Working memory for emotional facial expressions: Role of the estrogen in young women

Gasbarri, Antonella; Pompili, Assunta; D'Onofrio, Armida; Cifariello, Agata; Tavares, Maria Clotilde Henriques; Tomaz, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.04.007

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“…Finally, it is important to note that in addition to the significant differences in sadness, we expected to find between-group differences in relation to other emotions as well -especially fear and angry-as other authors have reported (Conway et al, 2007;Derntl et al, 2013;Gasbarri et al, 2008;Pearson & Lewis, 2005). In contrast to that study, however, our research found that all five groups generated similar performance for all emotions except sadness.…”

Section: Emotional Recognitioncontrasting

confidence: 76%

“…These findings are corroborated by a report on decreased facial recognition accuracy up on acute progesterone administration (van Wingen et al, 2007). Women also demonstrate a greater tendency to perceive fearful expressions (with averted as compared to direct gaze) as more intense if progesterone levels are high (Conway et al, 2007), and respond faster to sad and angry situations or sad faces in the mid-luteal phase (Derntl et al, 2013;Gasbarri et al, 2008), as well as to other aversive stimuli, such as snakes (Masataka & Shibasaki, 2012). In their study, Pearson and Lewis (2005) assessed the ability to recognize emotional expressions in women in the four phases of the menstrual cycle.…”

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Emotional Experience and Recognition across Menstrual Cycle and in Premenstrual Disorder

Ramos-Loyo¹,

Sanz-Martín²

2017

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The aim of this study was to determine if differences exist in mood and in the recognition of female and male emotional faces among women in different phases of the menstrual cycle, and in women who suffer from Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) in the premenstrual phase. Both the emotional states and the recognition of female and male emotional faces were assessed in women in each phase of the menstrual cycle: post-menstrual, ovulatory, post-ovulatory and premenstrual. Also evaluated was a group of women who presented symptoms of PMDD during the premenstrual phase. Only the women with PMDD showed significant changes in levels of unpleasant emotions and anxiety. Regardless of group, the highest accuracy was observed for recognition of happiness and disgust, followed by surprise and sadness. The lowest level of recognition was seen for fear and anger. In addition, expressions of happiness and surprise were recognized better on female faces, while fearful and angry expressions were recognized better on male faces. Finally, women in the ovulatory phase and those with PMDD showed higher accuracy when recognizing sadness on male faces. These results suggest that only women with PMDD presented important differences in their emotional experience compared to the other groups. Finally, the gender of the emotion emitter was a factor that affected the recognition of emotions, an effect that was seen to interact slightly with the menstrual cycle phase.

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Emotional Experience and Recognition across Menstrual Cycle and in Premenstrual Disorder

Ramos-Loyo¹,

Sanz-Martín²

2017

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“…While this might be due to differences between the tasks used in each study (i.e., target detection as compared to reporting stimuli), an alternative suggestion is that the effect of estradiol on cognitive control is beneficial to linguistic-based tasks, provided they are not strongly lateralised, but detrimental to emotion-based tasks. There is some evidence in the literature that suggests a conflict with some studies reporting estradiol-related improvements in cognitive control functions (Joffe et al, 2006;Krug et al, 2006;Duff & Hampson, 2000) and others suggesting that estradiol is detrimental to cognitive control (Colzato et al, 2010;Gasbarri et al, 2008;Hatta & Nagaya, 2009). While, these studies do not provide an explanation as to why estradiol might be beneficial to some tasks and not others, the present study suggests that if the tasks employed in these studies vary in their cognitive demands and difficulty, this may explain some inconsistencies in the results.…”

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Estradiol-related variations in top-down and bottom-up processes of cerebral lateralization.

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. (2015) suggested that the effect was due to estradiol-related variations in bottom-up aspects of lateralisation. Method:The present study used two well-established left-and right-lateralised dichotic listening tasks (Hugdahl, 1995(Hugdahl, , 2003Grimshaw et al., 2003;, with forced-attention conditions to differentiate between these two ideas. Fifty-two naturally cycling women underwent both tasks, during either the menstrual, follicular or luteal cycle phase. Saliva estradiol and progesterone levels were determined by luminescence immunoassays. Results:The results showed that sex hormones did not affect language lateralisation, which may be due to the larger degree of lateralisation yielded by the task, compared to that shown by Hodgetts et al. (2015). In the emotional prosody task, high levels of estradiol were marginally associated with a reduction in cognitive control; while the language task yielded no cycle effects for either top-down or bottom-up processes. Conclusions:In sum, the current study revealed weak support for the idea that estradiol affects top-down control of lateralisation, as measured with dichotic listening tasks. Given that the task employed in the present study seemed less cognitively demanding than that used previously, it is suggested that estradiol-related inter-and intra-individual variations in lateralisation are small when task demands are low.

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“…Our findings suggest that high levels of estradiol in the follicular phase could have a negative effect on delayed matching-to-sample WM task, using stimuli with emotional valence. Moreover, in the follicular phase, compared to the menstrual phase, the percent of errors was significantly higher for the emotional facial expressions of sadness and disgust (Gasbarri et al, 2008(Gasbarri et al, , 2009 The evaluation of the response times (time employed to answer) for each facial expression with emotional valence showed a significant difference between follicular and luteal in reference to the emotional facial expression of sadness (Gasbarri et al, 2008(Gasbarri et al, , 2009). Our results show that high levels of estradiol in the follicular phase could impair the performance of WM.…”

Section: Working Memory For Emotional Facial Expressions Across the Mmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Physiological fluctuations in ovarian hormones across the menstrual cycle allow for noninvasive studies of the effects of estrogen on cognition in young women and underlie a reliable pattern of cognitive change across the menstrual cycle (Maki et al, 2002). The cognitive performance in a WM task for emotional facial expressions, using the six basic emotions (Ekman &Friesen, 1971) as stimuli in the DMTS, was evaluated in young women in the different phases of the menstrual cycle, in order to point out possible differences related to the physiological hormonal fluctuations (Gasbarri et al, 2008(Gasbarri et al, , 2009). Our findings suggest that high levels of estradiol in the follicular phase could have a negative effect on delayed matching-to-sample WM task, using stimuli with emotional valence.…”

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Tomaz²

2012

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Working memory for emotional facial expressions: Role of the estrogen in young women

Cited by 68 publications

References 69 publications

Emotional Experience and Recognition across Menstrual Cycle and in Premenstrual Disorder

Emotional Experience and Recognition across Menstrual Cycle and in Premenstrual Disorder

Estradiol-related variations in top-down and bottom-up processes of cerebral lateralization.

Estrogen Influences on Cognition

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