Electrophysiological correlates associated with contributions of perceptual and conceptual fluency to familiarity.

abstract：:Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the motor cortex is considered a potential treatment for motor rehabilitation following stroke and other neurological pathologies. However, both the context under which this stimulation is effective and the underlying mechanisms remain to be determined. In thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Conley AC,Fulham WR,Marquez JL,Parsons MW,Karayanidis F

更新日期：2016-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 3 in vol. 9, PMID: 25674060.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Naseer N,Hong KS

更新日期：2015-03-26 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：:Face perception is mediated by a distributed brain network comprised of the core system at occipito-temporal areas and the extended system at other relevant brain areas involving bilateral hemispheres. In this study we explored how the brain connectivity changes over the time for face-sensitive processing. We investig...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yang Y,Qiu Y,Schouten AC

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that the rubber hand illusion (RHI) is an experimental paradigm that has been widely used in the last 14 years to investigate different aspects of the sense of bodily self, very few studies have sought to investigate the subjective nature of the experience that the RHI evokes. The present study invest...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Valenzuela Moguillansky C,O'Regan JK,Petitmengin C

更新日期：2013-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:How stable are human aesthetic preferences, and how does stability change over the lifespan? Here we investigate the stability of aesthetic taste in a cross-sectional study. We employed a simple rank-order preference task using paintings and photographs of faces and landscapes. In each of the four stimulus classes, we...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pugach C,Leder H,Graham DJ

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a valuable neuroimaging approach for studying cortical contributions to walking function. Recruitment of prefrontal cortex during walking has been a particular area of focus in the literature. The present study investigated whether task-related change in pre...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Chatterjee SA,Fox EJ,Daly JJ,Rose DK,Wu SS,Christou EA,Hawkins KA,Otzel DM,Butera KA,Skinner JW,Clark DJ

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

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：:The extent of visual cortex reorganization following injury remains controversial. We report serial functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from a patient with sequential posterior circulation strokes occurring 3 weeks apart, compared with data from an age-matched healthy control subject. At 8 days following...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brodtmann A,Puce A,Darby D,Donnan G

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to identify the brain-based mechanisms of uncertainty and certainty associated with answers to multiple-choice questions involving common misconceptions about electric circuits. Twenty-two scientifically novice participants (humanities and arts college students) were aske...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Potvin P,Turmel E,Masson S

更新日期：2014-01-27 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：:Dementia researchers around the world prioritize the urgent need for sensitive measurement tools that can detect cognitive and functional change at the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Sensitive indicators of underlying neural pathology assist in the early detection of cognitive change and are thus importa...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Christ BU,Combrinck MI,Thomas KGF

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have been proposed as a new therapeutic way to enhance the cognition of patients with dementia. However, serious methodological limitations appear to affect the estimates of their efficacy. We reviewed the stimulatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Holczer A,Németh VL,Vékony T,Vécsei L,Klivényi P,Must A

更新日期：2020-05-25 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：BACKGROUND:Many previous transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have investigated corticospinal excitability changes occurring when choosing which hand to use for an action, one of the most frequent decision people make in daily life. So far, these studies have applied single-pulse TMS eliciting motor-evoked p...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wilhelm E,Quoilin C,Petitjean C,Duque J

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In his seminal book on esthetics, Berlyne (1971) posited an inverted-U relationship between complexity and hedonic tone in arts appreciation, however, converging evidence for his theory is still missing. The disregard of the multidimensionality of complexity may explain some of the divergent results. Here, we argue th...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Marin MM,Lampatz A,Wandl M,Leder H

更新日期：2016-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying brain mechanisms underlying the prediction of observed action, the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) has been suggested a key area. The present study probed this notion using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to test whether interference in this area would affect the accuracy in predicting the ti...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brich LFM,Bächle C,Hermsdörfer J,Stadler W

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive remediation involves task practice and may improve deficits in people suffering from schizophrenia, but little is known about underlying neurophysiological mechanisms. In people with schizophrenia and controls, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine accuracy and practice-related changes in parameter...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Weiss SA,Bassett DS,Rubinstein D,Holroyd T,Apud J,Dickinson D,Coppola R

更新日期：2011-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This multiple single case study contrasted left hemisphere stroke patients (N = 6) to healthy age-matched control participants (N = 15) on their understanding of action (e.g., holding, clenching) and motion verbs (e.g., crumbling, flowing). The tasks required participants to correctly identify the matching verb or ass...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Taylor LJ,Evans C,Greer J,Senior C,Coventry KR,Ietswaart M

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a devastating illness characterized by disturbances in multiple domains. The cerebellum is involved in both motor and non-motor functions, and the "cognitive dysmetria" and "dysmetria of thought" models propose that abnormalities of the cerebellum may contribute to schizophrenia signs and symptoms. Th...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Shinn AK,Baker JT,Lewandowski KE,Öngür D,Cohen BM

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the frequency of naming errors in aphasia, a common aim of speech and language rehabilitation is the improvement of naming. Based on evidence of significant word recall improvements in patients with memory impairments, errorless learning methods have been successfully applied to naming therapy in aphasia; howeve...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Riley EA,McFarland DJ

更新日期：2017-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention facilitates the processing of task-relevant visual information and suppresses interference from task-irrelevant information. Modulations of neural activity in visual cortex depend on attention, and likely result from signals originating in fronto-parietal and cingulo-opercular regions of cortex. Here, we tes...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Griffis JC,Elkhetali AS,Burge WK,Chen RH,Visscher KM

更新日期：2015-06-08 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

abstract：:An electroencephalographic (EEG) marker of the limited contents of human visual short-term memory (VSTM) has previously been described. Termed contralateral delay activity, this consists of a sustained, posterior, negative potential that correlates with memory load and is greatest contralateral to the remembered hemif...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mitchell DJ,Cusack R

更新日期：2011-02-15 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：: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：: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：:Understanding ourselves has been a fundamental topic for psychologists and philosophers alike. In this paper we review the evidence linking specific brain structures to self-reflection. The brain regions most associated with self-reflection are the posterior cingulate and medial prefrontal (mPFC) cortices, together kn...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Moran JM,Kelley WM,Heatherton TF

更新日期：2013-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional imaging studies using BOLD contrasts have consistently reported activation of the supplementary motor area (SMA) both during motor and internal timing tasks. Opposing findings, however, have been shown for the modulation of beta oscillations in the SMA. While movement suppresses beta oscillations in the SMA...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gompf F,Pflug A,Laufs H,Kell CA

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripersonal space, as opposed to extrapersonal space, is the space that contains reachable objects and in which multisensory and sensorimotor integration is enhanced. Thus, the perception of peripersonal space requires combining information on the spatial properties of the environment with information on the current ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bartolo A,Carlier M,Hassaini S,Martin Y,Coello Y

更新日期：2014-01-27 00:00:00