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Seeing emotions, reading emotions: Behavioral and ERPs evidence of the regulation of pictures and words

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Grecucci, Alessandro, Sulpizio, Simone, Tommasello, Elisa, Vespignani, Francesco, Job, Remo·2019·PLOS ONE

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BACKGROUND: Whilst there has been extensive study of the mechanisms underlying the regulation for pictures, the ability and the mechanisms beyond the regulation of words remains to be clarified. Similarly, the effect of strategy when applying a regulatory process is still poorly explored. The present study seeks to elucidate these issues comparing the effect of regulation and of strategy to both neutral and emotional words and pictures. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Thirty young adults applied the strategy of distancing to the emotions elicited by unpleasant and neutral pictures and words while their subjective ratings and ERPs were recorded. At a behavioral level, participants successfully regulated the arousal and the valence of both pictures and words. At a neural level, unpleasant pictures produced an increase in the late positive potential modulated during the regulate condition. Unpleasant linguistic stimuli elicited a posterior negativity as compared to neutral stimuli, but no effect of regulation on ERP was detectable. More importantly, the effect of strategy independently of stimulus type, produced a significant larger Stimulus Preceding Negativity. Dipole reconstruction localized this effect in the middle frontal areas of the brain. CONCLUSIONS: As such, these new psychophysiological findings might help to understand how pictures and words can be regulated by distancing in daily life and clinical contexts, and the neural bases of the effect of strategy for which we suggest an integrative model.

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  • The present LPP results are in line with results from Krendl et al. and Grecucci, but contrary to the majority of earlier studies which showed a decreased LPP for reappraisal.

    “Our results are in line with results from Krendl et al. [39], or Grecucci [40], but contrary to the majority of earlier studies which showed a decreased LPP for reappraisal [36,37,66].”

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    The Discussion (page not provided) says Grecucci's study found a marked LPP reduction when participants distanced themselves from emotional pictures. It describes that result as consistent with earlier findings of reduced LPP during down-regulation, not as a contrasting result. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Studies showed decreased LPP amplitudes after suppression and after reappraisal of negative emotional stimuli.

    “Studies showed decreased LPP amplitudes after suppression (e.g., [35]) and after reappraisal of negative emotional stimuli (e.g., [36,37,38] but see [39,40]).”

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Authors
Grecucci, A., Sulpizio, S., Tommasello, E., Vespignani, F., & Job, R.
Affiliations
  • University of Trento (IT)
  • Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (IT)
Corresponding author
Grecucci, Alessandro
Venue
PLOS ONE
Published
2019-05-31
Volume
14
Issue
5
Pages
e0209461
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2947201845
Cited by
22
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2
FWCI
2.16
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journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Keywords
emotion regulation, distancing strategies, emotional words, emotional pictures, event-related potentials, late positive potential, stimulus-preceding negativity, valence and arousal, middle frontal cortex
MeSH terms
Emotional Regulation, Brain, Electroencephalography, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Photography, Psychophysiology, Vocabulary, Young Adult

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