Neuroscience
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- Abnormal Social Cognition
To investigate the neuroscience behind socialising, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg and colleagues have scanned the brains of people with the genetic disorder Williams-Beuren syndrome and compared them with scans of healthy controls. People with Williams syndrome...
- Oh, Great. Now We Know What The Right Parahippocampal Gyrus Does.
Or so declares an article in the New York Times: The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) By DAN HURLEY Published: June 3, 2008 There was nothing very interesting in Katherine P. Rankin’s study of sarcasm — at least, nothing worth your important...
- Frontopolar Cortex Moves To The Back Of The Brain
from Christoff & Gabrieli 2000 In case you missed this announcement, as I did, New Scientist has now declared that frontopolar cortex is in the back of the brain: In addition, unlike in humans, the researchers also found spindle cells in the frontopolar...
- Primary Somatosensory Cortex: New Research
From this month's APA Monitor: Phantom pain and the brain An actual touch, or an imaginary one? It’s all the same to (some parts of) your brain By Sadie F. Dingfelder Monitor Staff The APA Monitor January 2007 Print version: page 22 Scientists have...
- Books About The Frontal Lobes
The frontal lobes have been in the news the past few days, with a number of media resports about a research study examining the neuropsychology of sarcasm. Here is a small collection of recent books about the frontal lobes: Fuster, J. (1997). The prefrontal...
Neuroscience
Sarcasm and the Brain: Look at the Right Prefrontal Cortex
From The APA Monitor:
It's no joke: Study identifies brain circuitry involved in our grasp of sarcasm[ ... Read the full article ... ]
The APA Monitor
May 2005
Print version: page 13
A study in May's Neuropsychology (Vol. 19, No. 2) finds the right prefrontal cortex--a brain region associated with social cognition and identifying emotions--helps us understand sarcasm.
Authors Simone Shamay-Tsoory, PhD, and Rachel Tomer, PhD, of the University of Haifa, and Judith Aharon-Peretz, PhD, of Israel's Rambam Medical Center, hypothesized that the right frontal cortex regulates understanding sarcasm since the right hemisphere concerns emotional processing and the prefrontal cortex deals with social cognition.
- Abnormal Social Cognition
To investigate the neuroscience behind socialising, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg and colleagues have scanned the brains of people with the genetic disorder Williams-Beuren syndrome and compared them with scans of healthy controls. People with Williams syndrome...
- Oh, Great. Now We Know What The Right Parahippocampal Gyrus Does.
Or so declares an article in the New York Times: The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) By DAN HURLEY Published: June 3, 2008 There was nothing very interesting in Katherine P. Rankin’s study of sarcasm — at least, nothing worth your important...
- Frontopolar Cortex Moves To The Back Of The Brain
from Christoff & Gabrieli 2000 In case you missed this announcement, as I did, New Scientist has now declared that frontopolar cortex is in the back of the brain: In addition, unlike in humans, the researchers also found spindle cells in the frontopolar...
- Primary Somatosensory Cortex: New Research
From this month's APA Monitor: Phantom pain and the brain An actual touch, or an imaginary one? It’s all the same to (some parts of) your brain By Sadie F. Dingfelder Monitor Staff The APA Monitor January 2007 Print version: page 22 Scientists have...
- Books About The Frontal Lobes
The frontal lobes have been in the news the past few days, with a number of media resports about a research study examining the neuropsychology of sarcasm. Here is a small collection of recent books about the frontal lobes: Fuster, J. (1997). The prefrontal...