Fig. 2
From: Enhanced bodily states of fear facilitates bias perception of fearful faces
Self-reported bodily sensations according to intensity and spatial pattern and percentage of decisions favoring fearful face under congruent bodily sensation pattern. a Fear/disgust-associated bodily sensation (intensity). The intensity of the bodily sensations did not significantly differ between the conditions (t = 1.16, p = 0.264). The statistical parametric maps of bodily sensations induced in the bodily imagery task under each condition were visualized on a body template (FBS on the left side and DBS on the right side). b Fear/disgust-associated bodily sensation (spatial patterns). The location of each self-reported bodily sensation was well matched with the patterns presented in the bodily imagery task. c Emotional judgment task. The group-level classification ratio for each morphed face under the FBS (red) and DBS (blue) conditions. The psychometric curves fitted to the classification results are shown in the corresponding colors. The two-way repeated-measures ANOVA revealed a main effect of somatotopic pattern on the classification pattern of the emotional faces (F [1, 16] = 5.191; p = 0.0242). Tukey’s HSD post hoc analyses indicated that the emotional recognition bias favoring the “fearful face” was more pronounced under the FBS condition than under the DBS condition