Cited by 1,900Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesAesthetic Perception and AnalysisHeart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

Brain potentials in affective picture processing: covariation with autonomic arousal and affective report

Cuthbert, Bruce N., Schupp, Harald T., Bradley, Margaret M., Birbaumer, Niels, Lang, Peter J.·2000·Biological Psychology

Abstract

Emotionally arousing picture stimuli evoked scalp-recorded event-related potentials. A late, slow positive voltage change was observed, which was significantly larger for affective than neutral stimuli. This positive shift began 200-300 ms after picture onset, reached its maximum amplitude approximately 1 s after picture onset, and was sustained for most of a 6-s picture presentation period. The positive increase was not related to local probability of content type, but was accentuated for pictures that prompted increased autonomic responses and reports of greater affective arousal (e.g. erotic or violent content). These results suggest that the late positive wave indicates a selective processing of emotional stimuli, reflecting the activation of motivational systems in the brain.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/s0301-0511(99)00044-7

Cites

48 of 48 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 4

  1. Bruder, G., 1995. Cerebral laterality and psychophysiology: perceptual and event-related potential asymmetries in affective and schizophrenic disorders. In: Davidson, R.J., Hugdahl, K. Jr (Eds.), Brain Asymmetry. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 661–691.
  2. Diedrich, O., Naumann, E., Maier, S., Becker, G., 1997. A frontal positive slow wave in the ERP associated with emotional slides. Journal of Psychophysiology 11, 71–84.
  3. Naumann, E., Bartussek, D., Diedrich, O., Laufer, M.E., 1992. Assessing cognitive and affective information processing functions of the brain by means of the late positive complex of the event-related potential. Journal of Psychophysiology 6, 285–298.
  4. Ritter, W., Ruchkin, D.S., 1992. A review of event-related potential components discovered in the an ng s nta Psychopathology: A Tribute to Samuel Sutton. In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 658. New York Academy of Sciences, New York, pp. 1–32.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Cuthbert, B. N., Schupp, H. T., Bradley, M. M., Birbaumer, N., & Lang, P. J.
Affiliations
University of Florida (US)
Corresponding author
Lang, Peter J.
Venue
Biological Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2000-03
Volume
52
Issue
2
Pages
95-111
ISSN
0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2068550908
Cited by
1,900
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 59 · 2025: 72 · 2024: 73 · 2023: 76 · 2022: 93 · 2021: 99 · 2020: 144 · 2019: 119 · 2018: 106 · 2017: 119 · 2016: 99 · 2015: 103 · 2014: 94 · 2013: 95 · 2012: 89
FWCI
6.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento) (submittedVersion)
  • KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • University of Florida
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01mh043975-12)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH052384, MH-52384, MH 43975, MH37757)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Keywords
affective picture processing, event-related potentials, late positive potential, emotional arousal, autonomic arousal, motivation system
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Arousal, Attention, Autonomic Nervous System, Cerebral Cortex, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reaction Time, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review