The upper left corner shows a brain thinking pleasant thoughts and the upper right brain is thinking depressing thoughts; the lower left, anxiety-inducing thoughts; the lower right, irritating thoughts.
Positive reinforcement produces a pleasant impact on our brain.
Relax and use your imagination to create mental images, virtual pleasant experiences that your brain will register and remember.
It is only after these two qualities have been compared that the brain assesses how pleasant a mouthful actually is.The archaeological evidence for ancient cookery is equivocal.
No matter how pleasant they start out, my brain finds a way to make even my happiest fantasies turn into something like, What if I babysit someone's kid and accidentally kill them?
The authors contrasted the brain activity for pleasant music with the activity for unpleasant music and showed that, when both experimental blocks where considered, Heschl's gyrus, the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA45/46), and the anterior superior insula were active, whilst the opposite contrast showed activation in the hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and temporal pole.
Subjective loneliness modulates brain activations to pleasant and unpleasant pictures of other people [ 14].
After the tingly effects kicked in, we poked, prodded, and licked around a little to find that, indeed, our nerves had been "modulated" by the THC and "more pleasant signals" were hitting our brains.
Separate paired t-tests were run to compare whole-brain activation for pleasant versus neutral (PvN) and unpleasant versus neutral (UvN) conditions.
In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) to test the hypothesis that the combination of human touch (i.e. skin-to-skin contact) with movement is eliciting a specific response in brain areas coding for pleasant sensations.
