Additive effects of emotional content and spatial selective attention on electrocortical facilitation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1187-1197

  Keil, Andreas ^a   Moratti, Stephan ^a   Sabatinelli, Dean ^b   Bradley, Margaret M ^b   Lang, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective arousal; Electroencephalography; Human; Spatial attention; Steady state potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; ERROR; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 25444446923     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi001     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Armony JL, Dolan RJ (2002) Modulation of spatial attention by fear-conditioned stimuli: an event-related fMRI study. Neuropsychologia 40:817-826.
2. Blair RC, Karniski W (1993) An alternative method for significance testing of waveform difference potentials. Psychophysiology 30:518-524.
3. Bower GH, Lazarus R, LeDoux JE, Panksepp J, Davidson RJ, Ekman P (1994) What is the relation between emotion and memory? In: The nature of emotion: fundamental questions. Series in affective science (Paul Ekman RJ Davidson, eds), pp. 301-318. New York: Oxford University Press.
4. Bradley MM, Codispoti M, Cuthbert BN, Lang PJ (2001) Emotion and motivation I: Defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing. Emotion 1:276-298.
5. Bradley MM, Sabatinelli D, Lang PJ, Fitzsimmons JR, King W, Desai P (2003) Activation of the visual cortex in motivated attention. Behav Neurosci 117:369-380.
6. Burkitt GR, Silberstein RB, Cadusch PJ, Wood AW (2000) Steady-state visual evoked potentials and travelling waves. Clin Neurophysiol 111:246-258.
7. Clementz BA, Keil A, Kissler J (2004) Aberrant brain dynamics in schizophrenia: delayed buildup and prolonged decay of the visual steady-state response. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 18:121-129.
8. Corbetta M (1998) Frontoparietal cortical networks for directing attention and the eye to visual locations: identical, independent, or overlapping neural systems? Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:831-838.
9. Cuthbert BN, Schupp HT, Bradley MM, Birbaumer N, Lang PJ (2000) Brain potentials in affective picture processing: covariation with autonomie arousal and affective report. Biol Psychol 52:95-111.
10. Eimer M, Holmes A, McGlone FP (2003) The role of spatial attention in the processing of facial expression: an ERP study of rapid brain responses to six basic emotions. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:97-110.
11. Hämäläinen M, Ilmoniemi R (1984) Interpreting measured magnetic fields of the brain: estimates of of current distributions. Helsinki: Helsinki University of Technology.
12. Hartikainen KM, Ogawa KH, Knight RT (2000) Transient interference of right hemispheric function due to automatic emotional processing. Neuropsychologia 38:1576-1580.
13. Hauk O, Keil A, Elbert T, Müller MM (2002) Comparison of data transformation procedures to enhance topographical accuracy in time series analysis of the human EEG. J Neurosci Methods 113:111-122.
14. Hillyard SA, Anllo-Vento L (1998) Event-related brain potentials in the study of visual selective attention. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:781-787.
15. Hillyard SA, Hinrichs H, Tempelmann C, Morgan ST, Hansen JC, Scheich H, Heinze HJ (1997) Combining steady-state visual evoked potentials and fMRI to localize brain activity during selective attention. Hum Brain Mapp 5:287-292.
16. Isenberg N, Silbersweig D, Engelien A, Emmerich S, Malavade K, Beattie B, Leon AC, Stern E (1999) Linguistic threat activates the human amygdala. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96:10456-10459.
17. Junghöfer M, Elbert T, Leiderer P, Berg P, Rockstroh B (1997) Mapping EEG-potentials on the surface of the brain: a strategy for uncovering cortical sources. Brain Topogr 9:203-217.
18. Junghöfer M, Elbert T, Tucker DM, Rockstroh B (2000) Statistical control of artifacts in dense array EEG/MEG studies. Psychophysiology 37:523-532.
19. Junghöfer M, Bradley MM, Elbert TR, Lan PJ (2001) Fleeting images: a new look at early emotion discrimination. Psychophysiology 38:175-178.
20. Karniski W, Blair RC, Snider AD (1994) An exact statistical method for comparing topographic maps, with any number of subjects and electrodes. Brain Topogr 6:203-210.
21. Keil A (2004) The role of human prefrontal cortex in motivated perception and behavior: a macroscopic perspective. In: Prefrontal cortex: from synaptic plasticity to cognition (Otani S, ed). New York: Kluwer.
22. Keil A, Müller MM, Gruber T, Stolarova M, Wienbruch C, Elbert T (2001) Effects of emotional arousal in the cerebral hemispheres: a study of oscillatory brain activity and event-related potentials. Clin Neurophysiol 112:2057-2068.
23. Keil A, Bradley MM, Hauk O, Rockstroh B, Elbert T, Lang PJ (2002) Large-scale neural correlates of affective picture processing. Psychophysiology 39:641-649.
24. Keil A, Gruber T, Muller MM, Moratti S, Stolarova M, Bradley MM, Lang PJ (2003a) Early modulation of visual perception by emotional arousal: evidence from steady-state visual evoked brain potentials. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:195-206.
25. Keil A, Stolarova M, Heim S, Gruber T, Muller MM (2003b) Temporal stability of high-frequency brain oscillations in the human EEG. Brain Topogr 16:101-110.
26. Kemp AH, Gray MA, Eide P, Silberstein RB, Nathan PJ (2002) Steady-state visually evoked potential topography during processing of emotional valence in healthy subjects. Neuroimage 17:1684-1692.
27. Lang PJ (1980) Behavioral treatment and bio-behavioral assessment: Computer applications. In: Technology in mental health care delivery systems (Sidowski JB, Johnson JH, Williams TA, eds), pp. 119-137. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
28. Lang PJ, Bradley MM, Cuthbert BN (1997) Motivated attention: affect, activation, and action. In: Attention and orienting: sensory and motivational processes (Lang PJ, Simons RF, Balaban MT, eds), pp. 97-135. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
29. Lang PJ, Bradley MM, Fitzsimmons JR, Cuthbert BN, Scott JD, Moulder B, Nangia V (1998) Emotional arousal and activation of the visual cortex: an fMRI analysis. Psychophysiology 35:199-210.
30. Lang PJ, Bradley MM, Cuthbert BN (1999) International affective picture system (IAPS): technical manual and affective ratings. Gainesville, FL: NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida.
31. Luck SJ, Girelli M, McDermott MT, Ford MA (1997) Bridging the gap between monkey neurophysiology and human perception: an ambiguity resolution theory of visual selective attention. Cognit Psychol 33:64-87.
32. Mesulam MM (1998) From sensation to cognition. Brain 121:1013-1052.
33. Moratti S, Keil A, Stolarova M (2004) Motivated attention in emotional picture processing is reflected by activity modulation in cortical attention networks. Neuroimage 21:954-964.
34. Morgan ST, Hansen JC, Hillyard SA (1996) Selective attention to stimulus location modulates the steady-state visual evoked potential. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93:4770-4774.
35. Müller MM, Hillyard S (2000) Concurrent recording of steady-state and transient event-related potentials as indices of visual-spatial selective attention. Clin Neurophysiol 111:1544-1552.
36. Müller MM, Teder W, Hillyard SA (1997) Magnetoencephalographic recording of steady-state visual evoked cortical activity. Brain Topogr 9:163-168.
37. Müller MM, Teder-Salejarvi W, Hillyard SA (1998) The time course of cortical facilitation during cued shifts of spatial attention. Nat Neurosci 1:631-634.
38. Nunez PL, Srinivasan R, Westdorp AF, Wijesinghe RS, Tucker DM, Silberstein RB, Cadusch PJ (1997) EEG coherency. I: Statistics, reference electrode, volume conduction, Laplacians, cortical imaging, and interpretation at multiple scales. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 103:499-515.
39. Öhman A, Flykt A, Esteves F (2001) Emotion drives attention: detecting the snake in the grass. J Exp Psychol Gen 130:466-478.
40. Pessoa L, Kastner S, Ungerleider LG (2002) Attentional control of the processing of neural and emotional stimuli. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 15:31-45.
41. Pizzagalli D, Regard M, Lehmann D (1999) Rapid emotional face processing in the human right and left brain hemispheres: an ERP study. Neuroreport 10:2691-2698.
42. Pourtois G, Grandjean D, Sander D, Vuilleumier P (2004) Electrophysiological correlates of rapid spatial orienting towards fearful faces. Cereb Cortex 14:619-633.
43. Regan D (1989) Human Brain Electrophysiology: Evoked Potentials and Evoked Magnetic Fields in Science and Medicine. New York: Elsevier.
44. Schupp HT, Junghofer M, Weike AI, Hamm AO (2003) Emotional facilitation of sensory processing in the visual cortex. Psychol Sci 14:7-13.
45. Silberstein RB, Nunez PL, Pipingas A, Harris P, Danieli F (2001) Steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) topography in a graded working memory task. Int J Psychophysiol 42:219-232.
46. Smith NK, Cacioppo JT, Larsen JT, Chartrand TL (2003) May I have your attention, please: electrocortical responses to positive and negative stimuli. Neuropsychologia 41:171-183.
47. Stormark KM, Hugdahl K (1996) Peripheral cuing of covert spatial attention before and after emotional conditioning of the cue. Int J Neurosci 86:225-240.
48. Victor JD, Mast J (1991) A new statistic for steady-state evoked potentials. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 78:378-388.