An engineered glove for investigating the neural correlates of finger movements using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

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：:The intra-arterial amobarbital procedure (IAP or Wada test) is used to determine language lateralization and contralateral memory functioning in patients eligible for neurosurgery because of pharmaco-resistant epilepsy. During unilateral sedation, functioning of the contralateral hemisphere is assessed by means of neu...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Douw L,van Dellen E,Baayen JC,Klein M,Velis DN,Alpherts WC,Heimans JJ,Reijneveld JC,Stam CJ

更新日期：2010-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest changes in religious cognition in a subgroup of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD e.g., Butler et al., 2011). It is unclear whether this deficit extends to both doctrinal and experiential categorization forms of religious cognition. Kapogiannis et al. (2009b) dissociated experiential and doc...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Modestino EJ,O'Toole P,Reinhofer A

更新日期：2016-03-22 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：:Temporal contiguity between an action and corresponding auditory feedback is crucial to the perception of self-generated sound. However, the neural mechanisms underlying motor-auditory temporal integration are unclear. Here, we conducted four experiments with an oddball paradigm to examine the specific event-related p...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Toida K,Ueno K,Shimada S

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied neural correlates accompanying the Fraser spiral illusion. The Fraser spiral illusion consists of twisted cords superimposed on a patchwork background arranged in concentric circles, which is typically perceived as a spiral. We tested four displays: the Fraser spiral illusion and three variants derived from...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yun X,Hazenberg SJ,Jacobs RH,Qiu J,van Lier R

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual bistability arises when two conflicting interpretations of an ambiguous stimulus or images in binocular rivalry (BR) compete for perceptual dominance. From a computational point of view, competition models based on cross-inhibition and adaptation have shown that noise is a crucial force for rivalry, and ope...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Theodoni P,Panagiotaropoulos TI,Kapoor V,Logothetis NK,Deco G

更新日期：2011-11-28 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：:Binocular rivalry (BR) is a phenomenon in which visual perception alternates between two different monocular stimuli. There has been a long debate regarding its nature, with a special emphasis on whether low- or high-level mechanisms are involved. Prior adaptation to one of the two monocular stimuli is known to affect...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pelekanos V,Roumani D,Moutoussis K

更新日期：2012-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The present review aims to summarize the debate in contemporary neuroscience between inborn and experience-dependent models of conceptual representations that goes back to the description of category-specific semantic disorders for biological and artifact categories. Experience-dependent models suggest that categorica...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gainotti G

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) leads to nonfluent speech where the voice of a speaker is heard after a delay. Previous studies suggested the involvement of attention to auditory feedback in speech disfluency. To date, there are no studies that have revealed the relationship between attention and nonfluent speech by c...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ishida O,Iimura D,Miyamoto S

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired decision-making is well documented in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and a range of electrophysiological and functional neuroimaging measures have begun to reveal the pathological mechanisms that underlie the decision-making process. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) has core symptoms that...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Luo Y,Chen L,Li H,Dong Y,Zhou X,Qiu L,Zhang L,Gao Y,Zhu C,Yu F,Wang K

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:All humans experience itch in the course of their life. Even a discussion on the topic of itch or seeing people scratch can evoke the desire to scratch. These events are coined "contagious itch" and are very common. We and others have shown that videos showing people scratching and pictures of affected skin or insects...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Schut C,Grossman S,Gieler U,Kupfer J,Yosipovitch G

更新日期：2015-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined whether emotional expectations gate attention to emotional words in early visual cortex. Color cues informed about word valence and onset latency. We observed a stimulus-preceding negativity prior to the onset of cued words that was larger for negative than for neutral words. This indicates ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Trauer SM,Müller MM,Kotz SA

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairments in social cognition are a key symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). People with autism have great difficulty with understanding the beliefs and desires of other people. In recent years literature has begun to examine the link between impairments in social cognition and abilities which demand the use o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pearson A,Ropar D,de C Hamilton AF

更新日期：2013-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord excitability, as assessed by modulation of Hoffmann (H-) reflexes, is reduced with fatiguing isometric contractions. Furthermore, spinal cord excitability is reduced during non-fatiguing arm and leg cycling. Presynaptic inhibition of Ia terminals is believed to contribute to this suppression of spinal cord...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pearcey GEP,Noble SA,Munro B,Zehr EP

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions fill our everyday life and put strong demands on our brain function. However, the possibilities for studying the brain basis of social interaction are still technically limited, and even modern brain imaging studies of social cognition typically monitor just one participant at a time. We present he...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Baess P,Zhdanov A,Mandel A,Parkkonen L,Hirvenkari L,Mäkelä JP,Jousmäki V,Hari R

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing neuroimaging researches in stroke rehabilitation had revealed the neural mechanisms of rehabilitation therapy. However, little was known about the neural mechanisms of acupuncture therapy in subcortical stroke patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the changes of functional connectivity (FC) bet...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ning Y,Li K,Fu C,Ren Y,Zhang Y,Liu H,Cui F,Zou Y

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Major neurocognitive changes occur during adolescence, making this phase one of the most critical developmental periods of life. Furthermore, this phase in life is also the time in which youth substance use begins. Several studies have demonstrated the differential associations of alcohol and cannabis use concerning t...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Noorbakhsh S,Afzali MH,Boers E,Conrod PJ

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain's analyses of speech and music share a range of neural resources and mechanisms. Music displays a temporal structure of complexity similar to that of speech, unfolds over comparable timescales, and elicits cognitive demands in tasks involving comprehension and attention. During speech processing, synchronize...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Meltzer B,Reichenbach CS,Braiman C,Schiff ND,Hudspeth AJ,Reichenbach T

更新日期：2015-08-06 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：:Cognition can influence emotion by biasing neural activity in the first cortical region in which the reward value and subjective pleasantness of stimuli is made explicit in the representation, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). The same effect occurs in a second cortical tier for emotion, the anterior cingulate cortex (A...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Rolls ET

更新日期：2013-03-18 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：:Some types of first-person narrations of mental processes that constitute phenomenological accounts and texts, such as internal monolog statements, epitomize the best expressions and representations of human consciousness available and therefore may be used to model phenomenological streams of consciousness. The type ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Díaz JL

更新日期：2013-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphasia is one of the most common and devastating sequelae of stroke. The arcuate fasciculus (AF), an important neural tract for language function, connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas. In this review article, previous diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies on the AF in stroke patients were reviewed with regard to th...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jang SH

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Determining the compositional properties of surfaces in the environment is an important visual capacity. One such property is specular reflectance, which encompasses the range from matte to shiny surfaces. Visual estimation of specular reflectance can be informed by characteristic motion profiles; a surface with a spe...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kam TE,Mannion DJ,Lee SW,Doerschner K,Kersten DJ

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research with preschool children has established that dialogic or active book reading is an effective method for expanding young children's vocabulary. In this exploratory study, we asked whether similar benefits are observed when a robot engages in dialogic reading with preschoolers. Given the established effec...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kory Westlund JM,Jeong S,Park HW,Ronfard S,Adhikari A,Harris PL,DeSteno D,Breazeal CL

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the human developmental neuroimaging literature that investigates outcomes following exposure to psychosocial adversity is presented with a focus on two subcortical structures - the hippocampus and the amygdala. Throughout this review, we discuss how a consideration of developmental timing of adverse exper...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Tottenham N,Sheridan MA

更新日期：2010-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly half of all mild brain injury sufferers experience long-term cognitive impairment, so an important goal in rehabilitation is to address their multiple cognitive deficits to help them return to prior levels of functioning. Cognitive training, or the use of repeated mental exercises to enhance cognition, is one r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Moore AL,Carpenter DM 2nd,James RL,Miller TM,Moore JJ,Disbrow EA,Ledbetter CR

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00