A sensorimotor control framework for understanding emotional communication and regulation.

Justin H G Williams; Charlotte F Huggins; Barbra Zupan; Megan Willis; Tamsyn E Van Rheenen; Wataru Sato; Romina Palermo; Catherine Ortner; Martin Krippl; Mariska Kret; Joanne M Dickson; Chiang-Shan R Li; Leroy Lowe

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.014

A sensorimotor control framework for understanding emotional communication and regulation.

Justin H G Williams, Charlotte F Huggins, Barbra Zupan, Megan Willis, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen, Wataru Sato, Romina Palermo, Catherine Ortner, Martin Krippl, Mariska Kret, Joanne M Dickson, Chiang-Shan R Li, Leroy Lowe

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Abstract

Our research team was asked to consider the relationship of the neuroscience of sensorimotor control to the language of emotions and feelings. Actions are the principal means for the communication of emotions and feelings in both humans and other animals, and the allostatic mechanisms controlling action also apply to the regulation of emotional states by the self and others. We consider how motor control of hierarchically organised, feedback-based, goal-directed action has evolved in humans, within a context of consciousness, appraisal and cultural learning, to serve emotions and feelings. In our linguistic analysis, we found that many emotion and feelings words could be assigned to stages in the sensorimotor learning process, but the assignment was often arbitrary. The embodied nature of emotional communication means that action words are frequently used, but that the meanings or senses of the word depend on its contextual use, just as the relationship of an action to an emotion is also contextually dependent.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	503-518
Number of pages	16
Journal	Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Volume	112
Early online date	15 Feb 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.014
Publication status	Published - May 2020

Bibliographical note

JHGW and CFH are supported by the Northwood Trust. TEVR was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship (1088785). RP and MW were supported by the the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders (CE110001021)

Keywords

Emotion
Feeling
Action
Facial Expression
motor
Sensorimotor
planning
linguistics
emotion regulation
Cognitive appraisal
embodied cognition
mirror neurons
Embodied cognition
Emotion regulation
Mirror neurons
Linguistics
Planning
Facial expression
Facial expression motor
PHYSIOLOGICAL LINKAGE
EARLY EXPERIENCE
MOTOR AREA
STOP-SIGNAL TASK
FACIAL AFFECT RECOGNITION
COGNITIVE CONTROL
MIRROR NEURON ACTIVATION
NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS
PREFRONTAL CORTEX
AFFECTIVE STYLE

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Williams, J. H. G., Huggins, C. F., Zupan, B., Willis, M., Van Rheenen, T. E., Sato, W., Palermo, R., Ortner, C., Krippl, M., Kret, M., Dickson, J. M., Li, C.-S. R., & Lowe, L. (2020). A sensorimotor control framework for understanding emotional communication and regulation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 112, 503-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.014

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