Large-scale neural correlates of affective picture processing.

By Andreas Keil, Margaret M. Bradley, Olaf Hauk, B. Rockstroh, Thomas Elbert, Peter J. Lang. Psychophysiology, 2002

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Hemodynamic and electrophysiological studies indicate differential brain response to emotionally arousing, compared to neutral, pictures. The time course and source distribution of electrocortical potentials in response to emotional stimuli, using a high-density electrode (129-sensor) array were examined here. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants viewed pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures. ERP voltages were examined in six time intervals, roughly corresponding to P1, N1, early P3, late P3 and a slow wave window. Differential activity was found for emotional, compared to neutral, pictures at both of the P3 intervals, as well as enhancement of later posterior positivity. Source space projection was performed using a minimum norm procedure that estimates the source currents generating the extracranially measured electrical gradient. Sources of slow wave modulation were located in occipital and posterior parietal cortex, with a right-hemispheric dominance.

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Emotion and attention: event-related brain potential studies. (2006, result): “These data are consistent with the notion that successively presented pictures are characterized by a distinct neural representation, which may compete for a limited pool of processing resources (Kastner and Ungerleider, 2000; Keysers and Perrett, 2002; Potter et al., 2002).”
Activation of the visual cortex in motivated attention. (2003, background): “Physiological systems sensitive to attentional allocation, including cardiac orienting, electrodermal responding, and the P3 component of ERPs show heightened activity when people view pictures depicting erotica, threat, and mutilation (Bradley et al., 2001; Keil et al., 2002).”
Emotion and the motivational brain (2009, methodology): “Consistent with the view, Keil et al. (2002) used the minimum norm method to determine dipole sources contributing to the LPP signal, based on the analysis of a 129- electrode array.”
Reappraisal modulates the electrocortical response to unpleasant pictures (2006, neutral): “Specifically, electroencephalography studies have revealed that the late positive potential (LPP), a component of the event-related potential (ERP), differs substantially between emotionally salient and neutral stimuli (Cuthbert, Schupp, Bradley, Birbaumer, & Lang, 2000; Keil et al., 2002; Lang, Bra”
Decision making, the P3, and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system. (2005, background): “…we present an overview of the evidence suggesting that (a) the P3 reflects the response of the neuromodulatory locus coeruleus–norepinephrine (LC-NE) system to the outcome of stimulus evaluation and decision making (by decision making, we refer to processes responsible for determining the…”
The emotive neuroscience of embodiment (2012, background): “Functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) studies have revealed multiple neural generators of the LPP, such as the occipitotemporal and parietal cortex (Keil et al. 2002; Sabatinelli et al. 2007).”
The selective processing of briefly presented affective pictures: an ERP analysis. (2004, background): “A number of recent ERP studies explored emotional picture processing by presenting pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures from the International Affective Picture Series (IAPS; Cuthbert et al., 2000; Keil et al., 2002; Schupp et al., 2000, 2003a; Schupp, Cuthbert, et al., in press).”
Merely Being with you Increases My Attention to Luxury Products: Using EEG to Understand Consumers’ Emotional Experience with Luxury Branded Products (2015, background): “Prior research suggests that the modulation of P2 and P3 amplitude to emotional visual stimuli is most distinct in the posterior scalp location (Carretié, Martín-Loeches, et al. 2001; Carretié, Mercado, et al. 2001; Keil et al. 2002; Schupp et al. 2004).”
Event-Related Potentials, Emotion, and Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review (2010, background): “Complicating matters further is the fact that the P300 and LPP are quantified in different windows across studies: the P300 has been scored as the average activity between 300–400 msec, 400–480 msec (Keil et al., 2002), and 400–600 msec (Schupp et al.”
The Brain Basis of Positive and Negative Affect: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of the Human Neuroimaging Literature. (2016, background): “For example, the human P300, an event-related potential originating in the ACC, responds to both positive and negative stimuli (Schupp et al. 2000; Junghofer et al. 2001; Keil et al. 2002; Moratti et al. 2004; Moratti et al. 2011); for a review see Olofsson et al.”
Event-related potentials to schematic faces in social phobia (2007, background): “In contrast to previous studies (e.g., Cuthbert et al., 2000; Keil et al., 2002; Schupp et al., 2000; Schupp et al., 2003; Schupp et al., 2004b), this study did not find larger LPPs for emotional compared to neutral schematic faces.”
Repetition and Event-related Potentials: Distinguishing Early and Late Processes in Affective Picture Perception (2007, background): “This earlier component sometimes differs only for pleasant pictures, or is most pronounced for pleasant pictures (De Cesarei & Codispoti, 2006; Schupp et al., 2004; Keil et al., 2002).”
Event-related potentials in clinical research: guidelines for eliciting, recording, and quantifying mismatch negativity, P300, and N400. (2009, background): “P300 amplitude is also sensitive to the salience of the eliciting stimulus, that is, its reward value or affective significance (Keil et al., 2002; Yeung and Sanfey, 2004).”
Affective picture processing: an integrative review of ERP findings. (2008, background): “Slow wave processes—A long-lasting elevated ERP positivity to arousing pictures is a common finding (Amrhein et al., 2004; Cuthbert et al., 2000; Ito et al., 1998; Keil et al., 2002; Mini et al., 1996; Olofsson and Polich, 2007; Palomba et al., 1997; Schupp et al., 2000).”
Natural selective attention: Orienting and emotion (2008, result): “This modulatory effect is quite reliable and has been reported in numerous studies (e.g., Cuthbert, Schupp, Bradley, Birbaumer, & Lang, 2000; Keil et al., 2002; Palomba, Angrilli, & Mini, 1997), with the largest modulatory differences elicited when viewing the most arousing pleasant or unpleasant pi”