Microsaccadic modulation evoked by emotional events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5179583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Koji Kashihara (0000-0003-2442-2278, Ritsumeikan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-26 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1880-6791 • E-ISSN: 1880-6805 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s40101-020-00238-6 |
| PMID | 32887665 |
| OpenAlex | W3083233614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 92 |
Saccadic eye movements can allude to emotional states and visual attention. Recent studies have shown that microsaccadic responses (i.e., small fixational eye movements) reflect advanced brain activity during attentional and cognitive tasks. Moreover, the microsaccadic activity related to emotional attention provides new insights into this field. For example, emotional pictures attenuate the microsaccadic rate, and microsaccadic responses to covert attention occur in the direction opposite to a negative emotional target. However, the effects of various emotional events on microsaccadic activity remain debatable. This review introduces visual attention and eye movement studies that support findings on the modulation of microsaccadic responses to emotional events, comparing them with typical microsaccadic responses. This review also discusses the brain neuronal mechanisms governing microsaccadic responses to the attentional shifts triggered by emotion-related stimuli. It is hard to reveal the direct brain pathway of the microsaccadic modulation, especially in advanced (e.g., sustained anger, envy, distrust, guilt, frustration, delight, attraction, trust, and love), but also in basic human emotions (i.e., anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise). However, non-human primates and human studies can uncover the possible brain pathways of emotional attention and microsaccades, thus providing future research directions. In particular, the facilitated (or reduced) attention is common evidence that microsaccadic activities change under a variety of social modalities (e.g., cognition, music, mental illness, and working memory) that elicit emotions and feelings
Affective neuroscience · Anger · Brain activity and meditation · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Disgust · Electroencephalography · Emotional expression · Eye movement · Happiness · Microsaccade · Saccadic masking · Sadness · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |