Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Enhanced processing of aversive stimuli on embodied artificial limbs by the human amygdala Body perception has been extensively investigated, with one particular focus being the integration of vision and touch within a neuronal body representation. Previous studies have implicated a distributed network comprising the extrastriate body area (EBA), posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and ventral premotor cortex (PMv) during illusory self-attribution of a rubber hand. Here, we set up an fMRI paradigm in virtual reality (VR) to study whether and how threatening (artificial) body parts affects their self-attribution. Participants (N=30) saw a spider (aversive stimulus) or a toy-car (neutral stimulus) moving along a 3D-rendered virtual forearm positioned like their real forearm, while tactile stimulation was applied on the real arm in the same (congruent) or opposite (incongruent) direction. We found that the PPC was more activated during congruent stimulation; higher visual areas and the anterior insula (aIns) showed increased activation during aversive stimulus presentation; and the amygdala was more strongly activated for aversive stimuli when there was stronger multisensory integration of body-related information (interaction of aversiveness and congruency). Together, these findings suggest an enhanced processing of aversive stimuli within the amygdala when they represent a bodily threat.
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The categories of this paper are: genomics
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The categories of this paper are: toxicology
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The categories of this paper are: communication
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The categories of this paper are: ecology
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The categories of this paper are: cognition
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The categories of this paper are: bioinformatics
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: systems
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The categories of this paper are: biochemistry
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The categories of this paper are: and
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The categories of this paper are: education
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: immunology
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The categories of this paper are: physiology
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The categories of this paper are: animal
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The categories of this paper are: epidemiology