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Deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia
Alexithymia has been associated with emotion recognition deficits in both auditory and visual domains. Although emotions are inherently multimodal in daily life, little is known regarding abnormalities of emotional multisensory integration (eMSI) in relation to alexithymia. Here, we employed an emot...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9285530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33742708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13806 |
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author | Wang, Zhihao Chen, Mai Goerlich, Katharina S. Aleman, André Xu, Pengfei Luo, Yuejia |
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description | Alexithymia has been associated with emotion recognition deficits in both auditory and visual domains. Although emotions are inherently multimodal in daily life, little is known regarding abnormalities of emotional multisensory integration (eMSI) in relation to alexithymia. Here, we employed an emotional Stroop‐like audiovisual task while recording event‐related potentials (ERPs) in individuals with high alexithymia levels (HA) and low alexithymia levels (LA). During the task, participants had to indicate whether a voice was spoken in a sad or angry prosody while ignoring the simultaneously presented static face which could be either emotionally congruent or incongruent to the human voice. We found that HA performed worse and showed higher P2 amplitudes than LA independent of emotion congruency. Furthermore, difficulties in identifying and describing feelings were positively correlated with the P2 component, and P2 correlated negatively with behavioral performance. Bayesian statistics showed no group differences in eMSI and classical integration‐related ERP components (N1 and N2). Although individuals with alexithymia indeed showed deficits in auditory emotion recognition as indexed by decreased performance and higher P2 amplitudes, the present findings suggest an intact capacity to integrate emotional information from multiple channels in alexithymia. Our work provides valuable insights into the relationship between alexithymia and neuropsychological mechanisms of emotional multisensory integration. |
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spelling | pubmed-92855302022-07-18 Deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia Wang, Zhihao Chen, Mai Goerlich, Katharina S. Aleman, André Xu, Pengfei Luo, Yuejia Psychophysiology Original Articles Alexithymia has been associated with emotion recognition deficits in both auditory and visual domains. Although emotions are inherently multimodal in daily life, little is known regarding abnormalities of emotional multisensory integration (eMSI) in relation to alexithymia. Here, we employed an emotional Stroop‐like audiovisual task while recording event‐related potentials (ERPs) in individuals with high alexithymia levels (HA) and low alexithymia levels (LA). During the task, participants had to indicate whether a voice was spoken in a sad or angry prosody while ignoring the simultaneously presented static face which could be either emotionally congruent or incongruent to the human voice. We found that HA performed worse and showed higher P2 amplitudes than LA independent of emotion congruency. Furthermore, difficulties in identifying and describing feelings were positively correlated with the P2 component, and P2 correlated negatively with behavioral performance. Bayesian statistics showed no group differences in eMSI and classical integration‐related ERP components (N1 and N2). Although individuals with alexithymia indeed showed deficits in auditory emotion recognition as indexed by decreased performance and higher P2 amplitudes, the present findings suggest an intact capacity to integrate emotional information from multiple channels in alexithymia. Our work provides valuable insights into the relationship between alexithymia and neuropsychological mechanisms of emotional multisensory integration. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-03-20 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9285530/ /pubmed/33742708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13806 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Psychophysiology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Psychophysiological Research. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Wang, Zhihao Chen, Mai Goerlich, Katharina S. Aleman, André Xu, Pengfei Luo, Yuejia Deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia |
title | Deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia |
title_full | Deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia |
title_fullStr | Deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia |
title_full_unstemmed | Deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia |
title_short | Deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia |
title_sort | deficient auditory emotion processing but intact emotional multisensory integration in alexithymia |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9285530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33742708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13806 |
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