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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Affect-congruity effects are known for facial affect recognition.
  • The impact of affect on body language perception remains under-explored.
  • Implicit affectivity predicts physiological responses better than explicit affect.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the link between implicit/explicit affectivity and the recognition of brief affective body expressions.
  • To investigate neural correlates of affective body expression perception.
  • To determine if implicit affect influences rapid emotion recognition from body postures.

Main Methods:

  • fMRI was used to study 34 healthy women recognizing affective body postures (angry, fearful, happy, neutral) presented briefly.
  • Implicit affectivity was measured using the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test.
  • Explicit state and trait affectivity were also assessed.

Main Results:

  • Implicit negative affect, not explicit affect, correlated with accurate recognition of angry body postures.
  • Implicit negative affect positively associated with subcortical network activation for fearful and angry expressions.
  • Caudate nucleus responses were particularly linked to affective body expression recognition.

Conclusions:

  • Rapid recognition of affects from body postures may be facilitated by an individual's implicit negative affect.
  • Subcortical networks are crucial for processing affective body language.
  • Implicit affectivity plays a significant role in perceiving emotions from non-verbal cues.