Cereb. Cortex
 2014
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu011
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Mentalizing and the Role of the Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus in Sharing Others' Embarrassment

Frieder M. Paulus
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Laura Müller‐Pinzler
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Andreas Jansen
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Abstract: The experience of embarrassment provides a highly salient cue for the human moral apparatus. Interestingly, people also experience embarrassment on behalf of others' inappropriate conditions. The perceiver's embarrassment often lacks an equivalent expression of embarrassment in the social counterpart. The present study examines this phenomenon and distinguishes neural circuits involved in embarrassment with and embarrassment for another person's mishaps. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show tha… Show more

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“…In accordance with the results of the pupillometry, in HCs, whole brain analyses revealed SP to elicit significant cortical activations of the ACC, AIC, thalamus, cerebellum, inferior frontal, and temporal gyrus [Krach et al, 2011;Paulus et al, 2014] (Table II and Fig. 2b).…”
Section: Vicarious Social Painsupporting
confidence: 84%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…In accordance with the results of the pupillometry, in HCs, whole brain analyses revealed SP to elicit significant cortical activations of the ACC, AIC, thalamus, cerebellum, inferior frontal, and temporal gyrus [Krach et al, 2011;Paulus et al, 2014] (Table II and Fig. 2b).…”
Section: Vicarious Social Painsupporting
confidence: 84%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…Together with activations of the caudate nucleus, SMA, as well as a region within the thalamus/brainstem the findings replicate the typical activation patterns in response to empathic embarrassment [P < 0.05, FWE corrected for the whole brain; see Fig. 2 and Table II; Paulus et al, 2015b]. An additional analysis showed that activation within these areas was specifically associated with vicarious embarrassment ratings varying between all of the presented social situations on the within subject level (see Supporting Information Results and Figures).…”
Section: Common Activations Across Groupssupporting
confidence: 73%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…This supports the assumption of so-called shared circuits-brain regions, in which both one's own as well as the emotional experience of others are represented and thus become consciously accessible and available [4]. This is confirmed by a strong association of subjectively perceived intensity of the vicarious embarrassment and the activity in the AI/ACC network [9]. Furthermore, on a neural level, the effects of social proximity on the vicarious expe- .…”
Section: Brain Activation During the Experience Of Embarrassment And supporting
confidence: 72%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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