THE PREVALANCE AND NEURAL SUBSTRATES OF THEORY OF MIND DEFICITS FOLLOWING STROKE: A NEUROIMAGING INVESTIGATION

Common and distinct neural networks involved in fMRI studies investigating morality: an ALE meta-analysis

Robert Eres, Winnifred R Louis, Pascal Molenberghs

2018-01-01

Morality is an important social construct necessary for understanding what is right and wrong. Neuroimaging studies investigating ..

Lateral orbitofrontal cortex activity is modulated by group membership in situations of justified and unjustified violence

Juan FD Dominguez, Felice van Nunspeet, Ayushi Gupta, Robert Eres, Winnifred R Louis, Jean Decety, Pascal Molenberghs

2018-01-01

The role of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in moral decision-making is well established. However, OFC activity is highly context d..

Why do people pirate? A neuroimaging investigation

Robert Eres, Winnifred R Louis, Pascal Molenberghs

2017-01-01

It is not uncommon for people to openly admit to pirating information from the internet despite the known legal consequences. Thos..

Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: a large-scale fMRI study

Pascal Molenberghs, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Anne Bockler, Tania Singer, Philipp Kanske

2016-12-01

One important aspect of metacognition is the ability to accurately evaluate one's performance. People vary widely in their metacog..

Increased Pain Communication following Multiple Group Memberships Salience Leads to a Relative Reduction in Pain-Related Brain Activity

Laura J Ferris, Jolanda Jetten, Pascal Molenberghs, Brock Bastian, Fika Karnadewi

2016-09-22

Pain is a fundamental human experience that triggers a range of social and psychological responses. In this study, we present beha..

Understanding the minds of others: A neuroimaging meta-analysis

Pascal Molenberghs, Halle Johnson, Julie D Henry, Jason B Mattingley

2016-06-01

Theory of mind (ToM) is an important skill that refers broadly to the capacity to understand the mental states of others. A large ..

Why Do Some Find it Hard to Disagree? An fMRI Study

Juan F Dominguez D, Sreyneth A Taing, Pascal Molenberghs

2016-01-29

People often find it hard to disagree with others, but how this disposition varies across individuals or how it is influenced by s..

Clinical assessment of social cognitive function in neurological disorders

Julie D Henry, William von Hippel, Pascal Molenberghs, Teresa Lee, Perminder S Sachdev

2016-01-01

Social cognition broadly refers to the processing of social information in the brain that underlies abilities such as the detectio..

Increased Moral Sensitivity for Outgroup Perpetrators Harming Ingroup Members

Pascal Molenberghs, Joshua Gapp, Bei Wang, Winnifred R Louis, Jean Decety

2016-01-01

From an evolutionary perspective, one should be more sensitive when outgroup members attack the ingroup but less so when ingroup o..

The neural correlates of justified and unjustified killing: an fMRI study

Pascal Molenberghs, Claudette Ogilvie, Winnifred R Louis, Jean Decety, Jessica Bagnall, Paul G Bain

2015-10-01

Despite moral prohibitions on hurting other humans, some social contexts allow for harmful actions such as killing of others. One ..

Individual differences in local gray matter density are associated with differences in affective and cognitive empathy

Robert Eres, Jean Decety, Winnifred R Louis, Pascal Molenberghs

2015-08-15

The understanding of empathy from a neuroscientific perspective has recently developed quickly, with numerous functional MRI studi..

The Influence of Group Membership and Individual Differences in Psychopathy and Perspective Taking on Neural Responses When Punishing and Rewarding Others

Pascal Molenberghs, Rebecca Bosworth, Zoie Nott, Winnifred R Louis, Joanne R Smith, Catherine E Amiot, Kathleen D Vohs, Jean Decety

2014-10-01

Understanding how neural processes involved in punishing and rewarding others are altered by group membership and personality trai..