en
Scientific article
English

Event-related P3a and P3b in response to unpredictable emotional stimuli

Published inBiological psychology, vol. 68, no. 2, p. 107-120
Publication date2005
Abstract

In natural situations, unpredictable events processing often interacts with the ongoing cognitive activities. In a similar manner, the insertion of deviant unpredictable stimuli into a classical oddball task evokes both the P3a and P3b event-related potentials (ERPs) components that are, respectively, thought to index reallocation of attentional resources or inhibitory process and memory updating mechanism. This study aims at characterising the influence of the emotional arousal and valence of a deviant and unpredictable non-target stimulus on these components. ERPs were recorded from 28 sites during a visual three-stimulus oddball paradigm. Unpleasant, neutral and pleasant pictures served as non-target unpredictable items and subjects were asked to realize a perceptually difficult standard/target discrimination task. A temporal principal component analysis (PCA) allowed us to show that non-target pictures elicited both a P3a and a P3b. Moreover, the P3b component was modulated by the emotional arousal and the valence of the pictures. Thus, the memory updating process may be modulated by the affective arousal and valence of unpredictable disturbing stimuli, even if the task does not require any explicit emotional categorization.

Keywords
  • Adult
  • Affect/physiology
  • Arousal/physiology
  • Blinking/physiology
  • Brain Mapping/instrumentation
  • Cognition/physiology
  • Electroencephalography
  • Evoked Potentials/physiology
  • Eye Movements/physiology
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe/physiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Memory/physiology
  • Nerve Net/physiology
  • Neural Inhibition/physiology
  • Occipital Lobe/physiology
  • Parietal Lobe/physiology
  • Temporal Lobe/physiology
Affiliation Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
DELPLANQUE, Sylvain et al. Event-related P3a and P3b in response to unpredictable emotional stimuli. In: Biological psychology, 2005, vol. 68, n° 2, p. 107–120. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.04.006
Main files (1)
Article (Published version)
accessLevelRestricted
Identifiers
ISSN of the journal0301-0511
522views
3downloads

Technical informations

Creation2010/08/25 14:42:00
First validation2010/08/25 14:42:00
Update time2023/03/14 16:06:35
Status update2023/03/14 16:06:35
Last indexation2024/01/15 21:37:57
All rights reserved by Archive ouverte UNIGE and the University of GenevaunigeBlack