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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychophysiology

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  • Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a neurophysiological marker of prediction error in the predictive coding framework.
  • Expression-related MMN is a proposed but untested construct reflecting prediction errors in emotional processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if expression-related MMN is specific to emotional stimuli or a general response to sequence violations.
  • To directly test the emotion-specificity of expression-related MMN.

Main Methods:

  • A visual sequence oddball task was employed with healthy participants.
  • Stimuli included neutral sequence deviants, emotional sequence deviants, and emotional deviants.
  • Mismatch components were analyzed for amplitude, spatiotemporal profiles, and neuronal sources at ventral occipitotemporal scalp sites.

Main Results:

  • Expression-related MMN was distinguishable from neutral MMN across all analyzed aspects.
  • Expression-related MMN exhibited significantly enhanced amplitude and shorter latency.
  • Distinct neuronal sources were identified for expression-related MMN compared to neutral MMN.

Conclusions:

  • The findings provide evidence for the quantitative specificity of expression-related MMN, supporting its role in emotional processing.
  • This research offers a neurophysiological approach to studying prediction errors during preattentive emotional processing.
  • Emotionally salient stimuli appear to enhance the basic cognitive operator of prediction error at the cortical level.