A1 Journal article (refereed)
The effect of sad mood on early sensory event-related potentials to task-irrelevant faces (2023)

Li, X., Vuoriainen, E., Xu, Q., & Astikainen, P. (2023). The effect of sad mood on early sensory event-related potentials to task-irrelevant faces. Biological Psychology, 178, Article 108531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108531

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Li, Xueqiao; Vuoriainen, Elisa; Xu, Qianru; Astikainen, Piia

Journal or series: Biological Psychology

ISSN: 0301-0511

eISSN: 1873-6246

Publication year: 2023

Publication date: 03/03/2023

Volume: 178

Article number: 108531

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Publication country: Netherlands

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108531

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/86054

Abstract

It has been shown that the perceiver’s mood affects the perception of emotional faces, but it is not known how mood affects preattentive brain responses to emotional facial expressions. To examine the question, we experimentally induced sad and neutral mood in healthy adults before presenting them with task-irrelevant pictures of faces while an electroencephalography was recorded. Sad, happy, and neutral faces were presented to the participants in an ignore oddball condition. Differential responses (emotional – neutral) for the P1, N170, and P2 amplitudes were extracted and compared between neutral and sad mood conditions. Emotional facial expressions modulated all the components, and an interaction effect of expression by mood was found for P1: an emotional modulation to happy faces, which was found in neutral mood condition, disappeared in sad mood condition. For N170 and P2, we found larger response amplitudes for both emotional faces, regardless of the mood. The results add to the previous behavioral findings showing that mood already affects low-level cortical feature encoding of task-irrelevant faces.

Keywords: cognitive neuroscience; facial expressions; face; mood; emotions; perception (activity); EEG

Free keywords: ERP; facial expression; mood induction; P1

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VIRTA submission year: 2023

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