Emotional contexts modulate intentional memory suppression of neutral faces: Insights from ERPs

Autor: Lapo Pierguidi, Giorgio Gronchi, Stefania Righi, Fabio Giovannelli, Stéphanie Caharel, Maria Pia Viggiano, Tessa Marzi
Přispěvatelé: NEUROFARBA Department [Firenze, Italy], Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Laboratoire de psychologie de l'interaction et des relations intersubjectives (INTERPSY), Université de Lorraine (UL)
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Santé mentale
Adult
Male
Psychologie sociale et du travail
Item-method directed forgetting
Memory control
[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology
Context (language use)
Psychologie du développement et de l’éducation
Intention
Electroencephalography
Psychologie de la cognition
Affect (psychology)
050105 experimental psychology
Psychologie clinique et psychopathologie
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Psychologie de l’interaction et de la communication
Physiology (medical)
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Attention
Emotion-related attentional mechanisms
Temporal information
Evoked Potentials
medicine.diagnostic_test
General Neuroscience
05 social sciences
Motivated forgetting
Recognition
Psychology

Emotional contexts
Affect
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Intentional memory control
Neuroscience (all)
Pattern Recognition
Visual

Mental Recall
Female
Psychology
Facial Recognition
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Zdroj: International Journal of Psychophysiology
International Journal of Psychophysiology, Elsevier, 2016, 106, pp.1-13. ⟨10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.05.008⟩
ISSN: 1872-7697
0167-8760
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.05.008⟩
Popis: International audience; The main goal of present work is to gain new insight into the temporal dynamics underlying the voluntary memory control for neutral faces associated with neutral, positive and negative contexts. A directed forgetting (DF) procedure was used during the recording of EEG to answer the question whether is it possible to forget a face that has been encoded within a particular emotional context. A face-scene phase in which a neutral face was showed in a neutral or emotional scene (positive, negative) was followed by the voluntary memory cue (cue phase) indicating whether the face had to-be remember or to-be-forgotten (TBR and TBF). Memory for faces was then assessed with an old/new recognition task. Behaviorally, we found that it is harder to suppress faces-in-positive-scenes compared to faces-in-negative and neutral-scenes. The temporal information obtained by the ERPs showed: 1) during the face-scene phase, the Late Positive Potential (LPP), which indexes motivated emotional attention, was larger for faces-in-negative-scenes compared to faces-in-neutral-scenes. 2) Remarkably, during the cue phase, ERPs were significantly modulated by the emotional contexts. Faces-in-neutral scenes showed an ERP pattern that has been typically associated to DF effect whereas faces-in-positive-scenes elicited the reverse ERP pattern. Faces-in-negative scenes did not show differences in the DF-related neural activities but larger N1 amplitude for TBF vs. TBR faces may index early attentional deployment. These results support the hypothesis that the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the contexts (through attentional broadening and narrowing mechanisms, respectively) may modulate the effectiveness of intentional memory suppression for neutral information.
Databáze: OpenAIRE