Anticipatory feelings: Neural correlates and linguistic markers

Elka Stefanova; Olga Dubljević; Cornelia Herbert; Beth Fairfield; Matthias L Schroeter; Emily R Stern; Sébastien Urben; Birgit Derntl; Christine Wiebking; Carina Brown; Anat Drach-Zahavy; Leonie Anne Kathrin Loeffler; Franziska Albrecht; Rocco Palumbo; Sydney Weber Boutros; Jacob Raber; Leroy Lowe

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.015

Anticipatory feelings: Neural correlates and linguistic markers

Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2020 Jun:113:308-324. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.015. Epub 2020 Feb 13.

Authors

Elka Stefanova¹, Olga Dubljević², Cornelia Herbert³, Beth Fairfield⁴, Matthias L Schroeter⁵, Emily R Stern⁶, Sébastien Urben⁷, Birgit Derntl⁸, Christine Wiebking³, Carina Brown⁶, Anat Drach-Zahavy⁹, Leonie Anne Kathrin Loeffler¹⁰, Franziska Albrecht⁵, Rocco Palumbo¹¹, Sydney Weber Boutros¹², Jacob Raber¹³, Leroy Lowe¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Neurology Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, Serbia. Electronic address: elka.stefanova@med.bg.ac.rs.
² Neurology Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, Serbia.
³ Department of Applied Emotion and Motivation Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
⁴ Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy.
⁵ Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig & Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, University Leipzig, Germany.
⁶ New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA.
⁷ Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁹ The Faculty of Health and Welfare Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
¹² Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
¹³ Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA; Departments of Neurology and Radiation Medicine, Division of Neuroscience, ONPRC, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
¹⁴ Neuroqualia (NGO), Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.

PMID: 32061891
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.015

Abstract

This review introduces anticipatory feelings (AF) as a new construct related to the process of anticipation and prediction of future events. AF, defined as the state of awareness of physiological and neurocognitive changes that occur within an oganism in the form of a process of adapting to future events, are an important component of anticipation and expectancy. They encompass bodily-related interoceptive and affective components and are influenced by intrapersonal and dispositional factors, such as optimism, hope, pessimism, or worry. In the present review, we consider evidence from animal and human research, including neuroimaging studies, to characterize the brain structures and brain networks involved in AF. The majority of studies reviewed revealed three brain regions involved in future oriented feelings: 1) the insula; 2) the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC); and 3) the amygdala. Moreover, these brain regions were confirmed by a meta-analysis, using a platform for large-scale, automated synthesis of fMRI data. Finally, by adopting a neurolinguistic and a big data approach, we illustrate how AF are expressed in language.

Keywords: Amygdala; Anticipation; Anxiety; Emotion; Fear; Feeling; Hope; Insula; Optimism; Pessimism; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex; Worry.

Publication types

Meta-Analysis
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Amygdala*
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain Mapping
Emotions*
Humans
Linguistics
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Prefrontal Cortex

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