Title
Gender and neural substrates subserving implicit processing of death-related linguistic cues.
Abstract
Our recent functional magnetic resonance imaging study revealed decreased activities in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and bilateral insula for women during the implicit processing of death-related linguistic cues. Current work tested whether aforementioned activities are common for women and men and explored potential gender differences. We scanned twenty males while they performed a color-naming task on death-related, negative-valence, and neutral-valence words. Whole-brain analysis showed increased left frontal activity and decreased activities in the ACC and bilateral insula to death-related versus negative-valence words for both men and women. However, relative to women, men showed greater increased activity in the left middle frontal cortex and decreased activity in the right cerebellum to death-related versus negative-valence words. The results suggest, while implicit processing of death-related words is characterized with weakened sense of oneself for both women and men, men may recruit stronger cognitive regulation of emotion than women.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s10339-017-0847-0
Cognitive Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Death,Emotional Stroop task,Gender,Insula,fMRI
Brain mapping,Insula,Functional magnetic resonance imaging,Psychology,Anterior cingulate cortex,Cognition,Linguistics,Cerebellum,Regulation of emotion,Magnetic resonance imaging
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
1
1612-4782
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jungang Qin141.11
Zhenhao Shi250.87
Yina Ma3133.20
Shihui Han413218.96