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Different Means To The Same End: A Comparative Contingency Analyses Of Singapore And China’S Management Of The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) Crisis, Yan Jin, Augustine Pang, Glen T. Cameron
Different Means To The Same End: A Comparative Contingency Analyses Of Singapore And China’S Management Of The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) Crisis, Yan Jin, Augustine Pang, Glen T. Cameron
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For months in 2003, the world lay under siege by a strain of virus that masqueraded as pneumonia but inflicted a far more lethal effect. By all accounts, the mystery of how the severe respiratory acute syndrome (SARS) virus came to be has remained largely unsolved (Bradsher & Altman 2003). What began as routine fever and cough in a Chinese physician, later identified as a super-carrier, rapidly spread to people who had cursory contacts with him, spiralling into a worldwide crisis that spanned Asia and the North Americas (Rosenthal 2003).
Art For Reward's Sake: Visual Art Recruits The Ventral Striatum, Simon Lacey, Henrik Hagvedt, Vanessa Patrick, Amy Anderson, Randall Stilla, Gopikrishna Deshpande, Hu Xioping, Joao Sato, Srinivas K. Reddy, Krish Sathian
Art For Reward's Sake: Visual Art Recruits The Ventral Striatum, Simon Lacey, Henrik Hagvedt, Vanessa Patrick, Amy Anderson, Randall Stilla, Gopikrishna Deshpande, Hu Xioping, Joao Sato, Srinivas K. Reddy, Krish Sathian
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
A recent study showed that people evaluate products more positively when they are physically associated with art images than similar non-art images. Neuroimaging studies of visual art have investigated artistic style and esthetic preference but not brain responses attributable specifically to the artistic status of images. Here we tested the hypothesis that the artistic status of images engages reward circuitry, using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during viewing of art and non-art images matched for content. Subjects made animacy judgments in response to each image. Relative to non-art images, art images activated, on both subject- and item-wise analyses, reward-related …