Reward and Motivation Systems: A Brain Mapping Study of Early-Stage Intense Romantic Love in Chinese Participants

	Reward and Motivation Systems: A Brain Mapping Study of Early-Stage Intense Romantic Love in Chinese Participants
	Xu, Xiaomeng 1; Aron, Arthur 1; Brown, Lucy 2; Cao, Guikang 3; Feng, Tingyong 4; Weng, Xuchu 5; Xu, XM (reprint author), SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Psychol, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA.
刊名	HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
	2011-02-01
卷号	32 期号:2 页码:249-257
关键词	ventral tegmental area basal ganglia striatum
ISSN号	1065-9471
产权排序	5
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Early-stage romantic love has been studied previously in the United States and United Kingdom (Aron et al. [2005]: J Neurophysiol 94:327-337; Bartels and Zeki [2000]: Neuroreport 11:3829-3834; Ortigue et al. [2007]: J Cogn Neurosci 19:1218-1230), revealing activation in the reward and motivation systems of the brain. In this study, we asked what systems are activated for early-stage romantic love in Easterners, specifically Chinese participants? Are these activations affected by individual differences within a cultural context of Traditionality and Modernity? Also, are these brain activations correlated with later satisfaction in the relationship? In Beijing, we used the same procedure used by Aron et al. (Aron et al. [2005]: J Neurophysiol 94: 327-337). The stimuli for 18 Chinese participants were a picture of the face of their beloved, the face of a familiar acquaintance, and a countback task. We found significant activations specific to the beloved in the reward and motivation systems, particularly, the ventral tegmental area and the caudate. The mid-orbitofrontal cortex and cerebellum were also activated, whereas amygdala, medial orbitofrontal, and medial accumbens activity were decreased relative to the familiar acquaintance. Self-reported Traditionality and Modernity scores were each positively correlated with activity in the nucleus accumbens, although in different regions and sides of the brain. Activity in the subgenual area and the superior frontal gyrus was associated with higher relationship happiness at 18-month follow-up. Our results show that midbrain dopamine-rich reward/motivation systems were activated by early-stage romantic love in Chinese participants, as found by other studies. Neural activity was associated with Traditionality and Modernity attitudes as well as with later relationship happiness for Chinese participants. Hum Brain Mapp 32:249-257, 2011. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
学科主题	Social Psychology
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资助项目	二室翁旭初课题组
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000286281300009
资助机构	Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology [2007CB512300]
公开日期	2011-11-11
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/6938]
专题	心理研究所_认知与发展心理学研究室
通讯作者	Xu, XM (reprint author), SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Psychol, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA.
作者单位	1.SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Psychol, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA 2.Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Neurol & Neurosci, Bronx, NY 10467 USA 3.Southwest Univ, Sch Psychol, Dept Basic Psychol, Chongqing, Peoples R China 4.Southwest Univ, Sch Psychol, Dept Dev & Eduatural Psychol, Chongqing, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Dept Psychol & Neurosci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu, Xiaomeng,Aron, Arthur,Brown, Lucy,et al. Reward and Motivation Systems: A Brain Mapping Study of Early-Stage Intense Romantic Love in Chinese Participants[J]. HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING,2011,32(2):249-257.
APA	Xu, Xiaomeng.,Aron, Arthur.,Brown, Lucy.,Cao, Guikang.,Feng, Tingyong.,...&Xu, XM .(2011).Reward and Motivation Systems: A Brain Mapping Study of Early-Stage Intense Romantic Love in Chinese Participants.HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING,32(2),249-257.
MLA	Xu, Xiaomeng,et al."Reward and Motivation Systems: A Brain Mapping Study of Early-Stage Intense Romantic Love in Chinese Participants".HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING 32.2(2011):249-257.