fMRI

Modality-specific effects of aversive expectancy in the anterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex
Expectations modulate the subjective experience of pain by increasing sensitivity to nociceptive inputs, an effect mediated by brain …
Gil Sharvit, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Patrik Vuilleumier
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The good, the bad, and the suffering. Transient emotional episodes modulate the neural circuits of pain and empathy
People’s sensitivity to first-hand pain is affected by their ongoing emotions, with positive states (joy, amusement) exerting …
Emilie Qiao-Tasserit, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Functional organization of face processing in the human superior temporal sulcus. A 7T high-resolution fMRI study
The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is a major component of the human face perception network, implicated in processing dynamic …
Anne-Kathrin Schobert, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Sascha Frühholz, Wietske van der Zwaag, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Fear Spreading Across Senses. Visual Emotional Events Alter Cortical Responses to Touch, Audition, and Vision
Attention and perception are potentiated for emotionally significant stimuli, promoting efficient reactivity and survival. But does …
Judith Domínguez-Borràs, Sebastian Walter Rieger, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Rémi Neveu, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
The anterior insula (AI) and mid-anterior cingulate cortex (mACC) have repeatedly been implicated in first-hand and vicarious …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Anita Tusche, Patrik Vuilleumier, Tania Singer
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
How the brain predicts people’s behavior in relation to rules and desires. Evidence of a medio-prefrontal dissociation
Forming and updating impressions about others is critical in everyday life and engages portions of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Francesco Turri, Laurence Kaufmann, Fabrice Clément, Sophie Schwartz
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Selecting category specific visual information. Top-down and bottom-up control of object based attention
The ability to select, within the complexity of sensory input, the information most relevant for our purposes is influenced by both …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Ralph Weidner, Gereon R. Fink
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Neural responses to emotional expression information in high- and low-spatial frequency in autism. Evidence for a cortical dysfunction
Despite an overall consensus that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) entails atypical processing of human faces and emotional expressions, …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Sophie Schwartz, Emilie Meaux, Bénedicte Hubert, Patrik Vuilleumier, Christine Deruelle
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Cognitive and affective theory of mind share the same local patterns of activity in posterior temporal but not medial prefrontal cortex
Understanding emotions in others engages specific brain regions in temporal and medial prefrontal cortices. These activations are often …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Christoph Hofstetter, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Disentangling self- and fairness-related neural mechanisms involved in the ultimatum game: an fMRI study
Rejections of unfair offers in the ultimatum game (UG) are commonly assumed to reflect negative emotional arousal mediated by the …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Claudia Civai, Raffaella I. Rumiati, Gereon R. Fink
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