Neural mechanism for judging the appropriateness of facial affect

Kim, Ji Woong; Kim, Jae Jin; Jeong, Bumseok; Ki, Seon Wan; Im, Dong Mi; Lee, Soo Jung; Lee, Hong Shick

doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.018

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“…Extending our analyses to the whole brain, we detected robust temporopolar activation to both angry and happy face stimuli, a finding consistent with previous fMRI studies using emotional face stimuli (e.g., Phillips et al, 1998;Blair et al, 1999;Tsukiura et al, 2003;Kim et al, 2005). Classic lesion studies in monkeys (e.g., Kluver and Bucy, 1937) and humans (Damasio et al, 1990;GornoTempini et al, 2004) provide converging evidence for engagement of the temporal pole in the production as well as recognition of facial expressions (Olson et al, 2007).…”

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Segregating intra-amygdalar responses to dynamic facial emotion with cytoarchitectonic maximum probability maps

Hurlemann

Rehme

Diessel

et al. 2008

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

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Segregating intra-amygdalar responses to dynamic facial emotion with cytoarchitectonic maximum probability maps

Hurlemann

Rehme

Diessel

et al. 2008

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

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“…By contrast, activation of the inferior temporal cortices extending to the temporal pole and the left middle temporal cortex was only seen in the approachability task. Temporal lobe regions, including the temporal poles and middle and inferior temporal cortices, have been implicated in theory of mind judgements and in assessing and empathizing with facial affect (Carr et al 2003 ;Gallagher & Frith, 2003 ;Kim et al 2005 ;Vollm et al 2006). Activity in these regions may therefore be required to access mnemonic information used in social judgement, especially in relation to decisions of an affective nature.…”

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A common neural system mediating two different forms of social judgement

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Background. A wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), are associated with impairments in social function. Previous studies have shown that individuals with schizophrenia and ASD have deficits in making a wide range of social judgements from faces, including decisions related to threat (such as judgements of approachability) and decisions not related to physical threat (such as judgements of intelligence). We have investigated healthy control participants to see whether there is a common neural system activated during such social decisions, on the basis that deficits in this system may contribute to the impairments seen in these disorders.Method. We investigated the neural basis of social decision making during judgements of approachability and intelligence from faces in 24 healthy participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We used conjunction analysis to identify common brain regions activated during both tasks.Results. Activation of the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, inferior prefrontal cortex and cerebellum was seen during performance of both social tasks, compared to simple gender judgements from the same stimuli. Task-specific activations were present in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the intelligence task and in the inferior and middle temporal cortex in the approachability task.Conclusions. The present study identified a common network of brain regions activated during the performance of two different forms of social judgement from faces. Dysfunction of this network is likely to contribute to the broad-ranging deficits in social function seen in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and ASD.

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“…Deducing an answer from neurobiology is inapplicable, as anatomic and physiological studies on DMPFC are very sparse. Thus, we suggest a distinction based on procedural aspects of the paradigms eliciting DMPFC activation [66][67][68][69][70]. The task of participants in many of the studies reporting DMPFC activation is to judge the consistency of events or stimuli, such as what another person may think or will do (generally referred to as mentalizing or 'theory of mind' processes) [71,72].…”

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Decision-making and the frontal lobes

Volz

Schubotz

Cramon

2006

Current Opinion in Neurology

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Combining neuroimaging data with concepts from research in judgment and decision-making may facilitate advances in our understanding of the contrast between normative theories and descriptive theories of decision-making. Incorporating findings from research on decision-making behavior in patients with specific prefrontal lesions may have much to offer for an understanding of both the areas' functions and cognitive theories on decision-making.

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Neural mechanism for judging the appropriateness of facial affect

Cited by 26 publications

References 62 publications

Segregating intra-amygdalar responses to dynamic facial emotion with cytoarchitectonic maximum probability maps

Segregating intra-amygdalar responses to dynamic facial emotion with cytoarchitectonic maximum probability maps

A common neural system mediating two different forms of social judgement

Decision-making and the frontal lobes

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