The difference of neural activity in viewing between one's own emotional situation and other's : a neuroimaging study about perspective-taking

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Event Abstract Back to Event The difference of neural activity in viewing between one's own emotional situation and other's : a neuroimaging study about perspective-taking Jungwoo Son1* and Inkyung Oh1 1 Chungbuk National University Hospital, South Korea Perspective-taking is one of social cognitive function, and the ability of taking either one's own perspective or the perspective of others is very important for people to live in social community. This study aimed to investigate the difference of brain activity in viewing common emotional situation according to perspective-taking. Using fMRI, brain activities were measured while performing the task viewing common emotional situation(happy, anger, sad, neutral) on either his own perspective(self-perspective) or the perspective of his mother(third-person perspective) in fourteen healthy men. The relatively activated brain area on either self-perspective or third-person perspective were investigated, then the relationship between the activated brain region and the scores of self report about some emotion or empathic ability were explored. The relatively activated brain area on self-perspective were bilateral paracentral lobule(BA 5), right postcentral gyrus(BA 3), right precentral gyrus(BA 4), left superior temporal gyrus(BA 22), left medial frontal gyrus(BA 6), whereas on third-person perspective were right inferior frontal gyrus(BA 47), left caudate body and tail, right superior temporal gyrus(BA 38), right medial frontal gyrus(BA 8). The relative activity of left superior temporal gyrus on self-perspective was positively correlated with the score of Beck Depression Inventory. This study demonstrated that the activated brain region according to perspective-taking were different while viewing common emotional situation. Especially on self-perspective, the activation of whole somatosensory & motor area would be needed. And on third-person perspective, the brain region related to both theory of mind and inhibitory control would be needed. The depressive feeling would have influence on the brain activity related to perspective-taking. Conference: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting, Rhodes Island, Greece, 13 Sep - 18 Sep, 2009. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Poster presentations Citation: Son J and Oh I (2009). The difference of neural activity in viewing between one's own emotional situation and other's : a neuroimaging study about perspective-taking. Conference Abstract: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.08.2009.09.306 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 15 Jun 2009; Published Online: 15 Jun 2009. * Correspondence: Jungwoo Son, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju, South Korea, mammosss@hanmail.net Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Jungwoo Son Inkyung Oh Google Jungwoo Son Inkyung Oh Google Scholar Jungwoo Son Inkyung Oh PubMed Jungwoo Son Inkyung Oh Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.