Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies

In recent years, an explosion of neuroimaging studies has examined cognitive reappraisal, an emotion regulation strategy that involves changing the way one thinks about a stimulus in order to change its affective impact. Existing models broadly agree that reappraisal recruits frontal and parietal control regions to modulate emotional responding in the amygdala, but they offer competing visions of how this is accomplished. One view holds that control regions engage ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), an area associated with fear extinction, that in turn modulates amygdala responses. An alternative view is that control regions modulate semantic representations in lateral temporal cortex that indirectly…

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  National Science Foundation

  Award: 0631637
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  National Institutes of Health

  Awards: MH076137, HD069178, R01 MH076136, MH094056, R01 HD069178, MH076136