Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs

This study explored the extent to which there are the neural correlates of the affective personality influence on face processing using event-related potentials (ERPs). In the learning phase, participants viewed a target individual’s face (expression neutral or faint smile) paired with either negati...

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Main Authors:	Luo, Qiu L., Wang, Han L., Dzhelyova, Milena, Huang, Ping, Mo, Lei
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4885863/

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spelling	pubmed-48858632016-06-14 Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs Luo, Qiu L. Wang, Han L. Dzhelyova, Milena Huang, Ping Mo, Lei Psychology This study explored the extent to which there are the neural correlates of the affective personality influence on face processing using event-related potentials (ERPs). In the learning phase, participants viewed a target individual’s face (expression neutral or faint smile) paired with either negative, neutral or positive sentences describing previous typical behavior of the target. In the following EEG testing phase, participants completed gender judgments of the learned faces. Statistical analyses were conducted on measures of neural activity during the gender judgment task. Repeated measures ANOVA of ERP data showed that faces described as having a negative personality elicited larger N170 than did those with a neutral or positive description. The early posterior negativity (EPN) showed the same result pattern, with larger amplitudes for faces paired with negative personality than for others. The size of the late positive potential was larger for faces paired with positive personality than for those with neutral and negative personality. The current study indicates that affective personality information is associated with an automatic, top–down modulation on face processing. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4885863/ /pubmed/27303359 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00810 Text en Copyright © 2016 Luo, Wang, Dzhelyova, Huang and Mo. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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author	Luo, Qiu L. Wang, Han L. Dzhelyova, Milena Huang, Ping Mo, Lei
spellingShingle	Luo, Qiu L. Wang, Han L. Dzhelyova, Milena Huang, Ping Mo, Lei Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs
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title	Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs
title_short	Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs
title_full	Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs
title_fullStr	Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs
title_full_unstemmed	Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs
title_sort	effect of affective personality information on face processing: evidence from erps
description	This study explored the extent to which there are the neural correlates of the affective personality influence on face processing using event-related potentials (ERPs). In the learning phase, participants viewed a target individual’s face (expression neutral or faint smile) paired with either negative, neutral or positive sentences describing previous typical behavior of the target. In the following EEG testing phase, participants completed gender judgments of the learned faces. Statistical analyses were conducted on measures of neural activity during the gender judgment task. Repeated measures ANOVA of ERP data showed that faces described as having a negative personality elicited larger N170 than did those with a neutral or positive description. The early posterior negativity (EPN) showed the same result pattern, with larger amplitudes for faces paired with negative personality than for others. The size of the late positive potential was larger for faces paired with positive personality than for those with neutral and negative personality. The current study indicates that affective personality information is associated with an automatic, top–down modulation on face processing.
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Effect of Affective Personality Information on Face Processing: Evidence from ERPs

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