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Representation of Cognitive Reappraisal Goals in Frontal Gamma Oscillations

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Kang, Jae-Hwan, Jeong, Ji Woon, Kim, Hyun Taek, Kim, Sang Hee, Kim, Sung-Phil·2014·PLoS ONE
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0113375PMC PMC4234654
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Recently, numerous efforts have been made to understand the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive regulation of emotion, such as cognitive reappraisal. Many studies have reported that cognitive control of emotion induces increases in neural activity of the control system, including the prefrontal cortex and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, and increases or decreases (depending upon the regulation goal) in neural activity of the appraisal system, including the amygdala and the insula. It has been hypothesized that information about regulation goals needs to be processed through interactions between the control and appraisal systems in order to support cognitive reappraisal. However, how this information is represented in the dynamics of cortical activity remains largely unknown. To address this, we investigated temporal changes in gamma band activity (35-55 Hz) in human electroencephalograms during a cognitive reappraisal task that was comprised of three reappraisal goals: to decease, maintain, or increase emotional responses modulated by affect-laden pictures. We examined how the characteristics of gamma oscillations, such as spectral power and large-scale phase synchronization, represented cognitive reappraisal goals. We found that left frontal gamma power decreased, was sustained, or increased when the participants suppressed, maintained, or amplified their emotions, respectively. This change in left frontal gamma power appeared during an interval of 1926 to 2453 ms after stimulus onset. We also found that the number of phase-synchronized pairs of gamma oscillations over the entire brain increased when participants regulated their emotions compared to when they maintained their emotions. These results suggest that left frontal gamma power may reflect cortical representation of emotional states modulated by cognitive reappraisal goals and gamma phase synchronization across whole brain regions may reflect emotional regulatory efforts to achieve these goals. Our study may provide the basis for an electroencephalogram-based neurofeedback system for the cognitive regulation of emotion.

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  • Left frontal phase synchronization in the gamma band was associated with cognitive reappraisal tendency upon people watching different emotional stimuli.

    “Also, the left frontal phase synchronization in the gamma band was associated with cognitive reappraisal tendency (which was essential to the positive cognitive spiral of emotion regulation) upon people watching different emotional stimuli (Kang et al., 2012(Kang et al., , 2014)).”

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    The Results (Gamma phase synchrony; page unavailable) report increased gamma phase synchronization across the brain during cognitive reappraisal. The Abstract distinguishes that whole-brain synchronization from left frontal gamma power. The paper therefore supports an association with reappraisal during emotional-picture viewing, but not the claim that phase synchronization was specifically left frontal or associated with a person's reappraisal tendency. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Kang, J.-H., Jeong, J. W., Kim, H. T., Kim, S. H., & Kim, S.-P.
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Korea University (KR)
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  • Kim, Sang Hee
  • Kim, Sung-Phil
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PLoS ONE
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Published
2014-11-17
Volume
9
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11
Pages
e113375
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0113375
PMC
PMC4234654
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W1963930869
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  • National Research Foundation
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2012R1A2A2A04047239, NRF-2006-2005112)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Keywords
cognitive reappraisal, emotion regulation, gamma oscillations, phase synchronization, prefrontal cortex, neurofeedback
MeSH terms
Adult, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Electroencephalography, Emotions, Female, Humans, Judgment, Male, Photic Stimulation, Young Adult, Brain Waves

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