ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2016
Neural Correlates of the Appraisal of Attachment Scenes in Healthy Controls and Social Cognition-An fMRI Study.
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- The convergent neuroscience of Christian prayer and attachment relationships in the context of mental health: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Functional Neuroimaging of Adult-to-Adult Romantic Attachment Separation, Rejection, and Loss: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2021Pooled it
- Attachment, Shame, and Trauma.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- A Short Functional Neuroimaging Assay Using Attachment Scenes to Recruit Neural Correlates of Social Cognition-A Replication Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Neural Correlates of Attachment Representation in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder Using a Personalized Functional Magnet Resonance Imaging Task.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neural correlates of product attachment to cosmetics.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Social Cognition in a Research Domain Criteria Perspective: A Bridge Between Schizophrenia and Autism Spectra Disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- Disentangle the neural correlates of attachment style in healthy individuals.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2019Review
- Cultural Attachment: From Behavior to Computational Neuroscience.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Review
- The impact of attachment distress on affect-centered mentalization: An experimental study in psychosomatic patients and healthy adults.PloS one · 2018Article
- The iconography of mourning and its neural correlates: a functional neuroimaging study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Article
- Neural Response during the Activation of the Attachment System in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder: An fMRI Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
The human attachment system is activated in situations of danger such as potential separation, threats of loss of a significant other and potential insecurity on the availability of the attachment figure. To date, however, a precise characterization of the neural correlates of the attachment system in healthy individuals is lacking. This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study aims at characterizing the distinctive neural substrates activated by the exposure to attachment vs. non-attachment scenes. Healthy participants (N = 25) were presented scenes from the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP), a validated set of standardized attachment-related pictures extended by a control picture stimulus set consisting of scenes without attachment-related content. When compared to the control neutral pictures, attachment scenes activated the inferior parietal lobes (IPLs), the middle temporal gyrus (MTG), and the anterior medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). These areas are associated with reasoning about mental representations, semantic memory of social knowledge, and social cognition. This neural activation pattern confirms the distinctive quality of this stimulus set, and suggests its use as a potential neuroimaging probe to assess social cognition/mentalizing related to attachment in healthy and clinical populations.
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