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@article{citeulike:1397445, abstract = {Cognitive strategies such as reappraisal reduce the intensity of negative experience and brain activity that is sensitive to emotional salience. The time course of reappraisal-related neural modulation remains unclear, and it is unknown whether the electrocortical response to emotional stimuli is sensitive to reappraisal. Event-related brain potentials were recorded first while participants passively viewed pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral pictures, and then during an emotion regulation block in which participants were instructed to attend to or reappraise unpleasant pictures. The late positive potential (LPP) was enhanced for pleasant and unpleasant pictures in the passive viewing block, and reappraisal resulted in a reliably reduced LPP--a protracted modulation that began 200 msec after stimulus onset. The degree of LPP modulation was positively related to reductions in the self-reported emotional intensity that followed emotion regulation instructions. These results indicate that reappraisal modulates early electrocortical activity that is related to emotional salience, and that the LPP is a useful tool for studying emotion regulation.}, address = {Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. greg.hajcak@stonybrook.edu}, author = {Hajcak, G. and Nieuwenhuis, S.}, citeulike-article-id = {1397445}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17458444}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17458444}, issn = {1530-7026}, journal = {Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci}, keywords = {emotion, lpp}, month = {December}, number = {4}, pages = {291--297}, posted-at = {2007-06-18 19:06:41}, priority = {1}, title = {Reappraisal modulates the electrocortical response to unpleasant pictures.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17458444}, volume = {6}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1397445 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1397445 N2 - Cognitive strategies such as reappraisal reduce the intensity of negative experience and brain activity that is sensitive to emotional salience. The time course of reappraisal-related neural modulation remains unclear, and it is unknown whether the electrocortical response to emotional stimuli is sensitive to reappraisal. Event-related brain potentials were recorded first while participants passively viewed pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral pictures, and then during an emotion regulation block in which participants were instructed to attend to or reappraise unpleasant pictures. The late positive potential (LPP) was enhanced for pleasant and unpleasant pictures in the passive viewing block, and reappraisal resulted in a reliably reduced LPP--a protracted modulation that began 200 msec after stimulus onset. The degree of LPP modulation was positively related to reductions in the self-reported emotional intensity that followed emotion regulation instructions. These results indicate that reappraisal modulates early electrocortical activity that is related to emotional salience, and that the LPP is a useful tool for studying emotion regulation. IS - 4 JF - Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci SN - 1530-7026 AD - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. greg.hajcak@stonybrook.edu EP - 297 TI - Reappraisal modulates the electrocortical response to unpleasant pictures. VL - 6 SP - 291 KW - emotion KW - lpp AU - Hajcak, G AU - Nieuwenhuis, S PY - 2006/12// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17458444 ER -