Neural markers of a greater female responsiveness to social stimuli

Proverbio, Alice Mado; Zani, Alberto; Adorni, Roberta

doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-56

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“…Additionally, we found this asymmetry in an 601 earlier ERP component (P1) than has previously been studied (N170; 602 increased LPC response to all stimuli types, relative to men, although this 616 difference did not reach statistical significance at all time windows. However, 617 this pattern is consistent with work demonstrating that women show increased 618 responsivity to social stimuli, generally (Proverbio et al, 2008). Overall, our results demonstrate a preferential response to infant faces in 637 early and late processing stages that is independent of the aesthetic quality of 638 the face or observer sex, providing additional evidence for a "baby specific" 639 neural response (e.g., Kringelbach et al, 2008).…”

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Early and late event-related potentials are modulated by infant and adult faces of high and low attractiveness

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Kredel

et al. 2015

Social Neuroscience

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1The processing of infant faces may be somewhat distinct from that of adult 2 faces. Indeed, recent neuroimaging studies have provided evidence of an 3 early, "baby-specific" neural response whereby infant faces are perceived 4 more rapidly than adult faces. Using event-related potentials, the present 5 study aimed to determine whether the preferential response to infant faces is 6 present at both early and late stages of face processing, and to investigate 7 the effects of aesthetic appearance on the processing of adult and infant 8 faces by directly manipulating the perceived attractiveness or cuteness within 9 a given face identity. Here, we find evidence for enhanced processing of 10 infant faces, relative to adult faces, at both early (N170, P2) and late (LPC) 11 stages of face processing. We also find that the aesthetic appearance of both 12 infant and adult faces modulates early neural responses, with enhanced 13 responses to less attractive/cute faces as compared to more attractive/cute 14 faces. Overall, our results provide additional evidence for a preferential 15 response to infant faces at early stages of processing, and provide new 16 evidence that this preferential response occurs at later stages of face 17 processing as well, independent of the aesthetic quality of the face or 18 observer sex.

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Early and late event-related potentials are modulated by infant and adult faces of high and low attractiveness

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Kredel

et al. 2015

Social Neuroscience

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“…Yet, we observed an activation of left EBA, which has been reported to be involved in the imagery of human bodies, whereas the right EBA is more commonly involved in the visual perception of human bodies (Downing et al 2007;Aleong and Paus 2010;Proverbio et al 2008). Thus, if the attention would have interfered with the present EBA activation, it should have rather influenced right EBA, which is not the case.…”

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“…Although the lateralization of EBA's activity in response to visual bodily stimuli is still an open debate, no lateralization was observed in some previous fMRI work (Grossman and Blake 2002;Saxe and Kanwisher 2003;Astafiev et al 2004;Hodzic et al 2009a), whereas a differential EBA lateralization was observed when bodily identity and action discrimination were tested (Hodzic et al 2009b;Urgesi et al 2007). Other fMRI studies found greater consistency (Downing et al 2001) and selectivity (Downing et al 2006a;Downing et al 2006b) for the right EBA or a general greater whole-body selectivity in the right versus left EBA (Downing et al 2007;Aleong and Paus 2010;Proverbio et al 2008). Our results at the level of the EBA are in agreement with results of a previous study that also investigated mental imagery of full human body stimuli (Zacks et al 1999) and reported bilateral activations near the EBA with a left hemisphere predominance.…”

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Mental Imagery for Full and Upper Human Bodies: Common Right Hemisphere Activations and Distinct Extrastriate Activations

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The processing of human bodies is important in social life and for the recognition of another person's actions, moods, and intentions. Recent neuroimaging studies on mental imagery of human body parts suggest that the left hemisphere is dominant in body processing. However, studies on mental imagery of full human bodies reported stronger right hemisphere or bilateral activations. Here, we measured functional magnetic resonance imaging during mental imagery of bilateral partial (upper) and full bodies. Results show that, independently of whether a full or upper body is processed, the right hemisphere (temporoparietal cortex, anterior parietal cortex, premotor cortex, bilateral superior parietal cortex) is mainly involved in mental imagery of full or partial human bodies. However, distinct activations were found in extrastriate cortex for partial bodies (right fusiform face area) and full bodies (left extrastriate body area). We propose that a common brain network, mainly on the right side, is involved in the mental imagery of human bodies, while two distinct brain areas in extrastriate cortex code for mental imagery of full and upper bodies.

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“…To ascertain that neuronal generators triggered two separate P3 components, topographical voltage maps of the scalp-recorded data were realized by plotting color-coded isopotentials derived by interpolating voltage values between scalp electrodes at specific latencies (Proverbio et al, 2008). An improved version of standardized Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography incorporating a singular value decomposition-based lead field weighting (swLORETA) was used to estimate intracranial sources of the scalp-recorded data (Nazari et al, 2010;Palmero-Soler et al, 2007;Pascual-Marqui et al, 1994).…”

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Assessment of mental workload: A new electrophysiological method based on intra-block averaging of ERP amplitudes

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The present study contributes to the current debate about electrophysiological measurements of mental workload. Specifically, the allocation of attentional resources during different complexity levels of tasks and its changes over time are of great interest. Therefore, we investigated mental workload using tasks varying in difficulty during an auditory oddball target paradigm. For data analysis, we applied a novel method to compute event-related potentials (ERPs) by intra-block epoch averaging of P2, P3a and P3b amplitude components for the infrequent target stimuli. We obtained eight consecutive blocks of 5 epochs each, which allowed us to develop an electrophysiological parameter to measure mental workload. In both the easy and the more constraining tasks, the amplitude of P2 decreased beginning with the second block of the sequence. In contrast, the amplitudes of P3a and P3b components linearly decreased following the repetition of the target in the more constraining task, but not in the easy task. Statistical analysis revealed intra-block differences on amplitudes of ERPs of interest between the easy and the more constraining tasks, confirming this method as a measure to assess mental workload. Since a subject is his own control, the present method represents an electrophysiological parameter for individual measurement of mental workload and may therefore be applicable in clinical routine.

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Neural markers of a greater female responsiveness to social stimuli

Cited by 106 publications

References 49 publications

Early and late event-related potentials are modulated by infant and adult faces of high and low attractiveness

Early and late event-related potentials are modulated by infant and adult faces of high and low attractiveness

Mental Imagery for Full and Upper Human Bodies: Common Right Hemisphere Activations and Distinct Extrastriate Activations

Assessment of mental workload: A new electrophysiological method based on intra-block averaging of ERP amplitudes

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