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Generalizable representations of pain, cognitive control, and negative emotion in medial frontal cortex

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Kragel, Philip A., Kano, Michiko, Van Oudenhove, Lukas, Ly, Huynh Giao, Dupont, Patrick, Rubio, Amandine, Delon-Martin, Chantal, Bonaz, Bruno L. +7 more·2018·Nature Neuroscience

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The medial frontal cortex, including anterior midcingulate cortex, has been linked to multiple psychological domains, including cognitive control, pain, and emotion. However, it is unclear whether this region encodes representations of these domains that are generalizable across studies and subdomains. Additionally, if there are generalizable representations, do they reflect a single underlying process shared across domains or multiple domain-specific processes? We decomposed multivariate patterns of functional MRI activity from 270 participants across 18 studies into study-specific, subdomain-specific, and domain-specific components and identified latent multivariate representations that generalized across subdomains but were specific to each domain. Pain representations were localized to anterior midcingulate cortex, negative emotion representations to ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and cognitive control representations to portions of the dorsal midcingulate. These findings provide evidence for medial frontal cortex representations that generalize across studies and subdomains but are specific to distinct psychological domains rather than reducible to a single underlying process.

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Kragel, P. A., Kano, M., Van Oudenhove, L., Ly, H. G., Dupont, P., Rubio, A., Delon-Martin, C., Bonaz, B. L., Manuck, S. B., Gianaros, P. J., Ceko, M., Reynolds Losin, E. A., Woo, C.-W., Nichols, T. E., & Wager, T. D.
Affiliations
  • University of Colorado Boulder (US)
  • Tohoku University (JP)
  • KU Leuven (BE)
  • Inserm (FR)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • Institute for Basic Science (KR)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Kragel, Philip A.
  • Wager, Tor D.
Venue
Nature Neuroscience
Published
2018-01-01
Volume
21
Issue
2
Pages
283-289
ISSN
  • 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1726
OpenAlex
W2776975398
Cited by
272
References
76
Citations by year
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FWCI
12.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (100309/A/12/Z)
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01ag043463-05)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26460898)
  • National Institute on Aging (R01-AG043463)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL089850, P01HL040962)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076137, R01MH076136)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA035484)
  • National Cancer Institute (U01CA193632)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Keywords
medial frontal cortex, anterior midcingulate cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, representation of pain, cognitive control, negative emotions, multivariate pattern analysis, domain-specific representations
MeSH terms
Adult, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Emotions, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Models, Neurological, Neural Pathways, Oxygen, Pain, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult

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