Stimulus novelty and emotion perception: the near absence of habituation in the visual cortex
NeuroreportPublished 16 March 2006
Harald T. Schupp, Jessica Stockburger, Maurizio Codispoti, Markus Junghöfer, Almut I. Weike, Alfons O. Hamm
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Findings suggest the near absence of habituation in differential emotion processing during perceptual processing after stimulus repetition in rapid serial visual presentation of pictures.
Abstract
In rapid serial visual presentation of pictures, an early event-related brain potential component shows enlarged negativity over occipital regions for emotional pictures compared with neutral pictures. The present study examined whether the processing of emotional target pictures varies as a function of stimulus repetition. Accordingly, pictures of erotica, neutral contents, and mutilations were repeatedly presented (90 times) while the electroencephalogram was recorded with a 129 dense sensor array. As in previous studies, emotional pictures were associated with a larger posterior negativity than neutral pictures. Furthermore, differential emotion processing did not vary as a function of stimulus repetition and was similarly expressed across blocks of picture presentation. These findings suggest the near absence of habituation in differential emotion processing during perceptual processing.
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