Manfred Spitzer

TL;DR: Functional MRI was used to observe brain activation in male and female subjects as they searched for the way out of a complex, three-dimensional, virtual-reality maze to demonstrate a neural substrate of well established human gender differences in spatial-cognition performance.

TL;DR: Different activations of the neural circuitry behind social norm compliance reveal individual differences in the behavioral response to the punishment threat and might provide a deeper understanding of the neurobiological sources of pathologies such as antisocial personality disorder.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that the human dopamine system codes reward probability and prediction error in a similar way, using a simple delayed incentive task with a discrete range of reward probabilities from 0-100%.

TL;DR: FMRI results reveal significantly more activation in ventral striatum, orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate and occipital regions for sports cars in contrast to other categories of cars, demonstrating that artificial cultural objects associated with wealth and social dominance elicit activation in reward-related brain areas.

TL;DR: Data suggest that semantic associative memory operates at a comparatively lower signal-to-noise ratio in thought-disordered schizophrenic patients, and indirect semantic priming at short prime-target intervals appears to be the best indicator of associative network dysfunction.