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Tucker DM, Luu P. Motive control of unconscious inference: The limbic base of adaptive Bayes. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 128:328-345. [PMID: 34129851 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.05.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 05/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Current computational models of neocortical processing, described as predictive coding theory, are providing new ways of understanding Helmholtz's classical insight that perception cannot proceed in a data-driven fashion, but instead requires unconscious inference based on prior experience. Predictive coding is a Bayesian process, in which the operations at each lower level of the cortical hierarchy are predicted by prior projections of expectancies from a higher level, and are then updated by error-correction with lower level evidence. To generalize the predictive coding model to the human neocortex as a whole requires aligning the Bayesian negotiation of prior expectancies with sensory and motor evidence not only within the connectional architecture of the neocortex (primary sensory/motor, unimodal association areas, and heteromodal association areas) but also with the limbic cortex that forms the base for the adaptive control of the heteromodal areas and thereby the cerebral hemisphere as a whole. By reviewing the current evidence on the anatomy of the human corticolimbic connectivity (now formalized as the Structural Model) we address the problem of how limbic cortex resonates to the homeostatic, personal significance of events to provide Bayesian priors to organize the operations of predictive coding across the multiple levels of the neocortex. By reviewing both classical evidence and current models of control exerted between limbic and neocortical networks, we suggest a neuropsychological theory of human cognition, the adaptive Bayes process model, in which prior expectancies are not simply rationalized propositions, but rather affectively-charged expectancies that bias the interpretation of sensory data and action affordances to support allostasis, the motive control of expectancies for future events.
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- Don M Tucker
- Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory Company, University of Oregon, United States.
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- Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory Company, University of Oregon, United States
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Vaisvaser S. The Embodied-Enactive-Interactive Brain: Bridging Neuroscience and Creative Arts Therapies. Front Psychol 2021; 12:634079. [PMID: 33995190 PMCID: PMC8121022 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.634079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The recognition and incorporation of evidence-based neuroscientific concepts into creative arts therapeutic knowledge and practice seem valuable and advantageous for the purpose of integration and professional development. Moreover, exhilarating insights from the field of neuroscience coincide with the nature, conceptualization, goals, and methods of Creative Arts Therapies (CATs), enabling comprehensive understandings of the clinical landscape, from a translational perspective. This paper contextualizes and discusses dynamic brain functions that have been suggested to lie at the heart of intra- and inter-personal processes. Touching upon fundamental aspects of the self and self-other interaction, the state-of-the-art neuroscientific-informed views will shed light on mechanisms of the embodied, predictive and relational brain. The conceptual analysis introduces and interweaves the following contemporary perspectives of brain function: firstly, the grounding of mental activity in the lived, bodily experience will be delineated; secondly, the enactive account of internal models, or generative predictive representations, shaped by experience, will be defined and extensively deliberated; and thirdly, the interpersonal simulation and synchronization mechanisms that support empathy and mentalization will be thoroughly considered. Throughout the paper, the cross-talks between the brain and the body, within the brain through functionally connected neural networks and in the context of agent-environment dynamics, will be addressed. These communicative patterns will be elaborated on to unfold psychophysiological linkage, as well as psychopathological shifts, concluding with the neuroplastic change associated with the formulation of CATs. The manuscript suggests an integrative view of the brain-body-mind in contexts relevant to the therapeutic potential of the expressive creative arts and the main avenues by which neuroscience may ground, enlighten and enrich the clinical psychotherapeutic practice.
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- Sharon Vaisvaser
- School of Society and the Arts, Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono, Israel
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Wolf RC, Hildebrandt V, Schmitgen MM, Pycha R, Kirchler E, Macina C, Karner M, Hirjak D, Kubera KM, Romanov D, Freudenmann RW, Huber M. Aberrant Gray Matter Volume and Cortical Surface in Paranoid-Type Delusional Disorder. Neuropsychobiology 2021; 79:335-344. [PMID: 32160619 DOI: 10.1159/000505601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 12/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Delusions are core symptoms of schizophrenia-spectrum and related disorders. Despite their clinical relevance, the neural correlates underlying such phenomena are unclear. Recent research suggests that specific delusional content may be associated with distinct neural substrates. OBJECTIVE Here, we used structural magnetic resonance imaging to investigate multiple parameters of brain morphology in patients presenting with paranoid type delusional disorder (pt-DD, n = 14) compared to those of healthy controls (HC, n = 25). METHODS Voxel- and surface-based morphometry for structural data was used to investigate gray matter volume (GMV), cortical thickness (CT) and gyrification. RESULTS Compared to HC, patients with pt-DD showed reduced GMV in bilateral amygdala and right inferior frontal gyrus. Higher GMV in patients was found in bilateral orbitofrontal and in left superior frontal cortices. Patients also had lower CT in frontal and temporal regions. Abnormal gyrification in patients was evident in frontal and temporal areas, as well as in bilateral insula. CONCLUSIONS The data suggest the presence of aberrant GMV in a right prefrontal region associated with belief evaluation, as well as distinct structural abnormalities in areas that essentially subserve processing of fear, anxiety and threat in patients with pt-DD. It is possible that cortical features of distinct evolutionary and genetic origin, i.e. CT and gyrification, contribute differently to the pathogenesis of pt-DD.
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- Robert Christian Wolf
- Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany,
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- Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, General Hospital Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry, General Hospital Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry, General Hospital Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy
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- Department of Radiology, General Hospital Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychosomatics, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Psychiatry, General Hospital Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy
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Hoemann K, Khan Z, Kamona N, Dy J, Barrett LF, Quigley KS. Investigating the relationship between emotional granularity and cardiorespiratory physiological activity in daily life. Psychophysiology 2021; 58:e13818. [PMID: 33768687 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Revised: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Emotional granularity describes the ability to create emotional experiences that are precise and context-specific. Despite growing evidence of a link between emotional granularity and mental health, the physiological correlates of granularity have been under-investigated. This study explored the relationship between granularity and cardiorespiratory physiological activity in everyday life, with particular reference to the role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an estimate of vagal influence on the heart often associated with positive mental and physical health outcomes. Participants completed a physiologically triggered experience-sampling protocol including ambulatory recording of electrocardiogram, impedance cardiogram, movement, and posture. At each prompt, participants generated emotion labels to describe their current experience. In an end-of-day survey, participants elaborated on each prompt by rating the intensity of their experience on a standard set of emotion adjectives. Consistent with our hypotheses, individuals with higher granularity exhibited a larger number of distinct patterns of physiological activity during seated rest, and more situationally precise patterns of activity during emotional events: granularity was positively correlated with the number of clusters of cardiorespiratory physiological activity discovered in seated rest data, as well as with the performance of classifiers trained on event-related changes in physiological activity. Granularity was also positively associated with RSA during seated rest periods, although this relationship did not reach significance in this sample. These findings are consistent with constructionist accounts of emotion that propose concepts as a key mechanism underlying individual differences in emotional experience, physiological regulation, and physical health.
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- Katie Hoemann
- Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.,Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA, USA
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Li Q, Tavakol S, Royer J, Larivière S, Vos De Wael R, Park BY, Paquola C, Zeng D, Caldairou B, Bassett DS, Bernasconi A, Bernasconi N, Frauscher B, Smallwood J, Caciagli L, Li S, Bernhardt BC. Atypical neural topographies underpin dysfunctional pattern separation in temporal lobe epilepsy. Brain 2021; 144:2486-2498. [PMID: 33730163 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awab121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Revised: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Episodic memory is the ability to accurately remember events from our past. The process of pattern separation is hypothesized to underpin this ability and is defined as the ability to orthogonalize memory traces, to maximize the features that make them unique. Contemporary cognitive neuroscience suggests that pattern separation entails complex interactions between the hippocampus and the neocortex, where specific hippocampal subregions shape neural reinstatement in the neocortex. To test this hypothesis, the current work studied both healthy controls and patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) who present with hippocampal structural anomalies. In all participants, we measured neural activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while they retrieved memorized items compared to lure items which share features with the target. Behaviorally, TLE patients were less able to exclude lures than controls, and showed a reduction in pattern separation. To assess the hypothesized relationship between neural patterns in the hippocampus and the neocortex, we identified topographic gradients of intrinsic connectivity along neocortical and hippocampal subfield surfaces and identified the topographic profile of the neural activity accompanying pattern separation. In healthy controls, pattern separation followed a graded pattern of neural activity, both along the hippocampal long axis (and peaked in anterior segments that are more heavily engaged in transmodal processing) and along the neocortical hierarchy running from unimodal to transmodal regions (peaking in transmodal default mode regions). In TLE patients, however, this concordance between task-based functional activations and topographic gradients was markedly reduced. Furthermore, person specific measures of concordance between task-related activity and connectivity gradients in patients and controls related to inter-individual differences in behavioral measures of pattern separation and episodic memory, highlighting the functional relevance of the observed topographic motifs. Our work is consistent with an emerging understanding that successful discrimination between memories with similar features entails a shift in the locus of neural activity away from sensory systems, a pattern that is mirrored along the hippocampal long axis and with respect to neocortical hierarchies. More broadly, our study establishes topographic profiling using intrinsic connectivity gradients captures the functional underpinnings of episodic memory processes in manner that is sensitive to their reorganization in pathology.
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- Qiongling Li
- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.,School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.,Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.,Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.,Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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- Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Wolff M, Morceau S, Folkard R, Martin-Cortecero J, Groh A. A thalamic bridge from sensory perception to cognition. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 120:222-235. [PMID: 33246018 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The ability to adapt to dynamic environments requires tracking multiple signals with variable sensory salience and fluctuating behavioral relevance. This complex process requires integrative crosstalk between sensory and cognitive brain circuits. Functional interactions between cortical and thalamic regions are now considered essential for both sensory perception and cognition but a clear account of the functional link between sensory and cognitive circuits is currently lacking. This review aims to document how thalamic nuclei may effectively act as a bridge allowing to fuse perceptual and cognitive events into meaningful experiences. After highlighting key aspects of thalamocortical circuits such as the classic first-order/higher-order dichotomy, we consider the role of the thalamic reticular nucleus from directed attention to cognition. We next summarize research relying on Pavlovian learning paradigms, showing that both first-order and higher-order thalamic nuclei contribute to associative learning. Finally, we propose that modulator inputs reaching all thalamic nuclei may be critical for integrative purposes when environmental signals are computed. Altogether, the thalamus appears as the bridge linking perception, cognition and possibly affect.
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- M Wolff
- CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, Bordeaux, France; University of Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, Bordeaux, France.
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- CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, Bordeaux, France; University of Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, Bordeaux, France
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- Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Medical Biophysics, Heidelberg University, INF 326, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Medical Biophysics, Heidelberg University, INF 326, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Medical Biophysics, Heidelberg University, INF 326, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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García-Cabezas MÁ, Hacker JL, Zikopoulos B. A Protocol for Cortical Type Analysis of the Human Neocortex Applied on Histological Samples, the Atlas of Von Economo and Koskinas, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Front Neuroanat 2020; 14:576015. [PMID: 33364924 PMCID: PMC7750391 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2020.576015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The human cerebral cortex is parcellated in hundreds of areas using neuroanatomy and imaging methods. Alternatively, cortical areas can be classified into few cortical types according to their degree of laminar differentiation. Cortical type analysis is based on the gradual and systematic variation of laminar features observed across the entire cerebral cortex in Nissl stained sections and has profound implications for understanding fundamental aspects of evolution, development, connections, function, and pathology of the cerebral cortex. In this protocol paper, we explain the general principles of cortical type analysis and provide tables with the fundamental features of laminar structure that are studied for this analysis. We apply cortical type analysis to the micrographs of the Atlas of the human cerebral cortex of von Economo and Koskinas and provide tables and maps with the areas of this Atlas and their corresponding cortical type. Finally, we correlate the cortical type maps with the T1w/T2w ratio from widely used reference magnetic resonance imaging scans. The analysis, tables and maps of the human cerebral cortex shown in this protocol paper can be used to predict patterns of connections between areas according to the principles of the Structural Model and determine their level in cortical hierarchies. Cortical types can also predict the spreading of abnormal proteins in neurodegenerative diseases to the level of cortical layers. In summary, cortical type analysis provides a theoretical and practical framework for directed studies of connectivity, synaptic plasticity, and selective vulnerability to neurologic and psychiatric diseases in the human neocortex.
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- Miguel Ángel García-Cabezas
- Department of Anatomy, Histology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Human Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Human Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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Segregation, connectivity, and gradients of deactivation in neural correlates of evidence in social decision making. Neuroimage 2020; 223:117339. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2020] [Revised: 08/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Jung WM, Lee YS, Lee IS, Wallraven C, Ryu Y, Chae Y. Enhanced bodily states of fear facilitates bias perception of fearful faces. Mol Brain 2020; 13:157. [PMID: 33225980 PMCID: PMC7682010 DOI: 10.1186/s13041-020-00674-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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We investigated whether enhanced interoceptive bodily states of fear would facilitate recognition of the fearful faces. Participants performed an emotional judgment task after a bodily imagery task inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner. In the bodily imagery task, participants were instructed to imagine feeling the bodily sensations of two specific somatotopic patterns: a fear-associated bodily sensation (FBS) or a disgust-associated bodily sensation (DBS). They were shown faces expressing various levels of fearfulness and disgust and instructed to classify the facial expression as fear or disgust. We found a stronger bias favoring the “fearful face” under the congruent FBS condition than under the incongruent DBS condition. The brain response to fearful versus intermediate faces increased in the fronto-insular-temporal network under the FBS condition, but not the DBS condition. The fearful face elicited activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and extrastriate body area under the FBS condition relative to the DBS condition. Furthermore, functional connectivity between the anterior cingulate cortex/extrastriate body area and the fronto-insular-temporal network was modulated according to the specific bodily sensation. Our findings suggest that somatotopic patterns of bodily sensation provide informative access to the collective visceral state in the fear processing via the fronto-insular-temporal network.
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- Won-Mo Jung
- Acupuncture & Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Gachon University, Seongnam. 13306, Republic of Korea
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- Acupuncture & Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Brain Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KM Fundamental Research Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, 34054, Republic of Korea
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- Acupuncture & Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.
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Kargl D, Kaczanowska J, Ulonska S, Groessl F, Piszczek L, Lazovic J, Buehler K, Haubensak W. The amygdala instructs insular feedback for affective learning. eLife 2020; 9:60336. [PMID: 33216712 PMCID: PMC7679142 DOI: 10.7554/elife.60336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Affective responses depend on assigning value to environmental predictors of threat or reward. Neuroanatomically, this affective value is encoded at both cortical and subcortical levels. However, the purpose of this distributed representation across functional hierarchies remains unclear. Using fMRI in mice, we mapped a discrete cortico-limbic loop between insular cortex (IC), central amygdala (CE), and nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM), which decomposes the affective value of a conditioned stimulus (CS) into its salience and valence components. In IC, learning integrated unconditioned stimulus (US)-evoked bodily states into CS valence. In turn, CS salience in the CE recruited these CS representations bottom-up via the cholinergic NBM. This way, the CE incorporated interoceptive feedback from IC to improve discrimination of CS valence. Consequently, opto-/chemogenetic uncoupling of hierarchical information flow disrupted affective learning and conditioned responding. Dysfunctional interactions in the IC↔CE/NBM network may underlie intolerance to uncertainty, observed in autism and related psychiatric conditions.
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- Dominic Kargl
- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH (VRVis), Vienna, Austria
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Preclinical Imaging Facility (pcIMAG), Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities (VBCF), Vienna, Austria
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- VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH (VRVis), Vienna, Austria
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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Paquola C, Benkarim O, DeKraker J, Larivière S, Frässle S, Royer J, Tavakol S, Valk S, Bernasconi A, Bernasconi N, Khan A, Evans AC, Razi A, Smallwood J, Bernhardt BC. Convergence of cortical types and functional motifs in the human mesiotemporal lobe. eLife 2020; 9:e60673. [PMID: 33146610 PMCID: PMC7671688 DOI: 10.7554/elife.60673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The mesiotemporal lobe (MTL) is implicated in many cognitive processes, is compromised in numerous brain disorders, and exhibits a gradual cytoarchitectural transition from six-layered parahippocampal isocortex to three-layered hippocampal allocortex. Leveraging an ultra-high-resolution histological reconstruction of a human brain, our study showed that the dominant axis of MTL cytoarchitectural differentiation follows the iso-to-allocortical transition and depth-specific variations in neuronal density. Projecting the histology-derived MTL model to in-vivo functional MRI, we furthermore determined how its cytoarchitecture underpins its intrinsic effective connectivity and association to large-scale networks. Here, the cytoarchitectural gradient was found to underpin intrinsic effective connectivity of the MTL, but patterns differed along the anterior-posterior axis. Moreover, while the iso-to-allocortical gradient parametrically represented the multiple-demand relative to task-negative networks, anterior-posterior gradients represented transmodal versus unimodal networks. Our findings establish that the combination of micro- and macrostructural features allow the MTL to represent dominant motifs of whole-brain functional organisation.
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- Casey Paquola
- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western OntarioLondonCanada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich & ETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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- Neuroimaging Of Epilepsy Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Neuroimaging Of Epilepsy Laboratory, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western OntarioLondonCanada
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
- McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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Kryklywy JH, Ehlers MR, Anderson AK, Todd RM. From Architecture to Evolution: Multisensory Evidence of Decentralized Emotion. Trends Cogn Sci 2020; 24:916-929. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Lanzoni L, Ravasio D, Thompson H, Vatansever D, Margulies D, Smallwood J, Jefferies E. The role of default mode network in semantic cue integration. Neuroimage 2020; 219:117019. [PMID: 32522664 PMCID: PMC7443705 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2020] [Revised: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Recent accounts of large-scale cortical organisation suggest that the default mode network (DMN) is positioned at the top of a principal gradient, reflecting the separation between heteromodal and unimodal sensory-motor regions in patterns of connectivity and in geodesic distance along the cortical surface (Margulies et al., 2016). This isolation of DMN from external inputs might allow the integration of disparate sources of information that can constrain subsequent cognition. We tested this hypothesis by manipulating the degree to which semantic decisions for ambiguous words (e.g. jam) were constrained by preceding visual cues depicting relevant spatial contexts (e.g. supermarket or road) and/or facial emotions (e.g. happy vs. frustrated). We contrasted (i) the effects of a single preceding cue with a no-cue condition employing scrambled images, and (ii) convergent spatial and emotion cues with single cues. Single cues elicited stronger activation in the multiple demand network relative to no cues, consistent with the requirement to maintain information in working memory. The availability of two convergent cues elicited stronger activation within DMN regions (bilateral angular gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, medial prefrontal cortex, and posterior cingulate), even though behavioural performance was unchanged by cueing – consequently task difficulty is unlikely to account for the observed differences in brain activation. A regions-of-interest analysis along the unimodal-to-heteromodal principal gradient revealed maximal activation for the convergent cue condition at the heteromodal end, corresponding to the DMN. Our findings are consistent with the view that regions of DMN support states of information integration that constrain ongoing cognition and provide a framework for understanding the location of these effects at the heteromodal end of the principal gradient.
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China
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- Institute Du Cerveau et de la Moelle épiniére (ICM), Paris, France
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Theory of mind network activity is associated with metaethical judgment: An item analysis. Neuropsychologia 2020; 143:107475. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Thinking through prior bodies: autonomic uncertainty and interoceptive self-inference. Behav Brain Sci 2020; 43:e91. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x19002899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The Bayesian brain hypothesis, as formalized by the free-energy principle, is ascendant in cognitive science. But, how does the Bayesian brain obtain prior beliefs? Veissière and colleagues argue that sociocultural interaction is one important source. We offer a complementary model in which “interoceptive self-inference” guides the estimation of expected uncertainty both in ourselves and in our social conspecifics.
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Leshem R, De Fano A, Ben-Soussan TD. The Implications of Motor and Cognitive Inhibition for Hot and Cool Executive Functions: The Case of Quadrato Motor Training. Front Psychol 2020; 11:940. [PMID: 32508720 PMCID: PMC7250031 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Enabling the ceasing of ongoing or prepotent responses and the controlling of interference, motor inhibition facilitates the development of executive functions (EFs) such as thought before action, decision-making, self-regulation of affect, motivation, and arousal. In the current paper, a characterization is offered of the relationship between motor inhibition and the executive functioning system, in the context of a proposed division into predominantly affective (hot) and cognitive (cool) components corresponding to neural trajectories originating in the prefrontal cortex. This division is central to understanding the effects of a specifically-structured sensorimotor movement training practice, known as Quadrato Motor Training (QMT), on hot and cool EFs. QMT's effects on crucial mechanisms of integrating different EF components are discussed.
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- Rotem Leshem
- Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics, Patrizio Paoletti Foundation, Assisi, Italy
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- Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics, Patrizio Paoletti Foundation, Assisi, Italy
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Zhang J, Scholtens LH, Wei Y, van den Heuvel MP, Chanes L, Barrett LF. Topography Impacts Topology: Anatomically Central Areas Exhibit a "High-Level Connector" Profile in the Human Cortex. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:1357-1365. [PMID: 31504277 PMCID: PMC7132940 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Degree centrality is a widely used measure in complex networks. Within the brain, degree relates to other topological features, with high-degree nodes (i.e., hubs) exhibiting high betweenness centrality, participation coefficient, and within-module z-score. However, increasing evidence from neuroanatomical and predictive processing literature suggests that topological properties of a brain network may also be impacted by topography, that is, anatomical (spatial) distribution. More specifically, cortical limbic areas (agranular and dysgranular cortices), which occupy an anatomically central position, have been proposed to be topologically central and well suited to initiate predictions in the cerebral cortex. We estimated anatomical centrality and showed that it positively correlated with betweenness centrality, participation coefficient, and communicability, analogously to degree. In contrast to degree, however, anatomical centrality negatively correlated with within-module z-score. Our data suggest that degree centrality and anatomical centrality reflect distinct contributions to cortical organization. Whereas degree would be more related to the amount of information integration performed by an area, anatomical centrality would be more related to an area's position in the predictive hierarchy. Highly anatomically central areas may function as "high-level connectors," integrating already highly integrated information across modules. These results are consistent with a high-level, domain-general limbic workspace, integrated by highly anatomically central cortical areas.
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- Jiahe Zhang
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Connectome Lab, Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Connectome Lab, Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Connectome Lab, Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Medical Center, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical and Health Psychology-Serra Húnter Programme, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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Beginning with biology: “Aspects of cognition” exist in the service of the brain's overall function as a resource-regulator. Behav Brain Sci 2020; 43:e26. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x19001705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Lieder and Griffiths rightly urge that computational cognitive models be constrained by resource usage, but they should go further. The brain's primary function is to regulate resource usage. As a consequence, resource usage should not simply select among algorithmic models of “aspects of cognition.” Rather, “aspects of cognition” should be understood as existing in the service of resource management.
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Touroutoglou A, Andreano J, Dickerson BC, Barrett LF. The tenacious brain: How the anterior mid-cingulate contributes to achieving goals. Cortex 2020; 123:12-29. [PMID: 31733343 PMCID: PMC7381101 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Tenacity-persistence in the face of challenge-has received increasing attention, particularly because it contributes to better academic achievement, career opportunities and health outcomes. We review evidence from non-human primate neuroanatomy and structural and functional neuroimaging in humans suggesting that the anterior mid cingulate cortex (aMCC) is an important network hub in the brain that performs the cost/benefit computations necessary for tenacity. Specifically, we propose that its position as a structural and functional hub allows the aMCC to integrate signals from diverse brain systems to predict energy requirements that are needed for attention allocation, encoding of new information, and physical movement, all in the service of goal attainment. We review and integrate research findings from studies of attention, reward, memory, affect, multimodal sensory integration, and motor control to support this hypothesis. We close by discussing the implications of our framework for educational achievement, exercise and eating disorders, successful aging, and neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and dementia.
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- Alexandra Touroutoglou
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA; Northeastern University, Department of Psychology, Boston, MA, USA
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Ruiz-Rizzo AL, Beissner F, Finke K, Müller HJ, Zimmer C, Pasquini L, Sorg C. Human subsystems of medial temporal lobes extend locally to amygdala nuclei and globally to an allostatic-interoceptive system. Neuroimage 2020; 207:116404. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Theriault JE, Young L, Barrett LF. The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure. Phys Life Rev 2020; 36:100-136. [PMID: 32008953 DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2020.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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What is social pressure, and how could it be adaptive to conform to others' expectations? Existing accounts highlight the importance of reputation and social sanctions. Yet, conformist behavior is multiply determined: sometimes, a person desires social regard, but at other times she feels obligated to behave a certain way, regardless of any reputational benefit-i.e. she feels a sense of should. We develop a formal model of this sense of should, beginning from a minimal set of biological premises: that the brain is predictive, that prediction error has a metabolic cost, and that metabolic costs are prospectively avoided. It follows that unpredictable environments impose metabolic costs, and in social environments these costs can be reduced by conforming to others' expectations. We elaborate on a sense of should's benefits and subjective experience, its likely developmental trajectory, and its relation to embodied mental inference. From this individualistic metabolic strategy, the emergent dynamics unify social phenomenon ranging from status quo biases, to communication and motivated cognition. We offer new solutions to long-studied problems (e.g. altruistic behavior), and show how compliance with arbitrary social practices is compelled without explicit sanctions. Social pressure may provide a foundation in individuals on which societies can be built.
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- Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA; Psychiatric Neuroimaging Division, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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André N, Audiffren M, Baumeister RF. An Integrative Model of Effortful Control. Front Syst Neurosci 2019; 13:79. [PMID: 31920573 PMCID: PMC6933500 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2019.00079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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This article presents an integrative model of effortful control, a resource-limited top-down control mechanism involved in mental tasks and physical exercises. Based on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience, social psychology and cognitive psychology, this model posits the intrinsic costs related to a weakening of the connectivity of neural networks underpinning effortful control as the main cause of mental fatigue in long and high-demanding tasks. In this framework, effort reflects three different inter-related aspects of the same construct. First, effort is a mechanism comprising a limited number of interconnected processing units that integrate information regarding the task constraints and subject’s state. Second, effort is the main output of this mechanism, namely, the effort signal that modulates neuronal activity in brain regions involved in the current task to select pertinent information. Third, effort is a feeling that emerges in awareness during effortful tasks and reflects the costs associated with goal-directed behavior. Finally, the model opens new avenues for research investigating effortful control at the behavioral and neurophysiological levels.
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- Nathalie André
- Research Centre on Cognition and Learning, UMR CNRS 7295, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- Research Centre on Cognition and Learning, UMR CNRS 7295, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Wormwood JB, Khan Z, Siegel E, Lynn SK, Dy J, Feldman Barrett L, Quigley KS. Physiological indices of challenge and threat: A data-driven investigation of autonomic nervous system reactivity during an active coping stressor task. Psychophysiology 2019; 56:e13454. [PMID: 31407813 PMCID: PMC6803040 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2018] [Revised: 06/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We utilized a data-driven, unsupervised machine learning approach to examine patterns of peripheral physiological responses during a motivated performance context across two large, independent data sets, each with multiple peripheral physiological measures. Results revealed that patterns of cardiovascular response commonly associated with challenge and threat states emerged as two of the predominant patterns of peripheral physiological responding within both samples, with these two patterns best differentiated by reactivity in cardiac output, pre-ejection period, interbeat interval, and total peripheral resistance. However, we also identified a third, relatively large group of apparent physiological nonresponders who exhibited minimal reactivity across all physiological measures in the motivated performance context. This group of nonresponders was best differentiated from the others by minimal increases in electrodermal activity. We discuss implications for identifying and characterizing this third group of individuals in future research on physiological patterns of challenge and threat.
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Charles River Analytics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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- Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA
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- Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial (VA) Medical Center, Bedford, MA
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Psychological theories posit that affective experiences can be decomposed into component constituents, yet disagree on the level of representation of these components. Affective experiences have been previously described as emerging from core dimensions of valence and arousal. However, this view needs to be reconciled with accounts of valence processing in appetitive and aversive circuits from the neuroscience literature. Here we offer an account of affect that allows for both perspectives but compares across levels of analysis. At one level of analysis, valence and arousal are observed already in the properties of encountered stimuli and the appetitive and aversive neural circuits that engage accordingly. At another level of analysis, the explicit experiential aspect of affective processes are compressed and appraised in a manner that allows these experiences to be organized along valence and arousal axes. We review both the behavioral neuroscience evidence on appetitive and aversive circuits as well as the cognitive neuroscience literature on compression in information coding across multiple domains of processing. We argue that these processes are domain-general and adapt these principles to provide a perspective on how valence can be represented at multiple scales in the brain.
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- Vincent Man
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto , Toronto, ON, USA.,Divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, USA
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Zhang J, Abiose O, Katsumi Y, Touroutoglou A, Dickerson BC, Barrett LF. Intrinsic Functional Connectivity is Organized as Three Interdependent Gradients. Sci Rep 2019; 9:15976. [PMID: 31685830 PMCID: PMC6828953 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51793-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The intrinsic functional architecture of the brain supports moment-to-moment maintenance of an internal model of the world. We hypothesized and found three interdependent architectural gradients underlying the organization of intrinsic functional connectivity within the human cerebral cortex. We used resting state fMRI data from two samples of healthy young adults (N's = 280 and 270) to generate functional connectivity maps of 109 seeds culled from published research, estimated their pairwise similarities, and multidimensionally scaled the resulting similarity matrix. We discovered an optimal three-dimensional solution, accounting for 98% of the variance within the similarity matrix. The three dimensions corresponded to three gradients, which spatially correlate with two functional features (external vs. internal sources of information; content representation vs. attentional modulation) and one structural feature (anatomically central vs. peripheral) of the brain. Remapping the three dimensions into coordinate space revealed that the connectivity maps were organized in a circumplex structure, indicating that the organization of intrinsic connectivity is jointly guided by graded changes along all three dimensions. Our findings emphasize coordination between multiple, continuous functional and anatomical gradients, and are consistent with the emerging predictive coding perspective.
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- Jiahe Zhang
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St., Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St., Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St., Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St., Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St., Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St., Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA.
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Satpute AB, Lindquist KA. The Default Mode Network's Role in Discrete Emotion. Trends Cogn Sci 2019; 23:851-864. [PMID: 31427147 PMCID: PMC7281778 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 07/11/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Emotions are often assumed to manifest in subcortical limbic and brainstem structures. While these areas are clearly important for representing affect (e.g., valence and arousal), we propose that the default mode network (DMN) is additionally important for constructing discrete emotional experiences (of anger, fear, disgust, etc.). Findings from neuroimaging studies, invasive electrical stimulation studies, and lesion studies support this proposal. Importantly, our framework builds on a constructionist theory of emotion to explain how instances involving diverse physiological and behavioral patterns can be conceptualized as belonging to the same emotion category. We argue that this ability requires abstraction (from concrete features to broad mental categories), which the DMN is well positioned to support, and we make novel predictions from our proposed framework.
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- Ajay B Satpute
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Fridman J, Barrett LF, Wormwood JB, Quigley KS. Applying the Theory of Constructed Emotion to Police Decision Making. Front Psychol 2019; 10:1946. [PMID: 31572250 PMCID: PMC6749088 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2019] [Accepted: 08/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Law enforcement personnel commonly make decisions in stressful circumstances, where the costs associated with errors are high and sometimes fatal. In this paper, we apply a powerful theoretical approach, the theory of constructed emotion (TCE), to understand decision making under evocative circumstances. This theory posits that the primary purpose of a brain is to predictively regulate physiological resources to coordinate the body's motor activity and learning in the short term, and to meet the body's needs for growth, survival, and reproduction in the long term. This process of managing the brain and body's energy needs, called allostasis, is based on the premise that a brain anticipates bodily needs and attempts to meet those needs before they arise (e.g., vestibular activity that raises sympathetic nervous system activity before standing), because this is more efficient than responding to energetic needs after the fact. In this view, all mental events-cognition, emotion, perception, and action-are shaped by allostasis, and thus all decision making is embodied, predictive, and concerned with balancing energy needs. We also posit a key role for the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in regulating short-term energy expenditures, such that the ANS influences experience and behavior under stressful circumstances, including police decision making. In this paper, we first explain the core features of the TCE, and then offer insights for understanding police decision making in complex, real-world situations. In so doing, we describe how the TCE can be used to guide future studies of realistic decision making in occupations in which people commonly make decisions in evocative situations or under time pressure, such as in law enforcement.
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- Joseph Fridman
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
- Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States
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Hoemann K, Xu F, Barrett LF. Emotion words, emotion concepts, and emotional development in children: A constructionist hypothesis. Dev Psychol 2019; 55:1830-1849. [PMID: 31464489 PMCID: PMC6716622 DOI: 10.1037/dev0000686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches-the theory of constructed emotion and rational constructivism-to introduce several novel hypotheses for understanding emotional development. We first discuss the hypothesis that emotion categories are abstract and conceptual, whose instances share a goal-based function in a particular context but are highly variable in their affective, physical, and perceptual features. Next, we discuss the possibility that emotional development is the process of developing emotion concepts, and that emotion words may be a critical part of this process. We hypothesize that infants and children learn emotion categories the way they learn other abstract conceptual categories-by observing others use the same emotion word to label highly variable events. Finally, we hypothesize that emotional development can be understood as a concept construction problem: a child becomes capable of experiencing and perceiving emotion only when her brain develops the capacity to assemble ad hoc, situated emotion concepts for the purposes of guiding behavior and giving meaning to sensory inputs. Specifically, we offer a predictive processing account of emotional development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Katie Hoemann
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA
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He L, Zhuang K, Li Y, Sun J, Meng J, Zhu W, Mao Y, Chen Q, Chen X, Qiu J. Brain flexibility associated with need for cognition contributes to creative achievement. Psychophysiology 2019; 56:e13464. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Revised: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Li He
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
- School of Education Chongqing Normal University Chongqing China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
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- School of Education Chongqing Normal University Chongqing China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU) Ministry of Education Chongqing China
- Faculty of Psychology Southwest University Chongqing China
- Southwest University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality Beijing Normal University Beijing China
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What psychological mechanisms enable people to reappraise a situation to change its emotional impact? We propose that reappraisal works by shifting appraisal outcomes—abstract representations of how a situational construal compares to goals—either by changing the construal ( reconstrual) or by changing the goal set ( repurposing). Instances of reappraisal can therefore be characterized as change vectors in appraisal dimensional space. Affordances for reappraisal arise from the range of mental models that could explain a situation ( construal malleability) and the range of goals that the situation could serve ( goal set malleability). This framework helps to expand our conception of reappraisal, assess and classify different instances of reappraisal, predict their relative effectiveness, understand their brain mechanisms, and relate them to individual differences.
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- Andero Uusberg
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA
- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA
- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, USA
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia
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Prefrontal neural dynamics in consciousness. Neuropsychologia 2019; 131:25-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Whyte CJ. Integrating the global neuronal workspace into the framework of predictive processing: Towards a working hypothesis. Conscious Cogn 2019; 73:102763. [DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2019] [Revised: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Regner MF, Tregellas J, Kluger B, Wylie K, Gowin JL, Tanabe J. The insula in nicotine use disorder: Functional neuroimaging and implications for neuromodulation. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2019; 103:414-424. [PMID: 31207255 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Revised: 05/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Insula dysfunction contributes to nicotine use disorders. Yet, much remains unknown about how insular functions promote nicotine use. We review current models of brain networks in smoking and propose an extension to those models that emphasizes the role of the insula in craving. During acute withdrawal, the insula provides the sensation of craving to the cerebrum and is thought to negotiate craving sensations with cognitive control to guide behavior - either to smoke or abstain. Recent studies have shown that insula processing is saturable, such that different insular functions compete for limited resources. We propose that this saturability explains how craving during withdrawal can overload insular processing to the exclusion of other functions, such as saliency and network homeostasis. A novel signal flow model illustrates how limited insular capacity leads to breakdown of normal function. Finally, we discuss suitability of insula as a neuromodulation target to promote cessation. Given the limited efficacy of standard-of-care treatments for nicotine use disorder, insular neuromodulation offers an innovative, potentially therapeutic target for improving smoking cessation.
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- Michael F Regner
- Department of Radiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States.
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- Department of Radiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States; Research Service, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States; Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States; Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States
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Sato JR, Biazoli CE, Salum GA, Gadelha A, Crossley N, Vieira G, Zugman A, Picon FA, Pan PM, Hoexter MQ, Amaro E, Anés M, Moura LM, Del'Aquilla MAG, Mcguire P, Rohde LA, Miguel EC, Bressan RA, Jackowski AP. Associations between children's family environment, spontaneous brain oscillations, and emotional and behavioral problems. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2019; 28:835-845. [PMID: 30392120 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-018-1240-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The family environment in childhood has a strong effect on mental health outcomes throughout life. This effect is thought to depend at least in part on modifications of neurodevelopment trajectories. In this exploratory study, we sought to investigate whether a feasible resting-state fMRI metric of local spontaneous oscillatory neural activity, the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF), is associated with the levels of children's family coherence and conflict. Moreover, we sought to further explore whether spontaneous activity in the brain areas influenced by family environment would also be associated with a mental health outcome, namely the incidence of behavioral and emotional problems. Resting-state fMRI data from 655 children and adolescents (6-15 years old) were examined. The quality of the family environment was found to be positively correlated with fALFF in the left temporal pole and negatively correlated with fALFF in the right orbitofrontal cortex. Remarkably, increased fALFF in the temporal pole was associated with a lower incidence of behavioral and emotional problems, whereas increased fALFF in the orbitofrontal cortex was correlated with a higher incidence.
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- João Ricardo Sato
- Center of Mathematics, Computation, and Cognition, Universidade Federal do ABC, Av. dos Estados, 5001, Bairro Bangu, Santo André, SP, CEP 09210-580, Brazil. .,Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil. .,Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. .,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil. .,Institute of Radiology (InRad), School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Center of Mathematics, Computation, and Cognition, Universidade Federal do ABC, Av. dos Estados, 5001, Bairro Bangu, Santo André, SP, CEP 09210-580, Brazil.,Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre and Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Bioinformatics Program, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre and Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.,Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Radiology (InRad), School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre and Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre and Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Lab for Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.,National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (CNPq), São Paulo, Brazil
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García-Cabezas MÁ, Zikopoulos B. Evolution, development, and organization of the cortical connectome. PLoS Biol 2019; 17:e3000259. [PMID: 31075099 PMCID: PMC6530863 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Hypotheses and theoretical frameworks are needed to organize and interpret the wealth of data on the organization of cortical networks in humans and animals in the light of development, evolution, and selective vulnerability to pathology. Goulas and colleagues compared several hypotheses of cortical network organization in 4 mammalian species and conclude that (1) the laminar pattern of cortico-cortical connections is better predicted by the Structural Model, which relates cytoarchitectonic differences of cortical areas to their interconnectedness, and (2) the existence of cortico-cortical connections is related to cytoarchitectonic differences and the physical distance between cortical areas. The predictions of the Structural Model can be applied to the human cortex, in which invasive studies are precluded. Goulas and colleagues advance interesting questions regarding the emergence of cortical structure and networks in development and evolution. Validated theories of cortical structure, development, and function can guide studies of cortical networks likely affected in neurodevelopmental disorders.
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- Miguel Ángel García-Cabezas
- Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Human Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Hutchinson JB, Barrett LF. The power of predictions: An emerging paradigm for psychological research. CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2019; 28:280-291. [PMID: 31749520 DOI: 10.1177/0963721419831992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The last two decades of neuroscience research has produced a growing number of studies that suggest the various psychological phenomena are produced by predictive processes in the brain. When considered together, these studies form a coherent, neurobiologically-inspired research program for guiding psychological research about the mind and behavior. In this paper, we briefly consider the common assumptions and hypotheses that unify an emerging framework and discuss its ramifications, both for improving the replicability and robustness of psychological research and for innovating psychological theory by suggesting an alternative ontology of the human mind.
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The Structural Model: a theory linking connections, plasticity, pathology, development and evolution of the cerebral cortex. Brain Struct Funct 2019; 224:985-1008. [PMID: 30739157 PMCID: PMC6500485 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-019-01841-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The classical theory of cortical systematic variation has been independently described in reptiles, monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals, including primates, suggesting a common bauplan in the evolution of the cortex. The Structural Model is based on the systematic variation of the cortex and is a platform for advancing testable hypotheses about cortical organization and function across species, including humans. The Structural Model captures the overall laminar structure of areas by dividing the cortical architectonic continuum into discrete categories (cortical types), which can be used to test hypotheses about cortical organization. By type, the phylogenetically ancient limbic cortices-which form a ring at the base of the cerebral hemisphere-are agranular if they lack layer IV, or dysgranular if they have an incipient granular layer IV. Beyond the dysgranular areas, eulaminate type cortices have six layers. The number and laminar elaboration of eulaminate areas differ depending on species or cortical system within a species. The construct of cortical type retains the topology of the systematic variation of the cortex and forms the basis for a predictive Structural Model, which has successfully linked cortical variation to the laminar pattern and strength of cortical connections, the continuum of plasticity and stability of areas, the regularities in the distribution of classical and novel markers, and the preferential vulnerability of limbic areas to neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. The origin of cortical types has been recently traced to cortical development, and helps explain the variability of diseases with an onset in ontogeny.
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Wormwood JB, Lin YR, Lynn SK, Barrett LF, Quigley KS. Psychological impact of mass violence depends on affective tone of media content. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0213891. [PMID: 30934012 PMCID: PMC6443148 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Exposure to media coverage of mass violence has been shown to predict poorer mental health symptomology. However, it is unknown whether such media coverage can have ubiquitous effects on average community members, extending to biological and perceptual processes that underlie everyday decision making and behavior. Here, we used a repeated-measures design over the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings to track participants' self-reported distress, their eye blink startle reactivity while viewing images of the bombings, and their ability to perceptually distinguish armed from unarmed individuals in a behavioral shooting task. We leveraged a computational linguistics method in which we sampled news content from the sources our participants most commonly self-reported reading, and then quantified both the extent of news coverage about the marathon and the affective tone of that news coverage. Results revealed that participants experienced greater current distress, greater physiological reactivity to threats, and poorer perceptual sensitivity when recent news coverage of the marathon contained more affectively negative words. This is the first empirical work to examine relationships between the media's affective tone in its coverage of mass violence and individuals' threat perception and physiological threat reactivity.
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- Jolie Baumann Wormwood
- University of New Hampshire, Department of Psychology, Durham, NH, United States of America
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- University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
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- Charles River Analytics, Inc., Cambridge, MA, United States of America
- Northeastern University, Department of Psychology, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Northeastern University, Department of Psychology, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States of America
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- Northeastern University, Department of Psychology, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial (VA) Medical Center, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford, MA, United States of America
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Brandl F, Avram M, Weise B, Shang J, Simões B, Bertram T, Hoffmann Ayala D, Penzel N, Gürsel DA, Bäuml J, Wohlschläger AM, Vukadinovic Z, Koutsouleris N, Leucht S, Sorg C. Specific Substantial Dysconnectivity in Schizophrenia: A Transdiagnostic Multimodal Meta-analysis of Resting-State Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Biol Psychiatry 2019; 85:573-583. [PMID: 30691673 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study investigated characteristic large-scale brain changes in schizophrenia. Numerous imaging studies have demonstrated brain changes in schizophrenia, particularly aberrant intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) of ongoing brain activity, measured by resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging, and aberrant gray matter volume (GMV) of distributed brain regions, measured by structural magnetic resonance imaging. It is unclear, however, which iFC changes are specific to schizophrenia compared with those of other disorders and whether such specific iFC changes converge with GMV changes. To address this question of specific substantial dysconnectivity in schizophrenia, we performed a transdiagnostic multimodal meta-analysis of resting-state functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging studies in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. METHODS Multiple databases were searched up to June 2017 for whole-brain seed-based iFC studies and voxel-based morphometry studies in schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, addiction, and anxiety. Coordinate-based meta-analyses were performed to detect 1) schizophrenia-specific hyperconnectivity or hypoconnectivity of intrinsic brain networks (compared with hyperconnectivity or hypoconnectivity of each other disorder both separately and combined across comparisons) and 2) the overlap between dysconnectivity and GMV changes (via multimodal conjunction analysis). RESULTS For iFC meta-analysis, 173 publications comprising 4962 patients and 4575 control subjects were included, and for GMV meta-analysis, 127 publications comprising 6311 patients and 6745 control subjects were included. Disorder-specific iFC dysconnectivity in schizophrenia (consistent across comparisons with other disorders) was found for limbic, frontoparietal executive, default mode, and salience networks. Disorder-specific dysconnectivity and GMV reductions converged in insula, lateral postcentral cortex, striatum, and thalamus. CONCLUSIONS Results demonstrated specific substantial dysconnectivity in schizophrenia in insula, lateral postcentral cortex, striatum, and thalamus. Data suggest that these regions are characteristic targets of schizophrenia.
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- Felix Brandl
- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Neuroimaging Center at the Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Xu T, Sturgeon D, Ramirez JSB, Froudist-Walsh S, Margulies DS, Schroeder CE, Fair DA, Milham MP. Interindividual Variability of Functional Connectivity in Awake and Anesthetized Rhesus Macaque Monkeys. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2019; 4:543-553. [PMID: 31072758 PMCID: PMC7063583 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2019.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2018] [Revised: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND: Nonhuman primate (NHP) models are commonly used to advance our understanding of brain function and organization. However, to date, they have offered few insights into individual differences among NHPs. In large part, this is due to the logistical challenges of NHP research, which limit most studies to 5 subjects or fewer. METHODS: We leveraged the availability of a large-scale open NHP imaging resource to provide an initial examination of individual differences in the functional organization of the NHP brain. Specifically, we selected one awake functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset (Newcastle University: n = 10) and two anesthetized functional magnetic resonance imaging datasets (Oxford University: n = 19; University of California, Davis: n = 19) to examine individual differences in functional connectivity characteristics across the cortex as well as potential state dependencies. RESULTS: We noted significant individual variations of functional connectivity across the macaque cortex. Similar to the findings in humans, during the awake state, the primary sensory and motor cortices showed lower variability than the high-order association regions. This variability pattern was significantly correlated with T1-weighted and T2-weighted mapping and degree of long-distance connectivity, but not short-distance connectivity. The interindividual variability under anesthesia exhibited a very distinct pattern, with lower variability in medial frontal cortex, precuneus, and somatomotor regions and higher variability in the lateral ventral frontal and insular cortices. CONCLUSIONS: This work has implications for our understanding of the evolutionary origins of individual variation in the human brain and methodological implications that must be considered in any pursuit to study individual variation in NHP models.
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- Ting Xu
- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York.
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- Department of Behavior Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; Advanced Imaging Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Behavior Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; Advanced Imaging Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7225, Frontlab, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York; Translational Neuroscience Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
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- Department of Behavior Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; Advanced Imaging Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York; Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
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Perceptual phenomena in destructured sensory fields: Probing the brain’s intrinsic functional architectures. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2019; 98:265-286. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2018] [Revised: 01/13/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Fleming LM, Javitt DC, Carter CS, Kantrowitz JT, Girgis RR, Kegeles LS, Ragland JD, Maddock RJ, Lesh TA, Tanase C, Robinson J, Potter WZ, Carlson M, Wall MM, Choo TH, Grinband J, Lieberman J, Krystal JH, Corlett PR. A multicenter study of ketamine effects on functional connectivity: Large scale network relationships, hubs and symptom mechanisms. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 22:101739. [PMID: 30852397 PMCID: PMC6411494 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Revised: 02/24/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Ketamine is an uncompetitive N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor antagonist. It induces effects in healthy individuals that mimic symptoms associated with schizophrenia. We sought to root these experiences in altered brain function, specifically aberrant resting state functional connectivity (rsfMRI). In the present study, we acquired rsfMRI data under ketamine and placebo in a between-subjects design and analyzed seed-based measures of rsfMRI using large-scale networks, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and sub-nuclei of the thalamus. We found ketamine-induced alterations in rsfMRI connectivity similar to those seen in patients with schizophrenia, some changes that may be more comparable to early stages of schizophrenia, and other connectivity signatures seen in patients that ketamine did not recreate. We do not find any circuits from our regions of interest that correlates with positive symptoms of schizophrenia in our sample, although we find that DLPFC connectivity with ACC does correlate with a mood measure. These results provide support for ketamine's use as a model of certain biomarkers of schizophrenia, particularly for early or at-risk patients. Ketamine altered connectivity in default mode network, thalamus and DLPFC at rest. Similar patterns of altered connectivity are seen with ketamine as in psychotic patients. Mood symptoms correlated with DLPFC connectivity with ACC and frontal orbital cortex.
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- Leah M Fleming
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America; Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America; Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, United States of America
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- Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York, NY, United States of America
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America; National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America.
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Barrett LF, Satpute AB. Historical pitfalls and new directions in the neuroscience of emotion. Neurosci Lett 2019; 693:9-18. [PMID: 28756189 PMCID: PMC5785564 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.07.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2017] [Revised: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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In this article, we offer a brief history summarizing the last century of neuroscientific study of emotion, highlighting dominant themes that run through various schools of thought. We then summarize the current state of the field, followed by six key points for scientific progress that are inspired by a multi-level constructivist theory of emotion.
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- Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States.
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- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States
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Hoemann K, Barrett LF. Concepts dissolve artificial boundaries in the study of emotion and cognition, uniting body, brain, and mind. Cogn Emot 2019; 33:67-76. [PMID: 30336722 PMCID: PMC6399041 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1535428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Revised: 09/17/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Theories of emotion have often maintained artificial boundaries: for instance, that cognition and emotion are separable, and that an emotion concept is separable from the emotional events that comprise its category (e.g. "fear" is distinct from instances of fear). Over the past several years, research has dissolved these artificial boundaries, suggesting instead that conceptual construction is a domain-general process-a process by which the brain makes meaning of the world. The brain constructs emotion concepts, but also cognitions and perceptions, all in the service of guiding action. In this view, concepts are multimodal constructions, dynamically prepared from a set of highly variable instances. This approach obviates old questions (e.g. how does cognition regulate emotion?) but generates new ones (e.g. how does a brain learn emotion concepts?). In this paper, we review this constructionist, predictive coding account of emotion, considering its implications for health and well-being, culture and development.
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- Katie Hoemann
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
- Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA
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Focus of attention modulates the heartbeat evoked potential. Neuroimage 2019; 186:595-606. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.11.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Revised: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Betz N, Hoemann K, Barrett LF. Words are a context for mental inference. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 19:1463-1477. [PMID: 30628815 DOI: 10.1037/emo0000510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Accumulating evidence indicates that context has an important impact on inferring emotion in facial configurations. In this paper, we report on three studies examining whether words referring to mental states contribute to mental inference in images from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Study 1), Baron-Cohen et al. (2001) in static emoji (Study 2), and in animated emoji (Study 3). Across all three studies, we predicted and found that perceivers were more likely to infer mental states when relevant words were embedded in the experimental context (i.e., in a forced-choice task) versus when those words were absent (i.e., in a free-labeling task). We discuss the implications of these findings for the widespread conclusion that faces or parts of faces "display" emotions or other mental states, as well as for psychology's continued reliance on forced-choice methods. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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Predictive Processes and the Peculiar Case of Music. Trends Cogn Sci 2019; 23:63-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Revised: 10/23/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Engen HG, Anderson MC. Memory Control: A Fundamental Mechanism of Emotion Regulation. Trends Cogn Sci 2018; 22:982-995. [PMID: 30122359 PMCID: PMC6198111 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Revised: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Memories play a ubiquitous role in our emotional lives, both causing vivid emotional experiences in their own right and imbuing perception of the external world with emotional significance. Controlling the emotional impact of memories therefore poses a major emotion-regulation challenge, suggesting that there might be a hitherto unexplored link between the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying memory control (MC) and emotion regulation. We present here a theoretical account of how the mechanisms of MC constitute core component processes of cognitive emotion regulation (CER), and how this observation may help to understand its basic mechanisms and their disruption in psychiatric disorders.
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- Haakon G Engen
- Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Neuroimaging Center, University Medicine Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Barrett LF, Finlay BL. Concepts, Goals and the Control of Survival-Related Behaviors. Curr Opin Behav Sci 2018; 24:172-179. [PMID: 31157289 DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Scientists have long studied the actions that impact basic survival in various domains of life, such as defense, foraging, reproduction, thermoregulation, and so on, as if such actions will reveal the nature of emotion. Each domain of survival came to be characterized by a repertoire of distinct actions, and each action was thought to be caused by a dedicated neural circuit, called a survival circuit. Survival circuits are thought to be triggered by sensory events in the world, quickly producing obligatory, stereotypic reflexes as well as more flexible, deliberate responses. In this paper, we consider recent evidence from behavioral ecology that even so-called "reflexes" are better understood as purposeful, flexible actions that unfold across a range of temporal trajectories. They are highly context-dependent and tailored to the requirements of the situation. We then consider evidence from the neuroscience of motor control that motor actions are assembled by neural populations, not triggered by simple circuits. We end by considering the value of these suggestions for understanding the species-general vs. species-specific contributions to emotion.
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- Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University.,Psychiatric Neuroimaging Division, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.,Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital
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- Behavioral and Evolutionary Neuroscience Group, Department of Psychology, Cornell University
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