background the importance of proper qualitative evaluation of eeg parameters during surgery has been recognized since many years. although none of the characteristics based on the frequency, entropy, and bi spectral characteristics have been regarded as a good predictor for detection of the depth of anesthesia alone. so it seems necessary to study multiple characteristics together. objectives i...

Recent studies have begun to elucidate the roles played in social cognition by specific neural structures, genes, and neurotransmitter systems. Cortical regions in the temporal lobe participate in perceiving socially relevant stimuli, whereas the amygdala, right somatosensory cortices, orbitofrontal cortices, and cingulate cortices all participate in linking perception of such stimuli to motiva...

Human beings are suspended in webs of significance they themselves have spun.1 To add specificity to the metaphor, we can think of the filaments of these webs as assumptions—assumptions about such things as human nature; causality; the possible, the desirable, and the appropriate; the nature of the physical environment; and the relationship of human beings to their fellows. Where these assumpti...

In two studies, we explore causal domains of envy and test predictions about whether it is sex differentiated in nature. Study 1 explored the contexts in which envy is most frequently experienced by men and women. Study 2 built on these results, explicitly testing predictions about sex differences in envy. The results provide needed insight into sex differences in envy and provide the basis for...

This paper presents an examination of the variable lexical labels used by listeners to identify 16 social affective expressions in Japanese language, in audiovisual presentations. A free-labeling task allows an open approach to variability in the perception of social affects, that is constrained by pre-defined force-choice paradigms. 27 L1 Japanese listeners participated in the experiment. Subj...

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