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Aggression modulates neural correlates of hostile intention attribution to laughter in children
- Source :
- NeuroImage. 184:621-631
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- The tendency to interpret nonverbal social signals as hostile in intention is associated with aggressive responding, poor social functioning and mental illness, and can already be observed in childhood. To investigate the neural correlates of such hostile attributions of social intention, we performed a functional magnetic imaging study in 10-18 year old children and adolescents. Fifty healthy participants rated videos of laughter, which they were told to imagine as being directed towards them, as friendly versus hostile in social intention. Hostile intention ratings were associated with neural response in the right temporal voice area (TVA). Moreover, self-reported trait physical aggression modulated this relationship in both the right TVA and bilateral lingual gyrus, with stronger associations between hostile intention ratings and neural activation in children with higher trait physical aggression scores. Functional connectivity results showed decreased connectivity between the right TVA and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with increasing trait physical aggression for making hostile social intention attributions. We conclude that children's social intention attributions are more strongly related to activation of early face and voice-processing regions with increasing trait physical aggression.
- Subjects :
- Male
Adolescent
Cognitive Neuroscience
media_common.quotation_subject
Poison control
Intention
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Laughter
03 medical and health sciences
Nonverbal communication
0302 clinical medicine
Hostility
medicine
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child
media_common
Brain Mapping
Neural correlates of consciousness
Aggression
05 social sciences
Brain
Mental illness
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Social Perception
Neurology
Trait
Female
Cues
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Attribution
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10538119
- Volume :
- 184
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NeuroImage
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f969779693eacca6e9631778fd2628ef