Directional organization and shape formation: new illusions and Helmholtz's Square.

abstract：:Familial risk plays a significant role in the etiology of schizophrenia (SZ). Many studies using neuroimaging have demonstrated structural and functional alterations in relatives of SZ patients, with significant results found in diverse brain regions involving the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), caudate, dorsolateral...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Xi YB,Li C,Cui LB,Liu J,Guo F,Li L,Liu TT,Liu K,Chen G,Xi M,Wang HN,Yin H

更新日期：2016-07-27 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：:The human brainstem, which comprises a multitude of axonal nerve fibers and nuclei, plays an important functional role in the human brain. Depicting its anatomy non-invasively with high spatial resolution may thus in turn help to better relate normal and pathological anatomical variations to medical conditions as well...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Deistung A,Schäfer A,Schweser F,Biedermann U,Güllmar D,Trampel R,Turner R,Reichenbach JR

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Separable affix verbs consist of a stem and a derivational affix, which, in some languages can appear together or in discontinuous, distributed form, e.g., German "aufgreifen" and "greifen … auf" ["up-pick(ing)" and "pick … up"]. Certain stems can combine with only certain affixes. However, many such combinations are ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Hanna J,Pulvermüller F

更新日期：2018-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To the naïve observer, cubist paintings contain geometrical forms in which familiar objects are hardly recognizable, even in the presence of a meaningful title. We used fMRI to test whether a short training session about Cubism would facilitate object recognition in paintings by Picasso, Braque and Gris. Subjects, who...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wiesmann M,Ishai A

更新日期：2010-03-02 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：:A successful social interaction often requires on-line and active construction of an ever-changing mental-model of another person's beliefs, expectations, emotions, and desires. It also requires the ability to maintain focus, problem-solve, and flexibly pursue goals in a distraction-rich environment, as well as the ab...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ybarra O,Winkielman P

更新日期：2012-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantia nigra is an important neuronal structure, located in the ventral midbrain, that exerts a regulatory function within the basal ganglia circuitry through the nigro-striatal pathway. Although its subcortical connections are relatively well-known in human brain, little is known about its cortical connections. T...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cacciola A,Milardi D,Anastasi GP,Basile GA,Ciolli P,Irrera M,Cutroneo G,Bruschetta D,Rizzo G,Mondello S,Bramanti P,Quartarone A

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivity to regularities plays a crucial role in the acquisition of various linguistic features from spoken language input. Artificial grammar learning paradigms explore pattern recognition abilities in a set of structured sequences (i.e., of syllables or letters). In the present study, we investigated the function...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Goranskaya D,Kreitewolf J,Mueller JL,Friederici AD,Hartwigsen G

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of visual esthetic preference have shown that people without art training generally prefer representational paintings to abstract paintings. This, however, is not always the case: preferences can sometimes go against this usual tendency. We aimed to explore this issue, investigating the relationship between "u...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Flexas A,Rosselló J,de Miguel P,Nadal M,Munar E

更新日期：2014-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether a sensorimotor deficit of the upper limb following a brachial plexus injury (BPI) affects the upright balance. DESIGN:Eleven patients with a unilateral BPI and 11 healthy subjects were recruited. The balance assessment included the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), the number of feet touches o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Souza L,Lemos T,Silva DC,de Oliveira JM,Guedes Corrêa JF,Tavares PL,Oliveira LA,Rodrigues EC,Vargas CD

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In a social world, observing the actions of others is fundamental to understanding what they are doing, as well as their intentions and feelings. Studies of the neural basis and decoding of action observation are important for understanding action-related processes and have implications for cognitive, social neuroscie...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ge S,Wang P,Liu H,Lin P,Gao J,Wang R,Iramina K,Zhang Q,Zheng W

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of tinnitus suppression after cochlear implantation (CI) in single-sided deafness (SSD) is not fully understood. In this regard, by comparing pre- and post-CI quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG), we explored cortical changes relevant to tinnitus improvement. In SSD patients who underwent CI, qEEG ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Song JJ,Kim K,Sunwoo W,Mertens G,Van de Heyning P,De Ridder D,Vanneste S,Lee SY,Park KJ,Choi H,Choi JW

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions are a crucial part of human life. Understanding the neural underpinnings of social interactions is a challenging task that the hyperscanning method has been trying to tackle over the last two decades. Here, we review the existing literature and evaluate the current state of the hyperscanning method...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Czeszumski A,Eustergerling S,Lang A,Menrath D,Gerstenberger M,Schuberth S,Schreiber F,Rendon ZZ,König P

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In philosophy, the criteria for personhood (PH) at a specific point in time (synchronic), and the necessary and sufficient conditions of personal identity (PI) over time (diachronic) are traditionally separated. Hence, the transition between both timescales of a person's life remains largely unclear. Personal habits r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wagner NF,Northoff G

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the future, humans are likely to be exposed to environments with altered gravity conditions, be it only visually (Virtual and Augmented Reality), or visually and bodily (space travel). As visually and bodily perceived gravity as well as an interiorized representation of earth gravity are involved in a series of tas...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jörges B,López-Moliner J

更新日期：2017-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A speech-action-repository (SAR) or "mental syllabary" has been proposed as a central module for sensorimotor processing of syllables. In this approach, syllables occurring frequently within language are assumed to be stored as holistic sensorimotor patterns, while non-frequent syllables need to be assembled from sub-...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Eckers C,Kröger BJ,Sass K,Heim S

更新日期：2013-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticipation of emotional pictures has been found to be relevant to the encoding of the pictures as well as their later recognition performance. However, it is as yet unknown whether anticipation modulates neural activity in the later recognition of emotional pictures. To address this issue, participants in the presen...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lin H,Xiang J,Li S,Liang J,Jin H

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene has a strong association with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The ε4 allele is a well-documented genetic risk factor of AD. In contrast, the ε2 allele of the APOE gene is known to be protective against AD. Much of the focus on the APOE gene has been on the ε4 allele in both young and older a...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Konishi K,Bhat V,Banner H,Poirier J,Joober R,Bohbot VD

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past half a century, many investigations in experimental animal have explored the functional roles of specific regions in the brainstem. Despite the accumulation of a considerable body of knowledge in, primarily, anesthetized preparations, relatively few studies have explored brainstem function in awake human...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Henderson LA,Macefield VG

更新日期：2013-09-17 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：: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：:The traditional view of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) focuses on its role in episodic memory. However, some of the underlying functions of the MTL can be ascertained from its wider role in supporting spatial cognition in concert with parietal and prefrontal regions. The MTL is strongly implicated in the formation of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Dhindsa K,Drobinin V,King J,Hall GB,Burgess N,Becker S

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy aging is typically accompanied by some decline in cognitive performance, as well as by alterations in brain structure and function. Here we report the results of a randomized, controlled trial designed to determine the effects of a novel cognitive training program on resting cerebral blood flow (CBF) and gray ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mozolic JL,Hayasaka S,Laurienti PJ

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:There are indications that simple reaction time might have slowed in Western populations, based on both cohort- and multi-study comparisons. A possible limitation of the latter method in particular is measurement error stemming from methods variance, which results from the fact that instruments and experimental condit...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Madison G,Woodley Of Menie MA,Sänger J

更新日期：2016-08-18 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：:To elucidate basic mechanisms underlying neurofeedback we investigated neural mechanisms of training of slow cortical potentials (SCPs) by considering EEG- and fMRI. Additionally, we analyzed the feasibility of a double-blind, placebo-controlled design in NF research based on regulation performance during treatment se...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gevensleben H,Albrecht B,Lütcke H,Auer T,Dewiputri WI,Schweizer R,Moll G,Heinrich H,Rothenberger A

更新日期：2014-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the current leading causes of disability worldwide. Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of depression, with MDD affecting 8-20% of all youth. Traditional treatment methods have not been sufficiently effective to slow the increasing prevalence of adolescent depress...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Henje Blom E,Duncan LG,Ho TC,Connolly CG,LeWinn KZ,Chesney M,Hecht FM,Yang TT

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An important but poorly understood aspect of sensory processing is the role of active sensing, the use of self-motion such as eye or head movements to focus sensing resources on the most rewarding or informative aspects of the sensory environment. Here, we present behavioral data from a visual search experiment, as we...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ahmad S,Huang H,Yu AJ

更新日期：2014-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor imagery (MI) is a cognitive process involved in mentally rehearsing movement representations, and it has great potential for the rehabilitation of motor function in patients with spinal cord injuries. The aim of this study was to explore changes in the brain activation patterns in incomplete spinal cord injury (...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Chen X,Wan L,Qin W,Zheng W,Qi Z,Chen N,Li K

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00