Association of trait emotional intelligence and individual fMRI‐activation patterns during the perception of social signals from voice and face
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Multimodal integration of nonverbal social signals is essential for successful social interaction. Previous studies have implicated the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) in the perception of social signals such as nonverbal emotional signals as well as in social cognitive functions like mentalizing/theory of mind. In the present study, we evaluated the relationships between trait emotional intelligence (EI) and fMRI activation patterns in individual subjects during the multimodal perception of nonverbal emotional signals from voice and face. Trait EI was linked to hemodynamic responses in the right pSTS, an area which also exhibits a distinct sensitivity to human voices and faces. Within all other regions known to subserve the perceptual audiovisual integration of human social signals (i.e., amygdala, fusiform gyrus, thalamus), no such linked responses were observed. This functional difference in the network for the audiovisual perception of human social signals indicates a specific contribution of the pSTS as a possible interface between the perception of social information and social cognition. Hum Brain Mapp, 2010. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
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Audio-visual integration is linked to trait EI within the right posterior temporal sulcus.
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- Authors
- Kreifelts, B., Ethofer, T., Huberle, E., Grodd, W., & Wildgruber, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (DE)
- Venue
- Human Brain Mapping
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-06-11
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 979-991
- ISSN
- 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0193
- PMC
- PMC6871025
- OpenAlex
- W1996925265
- Cited by
- 132
- References
- 85
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- FWCI
- 5.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 550)
- Werner Reichardt Centre for Neuroscience
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- trait emotional intelligence, posterior superior temporal sulcus, audiovisual integration, voice perception, face perception, emotional signals, individual differences, hemodynamic response, social cognition, theory of mind, amygdala, fusiform gyrus, thalamus
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Auditory Perception, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neural Pathways, Neuropsychological Tests, Photic Stimulation, Social Perception, Temporal Lobe, Visual Perception, Voice, Emotional Intelligence
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