Influenceof the Emotional and Social Brain on Executive Attention of Working Memory -Studies with fMRI and TMS-

本研究旨在揭示情绪和社会信息如何影响工作记忆的中央执行。为了达到这一目标，我们使用了描述一个人的情感状态的拟声词，并使用了一种自我参照范式，将参与者的注意力引导到他们或他人的人格特征上。参与者在执行任务时使用功能性磁共振成像(FMRI)测量大脑激活，这使我们能够指定整合情绪脑、社交脑和智能脑(中央执行)的大脑区域。我们还进行了经颅磁刺激研究和结构方程模型分析，以探讨工作记忆中央执行的神经网络。

The present study aimed to reveal how emotional and social information affects the central executive of working memory. In order to achieve the goal, we employed onomatopoeia that describes one's affective state, and a self-reference paradigm that directs participants' attention toward their own or other's personality trait. Brain activation was measured while participants were performing the task with a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which allowed us to specify brain regions integrating emotional brain, social brain, and intelligent brain (central executive). We also performed a transcranial magnetic stimulation study and the structural equation modeling analysis to investigate the neural network underlying the central executive of working memory.