Effects of visual stimulus complexity on event-related brain potentials and viewing duration in a free-viewing task

Shigeto, Hanayo; Ishiguro, Junko; Nittono, Hiroshi

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2011.04.035

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“…Previous studies have found that LPP amplitude can be increased by a set of cognitive processes including attention switching, working memory operation, meaning evaluation, etc. (Gevins et al 1996;Johnson and Donchin 1985;García-Larrea and Cézanne-Bert 1998;Rushworth et al 2005;Shigeto et al 2011). Consistent with these findings, we found that LPP amplitude was larger in reappraisal than suppression and viewing tasks.…”

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“…However, a usually neglected factor in prior ERP studies is that the changing of LPP amplitude in emotion regulation may not only indicate emotional response, but also reflect a variety of cognitive processes. It is reported that LPP complex is sensitive to some top-down processes (Gevins et al 1996;Johnson and Donchin 1985) including information retrieval from working memory (García-Larrea and Cézanne-Bert 1998), internal attention switching (Rushworth et al 2005;Swainson et al 2006), evaluation of stimulus meaning (Shigeto et al 2011) and conflict processing (Baetens et al 2011). In emotion regulation, both the emotional response and processes are changed compared with passive viewing.…”

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The electrocortical modulation effects of different emotion regulation strategies

Gan¹,

Yang

Chen

et al. 2015

Cogn Neurodyn

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The current event-related potential study investigated the modulation effects of different emotion regulation strategies on electrocortical responses. When watching negative or neutral pictures, participants were instructed to perform three tasks: cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression and passive viewing. We found that negative pictures elicited a larger late positive potential (LPP) than neutral pictures. Moreover, processes involved in strategy also had an effect on LPP amplitude, which was indicated by a larger LPP in reappraisal compared with suppression and viewing tasks when neutral pictures were presented. After the influence of processes on LPP was excluded, results showed that reappraisal effectively decreased the emotion-enhanced LPP than suppression and viewing. The difference in regulatory effect may be determined by the underlying processing mechanism. A larger frontal-central component, N2, was observed in suppression than reappraisal and viewing, which suggested that it involved the processes focusing on behavioral response. While the larger LPP found in reappraisal implicated that it recruited cognitive processes focusing on the picture meaning.

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The electrocortical modulation effects of different emotion regulation strategies

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Yang

Chen

et al. 2015

Cogn Neurodyn

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“…This could be explained by the perceptual load theory (Lavie, 1995) hypothesizing that stimuli with high perceptual load require more early attentional selection than low perceptual ones. In line with this theory, Shigeto et al (2011) observed more pronounced N2 amplitudes (a negative amplitude deflection approximately in the same time range as the FRN component (Folstein & Van Petten, 2008) after complex compared to non-complex stimuli. Relating these findings to the current results, we could suggest that complex stimuli required more cognitive processing because of increased perceptual load, yielding enhanced feedback ERP amplitudes compared to noncomplex stimuli.…”

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“…Human interaction is a crucial part of social cognition, therefore we assumed that stimuli depicting social interaction cues might be perceived as more salient than non-social ones (Adolphs, 2009;Dunbar, 1998), which should be reflected in ERP variation. We hypothesized that FRN amplitudes would be sensitive to feedback valence (Miltner et al, 1997), to the social dimension (Boksem et al, 2011;Kujawa et al, 2014;Sun & Yu, 2014), and to the complexity of the stimuli (Liu et al, 2014;Shigeto et al, 2011). We expected more negative FRN amplitudes after negative compared to positive, and after social compared to non-social stimuli.…”

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“…When performance errors were committed in a socially disapproving setting (disgusted facial stimuli as targets), amplitude enhancement was observed compared to a socially approving setting (happy faces) or a control setting (sad faces). However, in these studies, stimuli were not matched for stimulus complexity or similarity, which are other physical stimulus aspects that could influence performance monitoring ERPs (Liu et al, 2014;Shigeto, Ishiguro, & Nittono, 2011). Consequently, in the current study we confronted participants repeatedly with social and nonsocial feedback stimuli that were either high or low on subjective and objective complexity measures.…”

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Social dimension and complexity differentially influence brain responses during feedback processing

Pfabigan

Gittenberger

Lamm

2017

Social Neuroscience

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Recent research emphasizes the importance of social factors during performance monitoring. Thus, the current study investigated the impact of social stimuli -such as communicative gestures- on feedback processing. Moreover, it addressed a shortcoming of previous studies, which failed to consider stimulus complexity as potential confounding factor. Twenty-four volunteers performed a time estimation task while their electroencephalogram was recorded. Either social complex, social non-complex, non-social complex, or non-social non-complex stimuli were used to provide performance feedback. No effects of social dimension or complexity were found for task performance. In contrast, Feedback-Related Negativity (FRN) and P300 amplitudes were sensitive to both factors, with larger FRN and P300 amplitudes after social compared to non-social stimuli, and larger FRN amplitudes after complex positive than non-complex positive stimuli. P2 amplitudes were solely sensitive to feedback valence and social dimension. Subjectively, social complex stimuli were rated as more motivating than non-social complex ones. Independently of each other, social dimension and visual complexity influenced amplitude variation during performance monitoring. Social stimuli seem to be perceived as more salient, which is corroborated by P2, FRN and P300 results, as well as by subjective ratings. This could be explained due to their given relevance during every day social interactions.

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Novelty detection is enhanced when attention is otherwise engaged: an event-related potential study

Schomaker

Meeter

2014

Exp Brain Res

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Novel stimuli are detected and evaluated quickly, suggesting that processing them is a priority for the brain. In the present study, the effects of attention on this early visual novelty processing were investigated in two experiments using the event-related potential (ERP) technique. In the first experiment, participants performed two tasks that varied in the amount of attention available for novel stimuli. In the Visual Oddball task, participants responded to an infrequent target presented among standard and novel stimuli. In the Working Memory task, participants saw the same stimuli, but they could ignore them. Instead, participants had to keep six letters in working memory and report one of these letters at the end of the trial; attention was thus maximally allocated away from the visual oddball stimuli. In line with attention being fully occupied in the Working Memory task, the P3a to the visual oddball stimuli was smaller in the Working Memory than in the Visual Oddball task. In contrast, the anterior N2 component to task-irrelevant stimuli was enhanced in the Working Memory task. These findings suggest that the initial detection of novel stimuli is enhanced (large anterior N2) when few attentional resources are available, which is inconsistent with earlier findings that if anything, the N2 is enhanced by attention. In a second experiment, a condition was added in which working memory load was low, but visual oddball stimuli were task-irrelevant. Results from this experiment showed that while the reduction in P3a amplitude was due to task irrelevance, the enhanced anterior N2 was linked to a high working memory load. This suggests that novelty detection is enhanced when attention is otherwise engaged.

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Effects of visual stimulus complexity on event-related brain potentials and viewing duration in a free-viewing task

Cited by 17 publications

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The electrocortical modulation effects of different emotion regulation strategies

The electrocortical modulation effects of different emotion regulation strategies

Social dimension and complexity differentially influence brain responses during feedback processing

Novelty detection is enhanced when attention is otherwise engaged: an event-related potential study

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