Reflecting upon Feelings: An fMRI Study of Neural Systems Supporting the Attribution of Emotion to Self and Other

By Kevin N. Ochsner, K. Knierim, D. Ludlow, J. Hanelin, T. Ramachandran, Gary H. Glover, S. Mackey. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Interpersonal Dynamics of Emotion: Toward an Integrative Theory of Emotions as Social Information (2018, background): “Another study found that the interpretation of others’ emotions relies on cortical brain structures that are involved more generally in mental state attributions (Ochsner et al., 2004).”
Overlapping activity in anterior insula during interoception and emotional experience (2012, neutral): “This comparison is analogous to those made in many previous studies, in which explicit monitoring and judgment of one's own emotions or mental states is compared to lower level judgments made about similar stimuli (Mitchell et al., 2005; Ochsner et al., 2004; Winston et al., 2003).”
Mirror Neuron and Theory of Mind Mechanisms Involved in Face-to-Face Interactions: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach to Empathy (2007, background): “Few studies directly addressed the functional neuroanatomy of taking the self- or other-perspective in the context of emotional experience (Ochsner et al., 2004; Ruby & Decety, 2004).”
Neural mechanisms of social influence (2009, background): “…enhanced activity in this region has been detected when people consider the motivations underlying other's actions (de Lange, Spronk, Willems, Toni, & Bekkering, 2008; Mason, Banfield, & Macrae, 2004), their feelings (Ochsner et al., 2004), and their fears (Olsson, Nearing, & Phelps, 2007).”
The Neural Bases of Distraction and Reappraisal (2010, neutral): “■”
The precuneus: a review of its functional anatomy and behavioural correlates. (2006, neutral): “The possible role played by the precuneus in empathic judgements has been confirmed in a recent fMRI study by Ochsner et al. (2004), in which regions commonly activated by attribution of emotions to the self and other people were identified in the left precuneus, posterior cingulate and prefrontal…”
NEURAL CORRELATES OF EMOTIONAL MEMORIES: A REVIEW OF EVIDENCE FROM BRAIN IMAGING STUDIES (2012, background): “The medial orbital PFC has been involved from general emotion processing (Davidson & Irwin, 1999; Phan, Wager, Taylor, & Liberzon, 2002) to specific reward-related (Dolan, 2007; O’Doherty, 2004; Rolls, 2004) and self-referential processing (de Greck et al., 2008; Ochsner et al., 2004) (for review se”
The neural correlates of direct and reflected self-knowledge (2005, background): “…can also explain dorsalMPFC involvement in theory of mind attributions and explicit ratings of current emotional states (Gallagher and Frith, 2003; Ochsner et al., 2004), as compared to ventral MPFC recruitment for more intuitive forms of self-reference as well as reward-related decision making…”
Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering (2009, background): “of anterior PFC function (34, 36, 44-46, 49, 51) and meta-consciousness (23, 52), it may”
Contributions of episodic retrieval and mentalizing to autobiographical thought: evidence from functional neuroimaging, resting-state connectivity, and fMRI meta-analyses (2014, background): “In contrast, the dMPFC activates more broadly when participants appraise or assess social information (i.e. personality traits and preferences; Beer and Ochsner, 2006; Hassabis et al., in press; Mitchell et al., 2006; Moran et al., 2011; Ochsner et al., 2004; Van Overwalle, 2009) and generate high-l”
Amygdala-frontal connectivity during emotion regulation. (2007, methodology): “…it has been posited that conscious down-regulation of emotion appears to have a top–down inhibitory effect of prefrontal brain regions on the amygdala (Beauregard et al., 2001; Ochsner et al., 2002, 2004a; Levesque et al., 2003b, 2004; Phan et al., 2005; Ohira et al., 2006; Urry et al., 2006).”
Social learning of fear (2007, background): “The MPFC is implicated in thinking about one's own and others' mental state”
Neural correlates of heart rate variability during emotion (2009, background): “This is an area that participates in establishing a representation of one's own emotions or mental states as well as those of others (Lane et al., 1997b; Ochsner et al., 2004).”
Interoception in anxiety and depression (2010, background): “Considering the impact that our own self-concept has on the way we behave and interact with our surroundings, it is not surprising to find the mPFC involved not only in the judgment of one’s emotional state (Ochsner et al. 2004) but also in self-reflection (Johnson et al.”
Neural Circuitry Underlying the Regulation of Conditioned Fear and Its Relation to Extinction (2008, neutral): “…or immediately adjacent vmPFC region) similar to that observed in the present study (e.g., Harenski and Hamann, 2006; Kalisch et al., 2005b; Kim and Hamann, 2007; Ochsner et al., 2004a; Urry et al., 2006), supporting a general role for this region in mediating inhibition of the amygdala response.”