Different Timing Features in Brain Processing of Core and Moral Disgust Pictures: An Event-Related Potentials Study

Zhang, Xiangyi; Guo, Qi; Zhang, Youxue; Lou, Liandi; Ding, Daoqun

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128531

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“…However, in a lexical decision task, Luo and colleagues demonstrated that core disgust words are distinguished from neutral words in the early EPN component whereas the features of moral words are accessible in subsequent N320 and N400 components 11 . Similar results have been obtained in two recent ERP studies, demonstrating an early disgust effect when processing pictorial stimuli with moral, disgust or neutral content 12 , 13 .…”

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confidence: 89%

Individual differences in the early recognition of moral information in lexical processing: An event-related potential study

Yang

Luo

Zhang

2017

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Previous studies have shown that intuitive moral cognition occurs at an early stage. However, inconsistent findings indicate that moral information is recognized at a relatively late stage. This study uses the recognition potential (RP) as a neural index and simultaneously measures individuals’ moral preferences using the Moral Foundation Questionnaire. We aim to investigate how individual differences in moral preferences modulate the processing of morality in the pre-semantic stage and provide some insights to explain the variation in rapid information processing linked to morality. The participants performed an implicit task in which recognizable words depicting geographical names or behaviors related to moral, disgusting or neutral content alternated with background stimuli at high rates of presentation. The results showed that the early recognition of moral information manifested in the RP depended on an individual’s moral concerns. Participants with a higher level of endorsement of the harm/care foundation exhibited a greater net moral effect, namely, greater mean amplitudes of the moral-neutral RP difference waves. Meanwhile, only the group that was more sensitive to the harm/care foundation showed a distinctively larger RP for the moral words than for the neutral words. Overall, these findings suggest that the early processing of moral cognition may hinge on individual differences in moral concerns about other people’s suffering.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Individual differences in the early recognition of moral information in lexical processing: An event-related potential study

Yang

Luo

Zhang

2017

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“…Significant differences have been reported at this site, 74 nonsignificant differences have been reported at this site 75 and it has also been suggested that the Pz electrode site is not of importance for this comparison. 70,76,77 In this study, a significant main effect of time at the P4 electrode site was recorded with the P300 amplitudes being large for both violent and neutral images after playing the VVG. It has been demonstrated that the right hemisphere of the brain is superior in processing images, 78 the hemisphere for the P4 electrode.…”

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Violent Video Games and the P300: No Evidence to Support the Neural Desensitization Hypothesis

Goodson

Turner

Pearson

et al. 2021

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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It has been proposed that exposure to violent video games (VVGs) resulted in alterations of social behaviors such as increased aggression. The most damaging reported effect of playing VVGs is neural desensitization to violent stimuli and this is a major concern given the reported number of players and time spent playing major video game titles. The aim of this study was to investigate the existence of neural desensitization that was reported at the P300 component of event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to violent stimuli. Eighty-seven participants were recruited and placed into one of two conditions based on their video gaming behavior (violent games players and nonplayers). ERPs were recorded from participants who passively viewed violent and neutral images selected from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). The participants then played a VVG, postplaying ERPs were recorded while viewing the neutral and violent IAPS images. The mean amplitudes of the P300 were analyzed with respect to condition, time, and content. There was a significant effect of image but not of VVG player and nonplayer. The results were interpreted as evidence against the neural desensitization hypothesis. The findings of this study are consistent with imaging research and the implications for the reported negative effects of playing VVGs are discussed.

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“…Therefore, in this study we analyzed the latencies and amplitudes of the occipital N1 and the frontal P3 across different sets of electrodes in accordance with the relevant literatures (Carlson & Reinke, 2010;Luck, 2005;Liu et al, 2015;D. Zhang et al, 2013;X. Zhang, Guo, Zhang, Lou, & Ding, 2015).…”

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Mechanisms for attentional modulation by threatening emotions of fear, anger, and disgust

Zhang

Liu

Wang

et al. 2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Appropriately attending to threatening environmental stimuli is evolutionarily adaptive and crucial for survival. This study revealed that nonconscious attentional modulation of disgust has different behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) patterns, as compared to fear and anger. To facilitate its evolutionary purpose of avoidance, disgust first diverts rather than attracts attention. Accordingly, the N1 was smaller in a validly than in an invalidly disgust-cued condition. Furthermore, the frontal P3a for disgust, anger, and fear was found to be larger in the valid than in the invalid condition, which was interpreted as an involuntary switching of attention toward threat-related events to mobilize cognitive resources for action or defense. On the contrary, the parietal P3b only occurred at the conscious level; the enhanced P3b indicated that more cognitive resources were being allocated toward the task-relevant but previously less attended location, to ensure the effective achievement of task goals. In addition, group comparisons between individuals with low and high disgust sensitivity showed that the ERP differences between the disgust and the anger/fear conditions at the unconscious level may be attributed only to individuals with high disgust sensitivity. These findings, together with previous knowledge of the effects of fear and anger on attention, strengthen our confidence in the two-stage scheme of attentional modulation by threats, which consists of an early stage of bottom-up response scaling of sensory processing (reflected by the P1 and N1) and a later stage of top-down integration and regulation of emotion and behavior (reflected by the P3).

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Different Timing Features in Brain Processing of Core and Moral Disgust Pictures: An Event-Related Potentials Study

Cited by 18 publications

References 78 publications

Individual differences in the early recognition of moral information in lexical processing: An event-related potential study

Individual differences in the early recognition of moral information in lexical processing: An event-related potential study

Violent Video Games and the P300: No Evidence to Support the Neural Desensitization Hypothesis

Mechanisms for attentional modulation by threatening emotions of fear, anger, and disgust

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