Temporal course of emotional negativity bias: An ERP study

Huang, Yuxia; Luo, Yuejia

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2005.12.074

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“…Similarly, Kanske and Kotz [25] showed that healthy individuals process positive words faster than negative words in a lexical decision task. Our findings are in accordance with studies demonstrating that people generally exhibit higher sensitivity to negative stimuli associated with dangers or threats than to positive stimuli; this phenomenon is known as negative bias [26,27]. …”

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Event-Related Potentials in Response to Emotional Words in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder and Healthy Controls

Liu

Yin

et al. 2014

Neuropsychobiology

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Background: Dysfunctional cognitive processing and abnormal brain activation in response to emotional stimuli have long been recognized as core features of the major depressive disorder (MDD). The aim of this study was to examine how Chinese patients with MDD process Chinese emotional words presented to either the left (LH) or right hemisphere (RH). Methods: Reaction time (RT) and the late positive component of the event-related potential were measured while subjects judged the valence (positive or negative) of emotional words written in Chinese. Results: Compared to healthy controls, patients with MDD exhibited slower RTs in response to negative words. In all subjects, the RTs in response to negative words were significantly faster than RTs in response to positive words presented to the LH, as well as significantly faster than responses to negative words presented to the RH. Compared to healthy controls, MDD patients exhibited reduced activation of the central and left regions of the brain in response to both negative and positive words. In healthy controls, the posterior brain areas were more active than the anterior brain areas when responding to negative words. Conclusion: All individuals showed faster RTs in response to negative words compared to positive words. In addition, MDD patients showed lateralization of brain activity in response to emotional words, whereas healthy individuals did not show this lateralization. Posterior brain areas appear to play an especially important role in discriminating and experiencing negative emotional words. This study provides further evidence in support of the negative bias hypothesis and the emotional processing theory.

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Event-Related Potentials in Response to Emotional Words in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder and Healthy Controls

Liu

Yin

et al. 2014

Neuropsychobiology

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“…Huang and Luo, 2006;Schupp et al, 2004), which are assumed to reflect more elaborate sustained perceptual processing of relevant emotional stimuli, via top-down influences from limbic and/or frontal areas (Eimer et al, 2003;Krolak-Salmon et al, 2001;Sato et al, 2001). Interestingly, we found enhanced P150 and P3 amplitudes for angry faces after cortisol administration only in high avoidant (high BIS) individuals, indicating that processing of angry faces after cortisol administration was specifically enhanced in individuals sensitive to threat.…”

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The effects of cortisol administration on approach–avoidance behavior: An event-related potential study

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Roelofs

Rotteveel

et al. 2007

Biological Psychology

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We investigated the effects of cortisol administration (50 mg) on approach and avoidance tendencies in low and high trait avoidant healthy young men. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were measured during a reaction time task, in which participants evaluated the emotional expression of photographs of happy and angry faces by making an approaching (flexion) or avoiding (extension) arm movement. The task consisted of an affect-congruent (approach happy faces and avoid angry faces) and an affect-incongruent (reversed instruction) condition. Behavioral and ERP analyses showed that cortisol enhanced congruency effects for angry faces in highly avoidant individuals only. The ERP effects involved an increase of both early (P150) and late (P3) positive amplitudes, indicative of increased processing of the angry faces in high avoidant subjects after cortisol administration. Together, these results suggest a context-specific effect of cortisol on processing of, and adaptive responses to, motivationally significant threat stimuli, particularly in participants highly sensitive to threat signals. #

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“…words (Dillon et al, 2006;Herbert et al, 2006;Kanske & Kotz, 2007) or pictures (Huang & Luo, 2006;Keil et al, 2002;Schupp et al, 2007), ranging from 200 to 800 msec. The results of some of these studies are favorable to there being a temporal advantage for the processing of words, whereas others show that pictures are processed earlier.…”

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Electrophysiological differences in the processing of affective information in words and pictures

Hinojosa

Carretié

Valcárcel

et al. 2009

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Temporal course of emotional negativity bias: An ERP study

Cited by 340 publications

References 19 publications

Event-Related Potentials in Response to Emotional Words in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder and Healthy Controls

Event-Related Potentials in Response to Emotional Words in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder and Healthy Controls

The effects of cortisol administration on approach–avoidance behavior: An event-related potential study

Electrophysiological differences in the processing of affective information in words and pictures

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