Unpleasantness

Modality-specific effects of aversive expectancy in the anterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex
Expectations modulate the subjective experience of pain by increasing sensitivity to nociceptive inputs, an effect mediated by brain …
Gil Sharvit, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Patrik Vuilleumier
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The good, the bad, and the suffering. Transient emotional episodes modulate the neural circuits of pain and empathy
People’s sensitivity to first-hand pain is affected by their ongoing emotions, with positive states (joy, amusement) exerting …
Emilie Qiao-Tasserit, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Patrik Vuilleumier
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What determines social behavior? Investigating the role of emotions, self-centered motives, and social norms
In the last decade, a growing research effort in behavioral sciences, especially psychology and neuroscience, has been invested in the …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Leonie Koban, Susanne Leiberg, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
The anterior insula (AI) and mid-anterior cingulate cortex (mACC) have repeatedly been implicated in first-hand and vicarious …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Anita Tusche, Patrik Vuilleumier, Tania Singer
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
Cross-modal and modality-specific expectancy effects between pain and disgust
Pain sensitivity increases when a noxious stimulus is preceded by cues predicting higher intensity. However, it is unclear whether the …
Gil Sharvit, Patrik Vuilleumier, Sylvain Delplanque, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua
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Embodying Pain
How first-hand pain experience shapes social proficiency?
Expressing Pain
Can Pain be extrapolated from facial information?