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Behavioral Sciences
Termara C. Parker, Michael J. Crowley, Adam J. Naples, Max J. Rolison, Jia Wu, Julie A. Trapani, James C. McPartland
Summary: The study investigated how children and adolescents respond to different parts of a face in terms of neural processing. Typically developing individuals processed eyes faster than other face parts, while this pattern was not seen in individuals with ASD. This suggests that inefficiencies in face processing in ASD are not simply due to lack of attention to the eyes.
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Psychology, Biological
Samantha Pegg, Marisa N. Lytle, Kodi B. Arfer, Autumn Kujawa
Summary: Measurement of social processes is important in research. This study used event-related potentials (ERPs) measured with electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the temporal dynamics of social feedback processing. The results showed distinct ERP components sensitive to positive and negative social feedback, and these components were correlated with participants' sensitivity to peer feedback. These findings highlight the complexity of social feedback processing and provide valuable neural and behavioral measures for studying individual differences in sensitivity to social acceptance and rejection feedback.
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Neurosciences
Kunpeng Jing, Lele Chen, Yupeng Mei
Summary: Compared with traditional luxuries, affordable luxuries enjoy a high level of perceived product quality and perceived social status. However, the effectiveness of price promotions on purchasing affordable luxury products is different. This study used event-related potential technology to investigate the formation of purchase intention towards affordable luxuries at different prices. The results showed that consumers had a stronger intention to purchase the high-priced affordable luxury product with a price promotion, considering factors such as perceived product quality, perceived social status, and perceived monetary saving.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Anne C. Krendl, Richard F. Betzel
Summary: This review outlines the research findings in the field of social neuroscience in the past three decades and introduces the emerging discipline of network neuroscience. By integrating information across different brain regions and systems, leveraging methods from network neuroscience and graph theory can advance our understanding of how brain systems give rise to social behavior.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Gert Vanhollebeke, Fiebe Aers, Lauren Goethals, Rudi De Raedt, Chris Baeken, Pieter van Mierlo, Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt
Summary: This study systematically reviewed the Cyberball-ERP literature and evaluated the effects of social exclusion and paradigm characteristics on ERP changes, finding that expectancy violations better explain the results of the P3 complex.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Forestry
Qian Wan, Xiaohe Li, Yachi Zhang, Shasha Song, Qing Ke
Summary: The perception of different wood surfaces is greatly influenced by color, grain, and gloss. Dark wood is subjectively preferred over light or medium-colored wood, and both matte and glossy wood are preferred to semigloss wood. The human visual perception of wood grain involves a higher-order cognitive process compared to color or gloss perception.
ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gabriela Manzano-Nieves, Conor Liston
Summary: The analogue of ibogaine has similar therapeutic effects in treating addiction and depression in animal models, with fewer side effects and a simpler synthesis process.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Augusta C. C. Nkem, Stephanie M. M. Topp, Sue Devine, Wendy Wen Li, Daprim Samuel Ogaji
Summary: This review explores the social exclusion impacts of the oil industry on community health and wellbeing in Africa. The findings indicate that oil extraction leads to marginalization of indigenous communities, environmental damage, and livelihood displacement. Economic impacts include limited compensation, high rates of unemployment, and poverty. Social impacts include lack of government and industry investment in social infrastructure, poor health and wellbeing due to pollution, homelessness, and lack of social cohesion. The cultural dimension of social exclusion is less explored, but loss of collective identity and access to land are major themes. Further research on the lived experiences and management of social exclusion by residents in oil-rich areas is needed.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Martyn Pickersgill
Summary: This paper explores the social dimensions and implications of neuroimaging research in low- and middle-income countries, highlighting the theory-laden nature of technologies for understanding ill-health, their theory-generating capabilities, and their potential to introduce new idioms for understanding subjective distress. The authors argue that the use of neuroimaging technologies in population research has the potential to solidify or introduce a biological (specifically brain-based) understanding of mental ill-health within the communities under study.
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Psychology, Biological
Mei Li, Jin Li, Hui'e Li, Guanfei Zhang, Wei Fan, Yiping Zhong
Summary: This study found that prosocial behavior towards friends is driven by social preferences, while prosocial behavior towards acquaintances and strangers may be motivated by a positive reputation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Jennifer R. Lepock, Romina Mizrahi, Cory J. Gerritsen, R. Michael Bagby, Margaret Maheandiran, Sarah Ahmed, Michele Korostil, Michael Kiang
Summary: The study found that N400 semantic priming deficits in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis can predict symptomatic and functional deterioration after one year. This finding is of significance for early diagnosis and intervention of mental illnesses.
PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Elkan G. Akyurek, Gulsen Balta
Summary: This study investigated visual temporal integration, specifically how multiple stimuli appearing in rapid succession are perceived as a single event. The results showed that both intrinsic and extrinsic factors have an interactive effect on integration performance, with distinct effects on the event-related potential components. This study provides important insights into the neural mechanisms underlying temporal integration and its impact on perception of longer episodic events.
Article
Neurosciences
Aliona Tsypes, Max Owens, Brandon E. Gibb
Summary: This study objectively examined differences in reward anticipation and initial response to reward between adult suicide attempters and nonattempters using EEG and ERPs. The results showed specific deficits in reward anticipation and initial response to reward in suicide attempters, which were partially independent of current symptoms or diagnoses of depression and anxiety. These findings contribute to a better understanding of reward-related abnormalities that may contribute to suicide risk.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY-COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Nils Kolling, Marius Braunsdorf, Suhas Vijayakumar, Harold Bekkering, Ivan Toni, Rogier B. Mars
Summary: Daily choices are often based on personal knowledge, but predicting others' behavior requires considering the differences between our own knowledge and others' presumed knowledge. The study found that different brain regions play different roles in using privileged information for personal decisions or predicting others' behavior.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eladio Montero-Porras, Tom Lenaerts, Riccardo Gallotti, Jelena Grujic
Summary: People's preferences for allocation in social dilemmas vary due to contextual reasons, intrinsic values, and social expectations. This study explores whether these differences can be estimated from individual deliberation processes. By analyzing reaction times, the study shows that individuals who allocate resources equally tend to deliberate more, while highly cooperative or defective individuals make quicker decisions. The study also reveals that decision-making is faster in fixed neighbour settings. These findings shed light on the psychological mechanisms behind decision-making in social dilemmas.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
