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May 8, 2026Cognitive Affective & Behavioral NeuroscienceOpen Access

People, places, and things: The impact of scene animacy on emotional modulation of the early posterior negativity

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HJHan JiaAFAndrew H. FarkasDSDean Sabatinelli

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Overview

Randomized trial examines emotional modulation of EPN in individuals viewing various scenes, indicating scene animacy influences emotional perception.

Key Points

  • The study investigates how scene animacy affects the emotional modulation of the early posterior negativity (EPN) during visual processing.
  • 80 participants viewed pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant scenes depicting people, objects, or landscapes while their EEG was recorded.
  • Scenes were matched for composition and arousal ratings to isolate animacy effects.
  • EPN modulation was compared across various emotional content and scene types.
  • Significant modulation of EPN was observed for emotional content in both people and object scenes.
  • No significant interaction effect was found in arousal-matched scenes, suggesting consistent emotional response across conditions.
  • The findings support the EPN as a reliable early marker of emotional perception influenced by emotional intensity.

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Jia et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fd7fcdbfa21ec5bbf085e4https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01446-w
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