Yawn, yawn, yawn, yawn; yawn, yawn, yawn! The social, evolutionary and neuroscientific facets of contagious yawningSteven M Platek
Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, USA
Front Neurol Neurosci 28:107-12. 2010
..This suggests that contagious yawning may be an evolutionarily old process that begot a higher level of social cognition in certain species...
- Implicit trustworthiness ratings of self-resembling faces activate brain centers involved in reward
Steven M Platek
Psychology, Georgia Gwinnet College, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:289-93. 2009
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- Is family special to the brain? An event-related fMRI study of familiar, familial, and self-face recognition
Steven M Platek
Psychology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:849-58. 2009
..These findings, and a region of interest (ROI) analysis, highlight the role of the extended face-processing network for discrimination of kin from familiar non-kin members of one's social group based on self-referent phenotypic cues...
- Neural correlates of self-face recognition: an effect-location meta-analysis
Steven M Platek
School of Biological Sciences, Magnetic Resonance and Image Analysis Center MARIARC, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GE, UK
Brain Res 1232:173-84. 2008
..The evidence is interpreted in light of a developing model of self-face recognition as part of a larger social cognitive stream of processing...
Optimal waist-to-hip ratios in women activate neural reward centers in menSteven M Platek
Department of Psychology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e9042. 2010
..This is the first description of a neural correlate implicating WHR as a putative honest biological signal of female reproductive viability and its effects on men's neurological processing...
- Self-face resemblance attenuates other-race face effect in the amygdala
Steven M Platek
Psychology, School of Liberal Arts, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, USA
Brain Res 1284:156-60. 2009
..These findings demonstrate that interactions of important facial social judgements are processed combinatorially in the amygdala...
- The neural basis of facial resemblance
Steven M Platek
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
Neurosci Lett 437:76-81. 2008
..Our findings suggest the evolution of anterior-posterior neural organization associated with making self-other judgements pertinent to kin recognition...
Self-face recognition and theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia and first-degree relativesFarzin Irani
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Schizophr Res 88:151-60. 2006
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- Contagious yawning and the brain
Steven M Platek
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 1505 Race Street, Mail Stop 626, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23:448-52. 2005
..g., self-referential processing, theory of mind, autobiographical memory), our findings provide further support for the hypothesis that contagious yawning may be part of a neural network involved in empathy...
- Where am I? The neurological correlates of self and other
Steven M Platek
Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 1505 Race Street, Mail Stop 626, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 19:114-22. 2004
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- A left-hand advantage for self-description: the impact of schizotypal personality traits
Steven M Platek
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA
Schizophr Res 65:147-51. 2003
..These data add to a growing body of evidence that implicates the right hemisphere in processing information about the self and supports the hypothesis that self-processing may be impaired in schizophrenic-like populations...
- Sex differences in the neural correlates of child facial resemblance: an event-related fMRI study
Steven M Platek
Department of Psychology, Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuroimage 25:1336-44. 2005
..This process may capitalize on neural substrates involved in self-referent processing and familiarity detection...
- Neural substrates for functionally discriminating self-face from personally familiar faces
Steven M Platek
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, and Department of Psychiatry, Brain Behavior Laboratory, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 27:91-8. 2006
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- Only the mean survive?
Steven M Platek
Department of Psychology, Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Drexel University, Philadelpia, PA 19104, USA
Cortex 41:705-7. 2005
- Contagious yawning: the role of self-awareness and mental state attribution
Steven M Platek
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 17:223-7. 2003
..These data suggest that contagious yawning may be associated with empathic aspects of mental state attribution and are negatively affected by increases in schizotypal personality traits much like other self-processing related tasks...
- Working together may be better: activation of reward centers during a cooperative maze task
Austen L Krill
Georgia Gwinnett College, School of Liberal Arts, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e30613. 2012
..This finding represents one of the first discoveries of a proximate neural mechanism for group based interactions in real-time, which indirectly supports the social brain hypothesis...
- Distinguishing between neuropsychological malingering and exaggerated psychiatric symptoms in a neuropsychological setting
Anthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology Program, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102 1192, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 22:547-64. 2008
..6% solely failed the neuropsychological SVT, and 6.1% solely failed the psychiatric SVT. The results support a dissociation between neuropsychological malingering and exaggeration of psychiatric symptoms in a neuropsychological setting...
- Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS): an emerging neuroimaging technology with important applications for the study of brain disorders
Farzin Irani
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 21:9-37. 2007
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- Cross-modal self-recognition: the role of visual, auditory, and olfactory primes
Steven M Platek
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 245 N 15th Street, Mail Stop 626, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Conscious Cogn 13:197-210. 2004
..These data, along with other recent results suggest the brain processes/represents information about the self in highly integrated ways...
- Self-face processing in a callosotomy patient
Julian Paul Keenan
Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Dickson 225, Upper Montclair, NJ, 07304, USA
Eur J Neurosci 18:2391-5. 2003
..e. indicating with the left hand). There was no hand difference when searching for familiar faces. These data imply a right hemisphere processing advantage for self-faces...
- Self-face recognition is affected by schizotypal personality traits
Steven M Platek
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA
Schizophr Res 57:81-5. 2002
..Our data are the first to show that traits associated with a schizophrenic spectrum disorder in a non-clinical population may compromise self-face recognition...
