First-time fathers processed own-infant stimuli in mentalizing, emotion regulation, and reward processing regions, and posterior midline responses tracked with bonding and parental stress. Whole-brai....

Nature Communications - How the brain creates compositional cognitive maps that support both flexible and efficient planning remains poorly understood. Here, authors propose a...

Dr. Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students Website: https://psych.wisc.edu/staff/guassi-moreira-joao/ Current research: Dr. Guassi Moreira’s Computational Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory (CDNLab) studies the neurodevelopment of affective and social phenomena between late childhood and emerging adulthood. Currently, CDNLab is particularly interested in the development of emotion regulation and decision-making, and the nexus between the two.…

The Social Connection Lab ("SoCoLab") at USC investigates what helps people feel socially connected to one another.

Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...

You’ve heard of 'mom brain.' But how do men’s brains change when they become fathers?

Psychotherapy is the most ubiquitous form of mental health treatment and it unfolds predominantly through language. To better understand how this exchange of words bolsters mental health, we tested ho...

This Spence recipient's interdisciplinary work examines the neurocognitive mechanisms of affective information processing and how they impact mental health.

The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of the term ‘social connection’ — as subjecti...

Nature Reviews Psychology - The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Emotional events tend to be vividly remembered. While growing evidence suggests that emotions have their basis in brain-wide network interactions, it is unclear if and how these whole-brain dynamics c...