title: How disgust facilitates avoidance: an ERP study on attention modulation by threats.
abstract: This study investigated the attention modulation of disgust in comparison with anger in a dot-probe task. Results indicated a two-stage processing of attention modulation by threats. When participants viewed the cues that were represented by Chinese faces (i.e. the in-group condition), it was found at the early processing stage that an angry face elicited a larger occipital P1 component whereas a disgusted face elicited a smaller P1 for validly than for invalidly cued targets. However, the result pattern was reversed at the later processing stage: the P3 amplitudes were larger for valid disgust cues but were smaller for valid angry cues, when both were compared with invalid cue conditions. In addition, when participants viewed the cues that were represented by foreign faces (i.e. the out-group condition), the attention modulation of disgust/anger diminished at the early stage, whereas enhanced P3 amplitudes were observed in response to validly cued targets in both disgusting and angry conditions at the later stage. The current result implied that although people can perceptually differentiate the emotional categories of out-group faces as accurately as in-group faces, they may still be not able to psychologically understand the subtle differences behind different categories of out-group facial expressions.
authors: Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China and State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China and State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
authors: Yunzhe
authors: Y
authors: Liu
authors: Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China and State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China and State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China zhangdd05@gmail.com.
authors: Dandan
authors: D
authors: Zhang
authors: Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China and State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
authors: Yuejia
authors: Y
authors: Luo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D003469:Culture; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005145:Face; D005149:Facial Expression; D005239:Fear / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: anger; attention; disgust; threat-related emotion