ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2018
Neural measures of the causal role of observers' facial mimicry on visual working memory for facial expressions.
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- Facial mimicry interference reduces working memory accuracy for facial emotion expressions.PloS one · 2024Article
- "When You're Smiling": How Posed Facial Expressions Affect Visual Recognition of Emotions.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Alterations in working memory maintenance of fearful face distractors in depressed participants: An ERP study.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- The association of negative mood with automatic and effortful facial expression mimicry.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Degenerate pathway for processing smile and other emotional expressions in congenital facial palsy: an hdEEG investigation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Altering Facial Movements Abolishes Neural Mirroring of Facial Expressions.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Blocking facial mimicry during binocular rivalry modulates visual awareness of faces with a neutral expression.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Negative and Positive Bias for Emotional Faces: Evidence from the Attention and Working Memory Paradigms.Neural plasticity · 2021Review
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- Children with facial paralysis due to Moebius syndrome exhibit reduced autonomic modulation during emotion processing.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2019Article
- Visual Working Memory for Faces and Facial Expressions as a Useful "Tool" for Understanding Social and Affective Cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Simulation models of facial expressions propose that sensorimotor regions may increase the clarity of facial expressions representations in extrastriate areas. We monitored the event-related potential marker of visual working memory (VWM) representations, namely the sustained posterior contralateral negativity (SPCN), also termed contralateral delay activity, while participants performed a change detection task including to-be-memorized faces with different intensities of anger. In one condition participants could freely use their facial mimicry during the encoding/VWM maintenance of the faces while in a different condition participants had their facial mimicry blocked by a gel. Notably, SPCN amplitude was reduced for faces in the blocked mimicry condition when compared to the free mimicry condition. This modulation interacted with the empathy levels of participants such that only participants with medium-high empathy scores showed such reduction of the SPCN amplitude when their mimicry was blocked. The SPCN amplitude was larger for full expressions when compared to neutral and subtle expressions, while subtle expressions elicited lower SPCN amplitudes than neutral faces. These findings provide evidence of a functional link between mimicry and VWM for faces and further shed light on how this memory system may receive feedbacks from sensorimotor regions during the processing of facial expressions.
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