Cognitive emotion regulation in children: Reappraisal of emotional faces modulates neural source activity in a frontoparietal network

Emotion regulation has an important role in child development and psychopathology. Reappraisal as cognitive regulation technique can be used effectively by children. Moreover, an ERP component known to reflect emotional processing called late positive potential (LPP) can be modulated by children usi...

Verfasser: Wessing, Ida
Rehbein, Maimu Alissa Rhea
Romer, Georg
Achtergarde, Sandra
Dobel, Christian
Zwitserlood, Pienie
Fürniss, Tilman
Junghöfer, Markus
FB/Einrichtung:FB 05: Medizinische Fakultät
Dokumenttypen:Artikel
Medientypen:Text
Erscheinungsdatum:2015
Publikation in MIAMI:26.11.2015
Datum der letzten Änderung:21.08.2020
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Quelle:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 13 (2015), 1–10
Schlagwörter:Emotion regulation; Reappraisal; Children; Emotional faces; Magnetoencephalography; LPP
Fachgebiet (DDC):610: Medizin und Gesundheit
Lizenz:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Sprache:English
Anmerkungen:Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2015/2016 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Format:PDF-Dokument
ISSN:1878-9293
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-87269419987
Weitere Identifikatoren:DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2015.01.012
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-87269419987
Onlinezugriff:1-s2.0-S1878929315000286-main.pdf

Emotion regulation has an important role in child development and psychopathology. Reappraisal as cognitive regulation technique can be used effectively by children. Moreover, an ERP component known to reflect emotional processing called late positive potential (LPP) can be modulated by children using reappraisal and this modulation is also related to children's emotional adjustment. The present study seeks to elucidate the neural generators of such LPP effects. To this end, children aged 8–14 years reappraised emotional faces, while neural activity in an LPP time window was estimated using magnetoencephalography-based source localization. Additionally, neural activity was correlated with two indexes of emotional adjustment and age. Reappraisal reduced activity in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during down-regulation and enhanced activity in the right parietal cortex during up-regulation. Activity in the visual cortex decreased with increasing age, more adaptive emotion regulation and less anxiety. Results demonstrate that reappraisal changed activity within a frontoparietal network in children. Decreasing activity in the visual cortex with increasing age is suggested to reflect neural maturation. A similar decrease with adaptive emotion regulation and less anxiety implies that better emotional adjustment may be associated with an advance in neural maturation.