Subjects: Psychology >> Cognitive Psychology submitted time 2021-12-03
Abstract: The Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART) can well simulate real world risk-taking situations in the laboratory environment. Due to its high ecological validity, reliability and stability, the BART paradigm has become one of the most widely used paradigms for risky decision-making research. Recently, researchers have developed multiple variants of the BART paradigm and explored risk-taking behavior and neural correlates in developmental, health, and pathological fields. Risk-taking in the BART is associated with activations in multiple brain regions including the ventral striatum, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), insula, midbrain and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Future studies need to further improve the reliability and stability of the BART for cognitive neuroscience research and expand its application scope.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Cognitive Psychology submitted time 2019-03-11
Abstract: The processing of moral metaphors is essentially a dynamic process of mapping a concrete source domain with sensorimotor experience to an abstract target domain and representing abstract moral concepts. And it should also be regarded as a result of interactive activity amid physical experience and moral emotions. Researches on the neural mechanism of moral metaphors showed that physical and emotional experience influence the processing of moral metaphors, and discussed the effects of moral emotions on the metaphorical mapping of morality. Future researches should enrich the range of subject and directions of mapping, and improve the ecological validity and cross-cultural validity by modifying the experimental paradigms in social interactions.