Journal of Neuroscience.“If we had a stamp of neural activity that reflected your self-representation and one that reflected that of people whom you are close to, for most of us, our stamps of neural activity would look pretty similar.“Yet, for lonelier people, the neural activity was really differentiated from that of other people,” explained senior author Dr.
Meghan L. Meyer, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, and director of the Dartmouth Social Neuroscience Lab.The study was comprised of 50 college students and community members ranging from age 18 to 47.
Before going in an fMRI scanner, participants were asked to name and rank five people whom they are closest to and five acquaintances.During the scan,.
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