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Emotional face processing and emotion regulation in children: an ERP study

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Dennis, Tracy A., Malone, Melville M., Chen, Chao-Cheng·2009·Developmental Neuropsychology

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Emotion regulation is a critical component of healthy development, yet few studies examine neural correlates of emotion regulation in childhood. In the present study, we assessed whether children's neurophysiological responses to salient and socially significant emotional distracters-emotional faces-were related to broader emotion regulation capacities. Emotion regulation was measured as attention performance following emotional distracters and as maternal report of child emotional dysregulation. Electroencephalography was recorded while participants (15 children aged 5-9) performed an attention task. Scalp-recorded event related potentials (ERPs) were time-locked to emotional distracters (fearful, sad, and neutral faces) and reflected a range of rapid attentional and face processing operations (P1, N1, N170, and Nc). P1 latencies were faster whereas N1 amplitudes were reduced to fearful compared to sad faces. Larger P1 and Nc amplitudes to fearful and sad faces were correlated with more effective emotion regulation. Results are discussed in terms of mechanisms in emotion regulation and the use of ERPs to detect early risk for psychopathology and inform intervention efforts.

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  • The LPP has been found to be associated with depressive symptoms and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in healthy children.

    “The LPP has also been found to be associated with depressive symptoms and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in healthy children (Dennis et al., 2009).”

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    The Results (Association between ERPs and Emotion Regulation; page unavailable) link P1 responses to fearful and sad faces with lower maternal reports of child dysregulation. But the Methods (Psychophysiological Recording and Data Analysis; page unavailable) identify P1, N1, N170, and Nc—not the LPP—as the components studied. The paper does not report an association with depressive symptoms or assess specific maladaptive regulation strategies. (LLM, conf=0.89)

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Authors
Dennis, T. A., Malone, M. M., & Chen, C.-C.
Affiliations
  • City University of New York (US)
  • Vanderbilt University (US)
Venue
Developmental Neuropsychology
Published
2009-01-08
Volume
34
Issue
1
Pages
85-102
ISSN
  • 1532-6942 (ISSN-L)
  • 8756-5641
OpenAlex
W2047983326
Cited by
118
References
86
Citations by year
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FWCI
10.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Developmental Neuropsychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (K01MH075764)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T34GM007823, S06GM060654)
  • National Center for Research Resources (RR-03037, G12RR003037)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
emotion regulation, emotional face processing, children, event-related potentials, emotional distracters, attentional capture, P1 component, N1 component, Nc component, N170, fearful faces, sad faces, emotional dysregulation, maternal report
MeSH terms
Analysis of Variance, Attention, Brain Mapping, Child, Child, Preschool, Electroencephalography, Electrooculography, Emotions, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Face, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time

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