Children's Neural Processing of the Emotional Environment: Angry Voices

儿童对情绪环境的神经处理：愤怒的声音

• 批准号: 8891792
• 负责人: Pamela M Cole
• 金额: $ 22.57万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-15 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8891792
• 关键词: 6 year old; 8 year old; Acoustics; Adult; Affective; Age; Amygdaloid structure; Anger; Anterior; Anxiety; Area; Auditory; Behavioral; Biological Neural Networks; Brain; Brain region; Characteristics; Child; Child Development; Conflict (Psychology); Depressed mood; Development; Emotional; Emotions; Environment; Exposure to; Familiarity; Family; Female; Fostering; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Functional disorder; Future; Happiness; Hearing; Home environment; Individual Differences; Infant; Inferior frontal gyrus; Informal Social Control; Insula of Reil; Investigation; Knowledge; Longitudinal Studies; Measurement; Measures; Mediating; Mental Health; Methods; Modality; Mothers; Neurocognitive; Neurosciences; Outcomes Research; Parents; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Process; Questionnaires; Relative (related person); Research; Risk; Risk Factors; Signal Transduction; Source; Speech; Stimulus; Structure of superior temporal sulcus; Symptoms; Technology; Variant; Voice; Woman; Work; affective neuroscience; base; cingulate cortex; emotion regulation; experience; interpersonal conflict; neural circuit; neurophysiology; public health relevance; relating to nervous system; response; skills; speech processing

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Several of the family factors that are associated with poorer child emotion regulation involve a child's exposure to anger. Individual differences in anger processing may help to explain why family risk factors such as inter- parental anger are associated with poorer self-regulation. Although there is behavioral evidence that helps us understand children's sensitivity to and knowledge of anger, the only research involving neural processing of anger has been done with adults or in a few cases with infants. This application is aimed at understanding how children, ages 5 and 6 years, process angry prosody at the neural level. Children's patterns of brain activation when hearing angry, sad, happy, and neutral prosody are examined using fMRI technology. In addition, this project examines whether the processing of affective prosody, particularly angry prosody, is influenced by the child's familiariy with the speaker, by comparing prosody spoken by the child's mother or an unfamiliar female. The findings of this project would inform basic affective neuroscience by including research on young children and would provide a method for subsequent studies of individual differences in typical and at risk children's processing of angry prosody.

 描述（由申请人提供）：与儿童情绪调节较差相关的几个家庭因素涉及儿童对愤怒的暴露。愤怒处理的个体差异可能有助于解释为什么家庭风险因素，如父母间的愤怒与自我调节能力较差有关。虽然有行为证据可以帮助我们了解儿童对愤怒的敏感性和知识，但涉及愤怒神经处理的唯一研究是在成人或少数情况下在婴儿身上进行的。该应用程序旨在了解5岁和6岁的儿童如何在神经水平上处理愤怒韵律。儿童的大脑激活模式时，听到愤怒，悲伤，快乐，和中性韵律使用功能磁共振成像技术检查。此外，本研究亦借由比较母亲与陌生女性的语音韵律，来探讨儿童对说话者的熟悉程度是否会影响情感韵律，尤其是生气韵律的处理。该项目的研究结果将告知基础情感神经科学，包括对幼儿的研究，并将提供一种方法，为随后的研究典型和风险儿童的愤怒韵律处理的个体差异。