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Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling

Empirical evidence suggests that words are powerful regulators of emotion processing. Although a number of studies have used words as contextual cues for emotion processing, the role of what is being labeled by the words (i.e., one's own emotion as compared to the emotion expressed by the sende...

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Autores principales: Herbert, Cornelia, Sfärlea, Anca, Blumenthal, Terry
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3719026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23888134
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00378
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description Empirical evidence suggests that words are powerful regulators of emotion processing. Although a number of studies have used words as contextual cues for emotion processing, the role of what is being labeled by the words (i.e., one's own emotion as compared to the emotion expressed by the sender) is poorly understood. The present study reports results from two experiments which used ERP methodology to evaluate the impact of emotional faces and self- vs. sender-related emotional pronoun-noun pairs (e.g., my fear vs. his fear) as cues for emotional face processing. The influence of self- and sender-related cues on the processing of fearful, angry and happy faces was investigated in two contexts: an automatic (experiment 1) and intentional affect labeling task (experiment 2), along with control conditions of passive face processing. ERP patterns varied as a function of the label's reference (self vs. sender) and the intentionality of the labeling task (experiment 1 vs. experiment 2). In experiment 1, self-related labels increased the motivational relevance of the emotional faces in the time-window of the EPN component. Processing of sender-related labels improved emotion recognition specifically for fearful faces in the N170 time-window. Spontaneous processing of affective labels modulated later stages of face processing as well. Amplitudes of the late positive potential (LPP) were reduced for fearful, happy, and angry faces relative to the control condition of passive viewing. During intentional regulation (experiment 2) amplitudes of the LPP were enhanced for emotional faces when subjects used the self-related emotion labels to label their own emotion during face processing, and they rated the faces as higher in arousal than the emotional faces that had been presented in the “label sender's emotion” condition or the passive viewing condition. The present results argue in favor of a differentiated view of language-as-context for emotion processing.
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spelling pubmed-37190262013-07-25 Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling Herbert, Cornelia Sfärlea, Anca Blumenthal, Terry Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Empirical evidence suggests that words are powerful regulators of emotion processing. Although a number of studies have used words as contextual cues for emotion processing, the role of what is being labeled by the words (i.e., one's own emotion as compared to the emotion expressed by the sender) is poorly understood. The present study reports results from two experiments which used ERP methodology to evaluate the impact of emotional faces and self- vs. sender-related emotional pronoun-noun pairs (e.g., my fear vs. his fear) as cues for emotional face processing. The influence of self- and sender-related cues on the processing of fearful, angry and happy faces was investigated in two contexts: an automatic (experiment 1) and intentional affect labeling task (experiment 2), along with control conditions of passive face processing. ERP patterns varied as a function of the label's reference (self vs. sender) and the intentionality of the labeling task (experiment 1 vs. experiment 2). In experiment 1, self-related labels increased the motivational relevance of the emotional faces in the time-window of the EPN component. Processing of sender-related labels improved emotion recognition specifically for fearful faces in the N170 time-window. Spontaneous processing of affective labels modulated later stages of face processing as well. Amplitudes of the late positive potential (LPP) were reduced for fearful, happy, and angry faces relative to the control condition of passive viewing. During intentional regulation (experiment 2) amplitudes of the LPP were enhanced for emotional faces when subjects used the self-related emotion labels to label their own emotion during face processing, and they rated the faces as higher in arousal than the emotional faces that had been presented in the “label sender's emotion” condition or the passive viewing condition. The present results argue in favor of a differentiated view of language-as-context for emotion processing. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3719026/ /pubmed/23888134 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00378 Text en Copyright © 2013 Herbert, Sfärlea and Blumenthal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.
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Herbert, Cornelia
Sfärlea, Anca
Blumenthal, Terry
Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling
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title_full Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling
title_fullStr Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling
title_full_unstemmed Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling
title_short Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling
title_sort your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an erp study on automatic and intentional affect labeling
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3719026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23888134
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00378
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