Emotional perception: Meta-analyses of face and natural scene processing

Sabatinelli, Dean; Fortune, Erica E.; Li, Qingyang; Siddiqui, Aisha P.; Krafft, Cynthia E.; Oliver, W. T.; Beck, Stefanie; Jeffries, Joshua

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.011

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“…Supporting this, it is well known that the prefrontal cortex has been implicated in many cognitive functions, including holding spatial information, working memory, response selection, and the verification of representations that have been retrieved from long-term memory (Ramnani and Owen, (Sabatinelli et al, 2011). Thus, in our work we locate several dorsolateral prefrontal cortex areas, which have been related to featural aspects (e.g., shape of the mouth) and the configural processing of faces (spatial interrelationships between features) (Renzi et al, 2013).…”

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Is a neutral expression also a neutral stimulus? A study with functional magnetic resonance

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Esta es la versión de autor del artículo publicado en: This is an author produced version of a paper published in: El acceso a la versión del editor puede requerir la suscripción del recurso Access to the published version may require subscription AbstractAlthough neutral faces do not initially convey an explicit emotional message, it has been found that individuals tend to assign them an affective content. Moreover, previous research has shown that affective judgments are mediated by the task they have to perform. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in 21 healthy participants, we focus this study on the cerebral activity patterns triggered by neutral and emotional faces in two different tasks (social or gender judgments). Results obtained, using conjunction analyses, indicated that viewing both emotional and neutral faces evokes activity in several similar brain areas indicating a common neural substrate. Moreover, neutral faces specifically elicit activation of cerebellum, frontal and temporal areas while emotional faces involve the cuneus, anterior cingulated gyrus, medial orbitofrontal cortex, posterior superior temporal gyrus, precentral/postcentral gyrus and insula. The task selected was also found to influence brain activity, in that the social task recruited frontal areas while the gender task involved the posterior cingulated, inferior parietal lobule and middle temporal gyrus to a greater extent. Specifically, in the social task viewing neutral faces was associated with longer reaction times and increased activity of left dorsolateral frontal cortex compared with viewing facial expressions of emotions. In contrast, in the same task emotional expressions distinctively activated the left amygdale. The results are discussed taking into consideration the fact that, like other facial expressions, neutral expressions are usually assigned some emotional significance. However, neutral faces evoke a greater activation of circuits probably involved in more elaborate cognitive processing.

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Is a neutral expression also a neutral stimulus? A study with functional magnetic resonance

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“…The medial prefrontal cortex and inferior frontal gyrus are areas that have been associated with conceptual understanding of emotions (Adolphs 2002;Neumann et al 2014a). Furthermore, research findings show that these regions are frequently activated in healthy controls during neuroimaging studies that involve labeling facial affect (Fusar-Poli et al 2009;Sabatinelli et al 2011;Neumann et al 2014a). …”

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“…Neuroimaging studies in healthy controls show that facial affect recognition engages a widely distributed neural network, including structures within limbic and subcortical regions, prefrontal cortex, temporal and parietal lobes, and occipital cortex (Fusar-Poli et al 2009;Sabatinelli et al 2011). These brain regions have been associated with functions that contribute to successful facial affect recognition.…”

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Neurobiological mechanisms associated with facial affect recognition deficits after traumatic brain injury

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Brain Imaging and Behavior

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“…In AD, increased salience network connectivity relates to neuropsychiatric hyperactivity symptoms (e.g., agitation, irritability, aberrant motor behavior, disinhibition, and euphoria) (31). Neurodegeneration of medial temporal structures that support emotion inhibition (27,28) and lateral temporal structures that promote socioemotional processes, including evaluation of faces (32), prosody (33), intention (34), and trustworthiness (35), may alter affective physiology, behavior, and experience in MCI and AD.…”

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“…Our primary hypothesis was that neurodegeneration of the hippocampus in MCI and AD may lead to higher emotional contagion secondary to less efficient emotion inhibition and salience network release. Given that AD also affects lateral temporal lobe structures with known roles in socioemotional stimulus detection and comprehension (32,34), we examined whether atrophy in these structures may interfere with affective signal detection and may also be associated with emotional contagion. We contrasted our results with levels of self-reported depressive symptoms to determine whether changes in emotional contagion reflected broader mood dysregulation.…”

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Heightened emotional contagion in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease is associated with temporal lobe degeneration

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Yokoyama

Seeley

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Emotional changes are common in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Intrinsic connectivity imaging studies suggest that default mode network degradation in AD is accompanied by the release of an emotion-relevant salience network. We investigated whether emotional contagion, an evolutionarily conserved affect-sharing mechanism, is higher in MCI and AD secondary to biological alterations in neural networks that support emotion. We measured emotional contagion in 237 participants (111 healthy controls, 62 patients with MCI, and 64 patients with AD) with the Interpersonal Reactivity Index Personal Distress subscale. Depressive symptoms were evaluated with the Geriatric Depression Scale. Participants underwent structural MRI, and voxel-based morphometry was used to relate whole-brain maps to emotional contagion. Analyses of covariance found significantly higher emotional contagion at each stage of disease progression [controls < MCI (P < 0.01) and MCI < AD (P < 0.001)]. Depressive symptoms were also higher in patients compared with controls [controls < MCI (P < 0.01) and controls < AD (P < 0.0001)]. Higher emotional contagion (but not depressive symptoms) was associated with smaller volume in right inferior, middle, and superior temporal gyri (P FWE < 0.05); right temporal pole, anterior hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus; and left middle temporal gyrus (all P < 0.001, uncorrected). These findings suggest that in MCI and AD, neurodegeneration of temporal lobe structures important for affective signal detection and emotion inhibition are associated with up-regulation of emotion-generating mechanisms. Emotional contagion, a quantifiable index of empathic reactivity that is present in other species, may be a useful tool with which to study emotional alterations in animal models of AD.empathy | social behavior | simulation | affective resonance P rogressive deterioration of memory and other cognitive functions characterizes Alzheimer's disease (AD) (1) and its prodromal stage, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) (2). Deposition of beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, the hallmark pathological changes in AD (3), is hypothesized to begin decades before the emergence of cognitive symptoms and subsequent functional decline (4). Emotional symptoms are also common and have been found in 35-85% of patients with MCI (5-7) and up to 75% of patients with AD (8), with depression and anxiety the most frequent symptoms seen. Individuals with MCI who have comorbid emotional complaints are more likely to progress to dementia than those without such symptoms (9-13). Taken together, these studies suggest that a clinical presentation that includes both cognitive decline and emotion dysregulation may point to an underlying AD process and that emotional symptoms themselves may portend or even exacerbate disease progression (9,11,14).The medial temporal lobe is among the earliest sites of disease in MCI and AD (2, 15), and hippocampal atrophy is associated with worse episodic memory performance on standardi...

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Emotional perception: Meta-analyses of face and natural scene processing

Cited by 573 publications

References 215 publications

Is a neutral expression also a neutral stimulus? A study with functional magnetic resonance

Is a neutral expression also a neutral stimulus? A study with functional magnetic resonance

Neurobiological mechanisms associated with facial affect recognition deficits after traumatic brain injury

Heightened emotional contagion in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease is associated with temporal lobe degeneration

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