The nature of voluntary action.

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：:Performance-based measures of hand preference have been developed as an objective method of examining handedness. Previous research using this method showed that both skill demands and the position of the object in working space affect preferential hand reaching. Specifically, preferred hand reaches predominated in le...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Mamolo CM,Roy EA,Bryden PJ,Rohr LE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome is the world's most common hereditary cause of developmental delay in males and is now well characterized at the biological, brain and cognitive levels. The disorder is caused by the silencing of a single gene on the X chromosome, the FMR1 gene. The premutation (carrier) status, however, is less wel...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cornish KM,Kogan CS,Li L,Turk J,Jacquemont S,Hagerman RJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between exercise mode and executive function and its effect on behavior and neuroelectric activity. Forty-eight older adults were classified into open-skill, closed-skill, and irregular exercise groups based on their experience of exercise participation. Ex...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Dai CT,Chang YK,Huang CJ,Hung TM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two 2 1/2- to 5 1/2-year-old children's social and verbal behaviors were observed during free play in a preschool. A test measuring lateral specialization of verbal function and a standardized psychometric test of verbal ability were also administered. Analysis of variance indicated that the right ear (left hemi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Kamptner L,Kraft RH,Harper LV

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual input was lateralized using a specially designed contact lens system. Subjects performed a sequence of two keypresses in response to a light stimulus with either the left or the right hand in a choice reaction time paradigm. Two choice reaction time conditions were used: (A) hand certainty, sequence uncertainty...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Sivak B,MacKenzie CL

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Hand skill asymmetry on two handedness tasks was examined in consistent right-handed musicians and nonmusicians as well as mixed-handed and consistent left-handed nonmusicians. Musicians, although demonstrating right-hand superiority, revealed a lesser degree of hand skill asymmetry than consistent right-handed nonmus...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Jäncke L,Schlaug G,Steinmetz H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of intellectual, communicative, and motor deficits limit the use of standardized behavioral assessments of cognition in individuals with Angelman syndrome (AS). The current study is the first to objectively evaluate learning and memory in AS using auditory event-related potentials (ERP) during passive ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Key AP,Jones D,Peters S,Dold C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several recent studies investigated the hemispheric contributions to the attentional networks using the Attention Network Test (ANT), the role of the cerebral hemispheres in modulating the interaction among them remains unclear. In this study, two lateralized versions of this test (LANT) were used to investig...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Spagna A,Martella D,Fuentes LJ,Marotta A,Casagrande M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of 18 frontal lobe lesion (FL) and 10 frontal lobe dementia (FLD) patients on an associative memory test was compared with the performance of their matched normal controls. The FL group was severely impaired on cued and free recall and was moderately impaired on a recognition condition. Left FL patient...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Dimitrov M,Granetz J,Peterson M,Hollnagel C,Alexander G,Grafman J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemispheric activation during cognitive tasks using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be difficult to interpret, uncomfortable, and is not widely available. This study investigated whether tympanic membrane thermometry could be used as a broad measure of hemispheric activation. Infrared probes measured ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cherbuin N,Brinkman C

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive functioning was assessed in 69 left-handed males and females with a positive family history of left-handedness and in 77 left-handed and 55 right-handed males and females without familial left-handedness. Compared to females, males performed better on numerical reasoning and on two visuospatial tasks involvi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Van Strien JW,Bouma A

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:This study investigated whether the semantic and episodic processes underlying the old/new effect can be dissociated by analyzing the spatial and temporal characteristics of event-related potentials (ERPs) evoked by unfamiliar face stimuli during direct and indirect memory tests. The ERP old/new effects obtained inclu...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Guillem F,Bicu M,Debruille JB

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition memory studies have shown that increased perceptual fluency results in more "old" responses and, presumably, increases familiarity. However, the exact neural mechanisms of these effects remain unresolved. We conducted two ERP experiments in which participants encoded words and performed a recognition test ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Stróżak P,Leynes PA,Wojtasiński M

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This article takes an information processing perspective to review current understanding of brain mechanisms of human voluntary timing. Theoretical accounts of timing of the production of isochronous tapping and rhythms and of bimanual responding repetitive responding are reviewed. The mapping of higher level temporal...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wing AM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been consistent findings of hemispheric asymmetry in global/local processing, in both neurological patients and the neurologically normal. However, with one exception, these studies have used purely linguistic stimuli (letters made up of letters). The present study investigates lateral asymmetry for process...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Bedson E,Turnbull OH

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of motor imagery training on cognitive performance was examined and the physiological mechanisms involved in the contribution of mental practice to motor learning were considered. The subject's mental effort during motor imagery was assessed by using psychophysiological measures and particularly eye ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Papadelis C,Kourtidou-Papadeli C,Bamidis P,Albani M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slowness in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been attributed to intrusive thoughts or meticulousness. Recent research suggests that slowness in OCD may be particularly evident on tests of executive function subserved by frontostriatal circuitry. In the present study, the speed and accuracy of responding on neur...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Roth RM,Baribeau J,Milovan DL,O'Connor K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research reported a priming effect for voices. However, the type of information primed is still largely unknown. In this study, we examined the influence of speaker's gender and emotional category of the stimulus on priming of non-speech vocalizations in 10 male participants, who performed a gender identifica...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Fecteau S,Armony JL,Joanette Y,Belin P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, the pattern of ear superiority displayed by nonmusicians in a task where dichotically presented target melodies have to be recognized among four probes was found to be correlated with subjects' descriptions of their operating modes: those who reported focusing on critical local differences in pitc...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Peretz I,Morais J,Bertelson P

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory attention may be important in generating odor-induced tastes - an arguably universal form of synesthesia - by ensuring that the taste concurrent is captured by the nose and olfaction, not by the mouth and gustation (oral-capture). To examine the role of olfactory attention in generating odor-induced tastes a...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Tham WW,Stevenson RJ,Miller LA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preliminary electroencephalographic (EEG) investigation was conducted to determine if the pattern of hemispheric activation in mathematically precocious youth differs from that of average math ability subjects. Alpha activity at four brain sites (frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes) over the left and ri...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： O'Boyle MW,Alexander JE,Benbow CP

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to enhance the efficacy and generalisation of working memory (WM) training, but there has been little systematic investigation into how coupling task-specific WM training with stimulation impacts more specifically on transfer to untrained tasks. This random...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Byrne EM,Ewbank MP,Gathercole SE,Holmes J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The present study investigates cortical structures associated with personality dimension of positivity (POS) by using a standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA), which provides EEG localization measures that are independent of the recording reference. Resting EEG and self-report...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Alessandri G,Caprara GV,De Pascalis V

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper an attempt was made to describe the basic principles and procedures involved in recording, noninvasively, magnetic fields from the surface of the head and estimating the intracranial sources that give rise to these fields, presumably the same ones that result in time-varying voltages in the scalp that ar...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Papanicolaou AC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two hemispheres of the brain often perform complementary computations and make unique contributions to task performance. This study examines the interaction of linguistic (left hemisphere) and prosodic (right hemisphere) information in speech processing. An individual differences approach is used in which interfer...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Grimshaw GM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system that can interfere with cognitive functions. The purpose of this study is to document the impact of MS, aging and disease duration on cognitive functioning as both life expectancy and incidence of the disease among persons with MS (PwMS) aged...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Alexandra T,Kim C,Estefania B,Elaine R,Pierre D,Isabelle R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal study of three patients with CT-scan documented paramedian thalamic infarctions (bilateral, primarily right, unilateral left) is reported and the neuropsychology of human paramedian thalamic infarction is reviewed. The neuropsychological deficits following these selected lesions, the nature of the clini...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Stuss DT,Guberman A,Nelson R,Larochelle S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00