Ventromedial prefrontal damage reduces mind-wandering and biases its temporal focus.

abstract：:We adopted a cultural neuroscience approach to the investigation of self-enhancement. Western and Eastern participants made self-referent judgments on positive and negative traits while we recorded their electroencephalography signals. At the judgmental level, we assessed trait endorsement (judgments of traits self-de...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Cai H,Wu L,Shi Y,Gu R,Sedikides C

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affect labeling (putting feelings into words) is a form of incidental emotion regulation that could underpin some benefits of expressive writing (i.e. writing about negative experiences). Here, we show that neural responses during affect labeling predicted changes in psychological and physical well-being outcome measu...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Memarian N,Torre JB,Haltom KE,Stanton AL,Lieberman MD

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex phenotype of Huntington's disease (HD) encompasses motor, psychiatric and cognitive dysfunctions, including early impairments in emotion recognition. In this first functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated emotion-processing deficits in 14 manifest HD patients and matched controls. An em...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Dogan I,Saß C,Mirzazade S,Kleiman A,Werner CJ,Pohl A,Schiefer J,Binkofski F,Schulz JB,Shah NJ,Reetz K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated brain activity elicited by emotional adjectives during silent reading without specific processing instructions. Fifteen healthy volunteers were asked to read a set of randomly presented high-arousing emotional (pleasant and unpleasant) ...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Herbert C,Ethofer T,Anders S,Junghofer M,Wildgruber D,Grodd W,Kissler J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with antisocial behavior place a great physical and economic burden on society. Deficits in emotional processing have been recognized as a fundamental cause of antisocial behavior. Emerging evidence also highlights a significant contribution of attention allocation deficits to such behavior. A comprehensiv...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Aoki Y,Inokuchi R,Nakao T,Yamasue H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress has a critical impact on affective and cognitive processing. Based on rodent data suggesting that endocannabinoid signaling via CB1 receptors serves as an emotional buffer, we hypothesized that a common variant of the gene coding for the CB1 receptor modulates affective processing under stress (CNR1; rs1049353 ...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Wirz L,Reuter M,Felten A,Schwabe L

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of human fear learning suggest that a reliable discrimination between safe and threatening stimuli is important for survival and mental health. In the current study, we applied the subsequent memory paradigm in order to identify neurophysiological correlates of successful threat and safety learning. We recorde...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Wiemer J,Leimeister F,Pauli P

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parenting styles are robust predictors of offspring outcomes, yet little is known about their neural underpinnings. In this study, 44 parent-adolescent dyads (Mage of adolescent = 12.9) completed a laboratory guessing task while EEG was continuously recorded. In the task, each pair member received feedback about their...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Levinson AR,Speed BC,Nelson B,Bress JN,Hajcak G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired prosopagnosia is characterized by a deficit in face recognition due to diverse brain lesions, but interestingly most prosopagnosic patients suffering from posterior lesions use the mouth instead of the eyes for face identification. Whether this bias is present for the recognition of facial expressions of emot...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Fiset D,Blais C,Royer J,Richoz AR,Dugas G,Caldara R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronous movement is a key component of social behaviour in several species including humans. Recent theories have suggested a link between interpersonal synchrony of brain oscillations and interpersonal movement synchrony. The present study investigated this link. Using transcranial alternating current stimulation...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Novembre G,Knoblich G,Dunne L,Keller PE

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-control refers to the capacity to override or alter a predominant response tendency. The current experiment tested the hypothesis that exercising self-control temporarily increases approach motivation, as revealed by patterns of electrical activity in the prefrontal cortex. Participants completed a writing task t...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Schmeichel BJ,Crowell A,Harmon-Jones E

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies using fictional moral dilemmas indicate that both automatic emotional processes and controlled cognitive processes contribute to moral judgments. However, not much is known about how people process socio-normative violations that are more common to their everyday life nor the time-course of these ...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Leuthold H,Kunkel A,Mackenzie IG,Filik R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social closeness is a potent moderator of vicarious affect and specifically vicarious embarrassment. The neural pathways of how social closeness to another person affects our experience of vicarious embarrassment for the other's public flaws, failures and norm violations are yet unknown. To bridge this gap, we examine...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Müller-Pinzler L,Rademacher L,Paulus FM,Krach S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural correlates involved in the formation of negative impression from face were investigated using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging and a partial conditioning paradigm. Eighteen normal volunteers underwent imaging while they viewed the faces of two unfamiliar individuals: one individual's face was...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Iidaka T,Harada T,Sadato N

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge about interactions between reward and negative processing is rudimentary. Here, we employed functional MRI to probe how potential reward signaled by advance cues alters aversive distractor processing during perception. Behaviorally, the influence of aversive stimuli on task performance was reduced during the...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Padmala S,Sirbu M,Pessoa L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperament characterized by vigilance to novelty, sensitivity to approach-withdrawal cues and social reticence in childhood, is associated with risk for anxiety in adolescence. Independent studies link reward hyper-responsivity to BI, adolescent anxiety and dopamine gene variants. This e...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Pérez-Edgar K,Hardee JE,Guyer AE,Benson BE,Nelson EE,Gorodetsky E,Goldman D,Fox NA,Pine DS,Ernst M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural use of language involves at least two individuals. Some studies have focused on the interaction between senders in communicative situations and how the knowledge about the speaker can bias language comprehension. However, the mere effect of a face as social context on language processing remains unknown. In th...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Hernández-Gutiérrez D,Muñoz F,Sánchez-García J,Sommer W,Abdel Rahman R,Casado P,Jiménez-Ortega L,Espuny J,Fondevila S,Martín-Loeches M

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental effort is a limited resource which must be invested to perform mental tasks. The amount of mental effort investment that an individual experiences during task performance can be measured afterwards with the help of self-rating scales. Earlier research suggests that integration of information about somatic state...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Otto T,Zijlstra FR,Goebel R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual working memory (VWM) capacity is affected by motivational influences; however, little is known about how reward-related brain activities facilitate the VWM systems. To investigate the dynamic relationship between VWM- and reward-related brain activities, we conducted time-frequency analyses using electroencepha...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Kawasaki M,Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study emotional reactions to music, it is important to consider the temporal dynamics of both affective responses and underlying brain activity. Here, we investigated emotions induced by music using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with a data-driven approach based on intersubject correlations (ISC). Th...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Trost W,Frühholz S,Cochrane T,Cojan Y,Vuilleumier P

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety during expectation of performance-related situations is an important feature of the psychopathology of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The neural basis of anticipatory anxiety in SAD has not been investigated in controlled studies. The current study used functional magnetic resonance im...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Boehme S,Ritter V,Tefikow S,Stangier U,Strauss B,Miltner WH,Straube T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent symptom provocation studies that compared patients suffering from dental phobia with healthy controls identified hyperactivation of basal ganglia structures, but none have assessed striatal functional connectivity. We reanalyzed data from a previous functional magnetic resonance imaging study on dental phobia. ...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Scharmüller W,Leutgeb V,Schöngaßner F,Hermann A,Stark R,Schienle A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial attention has been argued to be adaptive by enhancing the processing of visual stimuli within the 'spotlight of attention'. We previously reported that crude threat cues (backward masked fearful faces) facilitate spatial attention through a network of brain regions consisting of the amygdala, anterior cingulat...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Carlson JM,Reinke KS,LaMontagne PJ,Habib R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the effects of media violence exposure has shown robust associations among violent media exposure, increased aggressive behavior, and decreased empathy. Preliminary research indicates that frequent players of violent video games may have differences in emotional and cognitive processes compared to infreque...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Stockdale L,Morrison RG,Palumbo R,Garbarino J,Silton RL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong evidence links the 5-HTTLPR genotype to the modulation of amygdala reactivity during fear conditioning, which is considered to convey the increased vulnerability for anxiety disorders in s-allele carriers. In addition to amygdala reactivity, the 5-HTTLPR has been shown to be related to alterations in structural...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Klucken T,Schweckendiek J,Blecker C,Walter B,Kuepper Y,Hennig J,Stark R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence indicates that mothers and non-mothers show different neurocognitive responses to infant stimuli. This study investigated mothers' psychophysiological, cognitive and neuronal responses to emotional infant stimuli. A total of 35 mothers with four months old infants and 18 control women without young c...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Bjertrup A,Friis N,Væver M,Miskowiak K

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Worry is reliably associated with overactive action-monitoring processes as measured by the error-related negativity (ERN). However, worry is not associated with error-related behavioral adjustments which are typically used to infer increased cognitive control following errors. We hypothesized that this disconnect bet...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Moran TP,Bernat EM,Aviyente S,Schroder HS,Moser JS

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression has been reliably associated with abnormalities in the neural representation of reward and loss. However, most studies have focused on monetary incentives; fewer studies have considered neural representation of social incentives. A direct comparison of non-social and social incentives within the same study ...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： He Z,Zhang D,Muhlert N,Elliott R

更新日期：2019-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate brain processes associated with the inhibition of socially undesirable speech. It is tested whether the inhibition of undesirable speech is solely related to brain areas associated with classical stop signal tasks or rather also involves brain...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Severens E,Kühn S,Hartsuiker RJ,Brass M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotion dysregulation (ED) reflects deficits in understanding and managing negative emotions and may serve as a transdiagnostic mechanism of risk for trauma-related psychiatric disorders. Therefore, understanding neurobiological substrates of ED in traumatized individuals is critical. The present study examined associ...

journal_title：Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

authors： Powers A,Stevens JS,van Rooij SJH,Ely TD,Fani N,Jovanovic T,Ressler KJ,Bradley B

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00