A Direct Cortico-Nigral Pathway as Revealed by Constrained Spherical Deconvolution Tractography in Humans.

abstract：:Previous electrophysiological studies of automatic language processing revealed early (100-200 ms) reflections of access to lexical characteristics of speech signal using the so-called mismatch negativity (MMN), a negative ERP deflection elicited by infrequent irregularities in unattended repetitive auditory stimulati...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Shtyrov Y,Goryainova G,Tugin S,Ossadtchi A,Shestakova A

更新日期：2013-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:An advantage of rehabilitation administered on computers or tablets is that the tasks can be self-administered and the cueing required to complete the tasks can be monitored. Though there are many types of cueing, few studies have examined how participants' response to rehabilitation is influenced by self-administered...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Des Roches CA,Mitko A,Kiran S

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Although previous studies have suggested that conflict control can occur in the absence of consciousness, the brain mechanisms underlying unconscious and conscious conflict control remain unclear. The current study used a rapid event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging design to collect data from 24 particip...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jiang J,Bailey K,Xiang L,Zhang L,Zhang Q

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, feminist approaches to neurosciences have evaluated the debates surrounding practices of knowledge production within and research results of contemporary brain research. Consequently, neurofeminist scholars have critically examined gendered impacts of neuroscientific research. Feminist neuroscientists also de...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Schmitz S,Höppner G

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent EEG and fMRI evidence suggests that behavioral errors are foreshadowed by systematic changes in brain activity preceding the outcome by seconds. In order to further characterize this type of error precursor activity, we investigated single-trial event-related EEG activity from 70 participants performing a modif...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Eichele H,Juvodden HT,Ullsperger M,Eichele T

更新日期：2010-08-10 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：:This study presents the first neuroimaging investigation of female psychopathy in an incarcerated population. Prior studies have found that male psychopathy is associated with reduced limbic and paralimbic activation when processing emotional stimuli and making moral judgments. The goal of this study was to investigat...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Harenski CL,Edwards BG,Harenski KA,Kiehl KA

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma oscillations in neocortex are hypothesized to improve information transmission between groups of neurons. We recently showed that optogenetic drive of fast-spiking interneurons (FS) at 40 Hz in mouse neocortex in vivo modulates the spike count and precision of sensory evoked responses. At specific phases of alig...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Knoblich U,Siegle JH,Pritchett DL,Moore CI

更新日期：2010-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Executive functions are subject to a marked age-related decline, but have been shown to benefit from cognitive training interventions. As of yet, it is, however, still relatively unclear which neural mechanism can mediate training-related performance gains. In the present electrophysiological study, we examined the ef...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Küper K,Gajewski PD,Frieg C,Falkenstein M

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a reaction time based categorization task that measures the differential associative strength between bipolar targets and evaluative attribute concepts as an approach to indexing implicit beliefs or biases. An open question exists as to what exactly the IAT measures, and here EEG...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Healy GF,Boran L,Smeaton AF

更新日期：2015-11-24 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：:People are extremely good at hitting falling balls with a baseball bat. Despite the ball's constant acceleration, they have been reported to time hits with a standard deviation of only about 7 ms. To examine how people achieve such precision, we compared performance when there were no added restrictions, with performa...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brenner E,Driesen B,Smeets JB

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated the time course of the other-race classification advantage (ORCA) in the subordinate classification of normally configured faces and distorted faces by race. Slightly distorting the face configuration delayed the categorization of own-race faces and had no conspicuous effects on other-ra...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lv J,Yan T,Tao L,Zhao L

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The judgement of human ability is ubiquitous, from school admissions to job performance reviews. The exact make-up of ability traits, however, is often narrowly defined and lacks a comprehensive basis. We attempt to simplify the spectrum of human ability, similar to how five personality traits are widely believed to d...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pinto CB,Bielefeld J,Jabakhanji R,Reckziegel D,Griffith JW,Apkarian AV

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The error-related and feedback-related negativities (ERN and FRN) represent negative event-related potentials associated with the processing of errors and (negative) response outcomes. The neuronal source of these components is considered to be in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Monitoring one's own behavior and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Thoma P,Bellebaum C

更新日期：2012-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:High intakes of fat have been linked to greater cognitive decline in old age, but such associations may already occur in younger adults. We tested memory and learning in 38 women (25 to 45 years old), recruited for a larger observational study in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. These women varied in health statu...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gibson EL,Barr S,Jeanes YM

更新日期：2013-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine differences in spinal motoneuron dysfunction between the abductor pollicis brevis (APB) and the abductor digiti minimi (ADM) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients based on studying F-waves. Forty ALS patients and 20 normal controls (NCs) underwent motor nerve conduction studies ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Fang J,Cui L,Liu M,Guan Y,Li X,Li D,Cui B,Shen D,Ding Q

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies investigating the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on fatigue and muscle activity have elicited measurable improvements using stimulation intensities ≤2 mA and submaximal effort tasks. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of 2 mA and 4 mA anodal tDCS over the primary ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Workman CD,Fietsam AC,Rudroff T

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent meta-analysis of experiments from seven independent laboratories (n = 26) indicates that the human body can apparently detect randomly delivered stimuli occurring 1-10 s in the future (Mossbridge etal., 2012). The key observation in these studies is that human physiology appears to be able to distinguish betw...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mossbridge JA,Tressoldi P,Utts J,Ives JA,Radin D,Jonas WB

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been suggested that schizophrenia involves dysfunction in brain connectivity at a neural level, and a dysfunction in reward processing at a behavioral level. The purpose of the present study was to link these two levels of analyses by examining effective connectivity patterns between brain regions medi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Diaconescu AO,Jensen J,Wang H,Willeit M,Menon M,Kapur S,McIntosh AR

更新日期：2011-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:While issues of efficacy and specificity are crucial for the future of neurofeedback training, there may be alternative designs and control analyses to circumvent the methodological and ethical problems associated with double-blind placebo studies. Surprisingly, most NF studies do not report the most immediate result ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zuberer A,Brandeis D,Drechsler R

更新日期：2015-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a powerful MRI technique that can be used to estimate both the microstructural integrity and the trajectories of white matter pathways throughout the central nervous system. This fiber tracking (aka, "tractography") approach is often carried out using anatomically-defined seed points ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Figley TD,Bhullar N,Courtney SM,Figley CR

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Insidious declines in normal aging are well-established. Emerging evidence suggests that non-pharmacological interventions, specifically cognitive and physical training, may counter diminishing age-related cognitive and brain functions. This randomized trial compared effects of two training protocols: cognitive traini...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Chapman SB,Aslan S,Spence JS,Keebler MW,DeFina LF,Didehbani N,Perez AM,Lu H,D'Esposito M

更新日期：2016-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of neuroimaging studies have shown neural overlaps between first-hand experiences of pain and the perception of pain in others. This shared neural representation of vicarious pain is thought to involve both affective and sensorimotor systems. A number of individual factors are thought to modulate the ce...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Marcoux LA,Michon PE,Voisin JI,Lemelin S,Vachon-Presseau E,Jackson PL

更新日期：2013-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Anecdotal literature suggests that creative people sometimes use bodily movement to help overcome mental blocks and lack of inspiration. Several studies have shown that physical exercise may sometimes enhance creative thinking, but the evidence is still inconclusive. In this study we investigated whether creativity in...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： S Colzato L,Szapora A,Pannekoek JN,Hommel B

更新日期：2013-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Training interventions for older adults are designed to remediate performance on trained tasks and to generalize, or transfer, to untrained tasks. Evidence for transfer is typically based on the trained group showing greater improvement than controls on untrained tasks, or on a correlation between gains in training an...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zelinski EM,Peters KD,Hindin S,Petway KT 2nd,Kennison RF

更新日期：2014-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous dimensions, such as time, space, and numerosity, have been suggested to be subserved by common neurocognitive mechanisms. Neuroimaging studies that have investigated either one or two dimensions simultaneously have consistently identified neural correlates in the parietal cortex of the brain. However, studi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Skagerlund K,Karlsson T,Träff U

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) influences emotional reactivity and attentional bias toward or away from emotional stimuli, and has been implicated in psychopathological states, such as depression and anxiety disorder. The short allele is associated with increased reactivity and attention toward negatively-v...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Stollstorff M,Munakata Y,Jensen AP,Guild RM,Smolker HR,Devaney JM,Banich MT

更新日期：2013-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor control and adaptation are multi-determinate processes with complex interactions. This is reflected for example in the ambiguous nature of interactions during sequential adaptation of reaching under kinematics and dynamics perturbations. It has been suggested that perturbations based on the same kinematic parame...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Arce F,Novick I,Vaadia E

更新日期：2010-01-04 00:00:00