Summit
2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024
The Effects of Chronic Alcohol Use on Facial Emotion Processing: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study
- Yewon Kim
- Dahyeon Kang
University of Washington - Catharine Fairbairn
University of Illinois - Kara Federmeier
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
This study examined how Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) severity affects neural responses to facial emotion recognition. Forty-eight participants completed an electroencephalogram task, showing larger P3 responses to self-faces and smiling faces. AUD severity amplified self-face effects but weakened responses to smiling faces, highlighting AUD’s impact on social cognitive processing.
Substance Abuse and Addiction
