TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heekeren, Hauke R.
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Schmidt, Helge
A1  - Prehn, Kristin
A1  - Schwintowski, Hans-Peter
A1  - Villringer, Arno
T1  - Influence of bodily harm on neural correlates of semantic and moral decision-making
N2  - 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
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 1053-8119
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mériau, Katja
A1  - Kazzer, Philipp
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Prehn, Kristin
A1  - Lammers, Claas-Hinrich
A1  - Villringer, Arno
A1  - Heekeren, Hauke
T1  - Neural correlates of individual differences in the ability to identify and communicate one's emotional state
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 0898-929X
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mériau, Katja
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Kazzer, Philipp
A1  - Prehn, Kristin
A1  - Villringer, Arno
A1  - van der Meer, Elke
A1  - Heekeren, Hauke R.
T1  - Insular activity during passive viewing of aversive stimuli reflects individual differences in state negative affect
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02782626
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2008.05.006
SN  - 0278-2626
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mériau, Katja
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Kazzer, Philipp
A1  - Prehn, Kristin
A1  - Lammers, Claas-Hinrich
A1  - van der Meer, Elke
A1  - Villringer, Arno
A1  - Heekeren, Hauke R.
T1  - A neural network reflecting individual differences in cognitive processing of emotions during perceptual decision making
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 1053-8119
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Prehn, Kristin
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Mériau, Katja
A1  - Scheibe, Christina
A1  - Goodenough, Oliver R.
A1  - Villringer, Arno
A1  - van der Meer, Elke
A1  - Heekeren, Hauke R.
T1  - Individual differences in moral judgment competence influence neural correlates of socio-normative judgments
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
SN  - 1749-5016
ER  -