Papers - UMEDA Satoshi

Integration of cognitive and affective networks in humor comprehension

Shibata Midori, Terasawa Yuri, Umeda Satoshi

Neuropsychologia 65   137 - 145 2014.12

ISSN  0028-3932

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<p>Humor comprehension is a complex process that requires the detection and resolution of the incongruity, eliciting a positive feeling of mirth or reward. We conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study to identify the key factors involved in this complex process. To reduce the influence of other factors, we utilized a group of sentences that were nearly identical across conditions (i.e., the first two sentences and the punch line were identical, but the third sentence was different). We found that the punch line (target sentence) in the funny condition induced a perception of funniness and elicited greater activation in language and semantic neural networks, which have been implicated in comprehension processing (i.e., incongruity detection and resolution). We also found increased activation in the mesolimbic reward regions, which have been implicated in the experience of positive rewards in the funny condition. Psycho-physiological interaction analyses revealed that language and semantic regions, such as inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), middle temporal gyrus (MTG), superior temporal gyrus (STG), superior frontal gyrus (SFG), and inferior parietal lobule (IPL) are simultaneously activated during humor comprehension processing. These analyses also revealed that the right MTG, the left IPL, and IFG showed enhanced connectivity with the midbrain. Our findings suggest that these networks play a central role in incongruity detection and resolution, as well as in positive emotional response.</p>

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Interoceptive sensitivity predicts sensitivity to the emotions of others

Terasawa Yuri, Moriguchi Yoshiya, Tochizawa Saiko, Umeda Satoshi

Cognition and Emotion 28 ( 8 ) 1435 - 1448 2014.11

ISSN  0269-9931

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<p>Some theories of emotion emphasise a close relationship between interoception and subjective experiences of emotion. In this study, we used facial expressions to examine whether interoceptive sensibility modulated emotional experience in a social context. Interoceptive sensibility was measured using the heartbeat detection task. To estimate individual emotional sensitivity, we made morphed photos that ranged between a neutral and an emotional facial expression (i.e., anger, sadness, disgust and happy). Recognition rates of particular emotions from these photos were calculated and considered as emotional sensitivity thresholds. Our results indicate that participants with accurate interoceptive awareness are sensitive to the emotions of others, especially for expressions of sadness and happy. We also found that false responses to sad faces were closely related with an individual's degree of social anxiety. These results suggest that interoceptive awareness modulates the intensity of the subjective experience of emotion and affects individual traits related to emotion processing.</p>

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Interoceptive sensitivity predicts performance of event-based prospective memory: Evidence from cardiovascular reactivity

Saiko Tochizawa, Yuri Terasawa, Midori Shibata, Satoshi Umeda

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 94 ( 2 ) 237 - 238 2014.11

ISSN  0167-8760

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Evaluation of taste preference and the following memory retrieval: An ERP study

Koki Tsuji, Midori Shibata, Arisa Sato, Satoshi Umeda

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 94 ( 2 ) 215 - 215 2014.11

ISSN  0167-8760

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Facial expressions and the gaze-cueing effect: An ERP study.

Tsuji Kouki, Osumi Takahiro, Umeda Satoshi

The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association (The Japanese Psychological Association)  78   2PM-1-083 - 2PM-1-083 2014.09

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Learning Process in Association with Interpersonal Conflict in Healthy Individuals, Using Fear Conditioning Paradigm

Mitsuhiro Tada, Hiroyuki Uchida, Takaki Maeda, Mika Konishi, Satoshi Umeda, Yuri Terasawa, Shinichiro Nakajima, Masaru Mimura, Takuya Takahashi

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY 75 ( 9 ) 124S - 124S 2014.05

ISSN  0006-3223

Psychological and neural mechanisms of interoception and emotions

寺澤 悠理, 梅田 聡

心理学評論 (心理学評論刊行会)  57 ( 1 ) 49 - 66 2014

ISSN  0386-1058

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Facial expressions and the gaze-cueing effect in alexithymia personality traits.

TSUJI Koki, OSUMI Takahiro, UMEDA Satoshi

The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association (The Japanese Psychological Association)  77   1PM-059 - 1PM-059 2013.09

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PSYCHOPATHY AND EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS ELICITED BY CHANGE OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

Takahiro Osumi, Koki Tsuji, Satoshi Umeda

PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 50   S100 - S101 2013.09

ISSN  0048-5772

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EMOTIONAL AWARENESS AND NEURAL CORRELATES OF INTEROCEPTION

Yuri Terasawa, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Yusuke Kanayama, Kentaro Oba, Yuki Motomura, Satoshi Umeda, Mishima Kazuo

PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 50   S34 - S35 2013.09

Accepted,  ISSN  0048-5772

Neural substrates for judgment of self-agency in ambiguous situations

Fukushima Hirokata, Goto Yurie, Maeda Takaki, Kato Motoichiro, Umeda Satoshi

PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science)  8 ( 8 )  2013.08

ISSN  1932-6203

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<p>The sense of agency is the attribution of oneself as the cause of one's own actions and their effects. Accurate agency judgments are essential for adaptive behaviors in dynamic environments, especially in conditions of uncertainty. However, it is unclear how agency judgments are made in ambiguous situations where self-agency and non-self-agency are both possible. Agency attribution is thus thought to require higher-order neurocognitive processes that integrate several possibilities. Furthermore, neural activity specific to self-attribution, as compared with non-self-attribution, may reflect higher-order critical operations that contribute to constructions of self-consciousness. Based on these assumptions, the present study focused on agency judgments under ambiguous conditions and examined the neural correlates of this operation with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants performed a simple but demanding agency-judgment task, which required them to report on whether they attributed their own action as the cause of a visual stimulus change. The temporal discrepancy between the participant's action and the visual events was adaptively set to be maximally ambiguous for each individual on a trial-by-trial basis. Comparison with results for a control condition revealed that the judgment of agency was associated with activity in lateral temporo-parietal areas, medial frontal areas, the dorsolateral prefrontal area, and frontal operculum/insula regions. However, most of these areas did not differentiate between self- and non-self-attribution. Instead, self-attribution was associated with activity in posterior midline areas, including the precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex. These results suggest that deliberate self-attribution of an external event is principally associated with activity in posterior midline structures, which is imperative for self-consciousness.</p>

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Reasoning bias for the recall of one's own beliefs in a Smarties task for adults

Maehara Yukio, Umeda Satoshi

Japanese Psychological Research 55 ( 3 ) 292 - 301 2013.07

ISSN  0021-5368

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<p>While many studies in the theory of mind (ToM) literature have investigated how we understand others' mental states, few have explored the mechanism by which we reflect on our own mental states. This study examined how adults reflect on their own and others' mental states within the same ToM task. To do so, we modified the Smarties task, one of the traditional ToM tasks for children. The results showed that adult participants were biased by outcome knowledge when recalling their false belief and that the participants who overestimated their false belief also overestimated the mental states of a naive other. These results were analogous to young children's failure in the Smarties task. Considering the current findings, we discuss possible cognitive processes that are common across children and adults when reflecting on their own mental states and the mental states of others. © Japanese Psychological Association 2013.</p>

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Contribution of Frontal Lobe to Prospective Time Estimation

KUROSAKI YOSHIKO, TERASAWA YURI, UMEDA SATOSHI

高次脳機能研究 33 ( 1 ) 28 - 36 2013.03

ISSN  1348-4818

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How does interoceptive awareness interact with the subjective experience of emotion? An fMRI Study

Terasawa Yuri, Fukushima Hirokata, Umeda Satoshi

Human Brain Mapping 34 ( 3 ) 598 - 612 2013.03

ISSN  1065-9471

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<p>Recent studies in cognitive neuroscience have suggested that the integration of information about the internal bodily state and the external environment is crucial for the experience of emotion. Extensive overlap between the neural mechanisms underlying the subjective emotion and those involved in interoception (perception of that which is arising from inside the body) has been identified. However, the mechanisms of interaction between the neural substrates of interoception and emotional experience remain unclear. We examined the common and distinct features of the neural activity underlying evaluation of emotional and bodily state using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The right anterior insular cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) were identified as commonly activated areas. As both of these areas are considered critical for interoceptive awareness, these results suggest that attending to the bodily state underlies awareness of one's emotional state. Uniquely activated areas involved in the evaluation of emotional state included the temporal pole, posterior and anterior cingulate cortex, medial frontal gyrus, and inferior frontal gyrus. Also the precuneus was functionally associated with activity of the right anterior insular cortex and VMPFC when evaluating emotional state. Our findings indicate that activation in these areas and the precuneus are functionally associated for accessing interoceptive information and underpinning subjective experience of the emotional state. Thus, awareness of one's own emotional state appears to involve the integration of interoceptive information with an interpretation of the current situation. Hum Brain Mapp, 2013. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.</p>

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Anterior insular cortex mediates bodily sensibility and social anxiety

Terasawa Yuri, Shibata Midori, Moriguchi Yoshiya, Umeda Satoshi

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 8 ( 3 ) 259 - 266 2013.03

ISSN  1749-5016

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<p>Studies in psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience have reported an important relationship between individual interoceptive accuracy and anxiety level. This indicates that greater attention to one's bodily state may contribute to the development of intense negative emotions and anxiety disorders. We hypothesized that reactivity in the anterior insular cortex underlies the intensity of interoceptive awareness and anxiety. To elucidate this triadic mechanism, we conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and mediation analyses to examine the relationship between emotional disposition and activation in the anterior insular cortex while participants evaluated their own emotional and bodily states. Our results indicated that right anterior insular activation was positively correlated with individual levels of social anxiety and neuroticism and negatively correlated with agreeableness and extraversion. The results of the mediation analyses revealed that activity in the right anterior insula mediated the activity of neural correlates of interoceptive sensibility and social fear. Our findings suggest that attention to interoceptive sensation affects personality traits through how we feel emotion subjectively in various situations. © The Author (2012). Published by Oxford University Press.</p>

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PE-049 利他的動機づけはADHD傾向が高い人の作動記憶を改善する(特別支援,ポスター発表)

前原 由喜夫, 梅田 聡

日本教育心理学会総会発表論文集 (日本教育心理学会)  55   412 - 412 2013

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ACCURATE INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS ENHANCES EMOTIONAL SENSIBILITY

Yuri Terasawa, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Saiko Tochizawa, Riko Sato, Satoshi Umeda

JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE    188 - 188 2013

ISSN  0898-929X

NEURAL CORRELATES OF HUMOR COMPREHENSION AND APPRECIATION: A FUNCTIONAL MRI STUDY

Midori Shibata, Yuri Terasawa, Satoshi Umeda

JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE    214 - 214 2013

ISSN  0898-929X

It's Not My Fault

Takahata Keisuke, Takahashi Hidehiko, Maeda Takaki, Umeda Satoshi, Suhara Tetsuya, Mimura Masaru, Kato Motoichiro

PLoS ONE 7 ( 12 )  2012.12

ISSN  1932-6203

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<p>Sense of agency refers to the feeling that one's voluntary actions caused external events. Past studies have shown that compression of the subjective temporal interval between actions and external events, called intentional binding, is closely linked to the experience of agency. Current theories postulate that the experience of agency is constructed via predictive and postdictive pathways. One remaining problem is the source of human causality bias; people often make misjudgments on the causality of voluntary actions and external events depending on their rewarding or punishing outcomes. Although human causality bias implies that sense of agency can be modified by post-action information, convincing empirical findings for this issue are lacking. Here, we hypothesized that sense of agency would be modified by affective valences of action outcomes. To examine this issue, we investigated how rewarding and punishing outcomes following voluntary action modulate behavioral measures of agency using intentional binding paradigm and classical conditioning procedures. In the acquisition phase, auditory stimuli were paired with positive, neutral or negative monetary outcomes. Tone-reward associations were evaluated using reaction times and preference ratings. In the experimental session, participants performed a variant of intentional binding task, where participants made timing judgments for onsets of actions and sensory outcomes while playing simple slot games. Our results showed that temporal binding was modified by affective valences of action outcomes. Specifically, intentional binding was attenuated when negative outcome occurred, consistent with self-serving bias. Our study not only provides evidence for postdictive modification of agency, but also proposes a possible mechanism of human causality bias. © 2012 Takahata et al.</p>

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It's Not My Fault: Postdictive Modulation of Intentional Binding by Monetary Gains and Losses.

Takahata K, Takahashi H, Maeda,'' Takaki, Umeda S, Suhara T, Mimura M, Kato M

PLoS One 7 ( 12 ) e53421 2012.12