Probing emotional influences on cognitive control: an ALE meta-analysis of cognition emotion interactions

Cromheeke, Sofie; Mueller, Sven C.

doi:10.1007/s00429-013-0549-z

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“…Taken together with previous results, the results given here lead us to conclude that (i) there is no easy separation between cognitive and emotional components insofar as the functions of these areas are concerned, since all the areas enumerated above have been found in past studies to have been active during tasks belonging to both categories (see also Cromheeke and Mueller, 2014). This is interesting to emphasize in the context of this study because, as our Introduction points out, a review of the history of discussion on the sublime reveals, likewise, that both cognitive and emotional elements of the experience have been emphasized in the past.…”

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A neurobiological enquiry into the origins of our experience of the sublime and beautiful

Ishizu

Zeki

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Philosophies of aesthetics have posited that experience of the sublime—commonly but not exclusively derived from scenes of natural grandeur—is distinct from that of beauty and is a counterpoint to it. We wanted to chart the pattern of brain activity which correlates with the declared intensity of experience of the sublime, and to learn whether it differs from the pattern that correlates with the experience of beauty, reported in our previous studies (e.g., Ishizu and Zeki, 2011). 21 subjects participated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment. Prior to the experiment, they viewed pictures of landscapes, which they rated on a scale of 1–5, with 5 being the most sublime and 1 being the least. This allowed us to select, for each subject, five sets of stimuli—from ones experienced as very sublime to those experienced as not at all sublime—which subjects viewed and re-rated in the scanner while their brain activity was imaged. The results revealed a distinctly different pattern of brain activity from that obtained with the experience of beauty, with none of the areas active with the latter experience also active during experience of the sublime. Sublime and beautiful experiences thus appear to engage separate and distinct brain systems.

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A neurobiological enquiry into the origins of our experience of the sublime and beautiful

Ishizu

Zeki

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Current results are consistent with meta-analytic findings that suggest a particular role of the anterior insula in processing the salience of emotional stimuli and recruiting top-down resources such as the ACC if necessary (Cromheeke and Mueller, 2014;Menon and Uddin, 2010).…”

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“…Extending previous studies (Cromheeke and Mueller, 2014) the current study investigated both ignoring positive and negative emotion. A specific longitudinal development for ignoring positive emotion has been shown for the anterior insula but not for ACC/IFG regarding emotional valence.…”

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Mid-adolescent neurocognitive development of ignoring and attending emotional stimuli

Vetter

Pilhatsch

Weigelt

et al. 2015

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Appropriate reactions toward emotional stimuli depend on the distribution of prefrontal attentional resources. In mid-adolescence, prefrontal top-down control systems are less engaged, while subcortical bottom-up emotional systems are more engaged. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to follow the neural development of attentional distribution, i.e. attending versus ignoring emotional stimuli, in adolescence. 144 healthy adolescents were studied longitudinally at age 14 and 16 while performing a perceptual discrimination task. Participants viewed two pairs of stimuli--one emotional, one abstract--and reported on one pair whether the items were the same or different, while ignoring the other pair. Hence, two experimental conditions were created: "attending emotion/ignoring abstract" and "ignoring emotion/attending abstract". Emotional valence varied between negative, positive, and neutral. Across conditions, reaction times and error rates decreased and activation in the anterior cingulate and inferior frontal gyrus increased from age 14 to 16. In contrast, subcortical regions showed no developmental effect. Activation of the anterior insula increased across ages for attending positive and ignoring negative emotions. Results suggest an ongoing development of prefrontal top-down resources elicited by emotional attention from age 14 to 16 while activity of subcortical regions representing bottom-up processing remains stable.

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“…This kind of blurring of the traditional (antagonistic) boundaries between emotional and cognitive processes has gained more and more influence in the behavioral and neural sciences (3,4). For example, a recent overview of neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies shows a substantial overlap of error monitoring and emotional processes in the dorsal mediofrontal cortex, lateral prefrontal areas, and anterior insula (5,6). A consequence of this emerging integrative view is that emotional states and signals should be monitored in the same way as other intentional actions.…”

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Covert digital manipulation of vocal emotion alter speakers’ emotional states in a congruent direction

Aucouturier

Johansson

Häll

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Research has shown that people often exert control over their emotions. By modulating expressions, reappraising feelings, and redirecting attention, they can regulate their emotional experience. These findings have contributed to a blurring of the traditional boundaries between cognitive and emotional processes, and it has been suggested that emotional signals are produced in a goaldirected way and monitored for errors like other intentional actions. However, this interesting possibility has never been experimentally tested. To this end, we created a digital audio platform to covertly modify the emotional tone of participants' voices while they talked in the direction of happiness, sadness, or fear. The result showed that the audio transformations were being perceived as natural examples of the intended emotions, but the great majority of the participants, nevertheless, remained unaware that their own voices were being manipulated. This finding indicates that people are not continuously monitoring their own voice to make sure that it meets a predetermined emotional target. Instead, as a consequence of listening to their altered voices, the emotional state of the participants changed in congruence with the emotion portrayed, which was measured by both self-report and skin conductance level. This change is the first evidence, to our knowledge, of peripheral feedback effects on emotional experience in the auditory domain. As such, our result reinforces the wider framework of self-perception theory: that we often use the same inferential strategies to understand ourselves as those that we use to understand others. emotion monitoring | vocal feedback | self-perception | digital audio effects | voice emotion

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Probing emotional influences on cognitive control: an ALE meta-analysis of cognition emotion interactions

Cited by 120 publications

References 57 publications

A neurobiological enquiry into the origins of our experience of the sublime and beautiful

A neurobiological enquiry into the origins of our experience of the sublime and beautiful

Mid-adolescent neurocognitive development of ignoring and attending emotional stimuli

Covert digital manipulation of vocal emotion alter speakers’ emotional states in a congruent direction

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