Eye puffs prompt separable sensory, affective brain responses in mice, people Post-puff brain state might not be an emotion, some researchers caution, but the protocol provides a cross-species approach to study emotions.

🧠 Can emotions be studied across species?

New research shows how mice & humans share prolonged brain states in response to eye puffs—disrupted by ketamine.

A breakthrough in emotion research?

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Music used to study how we shift between emotions Credit: Klaus Vedfelt / DigitalVision / Getty Images Plus. Neuroscientists worked with musicians to compose new pieces of music to study how the brain tracks and shifts between different emotional states....

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Spider fear inflates size perception, highlighting the role of emotion in threat assessment “Do we see what we feel?” A new study in Cognition & Emotion finds that people who fear spiders tend to overestimate their size, while spider experts are more accurate in their assessments. Fear can...

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Is anyone heading to #CERE2025 in #Grenoble during July? #EmotionResearch @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social @elisekalo.bsky.social @raziasahi.bsky.social @caro-maccann.bsky.social @katiegreenaway.bsky.social ?

AI and Brain Imaging Show How Conversations Synchronize Human Minds Researchers combined AI and neuroimaging to uncover how emotions and language influence brain activity, showing that conversations synchronize neural activity between individuals.

Researchers combined AI and neuroimaging to uncover how emotions and language influence brain activity, showing that conversations synchronize neural activity between individuals. 🔬🧠💬 #AI #Neuroscience #BrainSync #HumanConnection #Neuroimaging #LanguageScience #EmotionResearch #Psychology

Early humans felt emotions in unusual body parts compared to modern humans Researchers analyze ancient Mesopotamian texts to understand how emotions were linked to bodily sensations.

Early humans felt emotions in unusual body parts: Researchers analyze ancient Mesopotamian texts to understand how emotions were linked to bodily sensations.

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Anyone have access to the #IADS2 or #IADSE datasets? The IAPS/IADS folks seem to be MIA and haven't received a response from the IADS-E researchers

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