Subthreshold Electrical Noise Applied to the Plantar Foot Enhances Lower-Limb Cutaneous Reflex Generation.

abstract：:Objective: The potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a technical biomarker for cerebral microstructural alterations in neurodegenerative diseases is under investigation. In this study, a framework for the longitudinal analysis of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)-based mapping was applied to the assessment of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Baldaranov D,Khomenko A,Kobor I,Bogdahn U,Gorges M,Kassubek J,Müller HP

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:When engaged in a repetitive task our performance fluctuates from trial-to-trial. In particular, inter-trial reaction time variability has been the subject of considerable research. It has been claimed to be a strong biomarker of attention deficits, increases with frontal dysfunction, and predicts age-related cognitiv...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ribeiro MJ,Paiva JS,Castelo-Branco M

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Workload in the human brain can be a useful marker of internal brain state. However, due to technical limitations, previous workload studies have been unable to record brain activity via conventional electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) devices in mobile participants. In this study, we used a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yokota Y,Tanaka S,Miyamoto A,Naruse Y

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of visual cortex reorganization following injury remains controversial. We report serial functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from a patient with sequential posterior circulation strokes occurring 3 weeks apart, compared with data from an age-matched healthy control subject. At 8 days following...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brodtmann A,Puce A,Darby D,Donnan G

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 386 in vol. 9, PMID: 26175682.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wang J,Wang X,Xia M,Liao X,Evans A,He Y

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning is a central ability for human development. Many skills we learn, such as language, are learned through observation or imitation in social contexts. Likewise, many skills are learned implicitly, that is, without an explicit intent to learn and without full awareness of the acquired knowledge. Here, we asked w...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Geiger A,Cleeremans A,Bente G,Vogeley K

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:Electrodes that provide brain to machine or computer interfacing must survive the lifetime of the person to be considered an acceptable prosthetic. The electrodes may be external such as with electroencephalographic (EEG), internal extracortical such as electrocorticographic (ECoG) or intracortical. Methods:Most i...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gearing M,Kennedy P

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper focuses on the question of what the (visual) perceptual differences are between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing (TD) individuals. We argue against the view that autistic subjects have a deficiency in the most basic form of perceptual consciousness-namely, phenomenal ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yatziv T,Jacobson H

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The present review aims to summarize the debate in contemporary neuroscience between inborn and experience-dependent models of conceptual representations that goes back to the description of category-specific semantic disorders for biological and artifact categories. Experience-dependent models suggest that categorica...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gainotti G

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A RECENT OPINION ARTICLE (NEURAL OSCILLATIONS IN SPEECH: do not be enslaved by the envelope. Obleser et al., 2012) questions the validity of a class of speech perception models inspired by the possible role of neuronal oscillations in decoding speech (e.g., Ghitza, 2011; Giraud and Poeppel, 2012). The authors criticiz...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ghitza O,Giraud AL,Poeppel D

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging data support the idea that numbers are represented along a mental number line (MNL), an analogical, visuospatial representation of number magnitude. The MNL is left-to-right oriented in Western cultures, with small numbers on the left and larger numbers on the right. Le...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Priftis K,Pitteri M,Meneghello F,Umiltà C,Zorzi M

更新日期：2012-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Research indicates that there is a specially adapted, hard-wired brain circuit, the security motivation system, which evolved to manage potential threats, such as the possibility of contamination or predation. The existence of this system may have important implications for policy-making related to security. The syste...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Woody EZ,Szechtman H

更新日期：2013-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural bases of human olfactory memory are poorly understood. Very few studies have examined neural substrates associated with correct odor recognition, and none has tackled neural networks associated with incorrect odor recognition. We investigated the neural basis of task performance during a yes-no odor recognition...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Royet JP,Morin-Audebrand L,Cerf-Ducastel B,Haase L,Issanchou S,Murphy C,Fonlupt P,Sulmont-Rossé C,Plailly J

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research suggests that acoustical degradation impacts encoding of items into memory, especially in elderly subjects. We here aimed to investigate whether acoustically degraded items that are initially encoded into memory are more prone to forgetting as a function of age. Young and old participants were tested wi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Thiel CM,Özyurt J,Nogueira W,Puschmann S

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:By convention, it is believed that the ipsilateral side of the body is controlled by the contralateral side of the brain. Past studies measuring brain activity primarily recorded changes before and after an intervention is performed on one side of the body within one hemisphere (usually the contralateral) of the brain...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Martinez JA,Wittstein MW,Folger SF,Bailey SP

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To the naïve observer, cubist paintings contain geometrical forms in which familiar objects are hardly recognizable, even in the presence of a meaningful title. We used fMRI to test whether a short training session about Cubism would facilitate object recognition in paintings by Picasso, Braque and Gris. Subjects, who...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wiesmann M,Ishai A

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Featurally Underspecified Lexicon (FUL) theory predicts that [coronal] is the language universal default place of articulation for phonemes. This assumption has been consistently supported with adult behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data; however, this underspecification claim has not been tested in de...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cummings AE,Ogiela DA,Wu YC

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this pilot study near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) neurofeedback was investigated as a new method for the treatment of Attention Deficit-/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Oxygenated hemoglobin in the prefrontal cortex of children with ADHD was measured and fed back. 12 sessions of NIRS-neurofeedback were compared to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Marx AM,Ehlis AC,Furdea A,Holtmann M,Banaschewski T,Brandeis D,Rothenberger A,Gevensleben H,Freitag CM,Fuchsenberger Y,Fallgatter AJ,Strehl U

更新日期：2015-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoustic stimuli can cause a transient increase in the excitability of the motor cortex. The current study leverages this phenomenon to develop a method for testing the integrity of auditorimotor integration and the capacity for auditorimotor plasticity. We demonstrate that appropriately timed transcranial magnetic st...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Sowman PF,Dueholm SS,Rasmussen JH,Mrachacz-Kersting N

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital media have today an enormous diffusion, and their influence on the behavior of a vast part of the human population can hardly be underestimated. In this review I propose that cultural evolution theory, including both a sophisticated view of human behavior and a methodological attitude to modeling and quantitat...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Acerbi A

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimizing rehabilitation strategies requires understanding the effects of contextual cues on adaptation learning. Prior studies have examined these effects on the specificity of split-belt walking adaptation, showing that contextual visual cues can be manipulated to modulate the magnitude, transfer, and washout of sp...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Luu TP,He Y,Nakagome S,Nathan K,Brown S,Gorges J,Contreras-Vidal JL

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory, formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro)cognitive poetics has investigated structural and functional aspects of literature reception. Despite a wealth of literature published in specialized journals ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jacobs AM

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumer psychology research has shown that individuals of different social statuses have distinctive purchase intentions for different products. Individuals of a high social status will simultaneously measure the symbolic status meaning and utilitarian value of a product, but they will not show strong preferences for...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Chen D,Qu W,Xiang Y,Zhao J,Shen G

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency-following response (FFR) is an auditory evoked potential (AEP) that follows the periodic characteristics of a sound. Despite being a widely studied biosignal in auditory neuroscience, the neural underpinnings of the FFR are still unclear. Traditionally, FFR was associated with subcortical activity, but r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： López-Caballero F,Martin-Trias P,Ribas-Prats T,Gorina-Careta N,Bartrés-Faz D,Escera C

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairing transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with specific stimulus-intervals induces associative motor plasticity at the primary motor cortex (M1). Electroacupuncture (EA) is an established medical technique in the eastern countries. This study investigates whet...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Huang Y,Chen JC,Chen CM,Tsai CH,Lu MK

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Curvature is a highly informative visual cue for shape perception and object recognition. We introduce a novel illusion-the Lemon Illusion-in which subtle illusory curvature is perceived along contour regions that are devoid of physical curvature. We offer several perceptual demonstrations and observations that lead u...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Strother L,Killebrew KW,Caplovitz GP

更新日期：2015-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive affect has been associated with improvement in performance in various attentional domains. Negative affect has been associated with narrowing of attention and lowering of performance in attentional tasks. Previous behavioral studies have put forth the diffuse mental state idea as the mechanism of these effect...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Dhinakaran J,De Vos M,Thorne JD,Braun N,Janson J,Kranczioch C

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 673 in vol. 8, PMID: 25221500.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Taghizadeh B,Gail A

更新日期：2014-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of tinnitus suppression after cochlear implantation (CI) in single-sided deafness (SSD) is not fully understood. In this regard, by comparing pre- and post-CI quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG), we explored cortical changes relevant to tinnitus improvement. In SSD patients who underwent CI, qEEG ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Song JJ,Kim K,Sunwoo W,Mertens G,Van de Heyning P,De Ridder D,Vanneste S,Lee SY,Park KJ,Choi H,Choi JW

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:For individuals who are blind, navigating independently in an unfamiliar environment represents a considerable challenge. Inspired by the rising popularity of video games, we have developed a novel approach to train navigation and spatial cognition skills in adolescents who are blind. Audio-based Environment Simulator...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Connors EC,Chrastil ER,Sánchez J,Merabet LB

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00