Specificity of the effect of a nicotinic receptor polymorphism on individual differences in visuospatial attention.

abstract：:To sustain successful behavior in dynamic environments, active organisms must be able to learn from the consequences of their actions and predict action outcomes. One of the most important discoveries in systems neuroscience over the last 15 years has been about the key role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in mediati...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Gepshtein S,Li X,Snider J,Plank M,Lee D,Poizner H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a popular tool for mapping perceptual and cognitive processes in the human brain. It uses a magnetic field to stimulate the brain, modifying ongoing activity in neural tissue under the stimulating coil, producing an effect that has been likened to a "virtual lesion." However,...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Harris JA,Clifford CW,Miniussi C

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To build a general knowledge base, it is imperative that individuals acquire, integrate, and further extend knowledge across experiences. For instance, in one episode an individual may learn that George Washington was the first president. In a separate episode they may then learn that Washington was the commander of t...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Varga NL,Bauer PJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forming a memory often entails the association of recent experience with present events. This recent experience is usually an information-rich and dynamic representation of the world around us. We here show that associating a static cue with a previously shown dynamic stimulus yields a detectable, dynamic representati...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Michelmann S,Bowman H,Hanslmayr S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral studies indicate that spatial and object working memory are computed by dissociable subsystems. We investigated the neural bases of this dissociation with a whole-brain fMRI design and analysis technique that permitted direct assessment of delay-period activity, uncontaminated by other components of the tri...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Postle BR,D'Esposito M

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA) has been implicated in modulating multiple cognitive control processes, including the robust maintenance of task sets and memoranda in the face of distractors (cognitive stability) and, conversely, the ability to switch task sets or update the contents of working memory when it is advantageous to do so (...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Furman DJ,White RL 3rd,Naskolnakorn J,Ye J,Kayser A,D'Esposito M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Broca's area in sentence processing has been debated for the last 30 years. A central and still unresolved issue is whether Broca's area plays a specific role in some aspect of syntactic processing (e.g., syntactic movement, hierarchical structure building) or whether it serves a more general function on w...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Rogalsky C,Hickok G

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Müller-Lyer illusion occurs both in vision and in touch, and transfers cross-modally from vision to haptics [Mancini, F., Bricolo, E., & Vallar, G. Multisensory integration in the Müller-Lyer illusion: From vision to haptics. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 818-830, 2010]. Recent evidence suggest...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Mancini F,Bolognini N,Bricolo E,Vallar G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N170 component of the event-related potential (ERP) reflects experience-dependent neural changes in several forms of visual expertise, including expertise for visual words. Readers skilled in writing systems that link characters to phonemes (i.e., alphabetic writing) typically produce a left-lateralized N170 to vi...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Maurer U,Zevin JD,McCandliss BD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion and neuroimaging studies suggest that orbito-frontal cortex (OFC) supports temporal aspects of episodic memory. However, it is unclear whether OFC contributes to the encoding and/or retrieval of temporal context and whether it is selective for temporal relative to nontemporal (spatial) context memory. We addres...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Duarte A,Henson RN,Knight RT,Emery T,Graham KS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion of rhythm, beat perception, and movement is often summarized under the term "entrainment" and becomes obvious when we effortlessly tap our feet or snap our fingers to the pulse of music. Entrainment to music involves a large network of brain structures, and neural oscillations at beat-related frequencies ca...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Stupacher J,Witte M,Hove MJ,Wood G

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of prescription stimulants to enhance healthy cognition has significant social, ethical, and public health implications. The large number of enhancement users across various ages and occupations emphasizes the importance of examining these drugs' efficacy in a nonclinical sample. The present meta-analysis was ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Ilieva IP,Hook CJ,Farah MJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In everyday listening situations, we need to constantly switch between alternative sound sources and engage attention according to cues that match our goals and expectations. The exact neuronal bases of these processes are poorly understood. We investigated oscillatory brain networks controlling auditory attention usi...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Ahveninen J,Huang S,Belliveau JW,Chang WT,Hämäläinen M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental role that our long-term memories play in guiding perception is increasingly recognized, but the functional and neural mechanisms are just beginning to be explored. Although experimental approaches are being developed to investigate the influence of long-term memories on perception, these remain mostly ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Cravo AM,Rohenkohl G,Santos KM,Nobre AC

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the implications of anatomical localization of component mental operations for cognitive models? In this paper we use the anatomical localizations of visual and auditory word processing that were previously reported from PET studies (Petersen, Fox, Posner, Mintun & Raichle, 1988. We hypothesize that two opera...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Posner MI,Sandson J,Dhawan M,Shulman GL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People are able to adapt their behavior to changing environmental contingencies by rapidly inhibiting or modifying their actions. Response inhibition is often studied in the stop-signal paradigm that requires the suppression of an already prepared motor response. Less is known about situations calling for a change of ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Krämer UM,Knight RT,Münte TF

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior exposure to a stimulus can facilitate the performance to subsequent presentations of that stimulus. ERP studies have shown that this facilitation is associated with the modulation of two components (N400 and P600). Investigation of the time course of both behavioral and ERP repetition effects have led to the ass...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Guillem F,Rougier A,Claverie B

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One fifth of neurons in the medial-temporal lobe of human epilepsy patients respond selectively to categories of images, such as faces or cars. Here we show that responses of hippocampal neurons are rapidly modified as subjects alternate (over 60 sec) between two tasks (1) identifying images from a category, or (2) pl...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Steinmetz PN

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative independence of cortical mechanisms for color, form, and motion raises the binding problem-how is neural activity coordinated to create unified and correctly segmented percepts? Binding could be guided by stimulus-driven correlations between mechanisms, but the nature of these correlations is largely unex...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Billock VA,Tsou BH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sound waves emitted by two or more simultaneous sources reach the ear as one complex waveform. Auditory scene analysis involves parsing a complex waveform into separate perceptual representations of the sound sources [Bregman, A. S. Auditory scene analysis: The perceptual organization of sounds. London: MIT Press, 199...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Folland NA,Butler BE,Payne JE,Trainor LJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several behavioral and brain imaging studies have demonstrated a significant interaction between speech perception and speech production. In this study, auditory cortical responses to speech were examined during self-production and feedback alteration. Magnetic field recordings were obtained from both hemispheres in s...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Houde JF,Nagarajan SS,Sekihara K,Merzenich MM

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers spontaneously segment larger activities into smaller events. For example, "washing a car" might be segmented into "scrubbing," "rinsing," and "drying" the car. This process, called event segmentation, separates "what is happening now? from "what just happened." In this study, we show that event segmentation ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Swallow KM,Barch DM,Head D,Maley CJ,Holder D,Zacks JM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual object recognition is performed effortlessly by humans notwithstanding the fact that it requires a series of complex computations, which are, as yet, not well understood. Here, we tested a novel account of the representations used for visual recognition and their neural correlates using fMRI. The rationale is b...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Holzinger Y,Ullman S,Harari D,Behrmann M,Avidan G

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People can discriminate real words from nonwords even when the latter are orthographically and phonologically word-like, presumably because words activate specific lexical and/or semantic information. We investigated the neural correlates of this identification process using event-related functional magnetic resonance...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Binder JR,McKiernan KA,Parsons ME,Westbury CF,Possing ET,Kaufman JN,Buchanan L

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional attention, the boosting of the processing of emotionally relevant stimuli, has, up to now, mainly been investigated within a sensory modality, for instance, by using emotional pictures to modulate visual attention. In real-life environments, however, humans typically encounter simultaneous input to several d...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Brosch T,Grandjean D,Sander D,Scherer KR

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flexible allocation of attention enables us to perceive and behave successfully despite irrelevant distractors. How do acoustic challenges influence this allocation of attention, and to what extent is this ability preserved in normally aging listeners? Younger and healthy older participants performed a masked audi...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Wöstmann M,Schröger E,Obleser J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed electrophysiological activity over the medial frontal cortex (MFC) during outcome-based behavioral adjustment using a probabilistic reversal learning task. During recording, participants were presented two abstract visual patterns on each trial and had to select the stimulus rewarded on 80% of trials and t...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Chase HW,Swainson R,Durham L,Benham L,Cools R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain has evolved to process motivationally relevant information in an optimized manner. The perceptual benefit for emotionally arousing material, termed motivated attention, is indexed by electrocortical amplification at various levels of stimulus analysis. An outstanding issue, particularly on a neuronal l...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Ihssen N,Heim S,Keil A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typically developing children begin to produce and understand pretend play between 18 and 24 months of age, and early pretense has been argued to be a candidate ''core'' capacity central to the deployment of representations of other peoples' mental states-''theory of mind.'' In a functional magnetic resonance imaging ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： German TP,Niehaus JL,Roarty MP,Giesbrecht B,Miller MB

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In social interactions, it is often necessary to rapidly encode the association between visually presented faces and auditorily presented names. The present study used event-related potentials to examine the neural correlates of associative encoding for multimodal face-name pairs. We assessed study-phase processes lea...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Mangels JA,Manzi A,Summerfield C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00