Towards a human self-regulation system: Common and distinct neural signatures of emotional and behavioural control.

ABSTRACT: Self-regulation refers to controlling our emotions and actions in the pursuit of higher-order goals. Although research suggests commonalities in the cognitive control of emotion and action, evidence for a shared neural substrate is scant and largely circumstantial. Here we report on two large-scale meta-analyses of human neuroimaging studies on emotion or action control, yielding two fronto-parieto-insular networks. The networks' overlap, however, was restricted to four brain regions: posteromedial prefrontal cortex, bilateral anterior insula, and right temporo-parietal junction. Conversely, meta-analytic contrasts revealed major between-network differences, which were independently corroborated by clustering domain-specific regions based on their intrinsic functional connectivity, as well

SUBMITTER: Langner R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5994341 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature