Killgore William D S, Yurgelun-Todd Deborah A
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2007 Jun;7(2):140-51. doi: 10.3758/cabn.7.2.140.
The somatic marker hypothesis posits a key role for the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and insula in the ability to utilize emotions to guide decision making and behavior. However, the relationship between activity in these brain regions and emotional intelligence (EQ) during adolescence, a time of particular importance for emotional and social development, has not been studied. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we correlated scores from the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory, Youth Version (EQ-i:YV) with brain activity during perception of fearful faces in 16 healthy children and adolescents. Consistent with the neural efficiency hypothesis, higher EQ correlated negatively with activity in the somatic marker circuitry and other paralimbic regions. Positive correlations were observed between EQ and activity in the cerebellum and visual association cortex. The findings suggest that the construct of self-reported EQ in adolescents is inversely related to the efficiency of neural processing within the somatic marker circuitry during emotional provocation.
躯体标记假说认为，腹内侧前额叶皮质、杏仁核和脑岛在利用情感指导决策和行为的能力中起关键作用。然而，在青春期这个对情感和社交发展尤为重要的时期，这些脑区的活动与情商（EQ）之间的关系尚未得到研究。我们利用功能磁共振成像（fMRI），将16名健康儿童和青少年在感知恐惧面孔时的脑活动与巴昂情商量表青少年版（EQ-i:YV）的得分进行了关联。与神经效率假说一致，较高的情商与躯体标记回路及其他边缘旁区域的活动呈负相关。在情商与小脑和视觉联合皮质的活动之间观察到正相关。研究结果表明，青少年自我报告的情商结构与情绪激发期间躯体标记回路内神经处理的效率呈负相关。
