Neural Control of Emotional Actions in Response to Affective Vocalizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 977-988
Author(s):  
Saskia B. J. Koch ◽  
Alessandra Galli ◽  
Inge Volman ◽  
Reinoud Kaldewaij ◽  
Ivan Toni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Control ◽  
Neural Circuits ◽  
Action Control ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Emotional Control ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Emotional Faces ◽  
Posterior Insula ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

Social–emotional cues, such as affective vocalizations and emotional faces, automatically elicit emotional action tendencies. Adaptive social–emotional behavior depends on the ability to control these automatic action tendencies. It remains unknown whether neural control over automatic action tendencies is supramodal or relies on parallel modality-specific neural circuits. Here, we address this largely unexplored issue in humans. We consider neural circuits supporting emotional action control in response to affective vocalizations, using an approach–avoidance task known to reliably index control over emotional action tendencies elicited by emotional faces. We isolate supramodal neural contributions to emotional action control through a conjunction analysis of control-related neural activity evoked by auditory and visual affective stimuli, the latter from a previously published data set obtained in an independent sample. We show that the anterior pFC (aPFC) supports control of automatic action tendencies in a supramodal manner, that is, triggered by either emotional faces or affective vocalizations. When affective vocalizations are heard and emotional control is required, the aPFC supports control through negative functional connectivity with the posterior insula. When emotional faces are seen and emotional control is required, control relies on the same aPFC territory downregulating the amygdala. The findings provide evidence for a novel mechanism of emotional action control with a hybrid hierarchical architecture, relying on a supramodal node (aPFC) implementing an abstract goal by modulating modality-specific nodes (posterior insula, amygdala) involved in signaling motivational significance of either affective vocalizations or faces.

scholarly journals Improving emotional-action control by targeting long-range phase-amplitude neuronal coupling

eLife ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Bramson ◽  
Hanneke EM den Ouden ◽  
Ivan Toni ◽  
Karin Roelofs
Keyword(s):  
Action Control ◽  
Avoidance Task ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Neural Noise ◽  
Phase Amplitude ◽  
Emotional Approach ◽  
Coupling Mechanisms ◽  
Automatic Action ◽  
Action Tendencies

Control over emotional action tendencies is essential for everyday interactions. This cognitive function fails occasionally during socially challenging situations, and systematically in social psychopathologies. We delivered dual-site phase-coupled brain stimulation to facilitate theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling between frontal regions known to implement that form of control, while neuropsychologically healthy human male participants were challenged to control their automatic action tendencies in a social–emotional approach/avoidance-task. Participants had increased control over their emotional action tendencies, depending on the relative phase and dose of the intervention. Concurrently measured fMRI effects of task and stimulation indicated that the intervention improved control by increasing the efficacy of anterior prefrontal inhibition over the sensorimotor cortex. This enhancement of emotional action control provides causal evidence for phase-amplitude coupling mechanisms guiding action selection during emotional-action control. Generally, the finding illustrates the potential of physiologically-grounded interventions aimed at reducing neural noise in cerebral circuits where communication relies on phase-amplitude coupling.

scholarly journals Improving emotional-action control by targeting long-range phase-amplitude neuronal coupling

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Bramson ◽  
Hanneke den Ouden ◽  
Ivan Toni ◽  
Karin Roelofs
Keyword(s):  
Effective Connectivity ◽  
Rhythmic Activity ◽  
Action Control ◽  
Avoidance Task ◽  
Coupling Mechanism ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Neural Noise ◽  
Phase Amplitude ◽  
Gamma Band Activity ◽  
Action Tendencies

AbstractControl over emotional action tendencies is essential for every-day interactions. This cognitive function can fail during socially challenging situations, and is chronically attenuated in social psychopathologies such as social anxiety and aggression. Previous studies have shown that control over social-emotional action tendencies depends on phase-amplitude coupling between prefrontal theta-band (6 Hz) rhythmic activity and broadband gamma-band activity in sensorimotor areas. Here, we delivered dual-site phase-coupled brain stimulation to facilitate theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling between frontal regions known to implement that form of control, while participants were challenged to control their automatic action tendencies in a social-emotional approach/avoidance-task. Participants had increased control over their emotional action tendencies, depending on the relative phase and dose of the intervention. Concurrently measured fMRI effects of task and stimulation, and estimated changes in effective connectivity, indicated that the intervention improved control by increasing the efficacy of anterior prefrontal inhibition over sensorimotor cortex. This enhancement of emotional action control provides causal evidence for a phase-amplitude coupling mechanism guiding action selection during emotional-action control. More generally, the finding illustrates the potential of physiologically-grounded interventions aimed at reducing neural noise in cerebral circuits where communication relies on phase-amplitude coupling.

scholarly journals Signaled night awakening and its association with social information processing and socio-emotional development across the first two years

SLEEP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiina E Mäkelä ◽  
Anneli Kylliäinen ◽  
Outi Saarenpää-Heikkilä ◽  
E Juulia Paavonen ◽  
Tiina Paunio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Emotional Faces ◽  
Group 3 ◽  
Night Awakening ◽  
Group 1

Abstract Study Objectives Night awakening is common in infancy, and some infants continue to have signaled night awakenings throughout early childhood. However, the influence of signaled night awakening on children’s social development is less explored. In the present study, longitudinal associations between signaled night awakening, social information processing, and socio-emotional development were measured within the CHILD-SLEEP birth cohort in two groups formed based on parent-reported night awakenings. Methods At 8 months, there were 77 infants in the waking group (≥3 awakenings) and 69 infants in the nonwaking group (≤1 awakening). At 8 and 24 months, social information processing was measured as children’s attention to neutral and emotional faces, and at 24 months, parent-reported socio-emotional behavior was measured with the Brief Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) questionnaire. Results The two groups showed different patterns of attention to emotional faces. The waking group had a more pronounced attentional bias to fearful vs. happy faces, whereas in the nonwaking group, attention to fearful and happy faces did not differ. In addition, at 24 months, the waking group had more dysregulation problems and lower social competence than the nonwaking group, but no clear differences in internalizing or externalizing problems were found. Conclusions Our results contribute to the literature by showing that during the first two years of life, signaled night awakening is associated with social information processing and socio-emotional behavior.

scholarly journals On the neural control of social emotional behavior

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Roelofs ◽  
Alessandra Minelli ◽  
Rogier B. Mars ◽  
Jacobien van Peer ◽  
Ivan Toni
Keyword(s):  
Neural Control ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Social Emotional

scholarly journals Stopping a Response When You Really Care about the Action: Considerations from a Clinical Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 979
Author(s):  
Sharon Morein-Zamir ◽  
Gideon Anholt
Keyword(s):  
Response Inhibition ◽  
Action Control ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Reward Seeking ◽  
Threat Avoidance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Action Tendencies

Response inhibition, whether reactive or proactive, is mostly investigated in a narrow cognitive framework. We argue that it be viewed within a broader frame than the action being inhibited, i.e., in the context of emotion and motivation of the individual at large. This is particularly important in the clinical domain, where the motivational strength of an action can be driven by threat avoidance or reward seeking. The cognitive response inhibition literature has focused on stopping reactively with responses in anticipation of clearly delineated external signals, or proactively in limited contexts, largely independent of clinical phenomena. Moreover, the focus has often been on stopping efficiency and its correlates rather than on inhibition failures. Currently, the cognitive and clinical perspectives are incommensurable. A broader context may explain the apparent paradox where individuals with disorders characterised by maladaptive action control have difficulty inhibiting their actions only in specific circumstances. Using Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as a case study, clinical theorising has focused largely on compulsions as failures of inhibition in relation to specific internal or external triggers. We propose that the concept of action tendencies may constitute a useful common denominator bridging research into motor, emotional, motivational, and contextual aspects of action control failure. The success of action control may depend on the interaction between the strength of action tendencies, the ability to withhold urges, and contextual factors.

scholarly journals The Influence Of Single Parent Parenting Style On Social Emotional Development Women Student Of Al-Istiqamah Ngatabaru Modern Islamic Boarding School

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Beti Wulandari ◽  
Sagaf S. Pettalongi ◽  
Hamlan Hamlan
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional

This study was conducted in al-istiqamah ngatabaru modern islamic boarding school with sample of 50 students. Data were gathered through  observation and questionnaires. The data were analysed  using  descriptive analysis approach.  The results showed that the parenting style applied by each parents of students in general can be said to be quite democratic, but none of the parents of students who apply pure democratic parenting. Under certain circumstances, parents are authoritarian and in another  circumstances parents are permissive. Based on the significant value of the Coefficients table, the significance value of 0,000 <0,05, then based on the known value of , while the Ttable value at the error level 5% = 2.011, thus the statement can be written that, tcount>  (18.254 <2.011 ), the degree of the influence of single parent parenting style on social emotional behavior women student of al-istiqamah ngatabaru modern islamic boarding school also can be known through the magnitude of coefficient of determination (R Square) is 0.871 or 87.1%. This means that 12.9% is influenced by other factors not included in this study. so it can be concluded that single parent parenting style (X) parenting variable influential to emotional social development variable (Y), the result is significant hypothesis that there is positive influence between parenting parent single parent to emotional social development santriwati pondok pesantren modern Al-istiqamah Ngatabaru.

How the Emotional Environment Shapes the Emotional Life of the Child

2021 ◽  
pp. 237273222110672
Author(s):  
Vanessa LoBue ◽  
Marissa Ogren
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Emotional Environment ◽  
Vocal Expressions ◽  
Infants And Young Children

Emotion understanding facilitates the development of healthy social interactions. To develop emotion knowledge, infants and young children must learn to make inferences about people's dynamically changing facial and vocal expressions in the context of their everyday lives. Given that emotional information varies so widely, the emotional input that children receive might particularly shape their emotion understanding over time. This review explores how variation in children's received emotional input shapes their emotion understanding and their emotional behavior over the course of development. Variation in emotional input from caregivers shapes individual differences in infants’ emotion perception and understanding, as well as older children's emotional behavior. Finally, this work can inform policy and focus interventions designed to help infants and young children with social-emotional development.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document