Akin to physical pain, experiences of social rejection and exclusion may signal a significant threat to individuals» survival [65], and there is evidence from animal lesion and
human neuroimaging studies suggesting that physical and social pain overlap in their underlying neural circuitry and computational processes [66 — 67].
A human neuroimaging study using diffusion tensor imaging revealed that the anterior insula is interconnected to regions in the temporal and occipital lobe, opercular and orbitofrontal cortex, triangular and opercular parts of the inferior frontal gyrus.
Not exact matches
Neuropsychological and
neuroimaging studies from adults as well as behavioral
studies with older babies (12) showed that
human infants tested at 7 months perceive sensory dissonance similar to adults (53), that infants prefer to listen to consonant intervals (11, 30) and appear to discriminate consonant and dissonant music shortly after birth (28).
Even more important, this seminal work opens the road for comparative
neuroimaging studies in which
humans and other animals perform similar tasks using similar methodologies, and the results can be analyzed using similar strategies.
What's more, in a
neuroimaging study in which the participants were shown images depicting
human suffering, those who gave most generously during the online game also showed greatest activation in brain areas involved in empathy, emotion regulation and positive emotion.
In late 2012 he finally founded Neural Bytes, which models
human brain processing using data from neurophysiological and
neuroimaging studies.
There have been many
studies of face perception in
human using non-invasive
neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods, but
studies of face perception in children were quite limited.
The use of
neuroimaging was part of an effort to find noninvasive ways of
studying pig brain development that could also be applied in
humans.
New Animal Model, Nanotechnologies and
Neuroimaging to
Study Interactions and Homing of
Human Neural Stem Cells in Stroke.
Relatively few
neuroimaging studies have explored the role of puberty in
human brain development (Blakemore et al., 2010; Crone and Dahl, 2012; Galvan et al., 2012), though it was noted long ago that measurements of peak gray matter volume coincide with the onset of puberty (Giedd et al., 1999; Blakemore, 2012).
He previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Brain Imaging and Modeling Section of the United States National Institutes of Health, where he conducted
neuroimaging studies to examine
human short - term memory.
He has pioneered new techniques that combine
neuroimaging with neuropsychological
studies to reveal the secrets of the
human brain.
He
studies the basic neural mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly emotional learning, in both
human and animal subjects, using functional
neuroimaging, electrophysiology and immunohistochemistry.
Analogous to similar
neuroimaging studies of individual differences in
human social reward, our findings demonstrate a neural mechanism for preference in domestic dogs that is stable within, but variable between, individuals.