Neural correlates of adaptive social responses to real-life frustrating situations: a functional MRI study

BMC Neuroscience

Ryuta Kawashima⁴  Shigeru Sato¹  Kaoru Horie⁵  Yuko Sassa⁴  Satoru Yokoyama³  Motoaki Sugiura²  Atsushi Sekiguchi³ 

[1] Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan;International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan;Department of Functional Brain Imaging, IDAC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan;Division of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, IDAC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan;The Graduate School of Language and Cultures, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

关键词: Integration;    Anterior temporal lobe;    Causal attribution;    Adaptive social behavior;   

Others  :  1140386
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2202-14-29

 received in 2012-09-11, accepted in 2013-03-07,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Frustrating situations are encountered daily, and it is necessary to respond in an adaptive fashion. A psychological definition states that adaptive social behaviors are “self-performing” and “contain a solution.” The present study investigated the neural correlates of adaptive social responses to frustrating situations by assessing the dimension of causal attribution. Based on attribution theory, internal causality refers to one’s aptitudes that cause natural responses in real-life situations, whereas external causality refers to environmental factors, such as experimental conditions, causing such responses. To investigate the issue, we developed a novel approach that assesses causal attribution under experimental conditions. During fMRI scanning, subjects were required to engage in virtual frustrating situations and play the role of protagonists by verbalizing social responses, which were socially adaptive or non-adaptive. After fMRI scanning, the subjects reported their causal attribution index of the psychological reaction to the experimental condition. We performed a correlation analysis between the causal attribution index and brain activity. We hypothesized that the brain region whose activation would have a positive and negative correlation with the self-reported index of the causal attributions would be regarded as neural correlates of internal and external causal attribution of social responses, respectively.

Results

We found a significant negative correlation between external causal attribution and neural responses in the right anterior temporal lobe for adaptive social behaviors.

Conclusion

This region is involved in the integration of emotional and social information. These results suggest that, particularly in adaptive social behavior, the social demands of frustrating situations, which involve external causality, may be integrated by a neural response in the right anterior temporal lobe.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Sekiguchi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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