ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2017
Mu rhythm suppression is associated with the classification of emotion in faces.
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- Is the Putative Mirror Neuron System Associated with Empathy? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2021Pooled it
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- Differential beta desynchronisation responses to dynamic emotional facial expressions are attenuated in higher trait anxiety and autism.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Audio and visual speech emotion activate the left pre-supplementary motor area.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Altering Facial Movements Abolishes Neural Mirroring of Facial Expressions.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Do gaze behaviours during action observation predict interpersonal motor resonance?Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Peak frequency of the sensorimotor mu rhythm varies with autism-spectrum traits.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Social perceptions of warmth and competence influence behavioral intentions and neural processing.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Mirror Neuron Activity During Audiovisual Appreciation of Opera Performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Mental Simulation of Facial Expressions: Mu Suppression to the Viewing of Dynamic Neutral Face Videos.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Dissociable processing of emotional and neutral body movements revealed by μ-alpha and beta rhythms.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
The mirror neuron system (MNS) has been mooted as a crucial component underlying human social cognition. Initial evidence based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) suggests that the MNS plays a role in emotion classification, but further confirmation and convergent evidence is needed. This study employed electroencephalography (EEG) to examine modulations in the mu rhythm associated with the inference of emotions from facial expressions. It was hypothesised that mu suppression would be associated with classifying the emotion portrayed by facial expressions. Nineteen participants viewed pictures of facial expressions or emotion words and were asked to either match the stimulus to an emotion word or to passively observe. Mu activity following stimulus presentation was localised using a 3-D distributed inverse solution, and compared between conditions. Subtractive logic was used to isolate the specific processes of interest. Comparisons of source localisation images between conditions revealed that there was mu suppression associated with recognising emotion from faces, thereby supporting our hypothesis. Further analyses confirmed that those effects were not due to activity associated with the motor response or the observation of facial expressions, offering further support for the hypotheses. This study provides important convergent evidence for the involvement of the MNS in the inference of emotion from facial expressions.
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