Maintaining the feelings of others in working memory is associated with activation of the left anterior insula and left frontal-parietal control network.

ABSTRACT: The maintenance of social/emotional information in working memory (SWM/EWM) has recently been the topic of multiple neuroimaging studies. However, some studies find that SWM/EWM involves a medial frontal-parietal network while others instead find lateral frontal-parietal activations similar to studies of verbal and visuospatial WM. In this study, we asked 26 healthy volunteers to complete an EWM task designed to examine whether different cognitive strategies- maintaining emotional images, words, or feelings- might account for these discrepant results. We also examined whether differences in EWM performance were related to general intelligence (IQ), emotional intelligence (EI), and emotional awareness (EA). We found that maintaining emotional feelings, even when accounting for neural activa

SUBMITTER: Smith R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5460045 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature