Effects of physical activity on children's executive function: Contributions of experimental research on aerobic exercise

JR Best - Developmental review, 2010 - Elsevier
Executive function refers to the cognitive processes necessary for goal-directed cognition
and behavior, which develop across childhood and adolescence. Recent experimental …

Human empathy through the lens of social neuroscience

J Decety, C Lamm - The scientific World journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Empathy is the ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion
between oneself and others. Knowing what someone else is feeling plays a fundamental …

Music and social bonding:“self-other” merging and neurohormonal mechanisms

B Tarr, J Launay, RIM Dunbar - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
It has been suggested that a key function of music during its development and spread
amongst human populations was its capacity to create and strengthen social bonds amongst …

Exercise improves executive function and achievement and alters brain activation in overweight children: a randomized, controlled trial.

CL Davis, PD Tomporowski, JE McDowell… - Health …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: This experiment tested the hypothesis that exercise would improve executive
function. Design: Sedentary, overweight 7-to 11-year-old children (N= 171, 56% girls, 61 …

Dissecting the neural mechanisms mediating empathy

J Decety - Emotion review, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Empathy is thought to play a key role in motivating prosocial behavior, guiding our
preferences and behavioral responses, and providing the affective and motivational base for …

Regulation of the neural circuitry of emotion by compassion meditation: effects of meditative expertise

A Lutz, J Brefczynski-Lewis, T Johnstone, RJ Davidson - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Recent brain imaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have
implicated insula and anterior cingulate cortices in the empathic response to another's pain …

[图书][B] Conservation psychology: Understanding and promoting human care for nature

S Clayton, G Myers - 2015 - books.google.com
People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think
about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental …

The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: how low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition

J Decety, C Lamm - The neuroscientist, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Accumulating evidence from cognitive neuroscience indicates that the right inferior parietal
cortex, at the junction with the posterior temporal cortex, plays a critical role in various …

From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: A social developmental neuroscience account

J Decety, M Meyer - Development and psychopathology, 2008 - cambridge.org
The psychological construct of empathy refers to an intersubjective induction process by
which positive and negative emotions are shared, without losing sight of whose feelings …

Embodied language: A review of the role of the motor system in language comprehension

MH Fischer, RA Zwaan - Quarterly journal of experimental …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing body of research suggests that comprehending verbal descriptions of actions
relies on an internal simulation of the described action. To assess this motor resonance …