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Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals
BACKGROUND: Avoidant attachment poses a serious risk to intimate relationships and offspring. However, there are few studies on the face-processing characteristics and impairments of avoidant individuals based on basic emotion theory. Therefore, this study investigated the issues of emotional proces...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10235504/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1135909 |
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author | Gu, Simeng Jiang, Yao Liu, Mei Li, Yumeng Liang, Yuan Feng, Rou Xu, Minghong Wang, Fushun Huang, Jason H. |
author_facet | Gu, Simeng Jiang, Yao Liu, Mei Li, Yumeng Liang, Yuan Feng, Rou Xu, Minghong Wang, Fushun Huang, Jason H. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Avoidant attachment poses a serious risk to intimate relationships and offspring. However, there are few studies on the face-processing characteristics and impairments of avoidant individuals based on basic emotion theory. Therefore, this study investigated the issues of emotional processing and deactivation strategies in individuals with avoidant attachment. METHODS: Avoidant and secure individuals were recruited to participate in an eye-tracking experiment and a two-choice oddball task in which they had to distinguish facial expressions of basic emotions (sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral). Eye fixation durations to various parts of the face, including the eyes, nose, and mouth, were measured, and three event-related potentials (ERP) components (P100, N170, and P300) were monitored. RESULTS: Avoidant individuals could not process facial expressions as easily as secure individuals. Avoidant individuals focused less on the eyes of angry faces when compared to secure individuals. They also exhibited a more positive P100 component and a less negative N170 component when processing faces and a larger amplitude of the P300 component than secure individuals when processing emotional expressions. CONCLUSION: Avoidant individuals use deactivating strategies and exhibit specific characteristics at different stages, which are of great significance in social interaction. |
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spelling | pubmed-102355042023-06-03 Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals Gu, Simeng Jiang, Yao Liu, Mei Li, Yumeng Liang, Yuan Feng, Rou Xu, Minghong Wang, Fushun Huang, Jason H. Front Behav Neurosci Neuroscience BACKGROUND: Avoidant attachment poses a serious risk to intimate relationships and offspring. However, there are few studies on the face-processing characteristics and impairments of avoidant individuals based on basic emotion theory. Therefore, this study investigated the issues of emotional processing and deactivation strategies in individuals with avoidant attachment. METHODS: Avoidant and secure individuals were recruited to participate in an eye-tracking experiment and a two-choice oddball task in which they had to distinguish facial expressions of basic emotions (sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral). Eye fixation durations to various parts of the face, including the eyes, nose, and mouth, were measured, and three event-related potentials (ERP) components (P100, N170, and P300) were monitored. RESULTS: Avoidant individuals could not process facial expressions as easily as secure individuals. Avoidant individuals focused less on the eyes of angry faces when compared to secure individuals. They also exhibited a more positive P100 component and a less negative N170 component when processing faces and a larger amplitude of the P300 component than secure individuals when processing emotional expressions. CONCLUSION: Avoidant individuals use deactivating strategies and exhibit specific characteristics at different stages, which are of great significance in social interaction. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10235504/ /pubmed/37273280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1135909 Text en Copyright © 2023 Gu, Jiang, Liu, Li, Liang, Feng, Xu, Wang and Huang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Gu, Simeng Jiang, Yao Liu, Mei Li, Yumeng Liang, Yuan Feng, Rou Xu, Minghong Wang, Fushun Huang, Jason H. Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals |
title | Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals |
title_full | Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals |
title_fullStr | Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals |
title_full_unstemmed | Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals |
title_short | Eye movements and ERP biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals |
title_sort | eye movements and erp biomarkers for face processing problems in avoidant attachment-style individuals |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10235504/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1135909 |
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