Fashioning the face: sensorimotor simulation contributes to facial expression recognition

A Wood, M Rychlowska, S Korb… - Trends in cognitive …, 2016 - cell.com
When we observe a facial expression of emotion, we often mimic it. This automatic mimicry
reflects underlying sensorimotor simulation that supports accurate emotion recognition. Why …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of online repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on cognitive processing: a meta-analysis and recommendations for future studies

L Beynel, LG Appelbaum, B Luber, CA Crowell… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Online repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), applied while subjects are
performing a task, is widely used to disrupt brain regions underlying cognition. However …

[BOOK][B] Psychology of emotion

PM Niedenthal, F Ric - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its
own field of study. Because the study of emotion draws inspiration from areas of science …

Sham tDCS: A hidden source of variability? Reflections for further blinded, controlled trials

C Fonteneau, M Mondino, M Arns, C Baeken, M Bikson… - Brain stimulation, 2019 - Elsevier
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique
increasingly used to modulate neural activity in the living brain. In order to establish the …

Neurostructural correlates of hope: dispositional hope mediates the impact of the SMA gray matter volume on subjective well-being in late adolescence

S Wang, Y Zhao, J Li, H Lai, C Qiu… - Social cognitive and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
There has been increasing interest in identifying factors to predict subjective well-being in
the emerging field of positive psychology over the past two decades. Dispositional hope …

Cytoarchitecture, probability maps, and functions of the human supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas

J Ruan, S Bludau, N Palomero-Gallagher… - Brain Structure and …, 2018 - Springer
The dorsal mesial frontal cortex contains the supplementary motor area (SMA) and the pre-
supplementary motor area (pre-SMA), which play an important role in action and cognition …

The naturalistic approach to laughter in humans and other animals: towards a unified theory

E Palagi, F Caruana… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This opinion piece aims to tackle the biological, psychological, neural and cultural
underpinnings of laughter from a naturalistic and evolutionary perspective. A naturalistic …

Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents

LV Fehlbaum, R Borbás, K Paul… - Social cognitive and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ability to understand mental states of others is referred to as mentalizing and enabled by
our Theory of Mind. This social skill relies on brain regions comprising the mentalizing …

Dynamic neural interactions supporting the cognitive reappraisal of emotion

T Steward, CG Davey, AJ Jamieson… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The cognitive reappraisal of emotion is hypothesized to involve frontal regions modulating
the activity of subcortical regions such as the amygdala. However, the pathways by which …

Two neural networks for laughter: a tractography study

M Gerbella, C Pinardi, G Di Cesare, G Rizzolatti… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Laughter is a complex motor behavior occurring in both emotional and nonemotional
contexts. Here, we investigated whether the different functions of laughter are mediated by …