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Emotional context facilitates cortical prediction error responses

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Vogel, Bob O., Shen, Christina, Neuhaus, Andres H.·2015·Human Brain Mapping

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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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Authors
Vogel, B. O., Shen, C., & Neuhaus, A. H.
Affiliations
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
Venue
Human Brain Mapping
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2015-06-05
Volume
36
Issue
9
Pages
3641-3652
ISSN
  • 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
  • 1097-0193
OpenAlex
W2100019768
Cited by
37
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2
FWCI
1.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
prediction error, predictive coding, emotional processing, ventral occipitotemporal cortex, emotional salience
MeSH terms
Adult, Brain, Electroencephalography, Emotions, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Visual Perception, Young Adult

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