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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Emotion regulation is crucial for adaptive functioning throughout life.
  • Research on emotion and its regulation has significantly increased over the past two decades.
  • Understanding the neural underpinnings of emotion regulation is a key area of psychological research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review theoretical and empirical advances in emotion regulation research.
  • To focus on the neural bases of emotion regulation.
  • To provide a roadmap for future research in this field.

Main Methods:

  • Overview of current emotion regulation research.
  • Primer on behavioral and neuroimaging methods for studying emotion regulation.
  • Examination of brain regions involved in affect triggering and modulation.

Main Results:

  • Identification of key brain regions involved in emotion regulation.
  • Understanding of developmental changes in emotion regulation neural mechanisms from infancy to old age.
  • Discussion of how neural bases of emotion regulation evolve across the lifespan.

Conclusions:

  • Flexible emotion regulation is critical for lifelong adaptive functioning.
  • Future research should integrate ecologically valid measures with neuroimaging techniques.
  • Further investigation into the developmental trajectory of emotion regulation's neural correlates is warranted.