Multi-session Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over Primary Motor Cortex Facilitates Sequence Learning, Chunking, and One Year Retention.

abstract：:Motivation moderately influences brain-computer interface (BCI) performance in healthy subjects when monetary reward is used to manipulate extrinsic motivation. However, the motivation of severely paralyzed patients, who are potentially in need for BCI, could mainly be internal and thus, an intrinsic motivator may be ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kleih SC,Kübler A

更新日期：2013-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous experiment, we showed that among young and healthy subjects, thin plantar inserts improve postural control and modify vergence amplitudes. In this experiment, however, significant inter-individual variability was observed. We hypothesize that its origin could be attributed to a different reliance upon fe...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Foisy A,Kapoula Z

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Lab-based electroencephalography (EEG) techniques have matured over decades of research and can produce high-quality scientific data. It is often assumed that the specific choice of EEG system has limited impact on the data and does not add variance to the results. However, many low cost and mobile EEG systems are now...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Melnik A,Legkov P,Izdebski K,Kärcher SM,Hairston WD,Ferris DP,König P

更新日期：2017-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type I (NF1) is a neurogenetic disease marked by multiple cognitive and learning problems. Genetic variants may account for phenotypic variance in NF1. Here, we investigated the association between the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val(158)Met polymorphism and working memory and arithmetic perf...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Costa Dde S,de Paula JJ,Alvim-Soares AM Jr,Pereira PA,Malloy-Diniz LF,Rodrigues LO,Romano-Silva MA,de Miranda DM

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Elderly depressed patients manifest pronounced executive dysfunction compared with younger subjects with depressive disorder. Aging-related brain changes may result in executive dysfunction in geriatric depression. We investigated the neural correlates of inhibitory control processing in depressed subjects at differen...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zhang BW,Xu J,Chang Y

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Some years ago Cheung et al. (2008) proposed the complete design (CD) for measuring the failure of selective attention in composite objects. Since the CD is a fully balanced design, analysis of response bias may reveal potential effects of the experimental manipulation, the stimulus material, and/or attributes of the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Meinhardt G,Meinhardt-Injac B,Persike M

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Preterm infants are born during critical stages of brain development, in which the adaptive capacity of the fetus to extra-uterine environment is limited. Inadequate brain perfusion has been directly linked to preterm brain damage. Advanced high-frequency ultrasound probes and processing algorithms allow v...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Camfferman FA,Ecury-Goossen GM,La Roche JE,de Jong N,van 't Leven W,Vos HJ,Verweij MD,Nasserinejad K,Cools F,Govaert P,Dudink J

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Regions in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are involved in memory formation for scenes in both children and adults. The development in children and adolescents of successful memory encoding for scenes has been associated with increased activation in PFC, but not MTL, regions. However, eviden...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Chai XJ,Ofen N,Jacobs LF,Gabrieli JD

更新日期：2010-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Brains reveal amplified plasticity as they recover from an injury. We aimed to define time dependent plasticity changes in patients recovering from mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Twenty-five subjects with mild head injury were longitudinally evaluated within 36 h, 3 and 6 months using resting state functional con...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bharath RD,Munivenkatappa A,Gohel S,Panda R,Saini J,Rajeswaran J,Shukla D,Bhagavatula ID,Biswal BB

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the somatotopy of finger movements has been extensively studied with neuroimaging, the neural foundations of facial movements remain elusive. Therefore, we systematically studied the neuronal correlates of voluntary facial movements using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS, Ekman et al., 2002). The facial m...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Krippl M,Karim AA,Brechmann A

更新日期：2015-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantia nigra is an important neuronal structure, located in the ventral midbrain, that exerts a regulatory function within the basal ganglia circuitry through the nigro-striatal pathway. Although its subcortical connections are relatively well-known in human brain, little is known about its cortical connections. T...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cacciola A,Milardi D,Anastasi GP,Basile GA,Ciolli P,Irrera M,Cutroneo G,Bruschetta D,Rizzo G,Mondello S,Bramanti P,Quartarone A

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The human voice, which has a pivotal role in communication, is processed in specialized brain regions. Although a general consensus holds that the anterior insular cortex (AIC) plays a critical role in negative emotional experience, previous studies have not observed AIC activation in response to hearing disgust in vo...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Chen C,Lee YH,Cheng Y

更新日期：2014-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In electroencephalography (EEG) measurements, processing of periodic sounds in the ascending auditory pathway generates the frequency-following response (FFR) phase-locked to the fundamental frequency (F0) and its harmonics of a sound. We measured FFRs to the steady-state (vowel) part of syllables /ba/ and /aw/ occurr...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Alho K,Żarnowiec K,Gorina-Careta N,Escera C

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The stochastic resonance (SR) is a phenomenon in which adding a moderate amount of noise can improve the signal-to-noise ratio and performance of non-linear systems. SR occurs in all sensory modalities including the visual system in which noise can enhance contrast detection sensitivity and the perception of ambiguous...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Treviño M,De la Torre-Valdovinos B,Manjarrez E

更新日期：2016-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies have demonstrated that the neurotrophin brain-derived neutrophic factor (BDNF) is required for the appropriate development of the central respiratory network, a neuronal complex in the brainstem of vital importance to sustaining life. The pontine Kölliker-Fuse nucleus (KFN) is a fundamental compon...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lavezzi AM,Corna MF,Matturri L

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of the representation of numerosities, more accurate and faster discrimination between two numerosities is observed when the distance between them increases. In previous studies, the comparison and same-different task were most frequently used to investigate this distance effect. Recently, it was questione...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Smets K,Gebuis T,Reynvoet B

更新日期：2013-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that observing an action induces activity in the onlooker's motor system. In light of the muscle specificity and time-locked mirroring nature of the effect, this motor resonance has been traditionally viewed as an inner automatic replica of the observed moveme...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Amoruso L,Finisguerra A

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge on the patterns of repetition amongst individuals who develop language deficits in association with right hemisphere lesions (crossed aphasia) is very limited. Available data indicate that repetition in some crossed aphasics experiencing phonological processing deficits is not heavily influenced by lexical-s...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： De-Torres I,Dávila G,Berthier ML,Walsh SF,Moreno-Torres I,Ruiz-Cruces R

更新日期：2013-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In virtual reality (VR), it is possible to embody avatars that are dissimilar to the physical self. We examined whether embodying a dissimilar self in VR would decrease anxiety in a public speaking situation. We report the results of an observational pilot study and two laboratory experiments. In the pilot study (N = ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Aymerich-Franch L,Kizilcec RF,Bailenson JN

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In perceptual decision making the brain extracts and accumulates decision evidence from a stimulus over time and eventually makes a decision based on the accumulated evidence. Several characteristics of this process have been observed in human electrophysiological experiments, especially an average build-up of motor-r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bitzer S,Park H,Maess B,von Kriegstein K,Kiebel SJ

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain parcellation divides the brain's spatial domain into small regions, which are represented by nodes within the network analysis framework. While template-based parcellations are widely used, the parcels on the template do not necessarily match individual's functional nodes. A new method is developed to overcome t...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cheng H,Li A,Koenigsberger AA,Huang C,Wang Y,Sheng J,Newman SD

更新日期：2017-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals differ substantially in their susceptibility to distraction by irrelevant visual information. Previous research has uncovered how individual variability in the goal-driven component of attentional control influences distraction, yet it remains unknown whether other sources of variability between individual...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lechak JR,Leber AB

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The symptoms and pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) are complicated and an accurate diagnosis of PD is difficult, particularly in early-stage. Because functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is non-invasive and is characterized by the integration of different brain areas in terms of functional con...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Tan Y,Tan J,Deng J,Cui W,He H,Yang F,Deng H,Xiao R,Huang Z,Zhang X,Tan R,Shen X,Liu T,Wang X,Yao D,Luo C

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Gait and balance impairments are frequently considered as the most significant concerns among individuals suffering from neurological diseases. Robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) has shown to be a promising neurorehabilitation intervention to improve gait recovery in patients following stroke or brain injury by poten...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Berger A,Horst F,Müller S,Steinberg F,Doppelmayr M

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this research is to test the potential for neuroadaptive automation to improve response speed to a hazardous event by using a brain-computer interface (BCI) to decode perceptual-motor intention. Seven participants underwent four experimental sessions while measuring brain activity with magnetoencephalograp...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Callan DE,Terzibas C,Cassel DB,Sato MA,Parasuraman R

更新日期：2016-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We routinely need to process the identity of many faces around us, and how the brain achieves this is still the subject of much research in cognitive neuroscience. To date, insights on face identity processing have come from both healthy and clinical populations. However, in order to directly compare results across an...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Watson R,Huis In 't Veld EM,de Gelder B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory (WM) is a fundamental cognitive ability to support complex thought, but it is limited in capacity. WM training has shown the potential benefit for those in need of a higher WM ability. Many studies have shown the potential of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to transiently enhance WM perfo...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ke Y,Wang N,Du J,Kong L,Liu S,Xu M,An X,Ming D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research shows that people can use a cue to mentally prepare for a cognitive challenge. The response to a cue has been defined as phasic alertness which is reflected in faster responses and increased activity in frontal, parietal, thalamic, and visual brain regions. We examine if and how phasic alertness can ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： de Dreu MJ,Schouwenaars IT,Rutten GM,Ramsey NF,Jansma JM

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present fMRI study investigated the neural areas involved in implicit perceptual sequence learning. To obtain more insight in the functional contributions of the brain areas, we tracked both the behavioral and neural time course of the learning process, using a perceptual serial color matching task. Next, to inves...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gheysen F,Van Opstal F,Roggeman C,Van Waelvelde H,Fias W

更新日期：2011-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Creativity generally involves the conception of original and valuable ideas. Previous studies have suggested an association between creativity and the dopaminergic system, and that physical activity facilitates creativity. Iron plays a key role in the dopaminergic system and physical activity. Here, we newly investiga...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Takeuchi H,Taki Y,Sekiguchi A,Nouchi R,Kotozaki Y,Nakagawa S,Miyauchi CM,Iizuka K,Yokoyama R,Shinada T,Yamamoto Y,Hanawa S,Araki T,Hashizume H,Kunitoki K,Sassa Y,Kawashima R

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00