Emotion and attention in visual word processing—An ERP study

Kißler, Johanna; Herbert, Cornelia; Winkler, Irene; Junghöfer, Markus

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.03.004

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“…Again, threatening angry faces appear to elicit particularly large LPPs (Schupp et al 2004b). Similar emotion effects are also found for other types of stimuli such as words (Kissler et al 2006(Kissler et al , 2007(Kissler et al , 2009, gestures (Flaisch et al 2011), or pictures (Junghöfer et al 2001;Schupp et al 2004a). In general, early emotion effects in vision are thought to reflect emotionally motivated selective attention and perceptual tagging (Schupp et al 2003(Schupp et al , 2004b, whereas effects in the LPP window reflect explicit stimulus evaluation and memory processing (Schupp et al 2003(Schupp et al , 2004b.…”

Section: Emotional Face Perceptionsupporting

confidence: 49%

“…The adjectives were selected from a pre-existing in-house database containing ratings obtained using a nine-step self-assessment manikin (SAM) scales with 1 indicating highly negative, 5 -neutral, and 9 -highly positive valence (see also e.g. Kissler et al 2007Kissler et al , 2009Herbert et al 2008Herbert et al , 2009). Word frequency per one million written words was determined according to CELEX (Baayen, Piepenbrock et al 1995).…”

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Something always sticks? how emotional language modulates neural processes involved in face encoding and recognition memory

Kißler¹,

Strehlow

2017

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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AbstractLanguage can serve to constrain cognitive and emotional representations. Here, we investigate to what extent linguistic emotional information alters processing of faces with neutral expressions. Previous studies have shown that cortical processing of emotional faces differs from that of neutral faces. Electroencephalography (EEG) has revealed emotion effects for early and late event-related potentials (ERPs) such as the N1, the Early Posterior Negativity (EPN) and the Late Positive Potential (LPP). In order to study the effect of language information on face processing, 30 negative and 30 neutral descriptive phrases were presented, each followed by a neutral expression face. Participants were instructed to remember the association. We analyzed the immediate effect of information type on face processing during encoding as well as delayed effects during subsequent recognition. During encoding, faces following negative language information elicited a larger left frontal positivity between 500–700 ms after stimulus onset. During recognition, a left centro-parietal LPP was likewise increased for faces previously associated with a negative description. In addition, the parietal old/new effect was significantly increased for faces with negative information compared to new ones, while no significant effect was observed for faces with neutral information. No information effects on early perceptual ERPs (N1, EPN) were found. Reaction times (RTs) for source memory decisions (negative versus neutral) were significantly shorter for faces with negative versus neutral information. In sum, ERP results indicate that emotional significance can be linguistically induced in faces on a cortical level and, at least in an explicit memory task, this information modulates later stages of face processing and memory. Implications for cognitive effects of public media design are discussed.

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Section: Emotional Face Perceptionsupporting

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Something always sticks? how emotional language modulates neural processes involved in face encoding and recognition memory

Kißler¹,

Strehlow

2017

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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“…It has been suggested that the EPN reflects the spontaneous activation of a word's emotional connotation immediately after the visual word-form representation has been accessed (Kissler et al, 2007(Kissler et al, , 2009). This view holds that bidirectional connections between the midfusiform gyrus in the extrastriate ventral stream and the amygdala activated directly after the lexical access may enhance the brain's response to emotional words.…”

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“…These ERPs included all artefact-free trials irrespective of accuracy to compare the present results with the results of previous studies averaging across all stimuli (cf., Herbert et al, 2008;Kissler et al, 2007Kissler et al, , 2009). Moreover, this ensured an equal signal-to-noise ratio across stimulus types and language.…”

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“…Using well-controlled verbal stimulus material these studies consistently report an early (around 200 to 320ms) enhanced negativity for positive and negative emotionally arousing words compared to neutral words that occurs predominantly at left temporo-occipital electrode sites. This so-called early posterior negativity effect (EPN) has been demonstrated to be independent of the word class, thus for nouns, verbs and adjectives that were matched for a number of other potentially relevant dimensions such as word length, word frequency or concreteness (Herbert et al, 2008;Kissler et al, 2009;Schacht & Sommer, 2009a). The EPN is 5 elicited at various presentation rates (Herbert et al, 2008;Kissler et al, 2007) and seems independent of the actual task requirements, as it was found using silent reading and nonemotional grammatical decision tasks (e.g., Kissler et al, 2007Kissler et al, , 2009) as well as lexical decision tasks (Schacht & Sommer, 2009a;Scott et al, 2009).…”

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Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time

Opitz¹,

Degner²

2012

Neuropsychologia

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How ‘love’ and ‘hate’ differ from ‘sleep’: Using combined electro/magnetoencephalographic data to reveal the sources of early cortical responses to emotional words

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Zwanzger

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Emotional words--as symbols for biologically relevant concepts--are preferentially processed in brain regions including the visual cortex, frontal and parietal regions, and a corticolimbic circuit including the amygdala. Some of the brain structures found in functional magnetic resonance imaging are not readily apparent in electro- and magnetoencephalographic (EEG; MEG) measures. By means of a combined EEG/MEG source localization procedure to fully exploit the available information, we sought to reduce these discrepancies and gain a better understanding of spatiotemporal brain dynamics underlying emotional-word processing. Eighteen participants read high-arousing positive and negative, and low-arousing neutral nouns, while EEG and MEG were recorded simultaneously. Combined current-density reconstructions (L2-minimum norm least squares) for two early emotion-sensitive time intervals, the P1 (80-120 ms) and the early posterior negativity (EPN, 200-300 ms), were computed using realistic individual head models with a cortical constraint. The P1 time window uncovered an emotion effect peaking in the left middle temporal gyrus. In the EPN time window, processing of emotional words was associated with enhanced activity encompassing parietal and occipital areas, and posterior limbic structures. We suggest that lexical access, being underway within 100 ms, is speeded and/or favored for emotional words, possibly on the basis of an "emotional tagging" of the word form during acquisition. This gives rise to their differential processing in the EPN time window. The EPN, as an index of natural selective attention, appears to reflect an elaborate interplay of distributed structures, related to cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, and evaluation of emotional stimuli.

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Emotion and attention in visual word processing—An ERP study

Cited by 378 publications

References 53 publications

Something always sticks? how emotional language modulates neural processes involved in face encoding and recognition memory

Something always sticks? how emotional language modulates neural processes involved in face encoding and recognition memory

Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time

How ‘love’ and ‘hate’ differ from ‘sleep’: Using combined electro/magnetoencephalographic data to reveal the sources of early cortical responses to emotional words

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