Implicit forms of emotion regulation are of growing interest and have been shown to be efficient in controlling emotional responses despite the fact that they operate without conscious awareness of the ongoing regulatory process and deliberate attempts to influence emotional responding. Although such forms of affective modulation are considered natural and crucial for mental health, their brain mechanisms have hardly been studied until now. Here, we employ a novel procedure and compare directly brain responses to emotional stimuli after implicitly inducing either a self-control goal or a reappraisal goal with a scrambled sentence task. Both induction methods showed robust attenuation of visual, attentional, and emotion-related brain networks. Moreover, after induction of the self-control goal we observed increased activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and the right insula, which are involved in top-down modulation of emotional responses. Reappraisal goal induction led to weaker activation in the right dlPFC, which was localized similarly as in the self-control induction task. Our results not only confirm the effectiveness of implicit induction of affective control, but also indicate the important similarities in underlying neural mechanisms that are putatively shared with conscious forms of emotional regulation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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内隐诱导情绪控制-自我控制和重新评估目标追求的功能性fMRI比较研究。

内隐形式的情绪调节越来越引起人们的兴趣，并且已被证明可以有效地控制情绪反应，尽管它们的运作方式没有意识地意识到正在进行的调节过程，并且故意试图影响情绪反应。尽管这种形式的情感调节被认为是自然的，对于心理健康至关重要，但是到目前为止，人们对其脑机制的研究还很少。在这里，我们采用了一种新颖的程序，并在通过一个句子句子任务隐含地诱导了自我控制目标或重新评估目标之后，直接比较了大脑对情绪刺激的反应。两种诱导方法均显示出视觉，注意力和情绪相关的大脑网络的强烈衰减。此外，诱导自我控制目标后，我们观察到了背外侧前额叶皮层（dlPFC）和右岛的活动增加，这些活动参与了自上而下的情绪反应调节。重新评估目标的诱导导致右dlPFC的激活较弱，其定位与自控诱导任务中的类似。我们的研究结果不仅证实了情感控制的隐式诱导的有效性，而且还表明了潜在的神经机制的重要相似性，这些潜在的神经机制被推定与意识形式的情绪调节共享。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。它的定位与自控任务中的定位类似。我们的结果不仅证实了情感控制的隐含诱导的有效性，而且还表明了潜在的神经机制的重要相似性，这些潜在的神经机制被推定与意识形式的情绪调节共享。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。它的定位与自控任务中的定位类似。我们的结果不仅证实了情感控制的隐含诱导的有效性，而且还表明了潜在的神经机制的重要相似性，这些潜在的神经机制被推定与意识形式的情绪调节共享。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。