The neural mechanism of imagining facial affective expression

Kim, Sung Eun; Kim, Ji Woong; Kim, Jae Jin; Jeong, Bumseok; Choi, Eun Ae; Jeong, Young‐Gil; Ku, Jeonghun; Ki, Seon Wan

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.048

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“…Accordingly, the EPN response observed in the imagery task -albeit not as strong as in the perception task -can be taken to reflect similar attentional and perceptual mechanisms: imagining emotions is thus associated with enhanced attention and augmented processing at the level of (simulated) perception. This finding is in line with other reports using imaging techniques that demonstrated that emotionrelated cortical structures and the autonomic system are involved when emotional contents are imagined (Kosslyn et al, 1996;Kim et al, 2007).…”

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Mental imagery of emotions: Electrophysiological evidence

Suess

Rahman

2015

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“…Wu and colleagues (2012) implemented an auditory cue (using only two distinct faces). In the fMRI study by Kim et al (2007) the different emotion conditions were presented in a block-wise manner. However, with our design we would not have been able to implement any of these variants.…”

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Mental imagery of emotions: Electrophysiological evidence

Suess

Rahman

2015

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“…Reduced activation of the right lingual gyrus and cuneus during criticism relative to neutral comments may suggest lesser use during criticism of autobiographical (Burianova and Grady 2007) and visual memory (Blondin and Lepage 2008), recognition of facial affect (Kitada et al 2010) and verbal affect (Rama et al 2001), as well as lesser use of mental imagery during affect recognition (Kim et al 2007) that are normally associated with these brain regions. During neutral comments which consisted of describing the participant ' s general day-to-day activities (see Supplementary text available online), such as going shopping, as well as specifi c recent activities, such as going on holiday, information may be processed in a relatively non-affective way, such as recollection of gyrus, another cluster located in the left claustrum, extending to the putamen and subthalamic nucleus of the brain stem, a cluster located in the right inferior occipital gyrus, extending to the right lingual gyrus and right fusiform gyrus, a cluster in the right thalamus and right insula, and clusters in the right precentral gyrus and right medial frontal gyrus, extending to the middle frontal gyrus (Table V and Figure 1).…”

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Neural processing of criticism and positive comments from relatives in individuals with schizotypal personality traits

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The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

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Objectives . High negative expressed emotion by family members towards schizophrenia patients increases the risk of subsequent relapse. The study aimed to determine whether individuals with high schizotypy (HS) and low schizotypy (LS) would differ in activation of brain areas involved in cognitive control when listening to relative criticism. Methods . Twelve HS and 12 LS individuals listened to relative ' s critical, positive and neutral comments about them while undergoing functional MRI. Activation maps in the two groups during the comments were compared using SPM5. Results . The left superior frontal and middle frontal gyri and bilateral posterior cingulate cortex were activated during criticism, compared to neutral comments, across all participants. While there were no group differences in brain activity for criticism versus neutral comments, the HS group, who had lower current mood relative to the LS group, activated to a lesser extent the thalamus, insula, putamen and brain stem during positive, compared to neutral, comments. Conclusions . Listening to relative criticism in healthy individuals engages brain areas for cognitive control of negative emotion and self-referential processing. However, HS individuals may have an attenuated ability to respond to rewarding aspects of positive comments due to their lower current mood.

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“…Of note is that the PFC plays a crucial role in EF [49] , pain experience [10] and face recognition [50] . In addition, the PFC is involved in processing facial expressions of emotions [51] , important for the application of the FPS. The correlations between depression, anxiety, pain intensity and pain affect were low.…”

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Relationship between Chronic Pain and Cognition in Cognitively Intact Older Persons and in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

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Background: Brain areas that are involved in cognition and mood also play a role in pain processing. Objective: The goal of the present study was to examine the relationship between chronic pain and cognition [executive functions (EF) and memory], while controlling for mood, in cognitively intact older persons and in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Methods: Two groups of subjects participated: 20 older persons without dementia and 19 patients in an early stage of probable AD who suffered from arthrosis/arthritis. Pain intensity and pain affect were assessed by the Colored Analogue Scale for Pain Intensity and for Pain Affect, the Faces Pain Scale (FPS) and the Number of Words Chosen-Affective (NWC-A). Level of depression and anxiety were evaluated by questionnaires. EF and memory were assessed by neuropsychological tests. Results: The results show that significant correlations between specific cognitive functions, pain intensity and pain affect were lacking in the cognitively intact older persons. Cognition, in particular memory, appeared to be related to depressive symptoms. In contrast, a significant positive correlation was observed between EF, pain intensity and pain affect measured by the FPS in the AD group. Conclusions: Although older persons with depression were excluded, in studies on pain and cognition one should control for the presence of depressive symptoms in older persons with and without dementia.

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The neural mechanism of imagining facial affective expression

Cited by 51 publications

References 94 publications

Mental imagery of emotions: Electrophysiological evidence

Mental imagery of emotions: Electrophysiological evidence

Neural processing of criticism and positive comments from relatives in individuals with schizotypal personality traits

Relationship between Chronic Pain and Cognition in Cognitively Intact Older Persons and in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

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