@article{PrehnWartenburgerMeriauetal.2008,
  author    = {Prehn, Kristin and Wartenburger, Isabell and M{\´e}riau, Katja and Scheibe, Christina and Goodenough, Oliver R. and Villringer, Arno and van der Meer, Elke and Heekeren, Hauke R.},
  title     = {Individual differences in moral judgment competence influence neural correlates of socio-normative judgments},
  issn      = {1749-5016},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HeekerenWartenburgerSchmidtetal.2005,
  author    = {Heekeren, Hauke R. and Wartenburger, Isabell and Schmidt, Helge and Prehn, Kristin and Schwintowski, Hans-Peter and Villringer, Arno},
  title     = {Influence of bodily harm on neural correlates of semantic and moral decision-making},
  issn      = {1053-8119},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Moral decision-making is central to everyday social life because the evaluation of the actions of another agent or our own actions made with respect to the norms and values guides our behavior in a community. There is previous evidence that the presence of bodily harm-even if irrelevant for a decision-may affect the decision-making, process. While recent neuroimaging studies found a common neural substrate of moral decision-making, the role of bodily harm has not been systematically studied so far. Here we used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate how behavioral and neural correlates of semantic and moral decision-making processes are modulated by the presence of direct bodily harm or violence in the stimuli. Twelve participants made moral and semantic decisions about sentences describing actions of agents that either contained bodily harm or not and that could easily be judged as being good or bad or correct/incorrect, respectively. During moral and semantic decision-making, the presence of bodily harm resulted in faster response times (RT) and weaker activity in the temporal poles relative to trials devoid of bodily harm/violence, indicating a processing advantage and reduced processing depth for violence-related linguistic stimuli. Notably, there was no increase in activity in the amygdala and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in response to trials containing bodily harm. These findings might be a correlate of limited generation of the semantic and emotional context in the anterior temporal poles during the evaluation of actions of another agent related to violence that is made with respect to the norms and values guiding our behavior in a community. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MeriauKazzerWartenburgeretal.2005,
  author    = {M{\´e}riau, Katja and Kazzer, Philipp and Wartenburger, Isabell and Prehn, Kristin and Lammers, Claas-Hinrich and Villringer, Arno and Heekeren, Hauke},
  title     = {Neural correlates of individual differences in the ability to identify and communicate one's emotional state},
  issn      = {0898-929X},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MeriauWartenburgerKazzeretal.2009,
  author    = {M{\´e}riau, Katja and Wartenburger, Isabell and Kazzer, Philipp and Prehn, Kristin and Villringer, Arno and van der Meer, Elke and Heekeren, Hauke R.},
  title     = {Insular activity during passive viewing of aversive stimuli reflects individual differences in state negative affect},
  issn      = {0278-2626},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.bandc.2008.05.006},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {People differ with regard to how they perceive, experience, and express negative affect. While trait negative affect reflects a stable, sustained personality trait, state negative affect represents a stimulus limited and temporally acute emotion. So far, little is known about the neural systems mediating the relationship between negative affect and acute emotion processing. To address this issue we investigated in a healthy female sample how individual differences in state negative affect are reflected in changes in blood oxygen level-dependent responses during passive viewing of emotional stimuli. To assess autonomic arousal we simultaneously recorded changes in skin conductance level. At the psychophysiological level we found increased skin conductance level in response to aversive relative to neutral pictures. However, there was no association of state negative affect with skin conductance level. At the neural level we found that high state negative affect was associated with increased left insular activity during passive viewing of aversive stimuli. The insula has been implicated in interoceptive processes and in the integration of sensory, visceral, and affective information thus contributing to subjective emotional experience. Greater recruitment of the insula in response to aversive relative to neutral stimuli in subjects with high state negative affect may represent increased processing of salient aversive stimuli.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MeriauWartenburgerKazzeretal.2006,
  author    = {M{\´e}riau, Katja and Wartenburger, Isabell and Kazzer, Philipp and Prehn, Kristin and Lammers, Claas-Hinrich and van der Meer, Elke and Villringer, Arno and Heekeren, Hauke R.},
  title     = {A neural network reflecting individual differences in cognitive processing of emotions during perceptual decision making},
  issn      = {1053-8119},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}