Functional connectivity dynamics during film viewing reveal common networks for different emotional experiences

Autor: Maya Bleich-Cohen, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Gadi Gilam, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Gal Raz, Shir Atzil, Talma Hendler, Tamar Lin, Roee Admon, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, Adi Maron-Katz, Yael Jacob, Tal Gonen
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 16:709-723
ISSN: 1531-135X
1530-7026
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-016-0425-4
Popis: Recent theoretical and empirical work has highlighted the role of domain-general, large-scale brain networks in generating emotional experiences. These networks are hypothesized to process aspects of emotional experiences that are not unique to a specific emotional category (e.g., "sadness," "happiness"), but rather that generalize across categories. In this article, we examined the dynamic interactions (i.e., changing cohesiveness) between specific domain-general networks across time while participants experienced various instances of sadness, fear, and anger. We used a novel method for probing the network connectivity dynamics between two salience networks and three amygdala-based networks. We hypothesized, and found, that the functional connectivity between these networks covaried with the intensity of different emotional experiences. Stronger connectivity between the dorsal salience network and the medial amygdala network was associated with more intense ratings of emotional experience across six different instances of the three emotion categories examined. Also, stronger connectivity between the dorsal salience network and the ventrolateral amygdala network was associated with more intense ratings of emotional experience across five out of the six different instances. Our findings demonstrate that a variety of emotional experiences are associated with dynamic interactions of domain-general neural systems.
Databáze: OpenAIRE