Journal
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 1, Pages 17-27Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00721.x
Keywords
Emotion regulation; Event-related potentials; Late positive potential; Unpleasant pictures
Funding
- National Institute of Mental Health [MH077388]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [F31MH077388] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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We examined event-related brain potential (ERP) modulations during the anticipation and processing of unpleasant pictures under instructions to cognitively decrease and increase negative emotion. Instructions to decrease and increase negative emotion modulated the ERP response to unpleasant pictures in the direction of emotional intensity beginning around 400 ms and lasting several seconds. Decrease, but not increase, instructions also elicited enhanced frontal negativity associated with orienting and preparation prior to unpleasant picture onset. Last, ERP modulation by unpleasant pictures began around 300 ms, just prior to regulation effects, suggesting that appraisal of emotion occurs before emotion regulation. Together, the current findings underscore the utility of ERPs in illuminating the time course of emotion modulation and regulation that may help to refine extant theoretical models.
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