“Embodied Body Language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies

Abstract To date, most investigations in the field of affective neuroscience mainly focused on the processing of facial expressions, overlooking the exploration of emotional body language (EBL), its capability to express our emotions notwithstanding. Few electrophysiological studies investigated the...

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Autores principales:	Marta Calbi, Monica Angelini, Vittorio Gallese, Maria Alessandra Umiltà
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3f056ee6826d40e6b7a8144d2cbf3b192021-12-02T12:32:25Z“Embodied Body Language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies10.1038/s41598-017-07262-02045-2322https://doaj.org/article/3f056ee6826d40e6b7a8144d2cbf3b192017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07262-0https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract To date, most investigations in the field of affective neuroscience mainly focused on the processing of facial expressions, overlooking the exploration of emotional body language (EBL), its capability to express our emotions notwithstanding. Few electrophysiological studies investigated the time course and the neural correlates of EBL and the integration of face and body emotion-related information. The aim of the present study was to investigate both the time course and the neural correlates underlying the integration of affective information conveyed by faces and bodies. We analysed EEG activities evoked during an expression matching task, requiring the judgment of emotional congruence between sequentially presented pairs of stimuli belonging to the same category (face-face or body-body), and between stimuli belonging to different categories (face-body or body-face). We focused on N400 time window and results showed that incongruent stimuli elicited a modulation of the N400 in all comparisons except for body-face condition. This modulation was mainly detected in the Middle Temporal Gyrus and within regions related to the mirror mechanism. More specifically, while the perception of incongruent facial expressions activates somatosensory-related representations, incongruent emotional body postures also require the activation of motor and premotor representations, suggesting a strict link between emotion and action.Marta CalbiMonica AngeliniVittorio GalleseMaria Alessandra UmiltàNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)
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description	Abstract To date, most investigations in the field of affective neuroscience mainly focused on the processing of facial expressions, overlooking the exploration of emotional body language (EBL), its capability to express our emotions notwithstanding. Few electrophysiological studies investigated the time course and the neural correlates of EBL and the integration of face and body emotion-related information. The aim of the present study was to investigate both the time course and the neural correlates underlying the integration of affective information conveyed by faces and bodies. We analysed EEG activities evoked during an expression matching task, requiring the judgment of emotional congruence between sequentially presented pairs of stimuli belonging to the same category (face-face or body-body), and between stimuli belonging to different categories (face-body or body-face). We focused on N400 time window and results showed that incongruent stimuli elicited a modulation of the N400 in all comparisons except for body-face condition. This modulation was mainly detected in the Middle Temporal Gyrus and within regions related to the mirror mechanism. More specifically, while the perception of incongruent facial expressions activates somatosensory-related representations, incongruent emotional body postures also require the activation of motor and premotor representations, suggesting a strict link between emotion and action.
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author	Marta Calbi Monica Angelini Vittorio Gallese Maria Alessandra Umiltà
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title	“Embodied Body Language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies
title_short	“Embodied Body Language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies
title_full	“Embodied Body Language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies
title_fullStr	“Embodied Body Language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies
title_full_unstemmed	“Embodied Body Language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies
title_sort	“embodied body language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies
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“Embodied Body Language”: an electrical neuroimaging study with emotional faces and bodies

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