Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2023.2245126
Evrim Gülbetekin, Seda Bayraktar, Deniz Kantar, Ece Varlık Özsoy, Muhammed Nurullah Er, Enes Altun, Arda Fidanci
{"title":"Does Tactile Stimulation of the Face Affect the Processing of Other Faces? Neural and Behavioural Effects of Facial Touch.","authors":"Evrim Gülbetekin, Seda Bayraktar, Deniz Kantar, Ece Varlık Özsoy, Muhammed Nurullah Er, Enes Altun, Arda Fidanci","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2245126","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2245126","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The integration of vision and touch is proposed as a critical factor for processing one's own body and the bodies of others in the brain. We hypothesize that tactile stimulation on an individual's face may change the ability to process the faces of other, but not the processing of other visual images. We aimed to determine if facial touch increased the activity of the mirror system and face recognition memory of the observer. Therefore, mu suppression was measured to compare the effect of facial touch in performing two visual tasks. The participants observed faces and non-face visual images under two sets of conditions. In the first condition, a robotic finger touched the participant's cheek while in the second condition, no touch occurred. Upon each observational task, the participants were given in a recognition test. Behavioral results indicated that facial touch improved recognition performance for faces, but not for non-face visual images. Tactile stimulation increased mu suppression in both occipital and central electrodes during face processing; however, the suppression did not significantly change during non-face visual processing. Our findings support the concept that the brain uses a self-body representation, as a reference to understand the mental states or behaviors of others.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"297-311"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10497681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maximin principle, emotional aversion, and integrative judgment in the NIMBY context, including social dilemma and moral dilemma: The roles of the amygdala, angular gyrus, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.","authors":"Hiroshi Nonami, Kentaro Oba, Yutaka Tashiro, Toshiaki Aoki, Shoji Ohtomo","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2280060","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2280060","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public facilities that have NIMBY (not in my backyard) structure involve both a social dilemma, in which individuals' decisions to prevent the worst outcomes for themselves undermine the public interest, and a moral dilemma focused on the majority versus the minority. This study examined the cognitive-neural processes in judging whether to prioritize the site residents or the citizenry as a whole within the context of NIMBY. Our ROIs were the right angular gyrus being related to concern about the worst possible outcomes for others and oneself, the amygdala associating with emotional aversion to prioritizing the majority, and the vmPFC, which integrates the aversion into \"all things considered\" judgments. As a result of comparing ingroup conditions for which a NIMBY facility may make participants worst-off position and outgroup conditions for which this possibility is denied, the right angular gyrus was activated in both conditions. The amygdala was activated only in the ingroup, and the vmPFC exhibited a stronger tendency in the ingroup. We concluded that the cognitive-neural processes in judgments on NIMBY facilities are common to both decision-making to avoid the worst-off position for others and for oneself and moral judgments between the majority and the minority.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"282-291"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138300512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach.","authors":"Khanitin Jornkokgoud, Teresa Baggio, Md Faysal, Richard Bakiaj, Peera Wongupparaj, Remo Job, Alessandro Grecucci","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2242094","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2242094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Narcissism is a multifaceted construct often linked to pathological conditions whose neural correlates are still poorly understood. Previous studies have reported inconsistent findings related to the neural underpinnings of narcissism, probably due to methodological limitations such as the low number of participants or the use of mass univariate methods. The present study aimed to overcome the previous methodological limitations and to build a predictive model of narcissistic traits based on neural and psychological features. In this respect, two machine learning-based methods (Kernel Ridge Regression and Support Vector Regression) were used to predict narcissistic traits from brain structural organization and from other relevant normal and abnormal personality features. Results showed that a circuit including the lateral and middle frontal gyri, the angular gyrus, Rolandic operculum, and Heschl's gyrus successfully predicted narcissistic personality traits (<i>p</i> < 0.003). Moreover, narcissistic traits were predicted by normal (openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness) and abnormal (borderline, antisocial, insecure, addicted, negativistic, machiavellianism) personality traits. This study is the first to predict narcissistic personality traits via a supervised machine learning approach. As such, these results may expand the possibility of deriving personality traits from neural and psychological features.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"257-270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9895648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2023.2242098
George Zacharopoulos, Katharina Ohmann, Niklas Ihssen, Gayannee Kedia, Thomas Mussweiler, David E J Linden
{"title":"The role of outgroup homogeneity and the neurodynamics of the frontal cortex during beauty comparisons.","authors":"George Zacharopoulos, Katharina Ohmann, Niklas Ihssen, Gayannee Kedia, Thomas Mussweiler, David E J Linden","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2242098","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2242098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The distance effect states that the closer two compared magnitudes (e.g., two numbers, physical attractiveness in two faces), the more difficult the comparison, and the greater the activity of the frontoparietal control network. However, it is unclear whether this network is also recruited to the same extent when we perform ingroup and outgroup beauty comparisons and whether the activation of these networks is tracked by interindividual variation in the perceptions we hold about an outgroup. We recorded brain activity with fMRI, where participants compared the beauty of two women ostensibly either from their ingroup or from an outgroup. Low-distance conditions produced longer response times than the high-distance conditions, and this was found in both the ingroup and outgroup conditions. However, our neuroimaging analyses revealed that the left IFG/anterior insula showed the classic distance effect only during ingroup processing but not during outgroup processing. Notably, interaction-specific activity within the left IFG/anterior insula was related to perceptions of outgroup homogeneity assessed via a questionnaire. This set of findings reveals the dynamic role of the prefrontal cortex and its interplay with perceptions of outgroup homogeneity in shaping ingroup and outgroup decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"382-392"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10110345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2023.2242096
A Mosca, A Miuli, G Mancusi, S Chiappini, G Stigliano, A De Pasquale, G Di Petta, G Bubbico, A Pasino, M Pettorruso, G Martinotti
{"title":"To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality.","authors":"A Mosca, A Miuli, G Mancusi, S Chiappini, G Stigliano, A De Pasquale, G Di Petta, G Bubbico, A Pasino, M Pettorruso, G Martinotti","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2242096","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2242096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In the \"Dual-Process theory\", morality is characterized by the interaction between an automatic-emotional process, mediated by the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) and linked to personal-deontological decisions, and a rational-conscious one, mediated by the Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) and linked to impersonal-utilitarian decisions. These areas are altered by chronic use of cocaine, with a possible impact on moral decision-making.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the difference between a group of Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD) patients and a control group in moral decision-making.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Subjects with CUD were compared to an equal-sized healthy group regarding their moral decision-making. Trolley and Footbridge Moral Dilemmas were administered to each group. The quality of the answer (yes or no) and the time needed to answer were recorded.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The recruited group includes 72 subjects, 36 with CUD and 36 healthy subjects (average age of 39.51 ± 9.89). In the Trolley dilemma, almost all the subjects (97.3%) answered \"yes\", while in the Footbridge dilemma CUD subjects answered \"yes\" more often (52.7%) than the healthy group (19.4%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>For strong emotional dilemmas (Footbridge), cocaine users answered \"yes\" with a higher frequency compared to healthy subjects, highlighting a wider utilitarian tendency in decision-making and a poor emotional participation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"271-281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10396759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2023.2284999
Ewa Miedzobrodzka, Johanna C van Hooff, Lydia Krabbendam, Elly A Konijn
{"title":"Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents - an ERP study.","authors":"Ewa Miedzobrodzka, Johanna C van Hooff, Lydia Krabbendam, Elly A Konijn","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2284999","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2284999","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This Event-Related Potential (ERP) study aimed to test how habitual and short-term violent video game exposure (VVGE) may affect empathy for pain responses in adolescents. In a within-subjects design, boys (<i>N</i> = 56; aged 12-16 years) performed a pain judgment task before and immediately after playing a violent video game. In this task, participants judged whether photos of hands depicted on their screen were in a painful situation or not. While both the P3 and the LPP components were not related to habitual violent video game exposure, general exposure to antisocial media content predicted lower P3 amplitudes to painful pictures. Further, 40 min of violent gameplay did not affect the P3 responses; however, it temporarily decreased LPP responses to painful pictures, suggesting a modest short-term desensitization effect. However, this latter interpretation is limited by a strong LPP pain effect - a significant amplitude difference between painful and non-painful pictures - that remained present in the post-game condition. Such persistent LPP effect may relate to the notion that adolescents are still learning how to properly regulate their emotional reactions. This study contributes to the limited literature on violent video games' desensitization in adolescents' brains, opening new avenues for media violence research.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"365-381"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10721224/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138292242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2023.2248687
Gaetano Rizzo, Davide Martino, Laura Avanzino, Alessio Avenanti, Carmelo Mario Vicario
{"title":"Social cognition in hyperkinetic movement disorders: a systematic review.","authors":"Gaetano Rizzo, Davide Martino, Laura Avanzino, Alessio Avenanti, Carmelo Mario Vicario","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2248687","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2248687","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Numerous lines of research indicate that our social brain involves a network of cortical and subcortical brain regions that are responsible for sensing and controlling body movements. However, it remains unclear whether movement disorders have a systematic impact on social cognition. To address this question, we conducted a systematic review examining the influence of hyperkinetic movement disorders (including Huntington disease, Tourette syndrome, dystonia, and essential tremor) on social cognition. Following the PRISMA guidelines and registering the protocol in the PROSPERO database (CRD42022327459), we analyzed 50 published studies focusing on theory of mind (ToM), social perception, and empathy. The results from these studies provide evidence of impairments in ToM and social perception in all hyperkinetic movement disorders, particularly during the recognition of negative emotions. Additionally, individuals with Huntington's Disease and Tourette syndrome exhibit empathy disorders. These findings support the functional role of subcortical structures (such as the basal ganglia and cerebellum), which are primarily responsible for movement disorders, in deficits related to social cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"331-354"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10387157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association between internet addiction, brain structure, and social capital in adolescents.","authors":"Masahiro Matsunaga, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Keiko Ishii, Hirohito Tsuboi, Kohta Suzuki, Haruto Takagishi","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2264543","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2264543","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Of late, internet addiction among adolescents has become a serious problem, with increased internet use. Previous research suggests that the more people become addicted to the internet, the more they isolate themselves from society. Conversely, it has been suggested that abundant social capital (the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society) protects people from becoming addicted to the internet. This study focused on the brain structure of typical adolescents (10-18 years of age) and hypothesized that the size of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), which is thought to be associated with self-control ability, is associated with both internet addiction and social capital. Voxel-based morphometry analysis indicated that left DLPFC volume was negatively correlated with the severity of internet addiction and positively correlated with social capital. Furthermore, correlation analysis demonstrated that the severity of internet addiction and social capital were negatively correlated. The statistical association between them was no longer significant when left DLPFC volume was used as a control variable. These results suggest that the left DLPFC may mediate the relationship between social capital and internet addiction in adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"355-364"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41118161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition.","authors":"Siew Kei Kho, David Keeble, Hoo Keat Wong, Alejandro J Estudillo","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2263924","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2023.2263924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Successful face recognition is important for social interactions and public security. Although some preliminary evidence suggests that anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) might modulate own- and other-race face identification, respectively, the findings are largely inconsistent. Hence, we examined the effect of both anodal and cathodal tDCS on the recognition of own- and other-race faces. Ninety participants first completed own- and other-race Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) as baseline measurements. Next, they received either anodal tDCS, cathodal tDCS or sham stimulation and finally they completed alternative versions of the own- and other-race CFMT. No difference in performance, in terms of accuracy and reaction time, for own- and other-race face recognition between anodal tDCS, cathodal tDCS and sham stimulation was found. Our findings cast doubt upon the efficacy of tDCS to modulate performance in face identification tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"393-406"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41240209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PENERAPAN MODEL COOPERATIVE LEARNING TYPE GROUP INVESTIGATION BERBASIS MULTI MEDIA DALAM MENINGKATAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR PESERTA DIDIK PELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN PANCASILA KELAS XI TAB 1 SMK NEGERI 1 BUNYU","authors":"RISMADAMAYANTI RISMADAMAYANTI","doi":"10.51878/social.v3i2.2489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51878/social.v3i2.2489","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to increase the learning motivation of students in class XI TAB 1 Pancasila education lessons at SMK Negeri 1 Bunyu by implementing a multi-media based cooperative learning type group investigation model. This research is classroom action research with the application of a multi-media based cooperative learning group investigation learning model. This research was carried out in class XI TAB 1 SMK Negeri 1 Bunyu. There are 39 students in this class, all of whom are men. Data collection techniques use observation sheets, test results and documentation. Data analysis uses data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Based on the research results, there are several findings in this classroom action research, namely by using the Multi Media-based Cooperative Learning Group Investigation Type learning model. Students' learning motivation increases at each stage of the cycle. This can be seen in the students' ability and courage in asking questions and expressing opinions. Based on the findings of this research, it can be concluded that the Multi Media-based cooperative learning type group investigation type model can increase student motivation in line with the hypothesis set out on the subject of the importance of Defending the Nation in Pancasila Education lessons for students at SMK Negeri 1 Bunyu.
 ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan motivasi belajar peserta didik pelajaran pendidikan pancasila kelas XI TAB 1 SMK Negeri 1 Bunyu dengan penerapan model cooperative learning type group investigation berbasis multi media. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas dengan penerapan model pembelajaran cooperative learning group investigation berbasis multi media. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di kelas XI TAB 1 SMK Negeri 1 Bunyu. Peserta didik dalam kelas ini berjumlah 39 orang yang semuanya adalah laki-laki. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan lembas observasi, hasil tes dan dokumentasi. Analisis data menggunakan reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ada beberapa temuan dalam penelitian tindakan kelas ini yaitu dengan menggunakan model pembelajaran Cooperative Learning Group Investigation Type berbasis Multi Media motivasi belajar pesertadidik semakin menigkat dalam tiap tahapan siklus hal ini dapat dilihat pada kemampuan dan keberanian pesertadidik dalam bertanya serta mengemukakan pendapat. Berdasarkan temuan hasil penelitian ini dapat dismpulkan bahwa model cooperative learning type group investigation type berbasis Multi Media dapat meningkatkan motivasi pesertadidik searah dengan hipotesis yang ditetapkan pada pokok bahasan pentingnya Bela Negara dalam pelajaran Pendidikan Pancasila pada pesertadidik SMK Negeri 1 Bunyu.","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135923620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}