Gender differences in regional cerebral activity during the perception of emotion: A functional MRI study

Hofer, Alex; Siedentopf, Christian; Ischebeck, Anja; Rettenbacher, Maria A.; Verius, Michael; Felber, Stephan; Fleischhacker, W. Wolfgang

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.03.053

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“…Crucially, there was converging evidence from fMRI that preferred music enhanced visual awareness through positive affect. Pleasant music activated brain areas, including the restrosplenial cingulate gyrus and the OFC, both of which have been linked to emotional response to stimuli (40,41). Our result also fits with evidence that music can activate the substrates of emotional states in paralimbic areas (20,42), whereas pleasurable responses, induced by listening to pleasant music, may be supported by the activation of subcortical dopamine systems in the ventral tegmental area, the substantia nigra, and the caudate (43).…”

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Pleasant music overcomes the loss of awareness in patients with visual neglect

Soto

Funes

Guzmán-García

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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During the past 20 years there has been much research into the factors that modulate awareness of contralesional information in neurological patients with visual neglect or extinction. However, the potential role of the individual's emotional state in modulating awareness has been largely overlooked. In the current study, we induced a pleasant and positive affective response in patients with chronic visual neglect by allowing them to listen to their pleasant preferred music. We report that the patients showed enhanced visual awareness when tasks were performed under preferred music conditions relative to when tasks were performed either with unpreferred music or in silence. These results were also replicated when positive affect was induced before neglect was tested. Functional MRI data showed enhanced activity in the orbitofrontal cortex and the cingulate gyrus associated with emotional responses when tasks were performed with preferred music relative to unpreferred music. Improved awareness of contralesional (left) targets with preferred music was also associated with a strong functional coupling between emotional areas and attentional brain regions in spared areas of the parietal cortex and early visual areas of the right hemisphere. These findings suggest that positive affect, generated by preferred music, can decrease visual neglect by increasing attentional resources. We discuss the possible roles of arousal and mood in generating these effects.attention ͉ brain damage ͉ neuropsychology ͉ positive affect ͉ vision

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confidence: 87%

Pleasant music overcomes the loss of awareness in patients with visual neglect

Soto

Funes

Guzmán-García

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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116

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“…A second potentially important issue is that women may be more emotionally expressive than men (in western cultures) because women are encouraged to do so (Kring and Gordon, 1998), and their ability to efficiently communicate emotions may be an evolutionary trait associated with caregiving (Babchuk et al, 1985). Recent empirical work supports the idea that women express emotion more intensely (Collignon et al, 2010;Polce-Lynch et al, 1998), with neuroscience results adding further support (Cahill, 2006;Hofer et al, 2006;Schulte-Ruther et al, 2008). It is important to note that even if women have higher emotional expressiveness this does not mean that men have less emotional experiences.…”

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Using facial EMG and eye tracking to study integral affect in discrete choice experiments

Rasch

Louviere

Teichert

2015

Journal of Choice Modelling

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“…Cerebellar activity is related to empathy (Singer et al 2004;Lamm et al 2007) and is present during the explicit processing of emotional facial expressions (Scheuerecker et al 2007). Negative emotional stimuli seem to engage cerebellar regions more than neutral or positive stimuli (e.g., Lane et al 1997;Lee et al 2004;Hofer et al 2006;Park et al 2010).…”

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Functional Topography of the Human Cerebellum Revealed by Functional Neuroimaging Studies

Stoodley

Desmond²,

Schmahmann

2013

Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders

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Functional imaging studies in healthy subjects report cerebellar activation during a wide range of tasks, from motor execution (finger tapping, motor learning, smooth pursuit eye movements) to higher-level cognitive tasks (Tower of London, working memory paradigms, verbal fluency) in which motor responses are eliminated or controlled for. The anatomical connections between the cerebellum, spinal cord, and sensorimotor and association areas of the cerebral cortex suggest a functional topography exists within the human cerebellum, such that different cerebellar regions are part of distributed spinocerebellar and cerebro-cerebellar circuits. This concept is supported by data from functional imaging studies, in which regional activation patterns differ for sensorimotor vs. cognitive and affective task paradigms. Here these neuroimaging data are reviewed and both cross-task comparisons and within-task topography are considered. The evidence indicates that cerebellar activation patterns are related to the specific demands of a given task, and the localization of the activation patterns reflects the engagement of different cerebro-cerebellar circuits.

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Gender differences in regional cerebral activity during the perception of emotion: A functional MRI study

Cited by 144 publications

References 41 publications

Pleasant music overcomes the loss of awareness in patients with visual neglect

Pleasant music overcomes the loss of awareness in patients with visual neglect

Using facial EMG and eye tracking to study integral affect in discrete choice experiments

Functional Topography of the Human Cerebellum Revealed by Functional Neuroimaging Studies

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