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Identify the neural mechanisms and brain regions that represent abstract goals for cognitive emotion regulation.

November 5, 2015Human Brain MappingOpen Access

Neural representation of emotion regulation goals

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CMCarmen MorawetzUniversität Innsbruck SBStefan BodeNew York University Abu Dhabi JBJuergen BaudewigGerman Primate Center

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Neuroimaging study reveals a core frontoparietal and temporal network encoding reappraisal goals in humans, indicating that inner speech and semantic memory drive emotional control.

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Identify the neural mechanisms and brain regions that represent abstract goals for cognitive emotion regulation.
Conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during an emotion regulation task focused on cognitive reappraisal.
Applied a multimethodological approach combining standard univariate activation-based analyses with multivariate pattern-information analyses.
Identified a distributed network across lateral frontal, temporal, and parietal cortices that encodes reappraisal goals in an abstract, stimulus-independent manner.
Demonstrated that neural pattern-separability in the left inferior frontal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, and inferior parietal lobule tracks successful emotion regulation.

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Morawetz et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a760c8fb52b7ee7dcfbd6ff https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23053

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Neuroimaging study reveals a core frontoparietal and temporal network encoding reappraisal goals in humans, indicating that inner speech and semantic memory drive emotional control.

Neural representation of emotion regulation goals

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Neural representation of emotion regulation goals

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