The neuronal signature of surprised facial expression processing under different attentional focuses: A time-domain and time-frequency study.

Previous studies have shown that high-arousal positive and negative facial expressions influence event-related potential (ERP) and time-frequency responses depending on attentional focuses. However, little is known about how relevant neural responses are influenced by surprised facial expressions, which are also high in arousal but ambiguous in valence. To address the issue, 38 participants were presented with surprised, happy, angry and neutral facial expressions.

Acquisition and generalization of emotional and neural responses to faces associated with negative and positive feedback behaviours.

Faces can acquire emotional meaning by learning to associate individuals with specific behaviors. Here, we investigated emotional evaluation and brain activations toward faces of persons who had given negative or positive evaluations to others. Furthermore, we investigated how emotional evaluations and brain activation generalize to perceptually similar faces.

Competition influences outcome processing involving social comparison: An ERP study.

In a complicated social context, outcome evaluation involves not only oneself but also others in relation to the self (i.e., social comparison).

Altered Putamen Activation for Social Comparison-Related Feedback in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Pilot Study.

Introduction: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by abnormal processing of performance-related social stimuli. Previous studies have shown altered emotional experiences and activations of different sub-regions of the striatum during processing of social stimuli in patients with SAD. However, whether and to what extent social comparisons affect behavioural and neural responses to feedback stimuli in patients with SAD is unknown.

The influence of childhood emotional neglect on emotional face processing in young adults.

Childhood emotional neglect (CEN) refers to a failure to meet the basic emotional needs of a child, which can seriously impact interpersonal communication and psychological health in young adults. Emotional face processing is critical in interpersonal communication; however, whether CEN affects this processing in young adults has not been investigated. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the effects of CEN on emotional face processing in young adults.

The priming effects of emotional vocal expressions on face encoding and recognition: An ERP study.

Previous studies have suggested that emotional primes, presented as visual stimuli, influence face memory (e.g., encoding and recognition).

Behavioral and ERP effects of encoded facial expressions on facial identity recognition depend on recognized facial expressions.

Behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) studies have shown that the expressions of a face displayed in the encoding phase (encoded facial expressions) influences identity recognition of this face in a later recognition phase. As facial expressions displayed in the recognition phase (recognized facial expressions) might also influence facial identity recognition, the current study investigated whether the effect of encoded facial expressions on facial identity recognition changed depending on recognized facial expressions. Therefore, participants were asked to learn facial identities displaying angry, happy or neutral expressions during the encoding phase.

Study on the antigens and antibodies of Mur and Mi blood groups in southern China.

Background: The frequency of Mur and Mi blood group antigens in Asian population is much higher than that in Caucasian population. However, due to the scarcity and high price of commercial detection reagents, there are few studies on antigen and antibody detection and comparative analysis in large samples.

Objective: To study the occurrence frequency, antigen correlation and antibody properties of Mur and Mi antigens and their corresponding antibodies in southern China.

Trait anxiety predicts amygdalar responses during direct processing of threat-related pictures.

Previous studies on the associations between trait anxiety and amygdalar responses to threat stimuli have resulted in mixed findings, possibly due to sample characteristics, specific tasks, and analytical methods. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study aimed to investigate linear or non-linear associations between trait anxiety and amygdalar responses in a sample of participants with low, medium, and high trait anxiety scores. During scanning, participants were presented with threat-related or neutral pictures and had either to solve an emotional task or an emotional-unrelated distraction task.

Working memory load reduces the processing of outcome evaluation involving others but not oneself: Event-related potential evidence.

Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies have suggested that self-related and non-self-related outcomes are processed simultaneously. However, the studies investigated situations in which individuals had sufficient attentional/cognitive resources to process both of the outcomes. It is unknown whether self-related and non-self-unrelated outcomes could still be processed simultaneously when resources are limited.

ERP Effects of Malicious Envy on Schadenfreude in Gain and Loss Frames.

Previous behavioral and neural studies have shown the effects of malicious envy on schadenfreude. However, it is unclear whether these effects are modulated by contextual frames (e.g.

Effects of experienced regret on risky decision making are dependent on risky degree.

We investigated whether experienced regret influences risky decision making in future dissimilar situations and whether this effect is affected by risky degree. Therefore, participants (N = 39 and 54 in Experiment 1 and 2, respectively) were asked to select one of the two options. In the experienced regret condition, the selected option was worse than the unselected option; in the control condition, the information about the unselected option was unknown to the participants.

Recognition of Contextually Threat-Related Scenes is Enhanced by Preceding Emotionally Incongruent Facial Expression.

Previous studies on intentional and incidental face memory have investigated the effects of emotional facial expression on facial recognition itself. However, it is still uncertain whether facial expression influences later recognition of other emotional stimuli, such as emotional scenes. To address this issue, participants during the encoding phase were presented with emotional scenes together with facial expressions.

Cue Valence Influences the Effects of Cue Uncertainty on ERP Responses to Emotional Events.

Individuals often predict consequences, particularly emotional consequences, according to emotional or non-emotional signals conveyed by environmental cues (i.e., emotional and non-emotional cues, respectively).

Stimulus arousal drives amygdalar responses to emotional expressions across sensory modalities.

The factors that drive amygdalar responses to emotionally significant stimuli are still a matter of debate - particularly the proneness of the amygdala to respond to negatively-valenced stimuli has been discussed controversially. Furthermore, it is uncertain whether the amygdala responds in a modality-general fashion or whether modality-specific idiosyncrasies exist. Therefore, the present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study systematically investigated amygdalar responding to stimulus valence and arousal of emotional expressions across visual and auditory modalities.

[Research progress in the heatstroke-induced myocardial injury].

Heat stroke is the most serious type of heat-related diseases, and the induced multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is an important cause of death for heat stroke patients. The cardiovascular system is one of the important targets of heat injury. Studies have reported that heat stress can lead to myocardial inhibition, abnormal heart conduction and blood flow redistribution, thus changing the hemodynamic state, leading to obvious abnormalities in electrocardiogram, echocardiography, myocardial injury biological markers and hemodynamic indicators of patients with heat stroke.

Negative expectations influence behavioral and ERP responses in the subsequent recognition of expectancy-incongruent neutral events.

Previous studies have shown that expectancy incongruence in emotional stimuli influences the encoding (i.e., the first stage of memory processing) of the stimuli.

Learning to play badminton altered resting-state activity and functional connectivity of the cerebellar sub-regions in adults.

Previous studies have shown that sport experts are different from novices in functions and structures of the cerebellar sub-regions and the functional connectivity (FC) associated with the cerebellum, suggesting the role of the cerebellum on motor skill learning (MSL). However, the manipulation of individuals with different motor skills fails to exclude the effects of innate talents. In addition, individuals with higher motor skills often start with the MSL in their young ages.

Contextual effects of angry vocal expressions on the encoding and recognition of emotional faces: An event-related potential (ERP) study.

It has been shown that stimulus memory (e.g., encoding and recognition) is influenced by emotion.

Emotional arousal elicited by irrelevant stimuli affects event-related potentials (ERPs) during response inhibition.

Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies using the Go/Nogo task have indicated that response inhibition is influenced by the arousal elicited by emotional stimuli, when those stimuli are relevant to response selection of Go and Nogo trials. Due to stimulus and task design issues, however, it is uncertain whether response inhibition is affected by emotional valence or arousal, when emotional stimuli are irrelevant to response selection. Therefore, the present study aimed to re-investigate this issue by circumventing limitations of previous research.

[Evaluation value of the quick sequential organ failure assessment score on prognosis of intensive care unit adult patients with infection: a 17-year observation study from the real world].

Objective: To investigate the predictive value of quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) score on the prognosis of adult patients with infection in intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of the infected patients in the ICU of the 401st Hospital of the People's Liberation Army from August 1st, 2000 to December 31st, 2017. The clinical data included patients' gender, age, basic diseases, etc.