Menstrual cycle and exogenous attention toward emotional expressions
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UAM. Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la SaludPublisher
ElsevierDate
2022-09-15Citation
Hormones and Behavior 146 (2022): 105259ISSN
0018-506X (print)Funded by
This research was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion ´ y Universidades of Spain (Grant no. PID2021-124420NB-100) and Comunidad de Madrid (Grants no. HUM19-HUM5705 and SI1-PJI-2019- 00011) in collaboration with the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Grant no. 2017-T2/SOC-5569)Project
Gobierno de España. PID2021-124420NB-100; Comunidad de Madrid. HUM19-HUM5705; Comunidad de Madrid. SI1-PJI-2019- 00011Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105259Subjects
Exogenous attention; Menstrual cycle; Emotion; ERP; Premenstrual syndrome; PsicologíaRights
© 2022 The Authors
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Abstract
Several studies suggest that the menstrual cycle affects emotional processing. However, these results may be
biased by including women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in the samples. PMS is characterized by negative
emotional symptomatology, such as depression and/or anxiety, during the luteal phase. This study aimed to
explore the modulation of exogenous attention to emotional facial expressions as a function of the menstrual
cycle in women without PMS. For this purpose, 55 women were selected (from an original volunteer sample of
790) according to rigorous exclusion criteria. Happy, angry, and neutral faces were presented as distractors,
while both behavioral performance in a perceptual task and event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. This
task was applied during both phases of the menstrual cycle (luteal and follicular, counterbalanced), and premenstrual symptomatology was monitored daily. Traditional and Bayesian ANOVAs on behavioral data (reaction
times and errors in the task) and ERP indices (P1, N170, N2, and LPP amplitudes) confirmed the expected lack of
an interaction of phase and emotion. Taken together, these results indicate that women free of PMS present
steady exogenous attention levels to emotionally positive and negative stimuli regardless of the menstrual phase
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Google Scholar:Álvarez Sánchez, Fátima
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Fernández Folgueiras, Uxía
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Méndez Bértolo, Constantino
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Kessel, Dominique
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Carretie Arangüena, Luis
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