Instructions of cooperation and competition influence the neural responses to others’ pain: An ERP study

Cui, Fang; Zhu, Xinhua; Duan, Feiyan; Luo, Yuejia

doi:10.1080/17470919.2015.1078258

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“…If the painful and the non-painful stimuli were differentiated in one condition (difference of amplitudes (P-NP) was significant) but not in another condition, we can say the stimuli was better processed in the former condition. In the literature, this logic has been applied widely 11,48,49 .…”

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Music induced happy mood suppresses the neural responses to other’s pain: Evidences from an ERP study

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Chen

Luo

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In the current study, we explored the time course of processing other’s pain under induced happy or sad moods. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded when participants observing pictures showing others in painful or non-painful situations. Mood induction procedures were applied to the participants before the picture observation task. Happy and sad moods were induced by listening to about 10 minutes of music excerpts selected from the Chinese Affective Music System (CAMS). The ERP results revealed that the induced mood can influence the early automatic components N1, P2, and N2 but not the later top-down controlled components P3 and LPP. The difference of amplitudes elicited by painful and non-painful stimuli was significantly different only in a sad mood but not in a happy mood, which indicates that comparing to a sad mood, the participants’ ability to discriminate the painful stimuli from the non-painful stimuli was weakened in a happy mood. However, this reduction of sensitivity to other’s pain in a happy mood does not necessarily reduce the tendency of prosocial behaviors. These findings offer psychophysiological evidences that people’s moods can influence their empathic response towards other’s pain.

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Music induced happy mood suppresses the neural responses to other’s pain: Evidences from an ERP study

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“…Finally, while we can predict general patterns of modulation of ERP activity, the direction of these predicted effects is less clear. For example, while some studies find that observing another in pain VISUAL PERSPECTIVE AND EMPATHY FOR PAIN leads to smaller mean N2 amplitudes (e.g., Han et al, 2008;Li et al, 2010;Coll et al, 2017a), other studies have found larger N2 amplitudes (e.g., Suzuki et al, 2015;Cui et al, 2016a;2016b;2016c;2016d;Decety et al, 2017). In contrast, the P3/LPP has been more consistent, with all studies reviewed here (reporting significant effects relating to the P3/LPP) finding larger P3/LPP amplitudes during pain observation compared to no-pain.…”

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Exploring the effects of visual perspective on the ERP components of empathy for pain

Galang

Jenkins

2019

Social Neuroscience

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Previous neurophysiological research suggests that there are event-related potential (ERP) components are associated with empathy for pain: early affective component (N2) and two late cognitive components (P3/LPP). The current study investigated whether and how the visual perspective from which a painful event is observed affects these ERP components. Participants viewed images of hands in pain vs. not in pain from a first-person or third-person perspective. We found that visual perspective influences both the early and late components. In the early component (N2), there was a larger mean amplitude during observation of pain vs no-pain exclusively when images were shown from a first-person perspective. We suggest that this effect may be driven by misattributing the on-screen hand to oneself. For the late component (P3), we found a larger effect of pain on mean amplitudes in response to third-person relative to first-person images. We speculate that the P3 may reflect a later process that enables effective recognition of others' pain in the absence of misattribution. We discuss our results in relation to self-vs other-related processing by questioning whether these ERP components are truly indexing empathy (an otherdirected process) or a simple misattribution of another's pain as one's own (a self-directed process).

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“…In addition, it should be noted that the EEG hyperscanning acquisition was used in response to cognitive performance without a specific external feedback which may reinforce the effect of the joint-action (F. Cui, Zhu, Duan, & Luo, 2015;Dommer, Jäger, Scholkmann, Wolf, & Holper, 2012;Saito et al, 2010). Therefore, the present study aimed at moving towards a two-person hyperscanning by investigating the EEG correlates of between-brain synchrony during a joint task in presence of an external feedback related to the interpersonal joint performance.…”

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EEG hyperscanning and behavioral synchronization during a joint actions

Balconi¹,

Vanutelli²

2018

Neuropsychological Trends

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Brain-to-brain coupling during cooperation is a core question of study on social interactions. The aim of the present study was to investigate the neural basis of interbrain cooperation and the cognitive performance underlying the execution of jointactions by using EEG coherence measures. Synchronicity of the cognitive variables (response times, RTs, and error rates, ERs) in response to an attentional task, intersubjective coherence analysis on EEG frequency bands, and correlational measures between cognitive and brain activity were considered during some steps of progressive reinforcing conditions. Fifteen couples of subjects performed an attentional task in eight temporal steps, stressing their good performance at the end of each step. The induced feedback affected both the cognitive performance and brain-to-brain coupling by increasing behavioral and brain synchronization when a positive feedback was furnished to the participants for their performance. Secondly, about the cortical contribution, high coherence effect was mainly observed when a positive reinforce was produced, but only for some low frequency bands within the prefrontal left area, compared to the right one. Thus, also a left lateralization effect was reportable. Finally, the cognitive and EEG coherence measures were shown to be correlated, with a significant similar trend anchored to the progressive feedback.

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Instructions of cooperation and competition influence the neural responses to others’ pain: An ERP study

Cited by 41 publications

References 30 publications

Music induced happy mood suppresses the neural responses to other’s pain: Evidences from an ERP study

Music induced happy mood suppresses the neural responses to other’s pain: Evidences from an ERP study

Exploring the effects of visual perspective on the ERP components of empathy for pain

EEG hyperscanning and behavioral synchronization during a joint actions

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