The Dancing Brain: Structural and Functional Signatures of Expert Dance Training.

abstract：:The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity is increasing in the last decades, also in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Even though it has been established that an increase in weight can have important negative effects on gait in healthy adults and children, it has not been investigated what the effect is of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Meyns P,Van Gestel L,Bar-On L,Goudriaan M,Wambacq H,Aertbeliën E,Bruyninckx H,Molenaers G,De Cock P,Ortibus E,Desloovere K

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gait is one of the fundamental behaviors we use to interact with the world. The functionality of the locomotor system is thus related to enriching interactions with our environment. The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) has been found to contribute to motor adaptation during both visuomotor and postural adaptation tasks...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Young DR,Parikh PJ,Layne CS

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of sensory eye dominance, a reflection of the interocular suppression in binocular visual processing, can be quantitatively measured using the binocular phase combination task. In this study, we aimed to provide a normative dataset for sensory eye dominance using this task. Based on that, we also assessed t...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wang Y,Cui L,He Z,Lin W,Qu J,Lu F,Zhou J,Hess RF

更新日期：2018-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We used easily distinguishable stimuli of faces and houses constituted from straight lines, with the aim of learning whether they activate V1 on the one hand, and the specialized areas that are critical for the processing of faces and houses on the other, with similar latencies. Eighteen subjects took part in the expe...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Shigihara Y,Zeki S

更新日期：2014-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between primary motor cortex (M1) activity and (muscular) force output has been studied extensively. Results from previous studies indicate that activity of a part of yet unidentified neurons in M1 are positively correlated with increased force levels. One considerable candidate causing this positive corr...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kurz A,Leukel C

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ever since the 19th century, the standard model for spoken language processing has assumed two pathways for repetition-a phonological pathway and a semantic pathway-and this idea has gained further support in the last decade. First, recent in vivo tractography studies have demonstrated both the "dorsal" (via arcuate f...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ueno T,Lambon Ralph MA

更新日期：2013-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we examined brain activation in subjects during two music listening conditions: listening while simultaneously rating the musical piece being played [Listening and Rating (LR)] and listening to the musical pieces unconstrained [Listening (L)]. Using these two conditions, we tested whether the sequence i...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Markovic A,Kühnis J,Jäncke L

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at investigating different aspects of Executive Functions (EF) in children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD). A neuropsychological battery tapping verbal fluency, spoonerism, attention, verbal shifting, short-term and working memory was used to assess 60 children with DD and 65 with typical ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Varvara P,Varuzza C,Sorrentino AC,Vicari S,Menghini D

更新日期：2014-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous research studies have been conducted on the use of videogames as tools to improve one's cognitive abilities. While meta-analyses and qualitative reviews have provided evidence that some aspects of cognition such as spatial imagery are modified after exposure to videogames, other evidence has shown that matrix...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Redick TS,Webster SB

更新日期：2014-03-26 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：:Phonological awareness skills in children with reading difficulty (RD) may reflect impaired automatic integration of orthographic and phonological representations. However, little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms involved in phonological awareness for children with RD. Eighteen children with RD, ages 9-...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Randazzo M,Greenspon EB,Booth JR,McNorgan C

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of obesity skyrocketed over the past decades to become a significant public health problem. Obesity is recognized as a low-grade inflammatory disease and is linked with several comorbidities such as diabetes, circulatory disease, common neurodegenerative diseases, as well as chronic pain. Adipocytes are...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Eichwald T,Talbot S

更新日期：2020-06-09 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：:A child-customized magnetoencephalography system was used to investigate somatosensory evoked field (SEF) in 3- to 4-year-old children. Three stimulus conditions were used in which the children received tactile-only stimulation to their left index finger or visuotactile stimulation. In the two visuotactile conditions,...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Remijn GB,Kikuchi M,Shitamichi K,Ueno S,Yoshimura Y,Nagao K,Tsubokawa T,Kojima H,Higashida H,Minabe Y

更新日期：2014-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Beyond normal and non-imitative singing, the imitation of the timbre of another singer's voice, such as in Karaoke singing, involves the demanding reproduction of voice quality features and strongly depends on singing experience and practice. We show that precise voice imitation in a highly proficient and experienced ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Frühholz S,Trost W,Constantinescu I,Grandjean D

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive assessment of hemispheric dominance for receptive language using magnetoencephalography (MEG) is now a well-established procedure used across several epilepsy centers in the context of pre-surgical evaluation of children and adults while awake, alert and attentive. However, the utility of MEG for the same...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Rezaie R,Narayana S,Schiller K,Birg L,Wheless JW,Boop FA,Papanicolaou AC

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of empirical phenomena that were previously interpreted as a result of cognitive control, turn out to reflect (in part) simple associative-learning effects. A prime example is the proportion congruency effect, the finding that interference effects (such as the Stroop effect) decrease as the propor...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brown SB,van Steenbergen H,Kedar T,Nieuwenhuis S

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We used tomographic analysis of MEG signals to characterize regional spectral changes in the brain at sleep onset and during light sleep. We identified two key processes that may causally link to loss of consciousness during the quiet or "core" periods of NREM1. First, active inhibition in the frontal lobe leads to de...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ioannides AA,Liu L,Poghosyan V,Kostopoulos GK

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Dreaming is a universal experience, yet there is considerable inter-individual variability in dream recall frequency (DRF). One dominant model, the "arousal-retrieval" model, posits that intra-sleep wakefulness is required for dream traces to be encoded into long-term storage, essentially proposing that a be...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： van Wyk M,Solms M,Lipinska G

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy aging is typically accompanied by some decline in cognitive performance, as well as by alterations in brain structure and function. Here we report the results of a randomized, controlled trial designed to determine the effects of a novel cognitive training program on resting cerebral blood flow (CBF) and gray ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mozolic JL,Hayasaka S,Laurienti PJ

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Reading comprehension depends on neural processes supporting the access, understanding, and storage of words over time. Examinations of the neural activity correlated with reading have contributed to our understanding of reading comprehension, especially for the comprehension of sentences and short passages. However, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mossbridge JA,Grabowecky M,Paller KA,Suzuki S

更新日期：2013-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed how synchronous speech listening and lipreading affects speech recognition in acoustic noise. In simple audiovisual perceptual tasks, inverse effectiveness is often observed, which holds that the weaker the unimodal stimuli, or the poorer their signal-to-noise ratio, the stronger the audiovisual benefit. S...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： van de Rijt LPH,Roye A,Mylanus EAM,van Opstal AJ,van Wanrooij MM

更新日期：2019-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research manipulated the fluency of unstudied items using masked repetition priming procedures during an explicit recognition test. Based on fluency-attribution accounts, which posit that familiarity can be driven by multiple forms of fluency, the relationship between masked priming-induced fluency and fam...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wang W,Li B,Gao C,Xiao X,Guo C

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the ability to deceive others, and the ability to detect deception, has long been proposed to confer an evolutionary advantage. Deception detection has been studied extensively, and the finding that typical individuals fare little better than chance in detecting deception is one of the more robust in the behavior...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wright GR,Berry CJ,Bird G

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary philosophical and neurocognitive studies of the self have dissociated two distinct types of self-awareness: a "narrative" self-awareness (NS) weaving together episodic memory, future planning and self-evaluation into a coherent self-narrative and identity, and a "minimal" self-awareness (MS) focused on pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Dor-Ziderman Y,Berkovich-Ohana A,Glicksohn J,Goldstein A

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural patterns associated with viewing energy-dense foods can predict changes in eating-related outcomes. However, most research on this topic is limited to one follow-up time point, and single outcome measures. The present study seeks to add to that literature by employing a more refined assessment of food craving a...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Giuliani NR,Cosme D,Merchant JS,Dirks B,Berkman ET

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OXT) is known to play an important role in trust, whereas the involvement of other peptide hormones has not been evaluated. In this study, we focused on microsatellite polymorphisms in the intron of the arginine-vasopressin receptor 1a (AVPR1a) gene and examined whether the association between the repeat len...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Nishina K,Takagishi H,Takahashi H,Sakagami M,Inoue-Murayama M

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the combined effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and an intensive Conversational therapy treatment on discourse skills in 12 persons with chronic aphasia. Six short video clips depicting everyday life contexts were prepared. Three videoclips were used to elicit spont...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Marangolo P,Fiori V,Calpagnano MA,Campana S,Razzano C,Caltagirone C,Marini A

更新日期：2013-09-06 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：:Despite distinct peripheral and central pathways, stimulation of both the olfactory and the gustatory systems may give rise to the sensation of sweetness. Whether there is a common central mechanism producing sweet quality sensations or two discrete mechanisms associated independently with gustatory and olfactory stim...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Veldhuizen MG,Nachtigal D,Teulings L,Gitelman DR,Small DM

更新日期：2010-07-21 00:00:00