The effect of alexithymia on early visual processing of emotional body postures.

Abstract:

:Body postures convey emotion and motion-related information useful in social interactions. Early visual encoding of body postures, reflected by the N190 component, is modulated both by motion (i.e., postures implying motion elicit greater N190 amplitudes than static postures) and by emotion-related content (i.e., fearful postures elicit the largest N190 amplitude). At a later stage, there is a fear-related increase in attention, reflected by an early posterior negativity (EPN) (Borhani et al., 2015). Here, we tested whether difficulties in emotional processing (i.e., alexithymia) affect early and late visual processing of body postures. Low alexithymic participants showed emotional modulation of the N190, with fearful postures specifically enhancing N190 amplitude. In contrast, high alexithymic participants showed no emotional modulation of the N190. Both groups showed preserved encoding of the motion content. At a later stage, a fear-related modulation of the EPN was found for both groups, suggesting that selective attention to salient stimuli is the same in both low and high alexithymia.

journal_name

Biol Psychol

journal_title

Biological psychology

authors

Borhani K,Borgomaneri S,Làdavas E,Bertini C

doi

10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.010

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-03-01 00:00:00

pages

1-8

eissn

0301-0511

issn

1873-6246

pii

S0301-0511(15)30103-4

journal_volume

115

pub_type

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