Back to Search
Start Over
How do you make me feel better? Social cognitive emotion regulation and the default mode network
- Source :
- NeuroImage. 134
- Publication Year :
- 2015
-
Abstract
- Socially-induced cognitive emotion regulation (Social-Reg) is crucial for emotional well-being and social functioning; however, its brain mechanisms remain poorly understood. Given that both social cognition and cognitive emotion regulation engage key regions of the default-mode network (DMN), we hypothesized that Social-Reg would rely on the DMN, and that its effectiveness would be associated with social functioning. During functional MRI, negative emotions were elicited by pictures, and – via short instructions – a psychotherapist either down-regulated participants' emotions by employing reappraisal (Reg), or asked them to simply look at the pictures (Look). Adult Attachment Scale was used to measure social functioning. Contrasting Reg versus Look, aversive emotions were successfully reduced during Social-Reg, with increased activations in the prefrontal and parietal cortices, precuneus and the left temporo-parietal junction. These activations covered key nodes of the DMN and were associated with Social-Reg success. Furthermore, participants' attachment security was positively correlated with both Social-Reg success and orbitofrontal cortex involvement during Social-Reg. In addition, specificity of the neural correlates of Social-Reg was confirmed by comparisons with participants' DMN activity at rest and their brain activations during a typical emotional self-regulation task based on the same experimental paradigm without a psychotherapist. Our results provide first evidence for the specific involvement of the DMN in Social-Reg, and the association of Social-Reg with individual differences in attachment security. The findings suggest that DMN dysfunction, found in many neuropsychiatric disorders, may impair the ability to benefit from Social-Reg.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Cognitive Neuroscience
cognitive emotion regulation
Emotions
Precuneus
chemical and pharmacologic phenomena
Emotional Adjustment
Brain mapping
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
default mode network
03 medical and health sciences
socially-induced cognitive emotion regulation
0302 clinical medicine
Cognition
immune system diseases
Social cognition
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Interpersonal Relations
Social Behavior
Default mode network
Cerebral Cortex
Feedback, Physiological
Neural correlates of consciousness
Brain Mapping
social default mode network
05 social sciences
social emotion regulation
hemic and immune systems
medicine.anatomical_structure
attachment security
Neurology
Orbitofrontal cortex
Female
Nerve Net
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Social cognitive theory
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10959572
- Volume :
- 134
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NeuroImage
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....33e5be4ffd95561dbfd80959e1950064