Impaired perceptual processing of facial expression categorization in social anhedonia.

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Publication: Malden, MA : Blackwell
Original Publication: Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins.

Facial Expression* ; Social Perception*; Anhedonia/*physiology ; Evoked Potentials/*physiology ; Facial Recognition/*physiology; Adolescent ; Adult ; Electroencephalography ; Female ; Happiness ; Humans ; Male ; Sadness ; Young Adult

The current event-related potential study investigated the perceptual processing of the categorization advantage of happy over sad faces in social anhedonia with a nonclinical sample. A high social anhedonia (HSA, N = 25) group and a low social anhedonia (LSA, N = 27) group performed a facial expression categorization task during which they classified facial expressions (happy, neutral, sad), irrespective of face orientation (upright, upside-down). Behaviorally, happy faces were identified more quickly than sad ones in the upright but not inverted orientation. Electrophysiologically, the LSA group showed earlier N170 latencies for happy than for sad faces in the upright but not upside-down orientation, whereas the HSA group did not show any expression effect on N170 latencies. Moreover, N170 and P2 amplitude results revealed that HSA relative to LSA individuals showed delayed neural discrimination between happy and sad faces. These results suggest that social anhedonia is associated with a deficit of perceptual processing during facial expression categorization.
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Keywords: N170; P2; facial expression; happy categorization advantage; social anhedonia

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