Article
Neurosciences
Celia Foster, Mintao Zhao, Timo Bolkart, Michael J. Black, Andreas Bartels, Isabelle Buelthoff
Summary: The study found that occipitotemporal cortex processes information about face and body orientation with a stimulus-independent neural code, with the fusiform face area showing specificity in responding to face orientation. Neutral responses to orientation remained consistent regardless of participants paying attention to it or not.
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Roser Canigueral, Sujatha Krishnan-Barman, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton
Summary: This article introduces the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying social interactions at the single- and two-brain level using social signalling. It demonstrates how subtle manipulations of being watched can dissect meaningful social signals, and suggests that linking neural activity to specific social signals is crucial for understanding face-to-face interactions.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Mordechai Hayman, Shahar Arzy
Summary: Mental travel, the ability to mentally experience the world from different perspectives, was investigated using fMRI and found to involve a network of brain regions responsible for adopting different points of view and distinguishing between closer and less close others. This suggests that mental travel is a rich, dynamic process encompassing individuals in different proximities and their social networks.
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Konrad Lehmann, Dimitris Bolis, Karl J. Friston, Leonhard Schilbach, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Philipp Kanske
Summary: Social neuroscience has been criticized for its passive and detached approach in investigating the neural processes underlying social interaction. Second-person neuroscience, however, focuses on real-time interaction and has revealed the complexity of neural activation patterns during social interaction. This study utilizes the active-inference framework to explain the mechanisms involved in social interaction and contributes to the theoretical foundations of empirical second-person neuroscience.
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
James P. Trujillo, Asli Ozyurek, Cornelis C. Kan, Irina Sheftel-Simanova, Harold Bekkering
Summary: Persons with autism and neurotypical individuals process sensory information differently, which directly affects social functioning and communication abilities. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the organization of the action observation network in autistic and neurotypical individuals during a silent gesture recognition task. The results revealed that autistic individuals have a more clustered and locally-oriented network configuration, while neurotypicals exhibit a more integrated network organization. These findings shed light on the complex interplay between social and sensory processing in autism.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Johnathan A. Adams, Gentry White, Robyn P. Araujo
Summary: This paper verifies the Martins model through an experiment and contributes to experimental design in opinion dynamics with a novel method.
Article
Psychology, Social
Olya Bryksina, Luming Wang, Trang Mai-McManus
Summary: The study shows that moderate deviations from the average body size can affect people's perceptions of others, with moderately thin individuals being seen as more competent and moderately heavy individuals being seen as warmer. These effects are believed to be due to the perception of self-control and emotional expressiveness associated with body size.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mireia Valles-Colomer, Aitor Blanco-Miguez, Paolo Manghi, Francesco Asnicar, Leonard Dubois, Davide Golzato, Federica Pinto, Fabio Cumbo, Kun D. Huang, Serena Manara, Giulia Masetti, Federica Pinto, Elisa Piperni, Michal Puncochar, Liviana Ricci, Moreno Zolfo, Olivia Farrant, Adriana Goncalves, Marta Selma-Royo, Ana G. Binetti, Jimmy E. Becerra, Bei Han, John Lusingu, John Amuasi, Loredana Amoroso, Alessia Visconti, Claire M. Steves, Mario Falchi, Michele Filosi, Adrian Tett, Anna Last, Qian Xu, Nan Qin, Huanlong Qin, Juergen May, Daniel Eibach, Maria Valeria Corrias, Mirco Ponzoni, Edoardo Pasolli, Tim D. Spector, Enrico Domenici, Maria Carmen Collado, Nicola Segata
Summary: The human microbiome is an essential part of the human body and plays a role in various health conditions. However, we still have limited understanding of the genetic differences in the microbiome between individuals and how it spreads within and across populations.
Review
Neurosciences
Katherine J. Michon, Dalia Khammash, Molly Simmonite, Abbey M. Hamlin, Thad A. Polk
Summary: Most neuroimaging studies treat interindividual differences in brain organization as noise, however, person-specific and precision imaging techniques have the potential to uncover new details of the brain's functional organization and its relationship to behavior.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Arash Hekmat, Zhang Zuping, Hashim Saleh Sharaf Al-deen
Summary: This study explores providing a database map model for full-body gestures using the hierarchical nested set model to cover all aspects of existing gestures and motions. The mapping model allows execution of appropriate gesture patterns for each motion state, utilizing nested set tracking features for motor control.
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Haipeng Liu, Anfu Zhou, Zihe Dong, Yuyang Sun, Jiahe Zhang, Liang Liu, Huadong Ma, Jianhua Liu, Ning Yang
Summary: This study proposes a person-independent real-time mmWave gesture recognition solution that utilizes a custom-designed neural network and a system status transition to achieve automatic gesture segmentation and real-time recognition. Experimental results show that the solution has high accuracy and short response latency. Additionally, a comprehensive mmWave gesture data set is collected and released.
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Linda Drijvers, Judith Holler
Summary: This study demonstrates that face-to-face spatial orientation induces a special 'social mode' for neurocognitive processing during conversation, even in the absence of visibility.
Article
Telecommunications
Jie Wang, Zhouhua Ran, Qinghua Gao, Xiaorui Ma, Miao Pan, Kaiping Xue
Summary: Researchers have made progress in the field of device-free gesture recognition, achieving breakthroughs in single-person gesture recognition, but multiple simultaneous gestures may cause traditional methods to fail; solutions include leveraging spatial diversity information, proposing a robust deep-learning framework, developing a prototype system, and obtaining high recognition accuracy.
CHINA COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Sophie-Marie Rostalski, Jonathan Edward Robinson, Geza Gergely Ambrus, Patrick Johnston, Gyula Kovacs
Summary: This study investigated the image-invariant encoding mechanism of the occipito-temporal cortex in identity recognition using fMRI adaptation. The results supported recent multivariate pattern analysis studies, showing that the core face-processing areas of the occipito-temporal cortex have image-independent identity encoding.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jin Niu, Chih-Fu Wu, Xiao Dou, Kai-Chieh Lin
Summary: Social robots are considered social actors at work and their gesture design affects their perceived personality traits. The study found that different types of gestures have different effects on the perceived sociality, competence, and status of social robots. Shopping reception robots require more beat gestures to create a friendly and outgoing demeanor, while home companion, education, and security robots need to integrate other types of gestures.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Janik Goltermann, Nils Ralf Winter, Susanne Meinert, Lisa Sindermann, Hannah Lemke, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Dominik Grotegerd, Alexandra Winter, Katharina Thiel, Lena Waltemate, Fabian Breuer, Jonathan Repple, Marius Gruber, Maike Richter, Vanessa Teckentrup, Nils B. Kroemer, Katharina Brosch, Tina Meller, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Kai Gustav Ringwald, Frederike Stein, Walter Heindel, Andreas Jansen, Tilo Kircher, Igor Nenadic, Udo Dannlowski, Nils Opel, Tim Hahn
Summary: This large-scale study found that most of the previous resting-state connectivity correlates of childhood maltreatment could not be replicated. The strongest evidence was found for clinically relevant maltreatment associations with altered adult amygdala-dorsolateral frontal connectivity in depression. Future studies should explore the relevance of this pathway for a maltreated subgroup of MDD patients.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Katharina Thiel, Susanne Meinert, Alexandra Winter, Hannah Lemke, Lena Waltemate, Fabian Breuer, Marius Gruber, Ramona Leenings, Lucia Wueste, Kathrin Rueb, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Frederike Stein, Katharina Brosch, Tina Meller, Kai Gustav Ringwald, Igor Nenadic, Axel Krug, Jonathan Repple, Nils Opel, Katharina Koch, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Jochen Bauer, Dominik Grotegerd, Tim Hahn, Tilo Kircher, Udo Dannlowski
Summary: Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) show reduced fractional anisotropy (FA) compared to patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), independent of mood state and acute symptom severity. This suggests that disruptions in white matter microstructure in BD may be a trait effect of the disorder.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Alexandra Winter, Katharina Thiel, Susanne Meinert, Hannah Lemke, Lena Waltemate, Fabian Breuer, Regina Culemann, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Frederike Stein, Katharina Brosch, Tina Meller, Kai Gustav Ringwald, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Andreas Jansen, Igor Nenadic, Axel Krug, Jonathan Repple, Nils Opel, Katharina Dohm, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Dominik Grotegerd, Harald Kugel, Tim Hahn, Tilo Kircher, Udo Dannlowski
Summary: This study found that healthy individuals with familial risk for major depressive disorder (MDD) showed widespread increase in fractional anisotropy (FA) compared to a low-risk sample. The effect of risk on FA was only significant in the healthy control group, not in the MDD sample. These findings may reflect compensatory neural mechanisms associated with resilience in healthy adults at risk for MDD.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Kira Flinkenfluegel, Susanne Meinert, Katharina Thiel, Alexandra Winter, Janik Goltermann, Lea Strathausen, Katharina Brosch, Frederike Stein, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Ulrika Evermann, Adrian Wroblewski, Paula Usemann, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Dominik Grotegerd, Tim Hahn, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Katharina Dohm, Jochen Bauer, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Benjamin Straube, Nina Alexander, Andreas Jansen, Igor Nenadic, Axel Krug, Tilo Kircher, Udo Dannlowski
Summary: This study investigated the effects of negative stressful life events and social support on white matter integrity in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and healthy control participants. The results showed that negative stressful life events were negatively correlated with white matter integrity, while social support was positively correlated with white matter integrity, and these associations did not differ between MDD patients and healthy controls. Furthermore, social support appeared to independently contribute to improved white matter integrity.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Frederike Stein, Simon Schmitt, Katharina Brosch, Tina Meller, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Kai Ringwald, Gunnar Lemmer, Alexandra Philipsen, Susanne Meinert, Hannah Lemke, Lena Waltemate, Katharina Thiel, Michael Franz, Ulrich W. Preuss, Florian G. Metzger, Arne Nagels, Igor Nenadic, Udo Dannlowski, Tilo Kircher, Axel Krug
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between dimensional psychopathological syndromes and neurocognitive functions, particularly across major psychiatric disorders. The results showed that negative syndrome, positive formal thought disorder, and paranoid-hallucinatory syndrome were associated with neurocognition in an illness state-dependent manner, while depression and increased appetite only showed weak associations.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Sean R. McWhinney, Christoph Abe, Martin Alda, Francesco Benedetti, Erlend Boen, Caterina del Mar Bonnin, Tiana Borgers, Katharina Brosch, Erick J. Canales-Rodriguez, Dara M. Cannon, Udo Dannlowski, Ana M. Diaz-Zuluaga, Lorielle M. F. Dietze, Torbjorn Elvsashagen, Lisa T. Eyler, Janice M. Fullerton, Jose M. Goikolea, Janik Goltermann, Dominik Grotegerd, Bartholomeus C. M. Haarman, Tim Hahn, Fleur M. Howells, Martin Ingvar, Neda Jahanshad, Tilo T. J. Kircher, Axel Krug, Rayus T. Kuplicki, Mikael Landen, Hannah Lemke, Benny Liberg, Carlos Lopez-Jaramillo, Ulrik F. Malt, Fiona M. Martyn, Elena Mazza, Colm McDonald, Genevieve McPhilemy, Sandra Meier, Susanne Meinert, Tina Meller, Elisa M. T. Melloni, Philip B. Mitchell, Leila Nabulsi, Igor Nenadic, Nils Opel, Roel A. Ophoff, Bronwyn J. Overs, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Julian A. Pineda-Zapata, Edith Pomarol-Clotet, Joaquim Radua, Jonathan Repple, Maike Richter, Kai G. Ringwald, Gloria Roberts, Alex Ross, Raymond Salvador, Jonathan Savitz, Simon Schmitt, Peter R. Schofield, Kang Sim, Dan J. Stein, Frederike Stein, Henk S. Temmingh, Katharina Thiel, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Neeltje E. M. van Haren, Cristian Vargas, Eduard Vieta, Annabel Vreeker, Lena Waltemate, Lakshmi N. Yatham, Christopher R. K. Ching, Ole A. Andreassen, Paul M. Thompson, Tomas Hajek
Summary: This study found that body mass index (BMI) and bipolar disorder (BD) have an impact on brain structure, particularly in cortical thickness. Both BMI and BD negatively affect the same brain regions, and BMI has a greater effect on brain alterations in individuals with BD. It is important to assess the neuroanatomical changes in BD caused by BMI and the effects of psychiatric medications on the brain.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Edward Ody, Benjamin Straube, Yifei He, Tilo Kircher
Summary: Efference copy-based forward model mechanisms help distinguish between self-generated and externally-generated sensory consequences. This study examined visual stimuli following active and passive button presses and found that there was suppression of early visual responses in the active condition, and this suppression was correlated with the suppression of the visual P2 component. These findings support the idea of efference copy-based forward model predictions in the visual sensory modality.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lisa Rosenblum, Alexander Kress, B. Ezgi Arikan, Benjamin Straube, Frank Bremmer
Summary: Self-motion induces sensory signals for determining travel distance. Predictive coding attenuates self-induced sensory responses, while task relevance reverses the attenuating effect of prediction. This fMRI study investigated the modulation of visual and tactile self-motion processing by prediction and task demands. Results showed enhancement in early visual areas and suppression in higher order areas of the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) during active as compared to passive trials, suggesting IPL as a comparator of sensory self-motion signals and predictions thereof.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Amke Mueller, Stefan Konigorski, Carina Meissner, Tahmine Fadai, Claire V. Warren, Irina Falkenberg, Tilo Kircher, Yvonne Nestoriuc
Summary: The study aims to assess the effectiveness of open-label placebo (OLP) treatment in reducing antidepressant discontinuation symptoms through a series of N-of-1 trials. The trials will be conducted on patients with fully remitted major depressive disorder, and the primary outcome will be self-reported discontinuation symptoms and expectations, as well as mood.
Article
Neurosciences
Edward Ody, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube, Yifei He
Summary: This study investigated the pre-movement electroencephalography (EEG) activity of active and passive movements and found evidence that it may represent action-feedback prediction in which information about the subsequent sensory outcome is encoded. The results showed distinct neural markers for visual and auditory conditions, and multivariate pattern analysis revealed decoding accuracies for active and passive movements. The study highlights the importance of pre-movement EEG activity in predicting action feedback.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Christina V. Schmitter, Konstantin Kufer, Olaf Steinstraeter, Jens Sommer, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube
Summary: Through the study of behavioral and neural correlates of temporal recalibration, it was found that the hippocampus plays an important role in encoding and retrieving temporal stimulus associations, the activation in the cerebellum may reflect the retention of multiple representations of temporal stimulus associations, and sensorimotor predictions modulate recalibration-related processes, explaining the perceptual advantage of sensorimotor versus intersensory temporal recalibration.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Rasmus Schuelke, Christina V. Schmitter, Benjamin Straube
Summary: This study investigated the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on causality perception among patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD). The results showed that tDCS, especially when applied to the right parietal region, increased the influence of spatial stimulus characteristics on patients' causality perception.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Yann Quide, Oliver J. Watkeys, Emiliana Tonini, Dominik Grotegerd, Udo Dannlowski, Igor Nenadic, Tilo Kircher, Axel Krug, Tim Hahn, Susanne Meinert, Janik Goltermann, Marius Gruber, Frederike Stein, Katharina Brosch, Adrian Wroblewski, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Paula Usemann, Benjamin Straube, Nina Alexander, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Jochen Bauer, Nils R. Winter, Lukas Fisch, Katharina Dohm, Wulf Roessler, Lukasz Smigielski, Pamela DeRosse, Ashley Moyett, Josselin Houenou, Marion Leboyer, James Gilleen, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Paul M. Thompson, Andre Aleman, Gemma Modinos, Melissa J. Green
Summary: The present study investigated the relationship between schizotypy and childhood trauma exposure on brain morphological differences. The results showed that higher levels of schizotypy were associated with thicker or thinner cortical regions in individuals exposed to higher levels of childhood trauma. This suggests that the effects of schizotypy on brain regions critical for higher cognitive processes may be enhanced in those with a history of significant trauma.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Tim Hahn, Nils R. Winter, Erfan Nozari, Jan Ernsting, Susanne Meinert, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Katharina Dohm, Jochen Bauer, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Frederike Stein, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Katharina Brosch, Marco Mauritz, Marius Gruber, Jonathan Repple, Tobias Kaufmann, Axel Krug, Igor Nenadic, Tilo Kircher, Udo Dannlowski, Birgit Derntl
Summary: This study investigates the impact of parenthood on brain controllability and finds that parenthood can counteract the effects of aging on brain controllability, especially in mothers.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
