The Neural Separability of Emotion Reactivity and Regulation.

ABSTRACT: One foundational distinction in affective science is between emotion reactivity and regulation. This conceptual distinction has long been assumed to be instantiated in spatially separable brain systems (a typical example: amygdala/insula for reactivity and frontoparietal areas for regulation). In this research, we begin by reviewing previous findings that support and contradict the neural separability hypothesis concerning emotional reactivity and regulation. Further, we conduct a direct test of this hypothesis with empirical data. In five studies involving healthy and clinical samples (total n = 336), we assessed neural responses using fMRI while participants were asked to either react naturally or regulate their emotions (using reappraisal) while viewing emotionally evocative stim

SUBMITTER: Zhang JX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10751283 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature