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    Dissociable early attentional control mechanisms underlying cognitive and affective conflicts

    It has been well documented that cognitive conflict is sensitive to the relative proportion of congruent and incongruent trials. However, few studies have examined whether affective conflict processing is modu...

    Taolin Chen, Keith M. Kendrick, Chunliang Feng, Shiyue Sun, Xun Yang in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    When your pain signifies my gain: neural activity while evaluating outcomes based on another person’s pain

    The overlap between pain and reward processing pathways leds researchers to hypothesize that there are interactions between them in the human brain. Two hypotheses have been proposed. The “competition hypothes...

    Fang Cui, **angru Zhu, Ruolei Gu, Yue-jia Luo in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Alterations in gray matter volume due to unilateral hearing loss

    Although extensive research on neural plasticity resulting from hearing deprivation has been conducted, the direct influence of compromised audition on the auditory cortex and the potential impact of long dura...

    **ngchao Wang, Pengfei Xu, Peng Li, Zhenmin Wang, Fu Zhao in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Moral judgment modulates neural responses to the perception of other’s pain: an ERP study

    Morality and empathy are both crucial in building human society. Yet the relationship between them has been merely explored. The present study revealed how the morality influenced empathy for pain by comparing...

    Fang Cui, Ning Ma, Yue-jia Luo in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Language modulates brain activity underlying representation of kinship terms

    Kinship terms have been found to be highly diverse across languages. Here we investigated the brain representation of kinship terms in two distinct populations, native Chinese and Caucasian English speakers, w...

    Haiyan Wu, Yue Ge, Honghong Tang, Yue-Jia Luo, **aoqin Mai, Chao Liu in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Social Comparison Manifests in Event-related Potentials

    Social comparison, a widespread phenomenon in human society, has been found to affect outcome evaluation. The need to belong to a social group may result in distinct neural responses to diverse social comparis...

    Yi Luo, Chunliang Feng, Tingting Wu, Lucas S. Broster, Huajian Cai in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Dissociable Somatotopic Representations of Chinese Action Verbs in the Motor and Premotor Cortex

    The embodied view of language processing holds that language comprehension involves the recruitment of sensorimotor information, as evidenced by the somatotopic representation of action verbs in the motor syst...

    Haiyan Wu, **aoqin Mai, Honghong Tang, Yue Ge, Yue-Jia Luo, Chao Liu in Scientific Reports (2013)