Neural substrates of facial emotion processing using fMRI

Kesler/West, Marilyn L.; Andersen, Anders H.; Smith, Charles D.; Avison, Malcolm J.; Davis, C. Ervin; Kryscio, Richard J.; Blonder, Lee X.

doi:10.1016/s0926-6410(00)00073-2

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“…4). Recent fMRI studies also indicated that the left orbitofrontal cortex [e.g., BA 45/47 (Ϫ45, 23, Ϫ4) according to Kesler-West et al, 2001] is related to emotional and social experience (Sprengelmeyer et al, 1998;KeslerWest et al, 2001;Berthoz et al, 2002). However, these factors, if any, would have been canceled out in JP-JM, as well as in EP-EM, for the individual groups in the present study.…”

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Language-Related Activations in the Left Prefrontal Regions Are Differentially Modulated by Age, Proficiency, and Task Demands

Tatsuno¹,

Sakai²

2005

J. Neurosci.

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It remains to be elucidated how cortical activations are modulated by factors of age, proficiency, and language task demands when mastering first language (L1) and a second language (L2). Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we tested subjects aged 13 (the age 13 group) and 19 (the age 19 group), thereby comparing the cortical activations involved in past-tense verb identification with those involved in verb matching. We found that the activation in the dorsal triangular part of the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) was lower, corresponding to a higher proficiency in English (L2) in the older subjects, suggesting that the proficiency level plays a major role in the activation of this region during L2 acquisition. Moreover, the lower activation in the triangular and orbital parts of the left IFG (F3t/F3O) for the irregular past tense corresponding to a higher proficiency in L2, together with the nonsignificant activation for the regular past tense when its performance almost reached perfection for age 19, suggests that the modulation of the left F3t/F3O activation reflects language task demands for identifying correct past-tense forms. On the other hand, the left F3t/F3O activation in Japanese (L1) for age 13 was significantly greater than that for age 19, despite the matched performances in L1. These results suggest that the left IFG subserves language-specific functions that are critically required when mastering any language.

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confidence: 39%

Language-Related Activations in the Left Prefrontal Regions Are Differentially Modulated by Age, Proficiency, and Task Demands

Tatsuno¹,

Sakai²

2005

J. Neurosci.

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“…Damage to cortices in the right hemisphere has been shown by several authors to result in impairments recognizing emotional expressions (Borod et al, 1998;Bowers, Bauer, Coslett, & Heilman, 1985;Benowitz et al, 1983), and recent evidence from both functional neuroimaging (Winston, O'Doherty, & Dolan, 2003) and from lesion overlap studies (Adolphs, Damasio, & Tranel, 2002;Adolphs, Damasio, Tranel, Cooper, & Damasio, 2000) suggests that right-hemisphere somatosensory cortices are especially important for emotion recognition. These latter two studies also found deficits consequent to frontal operculum damage in emotion recognition from faces (Adolphs et al, 2000) and from prosody ; the frontal operculum has also been implicated in facial emotion recognition in a functional imaging study (Kesler-West et al, 2001).…”

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“…In simulation theories, ''mirror neurons'' in the frontal operculum, possibly primarily on the left, are thought to be engaged in creating a representation of actions whether observed or performed by the subject. Frontal opercular cortices have been shown to be active when subjects judged emotional facial expressions (Kesler-West et al, 2001). Furthermore, as noted above, Adolphs et al (2000Adolphs et al ( , 2002 have found deficits in emotion recognition from faces and from prosody after damage to either the frontal operculum or right somatosensory cortices.…”

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Cortical Regions for Judgments of Emotions and Personality Traits from Point-light Walkers

Heberlein

Adolphs

Tranel

et al. 2004

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract& Humans are able to use nonverbal behavior to make fast, reliable judgments of both emotional states and personality traits. Whereas a sizeable body of research has identified neural structures critical for emotion recognition, the neural substrates of personality trait attribution have not been explored in detail. In the present study, we investigated the neural systems involved in emotion and personality trait judgments. We used a type of visual stimulus that is known to convey both emotion and personality information, namely, point-light walkers. We compared the emotion and personality trait judgments made by subjects with brain damage to those made by neurologically normal subjects and then conducted a lesion overlap analysis to identify neural regions critical for these two tasks. Impairments on the two tasks dissociated: Some subjects were impaired at emotion recognition, but judged personality normally; other subjects were impaired on the personality task, but normal at emotion recognition. Moreover, these dissociations in performance were associated with damage to specific neural regions: Right somatosensory cortices were a primary focus of lesion overlap in subjects impaired on the emotion task, whereas left frontal opercular cortices were a primary focus of lesion overlap in subjects impaired on the personality task. These findings suggest that attributions of emotional states and personality traits are accomplished by partially dissociable neural systems. &

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“…Previous studies have linked neuroticism with the negative self-appraisal (Robinson and Meier, 2005;Stöber, 2003) and with the experience of sadness (Stewart et al, 2005). In addition, previous fMRI studies have identified dissociable neural correlates to the processing of fearful and sad facial expressions (Blair et al, 1999;Kesler-West et al, 2001;Phillips et al, 2004;Whalen, 1998). Future studies may benefit from the recruitment of a sample scoring independently on the Depression and Anxiety facets of neuroticism.…”

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Stop the sadness: Neuroticism is associated with sustained medial prefrontal cortex response to emotional facial expressions

2008

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Neuroticism is a personality trait associated with negative mood states, sensitivity to negative information, negative appraisal and vulnerability to psychopathology. Previous studies have associated the sustained processing of negative information (words) with individual differences such as rumination and depression but not with personality. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between neuroticism and changes in sustained patterns of activity within a brain region implicated in emotional self-evaluation and appraisal, the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (MedPFC), when responding to emotional facial expressions (happy, fearful, and sad). We tested whether higher scores of neuroticism are associated with greater sustained patterns of brain activity in the MedPFC when responding to blocks of negative facial expressions. We found that higher scores of neuroticism were associated with greater sustained MedPFC activity throughout blocks of sad facial expressions, but not fearful or happy facial expressions. Based on the relationship between neuroticism and sensitivity to negative information, the current finding identifies a sustained temporal mechanism to this relationship.

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Neural substrates of facial emotion processing using fMRI

Cited by 385 publications

References 62 publications

Language-Related Activations in the Left Prefrontal Regions Are Differentially Modulated by Age, Proficiency, and Task Demands

Language-Related Activations in the Left Prefrontal Regions Are Differentially Modulated by Age, Proficiency, and Task Demands

Cortical Regions for Judgments of Emotions and Personality Traits from Point-light Walkers

Stop the sadness: Neuroticism is associated with sustained medial prefrontal cortex response to emotional facial expressions

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