The role of language in the experience and perception of emotion: a neuroimaging meta-analysis.
The role of language in the experience and perception of emotion: a neuroimaging meta-analysis.
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DOI：
10.1093/scan/nsw121
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Lindquist KA
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作者：
Brooks JA;Shablack H;Gendron M;Satpute AB;Parrish MH;Lindquist KA
最近的行为和神经成像研究表明，标记一个人的情感体验和感知会改变这些状态。在这里，我们使用了一个全面的荟萃分析的神经影像学文献，系统地探讨是否存在的情感词在实验任务的影响，神经表征的情感体验和感知跨研究。使用386项研究的数据库，我们评估了当情感词（例如“愤怒”，“厌恶”）和更一般的情感词（例如“愉快”，“不愉快”）存在于实验任务中与不存在时的大脑活动。正如预测的那样，当情绪词存在时，我们观察到与语义处理相关的区域更频繁的激活。当情绪词不存在时，我们观察到双侧杏仁核和海马旁回更频繁的激活。情感词的存在对情感体验和感知的神经表征没有同样的影响，这表明我们观察到的影响是特定于情感词的。这些发现与心理建构主义者的预测一致，即在缺乏可接近的情感概念的情况下，情感体验和感知的意义是模糊的。调查结果也与“影响标签”的调节作用是一致的。语言在情感构建和调节中的作用的含义进行了讨论。
Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies demonstrate that labeling one’s emotional experiences and perceptions alters those states. Here, we used a comprehensive meta-analysis of the neuroimaging literature to systematically explore whether the presence of emotion words in experimental tasks has an impact on the neural representation of emotional experiences and perceptions across studies. Using a database of 386 studies, we assessed brain activity when emotion words (e.g. ‘anger’, ‘disgust’) and more general affect words (e.g. ‘pleasant’, ‘unpleasant’) were present in experimental tasks vs not present. As predicted, when emotion words were present, we observed more frequent activations in regions related to semantic processing. When emotion words were not present, we observed more frequent activations in the amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus, bilaterally. The presence of affect words did not have the same effect on the neural representation of emotional experiences and perceptions, suggesting that our observed effects are specific to emotion words. These findings are consistent with the psychological constructionist prediction that in the absence of accessible emotion concepts, the meaning of affective experiences and perceptions are ambiguous. Findings are also consistent with the regulatory role of ‘affect labeling’. Implications of the role of language in emotion construction and regulation are discussed.