- Before the monkeys learned the association between litha nd jice, the dopmaine neurson fired in resposne to the jice itself… after a period of training, hwoever, the monkeys learned to associate the lgiht wit hthe juice, and the domaine neurons stopped firing ot the juice and began firing to the light (1) – page 45 2
- Most people avoid the urn with the unknown probabilities regardless of what the other urn contains… two regions were more strongly activated in response to ambiguity… the orbitofrontal cortex and the amygdala (2) – pages 75-76 3
- When people reappraised emotional scenecs, meanign they replaces a negative reacton with a positive one, activity in the left prefonrtla cortex increased, in an amount hta tcorrealtedw ith the decrease in the amygdala (3) – page 79 3
- Greater activity in the dopamine rich areas of the brain when winning was more liekly… how much greater depended on the partiucalr combination of gens the indivudla had… people with the Val/Val form of COMT and the 10r form of the DAT showed no relationship bweteen brain activity and winning… thse people were insentivie to the level of risk… these people also socred high in sensation seeking… these particualr variants are associatedw ieth lower dopamine activity (4) – pages 127-128 5
- Participants with amygdala damage judged ther people to be more trustworthy (5) – page 139 6
- Participants displayed more amygdala activation to Afircan American faces than Caucian ones.. the level of amygdala activation correlated with two subconscious measures of racial bias (6) – page 140 6
- Birds had learned the trick of opening milk bottles from each other (7) – page 183 8
- Individuals who scored high on the personality traits of novelty seeking and thirll eeking had the hgihest level of striatal activation (8) – pages 192-193 8
- Parts of the striatum became activie when subjects viewed appetizing or disgusting foods… the degree of straitl activationw as linked to peraonlity traits… subjects who scored on “Behavioral Approach” ad higher activation in response to appetizing foods.. the relationship did not exist for disgusting oods (9) – pages 192-193 8
- The level of COMT activity doubled in the adult brain comapred to the infant brain (10) – page 199 8
- When women were administered testosterone, they didn’t subconsciously mimic facial expressions… It also decreased startle response (11) – page 220 Appe
- Oxytocin increased ability to read facial expressions (12) – page 221 Appe
- Amygdala actvation in response to fear-inducing picture was decreased by oxytocin adminstration (13) – page 221 Appe
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