Letter on Yamada and Decety (2009): Unconscious affective processing and empathy: An investigation of subliminal priming on the detection of painful facial expressions

Pain ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 153 (9) ◽  
pp. 1976-1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pfaller ◽  
Gregor Volberg ◽  
Peter Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Subliminal Priming

scholarly journals Processing of facial expressions of same-race and other-race faces: distinct and shared neural underpinnings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuena Wang ◽  
Shihui Han
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Target Face ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Neuronal Responses ◽  
Chinese Adults ◽  
Rapid Succession ◽  
Neural Activities ◽  
Repetition Suppression ◽  
Neural Underpinnings

Abstract People understand others’ emotions quickly from their facial expressions. However, facial expressions of ingroup and outgroup members may signal different social information and thus be mediated by distinct neural activities. We investigated whether there are distinct neuronal responses to fearful and happy expressions of same-race (SR) and other-race (OR) faces. We recorded electroencephalogram from Chinese adults when viewing an adaptor face (with fearful/neutral expressions in Experiment 1 but happy/neutral expressions in Experiment 2) and a target face (with fearful expressions in Experiment 1 but happy expressions in Experiment 2) presented in rapid succession. We found that both fearful and happy (vs neutral) adaptor faces increased the amplitude of a frontocentral positivity (P2). However, a fearful but not happy (vs neutral) adaptor face decreased the P2 amplitudes to target faces, and this repetition suppression (RS) effect occurred when adaptor and target faces were of the same race but not when of different races. RS was observed on two late parietal/central positive activities to fearful/happy target faces, which, however, occurred regardless of whether adaptor and target faces were of the same or different races. Our findings suggest that early affective processing of fearful expressions may engage distinct neural activities for SR and OR faces.

Perception of facial expressions in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A dimensional approach

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Montagne ◽  
F. de Geus ◽  
R.P.C. Kessels ◽  
D. Denys ◽  
E.H.F. de Haan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Clinical Manifestation ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

AbstractThe study examined the perception of facial expressions of different emotional intensities in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) subtypes. Results showed that the High Risk Assessment and Checking subtype was more sensitive in perceiving the emotions fear and happiness. This suggests that altered affective processing may underlie the clinical manifestation of OCD.

Perceptual, categorical, and affective processing of ambiguous smiling facial expressions

Cognition ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel G. Calvo ◽  
Andrés Fernández-Martín ◽  
Lauri Nummenmaa
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Affective Processing

No effect of inversion on attentional and affective processing of facial expressions.

Emotion ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ottmar V. Lipp ◽  
Sarah M. Price ◽  
Cassandra L. Tellegen
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Affective Processing

Faster Choice-Reaction Times to Positive than to Negative Facial Expressions

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jukka M. Leppänen ◽  
Mirja Tenhunen ◽  
Jari K. Hietanen
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Response Selection ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Happy Face ◽  
Response Onset ◽  
Response Execution ◽  
Onset Response ◽  
Positive Stimuli ◽  
Choice Reaction Times

Abstract Several studies have shown faster choice-reaction times to positive than to negative facial expressions. The present study examined whether this effect is exclusively due to faster cognitive processing of positive stimuli (i.e., processes leading up to, and including, response selection), or whether it also involves faster motor execution of the selected response. In two experiments, response selection (onset of the lateralized readiness potential, LRP) and response execution (LRP onset-response onset) times for positive (happy) and negative (disgusted/angry) faces were examined. Shorter response selection times for positive than for negative faces were found in both experiments but there was no difference in response execution times. Together, these results suggest that the happy-face advantage occurs primarily at premotoric processing stages. Implications that the happy-face advantage may reflect an interaction between emotional and cognitive factors are discussed.

Comparable Modulation of the Late Positive Potential by Emotion Regulation in Younger and Older Adults

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra J. E. Langeslag ◽  
Jan W. Van Strien
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Late Positive Potential ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Apparent Discrepancy ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Psychophysiological Responses ◽  
Psychophysiological Measures ◽  
Emotional Pictures

It has been suggested that emotion regulation improves with aging. Here, we investigated age differences in emotion regulation by studying modulation of the late positive potential (LPP) by emotion regulation instructions. The electroencephalogram of younger (18–26 years) and older (60–77 years) adults was recorded while they viewed neutral, unpleasant, and pleasant pictures and while they were instructed to increase or decrease the feelings that the emotional pictures elicited. The LPP was enhanced when participants were instructed to increase their emotions. No age differences were observed in this emotion regulation effect, suggesting that emotion regulation abilities are unaffected by aging. This contradicts studies that measured emotion regulation by self-report, yet accords with studies that measured emotion regulation by means of facial expressions or psychophysiological responses. More research is needed to resolve the apparent discrepancy between subjective self-report and objective psychophysiological measures.

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