RoundTable2016April

This page provides links to materials related to the discussions in Room 309 of the round table meeting in NTU Psychology on 4/23, 2016. You are welcome to contact Erik Chang or the Taiwan Mind and Brain Imaging Center for further inquiries. In the following section, a review and an empirical paper is listed for each topic, which serves as a starting reference for those who are interested in their respective topics.

Education

1. Problem solving in physics

   Physics Learning Facilitates Enhanced Resting State Connectivity in Problem Solving Network

2. Cognitive development/Emotional Development

Decision-making

1. Neuropolitics

   Krastev, S., McGuire, J. T., McNeney, D., Kable, J. W., Stolle, D., Gidengil, E., & Fellows, L. K. (2016). Do political and economic choices rely on common neural substrates? A systematic review of the emerging neuropolitics literature. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 7(February).

   Jost, J. T., Nam, H. H., Amodio, D. M., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). Political neuroscience: The beginning of a beautiful friendship. Political Psychology, 35(SUPPL.1), 3–42.

Second language narrative production

1. Actually no study is already out there for second language narrative writing. But interested PIs may adapt experiments designed for narrative writing in the first language for their second language experiments.
2. The neuropsychology of narrative: story comprehension, story production and their interrelation
3. Neural correlates of creative writing: an fMRI study.
4. Erhard, K., Kessler, F., Neumann, N., Ortheil, H. J., & Lotze, M. (2014). Professional training in creative writing is associated with enhanced fronto-striatal activity in a literary text continuation task. NeuroImage, 100, 15–23. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.05.076

Health & Well-being

1. Addiction
2. Counseling

Life style

1. Exercise/Sports

References

Dimoka, A. (2012). How to conduct a functional magnetic resonance (FMRI) study in social science research. MIS Quarterly, 36(3), 811–A11.