A5048496931- Cultural Differences and Values
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Multisensory perception and integration
Chinese Institute for Brain Research
2016-2025
Peking University
2016-2025
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
2014-2025
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
2020
Beijing City University
2019
King University
2019
Apollo Instruments (United States)
2010-2014
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2013-2014
Center for Life Sciences
2013
Nanyang Technological University
2012
The pain matrix including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) mediates not only first person experience but also empathy for others9 pain. It remains unknown, however, whether empathic neural responses of are modulated by racial in-group/out-group relationship. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we demonstrate that, whereas painful stimulations applied to in-group faces induced increased activations in ACC and inferior frontal/insula both Caucasians Chinese, response decreased...
Humans observe various peoples' social suffering throughout their lives, but it is unknown whether the same brain mechanisms respond to people we are close and strangers' suffering. To address this question, had participant's complete functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while observing a friend stranger experience exclusion. Observing friend's exclusion activated affective pain regions associated with direct (i.e. firsthand) of [dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) insula],...
Significance Despite the fact that social norms are a fundamental aspect of human nature, there has been little research on how norm violations detected at neurobiological level. Combining new violation paradigm with cross-cultural electroencephalography, we show consistent negative deflection event-related potential around 400 ms (N400) over central and parietal regions for both Americans Chinese in detecting violations. However, N400 frontal temporal was evident only among Chinese,...
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from social behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behavior with recommendations of epidemiologists public experts. Here we discuss evidence selection research topics relevant pandemics, including work navigating threats, cultural influences behaviour, science communication, moral...
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess whether self-construal priming can change adults' self-awareness induced during face perception. After reading essays containing independent or interdependent pronouns (e.g., I we), participants were scanned while judging the head orientation of images showing their own and familiar faces. Neural activity in right middle frontal cortex was greater when viewed rather than faces, this difference larger after priming. The increased for...
Human adults usually respond faster to their own faces rather than those of others. We tested the hypothesis that an implicit positive association (IPA) with self mediates self-advantage in face recognition through 4 experiments. Using a self-concept threat (SCT) priming associated negative personal traits and led weakened IPA self, we found self-face advantage face-recognition task required identification orientation was eliminated by SCT priming. Moreover, effect on evident only left-hand...
Where in the brain are self and significant others (e.g. mother) represented? Neuroscientists have traced self‐representation to ventral medial prefrontal cortex for both Westerners East Asians. However, were represented alongside same area Asians but not Westerners. In this experiment, Westernized bicultural Chinese scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing trait judgments that referenced self, mother, or a non‐identified person (NIP) after Western culture...
Western cultures encourage self-construals independent of social contexts, whereas East Asian foster interdependent that rely on how others perceive the self. How are culturally specific mediated by human brain? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we monitored neural responses from adults in (Chinese) and (Danish) cultural contexts during judgments social, mental physical attributes themselves public figures to assess influences self-referential processing personal different...
Increasing neuroimaging evidence suggests an association between impulsive decision-making behavior and task-related brain activity. However, the relationship impulsivity in resting-state activity remains unknown. To address this issue, we used functional MRI to record from human adults during a resting state delay discounting task (DDT) that requires choosing immediate smaller reward larger delayed reward. In experiment I, identified four DDT-related networks. The money network (the...
Recent brain imaging research has revealed oxytocin (OT) effects on an individual's activity during social interaction but tells little about whether and how OT modulates the coherence of inter-brain related to two individuals' coordination behavior. We developed a new real-time game that required individuals dyad synchronize with partner (coordination task) or computer (control by counting in mind rhythmically. Electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded simultaneously from examine synchrony...
Christianity strongly encourages its believers to surrender God and judge the self from God's perspective. We used functional MRI assess whether this religious belief is associated with neural correlates of self-referential processing distinct that non-religious people. Non-religious Christian participants were scanned while performing tasks personal-trait judgments regarding or public persons. found that, self-judgment was linked better memory traits related than others, induced increased...