Event-related brain potential correlates of emotional face processing

被引:559
作者
Eimer, Martin
Holmes, Amanda
机构
[1] Univ London Birkbeck Coll, Dept Psychol, London WC1E 7HX, England
[2] Roehampton Univ, Sch Human & Life Sci, London, England
基金
英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;
关键词
face processing; emotion; emotional facial expression; event-related brain potentials; cognitive affective neuroscience; HUMAN NEURAL SYSTEM; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; SPATIAL ATTENTION; HUMAN AMYGDALA; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; FRONTAL-CORTEX; EYE GAZE; PERCEPTION; RESPONSES;
D O I
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.04.022
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
010107 [宗教学]; 030301 [社会学]; 070906 [古生物学及地层学(含古人类学)];
摘要
Results from recent event-related brain potential (ERP) studies investigating brain processes involved in the detection and analysis of emotional facial expression are reviewed. In all experiments, emotional faces were found to trigger an increased ERP positivity relative to neutral faces. The onset of this emotional expression effect was remarkably early, ranging from 120 to 180 ms post-stimulus in different experiments where faces were either presented at fixation or laterally, and with or without non-face distractor stimuli. While broadly distributed positive deflections beyond 250 ms post-stimulus have been found in previous studies for non-face stimuli, the early frontocentrally distributed phase of this emotional positivity is most likely face-specific. Similar emotional expression effects were found for six basic emotions, suggesting that these effects are not primarily generated within neural structures specialised for the automatic detection of specific emotions. Expression effects were eliminated when attention was directed away from the location of peripherally presented emotional faces, indicating that they are not linked to pre-attentive emotional processing. When foveal faces were unattended, expression effects were attenuated, but not completely eliminated. It is suggested that these ERP correlates of emotional face processing reflect activity within a neocortical system where representations of emotional content are generated in a task-dependent fashion for the adaptive intentional control of behaviour. Given the early onset of the emotion-specific effects reviewed here, it is likely that this system is activated in parallel with the ongoing evaluation of emotional content in the amygdala and related subcortical brain circuits. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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