Abstract：
Attachment theory provides a conceptual framework to understand the impact of early child-caregiver experiences, such as loss or separation, on adult functioning and psychopathology. In the current study, scenes from the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP), a validated, commonly used standardized diagnostic instrument to assess adult attachment representations, were used to develop a short fMRI assay eliciting the neural correlates of encoding of potentially hurtful and threatening social situations such as social losses, rejections or loneliness. Data from healthy participants (N = 19) showed activations in brain areas associated with social cognition and semantic knowledge during exposure to attachment-related scenes compared to control scenes. Extensive activation of the temporal poles was observed, suggesting the use of semantic knowledge for generating social concepts and scripts. This knowledge may underlie our ability to explain and predict social interactions, a specific aspect of theory of mind or mentalization. In this replication study, we verified the effectiveness of a modified fMRI assay to assess the external validity of a previously used imaging paradigm to investigate the processing of emotionally negatively valenced and painful social interactions. Our data confirm the recruitment of brain areas associated with social cognition with our very short neuroimaging assay.
摘要：
依恋理论提供了一个概念框架来理解早期儿童照顾者经历的影响，例如损失或分离，成人功能和精神病理学。在目前的研究中,来自成人依恋投影图像系统(AAP)的场景，一个经过验证的，常用的标准化诊断仪器来评估成人依恋表示，用于开发一种短的fMRI分析，引发潜在伤害和威胁性社会情况（如社会损失）的编码的神经相关性，拒绝或孤独。来自健康参与者（N=19）的数据显示，与对照场景相比，在暴露于依恋相关场景期间，与社会认知和语义知识相关的大脑区域激活。观察到时间极点的广泛激活，建议使用语义知识来生成社会概念和脚本。这些知识可能是我们解释和预测社交互动的能力的基础，心理理论或心理理论的特定方面。在这个复制研究中,我们验证了改进的fMRI检测方法的有效性,以评估以前使用的成像模式的外部有效性,该模式用于研究情绪负面情绪和痛苦的社交互动的处理.我们的数据通过非常短的神经影像学检查证实了与社会认知相关的大脑区域的募集。
