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Emotional conflict in a model modulates nociceptive processing in an onlooker: a laser-evoked potentials study

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Martini, Matteo, Valentini, Elia, Aglioti, Salvatore Maria·2013·Experimental Brain Research

Abstract

Observing models displaying facial expressions of pain elicits neural activity in onlookers' neural structures involved in first-hand experience of pain and in monitoring conflicting information. We investigated whether the purported conflict between the pain and its emotional expression in a model modulates cortical responses elicited by nociceptive laser stimuli in an onlooker. Seeing happy facial expressions, incongruent with the perceptual status attributed to the model, determined a significant reduction in the laser-evoked N2 potential. One of the main sources of this response is the anterior cingulate cortex, an area involved in pain perception, empathy for pain and conflict detection. A pre-activation of the anterior cingulate cortex due to the detection of the emotional conflict may, therefore, be responsible for the reduction of nociceptive-related response in the same brain area. Thus, top-down variables, like the appraisal of the others' emotional status, modulate onlookers' nociceptive-related neural activity.

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Authors
Martini, M., Valentini, E., & Aglioti, S. M.
Affiliations
  • Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
  • Fondazione Santa Lucia (IT)
Corresponding author
Martini, Matteo
Venue
Experimental Brain Research
Published
2012-12-16
Volume
225
Issue
2
Pages
237-245
ISSN
  • 0014-4819 (ISSN-L)
  • 1432-1106
OpenAlex
W2034712950
Cited by
17
References
82
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1
FWCI
1.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Experimental Brain Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
Keywords
emotional conflict, facial expressions of pain, empathy for pain, nociceptive processing, laser-evoked potentials, N2 component, anterior cingulate cortex, conflict detection, top-down modulation, emotional incongruence, pain perception
MeSH terms
Adult, Brain, Emotions, Empathy, Evoked Potentials, Facial Expression, Female, Gyrus Cinguli, Hot Temperature, Humans, Lasers, Male, Pain, Pain Measurement, Photic Stimulation, Physical Stimulation, Pain Perception

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