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States of mind: emotions, body feelings, and thoughts share distributed neural networks.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  22677148     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Scientists have traditionally assumed that different kinds of mental states (e.g., fear, disgust, love, memory, planning, concentration, etc.) correspond to different psychological faculties that have domain-specific correlates in the brain. Yet, growing evidence points to the constructionist hypothesis that mental states emerge from the combination of domain-general psychological processes that map to large-scale distributed brain networks. In this paper, we report a novel study testing a constructionist model of the mind in which participants generated three kinds of mental states (emotions, body feelings, or thoughts) while we measured activity within large-scale distributed brain networks using fMRI. We examined the similarity and differences in the pattern of network activity across these three classes of mental states. Consistent with a constructionist hypothesis, a combination of large-scale distributed networks contributed to emotions, thoughts, and body feelings, although these mental states differed in the relative contribution of those networks. Implications for a constructionist functional architecture of diverse mental states are discussed.
Authors:
Suzanne Oosterwijk; Kristen A Lindquist; Eric Anderson; Rebecca Dautoff; Yoshiya Moriguchi; Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2012-06-05
Journal Detail:
Title:  NeuroImage     Volume:  62     ISSN:  1095-9572     ISO Abbreviation:  Neuroimage     Publication Date:  2012 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-07-30     Completed Date:  2012-12-10     Revised Date:  2013-04-16    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9215515     Medline TA:  Neuroimage     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  2110-28     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Department of Psychology, Boston, MA 02115-5000, USA. s.oosterwijk@neu.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Brain / physiology*
Brain Mapping*
Emotions / physiology*
Female
Humans
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Neural Pathways / physiology*
Young Adult
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
DP1 OD003312/OD/NIH HHS; DP1OD003312/OD/NIH HHS

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