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Negative emotions enhance memory-guided attention in a visual search task by increasing frontoparietal, insular, and parahippocampal cortical activity.
Salsano, Ilenia; Tain, Rongwen; Giulietti, Giovanni; Williams, DeWayne P; Ottaviani, Cristina; Antonucci, Gabriella; Thayer, Julian F; Santangelo, Valerio.
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  • Salsano I; Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy; PhD Program in Behavioral Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: ilenia.salsano@gmail.com.
  • Tain R; Campus Center of Neuroimaging, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
  • Giulietti G; Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy; SAIMLAL Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
  • Williams DP; Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA.
  • Ottaviani C; Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
  • Antonucci G; Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Santa Lucia Foundation, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
  • Thayer JF; Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA.
  • Santangelo V; Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy; Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences & Education, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. Electronic address: valerio.santangelo@unipg.it.
Cortex ; 173: 16-33, 2024 04.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38354670
ABSTRACT
Previous literature demonstrated that long-term memory representations guide spatial attention during visual search in real-world pictures. However, it is currently unknown whether memory-guided visual search is affected by the emotional content of the picture. During functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), participants were asked to encode the position of high-contrast targets embedded in emotional (negative or positive) or neutral pictures. At retrieval, they performed a visual search for targets presented at the same location as during encoding, but at a much lower contrast. Behaviorally, participants detected more accurately targets presented in negative pictures compared to those in positive or neutral pictures. They were also faster in detecting targets presented at encoding in emotional (negative or positive) pictures than in neutral pictures, or targets not presented during encoding (i.e., memory-guided attention effect). At the neural level, we found increased activation in a large circuit of regions involving the dorsal and ventral frontoparietal cortex, insular and parahippocampal cortex, selectively during the detection of targets presented in negative pictures during encoding. We propose that these regions might form an integrated neural circuit recruited to select and process previously encoded target locations (i.e., memory-guided attention sustained by the frontoparietal cortex) embedded in emotional contexts (i.e., emotional contexts recollection supported by the parahippocampal cortex and emotional monitoring supported by the insular cortex). Ultimately, these findings reveal that negative emotions can enhance memory-guided visual search performance by increasing neural activity in a large-scale brain circuit, contributing to disentangle the complex relationship between emotion, attention, and memory.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Atención / Emociones Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Cortex Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article Pais de publicación: Italia
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Atención / Emociones Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Cortex Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article Pais de publicación: Italia