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ArticleNature human behaviour2024

A neurofunctional signature of subjective disgust generalizes to oral distaste and socio-moral contexts.

Xianyang Gan, Feng Zhou, Ting Xu, Xiaobo Liu, Ran Zhang, Zihao Zheng, Xi Yang, Xinqi Zhou, Fangwen Yu, Jialin Li and 5 more

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Article in Nature human behaviour, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

Xianyang Gan *The Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9960-8523
Feng Zhou *Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4509-4026
Ting XuThe Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Xiaobo LiuMcConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0427-6031
Ran ZhangThe Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Zihao ZhengThe Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Xi YangFaculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Xinqi ZhouSichuan Key Laboratory of Psychology and Behavior of Discipline Inspection and Supervision, Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-9141
Fangwen YuThe Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Jialin LiMax Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany.
Ruifang CuiThe Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8436-7162
Lan WangThe Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Jiajin YuanSichuan Key Laboratory of Psychology and Behavior of Discipline Inspection and Supervision, Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5630-2230
Dezhong YaoThe Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8042-879X
Benjamin BeckerThe Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. ben_becker@gmx.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9014-9671
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CNSichuan Normal University · CNMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences · DEMontreal Neurological Institute and Hospital · CASouthwest University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32250610208, 82271583, 32300862
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While disgust originates in the hard-wired mammalian distaste response, the conscious experience of disgust in humans strongly depends on subjective appraisal and may even extend to socio-moral contexts. Here, in a series of studies, we combined functional magnetic resonance imaging with machine-learning-based predictive modelling to establish a comprehensive neurobiological model of subjective disgust. The developed neurofunctional signature accurately predicted momentary self-reported subjective disgust across discovery (n = 78) and pre-registered validation (n = 30) cohorts and generalized across core disgust (n = 34 and n = 26), gustatory distaste (n = 30) and socio-moral (unfair offers; n = 43) contexts. Disgust experience was encoded in distributed cortical and subcortical systems, and exhibited distinct and shared neural representations with subjective fear or negative affect in interoceptive-emotional awareness and conscious appraisal systems, while the signatures most accurately predicted the respective target experience. We provide an accurate functional magnetic resonance imaging signature for disgust with a high potential to resolve ongoing evolutionary debates.

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DisgustMachine LearningMagnetic Resonance ImagingAdultBrainEmotionsFearFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adult

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