Access to Deductive Logic Depends on a Right Ventromedial Prefrontal Area Devoted to Emotion and Feeling: Evidence from a Training Paradigm

Houdé, Olivier; Zago, Laure; Crivello, Fabrice; Moutier, Sylvain; Pineau, Arlette; Mazoyer, Bernard; Tzourio‐Mazoyer, Nathalie

doi:10.1006/nimg.2001.0930

Cited by 85 publications

(48 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The neural location was further differentiated when syllogisms were presented that specifically required belief-logic conflict resolution, with the right prefrontal cortex clearly implicated in the inhibition of belief-based responses [28]. Related findings were reported by Houdé et al [29].…”

Section: Box 2 Neuropsychological Evidence For Dual Processes In Reasupporting

confidence: 77%

In two minds: dual-process accounts of reasoning

Evans

2003

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

1,674

1,097

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Box 2 Neuropsychological Evidence For Dual Processes In Reasupporting

confidence: 77%

In two minds: dual-process accounts of reasoning

Evans

2003

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

1,674

1,097

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…The activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is inversely correlated with the feeling of liking of the story protagonist and correlated with the skin conductance response of the subjects. Altogether, the finding of an association between the SCR, the subjective feeling of liking, and the specific increased activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is not only concordant with its role in the regulation of social behavior and in subjective emotional experience (see recent review by Adolph [5]), but also further emphasizes the relation between cognitive and emotional processes [51].…”

Section: Interaction Of Mee With Ncssupporting

confidence: 55%

Neural correlates of feeling sympathy

2003

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to investigate the neural correlates of feeling sympathy for someone else (i.e. the affinity, association, or relationship between persons wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other). While undergoing PET scans, subjects were presented with a series of video-clips showing individuals (who were semi-professional stage actors) telling sad and neutral stories, as if they had personally experienced them. These stories were told with either congruent or incongruent motor expression of emotion (MEE). At the end of each movie, subjects were asked to rate the mood of the communicator and also how likable they found that person. Watching sad stories versus neutral stories was associated with increased activity in emotion processing-related structures, as well as in a set of cortical areas that belong to a "shared representation" network, including the right inferior parietal cortex. Motor expression of emotion, regardless of the narrative content of the stories, resulted in a specific regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) increase in the left inferior frontal gyrus. The condition of mismatch between the narrative content of the stories and the motor expression of emotion elicited a significant skin conductance response and strong rCBF increase in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and superior frontal gyrus which are involved in dealing with social conflict. Taken together, these results are consistent with a model of feeling sympathy that relies on both the shared representation and the affective networks. Interestingly, this network was not activated when subjects watched inappropriate social behavior.

show abstract

“…Much neuropsychological data implicate ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) in emotional processing (Damasio, 1997;Goel and Dolan, 2001a;Harlow, 1868;Lane et al, 1997;Pietrini et al, 2000) and the lateral/ dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (L/DLPFC) in high-level cognitive processing (Drewe, 1974;Goldman-Rakic, 1987;Rowe et al, 2001;Shallice, 1988;Stuss and Levine, 2002), including logical reasoning (Goel et al, , 1998Dolan, 2001b, 2003;Houde et al, 2001;Knauff et al, 2002;Parsons and Osherson, 2001). However, with a few exceptions (Gray et al, 2002), the literatures on cognition and emotion are largely independent of each other.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reciprocal neural response within lateral and ventral medial prefrontal cortex during hot and cold reasoning

2003

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Logic is widely considered the basis of rationality. Logical choices, however, are often influenced by emotional responses, sometimes to our detriment, sometimes to our advantage. To understand the neural basis of emotionally neutral ("cold") and emotionally salient ("hot") reasoning we studied 19 volunteers using event-related fMRI, as they made logical judgments about arguments that varied in emotional saliency. Despite identical logical form and content categories across "hot" and "cold" reasoning conditions, lateral and ventral medial prefrontal cortex showed reciprocal response patterns as a function of emotional saliency of content. "Cold" reasoning trials resulted in enhanced activity in lateral/dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (L/DLPFC) and suppression of activity in ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC). By contrast, "hot" reasoning trials resulted in enhanced activation in VMPFC and suppression of activation in L/DLPFC. This reciprocal engagement of L/DLPFC and VMPFC provides evidence for a dynamic neural system for reasoning, the configuration of which is strongly influenced by emotional saliency.

show abstract

Access to Deductive Logic Depends on a Right Ventromedial Prefrontal Area Devoted to Emotion and Feeling: Evidence from a Training Paradigm

Cited by 85 publications

References 23 publications

In two minds: dual-process accounts of reasoning

In two minds: dual-process accounts of reasoning

Neural correlates of feeling sympathy

Reciprocal neural response within lateral and ventral medial prefrontal cortex during hot and cold reasoning

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About