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Ringer H, Rösch SA, Roeber U, Deller J, Escera C, Grimm S. That sounds awful! Does sound unpleasantness modulate the mismatch negativity and its habituation? Psychophysiology 2024; 61:e14450. [PMID: 37779371 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 08/05/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
Abstract
There are sounds that most people perceive as highly unpleasant, for instance, the sound of rubbing pieces of polystyrene together. Previous research showed larger physiological and neural responses for such aversive compared to neutral sounds. Hitherto, it remains unclear whether habituation, i.e., diminished responses to repeated stimulus presentation, which is typically reported for neutral sounds, occurs to the same extent for aversive stimuli. We measured the mismatch negativity (MMN) in response to rare occurrences of aversive or neutral deviant sounds within an auditory oddball sequence in 24 healthy participants, while they performed a demanding visual distractor task. Deviants occurred as single events (i.e., between two standards) or as double deviants (i.e., repeating the identical deviant sound in two consecutive trials). All deviants elicited a clear MMN, and amplitudes were larger for aversive than for neutral deviants (irrespective of their position within a deviant pair). This supports the claim of preattentive emotion evaluation during early auditory processing. In contrast to our expectations, MMN amplitudes did not show habituation, but increased in response to deviant repetition-similarly for aversive and neutral deviants. A more fine-grained analysis of individual MMN amplitudes in relation to individual arousal and valence ratings of each sound item revealed that stimulus-specific MMN amplitudes were best predicted by the interaction of deviant position and perceived arousal, but not by valence. Deviants with perceived higher arousal elicited larger MMN amplitudes only at the first deviant position, indicating that the MMN reflects preattentive processing of the emotional content of sounds.
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- Hanna Ringer
- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) Adiposity Diseases, Behavioral Medicine Research Unit, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Brainlab - Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Physics of Cognition Lab, Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
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Djerdjaj A, Rieger NS, Brady BH, Carey BN, Ng AJ, Christianson JP. Social affective behaviors among female rats involve the basolateral amygdala and insular cortex. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.02.02.526780. [PMID: 36778382 PMCID: PMC9915682 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.02.526780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The ability to detect, appraise, and respond to another's emotional state is essential to social affective behavior. This is mediated by a network of brain regions responsible for integrating external cues with internal states to orchestrate situationally appropriate behavioral responses. The basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the insular cortex are reciprocally connected regions involved in social cognition and prior work in male rats revealed their contributions to social affective behavior. We investigated the functional role of these regions in female rats in a social affective preference (SAP) test in which experimental rats approach stressed juvenile but avoid stressed adult conspecifics. In separate experiments, the BLA or the insula were inhibited by local infusion of muscimol (100ng/side in 0.5μL saline) or vehicle prior to SAP tests. In both regions, muscimol interfered with preference for the stressed juvenile and naive adult, indicating that these regions are necessary for appropriate social affective behavior. In male rats, SAP behavior requires insular oxytocin but there are noteworthy sex differences in the oxytocin receptor distribution in rats. Oxytocin (500nM) administered to the insula did not alter social behavior but oxytocin infusions to the BLA increased social interaction. In sum, female rats appear to use the same BLA and insula regions for social affective behavior but sex differences exist in contribution of oxytocin in the insula.
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- Anthony Djerdjaj
- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Interaction effects of the 5-HTT and MAOA-uVNTR gene variants on pre-attentive EEG activity in response to threatening voices. Commun Biol 2022; 5:340. [PMID: 35396540 PMCID: PMC8993814 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03297-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Both the serotonin transporter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and the monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA-uVNTR) are considered genetic contributors for anxiety-related symptomatology and aggressive behavior. Nevertheless, an interaction between these genes and the pre-attentive processing of threatening voices -a biological marker for anxiety-related conditions- has not been assessed yet. Among the entire sample of participants in the study with valid genotyping and electroencephalographic (EEG) data (N = 140), here we show that men with low-activity MAOA-uVNTR, and who were not homozygous for the 5-HTTLPR short allele (s) (n = 11), had significantly larger fearful MMN amplitudes -as driven by significant larger ERPs to fearful stimuli- than men with high-activity MAOA-uVNTR variants (n = 20). This is in contrast with previous studies, where significantly reduced fearful MMN amplitudes, driven by increased ERPs to neutral stimuli, were observed in those homozygous for the 5-HTT s-allele. In conclusion, using genetic, neurophysiological, and behavioral measurements, this study illustrates how the intricate interaction between the 5-HTT and the MAOA-uVNTR variants have an impact on threat processing, and social cognition, in male individuals (n = 62).
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An integrative analysis of 5HTT-mediated mechanism of hyperactivity to non-threatening voices. Commun Biol 2020; 3:113. [PMID: 32157156 PMCID: PMC7064530 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0850-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The tonic model delineating the serotonin transporter polymorphism’s (5-HTTLPR) modulatory effect on anxiety points towards a universal underlying mechanism involving a hyper-or-elevated baseline level of arousal even to non-threatening stimuli. However, to our knowledge, this mechanism has never been observed in non-clinical cohorts exhibiting high anxiety. Moreover, empirical support regarding said association is mixed, potentially because of publication bias with a relatively small sample size. Hence, how the 5-HTTLPR modulates neural correlates remains controversial. Here we show that 5-HTTLPR short-allele carriers had significantly increased baseline ERPs and reduced fearful MMN, phenomena which can nevertheless be reversed by acute anxiolytic treatment. This provides evidence that the 5-HTT affects the automatic processing of threatening and non-threatening voices, impacts broadly on social cognition, and conclusively asserts the heightened baseline arousal level as the universal underlying neural mechanism for anxiety-related susceptibilities, functioning as a spectrum-like distribution from high trait anxiety non-patients to anxiety patients. Chen et al. apply a multi-level approach to show that serotonin signaling modulates neuronal responses to both threatening and non-threatening voices even in the pre-attentive stage. They show that 5-HTTLPR short-allele carriers had higher baseline event-related potentials and lower fearful mismatch negativity, which can be reversed by acute anxiolytic treatment.
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Rachman L, Dubal S, Aucouturier JJ. Happy you, happy me: expressive changes on a stranger's voice recruit faster implicit processes than self-produced expressions. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2020; 14:559-568. [PMID: 31044241 PMCID: PMC6545538 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsz030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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In social interactions, people have to pay attention both to the ‘what’ and ‘who’. In particular, expressive changes heard on speech signals have to be integrated with speaker identity, differentiating e.g. self- and other-produced signals. While previous research has shown that self-related visual information processing is facilitated compared to non-self stimuli, evidence in the auditory modality remains mixed. Here, we compared electroencephalography (EEG) responses to expressive changes in sequence of self- or other-produced speech sounds using a mismatch negativity (MMN) passive oddball paradigm. Critically, to control for speaker differences, we used programmable acoustic transformations to create voice deviants that differed from standards in exactly the same manner, making EEG responses to such deviations comparable between sequences. Our results indicate that expressive changes on a stranger’s voice are highly prioritized in auditory processing compared to identical changes on the self-voice. Other-voice deviants generate earlier MMN onset responses and involve stronger cortical activations in a left motor and somatosensory network suggestive of an increased recruitment of resources for less internally predictable, and therefore perhaps more socially relevant, signals.
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- Laura Rachman
- Inserm U, CNRS UMR, Sorbonne Université UMR S, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Paris, France.,Science & Technology of Music and Sound, UMR (CNRS/IRCAM/Sorbonne Université), Paris, France
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- Inserm U, CNRS UMR, Sorbonne Université UMR S, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Paris, France
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- Science & Technology of Music and Sound, UMR (CNRS/IRCAM/Sorbonne Université), Paris, France
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Kirino E, Hayakawa Y, Inami R, Inoue R, Aoki S. Simultaneous fMRI-EEG-DTI recording of MMN in patients with schizophrenia. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215023. [PMID: 31071097 PMCID: PMC6508624 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalogram (EEG), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) recording have complementary spatiotemporal resolution limitations but can be powerful methods when used together to enable both functional and anatomical modeling, with each neuroimaging procedure used to maximum advantage. We recorded EEGs during event-related fMRI followed by DTI in 15 healthy volunteers and 12 patients with schizophrenia using an omission mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm. Blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal changes were calculated in a region of interest (ROI) analysis, and fractional anisotropy (FA) in the white matter fibers related to each area was compared between groups using tract-specific analysis. Patients with schizophrenia had reduced BOLD activity in the left middle temporal gyrus, and BOLD activity in the right insula and right parahippocampal gyrus significantly correlated with positive symptoms on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and hostility subscores. BOLD activation of Heschl’s gyri also correlated with the limbic system, including the insula. FA values in the left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) significantly correlated with changes in the BOLD signal in the right superior temporal gyrus (STG), and FA values in the right ACC significantly correlated with PANSS scores. This is the first study to examine MMN using simultaneous fMRI, EEG, and DTI recording in patients with schizophrenia to investigate the potential implications of abnormalities in the ACC and limbic system, including the insula and parahippocampal gyrus, as well as the STG. Structural changes in the ACC during schizophrenia may represent part of the neural basis for the observed MMN deficits. The deficits seen in the feedback/feedforward connections between the prefrontal cortex and STG modulated by the ACC and insula may specifically contribute to impaired MMN generation and clinical manifestations.
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- Eiji Kirino
- Department of Psychiatry, Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni City, Shizuoka, Japan
- Department of Psychiatry, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Juntendo Institute of Mental Health, Fukuroyama, Koshigaya City, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Juntendo Institute of Mental Health, Fukuroyama, Koshigaya City, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Chen C, Martínez RM, Cheng Y. The Developmental Origins of the Social Brain: Empathy, Morality, and Justice. Front Psychol 2018; 9:2584. [PMID: 30618998 PMCID: PMC6302010 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The social brain is the cornerstone that effectively negotiates and navigates complex social environments and relationships. When mature, these social abilities facilitate the interaction and cooperation with others. Empathy, morality, and justice, among others, are all closely intertwined, yet the relationships between them are quite complex. They are fundamental components of our human nature, and shape the landscape of our social lives. The various facets of empathy, including affective arousal/emotional sharing, empathic concern, and perspective taking, have unique contributions as subcomponents of morality. This review helps understand how basic forms of empathy, morality, and justice are substantialized in early ontogeny. It provides valuable information as to gain new insights into the underlying neurobiological precursors of the social brain, enabling future translation toward therapeutic and medical interventions.
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- Chenyi Chen
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Research Center of Brain and Consciousness, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.,Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.,Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.,Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Chen C, Chen YC, Chen KL, Cheng Y. Atypical Anxiety-Related Amygdala Reactivity and Functional Connectivity in Sant Mat Meditation. Front Behav Neurosci 2018; 12:298. [PMID: 30564108 PMCID: PMC6288484 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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While meditation has drawn much attention in cognitive neuroscience, the neural mechanisms underlying its emotional processing remains elusive. Sant Mat meditators were recruited, who adopt a loving-kindness mode of meditation along with a vegetarian diet and an alcohol-restricted lifestyle and novices. We assessed their State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and scanned their amygdala reactivity in response to an explicit and implicit (backward masked) perception of fearful and happy faces. In contrast with novices, meditators reported lower STAI scores. Meditators showed stronger amygdala reactivity to explicit happiness than to fear, whereas novices exhibited the opposite pattern. The amygdala reactivity was reduced in meditators regardless of implicit fear or happiness. Those who had more lifetime practice in meditation reported lower STAI and showed a weaker amygdala response to fear. Furthermore, the amygdala in meditators, relative to novices, had a stronger positive functional connectivity with the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) to explicit happiness, but a more negative connectivity with the insula and medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) to explicit fear. Mediation analysis indicated the amygdala reactivity as the mediator for the linkage between meditation experience and trait anxiety. The findings demonstrate the neural correlates that underpin the beneficial effects of meditation in Sant Mat. Long-term meditation could be functionally coupled with the amygdala reactivity to explicit and implicit emotional processing, which would help reduce anxiety and potentially enhance well-being.
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- Chenyi Chen
- Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Research Center of Brain and Consciousness, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.,Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Research and Education, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Chen C, Chan CW, Cheng Y. Test-Retest Reliability of Mismatch Negativity (MMN) to Emotional Voices. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:453. [PMID: 30498437 PMCID: PMC6249375 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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A voice from kin species conveys indispensable social and affective signals with uniquely phylogenetic and ontogenetic standpoints. However, the neural underpinning of emotional voices, beyond low-level acoustic features, activates a processing chain that proceeds from the auditory pathway to the brain structures implicated in cognition and emotion. By using a passive auditory oddball paradigm, which employs emotional voices, this study investigates the test–retest reliability of emotional mismatch negativity (MMN), indicating that the deviants of positively (happily)- and negatively (angrily)-spoken syllables, as compared to neutral standards, can trigger MMN as a response to an automatic discrimination of emotional salience. The neurophysiological estimates of MMN to positive and negative deviants appear to be highly reproducible, irrespective of the subject’s attentional disposition: whether the subjects are set to a condition that involves watching a silent movie or do a working memory task. Specifically, negativity bias is evinced as threatening, relative to positive vocalizations, consistently inducing larger MMN amplitudes, regardless of the day and the time of a day. The present findings provide evidence to support the fact that emotional MMN offers a stable platform to detect subtle changes in current emotional shifts.
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- Chenyi Chen
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Research Center of Brain and Consciousness, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.,Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Research and Education, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Zhang Y, Zhou W, Wang S, Zhou Q, Wang H, Zhang B, Huang J, Hong B, Wang X. The Roles of Subdivisions of Human Insula in Emotion Perception and Auditory Processing. Cereb Cortex 2018; 29:517-528. [PMID: 29342237 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Yang Zhang
- Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI) and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Epilepsy Center, Tsinghua University Yuquan Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Epilepsy Center, Tsinghua University Yuquan Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Epilepsy Center, Tsinghua University Yuquan Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Epilepsy Center, Tsinghua University Yuquan Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Epilepsy Center, Tsinghua University Yuquan Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI) and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
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- Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI) and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Carminati M, Fiori-Duharcourt N, Isel F. Neurophysiological differentiation between preattentive and attentive processing of emotional expressions on French vowels. Biol Psychol 2017; 132:55-63. [PMID: 29102707 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Revised: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 10/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
The present electrophysiological study investigated the processing of emotional prosody by minimizing as much as possible the effect of emotional information conveyed by the lexical-semantic context. Emotionally colored French vowels (i.e., happiness, sadness, fear, and neutral) were presented in a mismatch negativity (MMN) oddball paradigm. Both the MMN, i.e., an event-related potential (ERP) component thought to reflect preattentive change detection, and the P3a, i.e., an ERP marker of involuntary orientation of attention toward deviant stimuli, were significantly modulated by the emotional deviants compared to the neutral ones. Critically, the largest amplitude (MMN, P3a) and the shortest peak latency (MMN) were observed for fear deviants, all other things being equal. Taken together, the present findings lend support to a sequential neurocognitive model of emotion processing (Scherer, 2001) which postulates, among other checks, a first stage of automatic emotion detection (MMN) followed by a second stage of subjective evaluation of the stimulus or event (P3a). Consistently with previous studies, our data suggest that among the six universal emotions, fear could have a special status probably because of its adaptive role in the evolution of the human species.
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- Mathilde Carminati
- Laboratory Vision Action Cognition - EA 7326, Institute of Psychology, Paris Descartes University - Sorbonne Paris Cité, France.
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- Laboratory Vision Action Cognition - EA 7326, Institute of Psychology, Paris Descartes University - Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
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- University Paris Nanterre - Paris Lumières, CNRS, UMR 7114 Models, Dynamics, Corpora, France
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Is laughter a better vocal change detector than a growl? Cortex 2017; 92:233-248. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Revised: 01/26/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Pinheiro AP, Barros C, Dias M, Niznikiewicz M. Does emotion change auditory prediction and deviance detection? Biol Psychol 2017; 127:123-133. [PMID: 28499839 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Revised: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 05/06/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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In the last decades, a growing number of studies provided compelling evidence supporting the interplay of cognitive and affective processes. However, it remains to be clarified whether and how an emotional context affects the prediction and detection of change in unattended sensory events. In an event-related potential (ERP) study, we probed the modulatory role of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral visual contexts on the brain response to automatic detection of change in spectral (intensity) vs. temporal (duration) sound features. Twenty participants performed a passive auditory oddball task. Additionally, we tested the relationship between ERPs and self-reported mood. Participants reported more negative mood after the negative block. The P2 amplitude elicited by standards was increased in a positive context. Mismatch Negativity (MMN) amplitude was decreased in the negative relative to the neutral and positive contexts, and was associated with self-reported mood. These findings suggest that the detection of regularities in the auditory stream was facilitated in a positive context, whereas a negative visual context interfered with prediction error elicitation, through associated mood changes. Both ERP and behavioral effects highlight the intricate links between emotion, perception and cognitive processes.
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- Ana P Pinheiro
- Neuropsychophysiology Lab, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Neuropsychophysiology Lab, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Neuropsychophysiology Lab, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
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Chen C, Hu CH, Cheng Y. Mismatch negativity (MMN) stands at the crossroads between explicit and implicit emotional processing. Hum Brain Mapp 2016; 38:140-150. [PMID: 27534834 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2016] [Revised: 08/03/2016] [Accepted: 08/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
The amygdala is known as a key brain region involved in the explicit and implicit processing of emotional faces, and plays a crucial role in salience detection. Not until recently was the mismatch negativity (MMN), a component of the event-related potentials to an odd stimulus in a sequence of stimuli, utilized as an index of preattentive salience detection of emotional voice processing. However, their relationship remains to be delineated. This study combined the fMRI scanning and event-related potential recording by examining amygdala reactivity in response to explicit and implicit (backward masked) perception of fearful and angry faces, along with recording MMN in response to the fearfully and angrily spoken syllables dada in healthy subjects who varied in trait anxiety (STAI-T). Results indicated that the amplitudes of fearful MMN were positively correlated with left amygdala reactivity to explicit perception of fear, but negatively correlated with right amygdala reactivity to implicit perception of fear. The fearful MMN predicted STAI-T along with left amygdala reactivity to explicit fear, whereas the association between fearful MMN and STAI-T was mediated by right amygdala reactivity to implicit fear. These findings suggest that amygdala reactivity in response to explicit and implicit threatening faces exhibits opposite associations with emotional MMN. In terms of emotional processing, MMN not only reflects preattentive saliency detection but also stands at the crossroads of explicit and implicit perception. Hum Brain Mapp 38:140-150, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Chenyi Chen
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University, Yilan, Taiwan
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Chen C, Liu CC, Weng PY, Cheng Y. Mismatch Negativity to Threatening Voices Associated with Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:362. [PMID: 27471459 PMCID: PMC4945630 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2015] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Although the general consensus holds that emotional perception is impaired in patients with schizophrenia, the extent to which neural processing of emotional voices is altered in schizophrenia remains to be determined. This study enrolled 30 patients with chronic schizophrenia and 30 controls and measured their mismatch negativity (MMN), a component of auditory event-related potentials (ERP). In a passive oddball paradigm, happily or angrily spoken deviant syllables dada were randomly presented within a train of emotionally neutral standard syllables. Results showed that MMN in response to angry syllables and angry-derived non-vocal sounds was significantly decreased in individuals with schizophrenia. P3a to angry syllables showed stronger amplitudes but longer latencies. Weaker MMN amplitudes were associated with more positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Receiver operator characteristic analysis revealed that angry MMN, angry-derived MMN, and angry P3a could help predict whether someone had received a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia. The findings suggested general impairments of voice perception and acoustic discrimination in patients with chronic schizophrenia. The emotional salience processing of voices showed an atypical fashion at the preattentive level, being associated with positive symptoms in schizophrenia.
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- Chenyi Chen
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, TaipeiTaiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, YilanTaiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, TaipeiTaiwan; Department of Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, YilanTaiwan
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Chen C, Sung JY, Cheng Y. Neural Dynamics of Emotional Salience Processing in Response to Voices during the Stages of Sleep. Front Behav Neurosci 2016; 10:117. [PMID: 27378870 PMCID: PMC4906046 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Sleep has been related to emotional functioning. However, the extent to which emotional salience is processed during sleep is unknown. To address this concern, we investigated night sleep in healthy adults regarding brain reactivity to the emotionally (happily, fearfully) spoken meaningless syllables dada, along with correspondingly synthesized nonvocal sounds. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals were continuously acquired during an entire night of sleep while we applied a passive auditory oddball paradigm. During all stages of sleep, mismatch negativity (MMN) in response to emotional syllables, which is an index for emotional salience processing of voices, was detected. In contrast, MMN to acoustically matching nonvocal sounds was undetected during Sleep Stage 2 and 3 as well as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Post-MMN positivity (PMP) was identified with larger amplitudes during Stage 3, and at earlier latencies during REM sleep, relative to wakefulness. These findings clearly demonstrated the neural dynamics of emotional salience processing during the stages of sleep.
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- Chenyi Chen
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical UniversityTaipei, Taiwan; Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical UniversityTaipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming UniversityTaipei, Taiwan; Department of Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University HospitalYilan, Taiwan
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Adank P, McGettigan C, Kotz SAE. Editorial: Current research and emerging directions on the cognitive and neural organization of speech processing. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:305. [PMID: 26074806 PMCID: PMC4444830 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2015] [Accepted: 05/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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- Patti Adank
- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London London, UK
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- Max Planck Institute Leipzig Leipzig, Germany ; School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester Manchester, UK
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Chen C, Chen CY, Yang CY, Lin CH, Cheng Y. Testosterone modulates preattentive sensory processing and involuntary attention switches to emotional voices. J Neurophysiol 2015; 113:1842-9. [DOI: 10.1152/jn.00587.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Testosterone is capable of altering facial threat processing. Voices, similar to faces, convey social information. We hypothesized that administering a single dose of testosterone would change voice perception in humans. In a placebo-controlled, randomly assigned, double-blind crossover design, we administered a single dose of testosterone or placebo to 18 healthy female volunteers and used a passive auditory oddball paradigm. The mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a in responses to fearfully, happily, and neutrally spoken syllables dada and acoustically matched nonvocal sounds were analyzed, indicating preattentive sensory processing and involuntary attention switches. Results showed that testosterone administration had a trend to shorten the peak latencies of happy MMN and significantly enhanced the amplitudes of happy and fearful P3a, whereas the happy- and fearful-derived nonvocal MMN and P3a remained unaffected. These findings demonstrated acute effect of testosterone on the neural dynamics of voice perception. Administering a single dose of testosterone modulates preattentive sensory processing and involuntary attention switches in response to emotional voices.
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- Chenyi Chen
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Surgery, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan
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- Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; and
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- Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; and
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan
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