{"id":120270,"date":"2021-03-07T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/new-brain-imaging-research-sheds-light-on-the-neural-underpinnings-of-emotional-intelligence"},"modified":"2021-03-07T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:56:32","slug":"new-brain-imaging-research-sheds-light-on-the-neural-underpinnings-of-emotional-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/new-brain-imaging-research-sheds-light-on-the-neural-underpinnings-of-emotional-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"New brain imaging research sheds light on the neural underpinnings of emotional intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-brain-imaging-research-sheds-light-on-the-neural-underpinnings-of-emotional-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently published neuroimaging research provides evidence that the directional connectivity between several brain regions plays an important role in emotional processing abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Although interest in emotional intelligence has been steadily growing since the 1990s, the underlying neural mechanisms behind it have yet to be clearly established. The new study, which appears in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1053811921000276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NeuroImage<\/a><\/em>, is part of a process to begin to fill in this gap in scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmotional intelligence is one of the least studied topics, especially in conjunction with cutting-edge computational neuroimaging techniques,\u201d explained lead researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boystownhospital.org\/research\/faculty\/sahil-bajaj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sahil Bajaj<\/a>, the director of the Multimodal Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boystownhospital.org\/research\/neurobehavioral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boys Town National Research Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently published neuroimaging research provides evidence that the directional connectivity between several brain regions plays an important role in emotional processing abilities. Although interest in emotional intelligence has been steadily growing since the 1990s, the underlying neural mechanisms behind it have yet to be clearly established. The new study, which appears in NeuroImage, is part [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}