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Neural Responses During Emotion Transitions and Emotion Regulation
Why are some people more susceptible to interference from previous emotional stimuli? Neural mechanisms underlying emotion regulation are typically studied with one-off positive or negative stimuli. Less is known about how they operate during dynamic emotional experiences, which more closely resembl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8416461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666284 |
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description | Why are some people more susceptible to interference from previous emotional stimuli? Neural mechanisms underlying emotion regulation are typically studied with one-off positive or negative stimuli. Less is known about how they operate during dynamic emotional experiences, which more closely resemble how emotions occur in real life. Therefore, we investigated the interaction among temporal context, stimulus content, and regulatory strategy. Image sequences included either neutral to negative emotion or negative to neutral emotion. Participants were instructed to either passively watch the emotional stimuli or apply cognitive reappraisal during the image sequences presentation. Participants also reported their habitual use of cognitive reappraisal in their daily lives on a standard scale. We measured functional connectivity (FC) with electroencephalography (EEG) source localization. A three-way interaction suggested that, in addition to momentary emotional content and regulatory effort, the temporal context of stimuli impacts the FC between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the ventral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in both alpha and beta frequency bands. In the reappraisal condition—but not the passive watch conditions—, individual differences in habitual reappraisal were manifested in the FC of vmPFC-ACC in alpha band. Emotion transitions may be more demanding because prefrontal-posterior FC in the beta band decreased during emotion transitions regardless of emotional content or regulation efforts. Flexible emotion regulation enables the recruiting of neural activities in response to the content of dynamic, ever-changing experiences encountered in daily life. Studying brain responses to dynamic emotional stimuli may shed light on individual differences in adaptation and psychological health. It also provides a more ecologically valid assessment of emotion regulation. |
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spelling | pubmed-84164612021-09-04 Neural Responses During Emotion Transitions and Emotion Regulation Hao, Yu Yao, Lin Evans, Gary W. Front Psychol Psychology Why are some people more susceptible to interference from previous emotional stimuli? Neural mechanisms underlying emotion regulation are typically studied with one-off positive or negative stimuli. Less is known about how they operate during dynamic emotional experiences, which more closely resemble how emotions occur in real life. Therefore, we investigated the interaction among temporal context, stimulus content, and regulatory strategy. Image sequences included either neutral to negative emotion or negative to neutral emotion. Participants were instructed to either passively watch the emotional stimuli or apply cognitive reappraisal during the image sequences presentation. Participants also reported their habitual use of cognitive reappraisal in their daily lives on a standard scale. We measured functional connectivity (FC) with electroencephalography (EEG) source localization. A three-way interaction suggested that, in addition to momentary emotional content and regulatory effort, the temporal context of stimuli impacts the FC between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the ventral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in both alpha and beta frequency bands. In the reappraisal condition—but not the passive watch conditions—, individual differences in habitual reappraisal were manifested in the FC of vmPFC-ACC in alpha band. Emotion transitions may be more demanding because prefrontal-posterior FC in the beta band decreased during emotion transitions regardless of emotional content or regulation efforts. Flexible emotion regulation enables the recruiting of neural activities in response to the content of dynamic, ever-changing experiences encountered in daily life. Studying brain responses to dynamic emotional stimuli may shed light on individual differences in adaptation and psychological health. It also provides a more ecologically valid assessment of emotion regulation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8416461/ /pubmed/34484029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666284 Text en Copyright © 2021 Hao, Yao and Evans. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Hao, Yu Yao, Lin Evans, Gary W. Neural Responses During Emotion Transitions and Emotion Regulation |
title | Neural Responses During Emotion Transitions and Emotion Regulation |
title_full | Neural Responses During Emotion Transitions and Emotion Regulation |
title_fullStr | Neural Responses During Emotion Transitions and Emotion Regulation |
title_full_unstemmed | Neural Responses During Emotion Transitions and Emotion Regulation |
title_short | Neural Responses During Emotion Transitions and Emotion Regulation |
title_sort | neural responses during emotion transitions and emotion regulation |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8416461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666284 |
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