Huazhan Yin

ABSTRACT Trait self-esteem (TSE) is an important personality resource for emotion regulation, yet the neural correlates of TSE and emotion regulation remain unclear. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the neural correlates of TSE with different emotion regulation strategies and identify different brain areas involved in the particular strategies. We accordingly adopted the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) analysis to uncover the neural pathways linking TSE and emotion regulation.

1 INTRODUCTION The distortion of duration perception is a fundamental manifestation of human adaptation to the objective environmen.1 Many factors have been identified as contributing to altered duration perceptions, including emotional experiences,2, 3 cognitive impairments4 and addictive substances.5, 6 Previous research has found that individuals distort their duration perception following acute alcohol use,7 but the direction of the distortion varies across findings, with some perceiving...

1 INTRODUCTION Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is defined as a chronic and relapsing mental illness.1 It is characterised by compulsive alcohol seeking and drinking as well as an inability to control drinking regardless of negative consequences.2 AUD generally affects cognitive functions such as attention,3 memory4, 5 and time perception.6, 7 Time perception is a fundamental ability essential for human survival, playing a crucial role in motor behaviour and future planning.8 It is strongly...