Nicolas Guizard

Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training.

Science Advances October 4, 2017 Sofie L. Valk, Boris C. Bernhardt, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein et al.

Although neuroscientific research has revealed experience-dependent brain changes across the life span in sensory, motor, and cognitive domains, plasticity relating to social capacities remains largely unknown. To investigate whether the targeted mental training of different cognitive and social skills can induce specific changes in brain morphology, we collected longitudinal magnetic resonance...