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Neurosciences
Hailin Ai, Yuwei Cui, Nihong Chen
Summary: The human ability to process multiple items simultaneously is affected by whether those items are represented by distinct neural populations. In this study, using fMRI, we found that adding a second face to occupy both visual hemifields increased the neural response, but adding more faces within the same visual field decreased the response. This pattern was observed in various regions of the brain involved in visual processing. A similar trend was also found in behavior, indicating a limited perceptual bandwidth for processing multiple faces simultaneously. These findings suggest that adding signals with nonoverlapping cortical representation enhances perception, while adding signals that compete for representation resources impairs perception.
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Neurosciences
Bertrand Beffara, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Suliann Ben Hamed, C. Nico Boehler, Leonardo Chelazzi, Elisa Santandrea, Emiliano Macaluso
Summary: This study measured occipital activity in different spatial regions during the processing of visual displays and found that goal-directed attention and salience jointly modulate activity distribution in the occipital cortex, with involvement of multiple functional paths and interactions.
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Neurosciences
Bertrand Beffara, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Suliann Ben Hamed, C. Nico Boehler, Leonardo Chelazzi, Elisa Santandrea, Emiliano Macaluso
Summary: The study found that statistical regularities and salience signals both modulate occipital activity in a spatially specific manner, but their integration into attentional processing priorities relies on dissociable brain mechanisms.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Sai Sun, Chuhua Cai, Rongjun Yu
Summary: When individuals make value-based decisions, expected rewards play a major role in determining response times. Risk, on the other hand, affects attention deployment and is dependent on the magnitude of potential rewards and the level of risk. The processing of mean rewards activates the striatum, which is connected to the amygdala and superior frontal gyrus, while risk processing activates the anterior insula, which is connected to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and anterior midcingulate cortex. These findings provide insights into how attention, motivation, and brain networks are modulated by reward and risk in non-decision contexts.
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Neurosciences
Torge Dellert, Miriam Mueller-Bardorff, Insa Schlossmacher, Michael Pitts, David Hofmann, Maximilian Bruchmann, Thomas Straube
Summary: Conscious visual perception is associated with early processing in stimulus-specific sensory brain areas and occipitotemporal processes, while task-related processes lead to widespread brain activations, including late frontoparietal activity.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Ayumu Yamashita, David Rothlein, Aaron Kucyi, Eve M. Valera, Michael Esterman
Summary: The study identified two dominant brain states during a sustained attention task, one behaviorally optimal but more prone to mind wandering, and the other behaviorally suboptimal and unstable. Individuals with ADHD spent more time in the suboptimal state, while healthy controls tended to be in the optimal state. Motivation could overcome the suboptimal behavior associated with the second state.
Article
Neurosciences
Michaela Klimova, Ilona M. Bloem, Sam Ling
Summary: Attention and divisive normalization both contribute to making visual processing more efficient. Attention selectively increases neural gain of relevant information, while divisive normalization improves efficiency by suppressing responses to homogeneous inputs and highlighting salient boundaries. Research suggests that attention does not alter the qualitative properties of normalization.
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Pinar Demirayak, Gopikrishna Deshpande, Kristina Visscher
Summary: The emergence of ultra-high field MRI scanners has enabled researchers to study the human brain in detail. This non-invasive technique allows for the observation of differences between cortical layers, and layer-specific fMRI can distinguish feedback and feedforward pathways, thus contributing to the understanding of brain function.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Daniel Feuerriegel, Rufin Vogels, Gyula Kovacs
Summary: Recent research has identified confounding factors that may impact the true effects of expectation suppression, casting doubt on its findings across different experimental contexts. However, evidence for genuine expectation suppression was found in specific statistical learning designs.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Won-Mo Jung, In-Seon Lee, Ye-Seul Lee, Yeonhee Ryu, Hi-Joon Park, Younbyoung Chae
Summary: This study found that bodily sensations in the chest area were selectively associated with fear perception and altering external inferences inhibited the perception of fearful faces.
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Behavioral Sciences
Luis A. Llamas-Alonso, Fernando A. Barrios, Andres A. Gonzalez-Garrido, Julieta Ramos-Loyo
Summary: The modulation of reflex responses and attention by emotional facial expressions was explored in this study. Happy and angry faces recruited different brain regions related to visual processing and oculomotor control. The processing of emotional facial expressions occurred outside of the focus of attention, and angry faces recruited a wider brain network for inhibiting automatic behavior and reorienting attention.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Na Chen, Xiaoyu Liu, Yanan Zhai, Xueyan Hu
Summary: Research on the social presence of robots and constructed a theoretical model with five dimensions: presence, attention distribution, interactive expression and information understanding, perceived emotional interdependence, and interaction behaviour perception. Developed a valid questionnaire scale and provided a theoretical basis for the study of robot social presence and human-robot collaboration.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Genetics & Heredity
Nico Bast, Luke Mason, Christine Ecker, Sarah Baumeister, Tobias Banaschewski, Emily J. H. Jones, Declan G. M. Murphy, Jan Buitelaar, Eva P. Loth, Gahan M. Pandina, Christine M. Freitag
Summary: The study investigates the relationship between altered functioning of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system (LC-NE) and attenuated social attention in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The findings suggest that LC-NE activity modulates sensory salience processing and contributes to the differences in social attention observed in ASD. This study provides valuable insights into the underlying mechanisms of ASD.
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Neurosciences
Mareike Bayer, Oksana Berhe, Isabel Dziobek, Tom Johnstone
Summary: Recent research suggests that personal relevance of faces can be decoded within 100 ms, with representations starting prior to structural encoding in the visual cortex and involving prefrontal and midline regions. The study highlights the importance of updating models of face perception to include rapid detection of personal relevance in cortical circuitry.
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Neurosciences
Tyler J. Adkins, Taraz G. Lee
Summary: The study found that people perform actions more quickly and accurately when offered a large reward, which may enhance performance by improving neural representations of actions used in motor planning.
Article
Neurosciences
Iris Ikink, Jan B. Engelmann, Wouter van den Bos, Karin Roelofs, Bernd Figner
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jan B. Engelmann, Friederike Meyer, Christian C. Ruff, Ernst Fehr
Review
Psychiatry
Monja Hoven, Mael Lebreton, Jan B. Engelmann, Damiaan Denys, Judy Luigjes, Ruth J. van Holst
TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY
(2019)
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jan B. Engelmann, Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Basil Schmid, Ernst Fehr
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2020)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Chih-Chung Ting, Stefano Palminteri, Jan B. Engelmann, Mael Lebreton
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Michele Gelfand, Junhui Wu, Jered Abernathy, Charity S. Akotia, Alisher Aldashev, Per A. Andersson, Giulia Andrighetto, Adote Anum, Gizem Arikan, Zeynep Aycan, Fatemeh Bagherian, Davide Barrera, Dana Basnight-Brown, Birzhan Batkeyev, Anabel Belaus, Elizaveta Berezina, Marie Bjornstjerna, Sheyla Blumen, Pawel Boski, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, Inna Bovina, Bui Thi Thu Huyen, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Dorde Cekrlija, Hoon-Seok Choi, Carlos C. Contreras-Ibanez, Rui Costa-Lopes, Micheal de Barra, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Angela Dorrough, Nikolay Dvoryanchikov, Anja Eller, Jan B. Engelmann, Hyun Euh, Xia Fang, Susann Fiedler, Olivia A. Foster-Gimbel, Marta Fulop, Ragna B. Gardarsdottir, C. M. Hew D. Gill, Andreas Glockner, Sylvie Graf, Ani Grigoryan, Vladimir Gritskov, Katarzyna Growiec, Peter Halama, Andree Hartanto, Tim Hopthrow, Martina Hrebickova, Dzintra Ilisko, Hirotaka Imada, Hansika Kapoor, Kerry Kawakami, Narine Khachatryan, Natalia Kharchenko, Ninetta Khoury, Toko Kiyonari, Michal Kohut, Le Thuy Linh, Lisa M. Leslie, Yang Li, Norman P. Li, Zhuo Li, Kadi Liik, Angela T. Maitner, Bernardo Manhique, Harry Manley, Imed Medhioub, Sari Mentser, Linda Mohammed, Pegah Nejat, Orlando Nipassa, Ravit Nussinson, Nneoma G. Onyedire, Ike E. Onyishi, Seniha Ozden, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Lorena R. Perez-Floriano, Minna S. Persson, Mpho Pheko, Anna-Maija Pirttila-Backman, Marianna Pogosyan, Jana Raver, Cecilia Reyna, Ricardo Borges Rodrigues, Sara Romano, Pedro P. Romero, Inari Sakki, Alvaro San Martin, Sara Sherbaji, Hiroshi Shimizu, Brent Simpson, Erna Szabo, Kosuke Takemura, Hassan Tieffi, Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira, Napoj Thanomkul, Habib Tiliouine, Giovanni A. Travaglino, Yannis Tsirbas, Richard Wan, Sita Widodo, Rizqy Zein, Qing-peng Zhang, Lina Zirganou-Kazolea, Paul A. M. Van Lange
Summary: This study surveyed nearly 23,000 students and non-students from 57 countries, finding a universal negative relation between appropriateness ratings of norm violations and responses in the form of confrontation, social ostracism, and gossip. The study also noted country variation in the appropriateness of sanctions for norm violations, with gossip being rated as more appropriate in countries where physical confrontation and social ostracism are less favored.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Michele Gelfand, Junhui Wu, Jered Abernathy, Charity S. Akotia, Alisher Aldashev, Per A. Andersson, Giulia Andrighetto, Adote Anum, Gizem Arikan, Zeynep Aycan, Fatemeh Bagherian, Davide Barrera, Dana Basnight-Brown, Birzhan Batkeyev, Anabel Belaus, Elizaveta Berezina, Marie Bjornstjerna, Sheyla Blumen, Pawel Boski, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, Inna Bovina, Bui Thi Thu Huyen, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Dorde Cekrlija, Hoon-Seok Choi, Carlos C. Contreras-Ibanez, Rui Costa-Lopes, Micheal de Barra, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Angela Dorrough, Nikolay Dvoryanchikov, Anja Eller, Jan B. Engelmann, Hyun Euh, Xia Fang, Susann Fiedler, Olivia A. Foster-Gimbel, Marta Fulop, Ragna B. Gardarsdottir, C. M. Hew D. Gill, Andreas Glockner, Sylvie Graf, Ani Grigoryan, Vladimir Gritskov, Katarzyna Growiec, Peter Halama, Andree Hartanto, Tim Hopthrow, Martina Hrebickova, Dzintra Ilisko, Hirotaka Imada, Hansika Kapoor, Kerry Kawakami, Narine Khachatryan, Natalia Kharchenko, Ninetta Khoury, Toko Kiyonari, Michal Kohut, Le Thuy Linh, Lisa M. Leslie, Yang Li, Norman P. Li, Zhuo Li, Kadi Liik, Angela T. Maitner, Bernardo Manhique, Harry Manley, Imed Medhioub, Sari Mentser, Linda Mohammed, Pegah Nejat, Orlando Nipassa, Ravit Nussinson, Nneoma G. Onyedire, Ike E. Onyishi, Seniha Ozden, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Lorena R. Perez-Floriano, Minna S. Persson, Mpho Pheko, Anna-Maija Pirttila-Backman, Marianna Pogosyan, Jana Raver, Cecilia Reyna, Ricardo Borges Rodrigues, Sara Romano, Pedro P. Romero, Inari Sakki, Alvaro San Martin, Sara Sherbaji, Hiroshi Shimizu, Brent Simpson, Erna Szabo, Kosuke Takemura, Hassan Tieffi, Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira, Napoj Thanomkul, Habib Tiliouine, Giovanni A. Travaglino, Yannis Tsirbas, Richard Wan, Sita Widodo, Rizqy Zein, Qing-peng Zhang, Lina Zirganou-Kazolea, Paul A. M. Van Lange
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Psychology
Chih-Chung Ting, Stefano Palminteri, Mael Lebreton, Jan B. Engelmann
Summary: The study investigated the effects of incidental anxiety on instrumental reinforcement learning and found that the effects seem limited to a small increase in post-learning performance. Individuals tend to give more weight to positive outcomes than negative outcomes, and experience the omission of loss as a gain. However, isolating specific computational effects of anxiety on learning proved to be challenging.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Niels J. Van Doesum, Ryan O. Murphy, Marcello Gallucci, Efrat Aharonov-Majar, Ursula Athenstaedt, Wing Tung Au, Liying Bai, Robert Boehm, Inna Bovina, Nancy R. Buchan, Xiao-Ping Chen, Kitty B. Dumont, Jan B. Engelmann, Kimmo Eriksson, Hyun Euh, Susann Fiedler, Justin Friesen, Simon Gaechter, Camilo Garcia, Roberto Gonzalez, Sylvie Graf, Katarzyna Growiec, Serge Guimond, Martina Hrebickova, Elizabeth Immer-Bernold, Jeff Joireman, Gokhan Karagonlar, Kerry Kawakami, Toko Kiyonari, Yu Kou, D. Michael Kuhlman, Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, Siugmin Lay, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Norman P. Li, Yang Li, Boris Maciejovsky, Zoi Manesi, Ali Mashuri, Aurelia Mok, Karin S. Moser, Ladislav Motak, Adrian Netedu, Chandrasekhar Pammi, Michael J. Platow, Karolina Raczka-Winkler, Christopher P. Reinders Folmer, Cecilia Reyna, Angelo Romano, Shaul Shalvi, Claudia Simao, Adam W. Stivers, Pontus Strimling, Yannis Tsirbas, Sonja Utz, Leander van der Meij, Sven Waldzus, Yiwen Wang, Bernd Weber, Ori Weisel, Tim Wildschut, Fabian Winter, Junhui Wu, Jose C. Yong, Paul A. M. Van Lange
Summary: The study found significant differences in social mindfulness across different countries, with countries performing better in environmental protection generally displaying higher levels of social mindfulness. These findings contribute to the literature on prosociality by emphasizing everyday cooperation focused on benevolence rather than material benefits.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Economics
Alejandro Hirmas, Jan B. Engelmann
Summary: In this experiment, we investigated the causal impact of attention on risky decisions by manipulating how information can be sampled. The results partially confirmed our hypotheses that longer exposure to an attribute increases its weight on the decision process. Attention did not affect choice frequency, but had specific effects on the decision weights of our Random Utility Model. Furthermore, impulsiveness moderated the relationship between attention and choice, with participants high in impulsiveness being more sensitive to attribute values when gains were presented for longer.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Monja Hoven, Alejandro Hirmas, Jan Engelmann, Ruth J. Van Holst
Summary: This study investigated the confidence levels of patients with Gambling Disorder (GD) in risky choices with varying monetary stakes, compared to healthy controls. The results showed that GD patients were more confident in risky choices, while their confidence decreased more significantly with higher gain values in certain choices, indicating a stronger fear of missing out on potential gains.
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Li-Ang Chang, Konstantinos Armaos, Lotte Warns, Ava Q. Ma de Sousa, Femke Paauwe, Christin Scholz, Jan B. Engelmann
Summary: Prior studies in Social Neuroeconomics have found that activation in social cognition regions occurs during interactive economic games, indicating the presence of mentalizing during economic decision-making. Mentalizing happens both when actively participating in the game and when passively observing others' interactions. In this study, researchers designed a new version of the classic false-belief task (FBT) to examine activation patterns during economic games compared to the classic FBT. Results showed significant overlap in activation patterns in specific brain regions during belief formation and belief inference for both types of tasks. Furthermore, connectivity analyses revealed different patterns of interconnectivity between brain regions during belief formation and belief inference. These findings suggest that mentalizing is associated with activation and connectivity in central nodes of the social cognition network, regardless of the specific task type.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Niels J. Van Doesum, Ryan O. Murphy, Marcello Gallucci, Efrat Aharonov-Majar, Ursula Athenstaedt, Wing Tung Au, Liying Bai, Robert Bohm, Inna Bovina, Nancy R. Buchan, Xiao-Ping Chen, Kitty B. Dumont, Jan B. Engelmann, Kimmo Eriksson, Hyun Euh, Susann Fiedler, Justin Friesen, Simon Gachter, Camilo Garcia, Roberto Gonzalez, Sylvie Graf, Katarzyna Growiec, Serge Guimond, Martina Hrebickova, Elizabeth Immer-Bernold, Jeff Joireman, Gokhan Karagonlar, Kerry Kawakami, Toko Kiyonari, Yu Kou, Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, Siugmin Lay, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Norman P. Li, Yang Li, Boris Maciejovsky, Zoi Manesi, Ali Mashuri, Aurelia Mok, Karin S. Moser, Ladislav Motak, Adrian Netedu, Michael J. Platow, Karolina Raczka-Winkler, Christopher P. Reinders Folmer, Cecilia Reyna, Angelo Romano, Shaul Shalvi, Claudia Simao, Adam W. Stivers, Pontus Strimling, Yannis Tsirbas, Sonja Utz, Leander van der Meij, Sven Waldzus, Yiwen Wang, Bernd Weber, Ori Weisel, Tim Wildschut, Fabian Winter, Junhui Wu, Jose C. Yong, Paul A. M. Van Lange
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Niels J. Van Doesum, Ryan O. Murphy, Marcello Gallucci, Efrat Aharonov-Majar, Ursula Athenstaedt, Wing Tung Au, Liying Bai, Robert Boehm, Inna Bovina, Nancy R. Buchan, Xiao-Ping Chen, Kitty B. Dumont, Jan B. Engelmann, Kimmo Eriksson, Hyun Euh, Susann Fiedler, Justin Friesen, Simon Gaechter, Camilo Garcia, Roberto Gonzalez, Sylvie Graf, Katarzyna Growiec, Serge Guimond, Martina Hrebickova, Elizabeth Immer-Bernold, Jeff Joireman, Gokhan Karagonlar, Kerry Kawakami, Toko Kiyonari, Yu Kou, D. Michael Kuhlman, Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, Siugmin Lay, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Norman P. Li, Yang Li, Boris Maciejovsky, Zoi Manesi, Ali Mashuri, Aurelia Mok, Karin S. Moser, Ladislav Motak, Adrian Netedu, Chandrasekhar Pammi, Michael J. Platow, Karolina Raczka-Winkler, Christopher P. Reinders Folmer, Cecilia Reyna, Angelo Romano, Shaul Shalvi, Claudia Simao, Adam W. Stivers, Pontus Strimling, Yannis Tsirbas, Sonja Utz, Leander van der Meij, Sven Waldzus, Yiwen Wang, Bernd Weber, Ori Weisel, Tim Wildschut, Fabian Winter, Junhui Wu, Jose C. Yong, Paul A. M. Van Lange
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Caitlin A. Stamatis, Jan B. Engelmann, Christiane Ziegler, Katharina Domschke, Gregor Hasler, Kiara R. Timpano
ANXIETY STRESS AND COPING
(2020)