Neural correlates of death anxiety.
Death anxiety influences multiple facets of human lives and has been quantified using questionnaires. Whether and how self-reports of death anxiety are associated with brain activities remain unclear. We investigated neural correlates of death anxiety by recording brain responses to perceived skulls...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies Vol. 50; no. 9; pp. 1849 - 1864 |
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2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=196565497&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 196565497 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 07481187 DEA jtl: Death Studies issn: 07481187 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2026 vid: 50 iid: 9 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 196565497 10.1080/07481187.2025.2545826 ppf: 1849 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: Neural correlates of death anxiety. aug: au: Gao, Tianyu Pu, Yue Zhou, Jingyi Zheng, Guo Zhou, Yuqing Han, Shihui affil: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, China Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China su: China Self-evaluation Death Anxiety Brain physiology Neurologic examination Research funding Electroencephalography Drawing Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology) Descriptive statistics Skull Neural conduction sug: subj: Self-evaluation Death Anxiety China Brain physiology Neurologic examination Research funding Electroencephalography Drawing Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology) Descriptive statistics Skull Neural conduction ab: Death anxiety influences multiple facets of human lives and has been quantified using questionnaires. Whether and how self-reports of death anxiety are associated with brain activities remain unclear. We investigated neural correlates of death anxiety by recording brain responses to perceived skulls and examined whether a specific neural response to skulls may predict individual differences in subjective feelings of death anxiety. In three experiments we recorded self-reports of death anxiety and electroencephalography (EEG) signals and magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals in response to line drawings of skulls with face-like configural structures from young healthy adults. EEG results in Experiments 1–2 repeatedly showed that upright compared to inverted skulls evoked an early occipitoparietal negative activity at 120–140 ms after stimulus onset and increased the occipitotemporal N170 amplitude. Importantly, the amplitude of the early occipitoparietal negativity predicted self-reports of death anxiety across individuals. MEG results in Experiment 3 further localized the neural responses to skulls at 120–140 ms in the fusiform and temporal cortices, which also predicted individual differences in self-reports of death anxiety. Our findings of a neural correlate of death anxiety have implications for future research on relationships between death anxiety and mental health. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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