Dominik R Bach

..The model furnishes a potentially powerful approach to characterising SCR that exploits knowledge about how these signals are generated...

..Our findings indicate that behavioral and neural responses to second-order uncertainty are distinct from those associated with ambiguity and may call for a reappraisal of previous data...

..We propose that in the absence of a functioning amygdala, prioritised visual processing may rely on alternative structures such as pulvinar and cortical visual areas...

..We propose that connectivity profiles provide a potentially powerful approach for in vivo amygdala parcellation and can serve as a guide in studies that exploit functional and anatomical neuroimaging...

..We discuss methodical reasons for this discrepancy and technical implications for estimation of central processes from skin conductance data...

..We demonstrate the validity of this measure in relation to finite impulse response models, and show that it is a better predictor of autonomic arousal, relative to conventional measures...

..We develop a canonical response function and show that it can be used for signals from different recording sites. We discuss the implications of these observations for model-based analysis of SCRs...

..We discuss how this might support the notion of a more general deficit in extracting emotional meaning from different sensory cues, including intensity and pitch...

..We suggest our approach provides greater flexibility in analysing SCRs than existing methods...

..Explicit emotional appraisal of such sounds shows a strong directional asymmetry and thus may reflect their implicit warning properties...

..A sparse neuronal representation for fear, here revealed by multivariate pattern classification, resolves why an enduring memory trace has proven elusive in previous human studies...

..In addition to brain areas commonly related to prosody processing, our results suggest specific functions of anterior cingulate and basal ganglia in detecting emotional prosody, particularly when explicit identification is necessary...

..Our findings suggest that these regions subserve a general function of contextual analysis when search for hidden information during outcome anticipation is both necessary and meaningful...

..Enhanced right-lateralisation to prosody resembles previous findings on laterality changes in speech processing and might suggest a common underlying cause in the organization of language functions...

..Regions involved in cross-modal integration were activated by rising sound intensity, while the right-hemisphere phasic alertness network could not be supported by this study...

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..This operation is likely to facilitate cross-modal object feature binding based on temporal coincidence...

..Our findings show that risk is neither monolithic from a behavioural nor neural perspective and its decomposition is evident both in distinct behavioural preferences and in segregated underlying brain representations...

..Our data indicate that, during decision making under risk, both behavior and the neural encoding of key decision variables are strongly influenced by the manner in which value information is presented...

..In line with our hypothesis, a similar pattern of signal change predicted acceptance of the status quo on a subsequent trial. Thus, our data link a regret-induced status quo bias to error-related activity on the preceding trial...

..Our findings indicate that regret can lead to choice repetition as if seeking to make up for our mistakes and in so doing may lead to subsequent chasing behavior...

..The findings indicate that the way the brain processes regret-related outcomes depends on both objective and subjective aspects of responsibility, highlighting the critical importance of the amygdala...

..Our data suggest that crossmodal effects are differentially modulated according to the hierarchical core-belt organization of auditory cortex...

..We conclude that the currently available evidence indicates that distinct neural encoding (including summary statistic-type representations) of uncertainty occurs in distinct neural systems...

..This dominant influence of action requires an enriched notion of opponency between reward and punishment...

..This review concludes by considering the theoretical implications for the field of psychophysiology and benefits for practical data analysis...

..Influence at such a low level could contribute to rapid learning and the swift spread of values throughout a population...