Tag: Cognitive Neuroscience
Anxiety disorders show hyper-scanning and hyper-pursuit eye movements
What the study found Patients with anxiety disorders showed distinct eye movement patterns compared with people with depressive disorders and healthy controls. These patterns were called hyper-scanning during free viewing and hyper-pursuit during smooth pursuit. Why the authors say this matters The authors conclude that these eye movement patterns may serve as measurable behavioural markers…
mPFC pathways show distinct affective state patterns
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in NeuroscienceCalcium imaging reveals distinct activity patterns in mPFC pathways to amygdala versus nucleus accumbens during anxiety, exploration, and social behaviors in mice.
Touch-based speed-constant material perception relies on natural statistics
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in NeuroscienceNatural material surfaces produce speed-invariant vibration signatures that explain how humans perceive materials consistently. The spectral exponent relates to tactile receptor activation.
Emotion regulation success tracks large-scale brain gradient reconfiguration
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in NeuroscienceGradient-based analysis of brain organization reveals that emotion regulation success involves systematic reconfigurations along a hierarchy from sensory to integrative regions.
Affective activation and boredom relate to learning in tutoring
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in PsychologyMultimodal study of emotional dynamics in intelligent tutoring systems shows initial boredom shapes learning, and high physiological activation impairs knowledge retention.
Autistic adults showed more forward waves during visual stimulation
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in NeuroscienceEEG study reveals autistic adults show enhanced forward traveling waves during visual entrainment, suggesting reduced top-down predictions and increased bottom-up sensory processing compared to.
Trust and anticipation drive delight in gaming reviews
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in NeuroscienceStudy of 2.4M gaming reviews reveals how design features build consumer trust, which drives anticipation and delight through distinct psychological pathways.
Attentional instructions altered feedback control in aphasia
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in NeuroscienceAttentional instructions to monitor auditory feedback modulate neural and vocal motor responses differently in post-stroke aphasia and controls, with implications for speech recovery.
Parieto-frontal communication supports accurate quantity judgments in primates
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in NeuroscienceStudy reveals that coordinated communication between parietal and frontal brain regions enables accurate numerical judgments in macaques, with disrupted interaction causing errors.
Maximal effort linked to greater preference for correct performance
Active inference model reveals voluntary mental effort is governed by motivation for accuracy rather than inhibition of habitual responses in Stroop task performance.
