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    Modulation of motor cortex activity when observing rewarding and punishing actions
    with Jan Roelf Wiersema, Gilles Pourtois, and Martin Brüne
    Neuropsychologia 51 (1): 52-58. 2013.
    Interpreting others' actions is essential for understanding the intentions and goals in social interactions. Activity in the motor cortex is evoked when we see another person performing actions, which can also be influenced by the intentions and context of the observed action. No study has directly explored the influence of reward and punishment on motor cortex activity when observing others' actions, which is likely to have substantial relevance in different social contexts. In this experiment,…Read more
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    Social stimuli grab our attention: we attend to them in an automatic and bottom-up manner, and ascribe them a higher degree of saliency compared to non-social stimuli. However, it has rarely been investigated how variations in attention affect the processing of social stimuli, although the answer could help us uncover details of social cognition processes such as action understanding. In the present study, we examined how changes to bottom-up attention affects neural EEG-responses associated wit…Read more
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    Reward in the mirror neuron system, social context, and the implications on psychopathology
    with Martin Brüne
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2): 196-197. 2014.