"Cyberball" experiments can help children and parents better understand and utilize cognitive-behavior therapy focused on promoting emotional self-regulation.
"Cyberball" is perhaps the most commonly used paradigm for studying brain activity and social exclusion.
Cyberball experiments can help people understand the way stimulant medications can promote impulse control. They are usually told these other"people" are other research participants in their own fMRI machines; in reality, they're interacting with a computer program. Quick and automatic"emotional brain" systems usually light up—that is, they become almost instantly more active in response to this experimentally induced experience of social exclusion. This can include systems that tend to become active when we experience
My thumb is like the emotional part of our—you, me, your parents—brains. My fingers are like the thinking part, up here .happens—we are left out, we are blocked from doing something we want to do, we hear or see something that scares us —our emotional brain quickly and automatically springs into action and makes us ready to fight, run away, or hide. A little while later, our thinking brain becomes active and begins to calm down our emotional brain.
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