Neural processing of emotional faces requires attention

By Luiz Pessoa, M. McKenna, E. Gutierrez, Leslie G. Ungerleider. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

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Emotion and cognition: insights from studies of the human amygdala. (2006, background): “A number of studies indicate that attention and awareness have little impact on the amygdala's response to fearful stimuli (Anderson et al. 2003, Vuilleumier et al. 2001, but see also Pessoa et al. 2002).”
A Developmental Examination of Amygdala Response to Facial Expressions (2008, background): “Turning to prefrontal regions, among adults, the OFC and ACC circuitry modulates behavior by influencing attention to emotional stimuli, including fearful or other negative facial expressions (Pessoa et al., 2002; Blair, Morris, Frith, Perrett, & Dolan, 1999; Lane, Fink, Chau, & Dolan, 1997).”
fMRI-adaptation reveals dissociable neural representations of identity and expression in face perception. (2004, background): “…reported data that seem inconsistent with the distributed model, showing enhanced fusiform activity to emotional compared with neutral faces (Breiter et al. 1996; Dolan et al. 1996; Morris et al. 1998; Pessoa et al. 2002; Surguladze et al. 2003; Vuilleumier et al. 2001; Winston et al. 2003a,b).”
Three Stages of Facial Expression Processing: ERP Study with Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (2009, background): “Previous studies examining the effect of attention during emotional perception on ERPs have shown that correlates of facial expression processing are modulated by spatial attention (Pessoa et al., 2002; Eimer et al., 2003; Holmes et al., 2003).”
The selective processing of briefly presented affective pictures: an ERP analysis. (2004, background): “…1997; Michie et al., 1999; Näätänen, 1992; Potts & Tucker, 2001; Smid, Jakob, &Heinze, 1999).2 Thus, it appears that the intrinsic relevance of affective stimuli and explicit attention are two avenues to induce the selective stimulus processing (cf. Pessoa et al., 2002; Schupp et al., 2003b).”
Differential neural responses to overt and covert presentations of facial expressions of fear and disgust (2000, background): “Increased fusiform gyrus activation to fearful versus neutral expressions was observed by Vuilleumier et al. (2001) and Pessoa et al. (2002), but not by Morris et al. (1998).”
On the relationship between emotion and cognition (2008, background): “Furthermore, in neuroimaging studies, amygdala activation is correlated with activation in the visual corte”
Fate of unattended fearful faces in the amygdala is determined by both attentional resources and cognitive modulation (2005, neutral): “In particular, stronger responses evoked in the amygdala during the sex task relative to the bar-orientation task replicate our previous findings (Pessoa et al., 2002).”
The neural architecture of emotion regulation (2007, result): “Only one distraction study has used fear faces as stimuli, and it found results compatible with the pain studies: Amygdala responses dropped when participants performed a line orientation judgment task (Pessoa, McKenna, Gutierrez, & Ungerleider, 2002).”
Framing the Entrepreneurial Experience (2012, methodology): “Politis (2005) explains entrepreneurial learning as a transformation process applied to experiences, which is continually created and recreated.”
Developmental deficits in social perception in autism: the role of the amygdala and fusiform face area (2005, background): “The classic example of this type of ‘‘holistic’’ perceptual effect involves rotating pictures of faces 1808; inverted faces are much more difficult to accurately recognize than upright faces (e.g., Freire et al., 2000; Leder and Bruce, 2000; Yin, 1969).”
Neural Correlates of the Automatic Processing of Threat Facial Signals (2003, neutral): “In contrast to the present and previous studies, Pessoa et al. (2002a) have shown abolished cortical and amygdala responses to fear faces under conditions of extreme attentional load.”
Occipito-temporal connections in the human brain. (2003, result): “In support of this view, recent imaging studies have found neuromodulatory effects of the amygdala on extrastriate visual cortex (Morris et al., 1998; Pessoa et al., 2002), and psychophysical studies have identi®ed an equivalent modulatory effect of emotional content on visual perceptual processing ”
A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion (2005, neutral): “…although the amygdala and fusiform cortex can activate to fearful faces without selective attention, regions in the medial prefrontal cortex and temporal poles show greater responses to task-relevant than to task-irrelevant fearful faces (Vuilleumier et al., 2001; see also Pessoa et al., 2002).”