Testing the Limits of Skill Transfer for Scrabble Experts in Behavior and Brain.

abstract：:Optic ataxia is a neuropsychological disorder that affects the ability to interact with objects presented in the visual modality following either unilateral or bilateral lesions of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC). Patients with optic ataxia fail to reach accurately for objects, particularly when they are presented...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cavina-Pratesi C,Connolly JD,Milner AD

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Cultural neuroscience is an emerging research field concerned with studying the influences of different cultures on brain anatomy and function. In this study, we examined whether different cultural or genetic influences might influence the resting state electroencephalogram (EEG) in young children (mean ag...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Alahmadi N,Evdokimov SA,Kropotov YJ,Müller AM,Jäncke L

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:During sleep, humans experience the offline images and sensations that we call dreams, which are typically emotional and lacking in rational judgment of their bizarreness. However, during lucid dreaming (LD), subjects know that they are dreaming, and may control oneiric content. Dreaming and LD features have been stud...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mota-Rolim SA,Targino ZH,Souza BC,Blanco W,Araujo JF,Ribeiro S

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The uncanny valley hypothesis (Mori, 1970) predicts differential experience of negative and positive affect as a function of human likeness. Affective experience of humanlike robots and computer-generated characters (avatars) dominates "uncanny" research, but findings are inconsistent. Importantly, it is unknown how o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cheetham M,Suter P,Jäncke L

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy sleep is essential in children's cognitive, behavioral, and emotional development. However, remarkably little is known about the influence of sleep disorders on different memory processes in childhood. Such data could give us a deeper insight into the effect of sleep on the developing brain and memory function...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Csábi E,Benedek P,Janacsek K,Zavecz Z,Katona G,Nemeth D

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objectives of this study were to investigate the development of face perception in Japanese children, focusing on the changes in face processing strategies (holistic and/or configural vs. feature-based) that occur during childhood. To achieve this, we analyzed the face-related N170 component, evoked by uprigh...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Miki K,Honda Y,Takeshima Y,Watanabe S,Kakigi R

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In body ownership illusions participants feel that a mannequin or virtual body (VB) is their own. Earlier results suggest that body ownership over a body seen from behind in extra personal space is possible when the surrogate body is visually stroked and tapped on its back, while spatially and temporal synchronous tac...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pomés A,Slater M

更新日期：2013-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported that, when subjects have to judge the laterality of rotated hand drawings, their judgment is automatically influenced by the biomechanical constraints of the upper limbs. The prominent account for this effect is that, in order to perform the task, subjects mentally rotate their upper limb...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Vannuscorps G,Pillon A,Andres M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much research suggested that recognizing our own body-parts and attributing a body-part to our physical self-likely involve distinct processes. Accordingly, facilitation for self-body-parts was found when an implicit, but not an explicit, self-recognition was required. Here, we assess whether implicit and explicit bod...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Candini M,Farinelli M,Ferri F,Avanzi S,Cevolani D,Gallese V,Northoff G,Frassinetti F

更新日期：2016-08-31 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：:The human cortical regions for processing high-level visual (HLV) functions of different categories remain ambiguous, especially in terms of their conjunctions and specifications. Moreover, the neurobiology of declined HLV functions in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has not been fully investigated. This study ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Deng Y,Shi L,Lei Y,Liang P,Li K,Chu WC,Wang D,Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2016-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The embodiment of tools and rubber hands is believed to involve the modification of two separate body representations: the body schema and the body image, respectively. It is thought that tools extend the capabilities of the body's action schema, whereas prosthetics like rubber hands are incorporated into the body ima...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Weser V,Proffitt DR

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural systems of lexical tone processing have been studied for many years. However, previous findings have been mixed with regard to the hemispheric specialization for the perception of linguistic pitch patterns in native speakers of tonal language. In this study, we performed two activation likelihood estimation...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kwok VPY,Dan G,Yakpo K,Matthews S,Fox PT,Li P,Tan LH

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies employing rapid sampling techniques have demonstrated that the resting state fMRI (rs-fMRI) signal exhibits synchronized activities at frequencies much higher than the conventional frequency range (<0.1 Hz). However, little work has investigated the changes in the high-frequency fluctuations between dif...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yuan BK,Wang J,Zang YF,Liu DQ

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have reported facilitatory effects of semantic richness on word recognition (e.g., Yap et al., 2012). These effects suggest that word meaning is an important contributor to lexical decision task (LDT) performance, but what are the effects of repeated LDT practice on these semantic contributions? The c...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Hargreaves IS,Pexman PM

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although previous studies have shown that the rostral prefrontal cortex (rPFC) plays a crucial role in executive tasks, the various functions of the rPFC in the humans are still understudied. Here we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) to interfere with the execu...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： He W,Fan C,Li L

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The autobiographical-self refers to a mental state derived from the retrieval and assembly of memories regarding one's biography. The process of retrieval and assembly, which can focus on biographical facts or personality traits or some combination thereof, is likely to vary according to the domain chosen for an exper...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Araujo HF,Kaplan J,Damasio A

更新日期：2013-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to accurately process numerical magnitudes and solve mental arithmetic is of highest importance for schooling and professional career. Although impairments in these domains in disorders such as developmental dyscalculia (DD) are highly detrimental, remediation is still sparse. In recent years, transcranial...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Hauser TU,Rotzer S,Grabner RH,Mérillat S,Jäncke L

更新日期：2013-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal and neonatal brain connectivity development is highly complex. Studies have shown that functional networks change dramatically during development. The purpose of the current study was to determine how the mean phase lag index (mPLI), a measure of functional connectivity (FC), assessed with electroencephalography...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： van de Pol LA,van 't Westende C,Zonnenberg I,Koedam E,van Rossum I,de Haan W,Steenweg M,van Straaten EC,Stam CJ

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous event-related potential studies support sex differences in the N170 response during face and word processing; however, it remains unclear whether N170 categorical adaptation for faces and words is different between women and men. Using an adaptation paradigm, in which an adaptor and subsequent test stimulus a...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zhu C,Ma X,Ji L,Chen S,Cao X

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeners with normal hearing thresholds (NHTs) differ in their ability to steer attention to whatever sound source is important. This ability depends on top-down executive control, which modulates the sensory representation of sound in the cortex. Yet, this sensory representation also depends on the coding fidelity o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Dai L,Shinn-Cunningham BG

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In which journal a scientist publishes is considered one of the most crucial factors determining their career. The underlying common assumption is that only the best scientists manage to publish in a highly selective tier of the most prestigious journals. However, data from several lines of evidence suggest that the m...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brembs B

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The repetition of a stimulus task reduces the neural activity within certain cortical regions responsible for working memory (WM) processing. Although previous evidence has shown that repeated vibrotactile stimuli reduce the activation in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, whether the repeated tactile spatial stimul...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yang J,Yu Y,Kunita A,Huang Q,Wu J,Sawamoto N,Fukuyama H

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperation and competition are two ways of social interaction keys to life in society. Recent EEG-based hyperscanning studies reveal that cooperative and competitive interactions induce an increase in interbrain coupling. However, whether this interbrain coupling effect is just a reflection of inter-subject motor coo...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Barraza P,Pérez A,Rodríguez E

更新日期：2020-07-30 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：:Neuroimaging combined with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to primary motor cortex (M1) is an emerging technique that can examine motor-system functionality through evoked activity. However, because sensory afferents from twitching muscles are widely represented in motor areas the amount of evoked activity dir...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Shitara H,Shinozaki T,Takagishi K,Honda M,Hanakawa T

更新日期：2013-09-17 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：:Despite technological and interpretative advances, the non-invasive modalities used for pre-surgical evaluation of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), fail to generate a concordant anatomo-electroclinical hypothesis for the location of the seizure onset zone in many patients. This requires chronic monitoring ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Grande KM,Ihnen SKZ,Arya R

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies demonstrate that syntactic processing can be affected by emotional information and that subliminal emotional information can also affect cognitive processes. In this study, we explore whether unconscious emotional information may also impact syntactic processing. In an Event-Related brain Potential (ERP...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jiménez-Ortega L,Espuny J,de Tejada PH,Vargas-Rivero C,Martín-Loeches M

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Theta activity reflects a state of rhythmic modulation of excitability at the level of single neuron membranes, within local neuronal groups and between distant nodes of a neuronal network. A wealth of evidence has shown that during theta states distant neuronal groups synchronize, forming networks of spatially confin...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Womelsdorf T,Vinck M,Leung LS,Everling S

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00