The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy.
Sound is a potent elicitor of emotions. Auditory core, belt and parabelt regions have anatomical connections to a large array of limbic and paralimbic structures which are involved in the generation of affective activity. However, little is known about the functional role of auditory cortical region...
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| author | Stefan Koelsch Stavros Skouras Gabriele Lohmann |
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| description | Sound is a potent elicitor of emotions. Auditory core, belt and parabelt regions have anatomical connections to a large array of limbic and paralimbic structures which are involved in the generation of affective activity. However, little is known about the functional role of auditory cortical regions in emotion processing. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging and music stimuli that evoke joy or fear, our study reveals that anterior and posterior regions of auditory association cortex have emotion-characteristic functional connectivity with limbic/paralimbic (insula, cingulate cortex, and striatum), somatosensory, visual, motor-related, and attentional structures. We found that these regions have remarkably high emotion-characteristic eigenvector centrality, revealing that they have influential positions within emotion-processing brain networks with "small-world" properties. By contrast, primary auditory fields showed surprisingly strong emotion-characteristic functional connectivity with intra-auditory regions. Our findings demonstrate that the auditory cortex hosts regions that are influential within networks underlying the affective processing of auditory information. We anticipate our results to incite research specifying the role of the auditory cortex-and sensory systems in general-in emotion processing, beyond the traditional view that sensory cortices have merely perceptual functions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6aeca2d4227e4573b6b03457de5194452022-12-22T02:45:22ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01131e019005710.1371/journal.pone.0190057The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy.Stefan KoelschStavros SkourasGabriele LohmannSound is a potent elicitor of emotions. Auditory core, belt and parabelt regions have anatomical connections to a large array of limbic and paralimbic structures which are involved in the generation of affective activity. However, little is known about the functional role of auditory cortical regions in emotion processing. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging and music stimuli that evoke joy or fear, our study reveals that anterior and posterior regions of auditory association cortex have emotion-characteristic functional connectivity with limbic/paralimbic (insula, cingulate cortex, and striatum), somatosensory, visual, motor-related, and attentional structures. We found that these regions have remarkably high emotion-characteristic eigenvector centrality, revealing that they have influential positions within emotion-processing brain networks with "small-world" properties. By contrast, primary auditory fields showed surprisingly strong emotion-characteristic functional connectivity with intra-auditory regions. Our findings demonstrate that the auditory cortex hosts regions that are influential within networks underlying the affective processing of auditory information. We anticipate our results to incite research specifying the role of the auditory cortex-and sensory systems in general-in emotion processing, beyond the traditional view that sensory cortices have merely perceptual functions.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5791961?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Stefan Koelsch Stavros Skouras Gabriele Lohmann The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy. PLoS ONE |
| title | The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy. |
| title_full | The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy. |
| title_fullStr | The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy. |
| title_short | The auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing: An fMRI study on music-evoked fear and joy. |
| title_sort | auditory cortex hosts network nodes influential for emotion processing an fmri study on music evoked fear and joy |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5791961?pdf=render |
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