Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent Offenders
Background: Adolescent offenders (AOs) are characterized by social-norm transgression and aggressive behaviors. Those traits have been associated with alterations in socio-cognitive processes, including facial emotion recognition. While this would suggest that AOs tend to interpret negative emotiona...
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| author | Hernando Santamaría-García Hernando Santamaría-García Hernando Santamaría-García Agustin Ibáñez Agustin Ibáñez Agustin Ibáñez Agustin Ibáñez Agustin Ibáñez Synella Montaño Adolfo M. García Adolfo M. García Adolfo M. García Michel Patiño-Saenz Claudia Idarraga Mariana Pino Sandra Baez Sandra Baez |
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| description | Background: Adolescent offenders (AOs) are characterized by social-norm transgression and aggressive behaviors. Those traits have been associated with alterations in socio-cognitive processes, including facial emotion recognition. While this would suggest that AOs tend to interpret negative emotional cues as threatening information, most research has relied on context-free stimuli, thus failing to directly track integrative processes typical of everyday cognition.Methods: In this study, we assessed the impact of body language and surrounding context on facial emotion recognition in AOs and non-offenders (NOs). We recruited 35 AOs from a reform school for young male offenders and 30 NOs matched for age and sex with the former group. All participants completed a well-validated task aimed to determine how contextual cues (i.e., emotional body language and surrounding context) influence facial emotion recognition through the use of congruent and incongruent combinations of facial and bodily emotional information.Results: This study showed that AOs tend to overvalue bodily and contextual signals in emotion recognition, with poorer facial-emotion categorization and increased sensitivity to context information in incongruent face-body scenarios. This pattern was associated with executive dysfunctions and disruptive behaviors, as well as with gray matter (GM) of brain regions supporting body-face recognition [fusiform gyrus (FG)], emotion processing [cingulate cortex (CC), superior temporal gyrus (STG)], contextual integration (precuneus, STG), and motor resonance [cerebellum, supplementary motor area (SMA)].Discussion: Together, our results pave the way for a better understanding of the neurocognitive association between contextual emotion recognition, behavioral regulation, cognitive control, and externalized behaviors in AOs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d360734678a640a6b5fac7c41d7d49762022-12-21T19:56:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience1662-51532019-02-011310.3389/fnbeh.2019.00034429075Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent OffendersHernando Santamaría-García0Hernando Santamaría-García1Hernando Santamaría-García2Agustin Ibáñez3Agustin Ibáñez4Agustin Ibáñez5Agustin Ibáñez6Agustin Ibáñez7Synella Montaño8Adolfo M. García9Adolfo M. García10Adolfo M. García11Michel Patiño-Saenz12Claudia Idarraga13Mariana Pino14Sandra Baez15Sandra Baez16Departamentos de Psiquiatría y Fisiología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, ColombiaCentro de memoria y cognición Intellectus, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación Cerebro y Cognición Social, Bogotá, ColombiaLaboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaNational Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDepartamento de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, ColombiaCenter for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, ChileAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaDepartamento de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, ColombiaLaboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaNational Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFaculty of Education, National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), Mendoza, Argentina0 Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia1Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla, ColombiaDepartamento de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación Cerebro y Cognición Social, Bogotá, Colombia0 Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, ColombiaBackground: Adolescent offenders (AOs) are characterized by social-norm transgression and aggressive behaviors. Those traits have been associated with alterations in socio-cognitive processes, including facial emotion recognition. While this would suggest that AOs tend to interpret negative emotional cues as threatening information, most research has relied on context-free stimuli, thus failing to directly track integrative processes typical of everyday cognition.Methods: In this study, we assessed the impact of body language and surrounding context on facial emotion recognition in AOs and non-offenders (NOs). We recruited 35 AOs from a reform school for young male offenders and 30 NOs matched for age and sex with the former group. All participants completed a well-validated task aimed to determine how contextual cues (i.e., emotional body language and surrounding context) influence facial emotion recognition through the use of congruent and incongruent combinations of facial and bodily emotional information.Results: This study showed that AOs tend to overvalue bodily and contextual signals in emotion recognition, with poorer facial-emotion categorization and increased sensitivity to context information in incongruent face-body scenarios. This pattern was associated with executive dysfunctions and disruptive behaviors, as well as with gray matter (GM) of brain regions supporting body-face recognition [fusiform gyrus (FG)], emotion processing [cingulate cortex (CC), superior temporal gyrus (STG)], contextual integration (precuneus, STG), and motor resonance [cerebellum, supplementary motor area (SMA)].Discussion: Together, our results pave the way for a better understanding of the neurocognitive association between contextual emotion recognition, behavioral regulation, cognitive control, and externalized behaviors in AOs.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00034/fulladolescent offendersemotion recognitionemotion integrationbrain morphologydisruptive behaviors |
| spellingShingle | Hernando Santamaría-García Hernando Santamaría-García Hernando Santamaría-García Agustin Ibáñez Agustin Ibáñez Agustin Ibáñez Agustin Ibáñez Agustin Ibáñez Synella Montaño Adolfo M. García Adolfo M. García Adolfo M. García Michel Patiño-Saenz Claudia Idarraga Mariana Pino Sandra Baez Sandra Baez Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent Offenders Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience adolescent offenders emotion recognition emotion integration brain morphology disruptive behaviors |
| title | Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent Offenders |
| title_full | Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent Offenders |
| title_fullStr | Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent Offenders |
| title_full_unstemmed | Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent Offenders |
| title_short | Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent Offenders |
| title_sort | out of context beyond the face neuroanatomical pathways of emotional face body language integration in adolescent offenders |
| topic | adolescent offenders emotion recognition emotion integration brain morphology disruptive behaviors |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00034/full |
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