The effect of emotional and self-referential contexts on ERP responses towards surprised faces

Li, Shuaixia; Zhu, Xinhua; Ding, Rui; Ren, Jie; Luo, Wenbo

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107728

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“…Findings are mixed regarding the modulation of the LPP by character context. While some studies have reported larger LPPs for faces associated with negative (Abdel Rahman, 2011;Li et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2016) or positive (Luo et al, 2016) character context, others have reported no effect of character context (Demel, Waldmann, & Schacht, 2019;Klein et al, 2015;Wieser et al, 2014). Given that integrating previous context with a face presumably involves higherorder processing, it might be expected that the LPP is modulated by character context.…”

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“…To date, this research has only been conducted using faces with neutral or surprised expressions. It appears that a neutral expression on a face associated with a negative or positive character elicits a neural response akin to that of processing an emotional face expression (e.g., Li, Zhu, Ding, Ren, & Luo, 2019;Luo et al, 2016;Suess et al, 2015). This potentially reflects the rapid, top-down modulation of facial structural perception by the abstract, emotional, character context.…”

Section: The Influence Of Character Context On Face Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…That is, the emotional information provided by the character context is integrated with the otherwise neutral expression, so that the face is perceived as more emotional. While some studies suggest that this integration influences early visual processing (e.g., Luo et al, 2016;Morel et al, 2012;Rellecke, Sommer, & Schacht, 2012), others indicate that the influence is on later affective or evaluative stages of face processing (e.g., Abdel Rahman, 2011;Klein, Iffland, Schindler, Wabnitz, & Neuner, 2015;Li et al, 2019).…”

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“…Findings suggest it may be that contextual information that includes social interactions, or information directly relevant to the perceiver, are more likely to modulate face processing at the neural level (e.g., Li et al, 2019;Wieser et al, 2014;Xu, Li, Diao, Fan, & Yang, 2016).…”

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“…There is some evidence suggesting that the N170 is also modulated by character context. Two studies have reported a larger N170 for neutral (Luo et al, 2016) or surprised (Li et al, 2019) faces previously paired with brief, negative statements, than faces paired with positive or neutral statements. These results suggest that the negative character information was rapidly integrated with the face, influencing how the face was processed.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The effect of empathy and context on face-processing ERPs

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The investigation of emotional face processing has largely used faces devoid of context, and does not account for within-perceiver differences in empathy. The importance of context in face perception has become apparent in recent years. This study examined the interaction of the contextual factors of facial expression, knowledge of a person's character, and withinperceiver empathy levels on face processing event-related potentials (ERPs). Forty-two adult participants learned background information about six individuals' character. Three types of character were described, in which the character was depicted as deliberately causing harm to others, accidentally causing harm to others, or undertaking neutral actions. Subsequently, EEG was recorded while participants viewed the characters' faces displaying neutral or emotional expressions. Participants' empathy was assessed using the Empathy Quotient survey. Results showed a significant interaction of character type and empathy on the early posterior negativity (EPN) ERP component. These results suggested that for those with either low or high empathy, more attention was paid to the face stimuli, with more distinction between the different characters. In contrast, those in the middle range of empathy tended to produce smaller EPN with less distinction between character types. Findings highlight the importance of trait empathy in accounting for how faces in context are perceived.

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Mathematical problem solving is modulated by word priming

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This study aimed to explore the influence of word priming on mathematical problem solving. In two experiments, participants were required to finish multiplication estimation tasks with a specified estimation strategy under different word priming conditions (Experiment 1: concrete words vs. Experiment 2: abstract words). The results showed that: (1) under the concrete word priming condition, in comparison to neutral, positive word priming improved accuracies (ACCs) when using a down‐up strategy (e.g., doing 40 × 80 = 3200 for 43 × 78), while both positive and negative word priming reduced reaction time (RT); (2) under the abstract word priming condition, both positive and negative (vs. neutral) abstract word priming reduced RTs, while individuals’ ACCs of completing the estimation task were not influenced by valence. The present study showed that whether concrete words or abstract words were adopted as experimental stimuli, participants’ performance of completing mathematical problems was modulated by the valence of the priming word, which led us to develop a better understanding of how arithmetic performance is influenced by word processing.

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