9 results match your criteria: "Institute of Cognitive Sciences Marc Jeannerod CNRS[Affiliation]"

Cortical beta power reflects the influence of Pavlovian cues on human decision-making.

J Neurosci

December 2024

Center for studies and research in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy.

Reward-predictive cues can affect decision-making by enhancing instrumental responses towards the same (Specific transfer) or similar (General transfer) rewards. The main theories on cue-guided decision-making consider Specific transfer as driven by the activation of previously learned instrumental actions induced by cues sharing the sensory-specific properties of the reward they are associated with. However, to date, such theoretical assumption has never been directly investigated at the neural level.

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The Critical Trigger for Cognitive Penetration: Cognitive Processing Priority over Perceptual Processing.

Behav Sci (Basel)

July 2024

Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510630, China.

The visual perception system of humans is susceptible to cognitive influence, which implies the existence of cognitive perception. However, the specifical trigger for cognitive penetration is still a matter of controversy. The current study proposed that the cognitive processing priority over perceptual processing might be critical for inducing cognitive penetration.

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Studying the social mind: An updated summary of findings from the Vietnam Head Injury Study.

Cortex

May 2024

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Brain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address:

Lesion mapping studies allow us to evaluate the potential causal contribution of specific brain areas to human cognition and complement other cognitive neuroscience methods, as several authors have recently pointed out. Here, we present an updated summary of the findings from the Vietnam Head Injury Study (VHIS) focusing on the studies conducted over the last decade, that examined the social mind and its intricate neural and cognitive underpinnings. The VHIS is a prospective, long-term follow-up study of Vietnam veterans with penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) and healthy controls (HC).

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Article Synopsis
  • Digit-tracking is a straightforward, calibration-free method that effectively substitutes eye tracking in studying vision, allowing participants to use their fingers to focus on stimuli on a touchscreen.
  • In an experiment, digit-tracking was used to analyze visual search patterns in natural scenes, yielding results consistent with previous eye-tracking studies and highlighting similar attention shifts guided by visual saliency.
  • The findings support the usefulness of digit-tracking in both fundamental research and practical applications in vision and attention studies.
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The neural underpinning of religious beliefs: Evidence from brain lesions.

Front Behav Neurosci

October 2022

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Brain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, United States.

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Humans beings decide to trust others selectively, often based on the appearance of a face. But how do observers deal with the wide variety of facial morphologies and, in particular, those outside their own familiar cultural group? Using reverse correlation, a data-driven approach to explore how individuals create internal representations without external biases, we studied the generation of trustworthy faces by French and Chinese participants (N = 160) within and outside their own cultural group. Participants selected the most trustworthy or attractive (control condition) face from two identical European or Asian descent faces that had been modified by different noise masks.

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Brain networks involved in the influence of religion on empathy in male Vietnam War veterans.

Sci Rep

May 2021

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Brain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA.

Humans all over the world believe in spirits and deities, yet how the brain supports religious cognition remains unclear. Drawing on a unique sample of patients with penetrating traumatic brain injuries (pTBI) and matched healthy controls (HCs) we investigate dependencies of religious cognition on neural networks that represent (1) others agents' intentions (Theory of Mind, ToM) and (2) other agents' feelings (Empathy). Extending previous observations that ToM networks are recruited during prayer, we find that people with vmPFC damage report higher scores on the personal relationship with God inventory even when they are not praying.

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Neural underpinning of a personal relationship with God and sense of control: A lesion-mapping study.

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

June 2020

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Brain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA.

Article Synopsis
  • A strong personal relationship with God is linked to a greater sense of control, and research explores the brain mechanisms behind this connection.
  • A study involving patients with brain lesions found that damage to the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) led to a stronger personal relationship with God and an increased sense of control.
  • The findings suggest that, following damage to the right vmPFC, a stronger relationship with God can enhance individuals' sense of control, emphasizing the psychological importance of this relationship.
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[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in on May 9 2019 (see record 2019-25503-001). In the article "Embracing in a Female-Bonded Monkey Species ()" by Virginia Pallante, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Marco Gamba, and Elisabetta Palagi (Journal of Comparative Psychology, Advance online publication. March 25, 2019.

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