Aaron Batista
@aaronbatista.bsky.social
Neuroscience to improve the human condition
And you thought your amygdala was just for fear. It turns out to have a nuanced emotional repertoire, always monitoring our context. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Social status as a latent variable in the amygdala of observers of social interactions
Third-party viewers of pairwise dominant-subordinate interactions infer social status from the observed behaviors. Neurons in the amygdala are tuned to the inferred dominant/subordinate status of both...
cell.com
When you fail to perform at your best right when it matters the most, what's going on in your brain? We can now provide an explanation: Exceptionally high stakes interfere with the neural signals of motor preparation. I'd love to hear - what do you think causes it? sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A neural basis of choking under pressure
Incentives tend to drive improvements in performance. But when incentives get too high, we can “choke under pressure” and underperform right when it m…
sciencedirect.com