ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2017
The effect of constraining eye-contact during dynamic emotional face perception-an fMRI study.
Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Bumetanide for autism: more eye contact, less amygdala activation.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- Attentional Dynamics During Emotional Face Processing Differentiate Alexithymia From Mood and Affective Symptoms.Journal of personality · 2026Article
- Pupil contagion variation with gaze, arousal, and autistic traits.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other's eyes in a hypersocial phenotype.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Eye Gaze in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review of Neural Evidence for the Eye Avoidance Hypothesis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Review
- Article
- Pubertal Testosterone and Brain Response to Faces in Young Adulthood: An Interplay between Organizational and Activational Effects in Young Men.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Combining fMRI and Eye-tracking for the Study of Social Cognition.Neuroscience insights · 2021Article
- Enhanced social learning of threat in adults with autism.Molecular autism · 2020Article
- Alexithymia and reactive aggression: The role of the amygdala.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2018Article
- Older adults' neural activation in the reward circuit is sensitive to face trustworthiness.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Hypersensitivity to low intensity fearful faces in autism when fixation is constrained to the eyes.Human brain mapping · 2017Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Eye-contact modifies how we perceive emotions and modulates activity in the social brain network. Here, using fMRI, we demonstrate that adding a fixation cross in the eye region of dynamic facial emotional stimuli significantly increases activation in the social brain of healthy, neurotypical participants when compared with activation for the exact same stimuli observed in a free-viewing mode. In addition, using PPI analysis, we show that the degree of amygdala connectivity with the rest of the brain is enhanced for the constrained view for all emotions tested except for fear, and that anxiety and alexithymia modulate the strength of amygdala connectivity for each emotion differently. Finally, we show that autistic traits have opposite effects on amygdala connectivity for fearful and angry emotional expressions, suggesting that these emotions should be treated separately in studies investigating facial emotion processing.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.