The cognitive up- and down-regulation of positive emotion: Evidence from behavior, electrophysiology, and neuroimaging

Li, Fenghua; Yin, Shouhang; Feng, Pan; Hu, Na; Ding, Cody; Chen, Antao

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.05.013

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“…The experimental paradigm we employed does not enable us to determine the precise function of the dlPFC in this task. However, the R-MFG and L-MFG clusters that varied by relative closeness with peers (located approximately in Brodmann areas 8 and 10) have been involved in the up- and down-regulation of emotional response (Li et al, 2018), impulse control in delay discounting tasks (Weygandt et al, 2015), the selection of “safe” choices in risk-taking paradigms (Chein et al, 2011; Crowley et al, 2015; Van Leijenhorst et al, 2010), and response inhibition in go-no-go (Li et al, 2006; Chikazoe et al, 2009) or Stroop tasks (Aarts et al, 2009). In the current study, it is possible that reduced activation in these regions is reflective of lessened inhibitory control responses to novel teenage faces – a pattern that would be expected in youth who were relatively closer to their peers than their parents.…”

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Associations Between Adolescents’ Social Re-orientation Toward Peers Over Caregivers and Neural Response to Teenage Faces

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Mattson

et al. 2019

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Adolescence is a period of intensive development in body, brain, and behavior. Potentiated by changes in hormones and neural response to social stimuli, teenagers undergo a process of social re-orientation away from their caregivers and toward expanding peer networks. The current study examines how relative relational closeness to peers (compared to parents) during adolescence is linked to neural response to the facial emotional expressions of other teenagers. Self-reported closeness with friends (same- and opposite-sex) and parents (mother and father), and neural response to facial stimuli during fMRI, were assessed in 8- to 19-year-old typically developing youth ( n = 40, mean age = 13.90 years old, SD = 3.36; 25 female). Youth who reported greater relative closeness with peers than with parents showed decreased activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) during stimulus presentation, which may reflect lessened inhibitory control or regulatory response to peer-aged faces. Functional connectivity between the dlPFC and dorsal striatum was greatest in older youth who were closer to peers; in contrast, negative coupling between these regions was noted for both younger participants who were closer to peers and older participants who were closer to their parents. In addition, the association between relative closeness to peers and neural activation in regions of the social brain varied by emotion type and age. Results suggest that the re-orientation toward peers that occurs during adolescence is accompanied by changes in neural response to peer-aged social signals in social cognitive, prefrontal, and subcortical networks.

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confidence: 99%

Associations Between Adolescents’ Social Re-orientation Toward Peers Over Caregivers and Neural Response to Teenage Faces

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Mattson

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“…It is also possible that implicit, unintentional reappraisal processes have influenced scene valence perception. For instance, Li and colleagues [35] presented results of successful upregulation of pleasant stimulus material. With regard to the cumulative effects, a study of Denny and Ochsner [36] pointed to possible additive effects of downregulation of negative emotions over the course of four sessions.…”

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Repeated noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reveals cumulative amplification of pleasant compared to unpleasant scene processing: A single subject pilot study

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The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is a major hub of the reward system and has been shown to activate specifically in response to pleasant / rewarding stimuli. Previous studies demonstrate enhanced pleasant cue reactivity after single applications of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the vmPFC. Here we present a pilot case study in which we assess the cumulative impact of multiple consecutive vmPFC-tDCS sessions on the processing of visual emotional stimuli in an event-related MEG recording design. The results point to stable modulation of increased positivity biases (pleasant > unpleasant stimulus signal strength) after excitatory vmPFC stimulation and a reversed pattern (pleasant < unpleasant) after inhibitory stimulation across five consecutive tDCS sessions. Moreover, cumulative effects of these emotional bias modulations were observable for several sourcelocalized spatio-temporal clusters, suggesting an increase in modulatory efficiency by repeated tDCS sessions. This pilot study provides evidence for improvements in the effectiveness and utility of a novel tDCS paradigm in the context of emotional processing.

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“…Activation in the highlighted frontal areas may be related to functions that also continue to grow during adolescence, such as the top-down processing of emotion, language, and social cues. For instance, the dorsal SFG has been implicated in the regulation and reappraisal of emotion in adults (Buhle et al, 2014;Li et al, 2018). Furthermore, the MFG (BA9) has been shown to play an important role in understanding affective and linguistic prosody (meta-analysis by Belyk & Brown, 2013).…”

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Age-related differences in neural activation and functional connectivity during the processing of vocal prosody in adolescence

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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The ability to recognize others' emotions based on vocal emotional prosody follows a protracted developmental trajectory during adolescence. However, little is known about the neural mechanisms supporting this maturation. The current study investigated age-related differences in neural activation during a vocal emotion recognition (ER) task. Listeners aged 8 to 19 years old completed the vocal ER task while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. The task of categorizing vocal emotional prosody elicited activation primarily in temporal and frontal areas. Age was associated with a) greater activation in regions in the superior, middle, and inferior frontal gyri, b) greater functional connectivity between the left precentral and inferior frontal gyri and regions in the bilateral insula and temporo-parietal junction, and c) greater fractional anisotropy in the superior longitudinal fasciculus, which connects frontal areas to posterior temporo-parietal regions. Many of these age-related differences in brain activation and connectivity were associated with better performance on the ER task. Increased activation in, and connectivity between, areas typically involved in language processing and social cognition may facilitate the development of vocal ER skills in adolescence.

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The cognitive up- and down-regulation of positive emotion: Evidence from behavior, electrophysiology, and neuroimaging

Cited by 41 publications

References 43 publications

Associations Between Adolescents’ Social Re-orientation Toward Peers Over Caregivers and Neural Response to Teenage Faces

Associations Between Adolescents’ Social Re-orientation Toward Peers Over Caregivers and Neural Response to Teenage Faces

Repeated noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reveals cumulative amplification of pleasant compared to unpleasant scene processing: A single subject pilot study

Age-related differences in neural activation and functional connectivity during the processing of vocal prosody in adolescence

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