{"id":234762,"date":"2026-04-07T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/oxford-scientists-uncover-how-the-brain-resolves-emotional-ambiguity"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:04:13","slug":"oxford-scientists-uncover-how-the-brain-resolves-emotional-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/oxford-scientists-uncover-how-the-brain-resolves-emotional-ambiguity","title":{"rendered":"Oxford scientists uncover how the brain resolves emotional ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oxford-scientists-uncover-how-the-brain-resolves-emotional-ambiguity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Non-invasive ultrasound study reveals causal role of the amygdala in interpreting uncertain emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Oxford have demonstrated, for the first time, that a key emotional centre deep in the human brain directly influences how we interpret ambiguous social cues.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(26)00172-8\">Neuron<\/a>, researchers used low-intensity focused ultrasound to temporarily and non-invasively alter activity in the amygdala \u2014 a region known to be involved in emotion and affected in depression. They found that this changed how people responded to facial expressions, particularly when those expressions were emotionally unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-invasive ultrasound study reveals causal role of the amygdala in interpreting uncertain emotions. Scientists at the University of Oxford have demonstrated, for the first time, that a key emotional centre deep in the human brain directly influences how we interpret ambiguous social cues. In a new study, published in Neuron, researchers used low-intensity focused ultrasound [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234762","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}