Narrative movies can create powerful emotional responses. While recent research has advanced the ... more Narrative movies can create powerful emotional responses. While recent research has advanced the understanding of neural networks involved in immersive movie viewing, their modulation within a movie's dynamic context remains inconclusive. In this study, 24 healthy participants passively watched sad scene climaxes taken from 24 romantic comedies, while brain activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI). To study effects of context, the sad scene climaxes were presented with either coherent scene context, replaced non-coherent context or without context. In a second viewing, the same clips were rated continuously for sadness. The ratings varied over time with peaks of experienced sadness within the assumed climax intervals. Activations in anterior and posterior cortical midline regions increased if presented with both coherent and replaced context, while activation in the temporal gyri decreased. This difference was more pronounced for the coherent context condition. Psycho-Physiological interactions (PPI) analyses showed a context-dependent coupling of midline regions with occipital visual and sub-cortical reward regions. Our results demonstrate the pivotal role of midline structures and their interaction with perceptual and reward areas in processing contextually embedded socio-emotional information in movies.
... Das anthropologische Konzept der Psychoanalyse in der Kritischen Theorie, in: Frauen und Film... more ... Das anthropologische Konzept der Psychoanalyse in der Kritischen Theorie, in: Frauen und Film, Nr. ... Käuser: Die anthropologische Theorie des Körperausdrucks im 18. ... alle historische Differenz in der These von der durchgehenden Arbeit der Verdrängung der Leidenschaften ...
Background: Understanding the mental states of others (social cognition) plays a key role in the ... more Background: Understanding the mental states of others (social cognition) plays a key role in the adequate reaction to other people’s behaviour. Standard social cognition tasks to date, however, often employ stimuli such as written stories or comics that are less vivid and rich than our real social environment. Although these tasks have proven sensitive in detecting social cognition difficulties in individuals with autism spectrum consitions (ASC), they do not allow generalization to real life social settings. Objectives: To develop two new movie-based behavioral tasks for the assessment of implicit and explicit social cognition and to adapt the more naturalistic task design to the fMRI environment. Methods: For the behavioural tasks we produced a new set of stimuli comprising film scenes (20-35s) displaying social interactions. In the implicit task, participants watch a social film scene and are then asked to select how the film will proceed out of four short film clips (4 s). In th...
Background: Understanding the mental states of others (social cognition) plays a key role in the ... more Background: Understanding the mental states of others (social cognition) plays a key role in the adequate reaction to other people’s behaviour. Standard social cognition tasks to date, however, often employ stimuli such as written stories or comics that are less vivid and rich than our real social environment. Although these tasks have proven sensitive in detecting social cognition difficulties in individuals with autism spectrum consitions (ASC), they do not allow generalization to real life social settings. Objectives: To develop two new movie-based behavioral tasks for the assessment of implicit and explicit social cognition and to adapt the more naturalistic task design to the fMRI environment. Methods: For the behavioural tasks we produced a new set of stimuli comprising film scenes (20-35s) displaying social interactions. In the implicit task, participants watch a social film scene and are then asked to select how the film will proceed out of four short film clips (4 s). In th...
Narrative movies can create powerful emotional responses. While recent research has advanced the ... more Narrative movies can create powerful emotional responses. While recent research has advanced the understanding of neural networks involved in immersive movie viewing, their modulation within a movie's dynamic context remains inconclusive. In this study, 24 healthy participants passively watched sad scene climaxes taken from 24 romantic comedies, while brain activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI). To study effects of context, the sad scene climaxes were presented with either coherent scene context, replaced non-coherent context or without context. In a second viewing, the same clips were rated continuously for sadness. The ratings varied over time with peaks of experienced sadness within the assumed climax intervals. Activations in anterior and posterior cortical midline regions increased if presented with both coherent and replaced context, while activation in the temporal gyri decreased. This difference was more pronounced for the coherent context condition. Psycho-Physiological interactions (PPI) analyses showed a context-dependent coupling of midline regions with occipital visual and sub-cortical reward regions. Our results demonstrate the pivotal role of midline structures and their interaction with perceptual and reward areas in processing contextually embedded socio-emotional information in movies.
... Das anthropologische Konzept der Psychoanalyse in der Kritischen Theorie, in: Frauen und Film... more ... Das anthropologische Konzept der Psychoanalyse in der Kritischen Theorie, in: Frauen und Film, Nr. ... Käuser: Die anthropologische Theorie des Körperausdrucks im 18. ... alle historische Differenz in der These von der durchgehenden Arbeit der Verdrängung der Leidenschaften ...
Background: Understanding the mental states of others (social cognition) plays a key role in the ... more Background: Understanding the mental states of others (social cognition) plays a key role in the adequate reaction to other people’s behaviour. Standard social cognition tasks to date, however, often employ stimuli such as written stories or comics that are less vivid and rich than our real social environment. Although these tasks have proven sensitive in detecting social cognition difficulties in individuals with autism spectrum consitions (ASC), they do not allow generalization to real life social settings. Objectives: To develop two new movie-based behavioral tasks for the assessment of implicit and explicit social cognition and to adapt the more naturalistic task design to the fMRI environment. Methods: For the behavioural tasks we produced a new set of stimuli comprising film scenes (20-35s) displaying social interactions. In the implicit task, participants watch a social film scene and are then asked to select how the film will proceed out of four short film clips (4 s). In th...
Background: Understanding the mental states of others (social cognition) plays a key role in the ... more Background: Understanding the mental states of others (social cognition) plays a key role in the adequate reaction to other people’s behaviour. Standard social cognition tasks to date, however, often employ stimuli such as written stories or comics that are less vivid and rich than our real social environment. Although these tasks have proven sensitive in detecting social cognition difficulties in individuals with autism spectrum consitions (ASC), they do not allow generalization to real life social settings. Objectives: To develop two new movie-based behavioral tasks for the assessment of implicit and explicit social cognition and to adapt the more naturalistic task design to the fMRI environment. Methods: For the behavioural tasks we produced a new set of stimuli comprising film scenes (20-35s) displaying social interactions. In the implicit task, participants watch a social film scene and are then asked to select how the film will proceed out of four short film clips (4 s). In th...
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