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Memory Control: A Fundamental Mechanism of Emotion Regulation

Memories play a ubiquitous role in our emotional lives, both causing vivid emotional experiences in their own right and imbuing perception of the external world with emotional significance. Controlling the emotional impact of memories therefore poses a major emotion-regulation challenge, suggesting that there might be a hitherto unexplored link between the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying memory […]

Published on August 17, 2018

Sparse Ordinal Logistic Regression and Its Application to Brain Decoding

Emi Satake, Kei Majima, Shuntaro C. Aoki, Yukiyasu Kamitani Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering Self-Enhancement Science for the Success of Society. With a keen interest in exploring the untapped […]

Published on August 15, 2018

Moderate Differences in Feeding Diets Largely Affect Motivation and Spatial Cognition in Adult and Aged but Less in Young Male Rats

Jovana Maliković, Daniel D. Feyissa, Ahmed M. Hussein, Harald Höger, Gert Lubec, Volker Korz Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering Self-Enhancement Science for the Success of Society. With a keen […]

Published on August 15, 2018