Key result
Reappraisal of negative pictures sustains parietal LPP but fails to decrease early fronto-centro-parietal LPP.
Why the study?
The study addressed how altered emotional experience during reappraisal is related to altered electro-cortical responses, and the neural mechanisms underlying regulation itself.
Emotion regulation via reappraisal sustains the emotion effect on the parietal Late Positive Potential rather than decreasing it, with no significant effects observed on theta activity.
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Reappraisal may not attenuate early neural emotion markers; leaves open mechanisms of sustained LPP in future regulation studies.
Chen et al. (2024) studied Emotion processing. Cued emotion-regulation paradigm (reappraisal) vs. Passive viewing of negative and neutral pictures was evaluated on Late Positive Potential (LPP) and theta activity. Reappraisal of negative pictures sustained the emotion effect on the parietal Late Positive Potential until picture offset, but did not decrease the early fronto-centro-parietal LPP.
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