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Open AccessDissociable 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...
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Open AccessWhen 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...
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Open AccessAlterations 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...
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Open AccessMoral 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...
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Open AccessLanguage 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...
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Open AccessSocial 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...
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Open AccessDissociable 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...