We combined established emotion regulation and dietary choice tasks with fMRI to investigate behavioral and neural associations in self-regulation across the two domains in human participants. We found that increased BOLD activity during the successful reappraisal of positive and negative emotional stimuli was associated with dietary self-control success. This cross-task correlation was present in medial and lateral prefrontal cortex as well as the striatum. In contrast, BOLD activity during the food choice task was not associated with self-reported emotion regulation efficacy. These results suggest that neural processes utilized during the reappraisal of emotional stimuli may also facilitate dietary choices that override palatability in favor of healthfulness. In summary, our findings indicate that the neural systems supporting emotion reappraisal can generalize to other behavioral contexts that require reevaluation of rewarding stimuli and outcomes to promote choices that conform with the current goal.

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情绪重新评估期间的大胆活动与饮食自我控制的成功呈正相关。


我们将既定的情绪调节和饮食选择任务与功能磁共振成像结合起来，研究人类参与者在这两个领域的自我调节行为和神经关联。我们发现，在成功重新评估积极和消极情绪刺激期间，BOLD 活动的增加与饮食自我控制的成功相关。这种跨任务相关性存在于内侧和外侧前额叶皮层以及纹状体中。相比之下，食物选择任务期间的大胆活动与自我报告的情绪调节功效无关。这些结果表明，在重新评估情绪刺激过程中使用的神经过程也可能促进饮食选择，从而超越适口性而有利于健康。总之，我们的研究结果表明，支持情绪重新评估的神经系统可以推广到需要重新评估奖励刺激和结果以促进符合当前目标的选择的其他行为环境。