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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2023

Frequency-specific gaze modulation of emotional face processing in the human amygdala.

Raphael Guex, Emilie Meaux, Pierre Mégevand, Judith Domínguez-Borràs, Margitta Seeck, Patrik Vuilleumier

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Raphael GuexDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva-Campus Biotech, HUG, Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
Emilie MeauxDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva-Campus Biotech, HUG, Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1283-5510
Pierre MégevandDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva-Campus Biotech, HUG, Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0427-547X
Judith Domínguez-BorràsDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva-Campus Biotech, HUG, Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3233-5713
Margitta SeeckDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Geneva-HUG, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Patrik VuilleumierDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva-Campus Biotech, HUG, Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
University of Geneva · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Determining the social significance of emotional face expression is of major importance for adaptive behavior, and gaze direction provides critical information in this process. The amygdala is implicated in both emotion and gaze processing, but how and when it integrates expression and gaze cues remains unresolved. We tackled this question using intracranial electroencephalography in epileptic patients to assess both amygdala (n = 12) and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC; n = 11) time-frequency evoked responses to faces with different emotional expressions and different gaze directions. As predicted, self-relevant threat signals (averted fearful and directed angry faces) elicited stronger amygdala activity than self-irrelevant threat (directed fearful and averted angry faces). Fear effects started at early latencies in both amygdala and OFC (~110 and 160 ms, respectively), while gaze direction effects and their interaction with emotion occurred at later latencies. Critically, the amygdala showed differential gamma band increases to fearful averted gaze (starting ~550 ms) and to angry directed gaze (~470 ms). Moreover, when comparing the 2 self-relevant threat conditions among them, we found higher gamma amygdala activity for averted fearful faces and higher beta OFC activity for angry directed faces. Together, these results reveal for the first time frequency-specific effects of emotion and gaze on amygdala and OFC neural activity.

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Facial RecognitionAmygdalaCuesEmotionsFacial ExpressionFearHumansamygdalaemotiongazeiEEGtime-frequency

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