How learning shapes immunity

How Mediated Immersion Shapes Learning

How learning shapes the empathic brain.

Deficits in empathy enhance conflicts and human suffering. Thus, it is crucial to understand how empathy can be learned and how learning experiences shape empathy-related processes in the human brain. As a model of empathy deficits, we used the well-established suppression of empathy-related brain responses for the suffering of out-groups and tested whether and how out-group empathy is boosted ...

T Cells and Cancer: How Metabolism Shapes Immunity

Tumor microenvironment is characterized by a consistent reduction in oxygen and blood-borne nutrients that significantly affects the metabolism of distinct cell subsets. Immune cells populating malignant lesions need to activate alternative pathways to overcome tumor-prolonged nutrient deprivation. In particular, the metabolic switch occurring in transforming tissues dramatically impacts on tum...

How an appreciation of conventionality shapes early word learning.

Language enables social coordination and regulation among humans. By using the right words, speakers can make others aware of their otherwise private mental states and thus communicate their knowledge, desires, emotions, and intentions (H. H. Clark, 1996). However, it is not obvious how humans, especially young word learners, come to understand which words are likely to be the right ones. The r...

How learning to abstract shapes neural sound representations

The transformation of acoustic signals into abstract perceptual representations is the essence of the efficient and goal-directed neural processing of sounds in complex natural environments. While the human and animal auditory system is perfectly equipped to process the spectrotemporal sound features, adequate sound identification and categorization require neural sound representations that are...