Attributed social context and emotional content recruit frontal and limbic brain regions during virtual feedback processing.

Publisher: Springer Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101083946 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1531-135X (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 15307026 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2011- : New York : Springer
Original Publication: Austin, TX : Psychonomic Society, c2001-

Communication* ; Interpersonal Relations*; Emotions/*physiology ; Frontal Lobe/*physiology ; Limbic System/*physiology; Adult ; Brain Mapping ; Female ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Virtual Reality ; Young Adult

In communication, who is communicating can be just as important as what is said. However, sender identity in virtual communication is often inferred rather than perceived. Therefore, the present research investigates the brain structures activated by sender identity attributions and evaluative feedback processing during virtual communication. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, 32 participants were told that they would receive personality feedback, either sent from another human participant or from a randomly acting computer. In reality, both conditions contained random but counterbalanced feedback, automatically delivered by approving or denying negative, neutral, or positive adjectives. Although physically identical, feedback attributed to the "human" sender activated multiple regions within a "social brain" network, including the superior frontal, medial prefrontal, and orbitofrontal cortex, anterior and posterior parts of the cingulate cortex, and the bilateral insula. Regardless of attributed sender, positive feedback increased responses in the striatum and bilateral amygdalae, while negative compared to neutral feedback elicited stronger insula and somatosensory responses. These results reveal the recruitment of an extensive mentalizing and social brain network by mere sender attributions and the activation of brain structures related to reward and punishment by verbal feedback, demonstrating its embodied processing.

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Keywords: Emotion; Language; Social context; Social feedback; Virtual communication; fMRI

Date Created: 20181111 Date Completed: 20200525 Latest Revision: 20200525

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