Neural correlates of emotional intelligence in adolescent children

Killgore, William D. S.; Yurgelun‐Todd, Deborah

doi:10.3758/cabn.7.2.140

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“…These regions are rather (though, not completely) distinct from the regions involved in social cognition such as theory of mind, as described above. Brain activities during the perception of fearful faces were negatively correlated with EI in the somatic marker circuitry [Killgore et al, 2007]. Furthermore, previous lesion studies reported that lesions in the somatic marker circuitry [Bar-On et al, 2003] or the key node of the somatic marker circuitry, the VMPFC [Krueger et al, 2009] result in low emotional intelligence.…”

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Regional gray matter density associated with emotional intelligence: Evidence from voxel‐based morphometry

Takeuchi

Taki

Sassa

et al. 2010

Human Brain Mapping

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Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to monitor one's own and others' emotions and the ability to use the gathered information to guide one's thinking and action. EI is thought to be important for social life making it a popular subject of research. However, despite the existence of previous functional imaging studies on EI, the relationship between regional gray matter morphology and EI has never been investigated. We used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and a questionnaire (Emotional Intelligence Scale) to measure EI to identify the gray matter correlates of each factor of individual EI (Intrapersonal factor, Interpersonal factor, Situation Management factor). We found significant negative relationships between the Intrapersonal factor and regional gray matter density (rGMD) (1-a) in an anatomical cluster that included the right anterior insula, (1-b) in the right cerebellum, (1-c) in an anatomical cluster that extends from the cuneus to the precuneus, (1-d) and in an anatomical cluster that extends from the medial prefrontal cortex to the left lateral fronto-polar cortex. We also found significant positive correlations between the Interpersonal factor and rGMD in the right superior temporal sulcus, and significant negative correlations between the Situation Management factor and rGMD in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. These findings suggest that each factor of EI in healthy young people is related to the specific brain regions known to be involved in the networks of social cognition and self-related recognition, and in the somatic marker circuitry.

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Regional gray matter density associated with emotional intelligence: Evidence from voxel‐based morphometry

Takeuchi

Taki

Sassa

et al. 2010

Human Brain Mapping

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“…Functional MRI studies have demonstrated that greater EI may be associated with reduced responsiveness of the amygdala, insula, and vmPFC among children and adolescents when viewing facial expressions of fear, suggesting greater neural efficiency of select affect processing systems in those with higher EI (i.e. requiring less neural effort during emotional processing) [9]. A recent study in adults has suggested that higher EI is associated with greater activation of the vmPFC and the rostral anterior cingulate cortex in response to dynamic facial expressions that changed in terms of perceived trustworthiness [10].…”

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Emotional intelligence is associated with reduced insula responses to masked angry faces

Alkozei

Killgore

2015

NeuroReport

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High levels of emotional intelligence (EI) have been associated with increased success in the workplace, greater quality of personal relationships, and enhanced wellbeing. Evidence suggests that EI is mediated extensively by the interplay of key emotion regions including the amygdala, insula, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, among others. The insula, in particular, is important for processing interoceptive and somatic cues that are interpreted as emotional responses. We investigated the association between EI and functional brain responses within the aforementioned neurocircuitry in response to subliminal presentations of social threat. Fifty-four healthy adults completed the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) and underwent functional magnetic brain imaging while viewing subliminal presentations of faces displaying anger, using a backward masked facial affect paradigm to minimize conscious awareness of the expressed emotion. In response to masked angry faces, the total MSCEIT scores correlated negatively with a cluster of activation located within the left insula, but not with activation in any other region of interest. Considering the insula's role in the processing of interoceptive emotional cues, the results suggest that greater EI is associated with reduced emotional visceral reactivity and/or more accurate interoceptive prediction when confronted with stimuli indicative of social threat.

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“…ERPs and fMRI have been used to study a wide variety of psychological processes in children: including cognitive (Bitan et al, 2007;Weber-Fox, Hart, & Spruill, 2006), affective (Killgore & Yurgelun, 2007;Pérez-Edgar & Fox, 2003), sensorimotor (Johannes et al, 2001;Mall et al, 2005), attentional (Perez-Edgar et al, 2007;Steven & Friedman, 1995) and executive processes (Dimoska, Johnstone, & Barry, 2006;Durston, Thomas, Wordon, Yang, & Casey, 2002). In particular, topics subsumed by executive control have been the target of a great deal of research, including attention orienting (Perchet & GarciaLarrea, 2005), distractability (Wetzel & Schroger, 2007), inhibition of a motor response (Ciesielski, Harris, & Cofer, 2004), response-and error-monitoring (Hogan, Vargha-Khadem, Kirkham, & Baldeweg, 2005), and conflict/interference detection (Rueda, Posner, Rothbart, & Davis-Stober, 2004).…”

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Using developmental cognitive neuroscience to study behavioral and attentional control

Astle

Scerif

2008

Developmental Psychobiology

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Adult cognitive neuroscience employs a wide variety of techniques to investigate a broad range of behavioral and cognitive functions. One prominent area of study is that of executive control, complemented by a smaller but growing literature exploring the developmental cognitive neuroscience of executive control. To date this approach has often compared children with specific developmental disorders, such as ADHD and ASD, with typically developing controls. Whilst these comparisons have done much to advance our understanding of the neural markers that underpin behavioral difficulties at specific time-points in development, we contend that they should leave developmental cognitive neuroscientists wanting. Studying the neural correlates of typical changes in executive control in their own right can reveal how different neural mechanisms characteristic of the adult end-state emerge, and it can therefore inform the adult cognitive neuroscience of executive control itself. The current review addresses the extent to which developmentalists and adult cognitive neuroscientists have tapped this common ground. Some very elegant investigations illustrate how seemingly common processes in adulthood present as separable in childhood, on the basis of their distinctive developmental trajectories. These demonstrations have implications not only for an understanding of changing behavior from infancy through childhood and adolescence into adulthood, but, moreover, for our grasp of the adult end-state per se. We contend that, if used appropriately, developmental cognitive neuroscience could enable us to construct a more mechanistic account of executive control.

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Neural correlates of emotional intelligence in adolescent children

Cited by 72 publications

References 102 publications

Regional gray matter density associated with emotional intelligence: Evidence from voxel‐based morphometry

Regional gray matter density associated with emotional intelligence: Evidence from voxel‐based morphometry

Emotional intelligence is associated with reduced insula responses to masked angry faces

Using developmental cognitive neuroscience to study behavioral and attentional control

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