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Front Hum Neurosci. 2018 Dec 11;12:501. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00501. eCollection 2018.

Different Aspects of the Neural Response to Socio-Emotional Events Are Related to Instability and Inertia of Emotional Experience in Daily Life: An fMRI-ESM Study.

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Julian Provenzano, Jojanneke A Bastiaansen, Philippe Verduyn, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Philippe Fossati, Peter Kuppens

Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
  2. Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
  3. Department of Education and Research, Friesland Mental Health Care Services, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
  4. Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
  5. Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, ICM, INSERM U 1127, CNRS, UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
  6. AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Service de Psychiatrie d'Adultes, Paris, France.

PMID: 30618682 PMCID: PMC6297363 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00501

Abstract

Emotions are fundamentally temporal processes that dynamically change over time. This temporal nature is inherently involved in making emotions adaptive by guiding interactions with our environment. Both the size of emotional changes across time (i.e., emotional instability) and the tendency of emotions to persist across time (i.e., autocorrelation of emotional experience, emotional inertia) are key features of a person's emotion dynamics, and have been found central to maladaptive functioning and psychopathology as well as linked to social functioning. However, whether different (neural) mechanisms are underlying these dynamics as well as how they are related to the processing of (socio-) emotional information is to date widely unknown. Using a combination of Experience Sampling methods (ESMs) and fMRI (involving a social feedback paradigm), we examine how emotional instability and inertia in everyday life are associated with different aspects of the neural response to socio-emotional events. The findings indicate that while emotional instability is connected to the response of the core salience network (SN), emotional inertia is associated to responses in the parahippocampal gyrus (PHG) and lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC). This is the first study showing that different aspects of the neural response to socio-emotional events are associated with different aspects of the temporal dynamics of emotion in real life.

Keywords: ESM; emotion dynamics; emotional inertia; emotional instability; fMRI; salience network; social feedback

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