The Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Empathy and Emotion Regulation: From Emotion to Cognition and Beyond
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Columbia University, United States
The capacity to think about, reflect upon, and understand our feelings – or the feelings of others – is fundamental to countless aspects of our daily lives. Over the past decade, neuroscience research has shown that this ability depends critically on specific regions of both medial and lateral prefrontal cortex. This talk will survey this research, focusing on the use of thinking to regulate one’s own emotions and the use of thinking to understand the emotions of others, with two goals in mind. The first is constructing a model of the functional architecture for cognitive influences on emotion experience and perception. The second is using this model as a springboard for understanding the mechanisms underlying both normal and abnormal variations in emotion across the lifespan and in psychiatric disorders.
Conference:
The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes, Toronto, Canada, 22 Mar - 26 Mar, 2010.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
Abstracts
Citation:
Ochsner
K
(2010). The Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Empathy and Emotion Regulation: From Emotion to Cognition and Beyond.
Conference Abstract:
The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.14.00017
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Received:
25 Jun 2010;
Published Online:
25 Jun 2010.
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Correspondence:
Kevin Ochsner, Columbia University, New York, United States, ochsner@psych.columbia.edu