期刊
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
卷 514, 期 2, 页码 198-203出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.02.094
关键词
Fearful emotion; Expectation; Brain susceptibility; Event-related potentials
资金
- Postgraduate scientific and technical innovation Foundation in Southwest University [kb2010001]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC31170989, 81171289]
Expectation decreased the susceptibility to fearful stimuli in prior studies using distracting tasks. The present study tests whether expectation remains effective in decreasing this susceptibility, when subjects focus attention on emotional properties. Event-related potentials were recorded for fearful and neutral faces, while subjects performed a modified emotion evaluation task during unpredictable and predictable conditions. Behavioral data showed faster response latencies during predictable versus unpredictable conditions. ERP data showed prolonged peak latencies in N1 (80-130 ms) and larger amplitudes in P2 (130-180 ms) and N200-300 components, for unpredictable fearful versus neutral faces. Conversely, all these components showed similar responses to predictable fearful and neutral faces. Source analysis suggested that medial temporal lobe mediated ERPs elicited by unpredictable fearful faces, while ventromedial prefrontal cortex mediated those elicited by predictable fearful faces, in the 130-180 ms interval. Thus, we propose emotional expectation as a cognitive regulation strategy that reliably dampens human susceptibility to fearful stimuli. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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