The effect of Alzheimer's disease and aging on conceptual combination.

abstract：:Eighty-three normal, right-handed children performed unimanual finger tapping recitation of a tongue twister, and both tasks concurrently. Trade-offs in dual-task performance were measured as the priority assigned to each task was manipulated. Irrespective of task priority, speaking interfered to a greater degree with...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hiscock M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined preliminarily whether intensive mental activity can transiently enhance higher cognitive functioning in healthy adults. Ten healthy participants performed intensive mental activity for 2 weeks. The intervention entailed daily memorization of multiple prose passages and performance of demanding, speeded men...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Green RE,Melo B,Christensen B,Ngo L,Skene C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons between backward and forward translation (BT, FT) have long illuminated the organization of bilingual memory, with neuroscientific evidence indicating that FT would involve greater linguistic and attentional demands. However, no study has directly assessed the functional interaction between relevant mechan...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Zheng B,Báez S,Su L,Xiang X,Weis S,Ibáñez A,García AM

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:Prelingual deafness and developmental dyslexia have confounding developmental effects on reading acquisition. Therefore, standard reading assessment methods for diagnosing dyslexia in hearing people are ineffective for use with deaf people. Recently, Samar, Parasnis, and Berent (2002) reported visual evoked potential ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Samar VJ,Parasnis I

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that the right hemisphere would be superior to the left hemisphere in remembering having seen a specific picture before, given its superiority in perceptually encoding specific aspects of visual form. A large set of pictures (N=1500) of animals, human faces, artifacts, landscapes, and art paintings wer...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Laeng B,Øvervoll M,Ole Steinsvik O

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital amusia refers to a lifelong disorder of music processing and is linked to pitch-processing deficits. The present study investigated congenital amusics' short-term memory for tones, musical timbres and words. Sequences of five events (tones, timbres or words) were presented in pairs and participants had to i...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Tillmann B,Schulze K,Foxton JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The year 1996 marked the quattrocentenary of Descartes' birth. This paper reviews his pineal neuropsychology. It demonstrates that Descartes understood the true anatomical position of the pineal. His intraventricular pineal (or glande H) was a theoretical construct which allowed him to describe the operations of his m...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Smith CU

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful interaction with the environment depends on flexible behaviors which require shifting attention, inhibiting primed responses, ignoring distracting information, and withholding motor responses. These abilities, termed executive function (EF), are believed to be mediated by inhibitory processes in the frontal...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Fernandez M,Tartar JL,Padron D,Acosta J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevailing concept in modern neuroscience is that neuron networks play a dominant role in the functioning of the nervous system, whereas the role of individual neurons is rather insignificant. This concept suggests that "individuality" of single neurons is primarily determined by their place in a network rather th...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Arshavsky YI

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adolescent age period is often characterized as a health paradox because it is a time of extensive increases in physical and mental capabilities, yet overall mortality/morbidity rates increase significantly from childhood to adolescence, often due to preventable causes such as risk taking. Asynchrony in developmen...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Willoughby T,Good M,Adachi PJ,Hamza C,Tavernier R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal observers demonstrate a bias to process the left sides of faces during perceptual judgments about identity or emotion. This effect suggests a right cerebral hemisphere processing bias. To test the role of the right hemisphere and the involvement of configural processing underlying this effect, young and older c...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Coolican J,Eskes GA,McMullen PA,Lecky E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision-making over time is an important aspect of adaptive social functioning. The main goal of this study was to investigate the development of this ability in young children. A simplified version of the Iowa Gambling Task was given to 69 children at 3 ages (3, 4, and 6 years). Children were also given an awareness...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Garon N,Moore C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers who study human cognition and behavior, especially from a neuroscience perspective, often measure subjects' handedness. The most common measure of handedness is the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI; Oldfield, 1971). Several potential problems with the EHI have been identified during its long history. We...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Edlin JM,Leppanen ML,Fain RJ,Hackländer RP,Hanaver-Torrez SD,Lyle KB

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments were conducted to examine effects of speech on concurrent unimanual tapping. Experiments 1 and 2 involved the manual tapping of a short burst of preprogrammed responses with or without concurrent articulation. Results of these experiments showed no effects of speech articulation on the concurrent exe...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Inhoff AW,Bisiacchi P

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that imagined perspective rotations elicit spatial and low-level cortical motor areas of the brain when participants rely on knowledge of their physical body, or body percept (Wraga, Flynn, Boyle, & Evans, 2010). The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wraga M,Boyle HK,Flynn CM

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Item recognition memory judgment can be based on two processes: item familiarity and/or the conscious recollection of the initial event. On the other hand, associative recognition relies preferably on conscious recollection. Since evidence points to a specific deficit of conscious recollection in schizophrenia, these ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Achim AM,Lepage M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies suggest that interhemispheric processing increases the processing power of the brain in cognitively complex tasks as it allows the brain to divide the processing load between the hemispheres. We report two experiments suggesting that this finding does not generalize to word-picture pairs: they are proc...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Koivisto M,Revonsuo A

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:We report a case study of a 48 year-old patient, J.O., who was tested 20 years after the removal of a tumor in the left temporal-parietal region. This surgery and subsequent radiation resulted in right side paralysis and numerous language problems. Tests of J.O.'s single word reading abilities indicate that she could ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： McEwen S,Westbury C,Buchanan L,Libben G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite face and emotion recognition deficits, individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) appear to experience the anger superiority effect, where an angry face in a crowd is detected faster than a neutral face. This study extended past research to examine the impacts of ecologically valid photographic stimuli, g...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： May T,Cornish K,Rinehart NJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between activation of the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) and empathy was investigated. Twenty-two men and 73 women participated by completing a chimeric face task and empathy questionnaire. For the face task, participants were asked to pick which of the two chimeric faces looked happier. Both men and ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rueckert L,Naybar N

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We presented a proposed neural level mechanism for the integration of cognitive and affective information during covert decision making. The central idea is that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex establishes predicted outcomes of responses through its connections with the amygdala, and that this information is passed...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wagar BM,Thagard P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral eye movements (LEM) were measured for 32 right-handed subjects while responding to questions rated for verbal and visual-spatial cognitive content and for varying levels of emotionally stimulating content. The results indicated that eye movements were distributed to the right and left in response to verbal and...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Krikorian R,Rafales L

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents evidence for changes in dichotic listening asymmetries across the menstrual cycle, which replicate studies from our laboratory and others. Increases in the right ear advantage (REA) were present in women at phases of the menstrual cycle associated with higher levels of ovarian hormones. The data a...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cowell PE,Ledger WL,Wadnerkar MB,Skilling FM,Whiteside SP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valence-specific laterality effects have been frequently obtained in facial emotion perception but not in vocal emotion perception. We report a dichotic listening study further examining whether valence-specific laterality effects generalise to vocal emotions. Based on previous literature, we tested whether valence-sp...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Schepman A,Rodway P,Geddes P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging has been associated with declines in sensory-perceptual processes. Sensory gating (SG), or repetition suppression, refers to the attenuation of neural activity in response to a second stimulus and is considered to be an automatic process to inhibit redundant sensory inputs. It is controversial whether SG deficit...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cheng CH,Baillet S,Lin YY

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates the event related potential (ERP) components associated with the random version of the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART). The random SART is a Go/No-Go task in which the No-Go target appears unpredictably and rarely. In the present experiment, the EEG was recorded from 58 elect...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Zordan L,Sarlo M,Stablum F

更新日期：2008-02-01 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