Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory

TL;DR: In the VM group, performance in the affective ToM was significantly impaired as compared to cognitive ToM stories, and ratings of levels of emotionality of each story suggested that levels of affective load correlated with number of errors in the stories, indicating that the more the emotional load involved in the story the greater the difficulty posed for the subjects in this group.

TL;DR: A single intranasal administration of oxytocin, as opposed to the placebo, improved the subjects' ability to recognize fear, but not other emotions, suggesting a specific role for oxytoc in fear recognition, which could be relevant for clinical disorders that manifest deficits in processing emotional facial expressions, particularly fear.

TL;DR: It is proposed that a balanced activation of these 2 networks is required for appropriate social behavior: an emotional system and a cognitive system.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that hand-holding during pain administration increases brain-to-brain coupling in a network that mainly involves the central regions of the pain target and the right hemisphere of thepain observer, and indicates that brain- to- brain coupling may be involved in touch-related analgesia.

TL;DR: A neural and cognitive model according to which a balance between the two hemispheres affects a major aspect of creative cognition, namely, originality is proposed, which concludes that the right mPFC is part of a right fronto-parietal network which is responsible for producing original ideas.