The study suggests that the engagement of the DMN in both external and internal cognition is grounded in its microarchitectural differentiation into complementary receiver- and sender-like zones.
Drs. Raymond Chan and Yi Wang from the Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience (NACN) Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Psychology and their collaborators administered the adapted Empathic Accuracy Task to investigate the empathy performance of 50 patients with schizophrenia and 50 healthy controls, and 59 individuals with high soci...
Reward motivation refers to the extent to which a person is willing to exert effort in order to obtain rewards. In everyday life, reward motivation is not fixed at some levels. Instead, it changes flexibly depending on the effort-reward ratio in a given context. For example, when the situation is favorable, people are usually more willing to invest effort, and vice versa. This ability to flexib...
