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Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events

Individuals often predict consequences, particularly emotional consequences, according to emotional or non-emotional signals conveyed by environmental cues (i.e., emotional and non-emotional cues, respectively). Some of these cues signify the consequences with certainty (i.e., certain cues), whereas...

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Autores principales: Lin, Huiyan, Liang, Jiafeng, Liu, Ting, Liang, Ziping, Jin, Hua
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32351374
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00140
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author Lin, Huiyan
Liang, Jiafeng
Liu, Ting
Liang, Ziping
Jin, Hua
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description Individuals often predict consequences, particularly emotional consequences, according to emotional or non-emotional signals conveyed by environmental cues (i.e., emotional and non-emotional cues, respectively). Some of these cues signify the consequences with certainty (i.e., certain cues), whereas others do not (i.e., uncertain cues). Several event-related potential (ERP) studies regarding non-emotional cues have suggested that the effects of cue uncertainty on attention to emotional events occur in both perception and evaluation processes. However, due to the limitations of previous studies, it is unclear what the effects of cue uncertainty would be in an emotional cue condition. Moreover, it is uncertain whether the effects of cue uncertainty are affected by cue valence (i.e., emotional and non-emotional cues). To address these questions, we asked participants to view cues and then to view emotional (positive or negative) pictures. The cues either did or did not indicate the emotional content of the picture. In the emotional cue condition, happy and fearful faces were used as certain cues indicating upcoming positive and negative pictures, respectively, and neutral faces were used as uncertain cues. In the non-emotional cue condition, scrambled faces outlined in red and blue indicated upcoming positive and negative pictures, respectively, and scrambled faces outlined in green served as uncertain cues. The results showed that for negative pictures, ERP responses in a time range between 60 and 1,000 ms were shifted to a more negative direction in a certain condition than in the uncertain condition when the cues were emotional. However, the effect was the reverse for positive pictures. This effect of cue uncertainty was similar in the non-emotional cue—negative condition. In contrast, there was no effect of cue uncertainty in the non-emotional cue—positive condition. Therefore, the findings indicate that cue uncertainty modulates attention toward emotional events when the events are signified by emotional cues. The findings may also suggest that cue valence modulates the effects of cue uncertainty on attention to emotional events.
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spelling pubmed-71760462020-04-29 Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events Lin, Huiyan Liang, Jiafeng Liu, Ting Liang, Ziping Jin, Hua Front Hum Neurosci Human Neuroscience Individuals often predict consequences, particularly emotional consequences, according to emotional or non-emotional signals conveyed by environmental cues (i.e., emotional and non-emotional cues, respectively). Some of these cues signify the consequences with certainty (i.e., certain cues), whereas others do not (i.e., uncertain cues). Several event-related potential (ERP) studies regarding non-emotional cues have suggested that the effects of cue uncertainty on attention to emotional events occur in both perception and evaluation processes. However, due to the limitations of previous studies, it is unclear what the effects of cue uncertainty would be in an emotional cue condition. Moreover, it is uncertain whether the effects of cue uncertainty are affected by cue valence (i.e., emotional and non-emotional cues). To address these questions, we asked participants to view cues and then to view emotional (positive or negative) pictures. The cues either did or did not indicate the emotional content of the picture. In the emotional cue condition, happy and fearful faces were used as certain cues indicating upcoming positive and negative pictures, respectively, and neutral faces were used as uncertain cues. In the non-emotional cue condition, scrambled faces outlined in red and blue indicated upcoming positive and negative pictures, respectively, and scrambled faces outlined in green served as uncertain cues. The results showed that for negative pictures, ERP responses in a time range between 60 and 1,000 ms were shifted to a more negative direction in a certain condition than in the uncertain condition when the cues were emotional. However, the effect was the reverse for positive pictures. This effect of cue uncertainty was similar in the non-emotional cue—negative condition. In contrast, there was no effect of cue uncertainty in the non-emotional cue—positive condition. Therefore, the findings indicate that cue uncertainty modulates attention toward emotional events when the events are signified by emotional cues. The findings may also suggest that cue valence modulates the effects of cue uncertainty on attention to emotional events. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7176046/ /pubmed/32351374 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00140 Text en Copyright © 2020 Lin, Liang, Liu, Liang and Jin. http://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 Human Neuroscience
Lin, Huiyan
Liang, Jiafeng
Liu, Ting
Liang, Ziping
Jin, Hua
Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events
title Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events
title_full Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events
title_fullStr Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events
title_full_unstemmed Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events
title_short Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events
title_sort cue valence influences the effects of cue uncertainty on erp responses to emotional events
topic Human Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32351374
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00140
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