The perception of fearful and happy facial expression is modulated by anxiety: an event-related potential study

Rossignol, Mandy; Philippot, Pierre; Douilliez, Céline; Crommelinck, Marc; Campanella, Salvatore

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2004.11.091

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“…Based on these previous ERP results (Vuilleumier & Pourtois, 2007), we surmised that the N170 would be larger for neutral faces used as negative feedback, compared to positive feedback. By contrast, since previous ERP studies mainly failed to provide evidence for a clear effect of anxiety at this early stage of face processing (Kolassa et al, 2007;Kolassa & Miltner, 2006;Muhlberger et al, 2009;Rossignol et al, 2005), we did not predict any strong effect of trait anxiety on the amplitude of the N170.…”

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Anxiety disrupts the evaluative component of performance monitoring: An ERP study

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Pourtois

2012

Neuropsychologia

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Thirty low and 30 high anxious participants performed a speeded Go/noGo task during which they had to rely on evaluative feedback to infer whether their actions were timely (correct) or not. We focused on FRN, an ERP component that is sensitive to the valence of feedback.Depending on the context, neutral faces served either as positive or negative feedback.Whereas the FRN of low anxious individuals did discriminate between neutral faces when used either as positive or negative feedback, the FRN of high anxious individuals did not.However, before the FRN, we also found evidence for a differential perceptual effect at the level of the N170 face-specific component between the two feedback conditions, equally so in low and high anxious individuals. These results suggest that anxiety disrupts selectively the evaluative component of performance monitoring, which presumably allows to ascribe a given value (either positive or negative) to actions.Keywords: Anxiety, ERP, FRN, N170, attribution 3 Performance monitoring and anxiety Anxiety disrupts selectively the evaluative component of performance monitoring: An ERP study Depending on the situation and circumstances, the control of behavior is based on the monitoring of either internal or external signals, or sometimes a combination of both. For example, the adequacy of a given action in response to a familiar stimulus may be determined based on an internal representation allowing to compare the discrepancy between the actual and expected or desired action, with a swift detection of any divergence between the two (Gehring et al., 1993). However, in many situations, performance monitoring cannot be achieved solely based on the processing of internal signals, but the processing of new external feedback information in the environment is required to establish whether the current action is appropriate (e.g., timely, correct) or not. Hence, the processing of feedback information available in the environment often indicates the appropriateness of certain actions and in turn allows to correct or adjust behavior if required, eventually leading to learning and preventing errors from recurring in the future (Holroyd & Coles, 2002;Rabbitt, 1966).Several ERP studies looking at outcome evaluation processes based on external feedback have described an ERP component, the feedback-related negativity (FRN) that is selectively associated with the processing of the valence or motivational significance of the feedback (Gehring & Willoughby, 2002;Holroyd & Coles, 2002;Miltner et al., 1997). The FRN is a negative component peaking at fronto-central electrodes roughly 250-300 ms after presentation of relevant feedback information. Usually, the FRN was found to be larger after negative feedback on task performance, e.g., the presentation of an evaluation signal indicating error commission or monetary loss, compared to positive feedback, e.g., the presentation of an evaluation signal indicating correct performance or monetary reward anxiety, which is usually related to depression (Beck et...

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Anxiety disrupts the evaluative component of performance monitoring: An ERP study

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Pourtois

2012

Neuropsychologia

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“…Its amplitude is greater in response to activating positive visual stimuli at frontal sites and for negative ones at parietal sites. The results of Rossignol et al 42 -N300 is enhanced in amplitude for fearful stimuli, and Schutter el al. 46 -N300 is more negative for the angry facial expression, are not in confl ict with previous fi ndings, either.…”

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Pictorial Cognitive Task Resolution and Dynamics of Event-Related Potentials

Petřek¹

2008

Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub

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Aims:To judge whether and how the character of the visual stimulus and type of cognitive task aff ects brain eventrelated potentials (ERPs).Methods: ERPs to three types of visual stimuli (white blank oval on a dark background, unfolded cube and net of sixteen small squares) were recorded from nine scalp sites and saved on a computer. Special software was used for off -line analysis of the ERPs.Results: The presentation of each of the three visual stimuli used was followed by ERPs consisting of two negative (N160, N340) and one positive (P220) components. The character of the stimulus did not aff ect the latency of ERPs components. However, the type of visual stimuli aff ected the amplitude. The most conspicuous changes were shown by the N340 ERPs component. Its average amplitude in comparison with reference amplitude was always significantly higher during the fi rst cognitive task ("Choose the cube that can be folded up from the unfolded cube!") and signifi cantly lower than reference amplitude during the second cognitive task ("Complete the missing part of a fi gure with the appropriate item!"). It was also shown that subjective personality traits such as nervousness, spontaneous aggressivity and emotional lability had an infl uence on the recovery phase of the experiment aff ecting the average amplitude of N340 Conclusion: The results revealed that the cognitive processes underlying successful resolution of two pictorial cognitive tasks aff ected diff erently the activity of systems giving rise to visual ERPs.

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“…Greater P2 components indicate greater attentional allocation to threat-related stimuli, which is frequently exhibited in individuals with anxiety disorders (Holmes et al, 2008). Rossignol and colleagues (2005) used an emotional oddball task in which participants were asked to detect an infrequent emotional target stimulus among a series of frequent neutral standard stimuli and provided evidence that anxiety modulated the amplitude of N300, a negative deflexion peaking at central sites around 300ms, and the latency of the P3b component, occurring at parietal situes around 450 ms. N300 is associated with affective processing and P3b reflects decision-making and premotor response-related stage (Rossignol et al, 2005). High-trait anxiety participant showed the reduced amplitude of N300 suggesting that they were less able to process the emotional content of faces.…”

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“…High-trait anxiety participant showed the reduced amplitude of N300 suggesting that they were less able to process the emotional content of faces. However, faster detection of infrequent emotional target stimuli as suggested by faster reaction time latency and the P3b latency indicated that high-trait anxiety participants made fast decisions and preparation for actions (Rossignol et al, 2005). Another ERP component that has been used to study the abnormal processing of threatrelevant stimuli in anxious individuals is the late positive potential (LPP)-which becomes apparent approximately 300 ms after stimulus onset .…”

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Psychophysiological Markers of Anxiety Disorders and Anxiety Symptoms

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Park²

2011

Anxiety Disorders

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The perception of fearful and happy facial expression is modulated by anxiety: an event-related potential study

Cited by 131 publications

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Anxiety disrupts the evaluative component of performance monitoring: An ERP study

Anxiety disrupts the evaluative component of performance monitoring: An ERP study

Pictorial Cognitive Task Resolution and Dynamics of Event-Related Potentials

Psychophysiological Markers of Anxiety Disorders and Anxiety Symptoms

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