ArticleHuman brain mapping2015
Emotional context facilitates cortical prediction error responses.
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- Visual Mismatch Negativity Reflects Enhanced Response to the Deviant: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials and Electroencephalogram Time-Frequency Analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Processing Self-Related Information Under Non-attentional Conditions Revealed by Visual MMN.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Emotional visual mismatch negativity: a joint investigation of social and non-social dimensions in adults with autism.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
- Older Adults Automatically Detect Age of Older Adults' Photographs: A Visual Mismatch Negativity Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Visual mismatch negativity and stimulus-specific adaptation: the role of stimulus complexity.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- Automatic Change Detection of Emotional and Neutral Body Expressions: Evidence From Visual Mismatch Negativity.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Facial Expression Related vMMN: Disentangling Emotional from Neutral Change Detection.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- GANEing traction: The broad applicability of NE hotspots to diverse cognitive and arousal phenomena.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2016Article
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Abstract
In the predictive coding framework, mismatch negativity (MMN) is regarded a correlate of the prediction error that occurs when top-down predictions conflict with bottom-up sensory inputs. Expression-related MMN is a relatively novel construct thought to reflect a prediction error specific to emotional processing, which, however, has not yet been tested directly. Our paradigm includes both neutral and emotional deviants, thereby allowing for investigating whether expression-related MMN is emotion-specific or unspecifically arises from violations of a given sequence. Twenty healthy participants completed a visual sequence oddball task where they were presented with (1) sequence deviants, (2) emotional sequence deviants, and (3) emotional deviants. Mismatch components were assessed at ventral occipitotemporal scalp sites and analyzed regarding their amplitudes, spatiotemporal profiles, and neuronal sources. Expression-related MMN could be clearly separated from its neutral counterpart in all investigated aspects. Specifically, expression-related MMN showed enhanced amplitude, shorter latency, and different neuronal sources. Our results, therefore, provide converging evidence for a quantitative specificity of expression-related MMN and seems to provide an opportunity to study prediction error during preattentive emotional processing. Our neurophysiological evidence ultimately suggests that a basic cognitive operator, the prediction error, is enhanced at the cortical level by processing of emotionally salient stimuli.
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