Relevance of pre-stimulus oscillatory activity for the perceived valence of emotional facial expressions.

ABSTRACT: The interpretation of emotional facial expressions is crucial in everyday social interactions, and rapid processing of these expressions is necessary. Although extensive research has shed light on the mechanisms involved in facial expression processing, there is limited research on the potential role of the state of neural activity that directly precedes the occurrence of a face. Here, we investigated the potential modulatory role of pre-stimulus oscillatory activity in emotional facial expression processing. We tested emotional facial processing in two experiments, one utilizing artificial and the other natural facial expressions. The participants had to evaluate the emotional valence of the presented ambiguous facial expressions. In a univariate analysis, differences in the oscillation a

SUBMITTER: Jaap C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11336227 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature