PMID- 30279652 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230928 IS - 1662-5161 (Print) IS - 1662-5161 (Electronic) IS - 1662-5161 (Linking) VI - 12 DP - 2018 TI - Common and Unique Neural Systems Underlying the Working Memory Maintenance of Emotional vs. Bodily Reactions to Affective Stimuli: The Moderating Role of Trait Emotional Awareness. PG - 370 LID - 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00370 [doi] LID - 370 AB - Many leading theories suggest that the neural processes underlying the experience of one's own emotional reactions partially overlap with those underlying bodily perception (i.e., interoception, somatosensation, and proprioception). However, the goal-directed maintenance of one's own emotions in working memory (EWM) has not yet been compared to WM maintenance of one's own bodily reactions (BWM). In this study, we contrasted WM maintenance of emotional vs. bodily reactions to affective stimuli in 26 healthy individuals while they underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging. Specifically, we examined the a priori hypothesis that individual differences in trait emotional awareness (tEA) would lead to greater differences between these two WM conditions within medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). We observed that MPFC activation during EWM (relative to BWM) was positively associated with tEA. Whole-brain analyses otherwise suggested considerable similarity in the neural activation patterns associated with EWM and BWM. In conjunction with previous literature, our findings not only support a central role of body state representation/maintenance in EWM, but also suggest greater engagement of MPFC-mediated conceptualization processes during EWM in those with higher tEA. FAU - Smith, Ryan AU - Smith R AD - Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. FAU - Lane, Richard D AU - Lane RD AD - Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. FAU - Sanova, Anna AU - Sanova A AD - Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. FAU - Alkozei, Anna AU - Alkozei A AD - Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. FAU - Smith, Courtney AU - Smith C AD - Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. FAU - Killgore, William D S AU - Killgore WDS AD - Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180918 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Hum Neurosci JT - Frontiers in human neuroscience JID - 101477954 PMC - PMC6153922 OTO - NOTNLM OT - body perception OT - emotion OT - emotional awareness OT - insula OT - interoception OT - medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) OT - working memory EDAT- 2018/10/04 06:00 MHDA- 2018/10/04 06:01 PMCR- 2018/01/01 CRDT- 2018/10/04 06:00 PHST- 2018/02/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/08/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/10/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/10/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/10/04 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00370 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Hum Neurosci. 2018 Sep 18;12:370. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00370. eCollection 2018.