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Emotion regulation capacity lacks a shared neural signature.
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Sicorello, Zaehringer + more
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Across 2,175 participants in 40 preregistered task-based fMRI datasets, three reappraisal capacity indicators fail to converge on a shared neural signature or expected prefrontal regulatory association.
- Why it matters: The field assumes prefrontal regulatory activity reflects emotion regulation capacity, but evidence is inconclusive and not established at scale.
- What they did: The consortium tested convergence among trait questionnaires, task-based affective ratings, and amygdala down-regulation, and examined their neural associations with prefrontal regulatory circuits.
- The result: Trait questionnaires showed no detectable brain associations, affective ratings linked to amygdala and sensorimotor cortices, and canonical control circuits were engaged during both generation and reappraisal.
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