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Neurosciences
Hesham A. ElShafei, Ying Joey Zhou, Saskia Haegens
Summary: In this study, researchers investigated the role of different neural oscillations in a visual task using magnetoencephalography (MEG). They found that the decrease in alpha and beta power was associated with the presentation of informative cues and faster responses. They also observed enhanced phase alignment of slow oscillations and phase-amplitude coupling between slow and fast oscillations during faster responses. Additionally, stimulus decoding accuracy was improved by both low alpha power and high beta power.
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Psychology, Biological
Patrick E. Savage, Psyche Loui, Bronwyn Tarr, Adena Schachner, Luke Glowacki, Steven Mithen, W. Tecumseh Fitch
Summary: The development of music in human society is closely related to social bonding, with proto-musical behaviors that originated as cultural inventions impacting social bonding and biological evolution, generating deep connections between production, perception, prediction, and social reward. Through interdisciplinary evidence, the hypothesis of music and social bonding offers a comprehensive theory for the biological and cultural evolution of music.
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Jo-Fu Lotus Lin, Toshiaki Imada, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Hirotoshi Hiraishi, Takashi Ikeda, Tetsuya Takahashi, Chiaki Hasegawa, Yuko Yoshimura, Mitsuru Kikuchi, Masayuki Hirata, Yoshio Minabe, Minoru Asada, Patricia K. Kuhl
Summary: Verbal interaction and imitation are crucial for language learning and development in young children. This study utilized a dual-MEG setup to investigate the neural synchrony between mother-child pairs during turn-taking verbal interactions. The findings revealed increased interbrain synchronization in socially interactive tasks compared to noninteractive tasks, particularly in the theta and alpha bands. Specific parietal and frontal regions were identified as cortical hubs exhibiting a high number of interbrain connections, which may serve as neural markers for the interactive component in verbal social communication.
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Behavioral Sciences
Niloufar Zebarjadi, Jonathan Levy
Summary: The study investigates the role of alpha oscillations in empathy processes in individuals close to 20 years old. Findings suggest that in adults, alpha power suppression in the S1 region during empathy corresponds to BOLD signal increase, while in younger individuals, this suppression only involves enhancement.
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Jonathan Levy, Kaisu Lankinen, Maria Hakonen, Ruth Feldman
Summary: In the past decade, neuroscience research has shifted towards studying real-life interactions between multiple brains, emphasizing the integration of neural synchrony assessment with nonverbal behavioral synchrony measurement. The use of naturalistic social interactions to evaluate mechanisms underlying synchronous neuronal communication has become increasingly popular. Studies have shown advantages of using magnetoencephalography neuroimaging to study interactive neural synchrony and identified challenges related to ecological validity versus experimental rigor. Recent evidence has highlighted rhythmic information flow between brains in interaction, paving the way for advancements in brain-to-brain coordination research.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qianliang Li, Ricarda F. Weiland, Ivana Konvalinka, Huibert D. Mansvelder, Tobias S. Andersen, Dirk J. A. Smit, Sander Begeer, Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen
Summary: Finding biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has proven particularly difficult due to high heterogeneity. However, through studying various aspects of electroencephalography (EEG), it has been found that intellectually able adults with ASD show remarkably typical resting-state EEG at the group level.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Sara Spadone, Annalisa Tosoni, Stefania Della Penna, Carlo Sestieri
Summary: This study investigates the dynamic properties and spatial distribution of oscillatory power modulations in the lateral parietal lobe during an item recognition task. The findings suggest that the alpha ERD in the intraparietal sulcus might represent a neural signature of the evidence accumulation process during simple memory-based decisions.
Review
Neurosciences
Sofia Carozza, Victoria Leong
Summary: Affectionate touch plays a crucial role in infant development, impacting a wide range of psychosocial and neurophysiological aspects. It tunes the development of infant somatosensory, autonomic, and immune systems, while also contributing to the establishment of social affiliative bonds. The effects of touch-related bonding are mainly mediated by the oxytocin system, with additional activations of mesocorticolimbic dopamine and endogenous opioid systems aiding in social cognitive processes.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Shoji Tanaka
Summary: Opera is a performing art in which the music and acting of singers have a synergistic effect, inducing mirror neuron activity in the audience. This study demonstrates that the audiovisual perception of opera performances engages the mirror neuron system in the audience.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Natalie Schaworonkow, Vadim V. Nikulin
Summary: This article explores the challenges and implications of analyzing non-invasive recordings of EEG and MEG directly in sensor space. Through simulations and data analysis, the authors illustrate how different types of brain activity overlap on individual sensors and how the spatial mixing can affect electrode signals differently.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jana Lieberz, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory, Nira Saporta, Timo Esser, Ekaterina Kuskova, Birgit Stoffel-Wagner, Rene Hurlemann, Dirk Scheele
Summary: Loneliness is associated with decreased trust, larger social distances, and lower trustworthiness. Lonely individuals show reduced limbic and striatal activation, as well as weakened functional connectivity between the anterior insula and occipitoparietal regions during initial trust decisions.
Review
Biology
Gareth Leng, Rhodri Leng, Mike Ludwig
Summary: In this paper, the claim that oxytocin is a 'social neuropeptide' is analyzed. The structure of the scientific literature on this topic is examined, and evidence from various types of studies is considered to evaluate the claim. The conclusion is that the evidence for the claim is weak, based on the analysis of the most highly cited papers.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Adi Ulmer Yaniv, Roy Salomon, Shani Waidergoren, Ortal Shimon-Raz, Amir Djalovski, Ruth Feldman
Summary: The study reveals the importance of synchronous caregiving in tuning the human social brain, particularly in regions involved in salience detection, interoception, and mentalization. Maternal-newborn contact enhances social synchrony, which in turn predicts the brain's sensitivity to emotion-specific empathy, linking with greater empathic understanding in adolescence and higher neural sensitivity to emotion-specific empathy in adulthood.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Adi Ulmer Yaniv, Roy Salomon, Shani Waidergoren, Ortal Shimon-Raz, Amir Djalovski, Ruth Feldman
Summary: The study highlights the significant impact of maternal contact and caregiving behavior on the development of the social brain in mammalian young, leading to long-term effects on adult sociality. Specifically in human adults, maternal-newborn contact and parenting behavior play a crucial role in shaping the sensitivity of the social brain, particularly in affect-specific empathy.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Brendan Monogue, Yixi Chen, Hadrian Sparks, Ranya Behbehani, Andrew Chai, Alexander J. Rajic, Aaron Massey, B. K. Kleinschmidt-Demasters, Matthieu Vermeren, Tilo Kunath, J. David Beckham
Summary: The normal function of alpha-synuclein in neurons is not clearly defined. This study found that alpha-synuclein functions in neurons to support immune signaling by co-localizing to the nucleus with interferon signaling proteins following interferon stimulation.
Article
Neurosciences
Andreas Sauer, Maor Zeev-Wolf, Tineke Grent-'t-Jong, Marc Recasens, Catherine Wacongne, Michael Wibral, Saskia Helbling, Abraham Peled, Alexander Grinshpoon, Wolf Singer, Abraham Goldstein, Peter J. Uhlhaas
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2017)
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Psychology, Developmental
Maayan Pratt, Abraham Goldstein, Jonathan Levy, Ruth Feldman
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2017)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jonathan Levy, Abraham Goldstein, Maayan Pratt, Ruth Feldman
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2018)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Noam Zilberman, Yair Dor Ziderman, Maor Zeev-Wolf, Abraham Goldstein, Gal Yadid, Yehuda Neumark, Yuri Rassovsky
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Neurosciences
Maayan Pratt, Abraham Goldstein, Ruth Feldman
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2018)
Article
Neuroimaging
Maor Zeev-Wolf, Jonathan Levy, Carol Jahshan, Abraham Peled, Yechiel Levkovitz, Alexander Grinshpoon, Abraham Goldstein
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2018)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jonathan Levy, Abraham Goldstein, Ruth Feldman
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2019)
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Clinical Neurology
Maayan Pratt, Maor Zeev-Wolf, Abraham Goldstein, Ruth Feldman
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Oshrit Arviv, Abraham Goldstein, Oren Shriki
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2019)
Article
Psychiatry
Yair Dor-Ziderman, Maor Zeev-Wolf, Efrat Hirsch Klein, Dor Bar-Oz, Uriel Nitzan, Hagai Maoz, Aviv Segev, Abraham Goldstein, May Koubi, Shlomo Mendelovic, Hila Gvirts, Yuval Bloch
Summary: This study focused on identifying a stable neural correlate of ADHD based on MEG resting state frequency bands, showing higher high-gamma power in posterior sensors and lower high-gamma power in frontal-central sensors for ADHD patients. The differential high-gamma activity demonstrated substantial diagnostic efficacy and potential for advancing the specificity of ADHD evaluation and developing new therapeutic tools.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Jonathan Levy, Abraham Goldstein, Moran Influs, Shafiq Masalha, Ruth Feldman
Summary: This study focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and used magnetoencephalography to explore the neural oscillatory processes underlying intergroup bias. The results revealed the crucial role of cortical alpha rhythm in real-life intergroup dialogue style and active engagement in peacemaking.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jonathan Levy, Moran Influs, Shafiq Masalha, Abraham Goldstein, Ruth Feldman
Summary: This study implemented a dialogue-enhancing intervention for adolescents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict context, finding that post-intervention adolescents showed reduced neural prejudice response and adopted attitudes of compromise. The research highlights adolescence as a critical window of opportunity for enhancing inter-group dialogue and demonstrates long-term associations between neural evaluation of prejudice and proclivity for compromise and peace.
Article
Neurosciences
Maor Zeev-Wolf, Jonathan Levy, Abraham Goldstein, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, Ruth Feldman
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY-COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING
(2019)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Maor Zeev-Wolf, Yair Dor-Ziderman, Abraham Goldstein, Omer Bonne, Eitan G. Abramowitz
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Psychology, Clinical
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Joseph Glicksohn, Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, Abraham Goldstein
Article
Neurosciences
Jose Sanchez-Bornot, Roberto C. Sotero, J. A. Scott Kelso, Ozguer Simsek, Damien Coyle
Summary: This study proposes a multi-penalized state-space model for analyzing unobserved dynamics, using a data-driven regularization method. Novel algorithms are developed to solve the model, and a cross-validation method is introduced to evaluate regularization parameters. The effectiveness of this method is validated through simulations and real data analysis, enabling a more accurate exploration of cognitive brain functions.