As Time Goes By: Temporal Constraints on Emotional Activation of Inferior Medial Prefrontal Cortex Export

@article{citeulike:2153651, abstract = {To investigate the influence of stimulus duration on emotional processing, we measured changes of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in 14 healthy subjects who viewed neutral or emotional images presented for 3 or 6 s. Presentation for 3 s reproduced the previous result of higher rCBF in inferior medial prefrontal cortex (IMPC) during neutral than emotional stimulation. Six-second presentation reverted this relationship, with activity in IMPC being higher during emotional stimulation. Prolonged stimulus presentation attenuated the rise of rCBF associated with emotions in left parietal cortex and cerebellar hemisphere. We speculate that the different rCBF during neutral and emotional stimulation for 6 s is a consequence of attention divided between the emotional stimuli and their associations. Thus, prefrontal activity rises when a cognitive task accompanies emotional stimulation because several cognitive processes compete for attention. The IMPC may serve the mechanism of attention underlying the concept of a default mode of brain function, selecting among competitive inputs from multiple brain regions rather than just processing emotions. The results emphasize the importance of implicit cognitive processing during emotional activation, however, unintended. 10.1093/cercor/bhm002}, author = {Geday, Jacob and Kupers, Ron and Gjedde, Albert}, citeulike-article-id = {2153651}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhm002}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/12/2753}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17332416}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17332416}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1093/cercor/bhm002}, journal = {Cereb. Cortex}, keywords = {deactivation, emotion, jc-cercor}, month = {December}, number = {12}, pages = {2753--2759}, posted-at = {2007-12-21 02:28:05}, priority = {0}, title = {As Time Goes By: Temporal Constraints on Emotional Activation of Inferior Medial Prefrontal Cortex}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhm002}, volume = {17}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2153651 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2153651 N2 - To investigate the influence of stimulus duration on emotional processing, we measured changes of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in 14 healthy subjects who viewed neutral or emotional images presented for 3 or 6 s. Presentation for 3 s reproduced the previous result of higher rCBF in inferior medial prefrontal cortex (IMPC) during neutral than emotional stimulation. Six-second presentation reverted this relationship, with activity in IMPC being higher during emotional stimulation. Prolonged stimulus presentation attenuated the rise of rCBF associated with emotions in left parietal cortex and cerebellar hemisphere. We speculate that the different rCBF during neutral and emotional stimulation for 6 s is a consequence of attention divided between the emotional stimuli and their associations. Thus, prefrontal activity rises when a cognitive task accompanies emotional stimulation because several cognitive processes compete for attention. The IMPC may serve the mechanism of attention underlying the concept of a default mode of brain function, selecting among competitive inputs from multiple brain regions rather than just processing emotions. The results emphasize the importance of implicit cognitive processing during emotional activation, however, unintended. 10.1093/cercor/bhm002 IS - 12 JF - Cereb. Cortex EP - 2759 TI - As Time Goes By: Temporal Constraints on Emotional Activation of Inferior Medial Prefrontal Cortex VL - 17 SP - 2753 KW - deactivation KW - emotion KW - jc-cercor AU - Geday, Jacob AU - Kupers, Ron AU - Gjedde, Albert PY - 2007/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhm002 ER -