Medical School, University of Crete, Voutes Campus, Heraklion, Greece.
Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece.
Soc Neurosci. 2024 Jun;19(3):215-228. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2403187. Epub 2024 Sep 19.
We investigated neural correlates of Emotion Recognition Accuracy (ERA) using the Assessment of Contextualized Emotions (ACE). ACE infuses context by presenting emotion expressions in a naturalistic group setting and distinguishes between accurately perceiving intended emotions (signal), and bias due to perceiving additional, secondary emotions (noise). This social perception process is argued to induce perspective taking in addition to pattern matching in ERA. Thirty participants were presented with an fMRI-compatible adaptation of the ACE consisting of blocks of neutral and emotional faces in single and group-embedded settings. Participants rated the central character's expressions categorically or using scalar scales in consequent fMRI scans. Distinct brain activations were associated with the perception of emotional vs. neutral faces in the four conditions. Moreover, accuracy and bias scores from the original ACE task performed on another day were associated with brain activation during the scalar (vs. categorical) condition for emotional (vs. neutral) faces embedded in group. These findings suggest distinct cognitive mechanisms linked to each type of emotional rating and highlight the importance of considering cognitive bias in the assessment of social emotion perception.
我们使用情境化情绪评估（ACE）研究了情绪识别准确性（ERA）的神经相关性。ACE 通过在自然群体环境中呈现情绪表达来注入情境，并区分准确感知预期情绪（信号）和由于感知额外的次要情绪（噪声）而产生的偏差。这种社会感知过程被认为除了在 ERA 中进行模式匹配外，还能诱导换位思考。30 名参与者接受了 ACE 的 fMRI 兼容改编版，其中包括单个和群体嵌入环境中的中性和情绪面孔的块。参与者在随后的 fMRI 扫描中对中央角色的表情进行分类或使用标度评分。在四种条件下，与情绪面孔相比，大脑对中性面孔的感知与不同的大脑激活相关。此外，在另一天进行的原始 ACE 任务的准确性和偏差得分与在群体中嵌入的情绪（而非中性）面孔的标度（而非分类）条件下的大脑激活相关。这些发现表明，与每种情绪评分类型相关的认知机制不同，并强调了在评估社会情绪感知时考虑认知偏差的重要性。
