Fleeting images: a new look at early emotion discrimination.

By M. Junghöfer, Margaret M. Bradley, Thomas Elbert, Peter J. Lang. Psychophysiology, 2001

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The visual brain quickly sorted stimuli for emotional impact despite high-speed presentation (3 or 5 per s) in a sustained, serial torrent of 700 complex pictures. Event-related potentials, recorded with a dense electrode array, showed selective discrimination of emotionally arousing stimuli from less affective content. Primary sources of this activation were over the occipital cortices, extending to right parietal cortex, suggesting a processing focus in the posterior visual system. Emotion discrimination was independent of formal pictorial properties (color, brightness. spatial frequency, and complexity). The data support the hypothesis of a very short-term conceptual memory store (M. C. Potter, 1999)-shown here to include a fleeting but reliable assessment of affective meaning.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Parallel amygdala and inferotemporal activation reflect emotional intensity and fear relevance (2005, methodology): “Picture stimuli were also balanced by category to be statistically equivalent in brightness, contrast, mean spatial frequency, and 90% quality JPEG file size (Junghoefer et al., 2001).”
The facilitated processing of threatening faces: an ERP analysis. (2004, background): “Source analysis of the EPN amplitude implicated a widespread network of temporo-parieto-occipital areas implicated in visual information processing (Junghöfer et al., 2001).”
Merely Being with you Increases My Attention to Luxury Products: Using EEG to Understand Consumers’ Emotional Experience with Luxury Branded Products (2015, background): “These results are consistent with previous research findings that show stronger emotion effects over the right parieto-occipital sites (Dolcos and Cabeza 2002; Jünghofer et al. 2001; Schupp et al. 2003).”
Affective picture processing: an integrative review of ERP findings. (2008, methodology): “…312-368 ms [P340]: neg > pos/neu T: 176-224 and 312-368 ms: largest valence effect at visual association cortex (temporal lobe; LORETA algorithm) Junghöfer et al. (2001) F/M: 17 (not specified) A: 12 students, 5 researchers C: High-arousing, lowarousing [200-333] B: IAPS normative data F: Rapid…”
The selective processing of briefly presented affective pictures: an ERP analysis. (2004, background): “Interestingly, although Junghöfer et al. (2001) employed longer presentation times of individual pictures than the present study, picture processing in the RSVP paradigm was always masked by the upcoming pictures.”
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.”
Emotion and motivation I: defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing. (2001, result): “This finding is consistent with neural imaging research showing that the functional changes in the brain evoked by affective pictures are specific to the semantic content and are not secondary to formal pictorial features such as brightness, complexity, or color (Bradley et al., 2001; Junghoefer, B”
Emotion and attention: event-related brain potential studies. (2006, methodology): “Due to limitations in head coverage and the placements of sensors, reliable differentiation of emotional and neutral contents within the first 300ms was brought out in comparatively recent research (Junghöfer et al., 2001; Schupp et al., 2003b).”
Emotional facial expressions evoke faster orienting responses, but weaker emotional responses at neural and behavioural levels compared to scenes: A simultaneous EEG and facial EMG study (2016, positive): “…generallymore negative over the left hemisphere compared with the right (Schupp et al., 2004b; Smith et al., 2013), while stronger emotion-specific modulation occurred over the right hemisphere, and seemed to be an exclusive effect of scene stimuli (Junghöfer et al., 2001; Schupp et al., 2007b).”
Emotional Facilitation of Sensory Processing in the Visual Cortex (2003, background): “A recent study (Junghöfer et al., 2001) also found an early facilitated processing of affective cues without any explicit task instruction.”