Shuxia Yao

This study investigates whether pre-training brain activity can predict success in real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning across 24 studies and 401 participants, finding a weak correlation but no consistent predictors.

The paper identifies shared and process-specific neural representations of vicarious pain using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis.

This study shows that combining intranasal oxytocin with expectancy effects can enhance or impair working memory performance, suggesting a new therapeutic approach for cognitive impairments.

This study investigates how oxytocin modulates intrinsic functional dynamics between attention-related large-scale brain networks in humans.

This study investigates how the human brain searches for safety by manipulating attentional set to cues associated with shock probability, showing increased vmPFC activity under a safe attentional set.

This study shows oxytocin increases empathy and self-embarrassment ratings while reducing amygdala and insula activity and physiological arousal in response to embarrassment.

This study shows oxytocin enhances emotional empathy across cultures and sexes, reduces amygdala activity, and modulates amygdala connectivity with the insula, particularly in individuals with trait autism.