Contagious itch: what we know and what we would like to know.

abstract：:Individuals tend to perceive the direction of light to come from above and slightly from the left; it has been speculated that this phenomenon is also producing similar lighting preferences within 2-dimensional artworks (e.g., paintings, advertisements). The purpose of the present study was to address if lighting bias...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Sedgewick JR,Weiers B,Stewart A,Elias LJ

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed how synchronous speech listening and lipreading affects speech recognition in acoustic noise. In simple audiovisual perceptual tasks, inverse effectiveness is often observed, which holds that the weaker the unimodal stimuli, or the poorer their signal-to-noise ratio, the stronger the audiovisual benefit. S...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： van de Rijt LPH,Roye A,Mylanus EAM,van Opstal AJ,van Wanrooij MM

更新日期：2019-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Where hemispheric lateralization was once considered an exclusively human trait, it is increasingly recognized that hemispheric asymmetries are evident throughout the animal kingdom. Emotion is a prime example of a lateralized function: given its vital role in promoting adaptive behavior and hence survival, a growing ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lindell AK

更新日期：2013-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An emerging field of research focused on fluctuations in brain signals has provided evidence that the complexity of those signals, as measured by entropy, conveys important information about network dynamics (e.g., local and distributed processing). While much research has focused on how neural complexity differs in p...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： McDonough IM,Nashiro K

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Word pairs may be integrative (i.e., combination of two concepts into one meaningful entity; e.g., fruit-cake), thematically related (i.e., connected in time and place; e.g., party-cake), and/or taxonomically related (i.e., shared features and category co-members; e.g., muffin-cake). Using participant ratings and comp...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jones LL,Golonka S

更新日期：2012-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mesocorticolimbic dopamine (DA) system linking the dopaminergic midbrain to the prefrontal cortex and subcortical striatum has been shown to be sensitive to reinforcement in animals and humans. Within this system, coexistent segregated striato-frontal circuits have been linked to different functions. In the presen...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Graef S,Biele G,Krugel LK,Marzinzik F,Wahl M,Wotka J,Klostermann F,Heekeren HR

更新日期：2010-10-14 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：:A Brain-computer Interface (BCI) can be used as a neurofeedback training tool to improve cognitive performance. BCIs aim to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the conventional neurofeedback methods by focusing on the self-regulation of individualized neuromarkers rather than generic ones in a graphically appe...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Arvaneh M,Robertson IH,Ward TE

更新日期：2019-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeners with normal hearing thresholds (NHTs) differ in their ability to steer attention to whatever sound source is important. This ability depends on top-down executive control, which modulates the sensory representation of sound in the cortex. Yet, this sensory representation also depends on the coding fidelity o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Dai L,Shinn-Cunningham BG

更新日期：2016-10-20 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：: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：:Early neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies suggested that motor imagery recruited a different network than motor execution. However, several studies have provided evidence for the involvement of the same circuits in motor imagery tasks, in the absence of overt responses. The present study aimed to test whethe...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Galdo-Alvarez S,Bonilla FM,González-Villar AJ,Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT

更新日期：2016-09-16 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：:Converging behavioral and functional neuroimaging evidence indicates that East Asian and Western individuals have different orientations for processing information that may stem from contrasting cultural values. In this cross-cultural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study, we used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) approa...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Huang CM,Doole R,Wu CW,Huang HW,Chao YP

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objectives of this study were to investigate the development of face perception in Japanese children, focusing on the changes in face processing strategies (holistic and/or configural vs. feature-based) that occur during childhood. To achieve this, we analyzed the face-related N170 component, evoked by uprigh...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Miki K,Honda Y,Takeshima Y,Watanabe S,Kakigi R

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that observing an action induces activity in the onlooker's motor system. In light of the muscle specificity and time-locked mirroring nature of the effect, this motor resonance has been traditionally viewed as an inner automatic replica of the observed moveme...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Amoruso L,Finisguerra A

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated changes in cortical oxygenation during mental arithmetic using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Twenty-nine male volunteers were examined using a 52-channel continuous wave system for analyzing activity in prefrontal areas. With the help of a probabilistic mapping method, three regions...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Verner M,Herrmann MJ,Troche SJ,Roebers CM,Rammsayer TH

更新日期：2013-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We routinely need to process the identity of many faces around us, and how the brain achieves this is still the subject of much research in cognitive neuroscience. To date, insights on face identity processing have come from both healthy and clinical populations. However, in order to directly compare results across an...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Watson R,Huis In 't Veld EM,de Gelder B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of attention in visual word recognition and reading aloud is a long debated issue. Studies of both developmental and acquired reading disorders provide growing evidence that spatial attention is critically involved in word reading, in particular for the phonological decoding of unfamiliar letter strings. Howe...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Montani V,Facoetti A,Zorzi M

更新日期：2014-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In December 2011, the European Science Foundation (ESF) brought together experts from a wide range of disciplines to discuss the issues that will influence the development of a healthier, more brain-aware European society. This perspective summarizes the main outcomes of that discussion and highlights important consid...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Hoogland E,Patten I,Berghmans S

更新日期：2013-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of complex skills is a universal feature of human behavior that has been conceptualized as a process that starts with intense resource dependency, requires effortful cognitive control, and ends in relative automaticity on the multi-faceted task. The present study examined the effects of different theoretic...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Prakash RS,De Leon AA,Mourany L,Lee H,Voss MW,Boot WR,Basak C,Fabiani M,Gratton G,Kramer AF

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial attractiveness refers to a positive and joyful emotional experience induced by the face of a target person and the extent to which other people are driven to be close to their wishes. Since the 1970s, face attractiveness has gradually emerged in western psychological research, but most of the studies were confi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Hou J,Sui L,Jiang X,Han C,Chen Q

更新日期：2019-04-30 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：:The ability to detect small changes in one's visual environment is important for effective adaptation to and interaction with a wide variety of external stimuli. Much research has studied the auditory mismatch negativity (MMN), or the brain's automatic response to rare changes in a series of repetitive auditory stimul...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cleary KM,Donkers FC,Evans AM,Belger A

更新日期：2013-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a benign memory disorder with etiologies that have been debated for a long time. The prevalence of stressful events before a TGA attack makes it hard to overlook these precipitating factors, given that stress has the potential to organically effect the brain. Cortical spreading depres...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ding X,Peng D

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper focuses on the question of what the (visual) perceptual differences are between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing (TD) individuals. We argue against the view that autistic subjects have a deficiency in the most basic form of perceptual consciousness-namely, phenomenal ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yatziv T,Jacobson H

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to have mixed effects on working memory (WM) capacity in healthy individuals. Different stimulation paradigms may account for these discrepancies, with certain features being favored. To determine the effect in the context of anodal tDCS, we investigated wh...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ikeda T,Takahashi T,Hiraishi H,Saito DN,Kikuchi M

更新日期：2019-04-24 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：:Working memory (WM), a key determinant of many higher-order cognitive functions, declines in old age. Current research attempts to develop process-specific WM training procedures, which may lead to general cognitive improvement. Adaptivity of the training as well as the comparison of training gains to performance chan...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brehmer Y,Westerberg H,Bäckman L

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontal and parietal asymmetries have repeatedly been shown to be related to specific functional mechanisms involved in emotion regulation. From a developmental perspective, attachment representations based on experiences with the caregiver are theorized to serve regulatory functions and influence how individuals deal...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kungl MT,Leyh R,Spangler G

更新日期：2016-12-26 00:00:00