Albane Arthuis, Sonia Abad‐Hernando, Anastasia Kokkinou, Mirko Febbo, Laura A. Rai, Haeeun Lee, Matthias Sperling, Jamie A. Ward, Daniel C. Richardson, Guido Orgs
{"title":"Audience Gaze and Felt Social Connection With Individual Performers During Live Dance","authors":"Albane Arthuis, Sonia Abad‐Hernando, Anastasia Kokkinou, Mirko Febbo, Laura A. Rai, Haeeun Lee, Matthias Sperling, Jamie A. Ward, Daniel C. Richardson, Guido Orgs","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70412","url":null,"abstract":"In everyday social interactions, our looking behavior reflects our relationships with others, but the role that social perception plays for engagement with the performing arts is understudied. We commissioned the durational, community‐focused, 16‐h dance performance <jats:italic>How Shall We Begin Again?</jats:italic> , comprising a continuous relay of individual improvised performances by 50 people over 2 consecutive days. During the performance, we recorded eye movements and mobile EEG from 88 audience members who entered and exited the performance space freely. Audience members reported on their experience of individual performers immediately after leaving the performance space. Gaze toward people in the scene showed a significant indirect association with felt social connection through self‐reported focus on individual performers; the overall gaze–connection association, however, was not statistically significant. Individual differences in mind wandering, dance experience, and empathy were associated with gaze and engagement measures, but not with felt social connection. Finally, EEG alpha power decreased and EEG delta/gamma power increased when dance was accompanied by music. Together, these data suggest that engagement with dance depends not only on what is being performed (dance/choreography/music) but also on who is performing, highlighting that dance is an inherently embodied art form that can foster social connections between people.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconfiguration of the Cognitive Control Network Induced by Cerebral and Cerebro–Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation","authors":"Tingting Guo, Qianwen Chang, Xuedi Liu, Qinpu Dang, Jingyu Chen, Si Chen, Taomei Guo","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70420","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70420","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cognitive control can be modulated by noninvasive brain stimulation, but it remains unclear how different stimulation protocols are associated with task-related network organization. To characterize behavioral and brain-network profiles, we recorded brain activity and behavioral performance while participants completed a cognitive control task during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Profiles were compared across a pre-stimulation session and two sessions following high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS): single-site stimulation of the presupplementary motor area/dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (preSMA/dACC) and dual-site stimulation of the preSMA/dACC plus the left posterolateral cerebellum. Drift-diffusion modeling showed reliable switching costs across sessions, with smaller latent costs in the dual-site than in the single-site session. Effective-connectivity analyses indicated threshold-sensitive reductions in retained cerebro–cerebellar and right prefrontal edges in the dual-site session. Model-based graph analyses indicated protocol-dependent differences in estimated network topology, including higher small-worldness in the single-site session and session-specific associations between graph metrics and latent behavioral costs. Together, these findings suggest that single-site medial-frontal and dual-site cerebro–cerebellar HD-tDCS were associated with distinct cognitive-control profiles at both behavioral and modeled network levels. Rather than reflecting a uniform enhancement of connectivity, the dual-site protocol appeared to engage a different network configuration supporting cognitive control.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149199013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martina Pasqualetti, Jakob C. B. Schwenk, Andrea Alamia
{"title":"Neural Oscillatory Signatures of Predictive Processing in Visual Statistical Learning","authors":"Martina Pasqualetti, Jakob C. B. Schwenk, Andrea Alamia","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70424","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70424","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Several studies suggest that neural oscillations play a role in cognition, including predictive processing. Recent models propose that backward alpha-band traveling waves reflect top-down predictions, while forward waves may reflect bottom-up prediction errors. We tested this hypothesis using a visual statistical learning task in which participants (<i>N</i> = 31) detected target shapes presented with varying levels of predictability. Electrophysiological activity and pupillometry were recorded throughout the task. Behavioral results showed faster responses for predictable targets, and pupil dilation increased for unexpected shapes. Evoked response potential analyses revealed predictability effects on the P300 component across occipital and frontal electrodes, along with modulation of alpha oscillations. However, traveling wave analyses did not show a clear effect of predictability between conditions. Instead, wave patterns showed a modest association with individual differences in cognitive strategy, with stronger top-down alpha-band waves in participants who relied more on statistical regularities. Overall, these findings challenge the view that alpha-band traveling waves implement predictive coding during visual perception, suggesting instead that they may reflect more general cognitive strategies rather than specific predictive processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70424","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149172729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mor Taub, Aya Goldshtein, Yotam Orchan, Sivan Toledo, Ran Nathan, Yossi Yovel
{"title":"Greater Mouse-Tailed Bats Glide During Approximately 50% of Their Flight","authors":"Mor Taub, Aya Goldshtein, Yotam Orchan, Sivan Toledo, Ran Nathan, Yossi Yovel","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70416","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Flapping flight is widely regarded as a mechanically complex and energetically demanding mode of locomotion. In bats, the evolution of flapping flight is hypothesized to have arisen from gliding, an unpowered form of aerial movement. Although intermittent flap-gliding flight is considered advantageous in many bird species, this flight strategy has rarely been studied in bats. In this study, we used on-board tracking devices and audio recordings to characterize the flight behavior and corresponding echolocation of greater mouse-tailed bats (<i>Rhinopoma microphyllum</i>) in the wild. Our results reveal that these bats consistently integrate gliding into flapping flight, not only through brief, intermittent flap-gliding intervals but also via prolonged gliding bouts that can be as long as dozens of seconds. Gliding accounted for approximately 50% of the total flight duration and occurred during both commuting and foraging flights, but was rarely observed directly during prey pursuit. Across all flight modes, bats continuously emitted longer echolocation calls at lower calling rates during long gliding bouts. These findings demonstrate substantial flexibility in bat flight behavior and suggest that gliding could have been retained as a functional and integral component of an adaptive flight strategy despite possible constraints on echolocation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149172511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiovascular Functional Cell Injury and Cardiovascular Diseases: Mechanistic Insights and Exercise Interventions","authors":"Shaokai Tang, Qinqin Lin, Yuanwen Geng","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70435","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70435","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a leading cause of mortality worldwide and substantially impair physical health, psychological well-being, and quality of life. Cardiovascular functional cells, including cardiomyocytes, cardiac fibroblasts (CFs), vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), vascular endothelial cells (ECs), and immune cells, play essential roles in maintaining cardiovascular homeostasis. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that injury to cardiovascular functional cells drives the initiation and progression of CVDs. Specifically, cardiomyocyte injury is associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and ferroptosis; CF dysfunction promotes cardiac fibrosis; VSMC dysfunction drives pathological phenotypic switching; endothelial dysfunction induces inflammation and oxidative stress; and aberrant immune cell activation promotes M1 macrophage polarization and functional imbalance of B cells and T cells. Growing evidence indicates that exercise attenuates CVD progression by alleviating cardiomyocyte injury, suppressing aberrant CF activation, restoring VSMC function, improving vascular EC dysfunction, and modulating aberrant immune cell activation. This review summarizes the composition and functions of cardiovascular functional cells, examines the roles of cardiovascular functional cell injury in CVDs, presents clinical evidence for the beneficial effects of exercise on CVDs, and discusses the potential mechanisms by which exercise alleviates CVDs through ameliorating injury to cardiovascular functional cells, thereby providing a theoretical basis for the cardiovascular benefits of exercise.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149166859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haoyun Fan, Soon Poh Yap, Ahmed El-Shafie, Shengkang Zhang, Yong Jin
{"title":"Mechanism-Aware π Group-Based Gene Expression Programming for Axial Capacity Prediction of Steel–Concrete Composite Members","authors":"Haoyun Fan, Soon Poh Yap, Ahmed El-Shafie, Shengkang Zhang, Yong Jin","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70418","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70418","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Reliable engineering prediction requires accuracy, interpretability, physical consistency, and uncertainty awareness. Concrete-filled circular steel tubes (CCFSTs) axial capacity is a representative case because it is governed by coupled material, geometric, confinement, and instability effects. Existing formulas are transparent but often inflexible, whereas black-box machine learning models can be accurate but are difficult to audit directly. This study proposes a physics-guided symbolic model (PI-ResGEP) that combines dimensionless π-group regression, mechanism-aware feature selection, residual diagnosis, and conformal uncertainty quantification. The explicit backbone is the primary predictor, while the residual layer is framed as a conservative correction and diagnostic component. A primary dataset comprising 833 CCFST tests was compiled from 55 published studies, while 313 data points collected from 34 additional studies were used for external validation. Experimental results show competitive accuracy with an <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> of 0.9946 while retaining a directly inspectable equation. By integrating distribution-free conformal prediction, the model achieves 90.8% coverage at the 90% nominal level and identifies heteroscedastic uncertainty regimes. PI-ResGEP may provide a preliminary predictive reference for cases beyond the applicability limits of Eurocode 4 and offers a potentially transferable workflow for engineering prediction problems requiring physically consistent, interpretable, and uncertainty-aware estimates.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149140464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Sound Guides Object Size Choices in African Penguins Through Pitch–Size Association”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70432","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70432","url":null,"abstract":"<p>F. Terranova, F. D'Orazio, C. Pilenga, L. Baciadonna, D. Reby, and L. Favaro, “Sound Guides Object Size Choices in African Penguins Through Pitch–Size Association,” <i>Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences</i> 1560, no. 1 (2026): e70313. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70313</p><p>This article has been amended after publication to add the following ethics statement: The research reported in this article was approved by the University of Turin University Bioethics Committee on September 20, 2022 under the project “Cross-modal perception of body size in the African penguin (<i>Spheniscus demersus</i>)” (approval notification registered as no. 0513040 on October 3, 2022).</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70432","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149140463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hong Li, Yujiao Wen, Wentao Cheng, Lexuan Zhuang, Zhifen Liu
{"title":"Neurophysiological Correlates of Pain-Related Cognitive–Affective Dysregulation in Adolescent Depression","authors":"Hong Li, Yujiao Wen, Wentao Cheng, Lexuan Zhuang, Zhifen Liu","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70421","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Adolescent major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by altered processing and regulation of negative emotional and bodily experiences. Pain lies at the interface of sensory and cognitive–affective processing, encompassing both perceptual sensitivity and appraisal of pain-related experiences. Yet, how pain catastrophizing, a pain-specific cognitive–affective pattern characterized by rumination, magnification, and helplessness, relates to depressive severity and neurophysiological dynamics during adolescence remains poorly understood. In this cross-sectional case–control study, we recruited 140 participants aged 12–23 years with and without MDD and investigated behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of pain-related cognitive–affective dysregulation using clinical assessments and resting-state electroencephalography (EEG). Structural equation modeling revealed a significant indirect association between pain catastrophizing and depressive severity through anxiety, highlighting anxiety-related processes within this relationship. Compared with healthy controls, adolescents with MDD exhibited increased δ- and θ-band power and altered EEG microstate dynamics, characterized by greater temporal involvement of microstate B, reduced temporal persistence of microstate D, and increased bidirectional B–C transitions. EEG-informed path models further linked microstate features to the indirect relationship between pain catastrophizing, anxiety, and depressive severity. Together, these findings identify convergent behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of pain-related cognitive–affective dysregulation and highlight dynamic EEG features for further investigation in adolescent MDD.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Trends and biases in the social cost of carbon”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70437","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70437","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tol, R. S. J. (2025). Trends and biases in the social cost of carbon. <i>Ann NY Acad Sci</i>., 1548, 248–259. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15340</p><p>In the Abstract of the originally published article, the sentence, “An updated and extended meta-analysis confirms that the central estimate of the social cost of carbon is around $200–250/tC ($700–900/tCO<sub>2</sub>) with a large, right-skewed uncertainty and trending up as ethical views have changed” should read: “An updated and extended meta-analysis confirms that the central estimate of the social cost of carbon is around $200–250/tC ($55–70/tCO<sub>2</sub>) with a large, right-skewed uncertainty and trending up as ethical views have changed.”</p><p>In the Conclusion, the sentence, “The overall mean estimate is $207/tC ($759/tCO<sub>2</sub>)” should read: “The overall mean estimate is $207/tC ($56/tCO<sub>2</sub>).”</p><p>We apologize for these errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70437","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Thermodynamic Analysis of Enhanced Metastability in Isochoric Supercooled Liquids","authors":"Boris Rubinsky","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70417","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70417","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Supercooled liquids with negative Clapeyron slopes are more stable at constant volume than at constant pressure. We compare the isochoric and isobaric driving forces for incipient solidification via a first-order perturbation expansion of the thermodynamic potentials in the solid mass fraction. The analysis yields a geometry-independent inequality: the isochoric Helmholtz driving force is strictly smaller than the isobaric Gibbs driving force. It also introduces a dimensionless stability number <i>Π</i><sub>0</sub> = <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>v</mi>\u0000 <mi>s</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>v</mi>\u0000 <mi>l</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mo>/</mo>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 <mi>f</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <mo>·</mo>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>κ</mi>\u0000 <mi>l</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <mo>·</mo>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>v</mi>\u0000 <mi>l</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$({{{v}_{mathrm{s}}} - {{v}_{mathrm{l}}}})^{2}/({{{L}_{mathrm{f}}}{cdot}{{kappa}_{mathrm{l}}}{cdot}{{v}_{mathrm{l}}}})$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>, where <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>v</mi>\u0000 <mi>s</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <annotation>${{v}_{mathrm{s}}}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> and <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>v</mi>\u0000 <mi>l</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <annotation>${{v}_{mathrm{l}}}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> are the solid and liquid specific volumes, <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 <mi>f</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <annotation>${{L}_{mathrm{f}}}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is the latent heat of fusion, and <i>κ</i><sub>l</sub> is the liquid isothermal compressibility.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1564 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149091414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}