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Loneliness – not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli

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Wiśniewska, M., Piejka, A., Wolak, T., Scheele, D., & Okruszek, Ł. (2025). Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli. Social Neuroscience, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2025.2498384

Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain

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Pacheco-Estefan, D., Bouyeure, A., Jacob, G., Fellner, M.-C., Lehongre, K., Lambrecq, V., Frazzini, V., Navarro, V., Güntürkün, O., Shen, L., Yang, J., Han, B., Chen, Q., & Axmacher, N. (2025). Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02268-5

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The multidimensional profile methodology (MPM) for comparative cognition: towards a universal strategy of understanding animal minds

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Dung, L., & Newen, A. (2025). The multidimensional profile methodology (MPM) for comparative cognition: towards a universal strategy of understanding animal minds. Philosophical Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02363-3

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