Physical proximity is important in social interactions. Here, we assessed whether simulated physical proximity modulates the perceived intensity of facial emotional expressions and their associated physiological signatures during observation or imitation of these expressions. Forty-four healthy volunteers rated intensities of dynamic angry or happy...
Pedron, SolèneDumontoy, StéphanieGonzález-Marín, Maria del CarmenCoune, FabienVan Schuerbeek, AndriesHaffen, EmmanuelNaassila, MickaelVan Waes, Vincent
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging noninvasive brain neuromodulation technique aimed at relieving symptoms associated with psychiatric disorders, including addiction. The goal of the present study was to better identify which phase of alcohol-related behavior (hedonic effect, behavioral sensitization, self-administration,...
Episodic memory decline with aging may be due to an age-related deficit in encoding processing, older adults having increasing difficulty to self-initiate encoding strategies that support later retrieval. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), the present study explored for the first time the neural correlates of successful encoding in a resource-d...
Creative problem solving is a complex process that is being studied through a diversity of tasks. CreaCube is an open ill-defined task whereby the player is required to engage in a creative problem-solving activity (Romero et al., 2017) that we try to analyze with computational models (Alexandre, 2020a). To represent the behavior of the subject thr...
In so-called ethorobotics and robot-supported social cognitive neurosciences, robots are used as scientific tools to study animal behavior and cognition. Building on previous epistemological analyses of biorobotics, in this article it is argued that these two research fields, widely differing from one another in the kinds of robots involved and in ...
Despite increasing numbers of publications showing that many animals possess the neural substrates involved in emotions and consciousness, many animals are still restrained and forced to take part in applied or fundamental research. However, these restraints stress animals and may result in false negatives or false positives. A change is needed in ...
