States of mind: emotions, body feelings, and thoughts share distributed neural networks

Autor: Kristen A. Lindquist, Suzanne Oosterwijk, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Rebecca Dautoff, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Eric C. Anderson
Přispěvatelé: Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion (AICE, Psychology, FMG), Sociale Psychologie (Psychologie, FMG)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: NeuroImage, 62(3), 2110-2128. Academic Press Inc.
ISSN: 1095-9572
1053-8119
Popis: Scientists have traditionally assumed that different kinds of mental states (e.g., fear, disgust, love, memory, planning, concentration, etc.) correspond to different psychological faculties that have domain-specific correlates in the brain. Yet, growing evidence points to the constructionist hypothesis that mental states emerge from the combination of domain-general psychological processes that map to large-scale distributed brain networks. In this paper, we report a novel study testing a constructionist model of the mind in which participants generated three kinds of mental states (emotions, body feelings, or thoughts) while we measured activity within large-scale distributed brain networks using fMRI. We examined the similarity and differences in the pattern of network activity across these three classes of mental states. Consistent with a constructionist hypothesis, a combination of large-scale distributed networks contributed to emotions, thoughts, and body feelings, although these mental states differed in the relative contribution of those networks. Implications for a constructionist functional architecture of diverse mental states are discussed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE