Approach the Good, Withdraw from the Bad—A Review on Frontal Alpha Asymmetry Measures in Applied Psychological Research

Briesemeister, Benny B.; Tamm, Sascha; Heine, Angela; Jacobs, Arthur M.

doi:10.4236/psych.2013.43a039

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“…FAA with greater power in the alpha band measured over right frontal cortical sites (compared to left frontal cortical sites, i.e. right-lateralized alpha activation), is therefore related to more left-than right-sided cortical activation (Briesemeister, Tamm, Heine, & Jacobs, 2013). Participants with such left-lateralized cortical activation have been shown to score higher on scales measuring BAS tendencies (Coan & Allen, 2003;Harmon-Jones & Allen, 1997).…”

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Individual differences in emotion word processing: A diffusion model analysis

Mueller

Kuchinke

2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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The exploratory study investigated individual differences in implicit processing of emotional words in a lexical decision task. A processing advantage for positive words was observed, and differences between happy and fear-related words in response times were predicted by individual differences in specific variables of emotion processing: Whereas more pronounced goal-directed behavior was related to a specific slowdown in processing of fear-related words, the rate of spontaneous eye blinks (indexing brain dopamine levels) was associated with a processing advantage of happy words. Estimating diffusion model parameters revealed that the drift rate (rate of information accumulation) captures unique variance of processing differences between happy and fear-related words, with highest drift rates observed for happy words. Overall emotion recognition ability predicted individual differences in drift rates between happy and fear-related words. The findings emphasize that a significant amount of variance in emotion processing is explained by individual differences in behavioral data.

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Individual differences in emotion word processing: A diffusion model analysis

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2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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“…In Amd and Roche's (2016) study, stimulus-elicited FAAs appeared sensitive to the newly established valence gradients for the stimuli in the series. Given that FAAs can differentiate between valenced stimuli in humans from as early as two years of age (Davidson & Fox, 1989) and are arguably less broad in scope (Briesemeister et al, 2013, but see ) than other EEG metrics of valence (such as event-related potentials; see Amd et al, 2013;Patel & Azzam, 2005), the authors concluded that the observed FAA gradients might be reflective of derived valence TOFs.…”

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“…Briefly, FAA describes the power difference in individually determined "alpha" bandwidths between the left and right anterior regions of the brain, where increased levels of alpha activation over the left lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC; relative to right LPFC) is associated with positive/approach-related affect, and increased activation over the right LPFC (relative to left LPFC) is associated with negative/avoidancerelated affect (Briesemeister, Tamm, Heine, & Jacobs, 2013;Gable & Harmon-Jones, 2008;Hagemann, Naumann, Becker, Maier, & Bartussek, 1998;Papousek, Reiser, Weber, Freudenthaler, & Schulter, 2012). In Amd and Roche's (2016) study, stimulus-elicited FAAs appeared sensitive to the newly established valence gradients for the stimuli in the series.…”

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Transforming valences through transitive inference: How are faces emotionally dissonant?

Amd

Roche

2017

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Information that is emotionally incongruous with self-concepts can produce feelings of unease. This implies that embedding incongruous information in newly formed relational structures would have little effect on their previous emotive properties. Alternatively, Relational Frame Theory highlights the importance of contextualized stimulus-stimulus relations, where the structure of a relational series is key in determining the function of its elements. To see whether series membership can mitigate 'dissonance' when a salient element is employed, the present investigation trained and tested a seven-term relational series (X>A>B>C>D>E>Y) using blurred faces as stimuli. Specifically, Stimuli X, A, B, D, E and Y were blurred unfamiliar faces and Stimulus C constituted of the participant's own blurred face, assumed to be more salient than the former. To assess how the valences of the related stimuli were transformed by relational series membership, self-report ratings and electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings were collected before and after training the X>A>B>C>D>E>Y series. These pre vs. post contrasts revealed that, for unfamiliar faces, stimulus valence transformed as a function of relational structure. Conversely, the lack of difference in pre vs. post contrasts of Stimulus C, which maintained a high valence, suggest that relational series membership may not suffice to mitigate emotionally dissonant information. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Second, ERP data can be difficult to interpret, given that the same electrophysiological components (e.g., the P300) can be employed to support a wide variety of interpretations (Patel & Azzam, 2005). FAAs on the other hand are almost exclusively employed as measures of affect, reducing the possibility for interpretational ambiguity (again, see Briesemeister et al, 2013). Third, since there were no dependent measures other than EEGs in the Amd et al study, it is unknown to what extent the reported findings would have corroborated with other behavioral measures, which is why in the present experiment we employed self-reports and IATs alongside EEG as dependent measures.…”

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“…FAAs have been used to discriminate positive versus negative affect in humans from as early as 2 years of age (Fox & Davidson, 1986). Specifically, increased levels of alpha activation over the left hemisphere indicate positive/approach-related affect, whereas increased alpha activation over the right hemisphere indicates negative/withdrawalrelated affect (Briesemeister, Tamm, Heine, & Jacobs, 2013).…”

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A derived transformation of emotional functions using self-reports, implicit association tests, and frontal alpha asymmetries

Amd

Roche

2015

Learn Behav

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Research on the derived transformation of stimulus functions (ToF) typically employs single dependent measures for assessing the stimulus functions after derived relations have been established. For the first time, we examined ToF using three dependent measures both prior to and after relational training and testing. Specifically, we employed self-reports, implicit association tests, and frontal alpha asymmetry as pre versus post measures for assessing ToF. First, we trained two abstract shapes as contextual cues for happier-than and unhappier-than relations, respectively. Next, four conditional discriminations (A+/B-, B+/C-, C+/D-, and D+/E-) were trained in the presence of the happier-than cue only, where A, B, C, D, and E were blurred faces. This was followed by tests for contextually controlled transitive inference (TI) in the presence of both the happier-than and unhappier-than cues. For the participants who demonstrated TI, performance across all three measures following relational training and testing indicated that the Bhappiness^functions of the A/B stimuli were greater than those of the D/E stimuli. This constitutes the first known demonstration of emotional ToF along explicit, implicit, and neurophysiological measures concurrently. Keywords Transformation of functions . Frontal alpha asymmetry . Transitive inference . Symbolic relationsVarious organisms can infer a relation between a wide array of stimuli given a common, mediating stimulus, and in so doing demonstrate what has been called a Btransitive inference^ (TI;Vasconcelos, 2008). To illustrate TI in a human, imagine we provide a participant with the following statements-BAdam is happier than Bob,^BBob is happier than Carry,^BCarry is happier than Dan,^and BDan is happier than Eden.^If he or she were then asked to select the Bhappier^individual from between Bob and Dan, selecting Bob would be deemed a demonstration of TI, since to provide the correct answer required making an inference based on the common node (Carry) that Bob and Dan are both related to (i.e

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Approach the Good, Withdraw from the Bad—A Review on Frontal Alpha Asymmetry Measures in Applied Psychological Research

Cited by 90 publications

References 53 publications

Individual differences in emotion word processing: A diffusion model analysis

Individual differences in emotion word processing: A diffusion model analysis

Transforming valences through transitive inference: How are faces emotionally dissonant?

A derived transformation of emotional functions using self-reports, implicit association tests, and frontal alpha asymmetries

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