Emotion specific neural activation for the production and perception of facial expressions

Krautheim, Johannes T.; Steines, Miriam; Dannlowski, Udo; Neziroğlu, Gizem; Acosta, Henriette; Sommer, Jens; Straube, Benjamin; Kircher, Tilo

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.026

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“…Tanaka [27] showed that facial cosmetics exert a greater influence on mouth processing than the eyes by N170 amplitudes. Combined with these previous findings [15,27,34,[39][40][41], it may be presumed that the mouth compared to the eyes, exert a greater influence on face perception processing. Therefore, these previous studies [15,27,34,[39][40][41] support the notion that lip color affects face-sensitive event-related potential components.…”

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“…Pesciarelli et al [40] reported significantly larger N170 amplitudes for the mouth relative to the eyes in upright faces. Krautheim et al [41] showed that lip-protrusion was processed in the superior temporal cortices, the temporal-occipital junctions, the postcentral gyri, and the left fusiform gyrus in the human brain. Cortical models for face perception processing [15,34] indicated superior temporal sulcus in the human brain perception of lip movement.…”

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Lip color affects ERP components in temporal face perception processing

Tanaka¹

2021

J. Integr. Neurosci.

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This brief report investigates the relationship between the lip color of women's faces and the latency and amplitude of the P1, N170, and early posterior negativity of event-related potential components. To show different color lipsticks affect face perception processing, we used EEG to observe these event-related potential components in 19 participants exposed to visual stimuli under four conditions: red lips, yellow lips, blue lips, and no-makeup. The results indicate a significantly higher attractiveness score for red lips than the other three conditions and a significantly shorter P1 peak latency for red lips than blue lips or no-makeup. This may reflect that red lips attract attention more than blue or natural lips in the early stages of face processing. The results indicate that the peak of early posterior negativity for red lips occurred significantly longer than for yellow lips, blue lips, or no-makeup. Early posterior negativity amplitudes were significantly larger to red lips than blue lips or no-makeup. These results may indicate that, at later stages of face processing, the high attractiveness of red lips is associated with slower and careful processing. In contrast, blue lips, which have a low attractiveness score, are processed speedily and carelessly. These present results suggest a novel possibility that P1 and early posterior negativity can be used as a biomarker for temporal face perception processing of facial attractiveness in the human brain.

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Lip color affects ERP components in temporal face perception processing

Tanaka¹

2021

J. Integr. Neurosci.

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“…Only one cortical thickness, the right pars orbitalis, differed in both pwAN and wrAN. In studies of healthy human behaviors, this area has been associated with impulse-control [ 43 ], emotional communication [ 44 , 45 ], and social exclusion [ 46 ]. Numerous studies have observed functional brain differences in the inferior frontal gyrus and insula in both AN and BN, a region anatomically close and overlapping with this area [ 47 , 48 ].…”

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Structural brain differences in recovering and weight-recovered adult outpatient women with anorexia nervosa

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Background Anorexia nervosa is a complex psychiatric illness that includes severe low body weight with cognitive distortions and altered eating behaviors. Brain structures, including cortical thicknesses in many regions, are reduced in underweight patients who are acutely ill with anorexia nervosa. However, few studies have examined adult outpatients in the process of recovering from anorexia nervosa. Evaluating neurobiological problems at different physiological stages of anorexia nervosa may facilitate our understanding of the recovery process. Methods Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images from 37 partially weight-restored women with anorexia nervosa (pwAN), 32 women with a history of anorexia nervosa maintaining weight restoration (wrAN), and 41 healthy control women were analyzed using FreeSurfer. Group differences in brain structure, including cortical thickness, areas, and volumes, were compared using a series of factorial f-tests, including age as a covariate, and correcting for multiple comparisons with the False Discovery Rate method. Results The pwAN and wrAN cohorts differed from each other in body mass index, eating disorder symptoms, and social problem solving orientations, but not depression or self-esteem. Relative to the HC cohort, eight cortical thicknesses were thinner for the pwAN cohort; these regions were predominately right-sided and in the cingulate and frontal lobe. One of these regions, the right pars orbitalis, was also thinner for the wrAN cohort. One region, the right parahippocampal gyrus, was thicker in the pwAN cohort. One volume, the right cerebellar white matter, was reduced in the pwAN cohort. There were no differences in global white matter, gray matter, or subcortical volumes across the cohorts. Conclusions Many regional structural differences were observed in the pwAN cohort with minimal differences in the wrAN cohort. These data support a treatment focus on achieving and sustaining full weight restoration to mitigate possible neurobiological sequela of AN. In addition, the regions showing cortical thinning are similar to structural changes reported elsewhere for suicide attempts, anxiety disorders, and autistic spectrum disorder. Understanding how brain structure and function are related to clinical symptoms expressed during the course of recovering from AN is needed.

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“…The pars opercularis played a role in regulating the perception of emotional rhythm ( Patel et al, 2018 ). Emotional stimulation activated the posterior cingulate cortex ( Maddock et al, 2003 ) and the pars orbitalis ( Krautheim et al, 2020 ).…”

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“…Seven brain regions existed in the features selected for the two methods, including the right rostral anterior cingulate, left lateral occipital, right lateral orbitofrontal, left pars orbitalis, right posterior cingulate, left lateral orbitofrontal, and left temporal pole, were all related to the activation and processing of emotion ( Maddock et al, 2003 ; Esslen et al, 2004 ; Wild et al, 2006 ; Güntekin and Basar, 2007 ; Chiu et al, 2008 ; Krautheim et al, 2020 ). The brain regions and functional connectivity features involved in this research provided references for research on brain emotion activation mechanisms, the impact of VR on the brain, and EEG-based emotion recognition.…”

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An Empirical Comparative Study on the Two Methods of Eliciting Singers’ Emotions in Singing: Self-Imagination and VR Training

Zhang

Zhou

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Front. Neurosci.

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Emotional singing can affect vocal performance and the audience’s engagement. Chinese universities use traditional training techniques for teaching theoretical and applied knowledge. Self-imagination is the predominant training method for emotional singing. Recently, virtual reality (VR) technologies have been applied in several fields for training purposes. In this empirical comparative study, a VR training task was implemented to elicit emotions from singers and further assist them with improving their emotional singing performance. The VR training method was compared against the traditional self-imagination method. By conducting a two-stage experiment, the two methods were compared in terms of emotions’ elicitation and emotional singing performance. In the first stage, electroencephalographic (EEG) data were collected from the subjects. In the second stage, self-rating reports and third-party teachers’ evaluations were collected. The EEG data were analyzed by adopting the max-relevance and min-redundancy algorithm for feature selection and the support vector machine (SVM) for emotion recognition. Based on the results of EEG emotion classification and subjective scale, VR can better elicit the positive, neutral, and negative emotional states from the singers than not using this technology (i.e., self-imagination). Furthermore, due to the improvement of emotional activation, VR brings the improvement of singing performance. The VR hence appears to be an effective approach that may improve and complement the available vocal music teaching methods.

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Emotion specific neural activation for the production and perception of facial expressions

Cited by 18 publications

References 48 publications

Lip color affects ERP components in temporal face perception processing

Lip color affects ERP components in temporal face perception processing

Structural brain differences in recovering and weight-recovered adult outpatient women with anorexia nervosa

An Empirical Comparative Study on the Two Methods of Eliciting Singers’ Emotions in Singing: Self-Imagination and VR Training

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