Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 85, Issue 1, Pages 79-87Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.06.004
Keywords
Familiar faces; Emotion; Heart rate; Skin conductance; Zygomatic activity; Event-related potential
Funding
- Junta de Andalucia [P07-SEJ-02964]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Education [SEJ-02964]
- Ramon y Cajal fellowship of the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain
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A major problem in the electrophysiological studies of emotional processing linked to recognition of familiar faces is the unambiguous differentiation of effects due to emotional valence, arousal, and familiarity. The present paper summarizes a set of three studies aimed at investigating the affective processing of loved familiar faces using Lang's picture-viewing paradigm, with a special emphasis on teasing apart the individual contributions of affective valence, undifferentiated emotional arousal, and familiarity The results of the three studies support the conclusion that viewing the faces of familiar loved ones elicits an intense positive emotional reaction that cannot be explained either by familiarity or arousal alone. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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