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Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation

Emotion regulation (ER) strategies can influence how affective predictions are constructed by the brain (generation stage) to prearrange action (implementation stage) and update internal models according to incoming stimuli (updating stage). However, neurocomputational mechanisms by which this is ac...

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Autores principales: Del Popolo Cristaldi, Fiorella, Mento, Giovanni, Buodo, Giulia, Sarlo, Michela
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9388773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35990725
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.947063
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author Del Popolo Cristaldi, Fiorella
Mento, Giovanni
Buodo, Giulia
Sarlo, Michela
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Mento, Giovanni
Buodo, Giulia
Sarlo, Michela
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description Emotion regulation (ER) strategies can influence how affective predictions are constructed by the brain (generation stage) to prearrange action (implementation stage) and update internal models according to incoming stimuli (updating stage). However, neurocomputational mechanisms by which this is achieved are unclear. We investigated through high-density EEG if different ER strategies (expressive suppression vs. cognitive reappraisal) predicted event-related potentials (ERPs) and brain source activity across affective prediction stages, as a function of contextual uncertainty. An S1-S2 paradigm with emotional faces and pictures as S1s and S2s was presented to 36 undergraduates. Contextual uncertainty was manipulated across three blocks with 100, 75, or 50% S1-S2 affective congruency. The effects of ER strategies, as assessed through the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, on ERP and brain source activity were tested for each prediction stage through linear mixed-effects models. No ER strategy affected prediction generation. During implementation, in the 75% block, a higher tendency to suppress emotions predicted higher activity in the left supplementary motor area at 1,500–2,000 ms post-stimulus, and smaller amplitude of the Contingent Negative Variation at 2,000–2,500 ms. During updating, in the 75% block, a higher tendency to cognitively reappraise emotions predicted larger P2, Late Positive Potential, and right orbitofrontal cortex activity. These results suggest that both ER strategies interact with the levels of contextual uncertainty by differently modulating ERPs and source activity, and that different strategies are deployed in a moderately predictive context, supporting the efficient updating of affective predictive models only in the context in which model updating occurs.
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spelling pubmed-93887732022-08-20 Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation Del Popolo Cristaldi, Fiorella Mento, Giovanni Buodo, Giulia Sarlo, Michela Front Behav Neurosci Behavioral Neuroscience Emotion regulation (ER) strategies can influence how affective predictions are constructed by the brain (generation stage) to prearrange action (implementation stage) and update internal models according to incoming stimuli (updating stage). However, neurocomputational mechanisms by which this is achieved are unclear. We investigated through high-density EEG if different ER strategies (expressive suppression vs. cognitive reappraisal) predicted event-related potentials (ERPs) and brain source activity across affective prediction stages, as a function of contextual uncertainty. An S1-S2 paradigm with emotional faces and pictures as S1s and S2s was presented to 36 undergraduates. Contextual uncertainty was manipulated across three blocks with 100, 75, or 50% S1-S2 affective congruency. The effects of ER strategies, as assessed through the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, on ERP and brain source activity were tested for each prediction stage through linear mixed-effects models. No ER strategy affected prediction generation. During implementation, in the 75% block, a higher tendency to suppress emotions predicted higher activity in the left supplementary motor area at 1,500–2,000 ms post-stimulus, and smaller amplitude of the Contingent Negative Variation at 2,000–2,500 ms. During updating, in the 75% block, a higher tendency to cognitively reappraise emotions predicted larger P2, Late Positive Potential, and right orbitofrontal cortex activity. These results suggest that both ER strategies interact with the levels of contextual uncertainty by differently modulating ERPs and source activity, and that different strategies are deployed in a moderately predictive context, supporting the efficient updating of affective predictive models only in the context in which model updating occurs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9388773/ /pubmed/35990725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.947063 Text en Copyright © 2022 Del Popolo Cristaldi, Mento, Buodo and Sarlo. 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 Behavioral Neuroscience
Del Popolo Cristaldi, Fiorella
Mento, Giovanni
Buodo, Giulia
Sarlo, Michela
Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation
title Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation
title_full Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation
title_fullStr Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation
title_full_unstemmed Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation
title_short Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation
title_sort emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: an hd-eeg investigation
topic Behavioral Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9388773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35990725
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.947063
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