Hunting interacts with socio‐demographic predictors of human perceptions of urban coyotes

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Drake ◽  
M. Nils Peterson ◽  
Emily H. Griffith ◽  
Colleen Olfenbuttel ◽  
Christopher E. Moorman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Predictors ◽  
Human Perceptions ◽  
Urban Coyotes

Drivers of sustained sanitation access: social network and demographic predictors of latrine reconstruction after flooding disasters

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 1861-1872
Author(s):  
Katherine G. Chambers ◽  
Amanda R. Carrico ◽  
Sherri M. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Demographic Predictors

Flooding disasters pose a threat to sanitation services and can result in loss of access that exacerbates challenges to achieving universal access.

Discovering the homogeneous geographic domain of human perceptions from street view images

2021 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 104125
Author(s):  
Yao Yao ◽  
Jiale Wang ◽  
Ye Hong ◽  
Chen Qian ◽  
Qingfeng Guan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Street View ◽  
Human Perceptions

scholarly journals Dispositional empathy predicts primary somatosensory cortex activity while receiving touch by a hand

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schaefer ◽  
Anja Kühnel ◽  
Franziska Rumpel ◽  
Matti Gärtner
Keyword(s):  
Somatosensory Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Primary Somatosensory Cortex ◽  
Rubber Hand ◽  
Somatosensory Cortices ◽  
Touch Perception ◽  
Trait Empathy ◽  
Human Perceptions ◽  
Dispositional Empathy

AbstractPrevious research revealed an active network of brain areas such as insula and anterior cingulate cortex when witnessing somebody else in pain and feeling empathy. But numerous studies also suggested a role of the somatosensory cortices for state and trait empathy. While recent studies highlight the role of the observer’s primary somatosensory cortex when seeing painful or nonpainful touch, the interaction of somatosensory cortex activity with empathy when receiving touch on the own body is unknown. The current study examines the relationship of touch related somatosensory cortex activity with dispositional empathy by employing an fMRI approach. Participants were touched on the palm of the hand either by the hand of an experimenter or by a rubber hand. We found that the BOLD responses in the primary somatosensory cortex were associated with empathy personality traits personal distress and perspective taking. This relationship was observed when participants were touched both with the experimenter’s real hand or a rubber hand. What is the reason for this link between touch perception and trait empathy? We argue that more empathic individuals may express stronger attention both to other’s human perceptions as well as to the own sensations. In this way, higher dispositional empathy levels might enhance tactile processing by top-down processes. We discuss possible implications of these findings.

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