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Neurosciences
Guangjie Yuan, Guangyuan Liu, Dongtao Wei
Summary: Initial romantic attraction (IRA) is a positive reaction to potential romantic partners, generated and evaluated by an extensive brain network involved in emotion processing, attention control, and social evaluations. EEG analysis revealed enhanced positive wave responses and heightened neural activity in various brain regions when comparing faces that engendered IRA to those that did not.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Psychology, Biological
Anna Weinberg, Kelly A. Correa, Elizabeth S. Stevens, Stewart A. Shankman
Summary: The study found that neural and behavioral markers of attention to motivationally salient cues may have trait-like characteristics, which could be helpful in identifying vulnerability markers for various forms of psychopathology in future studies.
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Psychology, Biological
Pablo Ribes-Guardiola, Carlos Ventura-Bort, Rosario Poy, Pilar Segarra, Victoria Branchadell, Javier Molto
Summary: This study aims to examine the impact of attentional focus on emotion processing in relation to psychopathy constructs. The results indicate that individuals with high levels of meanness show reduced processing of affective material, particularly when the material is task-relevant.
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Psychology, Biological
Melissa A. Meynadasy, C. J. Brush, Julia Sheffler, Russell Mach, Dawn Carr, Dimitris Kiosses, Greg Hajcak, Natalie Sachs-Ericsson
Summary: Emotion regulation is important for successful aging in older adults. This study examined the late-positive potential (LPP) in relation to emotional well-being in a sample of older adults. The results showed greater LPP amplitude for emotionally salient stimuli compared to neutral stimuli, reduced LPP amplitude after instructions to reappraise emotional response, and a blunted LPP for individuals with higher depressive symptoms. Older adults with low emotional well-being were less successful at reappraisal according to self-reported ratings of negative emotion.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
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Psychology, Biological
Richard J. Macatee, Katie L. Burkhouse, Kaveh Afshar, Christopher Schroth, Darren M. Aase, Justin E. Greenstein, Eric Proescher, K. Luan Phan
Summary: This study evaluated the reliability and validity of LPP modulation by threatening faces and scenes in combat-exposed veterans. The results showed good internal consistency and fair retest reliability for early LPP time windows, but poor reliability for late time windows. LPPs modulated by threatening scenes and faces were unrelated.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Wei Xin, Ran Yu, Lun Zhao
Summary: Research findings suggest that MDD patients exhibit altered N170 and EPN components when processing emotional faces, with significantly reduced N170 and delayed/lower EPN compared to the control group. This indicates dysfunction in emotional face processing in MDD patients.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2021)
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Psychology, Biological
Samantha Pegg, Anh Dao, Lisa Venanzi, Kaylin Hill, Autumn Kujawa
Summary: This study examines the effects of using cap compared to facial electrodes to measure eye movements for ocular correction in event-related potential (ERP) research. Findings revealed comparable data quality but some differences in overall ERP magnitude, suggesting cap electrodes may be used if needed. A consistent approach to ocular correction within a study is recommended.
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Psychology, Biological
Lauren M. Bylsma, Patricia Z. Tan, Jennifer S. Silk, Erika E. Forbes, Dana L. McMakin, Ronald E. Dahl, Neal D. Ryan, Cecile D. Ladouceur
Summary: Pediatric anxiety disorders are characterized by heightened threat responses and maladaptive emotion regulation. The Late Positive Potential (LPP) has been used as a neural index of attention to emotional stimuli. This study found that anxious individuals typically exhibit a larger LPP to unpleasant stimuli, but those with co-morbid depression may exhibit blunted LPP. The LPP is associated with emotion regulation behaviors, rather than emotional reactivity, in daily life.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
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Psychiatry
C. Priyesh, Chinmay A. Suryavanshi, Arun Sasidharan, Rajeshkrishna P. Bhandary, Rishikesh Behere, Kirtana R. Nayak
Summary: The study aimed to evaluate the utility of a combined paradigm to measure N170, N250, and vMMN in healthy controls compared to individual paradigms, with emotion-related ERPs showing higher amplitudes and a satisfactory ERP data quality.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Dianzhi Liu, Yun Wang, Feng Lu, Deming Shu, Jianxin Zhang, Chuanlin Zhu, Wenbo Luo
Summary: This study aimed to explore the influence of emotion (anger, fear, happiness, and neutral) on performing multiplication estimation. Results showed that reaction time was shortest under happy conditions and ERP results indicated smaller P1 amplitudes in the context of happiness. The impact of emotion priming suggests a dynamic process in completing multiplication estimation tasks using specified strategies.
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Heather Kennedy, Tina C. Montreuil
Summary: The mental health of young people is a growing public health concern that requires support for healthy socio-emotional development. Research findings indicate that the late positive potential may be a reliable neural indicator of children's cognitive reappraisal abilities, holding important implications for studying emotion regulation.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Antonio Maffei, Jennifer Goertzen, Fern Jaspers-Fayer, Killian Kleffner, Paola Sessa, Mario Liotti
Summary: The study investigated the impact of task demands on processing happy, sad, and fearful expressions behaviorally and electrophysiologically. The results showed that emotional content does not necessarily require attention in the early stages of face processing, with voluntary attention fully modulating the response to emotional content in the final stage of processing.
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Psychology, Experimental
W. John Monopoli, Ann Huet, Nicholas P. Allan, Matt R. Judah, Nora Bunford
Summary: The study aimed to assess whether a comprehensive conceptualization of emotion dysregulation could be captured using a physiological, state-level index.
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Dandan Jia, Hongpo Zhang, Yi Wang, Zhijin Zhou
Summary: In the field of emotional language research, there are significant differences in emotion effect and cognitive processing between emotion-label words and emotion-laden words. Emotion-label words elicit earlier emotional information perception, while emotion-laden words have stronger physiological activation.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Behavioral Sciences
Fern Jaspers-Fayer, Antonio Maffei, Jennifer Goertzen, Killian Kleffner, Ambra Coccaro, Paola Sessa, Mario Liotti
Summary: This study used high-density electroencephalography to investigate the attentional biases for emotional faces in individuals at risk of developing clinical depression. The results showed that participants with high dysphoria had greater negative voltage in the early processing stage for happy faces and exhibited a greater negative amplitude for happy faces compared to fearful faces. However, there were no significant effects or interactions involving the dysphoria group in the intermediate and late stages of emotional face processing.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Jens Foell, Sarah J. Brislin, Casey M. Strickland, Dongju Seo, Dean Sabatinelli, Christopher J. Patrick
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2016)
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Neurosciences
Megan M. Filkowski, Rachel M. Olsen, Bryant Duda, Timothy J. Wanger, Dean Sabatinelli
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Neurosciences
Constantin Winker, Maimu A. Rehbein, Dean Sabatinelli, Mira Dohn, Julius Maitzen, Carsten H. Wolters, Volker Arolt, Markus Junghofer
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Psychology, Biological
David W. Frank, Dean Sabatinelli
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Neurosciences
Dean Sabatinelli, David W. Frank
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Behavioral Sciences
Constantin Winker, Maimu A. Rehbein, Dean Sabatinelli, Mira Dohn, Julius Maitzen, Kati Roesmann, Carsten H. Wolters, Volker Arolt, Markus Junghoefer
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
David W. Frank, Vincent D. Costa, Bruno B. Averbeck, Dean Sabatinelli
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2019)
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Psychology, Biological
Andrew H. Farkas, Katelyn I. Oliver, Dean Sabatinelli
Article
Psychiatry
Rebekah L. Trotti, David A. Parker, Dean Sabatinelli, Carol A. Tamminga, Elliot S. Gershon, Sarah K. Keedy, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Godfrey D. Pearlson, John A. Sweeney, Jennifer E. McDowell, Brett A. Clementz
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Constantin Winker, Maimu A. Rehbein, Dean Sabatinelli, Markus Junghofer
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Andrew H. Farkas, Rebekah L. Trotti, Elizabeth A. Edge, Ling-Yu Huang, Aviva Kasowski, Olivia F. Thomas, Eli Chlan, Maria P. Granros, Kajol K. Patel, Dean Sabatinelli
Summary: Through meta-analyses of numerous fMRI studies, it was found that complex humor activates brain regions associated with emotion, with different types of humor cues modulating activation in language, semantic knowledge, and theory of mind regions differently, providing insights into expanding brain-derived models of human emotions.
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Psychiatry
Rebekah L. Trotti, Sunny Abdelmageed, David A. Parker, Dean Sabatinelli, Carol A. Tamminga, Elliot S. Gershon, Sarah K. Keedy, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Godfrey D. Pearlson, John A. Sweeney, Jennifer E. McDowell, Brett A. Clementz
Summary: Impaired emotional processing and cognitive functioning are common in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorders, but emotional scene processing appears to be predominantly intact in these disorders, with small ERP abnormalities related to cognition, psychosocial functioning, and psychosis severity.
SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Andrew H. Farkas, Timothy J. Wanger, Dean Sabatinelli
Summary: The results of the study demonstrate that LPP shows a fundamental enhancement by emotional scene perception and is largely insensitive to contextual features, suggesting that strong emotional cues persistently engage orienting and evaluation processes.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Markus Junghofer, Constantin Winker, Maimu A. Rehbein, Dean Sabatinelli
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
David W. Frank, Dean Sabatinelli
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2017)