Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Covert vs. Overt Emotional Face Processing in Dysphoria.

ABSTRACT: People at risk of developing clinical depression exhibit attentional biases for emotional faces. To clarify whether such effects occur at an early, automatic, or at a late, deliberate processing stage of emotional processing, the present study used high-density electroencephalography during both covert and overt processing of sad, fearful, happy, and neutral expressions in healthy participants with high dysphoria (n = 16) and with low dysphoria (n = 19). A state-of-the-art non-parametric permutation-based statistical approach was then used to explore the effects of emotion, attentional task demands, and group. Behaviorally, participants responded faster and more accurately when overtly categorizing happy faces and they were slower and less accurate when categorizing sad and f

SUBMITTER: Jaspers-Fayer F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9296982 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature