Research Digest

Explore a curated collection of recent studies, publications, and groundbreaking discoveries on the topic of embodied cognitive science.

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Dynamic competition account of men’s perceptions of women’s sexual interest

Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 43-54 Abstract "This work applies a dynamic competition framework of decision making to the domain of sexual perception, which is linked theoretically and empirically to college men’s risk for exhibiting sexual coercion and aggression ...
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/ Cognition, Dynamic Competition Framework, Sexual Perception

EEG captures affective touch: CT-optimal touch and neural oscillations

Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 155-166 Abstract "Tactile interactions are of developmental importance to social and emotional interactions across species. In beginning to understand the affective component of tactile stimulation, research has begun to elucidate ...
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/ Affective Touch, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, EEG, Neural Oscillations

Reduced inter-hemispheric interference in ageing: Evidence from a divided field Stroop paradigm

Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 26-33 Abstract "One of the most important structural changes that occur in the brain during the course of life relates to the corpus callosum, the largest neural pathway that connects the two ...
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/ Aging, Brain and Cognition, Stroop Task

Seeing Other Minds in 3D

Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 22, Issue 3, 193-195 Abstract "To be kind or compassionate, or cruel or condescending, a social agent must understand what others are likely to want, feel, and choose. In this issue Tamir and ...
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/ Developmental Psychology, Mind Perception, Social Prediction, Social Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Association of the N100 TMS-evoked potential with attentional processes: A motor cortex TMS–EEG study

Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 9-16 Abstract "The most thoroughly studied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-evoked electroencephalogram (EEG) potential (TEP), N100, is often defined as a measure of cortical inhibition. We explored the association of the N100 amplitude ...
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/ Attention, Brain and Cognition, N100 Amplitude, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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