Understanding visual consciousness in autism spectrum disorders.

abstract：:To further test and explore the hypothesis that synchronous oscillatory brain activity supports interpersonally coordinated behavior during dyadic music performance, we simultaneously recorded the electroencephalogram (EEG) from the brains of each of 12 guitar duets repeatedly playing a modified Rondo in two voices by...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Sänger J,Müller V,Lindenberger U

更新日期：2012-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The frontal lobes are involved in many higher-order cognitive functions such as social cognition executive functions and language and speech. These functions are complex and follow a prolonged developmental course from childhood through to early adulthood. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is ideal for the study of develop...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Taylor MJ,Doesburg SM,Pang EW

更新日期：2014-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Curvature is a highly informative visual cue for shape perception and object recognition. We introduce a novel illusion-the Lemon Illusion-in which subtle illusory curvature is perceived along contour regions that are devoid of physical curvature. We offer several perceptual demonstrations and observations that lead u...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Strother L,Killebrew KW,Caplovitz GP

更新日期：2015-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Geometrical illusions are known through a small core of classical illusions that were discovered in the second half of the nineteenth century. Most experimental studies and most theoretical discussions revolve around this core of illusions, as though all other illusions were obvious variants of these. Yet, many illusi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ninio J

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM), articulatory similarity/dissimilarity between sounds of the second language (L2) and the native language (L1) governs L2 learnability in adulthood and predicts L2 sound perception by naïve listeners. We performed behavioral and neurophysiological experiments on two...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Grimaldi M,Sisinni B,Gili Fivela B,Invitto S,Resta D,Alku P,Brattico E

更新日期：2014-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity in the human temporoparietal junction (TPJ) and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) is hypothesized to underlie stimulus-driven, or "bottom-up" attention reorienting. Demanding tasks require focused attention, and as task difficulty increases, activity suppression in the ventral network correlates positively with ta...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Frank DW,Sabatinelli D

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Cognitive control functions decline with increasing age. The present study examines if different types of group-based and trainer-guided training effectively enhance performance of older adults in a task switching task, and how this expected enhancement is reflected in changes of cognitive functions, as measured in el...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gajewski PD,Falkenstein M

更新日期：2012-05-11 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：:Elderly people affected by Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) usually report a perceived decline in cognitive functions that deeply impacts their quality of life. This subtle waning, although it cannot be diagnosable as dementia, is noted by caregivers on the basis of their relative's behaviors. Crucially, if this condit...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cavedoni S,Chirico A,Pedroli E,Cipresso P,Riva G

更新日期：2020-07-24 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：: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：:The thalamus plays a crucial role in sensorimotor, cognitive, and attentional circuit functions. Disruptions in thalamic connectivity are believed to underlie the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Therefore, assessing thalamocortical structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) may provide new insi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zhou F,Gong H,Chen Q,Wang B,Peng Y,Zhuang Y,Zee CS

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Most amputees experience phantom limb, whereby they feel that the amputated limb is still present. In some cases, these experiences include pain that can be alleviated by "mirror therapy." Mirror therapy consists of superimposing a mirrored image of the moving intact limb onto the phantom limb. This therapy provides a...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Imaizumi S,Asai T,Koyama S

更新日期：2017-10-04 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：:Beyond normal and non-imitative singing, the imitation of the timbre of another singer's voice, such as in Karaoke singing, involves the demanding reproduction of voice quality features and strongly depends on singing experience and practice. We show that precise voice imitation in a highly proficient and experienced ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Frühholz S,Trost W,Constantinescu I,Grandjean D

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated pairing of electrical stimulation of a peripheral nerve with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the primary motor cortex (M1) representation for a target muscle can induce neuroplastic adaptations in the human brain related to motor learning. The extent to which the motor state during this form of p...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Palmer JA,Halter A,Gray W,Wolf SL,Borich MR

更新日期：2019-01-29 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：: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：:Adults with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) show marked immediate reward selection (or "Now") bias in intertemporal choice tasks. This Now bias persists long into abstinence, suggesting an irreversible consequence of chronic alcohol abuse or a pre-existing AUD intermediate phenotype. However, some data show substantial N...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Smith CT,Steel EA,Parrish MH,Kelm MK,Boettiger CA

更新日期：2015-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with autism show difficulties in using sentence context to identify the correct meaning of ambiguous words, such as homonyms. In this study, the brain basis of sentence context effects on word understanding during reading was examined in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical development (TD) using mag...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ahtam B,Braeutigam S,Bailey A

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 386 in vol. 9, PMID: 26175682.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wang J,Wang X,Xia M,Liao X,Evans A,He Y

更新日期：2015-08-19 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：:Observation and imagery of movement both activate similar brain regions to those involved in movement execution. As such, both are recommended as techniques for aiding the recovery of motor function following stroke. Traditionally, action observation and movement imagery (MI) have been considered as independent interv...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wright DJ,Williams J,Holmes PS

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

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：: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：:Inter- and intra-subject variability of the motor evoked potentials (MEPs) to TMS is a well-known phenomenon. Although a possible link between this variability and ongoing brain oscillations was demonstrated, the results of the studies are not consistent with each other. Exploring this topic further is important since...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Iscan Z,Nazarova M,Fedele T,Blagovechtchenski E,Nikulin VV

更新日期：2016-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Some studies highlight similarities between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and healthy aging. Indeed, the decline in older individuals' ability to create a unified representation of the individual features of an event is thought to arise from a disruption of binding within the episodic buffer of working memory (WM) as...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lecouvey G,Quinette P,Kalpouzos G,Guillery-Girard B,Bejanin A,Gonneaud J,Abbas A,Viader F,Eustache F,Desgranges B

更新日期：2015-03-05 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