scholarly journals Individual differences in anxiety and automatic amygdala response to fearful faces: A replication and extension of Etkin et al. (2004)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 102441
Author(s):  
Vivien Günther ◽  
Anja Hußlack ◽  
Anna-Sophie Weil ◽  
Anna Bujanow ◽  
Jeanette Henkelmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Fearful Faces ◽  
Amygdala Response

Individual differences in threat sensitivity predict serotonergic modulation of amygdala response to fearful faces

2005 ◽  
Vol 180 (4) ◽  
pp. 670-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roshan Cools ◽  
Andy J. Calder ◽  
Andrew D. Lawrence ◽  
Luke Clark ◽  
Ed Bullmore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Threat Sensitivity ◽  
Fearful Faces ◽  
Amygdala Response ◽  
Serotonergic Modulation

scholarly journals Investigating emotion recognition in the first year of life using eye-tracking Methodology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shira C. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
First Year ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Fearful Faces ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion ◽  
First Year Of Life ◽  
Key Words Emotion

The ability to recognize facial expressions of emotion is a critical part of human social interaction. Infants improve in this ability across the first year of life, but the mechanisms driving these changes and the origins of individual differences in this ability are largely unknown. This thesis used eye tracking to characterize infant scanning patterns of expressions. In study 1 (n = 40), I replicated the preference for fearful faces, and found that infants either allocated more attention to the eyes or the mouth across both happy and fearful expressions. In study 2 (n = 40), I found that infants differentially scanned the critical facial features of dynamic expressions. In study 3 (n = 38), I found that maternal depressive symptoms and positive and negative affect were related to individual differences in infants’ scanning of emotional expressions. Implications for our understanding of the development of emotion recognition are discussed. Key Words: emotion recognition, infancy eye tracking, socioemotional development

scholarly journals Individual Differences in Detecting Rapidly Presented Fearful Faces

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. e49517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dandan Zhang ◽  
Lili Wang ◽  
Yi Luo ◽  
Yuejia Luo
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Fearful Faces

Threat sensitivity as assessed by automatic amygdala response to fearful faces predicts speed of visual search for facial expression

2007 ◽  
Vol 183 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Ohrmann ◽  
Astrid Veronika Rauch ◽  
Jochen Bauer ◽  
Harald Kugel ◽  
Volker Arolt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Facial Expression ◽  
Threat Sensitivity ◽  
Fearful Faces ◽  
Amygdala Response

scholarly journals Individual differences in social behavior predict amygdala response to fearful facial expressions in Williams syndrome

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1283-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian W. Haas ◽  
Fumiko Hoeft ◽  
Yvonne M. Searcy ◽  
Debra Mills ◽  
Ursula Bellugi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Williams Syndrome ◽  
Amygdala Response

scholarly journals Personality influences the neural responses to viewing facial expressions of emotion

2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1571) ◽  
pp. 1684-1701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Calder ◽  
Michael Ewbank ◽  
Luca Passamonti
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
System A ◽  
Amygdala Response ◽  
Correlational Approach ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Cognitive research has long been aware of the relationship between individual differences in personality and performance on behavioural tasks. However, within the field of cognitive neuroscience, the way in which such differences manifest at a neural level has received relatively little attention. We review recent research addressing the relationship between personality traits and the neural response to viewing facial signals of emotion. In one section, we discuss work demonstrating the relationship between anxiety and the amygdala response to facial signals of threat. A second section considers research showing that individual differences in reward drive (behavioural activation system), a trait linked to aggression, influence the neural responsivity and connectivity between brain regions implicated in aggression when viewing facial signals of anger. Finally, we address recent criticisms of the correlational approach to fMRI analyses and conclude that when used appropriately, analyses examining the relationship between personality and brain activity provide a useful tool for understanding the neural basis of facial expression processing and emotion processing in general.

scholarly journals A Developmental Examination of Amygdala Response to Facial Expressions

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 1565-1582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Guyer ◽  
Christopher S. Monk ◽  
Erin B. McClure-Tone ◽  
Eric E. Nelson ◽  
Roxann Roberson-Nay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Emotion Processing ◽  
Developmental Differences ◽  
Resonance Imaging ◽  
Fearful Faces ◽  
Amygdala Response

Several lines of evidence implicate the amygdala in face-emotion processing, particularly for fearful facial expressions. Related findings suggest that face-emotion processing engages the amygdala within an interconnected circuitry that can be studied using a functional-connectivity approach. Past work also underscores important functional changes in the amygdala during development. Taken together, prior research on amygdala function and development reveals a need for more work examining developmental changes in the amygdala's response to fearful faces and in amygdala functional connectivity during face processing. The present study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare 31 adolescents (9–17 years old) and 30 adults (21–40 years old) on activation to fearful faces in the amygdala and other regions implicated in face processing. Moreover, these data were used to compare patterns of amygdala functional connectivity in adolescents and adults. During passive viewing, adolescents demonstrated greater amygdala and fusiform activation to fearful faces than did adults. Functional connectivity analysis revealed stronger connectivity between the amygdala and the hippocampus in adults than in adolescents. Within each group, variability in age did not correlate with amygdala response, and sex-related developmental differences in amygdala response were not found. Eye movement data collected outside of the magnetic resonance imaging scanner using the same task suggested that developmental differences in amygdala activation were not attributable to differences in eye-gaze patterns. Amygdala hyperactivation in response to fearful faces may explain increased vulnerability to affective disorders in adolescence; stronger amygdala-hippocampus connectivity in adults than adolescents may reflect maturation in learning or habituation to facial expressions.

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