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Pulling the lever in a hurry: the influence of impulsivity and sensitivity to reward on moral decision-making under time pressure

Making timely moral decisions can be crucial. Just think of physicians and health care professionals, who are often called upon to make quick decisions about the lives of their patients. Nevertheless, experimental studies that have investigated the effects of time pressure on moral decisions (i.e.,

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The Benefits of Playing Action-Like Video Games on Salience Processing

Franceschini, S., Puccio, G., Bertoni, S., Gori, S., Mascheretti, S., Fusina, F., Angrilli, A., Facoetti, A. (2024). The Benefits of Playing Action-Like Video Games on Salience Processing. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2346693LINK:

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How do we construct emotions?

How do we construct emotions? In this Chapter of the Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, 2nd ed., Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi, Suzanne Oosterwijk, and Lisa Feldman Barrett show how our emotion concepts arise from predictive processes. Within a collection of chapters dedicated to presenting a

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Action video games and neuromodulation of the posterior parietal cortex improve both attention and reading in adults with developmental dyslexia

Bertoni, S., Franceschini, S., Mancarella, M., Puccio, G., Ronconi, L., Marsicano, G., Gori, S., Campana, G., & Facoetti, A. (2024). Action video games and posterior parietal cortex neuromodulation enhance both attention and reading in adults with developmental dyslexia. Cerebral Cortex, 34(4).

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The dark and gloomy brain: grey matter volume alterations in major depressive disorder – fine-grained meta-analyses

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) affects about 280 million people worldwide and has been recognized as the leading cause of disability among mental disorders. However, research on the brain correlates of MDD lacks definitive consensus regarding the areas affected by reduction (atrophy) or increase

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