Evaluation of prospective memory training for individuals with mild Alzheimer's disease.

abstract：:Twelve subjects with Down syndrome underwent polysomnographic studies during night sleep and performed the Mini-Mental state test and the Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM), sets A, B, and B(1). Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) deficits were observed in Down syndrome individuals and their Mini-Mental and RPM scores were...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Andreou G,Galanopoulou C,Gourgoulianis K,Karapetsas A,Molyvdas P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent evidence highlights the differential contributions of various regions of the prefrontal cortex in the service of cognitive control, but little is understood about how the brain determines and communicates the need to recruit cognitive control, and how such signals instigate the implementation of appropriate...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Ridderinkhof KR,van den Wildenberg WP,Segalowitz SJ,Carter CS

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD), in its pure form, is a neuropathologic condition in demented patients that is characterized by subcortical and diffusely distributed neocortical Lewy bodies with little or no concomitant Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. Clinically, DLBD patients initially present with dementia of i...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Salmon DP,Galasko D,Hansen LA,Masliah E,Butters N,Thal LJ,Katzman R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between left-right and upper-lower visual field (VF) asymmetries was examined for face matching, letter naming, and lexical decision. Stimuli were flashed in the VF quadrants. Face matching resulted in a lower left and upper right VF advantage. Letter-naming resulted in a distinct upper-right VF advantage...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hagenbeek RE,Van Strien JW

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously it has been shown that the left hemisphere, but not the right, of split-brain patients tends to match the frequency of previous occurrences in probability-guessing paradigms (Wolford, Miller, & Gazzaniga, 2000). This phenomenon has been attributed to an "interpreter," a mechanism for making interpretations ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Miller MB,Valsangkar-Smyth M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraversion and Neuroticism are two fundamental dimensions of human personality that influence cognitive functioning in healthy subjects. Little is known about personality changes that may occur in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) nor about, in particular, their neurofunctional basis. The aim of this study is to...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Gioia MC,Cerasa A,Valentino P,Fera F,Nisticò R,Liguori M,Lanza P,Quattrone A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have long been speculations about the relationship between consciousness and language. This study aimed to determine whether an individual's level of introspective awareness, based on self-report, relates to accessibility of their semantic system as evaluated by the N400. Thirty-five university students complete...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Xu X,Kang C,Pascucci D,Guo T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual memory, as measured by the Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT), and resting regional cerebral metabolic rates for glucose (rCMRglc), as measured by positron emission tomography (PET) and [18-F]fluorodeoxyglucose, were examined in 40 very healthy men, aged 21 to 83 years. Age-related differences in visual memory...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Haxby JV,Grady CL,Duara R,Robertson-Tchabo EA,Koziarz B,Cutler NR,Rapoport SI

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sentence comprehension requires the assignment of thematic relations between the verb and its noun arguments in order to determine who is doing what to whom. In some languages, such as English, word order is the primary syntactic cue. In other languages, such as German, case-marking is additionally used to assign them...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Strotseva-Feinschmidt A,Schipke CS,Gunter TC,Brauer J,Friederici AD

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first quantitative group study of recognition, expression, and other social-emotional behaviors after third ventricle damage in humans. Hypothalamic damage often induced appetitive disorders without affecting other emotional functions. In contrast, lesions in several hemispheric sites, especially right med...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Weddell RA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controversial concept suggests that impaired finger dexterity in Parkinson's disease may be related to limb kinetic apraxia that is not explained by elemental motor deficits such as bradykinesia. To explore the nature of dexterous difficulties, the aim of the present study was to assess the relationship of finger de...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vanbellingen T,Kersten B,Bellion M,Temperli P,Baronti F,Müri R,Bohlhalter S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risky decision making is prominent during adolescence, perhaps contributed to by heightened sensation seeking and ongoing maturation of reward and dopamine systems in the brain, which are, in part, modulated by sex hormones. In this study, we examined sex differences in the neural substrates of reward sensitivity duri...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Alarcón G,Cservenka A,Nagel BJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that illiterate subjects are better at naming two-dimensional representations of real objects when presented as colored photos as compared to black and white drawings. This raises the question if color or textural details selectively improve object recognition and naming in illiterate compared ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Reis A,Faísca L,Ingvar M,Petersson KM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does the brain cause positive affective reactions to sensory pleasure? An answer to pleasure causation requires knowing not only which brain systems are activated by pleasant stimuli, but also which systems actually cause their positive affective properties. This paper focuses on brain causation of behavioral posi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Berridge KC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate whether the neuropsychological correlates of the symptom dimensions of schizophrenia vary with the clinical state in patients followed from the acute to stable the phase of the illness. Fifteen patients were assessed for symptoms (SAPS-SANS) and undergone a complete neuropsycholo...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Guillem F,Ganeva E,Pampoulova T,Stip E,Lalonde P,Sasseville M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coupling of hand grasping stimuli and the subsequent grasp execution was explored in normal participants. Participants were asked to respond with their right- or left-hand to the accuracy of an observed (dynamic) grasp while they were holding precision or power grasp response devices in their hands (e.g., precisio...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vainio L,Tucker M,Ellis R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a syndrome resulting from exposure to a severe traumatic event that poses threatened death or injury and produces intense fear and helplessness. The neural structures implicated in PTSD development belong to the limbic system, an important region for emotional processing. Brain...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Angelucci F,Ricci V,Gelfo F,Martinotti G,Brunetti M,Sepede G,Signorelli M,Aguglia E,Pettorruso M,Vellante F,Di Giannantonio M,Caltagirone C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether the severity of visual hemineglect follows a unimodal or bimodal frequency distribution. Seventy-seven consecutive patients with a unilateral cerebral infarct (36 left- and 41 right-hemisphere lesions) were evaluated. The severity of neglect was measured as the number...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Plourde G,Joanette Y,Fontaine FS,Laplante L,Renaseau-Leclerc C

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are reported which investigate hemispheric processing in an object decision task. Experiment 1 used 40 pictures of objects, and 40 pictures of nonobjects, and subjects decided manually whether each lateralized stimulus represented an object. Results indicated an interaction between visual field and res...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vitkovitch M,Underwood G

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to read emotional expressions from human face and voice is an important skill in our day-to-day interactions with others. How this ability develops may be influenced by atypical experiences early in life. Here, we investigated multimodal processing of fearful and happy face/voice pairs in 9-month-olds pren...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Otte RA,Donkers FC,Braeken MA,Van den Bergh BR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns the sentence-picture matching behavior of 100 neurologically healthy and 169 brain-damaged subjects, all of whom were unilingual adult right-handers. Within this population, 144 subjects were totally unschooled illiterates and the remaining 125 had received school education and thereafter had reta...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Lecours AR,Mehler J,Parente MA,Aguiar LR,da Silva AB,Caetano M,Camarotti H,Castro MJ,Dehaut F,Dumais C

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two hemispheres of the brain often perform complementary computations and make unique contributions to task performance. This study examines the interaction of linguistic (left hemisphere) and prosodic (right hemisphere) information in speech processing. An individual differences approach is used in which interfer...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Grimshaw GM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The productivity of lexical categories was studied longitudinally in a sample of 17 young hearing-impaired French-speaking children with cochlear implants. Age of implantation ranged from 22 months to 76 months. Spontaneous speech samples were collected at six-month intervals over a period of 36 months, starting at th...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Le Normand MT,Ouellet C,Cohen H

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual matches are sometimes faster when stimuli are presented across visual hemifields, compared to within-field matching. Using a cued geometric figure matching task, we investigated the influence of computational complexity vs. processing efficiency on this bilateral distribution advantage (BDA). Computational comp...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Maertens M,Pollmann S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently much interest in investigating the neural substrates of metaphor processing. In particular, it has been suggested that the right hemisphere plays a special role in the comprehension of figurative (non-literal) language, and in particular metaphors. However, some studies find no evidence of right hem...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Schmidt GL,Seger CA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a single case study of a patient, HG, who was severely impaired on routine everyday tasks, such as cleaning his teeth and preparing a cup of tea. We used the Action Coding System developed by Schwartz et al. (1991) to provide quantitative and qualitative measures of his performance in a number of experiment...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Forde EM,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some attempts to explain category-specific disorders have stressed how different modality knowledge bases (i.e., visual knowledge vs motoric/functional knowledge) may underlie the distinction between living and nonliving things. This study examined 60 normal subjects for the relationship between picture naming in four...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Laws KR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In later editions of his two major works, Isaac Newton proposed an electrical hypothesis of nervous transmission. According to this hypothesis, an electrical aether permeates the nerve and transmits vibrations along it. This implies that the nerve is a communication line, and potentially, an extension of the mind. The...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wallace W

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Executive and memory dysfunctions are among the most frequently reported deficits following a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (ACoA). In order to study the impact of the dysexecutive syndrome on episodic and semantic memory, the data obtained from 59 ACoA patients were examined retrospectively. ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Simard S,Rouleau I,Brosseau J,Laframboise M,Bojanowsky M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An issue of continued debate in the visuomotor control literature surrounds whether a 2D object serves as a representative proxy for a 3D object in understanding the nature of the visual information supporting grasping control. In an effort to reconcile this issue, we examined the extent to which aperture profiles for...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Holmes SA,Heath M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00