Dynamic grounding of emotion concepts

Winkielman, Piotr; Coulson, Seana; Niedenthal, Paula M.

doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0127

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“…However, only recently, researchers have started to emphasize the full complexity of the underlying process. The latest formulation of our perspective is the CODES model-standing for context-dependent embodied simulation (Winkielman et al 2018). As the name suggests, this model highlights that context directs the degree and impact of embodied simulation-a point especially relevant for understanding processing of emotion stimuli.…”

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“…Specifically, it appears that lower interoception reduces emotional fidelity and thus could contribute to ASC through alexithymia. If one cannot accurately represent one's own feelings, it would be harder to simulate those of others (CODES; Winkielman et al 2018). Indeed, dysregulated interoception has been theorized to impair aspects of empathy (Ondobaka et al 2017;Palmer and Tsakiris 2018), including in ASC (Mul et al 2018).…”

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The Mimicry Among Us: Intra- and Inter-Personal Mechanisms of Spontaneous Mimicry

Arnold

Winkielman

2019

J Nonverbal Behav

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This review explores spontaneous mimicry in the context of three questions. The first question concerns the role of spontaneous mimicry in processing conceptual information. The second question concerns the debate whether spontaneous mimicry is driven by simple associative processes or reflects higher-order processes such as goals, intentions, and social context. The third question addresses the implications of these debates for understanding atypical individuals and states. We review relevant literature and argue for a dynamic, context-sensitive role of spontaneous mimicry in social cognition and behavior. We highlight how the modulation of mimicry is often adaptive but also point out some cases of maladaptive modulations that impair an individuals' engagement in social life.

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The Mimicry Among Us: Intra- and Inter-Personal Mechanisms of Spontaneous Mimicry

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Winkielman

2019

J Nonverbal Behav

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“…The first part of this section presents two studies proposing new insights and methodological tools that reveal fine-grained differences between kinds of concepts [14,15]; the second part of the section includes papers that focus each on a specific kind of abstract concept (numbers [17], emotions [18,19], moral and aesthetic concepts [20], social concepts [16]). …”

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“…Winkielman, Coulson and Niedenthal's paper [18] focuses on emotion concepts, a peculiar kind of concepts because they differ from other abstract concepts in having 'some form of bodily information as critical, necessary (but not sufficient) components'. The authors illustrate how emotion concepts are formed, represented and used, reviewing current behavioural and neural literature on them.…”

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Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain

Borghi

Barca

Binkofski

et al. 2018

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 23 to a theme issue 'Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain'. The capacity for abstract thought is one of the hallmarks of human cognition. However, the mechanisms underlying the ability to form and use abstract concepts like 'fantasy' and 'grace' have not been elucidated yet. This theme issue brings together developmental, social and cognitive psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists to present theoretical insights and novel evidence on how abstract concepts are acquired, used and represented in the brain. Many of the contributions conceive concepts as grounded in sensorimotor systems and constrained by bodily mechanisms and structures. The theme issue develops along two main axes, related to the most promising research directions on abstract concepts. The axes focus on (i) the different kinds of abstract concepts (numbers, emotions, evaluative concepts like moral and aesthetic ones, social concepts); (ii) the role played by perception and action, language and sociality, and inner processes (emotions, interoception, metacognition) in grounding abstract concepts. Most papers adopt a cognitive science/neuroscience approach, but the theme issue also includes studies on development, on social cognition, and on how linguistic diversity shapes abstract concepts. Overall, the theme issue provides an integrated theoretical account that highlights the importance of language, sociality and inner processes for abstract concepts, and that offers new methodological tools to investigate them.This article is part of the theme issue 'Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain'.

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Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate‐based meta‐analytic study

Arioli

Cattaneo

Ricciardi

et al. 2021

Human Brain Mapping

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While the discussion on the foundations of social understanding mainly revolves around the notions of empathy, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing, their degree of overlap versus specificity is still unclear. We took a meta‐analytic approach to unveil the neural bases of cognitive mentalizing, affective mentalizing, and empathy, both in healthy individuals and pathological conditions characterized by social deficits such as schizophrenia and autism. We observed partially overlapping networks for cognitive and affective mentalizing in the medial prefrontal, posterior cingulate, and lateral temporal cortex, while empathy mainly engaged fronto‐insular, somatosensory, and anterior cingulate cortex. Adjacent process‐specific regions in the posterior lateral temporal, ventrolateral, and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex might underpin a transition from abstract representations of cognitive mental states detached from sensory facets to emotionally‐charged representations of affective mental states. Altered mentalizing‐related activity involved distinct sectors of the posterior lateral temporal cortex in schizophrenia and autism, while only the latter group displayed abnormal empathy related activity in the amygdala. These data might inform the design of rehabilitative treatments for social cognitive deficits.

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Dynamic grounding of emotion concepts

Cited by 66 publications

References 85 publications

The Mimicry Among Us: Intra- and Inter-Personal Mechanisms of Spontaneous Mimicry

The Mimicry Among Us: Intra- and Inter-Personal Mechanisms of Spontaneous Mimicry

Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain

Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate‐based meta‐analytic study

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