scholarly journals Emotional context sculpts action goal representations in the lateral frontal pole

2021 ◽  
pp. JN-RM-1522-21
Author(s):  
RC Lapate ◽  
IC Ballard ◽  
MK Heckner ◽  
M D’Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Pole ◽  
Emotional Context ◽  
Action Goal

scholarly journals Emotional context sculpts action goal representations in the lateral frontal pole

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina C Lapate ◽  
Ian C Ballard ◽  
Marisa K Heckner ◽  
Mark D'Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Basolateral Amygdala ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Frontal Pole ◽  
Emotional Context ◽  
Action Goal ◽  
Pattern Similarity

Emotional states provide an ever-present source of contextual information that should inform behavioral goals. Despite the ubiquity of emotional signals in our environment, the neural mechanisms underlying their influence on goal-directed action remains unclear. Prior work suggests that the lateral frontal pole (FPl) is uniquely positioned to integrate affective information into cognitive control representations. We used pattern similarity analysis to examine the content of representations in FPl and interconnected mid-lateral prefrontal and amygdala circuitry. Healthy participants (n=37; n=21 females) were scanned while undergoing an event-related Affective Go/No-Go task, which requires goal-oriented action selection during emotional processing. We found that FPl contained conjunctive emotion-action goal representations that were related to successful cognitive control during emotional processing. These representations differed from conjunctive emotion-action goal representations found in the basolateral amygdala. While robust action goal representations were present in mid-lateral prefrontal cortex, they were not modulated by emotional valence. Finally, converging results from functional connectivity and multivoxel pattern analyses indicated that FPl's emotional valence signals likely originated from interconnected subgenual ACC (BA25), which was in turn functionally coupled with the amygdala. Thus, our results identify a key pathway by which internal emotional states influence goal-directed behavior.

Action goal selects affordances evoked by understanding nouns of tools

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. F. Marino ◽  
A. M. Borghi ◽  
L. Riggio
Keyword(s):  
Action Goal

The Effect of Emotional Context on Facial Perception in Koreans and Americans

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongyu Ko ◽  
Mara Mather ◽  
Taeho Lee ◽  
Hyeayoung Yoon ◽  
Junghye Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Context ◽  
Facial Perception

Emotional Context Task

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Serap Monkul ◽  
Melissa J. Green ◽  
Jennifer A. Barrett ◽  
Jennifer L. Robinson ◽  
Dawn I. Velligan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Context

The frontal longitudinal system as revealed through the fiber microdissection technique: structural evidence underpinning the direct connectivity of the prefrontal-premotor circuitry

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
pp. 1503-1515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyridon Komaitis ◽  
Aristotelis V. Kalyvas ◽  
Georgios P. Skandalakis ◽  
Evangelos Drosos ◽  
Evgenia Lani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Motor Cortex ◽  
Premotor Cortex ◽  
Frontal Area ◽  
Frontal Pole ◽  
Fiber System ◽  
Dorsolateral Prefrontal ◽  
Anterior Extension ◽  
Brodmann Areas ◽  
Longitudinal Fiber ◽  
Long Fibers

OBJECTIVEThe purpose of this study was to investigate the morphology, connectivity, and correlative anatomy of the longitudinal group of fibers residing in the frontal area, which resemble the anterior extension of the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) and were previously described as the frontal longitudinal system (FLS).METHODSFifteen normal adult formalin-fixed cerebral hemispheres collected from cadavers were studied using the Klingler microdissection technique. Lateral to medial dissections were performed in a stepwise fashion starting from the frontal area and extending to the temporoparietal regions.RESULTSThe FLS was consistently identified as a fiber pathway residing just under the superficial U-fibers of the middle frontal gyrus or middle frontal sulcus (when present) and extending as far as the frontal pole. The authors were able to record two different configurations: one consisting of two distinct, parallel, longitudinal fiber chains (13% of cases), and the other consisting of a single stem of fibers (87% of cases). The fiber chains’ cortical terminations in the frontal and prefrontal area were also traced. More specifically, the FLS was always recorded to terminate in Brodmann areas 6, 46, 45, and 10 (premotor cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, pars triangularis, and frontal pole, respectively), whereas terminations in Brodmann areas 4 (primary motor cortex), 47 (pars orbitalis), and 9 were also encountered in some specimens. In relation to the SLF system, the FLS represented its anterior continuation in the majority of the hemispheres, whereas in a few cases it was recorded as a completely distinct tract. Interestingly, the FLS comprised shorter fibers that were recorded to interconnect exclusively frontal areas, thus exhibiting different fiber architecture when compared to the long fibers forming the SLF.CONCLUSIONSThe current study provides consistent, focused, and robust evidence on the morphology, architecture, and correlative anatomy of the FLS. This fiber system participates in the axonal connectivity of the prefrontal-premotor cortices and allegedly subserves cognitive-motor functions. Based in the SLF hypersegmentation concept that has been advocated by previous authors, the FLS should be approached as a distinct frontal segment within the superior longitudinal system.

Philostratos’ Prurient Gaze

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel King
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Context ◽  
Physical Trauma ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Physical Beauty

This chapter analyses the Imagines of Philostratos, which are underpinned by a desire to teach readers how to view art and how to speak about viewing images. An important aspect of this is teaching what those who feel (among other things) pleasure and pain might look like. This interest in pleasure and pain is reflected in a number of important tableaux in which Philostratos presents images of physical trauma and violation. In these instances, Philostratos explores the relationship between pain and trauma, showing how it is influenced by, and helps to mould, the individual’s emotional context, the physical beauty of the protagonists, and the reader’s pleasure at the image.

Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel King
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Pain Experience ◽  
Emotional Context ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Christian Society

Much of the Western intellectual tradition’s interest in pain can be traced back to Greek material. This book investigates one theme in the interest in physical pain in Greek culture under the Roman Empire. Traditional accounts of pain in the Roman Empire have either focused on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of ‘suffering’; and fascination with the pained body has often been assumed to be a characteristic of Christian society, rather than ancient culture in general. The book uses ideas from medical anthropology, as well as contemporary philosophical discussions and cultural theory, to help unpack the complex engagement with pain in the ancient world. It argues, centrally, that pain was approached as a type of embodied experience, in which ideas about the body’s physiology, its representation, and communication, as well as its emotional and cognitive impact on those who felt pain and others around them, were important aspects of what it meant to be in pain. The formulation of this sense of pain experience is examined across a range of important areas of Imperial Greek culture, including rational medicine, rhetoric, and literature, as well as ancient art criticism. What is common across these disparate areas of cultural activity is the notion that pain must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context.

The effect of congruent emotional context in emotional word processing during discourse comprehension

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 100989
Author(s):  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Jinfeng Ding ◽  
Zhenyu Zhang ◽  
Xiaohong Yang ◽  
Yufang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Emotional Word ◽  
Discourse Comprehension ◽  
Emotional Context

The effects of emotional context and exposure frequency on L2 contextual word learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 136700692110165
Author(s):  
Sijia Hao ◽  
Lijuan Liang ◽  
Jue Wang ◽  
Huanhuan Liu ◽  
Baoguo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
Word Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Recall Test ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Neutral Context ◽  
Emotional Context ◽  
Exposure Frequency ◽  
Form Recognition

Objectives: An experiment was conducted to explore how emotional valence of contexts and exposure frequency of novel words affect second language (L2) contextual word learning. Methodology: Chinese native speakers who learned English in a formal classroom setting were asked to read English paragraphs with different emotional valence (positive, negative or neutral) across five different days. These paragraphs were embedded with pseudowords. During this learning process, form recognition test and meaning recall test were carried out for these pseudowords. Data and analysis: Data were analyzed using mixed-model ANOVA. Accuracy for each task was compared among the three kinds of emotional contexts. Findings/Conclusions: In the form recognition test, the accuracy in the negative context was higher than in the positive and neutral contexts, and the pseudowords were acquired much earlier. In the meaning recall test, the accuracy in the positive and negative contexts was higher than that in the neutral context. Accuracy increased gradually with the increase of exposure frequency of the pseudowords. More importantly, we found that less exposure times were needed for emotional context relative to neutral context in contextual word learning. Originality: This may be the first study to explore the influence of emotional valence and exposure frequency on L2 contextual word learning. Significance/Implications: This study underlined the importance of emotional information in L2 contextual word learning and contributed to the understanding of how emotional information and exposure frequency functions in this learning process.

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