Spatial spillover effect of the synergistic development of inward and outward foreign direct investment on ecological well-being performance in China.

Inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote a country's economic growth, but the effect of inward and outward FDI on regional ecological well-being performance (EWP) is uncertain. Using the data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2019, this study employs the spatial Dubin model to examine the spatial spillover effects of synergistic development of inward and outward FDI on regional ecological well-being performance and their mediating mechanisms. The result shows that the synergistic development of inward and outward FDI can significantly improve regional EWP and imply a positive spatial spillover effect.

The asynchronous influence of facial expressions on bodily expressions.

The ability to extract correct emotional information from facial and bodily expressions is fundamental for the development of social skills. Previous studies have shown that bodily expressions affect the recognition of basic facial expressions dramatically. However, few studies have considered the view that facial expressions may influence the recognition of bodily expressions.

N170 changes reflect competition between faces and identifiable characters during early visual processing.

According to the neuronal recycling hypothesis, brain circuits can gain new functions through cultural learning, which are distinct from their evolutionarily established functions, creating competition between processes such as facial and identifiable character processing. In the present study, event-related potential (ERP) recording was used to examine electrophysiological correlates of identification levels of Chinese characters as well as the competition between facial and Chinese character processing after the characters were learnt. Twenty volunteers performed a lateralized face detection task, and N170 responses were recorded when the participants viewed only Chinese characters (identifiable or unidentifiable in Xiaozhuan font), or Chinese characters and faces concurrently.