The neural mechanism of imagining facial affective expression

Brain Research

Volumn 1145, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 128-137

  Kim, Sung Eun ^a   Kim, Ji Woong ^a   Kim, Jae Jin ^b   Jeong, Bum Seok ^c   Choi, Eun Ae ^a   Jeong, Young Gil ^a   Kim, Ji Hyung ^a   Ku, Jeonghun ^d   Ki, Seon Wan ^a  

^a Konyang University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c Eulji University   (South Korea)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Facial affect; Imagery; Simulation; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGERY; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SUBICULUM;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE NET; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33947649995     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.048     Document Type: Article

References (101)

1. Adolphs R., Baron-Cohen S., and Tranel D. Impaired recognition of social emotions following amygdala damage. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 14 (2002) 1-11
2. Annett M. A classification of hand preference by association analysis. Br. J. Psychol. 61 (1970) 303-321
3. Baas D., Aleman A., and Kahn R.S. Lateralization of amygdala activation: a systematic review of functional neuroimaging studies. Brain Res. Rev. 45 (2004) 96-103
4. Baird A.A., Gruber S.A., Fein D.A., Mass L.C., Steingard R.J., Renshaw P.F., Cohen B.M., and Yurgelun-Todd D.A. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of facial affect recognition in children and adolescents. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psych. 38 (1999) 195-199
5. Barrett L., Henzi P., and Dunbar R. Primate cognition: from 'what now?' to 'what if?'. Trends Cogn. Sci. 7 (2003) 494-497
6. Benke T., Bosch S., and Andree B. A study of emotional processing in Parkinson's disease. Brain Cogn. 38 (1998) 36-52
7. Blair R.J., Morris J.S., Frith C.D., Perrett D.I., and Dolan R.J. Dissociable neural responses to facial expressions of sadness and anger. Brain 122 (1999) 883-893
8. Blonder L.X., Gur R.E., and Gur R.C. The effects of right and left hemiparkinsonism on prosody. Brain Lang. 36 (1989) 193-207
9. Borod J.C., Welkowitz J., Alpert M., Brozgold A.Z., Martin C., Peselow E., and Diller L. Parameters of emotional processing in neuropsychiatric disorders: conceptual issues and a battery of tests. J. Commun. Disord. 23 (1990) 247-271
10. Breitenstein C., Daum I., and Ackermann H. Emotional processing following cortical and subcortical brain damage: contribution of the fronto-striatal circuitry. Behav. Neurol. 11 (1998) 29-42
11. Breitenstein C., Van Lancker D., Daum I., and Waters C.H. Impaired perception of vocal emotions in Parkinson's disease: influence of speech time processing and executive functioning. Brain Cogn. 45 (2001) 277-314
12. Breiter H.C., Etcoff N.L., Whalen P.J., Kennedy W.A., Rauch S.L., Buckner R.L., Strauss M.M., Hyman S.E., and Rosen B.R. Response and habituation of the human amygdala during visual processing of facial expression. Neuron 17 (1996) 875-887
13. Briggs G.G., and Nebes R.D. Patterns of hand preference in a student population. Cortex 11 (1975) 230-238
14. Canli T., Sivers H., Whitfield S.L., Gotlib I.H., and Gabrieli J.D. Amygdala response to happy faces as a function of extraversion. Science 296 (2002) 2191
15. Carr L., Iacoboni M., Dubeau M.C., Mazziotta J.C., and Lenzi G.L. Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: a relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 100 (2003) 5497-5502
16. Chen W., Kato T., Zhu X.H., Ogawa S., Tank D.W., and Ugurbil K. Human primary visual cortex and lateral geniculate nucleus activation during visual imagery. NeuroReport 9 (1998) 3669-3674
17. Damasio A.R., Tranel D., and Damasio H. Somatic markers and the guidance of behaviour. In: Levin H., Eisenberg H., and Benton A. (Eds). Frontal Lobe Function and Dysfunction (1991), Oxford Univ. Press, New York 217-228
18. Damasio H., Grabowski T., Frank R., Galabura A.M., and Damasio A.R. The return of Phineas Gage: clues about the brain from the skill of a famous patient. Science 264 (1994) 1102-1105
19. Davidson R.J., and Hugdahl K. Brain Asymmetry (1995), MIT press, Cambridge, MA
20. Davis M. Neurobiology of fear responses: the role of the amygdala. J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 9 (1997) 382-402
21. D'Esposito M., Detre J.A., Aguirre G.K., Stallcup M., Alsop D.C., Tippet L.J., and Farah M.J. A functional MRI study of mental image generation. Neuropsychologia 35 (1997) 725-730
22. Dimberg U., and Thunberg M. Rapid facial reactions to emotional facial expressions. Scand. J. Psychol. 39 (1998) 39-45
23. Dimberg U., Thunberg M., and Elmehed K. Unconscious facial reactions to emotional facial expressions. Psychol. Sci. 11 (2000) 86-89
24. Djordjevic J., Zatorre R.J., and Jones-Gotman M. Odor-induced changes in taste perception. Exp. Brain Res. 159 (2004) 405-408
25. Djordjevic J., Zatorre R.J., Petrides M., Boyle J.A., and Jones-Gotman M. Functional neuroimaging of odor imagery. NeuroImage 24 (2005) 791-801
26. Dolan R.J., Fletcher P., Morris J., Kapur N., Deakin J.F., and Frith C.D. Neural activation during covert processing of positive emotional facial expressions. NeuroImage 4 (1996) 194-200
27. Ekman P., Levenson R.W., and Friesen W.V. Autonomic nervous system activity distinguishes among emotions. Science 221 (1983) 1208-1210
28. Emery N.J., and Amaral D.G. The role of amygdala in primate social cognition. In: Lane R.D., and Nadel L. (Eds). Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion (2000), Oxford Univ. Press, New York 156-191
29. Frith C.D., and Dolan R.J. The role of the prefrontal cortex in higher cognitive functions. Cogn. Brain Res. 5 (1996) 175-181
30. Gallese V., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., and Rizzolatti G. Action recognition in the premotor cortex. Brain 119 (1996) 593-609
31. Garrett A.S., and Maddock R.J. Time course of the subjective emotional response to aversive pictures: relevance to fMRI studies. Psychiatry Res. 108 (2001) 39-48
32. Glascher J., and Adolphs R. Processing of the arousal of subliminal and supraliminal emotional stimuli by the human amygdala. J. Neurosci. 23 (2003) 10274-10282
33. Goebel R., Khorram-Sefat D., Muckli L., Hacker H., and Singer W. The constructive nature of vision: direct evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of apparent motion and motion imagery. Eur. J. Neurosci. 10 (1998) 1563-1573
34. Goldman-Rakic P.S. The physiological approach: functional architecture of working memory and disordered cognition in schizophrenia. Biol. Psychiatry 46 (1999) 650-661
35. Gorno-Tempini M.L., Pradelli S., Serafini M., Pagnoni G., Baraldi P., Porro C., Nicoletti R., Umita C., and Nichelli P. Explicit and incidental facial expression processing: an fMRI study. NeuroImage 14 (2001) 465-473
36. Gur R.C., Skolnick B.E., and Gur R.E. Effects of emotional discrimination tasks on cerebral blood flow: regional activation and its relation to performance. Brain Cogn. 25 (1994) 271-286
37. Gur R.C., Sara R., Hagendoorn M., Marom O., Hughett P., Macy L., Turner T., Bajcsy R., Posner A., and Gur R.E. A method for obtaining 3-dimensional facial expressions and its standardization for use in neurocognitive studies. J. Neurosci. Methods 115 (2002) 137-143
38. Gur R.C., Schroeder L., Turner T., McGrath C., Chan R.M., Turetsky B.I., Alsop D., Maldjian J., and Gur R.E. Brain activation during facial emotion processing. NeuroImage 16 (2002) 651-662
39. Halpern A.R. Cerebral substrates of musical imagery. In: Zatorre R.J., and Peretz I. (Eds). The Biological Foundation of Music. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 930 (2001) 179-192
40. Hennenlotter A., Schroeder U., Erhard P., Castrop F., Haslinger B., Stoecker D., Lange K.W., and Ceballos-Baumann A.O. A common neural basis for receptive and expressive communication of pleasant facial affect. NeuroImage 26 (2005) 581-591
41. Hoffman E.A., and Haxby J.V. Distinct representation of eye gaze and identity in distributed human neural system for face perception. Nat. Neurosci. 3 (2000) 80-84
42. Horstmann G. What do facial expressions convey: feeling states, behavioral intentions, or action requests?. Emotion 3 (2003) 150-166
43. Iidaka T., Okada T., Murata T., Omori M., Kosaka H., Sadato N., and Yonekura Y. Age-related differences in the medial temporal lobe responses to emotional faces as revealed by fMRI. Hippocampus 12 (2002) 352-362
44. Ingvar D.H., and Philipson L. Distribution of cerebral blood flow in the dominant hemisphere during motor ideation and motor performance. Ann. Neurol. 2 (1977) 230-237
45. Irwin W., Davidson R.J., Lowe M.J., Mock B.J., Sorenson J.A., and Turski P.A. Human amygdala activation detected with echo-planar functional magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroReport 7 (1996) 1765-1769
46. Ishai A., Ungerleider L.G., and Haxby J.V. Distributed neural systems for the generation of visual images. Neuron 28 (2000) 979-990
47. Ishai A., Haxby J.V., and Ungerleider L.G. Visual imagery of famous faces: effects of memory and attention revealed by fMRI. NeuroImage 17 (2002) 1729-1741
48. Jacob D.H., Shuren J., Bowers D., and Heilman K.M. Emotional facial imagery, perception, and expression in Parkinson's disease. Neurology 45 (1995) 1696-1702
49. Kanwisher N. Domain specificity in face perception. Nat. Neurosci. 3 (2000) 59-763
50. Kanwisher N., McDermott J., and Chun M.M. The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. J. Neurosci. 17 (1997) 4032-4311
51. Kilts C.D., Egan G., Gideon D.A., Ely T.D., and Hoffman J.M. Dissociable neuronal pathways are involved in the recognition of emotion in static and dynamic facial expressions. NeuroImage 18 (2003) 156-168
52. Kobayashi M., Takeda M., Hattori N., Fukunaga M., Sasabe T., Inoue N., Nagai Y., Sawada T., Sadato N., and Watanabe Y. Functional imaging of gustatory perception and imagery: "top-down" processing of gustatory signals. NueroImage 23 (2004) 1271-1282
53. Kosslyn S.M., Albert N.M., Thompson W.L., Maljkovic V., Weise S.B., Chabris C.F., Hamilton S.E., Rauch S.L., and Buonanno F.S. Visual mental imagery activates topographically organized visual cortex: PET investigations. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 5 (1993) 263-287
54. Kosslyn S.M., Ganis G., and Thompson W.L. Neural foundations of imagery. Nat. Rev., Neurosci. vol. 2 (2001) 635-642
55. Lambert S., Sampaio E., Scheiber C., and Mauss Y. Neural substrates of animal mental imagery: calcarine sulcus and dorsal pathway involvement-An fMRI study. Brain Res. 924 (2002) 176-183
56. Lang P.J., Bradley M.M., and Cuthbert B.N. Emotion, motivation, and anxiety: brain mechanisms and psychophysiology. Biol. Psychiatry 44 (1998) 1248-1263
57. Leary M.R. The self and emotion: the role of self-reflection in the generation and regulation of affective experience. In: Davidson R.J., Scherer K.R., and Goldsmith H.H. (Eds). Handbook of Affective Science (2003), Oxford Univ. Press, New York 773-786
58. LeDoux J.E. Emotion circuits in the brain. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 23 (2000) 155-184
59. Leslie K.R., Johnson-Frey S.H., and Grafton S.T. Functional imaging of face and hand imitation: towards a motor theory of empathy. NeuroImage 21 (2004) 601-607
60. Levenson R.W., Ekman P., and Friesen W.V. Voluntary facial action generates emotion-specific autonomic nervous system activity. Psychophysiology 27 (1990) 363-384
61. Liberman A.M., and Mattingly I.G. The motor theory of speech perception revised. Cognition 21 (1985) 1-36
62. Liberman A.M., and Whalen D.H. On the relation of speech to language. Trends Cogn. Sci. 4 (2000) 187-196
63. Liberman A.M., Cooper F.S., Shankweiler D.P., and Stuart-Kennedy M. Perception of the speech code. Psychol. Rev. 74 (1967) 431-461
64. Markowitsch H.J., Kessler J., Van Der Ven C., Weber-Luxenburger G., Albers M., and Heiss W.D. Psychic trauma causing grossly reduced brain metabolism and cognitive deterioration. Neuropsychologia 36 (1998) 77-82
65. Mechelli A., Price C.J., Friston K.J., and Ishai A. Where bottom-up meets top-down: neuronal interactions during perception and imagery. Cereb. Cortex 14 (2004) 1256-1265
66. Mellet E., Tzourio N., Denis M., and Mazoyer B. Cortical anatomy of mental imagery of concrete nouns based on their dictionary definition. NeuroReport 9 (1998) 803-809
67. Miller M.W., Patrick C.J., and Levenston G.K. Affective imagery and the startle response: probing mechanisms of modulation during pleasant scenes, personal experiences, and discrete negative emotions. Psychophysiology 39 (2002) 519-529
68. Morgane P.J., Galler J.R., and Mokler D.J. A review of systems and networks of the limbic forebrain/limbic midbrain. Prog. Neurobiol. 75 (2005) 143-160
69. Morris J.S., Frith C.D., Perrett D.I., Rowland D., Young A.W., Calder A.J., and Dolan R.J. A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions. Nature 383 (1996) 812-815
70. Morris J.S., Friston K.J., Buechel C., Frith C.D., Young A.W., Calder A.J., and Dolan R.J. A neuromodulatory role for the human amygdala in processing emotional facial expressions. Brain 121 (1997) 47-57
71. O'Craven K.M., and Kanwisher N. Mental imagery of faces and places activates corresponding stimulus-specific brain regions. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 12 (2000) 1013-1023
72. Pell M.D. On the receptive prosodic loss in Parkinson's disease. Cortex 36 (1996) 693-704
73. Phillips M.L., Bullmore E.T., Howard R., Woodruff P., Wright I.C., Williams S., Simmons A., Andrew C., Brammer M., and David A.S. Investigation of facial recognition memory and happy and sad facial expression perception: an fMRI study. Psychiatry Res. 83 (1998) 127-138
74. Phillips M.L., Young A.W., Scott S.K., Calder A.J., Andrew C., Giampietro V., Williams S.C.R., Bullmore E.T., Brammer M., and Gray J.A. Neural responses to facial and vocal expressions of fear and disgust. Proc. Biol. Sci. 265 (1998) 1809-1817
75. Preston S.D., and de Waal F.B. Empathy: it's ultimate and proximate bases. Behav. Brain Sci. 25 (2002) 1-20
76. Puce A., Allison T., Bentin S., Gore J., and McCarthy G. Temporal cortex activation in humans viewing eye and mouth movements. J. Neurosci. 18 (1998) 2188-2199
77. Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L., Gallese V., and Fogassi L. Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions. Cogn. Brain Res. 3 (1996) 131-141
78. Rizzolatti G., Fogassi L., and Gallese V. Motor and cognitive functions of the ventral premotor cortex. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 12 (2002) 149-154
79. Roberts D.R. Functional organization of the limbic systems. Int. J. Neuropsychiatry 2 (1966) 279-292
80. Roland P.E., and Gulyas B. Visual memory, visual imagery, and visual recognition of large field patterns by the human brain: functional anatomy by positron emission tomography. Cereb. Cortex 5 (1995) 79-93
81. Sato N., and Nakamura K. Visual response properties of neurons in the parahippocampal cortex of monkeys. J. Neurophysiol. 90 (2003) 876-886
82. Sato W., Kochiyama T., Yoshikawa S., Naito E., and Matsumura M. Enhanced neural activity in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion: an fMRI study. Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 20 (2004) 81-91
83. Schneider F., Weiss U., Kessler C., Salloum J.B., Posse S., Grodd W., and Muller-Gartner H.W. Differential amygdala activation in schizophrenia during sadness. Schizophr. Res. 34 (1998) 133-142
84. Schneider F., Habel U., Kessler C., Salloum J.B., and Posse S. Gender differences in regional cerebral activity during sadness. Hum. Brain Mapp. 9 (2000) 226-238
85. Schneider F., Habel U., Wagner M., Franke P., Salloum J.B., Shah N.J., Toni I., Sulzbach C., Honig K., Maier W., Gaebel W., and Zilles K. Subcortical correlates of craving in recently abstinent alcoholic patients. Am. J. Psychiatry 158 (2001) 1075-1083
86. Schroeder U., Hennenlotter A., Erhard P., Haslinger B., Stahl R., Lange K.W., and Ceballos-Baumann A.O. Functional neuroanatomy of perceiving surprised faces. Hum. Brain Mapp. 23 (2004) 181-187
87. Sprengelmeyer R., Rausch M., Eysel U.T., and Przuntek H. Neural structures associated with recognition of facial expressions of basic emotions. Proc. Biol. Sci. 265 (1998) 1927-1931
88. Talairach J., and Tournoux P. Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain: 3-Dimensional Proportional System: An Approach to Cerebral Imaging (1988), Thieme, New York
89. Tangney J.P., Wagner P., and Gramzow R. Proneness to shame, proneness to guilt, and psychopathology. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 101 (1992) 469-478
90. Tessitore A., Hariri A.R., Fera F., Smith W.G., Chase T.N., Hyde T.M., Weinberger D.R., and Mattay V.S. Dopamine modulates the response of the human amygdala: a study in Parkinson's disease. J. Neurosci. 22 (2002) 9099-9103
91. Thompson W.L., Kosslyn S.M., Sukel K.E., and Alpert N.M. Mental imagery of high- and low-resolution gratings activates area 17. NeuroImage 14 (2001) 454-464
92. Varga V., Szekely A.D., Csillag A., Sharp T., and Hajos M. Evidence for a role of GABA interneurons in the cortical modulation of midbrain 5-hydroxytryptamine neurons. Neuroscience 106 (2001) 783-792
93. Vuilleumier P., and Schwartz S. Emotional facial expressions capture attention. Neurology 56 (2001) 153-158
94. Wicker B., Michel F., Henaff M.-A., and Decety J. Brain regions involved in the perception of gaze: a PET study. NeuroImage 8 (1998) 221-227
95. Wild B., Erb M., Eyb M., Bartels M., and Grodd W. Why are smiles contagious? An fMRI study of the interaction between perception of facial affect and facial movements. Psychiatry Res. 123 (2003) 17-36
96. Winston J.S., Strange B.A., O'Doherty J., and Dolan R.J. Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces. Nat. Neurosci. 5 (2002) 277-283
97. Witvliet C.V., and Vrana S.R. Psychophysiological responses as indices of affective dimensions. Psychophysiology 32 (1995) 436-443
98. Yamasaki H., LaBar K.S., and McCarthy G. Dissociable prefrontal brain system for attention and emotion. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 99 (2002) 11447-11451
99. Yoo S.S., Freeman D.K., McCarthy III J.J., and Jolesz F.A. Neural substrate of tactile imagery: a functional MRI study. NeuroReport 14 (2003) 581-585
100. Young A.W., Hellawell D.J., de Wal C.V., and Johnson M. Facial expression processing after amygdalotomy. Neuropsychologia 34 (1996) 31-39
101. Zalla T., Koechlin E., Pietrini P., Basso G., Aquino P., Sirigu A., and Grafman J. Differential amygdala responses to winning and losing: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in humans. Eur. J. Neurosci. 12 (2000) 1764-1770