Situated affective and social neuroscience

Ibáñez, Agustín; Kotz, Sonja A.; Barrett, Louise; Moll, Jorge; Ruz, Marı́a

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00547

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“…This is expected because empathy is a contextual phenomenon affected by stimulus ambiguity (Melloni et al, 2013 ). Contextual cues help to bias the intrinsic meaning of ambiguous targets (Bar, 2004 ; Amoruso et al, 2014 ), particularly regarding others in pain (Melloni et al, 2013 ) and social cognition (Ibanez et al, 2014a ). According with a previous study in healthy subjects (Decety et al, 2012 ), our results show that intentionality comprehension of intentional pain situations was higher than the comprehension of accidental pain situations.…”

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“…Further volumetric and fMRI studies may provide additional insights about the relationship among the location of atrophy and the associated pattern of empathy impairments. An inter-level social neuroscience approach (Ibanez et al, 2014a ) combining the study of social behavior, neural networks, and the interactions between social behaviors and social cognition would help to provide a better understanding of bvFTD (Ibanez et al, 2014b ). This novel approach would allow psychiatrists and neurologists to contribute a powerful multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach (Maj, 2012 ), that would be both clinically and theoretically relevant to major advances in contemporary neuropsychiatry.…”

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Primary empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia

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Front. Aging Neurosci.

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Loss of empathy is an early central symptom and diagnostic criterion of the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Although changes in empathy are evident and strongly affect the social functioning of bvFTD patients, few studies have directly investigated this issue by means of experimental paradigms. The current study assessed multiple components of empathy (affective, cognitive and moral) in bvFTD patients. We also explored whether the loss of empathy constitutes a primary deficit of bvFTD or whether it is explained by impairments in executive functions (EF) or other social cognition domains. Thirty-seven bvFTD patients with early/mild stages of the disease and 30 healthy control participants were assessed with a task that involves the perception of intentional and accidental harm. Participants were also evaluated on emotion recognition, theory of mind (ToM), social norms knowledge and several EF domains. BvFTD patients presented deficits in affective, cognitive and moral aspects of empathy. However, empathic concern was the only aspect primarily affected in bvFTD that was neither related nor explained by deficits in EF or other social cognition domains. Deficits in the cognitive and moral aspects of empathy seem to depend on EF, emotion recognition and ToM. Our findings highlight the importance of using tasks depicting real-life social scenarios because of their greater sensitivity in the assessment of bvFTD. Moreover, our results contribute to the understanding of primary and intrinsic empathy deficits of bvFTD and have important theoretical and clinical implications.

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Primary empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia

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Huepe

et al. 2014

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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“…Thus, disrupted connections in SL might compromise integrative contextual processing of external-internal signals via a fronto-insulo-temporal network including the IC as a critical hub. Damage to this network in the SL patient may underlie ongoing contextual embedding deficits (Mesulam and Mufson, 1982b ; Amoruso et al, 2011 ; Ibáñez and Manes, 2012 ; Ibanez et al, 2014 ) leading to impairments in external domains which were spared in the IL patient (see also Couto et al, 2013c ). This conjecture might be tested in future studies (Limongi et al, 2014 ).…”

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Disentangling interoception: insights from focal strokes affecting the perception of external and internal milieus

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Interoception is the moment-to-moment sensing of the physiological condition of the body. The multimodal sources of interoception can be classified into two different streams of afferents: an internal pathway of signals arising from core structures (i.e., heart, blood vessels, and bronchi) and an external pathway of body-mapped sensations (i.e., chemosensation and pain) arising from peripersonal space. This study examines differential processing along these streams within the insular cortex (IC) and their subcortical tracts connecting frontotemporal networks. Two rare patients presenting focal lesions of the IC (insular lesion, IL) or its subcortical tracts (subcortical lesion, SL) were tested. Internally generated interoceptive streams were assessed through a heartbeat detection (HBD) task, while those externally triggered were tapped via taste, smell, and pain recognition tasks. A differential pattern was observed. The IC patient showed impaired internal signal processing while the SL patient exhibited external perception deficits. Such selective deficits remained even when comparing each patient with a group of healthy controls and a group of brain-damaged patients. These outcomes suggest the existence of distinguishable interoceptive streams. Results are discussed in relation with neuroanatomical substrates, involving a fronto-insulo-temporal network for interoceptive and cognitive contextual integration.

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“…Facial emotion recognition is a context-sensitive process influenced by visual information, voices, bodies, and even words ( Barrett et al, 2011 ; Ibanez et al, 2014b ). Such a process is impaired in AOs ( McCown et al, 1986 ; Jones et al, 2007 ; Marsh and Blair, 2008 ; Fairchild et al, 2009 ; Sato et al, 2009 ), as shown through tasks using static facial stimuli with a limited range of emotional expressions.…”

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“…Whereas verbal IQ depends on previous knowledge, FI reflects an individual’s capacity for abstract thought and reasoning ( Catell, 1971 ). FI modulates affective and social cognition ( Ibanez et al, 2013 , 2014b ). Although no previous study has assessed FI abilities in AOs, a recent report ( Huepe et al, 2011 ) has found an association between low FI and poor psychosocial adaptation in adolescents under vulnerability conditions.…”

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Emotion recognition and cognitive empathy deficits in adolescent offenders revealed by context-sensitive tasks

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Herrera

Parra

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Emotion recognition and empathy abilities require the integration of contextual information in real-life scenarios. Previous reports have explored these domains in adolescent offenders (AOs) but have not used tasks that replicate everyday situations. In this study we included ecological measures with different levels of contextual dependence to evaluate emotion recognition and empathy in AOs relative to non-offenders, controlling for the effect of demographic variables. We also explored the influence of fluid intelligence (FI) and executive functions (EFs) in the prediction of relevant deficits in these domains. Our results showed that AOs exhibit deficits in context-sensitive measures of emotion recognition and cognitive empathy. Difficulties in these tasks were neither explained by demographic variables nor predicted by FI or EFs. However, performance on measures that included simpler stimuli or could be solved by explicit knowledge was either only partially affected by demographic variables or preserved in AOs. These findings indicate that AOs show contextual social-cognition impairments which are relatively independent of basic cognitive functioning and demographic variables.

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Situated affective and social neuroscience

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Primary empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia

Primary empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia

Disentangling interoception: insights from focal strokes affecting the perception of external and internal milieus

Emotion recognition and cognitive empathy deficits in adolescent offenders revealed by context-sensitive tasks

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