Abstract
Distinct neural systems for men and women during emotional processing: a possible role of attention and evaluation
Highlights
Takahashi et al (2006) discussed possible distinct neural systems for men and women during sexual and emotion infidelity. They explained their results in terms of arousal associated with emotional information, hormonal transmission, and evolutionary perspective. They did not discuss a possible role of “attention” or “attentional networks”; and “attention and evaluative bias” to explain their results, which is the main focus of this paper
To assess the specific condition effect, they used the contrasts of sexual infidelity minus neutral (SI-N) and emotional infidelity minus neutral (EI-N)
Correlation coefficients between the degree of activation and rating of jealousy for emotional infidelity were calculated. They did not find gender differences in ratings, but they did find neural differences. Common brain areas such as the frontal regions and the cingulate cortex were activated in both groups for the emotional infidelity condition
Summary
Men and women show distinct brain activations during imagery of sexual and emotional infidelity by Takahashi, H., Matsuura, M., Yahata, N., Koeda, M., Suhara, T., and Okubo, Y. Takahashi et al (2006) investigated neural correlates associated with jealousy and found that men and women have different neuropsychological modules to process sexual and emotional infidelity. Takahashi et al (2006) discussed possible distinct neural systems for men and women during sexual and emotion infidelity.
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