ArticleHuman brain mapping2014
Attention modulates the dorsal striatum response to love stimuli.
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- Neural mechanisms of brand love relationship dynamics: Is the development of brand love relationships the same as that of interpersonal romantic love relationships?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- How the brain represents a romantic partner: Dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens and anterior insula.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Refuting Six Misconceptions about Romantic Love.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Toward consistent reporting of sample characteristics in studies investigating the biological mechanisms of romantic love.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Electrophysiological Correlates of Romantic Love: A Review of EEG and ERP Studies with Beloved-Related Stimuli.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Spiritual experiences are related to engagement of a ventral frontotemporal functional brain network: Implications for prevention and treatment of behavioral and substance addictions.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2019Article
- An attachment theoretical perspective for the neural representation of close others.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Review
- Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Article
- Being in a Romantic Relationship Is Associated with Reduced Gray Matter Density in Striatum and Increased Subjective Happiness.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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- Aversive emotional interference impacts behavior and prefronto-striatal activity during increasing attentional control.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2015Article
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Abstract
In previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies concerning romantic love, several brain regions including the caudate and putamen have consistently been found to be more responsive to beloved-related than control stimuli. In those studies, infatuated individuals were typically instructed to passively view the stimuli or to think of the viewed person. In the current study, we examined how the instruction to attend to, or ignore the beloved modulates the response of these brain areas. Infatuated individuals performed an oddball task in which pictures of their beloved and friend served as targets and distractors. The dorsal striatum showed greater activation for the beloved than friend, but only when they were targets. The dorsal striatum actually tended to show less activation for the beloved than the friend when they were distractors. The longer the love and relationship duration, the smaller the response of the dorsal striatum to beloved-distractor stimuli was. We interpret our findings in terms of reinforcement learning. By virtue of using a cognitive task with a full factorial design, we show that the dorsal striatum is not activated by beloved-related information per se, but only by beloved-related information that is attended.
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