A5057548662- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2013-2024
The University of Texas at Austin
2009-2013
University of California, Davis
2009
Stanford University
2007
Summary Data analysis workflows in many scientific domains have become increasingly complex and flexible. To assess the impact of this flexibility on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) results, same dataset was independently analyzed by 70 teams, testing nine ex-ante hypotheses. The analytic approaches is exemplified fact that no two teams chose identical to analyze data. This resulted sizeable variation hypothesis test even for whose statistical maps were highly correlated at...
Empirical investigations of the relation frontal lobe function to self-evaluation have mostly examined evaluation abstract qualities in self versus other people. The present research furthers our understanding involvement by examining two processes that not been widely studied neuroscientists: on-line self-evaluations and correction systematic judgment errors influence self-evaluation. Although people evaluate their qualities, it is equally important perform evaluations assess success...
We often encounter setbacks while pursuing our goals. Success requires that we cope with these negative outcomes and choose to persist in spite of them. For example, learners may be more likely continue a course after failing an assessment if they control their emotional reactions the setback study harder. However, ability effectively emotion inherent such can compromised by acute stress present daily life (e.g., struggles household), which subsequently lead problems persisting goal. The...
Abstract Acute psychosocial stress affects learning, memory, and attention, but the evidence for influence of on neural processes supporting cognitive control remains mixed. We investigated how acute influences performance processing during Go/NoGo task—an established task. The experimental group underwent Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) induction, whereas completed personality questionnaires. Then, participants a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) task, with self‐report, blood...
Most choices are complex and can be considered from a number of different perspectives. For example, someone choosing snack may have taste, health, cost or any factors at the forefront their mind. Although previous research has examined neural systems related to value choice, very little is known about how mindset influences these systems. In current study, participants were primed with Health Taste while they made decisions foods. Some regions showed consistent associations choice across...
Unattractive job candidates face a disadvantage when interviewing for job. Employers' evaluations are colored by the candidate's physical attractiveness even they take interview performance into account. This example illustrates unexplored questions about neural basis of social evaluation in humans. What regions support lasting effects initial impressions (even after getting to know someone)? How does brain process information that changes our minds someone? Job candidates' competence was...
Preparing for a challenging task can increase physiological arousal, in particular when potential incentives are large (e.g., solo musical performance front of an audience). Here, we examine how reward and its influence on measured by pupil dynamics, represented the brain while preparing task. We further ask neural representations during preparation relate to actual performance. Trials resulting failure were characterized increased dilation as function increasing magnitude preparation. Such...
Expressive writing about past negative events has been shown to lead a slew of positive outcomes. However, little is known why something would have effects. While some posited that telling narrative event or current anxiety "frees up" cognitive resources, allowing individuals focus more on the task at hand, there neural evidence suggesting expressive an effect load. Moreover, how individual differences in content could affect processing and benefits confers. In our experiment, we compared...
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is a major focus of investigation in human neuroscience, particularly studies emotion, social cognition, and decision making. Although the term vmPFC widely used, zone not precisely defined, for varied reasons has proven complicated region to study. A difficulty identifying precise boundaries comes partly from use term, sometimes including excluding ventral parts anterior cingulate medial orbitofrontal cortex. These discrepancies can arise both need...
The current study takes a new approach to understand the neural systems that support emotion-congruent judgment. bulk of previous research has inferred emotional influences on judgment from disadvantageous judgments or non-random individual differences. manipulated influence information stimuli were equivocally composed positive and negative attributes. Emotion-congruent processing was operationalized in two ways: activation significantly associated with primes lead emotionally congruent...
Background: Negative emotion is associated with substance craving and use in individuals recovering from disorders, including prescription opioid disorder (POUD). Decisions to abandon or persist towards a goal after negative emotion-eliciting events, neural responses that shape such decisions, may be important maintaining recovery POUD.Objectives: We examined differences events subsequent persistence decisions POUD without history of disorder. Methods: 20 (POUD group: 4 females, abstinent...
Effective learning from performance feedback is vital for adaptive behavior regulation necessary successful cognitive performance. Yet, how this operates in clinical groups that experience dysfunction not well understood. Multiple sclerosis (MS) an autoimmune, degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized by physical and dysfunction. A highly prevalent impairment MS fatigue (CF). CF associated with altered functioning within cortico-striatal regions also facilitate...