The neural mechanisms of threat and reconciliation efforts between Muslims and non-Muslims

D Lantos, YH Lau, W Louis, P Molenberghs - Social Neuroscience, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
To reduce the escalation of intergroup conflict, it is important that we understand the
processes related to the detection of group-based threat and reconciliation. In the present …

The rostrolateral prefrontal cortex mediates a preference for high-agency environments

KG Norton, M Liljeholm - Journal of Neuroscience, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
The ability to exert flexible instrumental control over one's environment is a defining feature
of adaptive decision-making. Here, we investigated neural substrates mediating a …

Emotional instability relates to ventral striatum activity during reward anticipation in females

F Bayard, C Abé, N Wrobel, M Ingvar… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Both non-emotional symptoms, such as inattention, and symptoms of emotional instability
(EI) are partially co-varying and normally distributed in the general population. Attention …

Rightward shift of two-channel NIRS-defined prefrontal cortex activity during mental arithmetic tasks with increasing levels of state anxiety

M Horiuchi-Hirose, K Sawada - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study was aimed at clarifying the effect of different levels of state anxiety caused by
mental arithmetic tasks on the anxiety-and/or task performance-related activation of the …

[PDF][PDF] The effect of realistic contents (AR, VR) on the brains of middle school students–Using f-NIRS study

SH Park, JS Park, NR Hwang, SH Kwon… - Brain, Digital, & …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Realistic content is a type of content that stimulates human sensory organs and cognitive
abilities to provide a realistic experience and emotion, including VR (Virtual Reality), AR …

EEG based assessment of emotional wellbeing in smart environment

M Chowdhury - 2020 - oulurepo.oulu.fi
Smart technologies are frequently united and automated in our everyday settings and
commonplace task by linking computers and other devices. While there has been a …

From value to saliency: Neural computations of subjective value under uncertainty in PTSD

R Jia, L Ruderman, C Gordon, D Ehrlich, M Horvath… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Military personnel engaged in combat are vulnerable to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD), following traumatic experiences in the battlefield. Prior research has mostly …

Opponent intracerebral signals for reward and punishment prediction errors in humans

MCM Gueguen, P Billeke, JP Lachaux, S Rheims… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Whether maximizing rewards and minimizing punishments rely on distinct brain systems
remains debated, inconsistent results coming from human neuroimaging and animal …

Neural correlates of decision variables and strategic preferences

V Venkatraman, EC Beard - Psychological Perspectives on Financial …, 2020 - Springer
Financial decision-making often involves the assessment of risk and reward across a given
time frame, along with any number of contextual factors that could impact decision strategies …

Dopaminergic signalling modulates reward-driven music memory consolidation

L Ferreri, E Mas-Herrero, G Cardona, RJ Zatorre… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Previously, we provided causal evidence for a dopamine-dependent effect of intrinsic
reward on memory during self-regulated learning (Ripollés et al., 2016;). Here, we further …