Science news articles about 'social stimuli'

... affected individuals respond to facial expressions, suggesting that the condition involves increased responsiveness to social stimuli in areas linked to emotion. Karina Blair, Ph.D., and colleagues ...

... literally thousands of genes turn on or off in the honey bee brain in response to social stimuli. One such gene, called for (for foraging), was originally discovered in fruit flies by Marla Sokolowski ...

... version of the gene in monkeys was found to influence their risk-taking when faced with particular social stimuli. "Based on work in humans, we interpreted this to reflect an induction of a fearful ...

... music, this will open the doorway for teaching children with ASD to better recognize emotions in social stimuli, such as facial expressions.” The overarching goal of the study, of course, is to ...

... with autistic behaviour avoid eye contact," Hietanen said. As atypical emotional reactions to various social stimuli, for instance other people's facial expressions, most likely play a key role in ...

... Beholder: Individual Differences in Perceived Social Isolation Predict Regional Brain Activation to Social Stimuli," published in the current issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. In the ...

... is less threatening. The children can be distracted by a lot of sensory stimuli coming at them. Social stimuli are particularly complex and can confuse them. So alternative methods of teaching that ...