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Justin F Monroe¹, Mark Griffin, Amy Pinkham

¹Lurie Family Foundations MEG Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

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This study shows that the fusiform gyrus (FG) is more active when processing fearful faces, especially when attention is directed to emotion. This highlights the FG's role in emotional face perception.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

The fusiform gyrus (FG) is known to process faces.
It is unclear if emotional facial expressions modulate FG activity.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether emotional face information modulates fusiform gyrus (FG) activity.
To explore the role of directed attention in emotional face processing within the FG.

Main Methods:

Whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used on 15 healthy adults.
Participants viewed emotional faces and performed explicit (emotion) or implicit (age) tasks.
Dipole source modeling analyzed activity in visual and fusiform areas.

Main Results:

Increased left FG activity (M170) was observed for fearful versus happy/neutral faces, but only during the explicit task.
A significant correlation was found between M170 FG activity and reaction times in the explicit task.

Conclusions:

Directed attention to emotional facial content enhances M170 valence modulation in the FG.
The fusiform gyrus plays a role in processing emotional information from faces.