Controlling the integration of emotion and cognition - The role of frontal cortex in distinguishing helpful from hurtful emotional information
Controlling the integration of emotion and cognition - The role of frontal cortex in distinguishing helpful from hurtful emotional information
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01726.x
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发表时间：
2006-05-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
D'Esposito, M
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作者：
Beer, JS;Knight, RT;D'Esposito, M
情感因其在决策中所起的作用而既受到赞扬，也遭到诋毁。人们如何能够确保有益的情感引导决策，而无关的情感不参与决策呢？眶额皮质已被确定为一个参与将情感融入决策的神经区域。该区域的功能是特定于情感和认知的整合，还是更广泛地控制情感信息是否应融入认知呢？本研究在适当控制（即阻止）情感对决策的影响（实验1）以及将情感的影响融入决策（实验2）时，检验了眶额皮质的作用。这两项研究共同表明，外侧眶额皮质的活动与评估情感信息对决策的情境相关性有关。
Emotion has been both lauded and vilified for its role in decision making. How are people able to ensure that helpful emotions guide decision making and irrelevant emotions are kept out of decision making? The orbitofrontal cortex has been identified as a neural area involved in incorporating emotion into decision making. Is this area's function specific to the integration of emotion and cognition, or does it more broadly govern whether emotional information should be integrated into cognition? The present research examined the role of orbitofrontal cortex when it was appropriate to control (i.e., prevent) the influence of emotion in decision making (Experiment 1) and to incorporate the influence of emotion in decision making (Experiment 2). Together, the two studies suggest that activity in lateral orbitofrontal cortex is associated with evaluating the contextual relevance of emotional information for decision making.