title: Make a lasting impression: the neural consequences of re-encountering people who emote inappropriately.
abstract: We can learn about the affective content of the environment by observing the behavior of others; their responses to stimuli tend to be appropriate to the context. To investigate the impact of observing such appropriate, compared with inappropriate, behaviors, we developed a novel behavioral task where participants observed different faces reacting to emotional scenes. We found that affective categorization of a scene was facilitated when it was presented alongside an appropriate facial expression (Experiment 1). Further, we observed that several brain areas in the right hemisphere-the putamen, insula, orbitofrontal cortex, and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex-were more activate when viewing faces that were previously observed emoting inappropriately (Experiment 2). We contend that these areas form a network that codes for the retrieval of affective conflict information generated by observing individuals producing inappropriate emotions.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Andrew P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Bayliss
authors.forename: Claire K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Naughtin
authors.forename: Ottmar V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Lipp
authors.forename: Ada
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kritikos
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Dux
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011699:Putamen / Q000502:physiology; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult