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ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2022

Emotion depends on context, culture and their interaction: evidence from effective connectivity.

Zachary H Pugh, Sanghyun Choo, Joseph C Leshin, Kristen A Lindquist, Chang S Nam

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Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zachary H PughDepartment of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1431-1603
Sanghyun ChooDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
Joseph C LeshinDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4719-1433
Kristen A LindquistDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5368-9302
Chang S NamDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
North Carolina State University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Situated models of emotion hypothesize that emotions are optimized for the context at hand, but most neuroimaging approaches ignore context. For the first time, we applied Granger causality (GC) analysis to determine how an emotion is affected by a person's cultural background and situation. Electroencephalographic recordings were obtained from mainland Chinese (CHN) and US participants as they viewed and rated fearful and neutral images displaying either social or non-social contexts. Independent component analysis and GC analysis were applied to determine the epoch of peak effect for each condition and to identify sources and sinks among brain regions of interest. We found that source-sink couplings differed across culture, situation and culture × situation. Mainland CHN participants alone showed preference for an early-onset source-sink pairing with the supramarginal gyrus as a causal source, suggesting that, relative to US participants, CHN participants more strongly prioritized a scene's social aspects in their response to fearful scenes. Our findings suggest that the neural representation of fear indeed varies according to both culture and situation and their interaction in ways that are consistent with norms instilled by cultural background.

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EmotionsParietal LobeBrainElectroencephalographyFearHumanscontextcultureEEGeffective connectivityemotionGranger causality

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PMID34282842
PMCPMC8847905
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