Author, as appears in the article.: Santaniello, Gerardo; Ferre, Pilar; Sanchez-Carmona, Alberto; Huete-Perez, Daniel; Albert, Jacobo; Hinojosa, Jose A.;
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Huete Pérez, Daniel
Keywords: Temporal pole Spanish words Responses Gamma band Emotional words Eeg Beamforming Avoidance Asymmetry Arousal Approach Alpha Affective norms
Abstract: Prior reports suggest that affective effects in visual word processing cannot be fully explained by a dimensional perspective of emotions based on valence and arousal. In the current study, we focused on the contribution of approach and avoidance motivational systems that are related to different action components to the processing of emotional words. To this aim, we compared frontal alpha asymmetries and brain oscillations elicited by anger words associated with approach (fighting) motivational tendencies, and fear words that may trigger either avoidance (escaping), approach (fighting) or no (freezing) action tendencies. The participants' task was to make decisions about approaching or distancing from the concepts represented by words. The results of cluster-based and beamforming analyses revealed increased gamma power band synchronization for fear words relative to anger words between 725 and 750 ms, with an estimated neural origin in the temporal pole. These findings were interpreted to reflect a conflict between different action tendencies underlying the representation of fear words in semantic and emotional memories, when trying to achieve task requirements. These results are in line with the predictions made by the fear-hinders-action hypothesis. Additionally, current data highlights the contribution of motivational features to the representation and processing of emotional words.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Nutrição Medicina ii Medicina i Linguística e literatura Interdisciplinar General psychology Filosofía Ensino Engenharias iv Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Artes Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: daniel.huete@urv.cat daniel.huete@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-8851-963X 0000-0001-8851-963X 0000-0002-3192-0040
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Frontiers In Psychology. 12 802290-
APA: Santaniello, Gerardo; Ferre, Pilar; Sanchez-Carmona, Alberto; Huete-Perez, Daniel; Albert, Jacobo; Hinojosa, Jose A.; (2022). Gamma Oscillations in the Temporal Pole Reflect the Contribution of Approach and Avoidance Motivational Systems to the Processing of Fear and Anger Words. Frontiers In Psychology, 12(), 802290-. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.802290
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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