Individual differences in disgust imagery: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study
- 26 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in NeuroReport
- Vol. 19 (5), 527-530
- https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e3282f85e10
Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have examined neural correlates of disgust imagery, but have never taken into account the moderating effects of personality traits. Twenty-four women first viewed and subsequently visualized pictures with disgust-inducing and happiness-inducing content. Relative to the picture perception, disgust, and happiness imagery provoked activation of the insula, anterior cingulate cortex, and parietal cortex. Trait disgust was negatively correlated with localized brain activation (e.g. insula, amygdala, parietal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex) during disgust imagery. This study provides first evidence that disgust propensity is associated with brain activation during imagery of repulsive scenes.Keywords
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