Hasegawa Yuya, Tamura Hideki, Nakauchi Shigeki, Minami Tetsuto
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan
eNeuro. 2025 Jan 10;12(1). doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0419-24.2024. Print 2025 Jan.
The relationships between facial expression and color affect human cognition functions such as perception and memory. However, whether these relationships influence selective attention and brain activity contributed to selective attention remains unclear. For example, reddish angry faces increase emotion intensity, but it is unclear whether brain activity and selective attention are similarly enhanced. To investigate these questions, we examined whether event-related potentials for faces vary depending on facial expression and color by recording electroencephalography (EEG) data. We conducted an oddball task using stimuli that combined facial expressions (angry, neutral) and facial colors (original, red, green). The participants counted the number of times a rarely appearing target face stimulus appeared among the standard face stimuli. The results indicated that the difference in P3 amplitudes for the target and standard faces depended on the combinations of facial expressions and facial colors; the P3 for red angry faces were greater than those for red neutral faces. Additionally, facial expression or facial color had no significant main effect or interaction effect on P1 amplitudes for the target, and facial expression had significant main effects only on the N170 amplitude. These findings suggest that the interaction between facial expression and color modulates the P3 associated with selective attention. Moreover, the response enhancement resulting from this interaction appears to occur at a cognitive processing stage that follows the processing stage associated with facial color or expression alone. Our results support the idea that red color increases the human response to anger from an EEG perspective.
面部表情与颜色之间的关系会影响人类的认知功能,如感知和记忆。然而,这些关系是否会影响选择性注意以及对选择性注意有贡献的大脑活动仍不清楚。例如,泛红的愤怒面孔会增加情绪强度,但尚不清楚大脑活动和选择性注意是否也会同样增强。为了研究这些问题,我们通过记录脑电图(EEG)数据,来检验面部的事件相关电位是否会因面部表情和颜色的不同而有所变化。我们使用结合了面部表情(愤怒、中性)和面部颜色(原始、红色、绿色)的刺激进行了一个oddball任务。参与者要数出在标准面部刺激中很少出现的目标面部刺激出现的次数。结果表明,目标面孔和标准面孔的P3波幅差异取决于面部表情和面部颜色的组合;红色愤怒面孔的P3波幅大于红色中性面孔的P3波幅。此外,面部表情或面部颜色对目标的P1波幅没有显著的主效应或交互效应,并且面部表情仅对N170波幅有显著的主效应。这些发现表明,面部表情与颜色之间的相互作用调节了与选择性注意相关的P3波。此外,这种相互作用导致的反应增强似乎发生在一个认知加工阶段,该阶段位于仅与面部颜色或表情相关的加工阶段之后。我们的结果从脑电图角度支持了红色会增强人类对愤怒反应的观点。