ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2019
Attributed social context and emotional content recruit frontal and limbic brain regions during virtual feedback processing.
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- Adolescents' affective and neural responses to parental praise and criticism.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Encoding in a social feedback context enhances and biases behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of long-term recognition memory.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Structural brain differences in recovering and weight-recovered adult outpatient women with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Let's Talk About Each Other: Neural Responses to Dissenting Personality Evaluations Based on Real Dyadic Interactions.Psychological science · 2021Article
- Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- Close yet independent: Dissociation of social from valence and abstract semantic dimensions in the left anterior temporal lobe.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Attending to Eliza: rapid brain responses reflect competence attribution in virtual social feedback processing.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Vocal threat enhances visual perception as a function of attention and sex.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Emotion in Context: How Sender Predictability and Identity Affect Processing of Words as Imminent Personality Feedback.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
In communication, who is communicating can be just as important as what is said. However, sender identity in virtual communication is often inferred rather than perceived. Therefore, the present research investigates the brain structures activated by sender identity attributions and evaluative feedback processing during virtual communication. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, 32 participants were told that they would receive personality feedback, either sent from another human participant or from a randomly acting computer. In reality, both conditions contained random but counterbalanced feedback, automatically delivered by approving or denying negative, neutral, or positive adjectives. Although physically identical, feedback attributed to the "human" sender activated multiple regions within a "social brain" network, including the superior frontal, medial prefrontal, and orbitofrontal cortex, anterior and posterior parts of the cingulate cortex, and the bilateral insula. Regardless of attributed sender, positive feedback increased responses in the striatum and bilateral amygdalae, while negative compared to neutral feedback elicited stronger insula and somatosensory responses. These results reveal the recruitment of an extensive mentalizing and social brain network by mere sender attributions and the activation of brain structures related to reward and punishment by verbal feedback, demonstrating its embodied processing.
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