large samples of resting data has demonstrated greater BIS-anxiety related to the greater relative right frontal activity (De Pascalis, Fracasso, & Corr, 2017;Neal & Gable, 2016. Knyazev et al, using resting EEG data, also found that the relative prevalence of parietal alpha power and reduction in delta power were associated with higher BIS/N individuals, whereas relative prevalence of delta oscillations, mostly in the frontal region, predicted higher BAS impulsive individual (Knyazev, 2006;Knyazev & Slobodskaya, 2003).…”

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Changes of EEG band oscillations to tonic cold pain and the behavioral inhibition and fight-flight-freeze systems

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Scacchia

Papi

et al. 2019

Personality Neuroscience

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Using electroencephalography (EEG) power measures within conventional delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma bands, the aims of the current study were to highlight cortical correlates of subjective perception of cold pain (CP) and the associations of these measures with behavioral inhibition system (BIS), fight-flight-freeze system (FFFS), and behavioral approach system personality traits. EEG was recorded in 55 healthy right-handed women under (i) a white noise interruption detection condition (Baseline); (ii) enduring CP induced by the cold cup test. CP and Baseline EEG band power scores within conventional frequency bands served for covariance analyses. We found that: (1) higher Pain scorers had higher EEG beta power changes at left frontal, midline central, posterior temporal leads; (2) higher BIS was associated with greater EEG delta activity changes at parietal scalp regions; (3) higher FFFS was associated with higher EEG delta activity changes at temporal and left-parietal regions, and with lower EEG gamma activity changes at right parietal regions. High FFFS, compared to Low FFFS scorers, also showed a lower gamma power across the midline, posterior temporal, and parietal regions. Results suggest a functional role of higher EEG beta activity in the subjective perception of tonic pain. EEG delta activity underpins conflict resolution system responsible for passive avoidance control of pain, while higher EEG delta and lower EEG gamma activity changes, taken together, underpin active avoidance system responsible for pain escape behavior.

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“…Further support for this proposition can be found in previous research. A recent study has asserted that larger N1‐P2 complex amplitudes are associated with reduced function of the behavioral inhibition system (De Pascalis, Fracasso, & Corr, ), a neurobehavioral system that facilitates protective inhibition. Reduced function of this system, postulated to avert a sensory load of threatening stimuli, may result in overgeneralization to nonthreatening stimuli.…”

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Early automatic hyperarousal in response to neutral novel auditory stimuli among trauma‐exposed individuals with and without PTSD: An ERP study

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ERP studies have associated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with enhanced P3 amplitudes in response to trauma-related stimuli, along with reduced amplitudes in the context of neutral (trauma-unrelated) stimuli. Additionally, a bias toward trauma-related stimuli is also observed among trauma-exposed participants not meeting criteria for PTSD, suggesting that trauma exposure itself, and not only the severity of posttraumatic stress (PTS), is a critical factor in information processing changes. However, previous examination of the response of trauma-exposed (PTSD and non-PTSD) participants to novel, neutral stimuli has produced conflicting findings. The current study examined ERPs in response to a novelty oddball paradigm comprised of neutral distractor sounds. Participants were 16 individuals with PTSD, 21 trauma-exposed individuals without PTSD, and 12 nontraumatized controls. Detailed trauma histories and PTS symptoms were collected. A significant effect of group on early ERPs was observed, showing an increase in the N1-P2 complex peak amplitude among the PTSD group, relative to controls. Among the entire sample, significant positive correlations were observed between PTS symptom severity, as well as trauma history, and early N1-P2 complex peak amplitudes, in response to novel stimuli. Furthermore, trauma-exposed participants with no PTS symptoms exhibited larger N1 amplitudes compared to participants with no trauma history. No trauma-related alterations in later ERP components were observed. These results suggest that trauma exposure may lead to hyperarousal at early processing levels, even in response to neutral novel stimuli. The findings concur with the neurocircuitry model that associates PTSD with hyperresponsivity of the amygdala.

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Personality and Augmenting/Reducing (A/R) in auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) during emotional visual stimulation

Cited by 11 publications

References 58 publications

Regulatory control and impulsivity relate to resting frontal activity

Regulatory control and impulsivity relate to resting frontal activity

Changes of EEG band oscillations to tonic cold pain and the behavioral inhibition and fight-flight-freeze systems

Early automatic hyperarousal in response to neutral novel auditory stimuli among trauma‐exposed individuals with and without PTSD: An ERP study

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