Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Global brain dynamics during social exclusion predict subsequent behavioral conformity

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 182-191 Abstract “Individuals react differently to social experiences; for example, people who are more sensitive to negative social experiences, such as being excluded, may be more likely to adapt their behavior to fit in with others. We examined whether functional brain connectivity during social exclusion […]

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The interaction between embodiment and empathy in facial expression recognition

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 203-215 Abstract “Previous research has demonstrated that the Action-Observation Network (AON) is involved in both emotional-embodiment (empathy) and action-embodiment mechanisms. In this study, we hypothesized that interfering with the AON will impair action recognition and that this impairment will be modulated by empathy levels. In

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Resting-state functional connectivity predicts neuroticism and extraversion in novel individuals

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 224-232 Abstract “The personality dimensions of neuroticism and extraversion are strongly associated with emotional experience and affective disorders. Previous studies reported functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity correlates of these traits, but no study has used brain-based measures to predict them. Here, using a fully

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Neurobiological correlates of emotional intelligence in voice and face perception networks

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 233-244 Abstract “Facial expressions and voice modulations are among the most important communicational signals to convey emotional information. The ability to correctly interpret this information is highly relevant for successful social interaction and represents an integral component of emotional competencies that have been conceptualized under

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Relating experimentally-induced fear to pre-existing phobic fear in the human brain

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 164-172 Abstract “While prior work has demonstrated that fear-conditioning changes the neural representation of previously neutral stimuli, it remains unknown to what extent this new representation abstracts away from specific fears and which brain areas are involved therein. To investigate this question, we sought commonalities

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Sleep deprivation affects fear memory consolidation: bi-stable amygdala connectivity with insula and ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 145-155 Abstract “Sleep plays an important role for successful fear memory consolidation. Growing evidence suggests that sleep disturbances might contribute to the development and the maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a disorders characterized by dysregulations in fear learning mechanisms, as well as exaggerated

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Theta resting EEG in TPJ/pSTS is associated with individual differences in the feeling of being looked at

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 216-223 Abstract “Direct eye gaze is a powerful stimulus in social interactions, yet people vary considerably in the range of gaze lines that they accept as being direct (cone of direct gaze, CoDG). Here, we searched for a possible neural trait marker of these individual

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Emotion recognition associated with polymorphism in oxytocinergic pathway gene ARNT2

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 173-181 Abstract “The ability to correctly understand the emotional expression of another person is essential for social relationships and appears to be a partly inherited trait. The neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin have been shown to influence this ability as well as face processing in humans.

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Music models aberrant rule decoding and reward valuation in dementia

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 192-202 Abstract “Aberrant rule- and reward-based processes underpin abnormalities of socio-emotional behaviour in major dementias. However, these processes remain poorly characterized. Here we used music to probe rule decoding and reward valuation in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) syndromes and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) relative to

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Aging is associated with a prefrontal lateral-medial shift during picture-induced negative affect

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Published in: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 156-163 Abstract “The capacity to adaptively respond to negative emotion is in part dependent upon lateral areas of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Lateral PFC areas are particularly susceptible to age-related atrophy, which affects executive function (EF). We used structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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