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Better Neuronal Efficiency After Emotional Competences Training: An fMRI Study

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Michel Hansenne, Delphine Nélis, Dorothée Feyers, Éric Salmon, Steve Majerus·2014·Psychologica Belgica
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Earlier studies demonstrated that adult emotional competences (EC) can be improved through relatively brief training. This increase has been investigated, thus far, using self-reported questionnaires and behavioral data. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cerebral correlates underlying improvement in EC. An experimental group received an EC training and a control group received brief sessions of drama improvisation. Participants viewed negative, positive, and neutral pictures while attempting to decrease, increase, or not modulate their emotional reactions. Subjective reactions were assessed via on-line ratings. After the intervention, the training group showed less cerebral activity as compared to the control group within different regions related to emotional regulation and attention including prefrontal regions and the bilateral inferior parietal lobule, the right precentral gyrus and the intraparietal sulcus. These results suggest increased neural efficiency in the training group as a result of emotional competencies training.

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  • Participants who underwent EI-related training showed less activity than controls in various brain regions involved in emotion regulation and attention during an emotion regulation task.

    “This dovetails with recent findings that participants who underwent EI-related training showed less activity than controls in various brain regions involved in emotion regulation and attention during an emotion regulation task (Hansenne, Nélis, Feyers, Salmon, & Majerus, 2014).”

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Hansenne, M., Nélis, D., Feyers, D., Salmon, É., & Majerus, S.
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Psychologica Belgica
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2014-07-21
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54
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328-349
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  • 2054-670X
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10.5334/pb.av
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PMC5854183
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Keywords
emotion regulation, neural efficiency, prefrontal cortex, inferior parietal lobule, intraparietal sulcus, attention, emotional reactivity

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