Search Results - "Spezio, Michael L."

Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch by Gazzola, Valeria, Spezio, Michael L, Etzel, Joset A, Castelli, Fulvia, Adolphs, Ralph, Keysers, Christian

“…Another person’s caress is one of the most powerful of all emotional social signals. How much the primary somatosensory cortices (SIs) participate in…”
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Abnormal Use of Facial Information in High-Functioning Autism by Spezio, Michael L, Adolphs, Ralph, Hurley, Robert S. E, Piven, Joseph

“…Altered visual exploration of faces likely contributes to social cognition deficits seen in autism. To investigate the relationship between face gaze and…”
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Looking you in the mouth: abnormal gaze in autism resulting from impaired top-down modulation of visual attention by Neumann, Dirk, Spezio, Michael L, Piven, Joseph, Adolphs, Ralph

“…People with autism are impaired in their social behavior, including their eye contact with others, but the processes that underlie this impairment remain…”
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Analysis of face gaze in autism using “Bubbles” by Spezio, Michael L., Adolphs, Ralph, Hurley, Robert S.E., Piven, Joseph

“…One of the components of abnormal social functioning in autism is an impaired ability to direct eye gaze onto other people's faces in social situations. Here,…”
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Distinct Face-Processing Strategies in Parents of Autistic Children by Adolphs, Ralph, Spezio, Michael L., Parlier, Morgan, Piven, Joseph

“…In his original description of autism, Kanner [1] noted that the parents of autistic children often exhibited unusual social behavior themselves, consistent…”
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Amygdala Damage Impairs Eye Contact During Conversations with Real People by Spezio, Michael L, Huang, Po-Yin Samuel, Castelli, Fulvia, Adolphs, Ralph

“…The role of the human amygdala in real social interactions remains essentially unknown, although studies in nonhuman primates and studies using photographs and…”
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Thin-Slice Decisions Do Not Need Faces to be Predictive of Election Outcomes by Spezio, Michael L., Loesch, Laura, Gosselin, Frédéric, Mattes, Kyle, Alvarez, R. Michael

“…Rapid decisions about political candidates, made solely on the basis of candidate appearance, associate with real electoral outcomes. A prevailing…”
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A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes by Spezio, Michael L., Rangel, Antonio, Alvarez, Ramon Michael, O'Doherty, John P., Mattes, Kyle, Todorov, Alexander, Kim, Hackjin, Adolphs, Ralph

“…Election outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidate's visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance,…”
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SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE AND THEISTIC EVOLUTION: INTERSUBJECTIVITY, LOVE, AND THE SOCIAL SPHERE by Spezio, Michael L.

“…After providing a brief overview of social neuroscience in the context of strong embodiment and the cognitive sciences, this paper addresses how perspectives…”
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Facial emotion recognition in agenesis of the corpus callosum by Bridgman, Matthew W, Brown, Warren S, Spezio, Michael L, Leonard, Matthew K, Adolphs, Ralph, Paul, Lynn K

“…Impaired social functioning is a common symptom of individuals with developmental disruptions in callosal connectivity. Among these developmental conditions,…”
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Asymmetrical use of eye information from faces following unilateral amygdala damage by Gosselin, Frédéric, Spezio, Michael L., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph

“…The human amygdalae are involved in processing visual information about the eyes within faces, and play an essential role in the use of information from the…”
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Brain and Machine: Minding the Transhuman Future by Spezio, Michael L.

“…:  Ethical deliberations about brain‐machine interfaces (BMI) focus on how humanity will be changed in imagined future transhuman landscapes. I review some…”
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THE NEUROSCIENCE OF EMOTION AND REASONING IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MORAL THEOLOGY by SPEZIO, MICHAEL L.

“…The neuroscience of emotion and its relation to moral action is a critical area of engagement for deepening understanding of faith, rationality, and the…”
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Personality's Role in Moral Action by SPEZIO, MICHAEL L., PETERSON, GREGORY R., BROWN, WARREN S., REIMER, KEVIN S., VAN SLYKE, JAMES

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Maturity is explicit: Self-importance of traits in humanitarian moral identity by Reimer, Kevin S., Young, Christina, Birath, Brandon, Spezio, Michael L., Peterson, Gregory, Van Slyke, James, Brown, Warren S.

“…Development of humanitarian moral identity may correspond with the growing self-importance of moral traits. This study considered the extent to which moral…”
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Frequency-Specific Interaural Level Difference Tuning Predicts Spatial Response Patterns of Space-Specific Neurons in the Barn Owl Inferior Colliculus by Spezio, Michael L, Takahashi, Terry T

“…Space-specific neurons in the barn owl's inferior colliculus have spatial receptive fields (RFs) because of sensitivity to interaural time difference and…”
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Head-related transfer functions of the Rhesus monkey by Spezio, Michael L, Keller, Clifford H, Marrocco, Richard T, Takahashi, Terry T

“…Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are direction-specific acoustic filters formed by the head, the pinnae and the ear canals. They can be used to assess…”
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Freedom in the Body: The Physical, the Causal, and the Possibility of Choice by Spezio, Michael L.

“… In Minding God Gregory Peterson takes a careful look at the kind of freedom that human persons have. He concludes that humans are constrained to be free and…”
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Understanding Biology in Religious Experience: The Biogenetic Structuralist Approach of Eugene d'Aquili and Andrew Newberg by Spezio, Michael L.

“…What are the biological bases of religious experience? Are there biological constraints upon or determinants of religious narratives and practices? How does…”
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Fundamentalisms by Spezio, Michael L., Draper, T. W.

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