Inborn and experience-dependent models of categorical brain organization. A position paper.

abstract：:Holding biological motion (BM), the movements of animate entities, in working memory (WM) is important to our daily life activities. However, the neural substrates underlying the WM processing of BM remain largely unknown. Employing the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique, the current study directly...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lu X,Huang J,Yi Y,Shen M,Weng X,Gao Z

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we examined brain activation in subjects during two music listening conditions: listening while simultaneously rating the musical piece being played [Listening and Rating (LR)] and listening to the musical pieces unconstrained [Listening (L)]. Using these two conditions, we tested whether the sequence i...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Markovic A,Kühnis J,Jäncke L

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying brain region organization for motor control in humans remains poorly understood. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, right-handed volunteers were tasked to maintain unilateral foot movements on the right and left sides as consistently as possible. We aimed to identify t...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wei P,Zhang Z,Lv Z,Jing B

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a decade of neuroimaging research has established that anterior and posterior cortical midline regions are consistently recruited during self-referential thinking. These regions are engaged under conditions of directed cognition, such as during explicit self-reference tasks, as well as during spontaneous cog...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Abraham A

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 289 in vol. 9, PMID: 26042022.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Senior C,Lee N,Braeutigam S

更新日期：2015-07-20 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：:The present research manipulated the fluency of unstudied items using masked repetition priming procedures during an explicit recognition test. Based on fluency-attribution accounts, which posit that familiarity can be driven by multiple forms of fluency, the relationship between masked priming-induced fluency and fam...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wang W,Li B,Gao C,Xiao X,Guo C

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Gait initiation (GI) involves passing from bipedal to unipedal stance. It requires a rapid movement of the center of foot pressure (CoP) towards the future swing foot and of the center of mass (CoM) in the direction of the stance foot prior to the incoming step. This anticipatory postural adjustment (APA) allows disen...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Honeine JL,Schieppati M,Crisafulli O,Do MC

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The uncanny valley hypothesis (Mori, 1970) predicts differential experience of negative and positive affect as a function of human likeness. Affective experience of humanlike robots and computer-generated characters (avatars) dominates "uncanny" research, but findings are inconsistent. Importantly, it is unknown how o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cheetham M,Suter P,Jäncke L

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Many have written of the experience of mathematical beauty as being comparable to that derived from the greatest art. This makes it interesting to learn whether the experience of beauty derived from such a highly intellectual and abstract source as mathematics correlates with activity in the same part of the emotional...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zeki S,Romaya JP,Benincasa DM,Atiyah MF

更新日期：2014-02-13 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：:It is well established that emotional responses to stimuli presented to one perceptive modality (e.g., visual) are modulated by the concurrent presentation of affective information to another modality (e.g., auditory)-an effect known as the cross-modal bias. However, the affective mechanisms mediating this effect are ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Christensen JF,Gaigg SB,Gomila A,Oke P,Calvo-Merino B

更新日期：2014-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In Motor Neglect (MN) syndrome, a specific impairment in non-congruent bimanual movements has been described. In the present case-control study, we investigated the neuro-functional correlates of this behavioral deficit. Two right-brain-damaged (RBD) patients, one with (MN+) and one without (MN-) MN, were evaluated by...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Garbarini F,Turella L,Rabuffetti M,Cantagallo A,Piedimonte A,Fainardi E,Berti A,Fadiga L

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Vestibular inputs make a key contribution to the sense of one's own spatial location. While the effects of vestibular stimulation on visuo-spatial processing in neurological patients have been extensively described, the normal contribution of vestibular inputs to spatial perception remains unclear. To address this iss...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ferrè ER,Longo MR,Fiori F,Haggard P

更新日期：2013-10-10 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：:For the management of Parkinson's disease (PD), the concept of forced exercise (FE) has drawn interest. In PD subjects, the FE executed with lower limbs has been shown to lessen symptoms and to promote brain adaptive changes. Our study is aimed to investigate the effect of an upper-limb exercise, conceptually comparab...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Messa LV,Ginanneschi F,Momi D,Monti L,Battisti C,Cioncoloni D,Pucci B,Santarnecchi E,Rossi A

更新日期：2019-10-15 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 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：:The brain image plays a central role in contemporary image culture and, in turn, (co)constructs contemporary forms of subjectivity. The central aim of this paper is to probe the unmistakably potent interpellative power of brain images by delving into the power of imaging and the power of the image itself. This is not ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： De Vos J

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Research supports an association between extraversion and dopamine (DA) functioning. DA facilitates incentive motivation and the conditioning and incentive encoding of contexts that predict reward. Therefore, we assessed whether extraversion is related to the efficacy of acquiring conditioned contextual facilitation o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Depue RA,Fu Y

更新日期：2013-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Paired associative stimulation at the spinal cord (spinal PAS) has been shown to increase muscle force and dexterity by strengthening the corticomuscular connection, through spike timing dependent plasticity. Typically, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcutaneous peripheral nerve electrical stimulation ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Fok KL,Kaneko N,Sasaki A,Nakagawa K,Nakazawa K,Masani K

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Workload in the human brain can be a useful marker of internal brain state. However, due to technical limitations, previous workload studies have been unable to record brain activity via conventional electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) devices in mobile participants. In this study, we used a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yokota Y,Tanaka S,Miyamoto A,Naruse Y

更新日期：2017-06-13 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：: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：:Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) from voxels placed in the left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was measured from 14 boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and 24 gender and age-matched typically developing (TD) control group. Our main aims were to compare the concentration of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) between...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brix MK,Ersland L,Hugdahl K,Grüner R,Posserud MB,Hammar Å,Craven AR,Noeske R,Evans CJ,Walker HB,Midtvedt T,Beyer MK

更新日期：2015-06-22 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：:Although previous studies have suggested that conflict control can occur in the absence of consciousness, the brain mechanisms underlying unconscious and conscious conflict control remain unclear. The current study used a rapid event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging design to collect data from 24 particip...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jiang J,Bailey K,Xiang L,Zhang L,Zhang Q

更新日期：2016-06-20 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：:Measuring neuronal activity with electrophysiological methods may be useful in detecting neurological dysfunctions, such as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). This approach may be particularly valuable for rapid detection in at-risk populations including military service members and athletes. Electrophysiological met...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Rapp PE,Keyser DO,Albano A,Hernandez R,Gibson DB,Zambon RA,Hairston WD,Hughes JD,Krystal A,Nichols AS

更新日期：2015-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that religious prayer can alter the experience of pain via expectation mechanisms. While brain processes related to other types of top-down modulation of pain have been studied extensively, no research has been conducted on the potential effects of active religious coping. Here, we aimed at in...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Elmholdt EM,Skewes J,Dietz M,Møller A,Jensen MS,Roepstorff A,Wiech K,Jensen TS

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00