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¹a Universidad Complutense de Madrid , Madrid , Spain.

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Social Psychology
Affective Science

Background:

Emotional expressions significantly modulate event-related potential (ERP) components.
These modulations reflect distinct stages of facial expression processing.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the temporal dynamics of integrating situational context with facial expression information.
To determine if early face processing stages are sensitive to contextual congruency.

Main Methods:

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants identified facial expressions.
Participants read sentences describing congruent or incongruent emotional situations before viewing target faces.
Analysis focused on ERP components like N170, N400, and Late Positive Potential (LPP).

Main Results:

Emotional expressions modulated N170 and N400 amplitudes independently of context.
Contextual congruency effects emerged later, specifically on the LPP component.
Incongruent context trials showed enhanced LPP amplitudes.

Conclusions:

Early facial expression processing (N170, N400) is context-independent.
Integration of facial expressions with situational context occurs at later processing stages (LPP).
This later integration is likely associated with detecting affective congruency.