Higher emotional granularity relates to greater inferior frontal cortex cortical thickness in healthy, older adults.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with high emotional granularity make fine-grained distinctions between their emotional experiences. To have greater emotional granularity, one must acquire rich conceptual knowledge of emotions and use this knowledge in a controlled and nuanced way. In the brain, the neural correlates of emotional granularity are not well understood. While the anterior temporal lobes, angular gyri, and connected systems represent conceptual knowledge of emotions, inhibitory networks with hubs in the inferior frontal cortex (i.e., posterior inferior frontal gyrus, lateral orbitofrontal cortex, and dorsal anterior insula) guide the selection of this knowledge during emotions. We investigated the structural neuroanatomical correlates of emotional granularity in 58 healthy, older adults (ages 62-84

SUBMITTER: Lukic S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10545583 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature