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SUBMITTER: Yang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8209061 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Ziyan Z Sedikides Constantine C Izuma Keise K Wildschut Tim T Kashima Emiko S ES Luo Yu L L YLL Chen Jun J Cai Huajian H
Scientific reports 20210616 1
An experiment examined the potency of nostalgia-a sentimental longing for one's past-to facilitate detection of death-related stimuli, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral techniques (i.e., judgmental accuracy, reaction times). We hypothesized and found that, at the neural level, nostalgic (relative to control) participants evinced more intense activation in right amygdala in response to death-related (vs. neutral) words. We also hypothesized and found that, at the b ...[more]