title: Love withdrawal predicts electrocortical responses to emotional faces with performance feedback: a follow-up and extension.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Parental use of love withdrawal is thought to affect children's later psychological functioning because it creates a link between children's performance and relational consequences. In addition, recent studies have begun to show that experiences of love withdrawal also relate to the neural processing of socio-emotional information relevant to a performance-relational consequence link, and can moderate effects of oxytocin on social information processing and behavior. The current study follows-up on our previous results by attempting to confirm and extend previous findings indicating that experiences of maternal love withdrawal are related to electrocortical responses to emotional faces presented with performance feedback.
  
  
  RESULTS
  More maternal love withdrawal was related to enhanced early processing of facial feedback stimuli (reflected in more positive VPP amplitudes, and confirming previous findings). However, attentional engagement with and processing of the stimuli at a later stage were diminished in those reporting higher maternal love withdrawal (reflected in less positive LPP amplitudes, and diverging from previous findings).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Maternal love withdrawal affects the processing of emotional faces presented with performance feedback differently in different stages of neural processing.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, P,O, Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, the Netherlands. rhuffmeijer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl.
authors.forename: Renske
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Huffmeijer
authors.forename: Marian J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bakermans-Kranenburg
authors.forename: Lenneke R A
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Alink
authors.forename: Marinus H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: van IJzendoorn
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D055815:Young Adult