Shared states: using MVPA to test neural overlap between self-focused emotion imagery and other-focused emotion understanding.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
; 12(7): 1025-1035, 2017 07 01.
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ABSTRACT
The present study tested whether the neural patterns that support imagining 'performing an action', 'feeling a bodily sensation' or 'being in a situation' are directly involved in understanding other people's actions, bodily sensations and situations. Subjects imagined the content of short sentences describing emotional actions, interoceptive sensations and situations (self-focused task), and processed scenes and focused on how the target person was expressing an emotion, what this person was feeling, and why this person was feeling an emotion (other-focused task). Using a linear support vector machine classifier on brain-wide multi-voxel patterns, we accurately decoded each individual class in the self-focused task. When generalizing the classifier from the self-focused task to the other-focused task, we also accurately decoded whether subjects focused on the emotional actions, interoceptive sensations and situations of others. These results show that the neural patterns that underlie self-imagined experience are involved in understanding the experience of other people. This supports the theoretical assumption that the basic components of emotion experience and understanding share resources in the brain.
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Imaginação
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
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Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Holanda