Demenescu Liliana R, Stan Adrian, Kortekaas Rudie, van der Wee Nic J A, Veltman Dick J, Aleman André
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen Aachen, Germany ; Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands ; Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory (CANLAB), Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology and Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany.
Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau France.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Oct 27;8:866. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00866. eCollection 2014.
Through education, a social group transmits accumulated knowledge, skills, customs, and values to its members. So far, to the best of our knowledge, the association between educational attainment and neural correlates of emotion processing has been left unexplored. In a retrospective analysis of The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we compared two groups of fourteen healthy volunteers with intermediate and high educational attainment, matched for age and gender. The data concerned event-related fMRI of brain activation during perception of facial emotional expressions. The region of interest (ROI) analysis showed stronger right amygdala activation to facial expressions in participants with lower relative to higher educational attainment (HE). The psychophysiological interaction analysis revealed that participants with HE exhibited stronger right amygdala-right insula connectivity during perception of emotional and neutral facial expressions. This exploratory study suggests the relevance of educational attainment on the neural mechanism of facial expressions processing.
通过教育，一个社会群体将积累的知识、技能、习俗和价值观传递给其成员。到目前为止，据我们所知，教育程度与情绪加工的神经关联之间的联系尚未得到探索。在对荷兰抑郁与焦虑研究（NESDA）功能磁共振成像（fMRI）研究的回顾性分析中，我们比较了两组各14名健康志愿者，他们年龄和性别匹配，但教育程度分别为中等和高等。数据涉及面部情绪表情感知过程中与事件相关的大脑激活fMRI。感兴趣区域（ROI）分析显示，相对于高等教育程度（HE）的参与者，教育程度较低的参与者右侧杏仁核对面部表情的激活更强。心理生理交互分析表明，HE参与者在感知情绪和中性面部表情时，右侧杏仁核与右侧脑岛之间的连接更强。这项探索性研究表明了教育程度对面部表情加工神经机制的相关性。
