Maintaining the feelings of others in working memory is associated with activation of the left anterior insula and left frontal-parietal control network

Autor: Anna Sanova, Richard D. Lane, William D.S. Killgore, Courtney Smith, Anna Alkozei, Ryan Smith, Matthew Nettles, Jennifer Bao
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Adult
Male
Cognitive Neuroscience
Interference theory
Emotions
Intelligence
Individuality
emotion
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
social cognition
insula
050105 experimental psychology
working memory
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Social cognition
Parietal Lobe
Image Processing
Computer-Assisted
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Prefrontal cortex
Emotional Intelligence
Cerebral Cortex
Intelligence Tests
prefrontal cortex
Working memory
Emotional intelligence
05 social sciences
emotional working memory
Cognition
General Medicine
Original Articles
Awareness
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Healthy Volunteers
Frontal Lobe
Facial Expression
Memory
Short-Term
Female
Childhood memory
Nerve Net
Psychology
Insula
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Zdroj: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
ISSN: 1749-5024
1749-5016
Popis: The maintenance of social/emotional information in working memory (SWM/EWM) has recently been the topic of multiple neuroimaging studies. However, some studies find that SWM/EWM involves a medial frontal-parietal network while others instead find lateral frontal-parietal activations similar to studies of verbal and visuospatial WM. In this study, we asked 26 healthy volunteers to complete an EWM task designed to examine whether different cognitive strategies— maintaining emotional images, words, or feelings— might account for these discrepant results. We also examined whether differences in EWM performance were related to general intelligence (IQ), emotional intelligence (EI), and emotional awareness (EA). We found that maintaining emotional feelings, even when accounting for neural activation attributable to maintaining emotional images/words, still activated a left lateral frontal-parietal network (including the anterior insula and posterior dorsomedial frontal cortex). We also found that individual differences in the ability to maintain feelings were positively associated with IQ and EA, but not with EI. These results suggest that maintaining the feelings of others (at least when perceived exteroceptively) involves similar frontal-parietal control networks to exteroceptive WM, and that it is similarly linked to IQ, but that it also may be an important component of EA.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz: