Luminance gradient configuration determines perceived lightness in a simple geometric illusion.

abstract：:Blockade of the scalp electroencephalographic (EEG) sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) is a well-known phenomenon following attempted or executed motor functions. Such a frequency-specific power attenuation of the SMR occurs in the alpha and beta frequency bands and is spatially registered at primary somatosensory and motor co...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Tsuchimoto S,Shibusawa S,Mizuguchi N,Kato K,Ebata H,Liu M,Hanakawa T,Ushiba J

更新日期：2017-07-06 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：AIMS:Questions regarding perception of pain in non-communicating patients and the management of pain continue to raise controversy both at a clinical and ethical level. The aim of this study was to examine the cortical response to salient visual, acoustic, somatosensory electric non-nociceptive and nociceptive laser st...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： de Tommaso M,Navarro J,Lanzillotti C,Ricci K,Buonocunto F,Livrea P,Lancioni GE

更新日期：2015-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:Electrodes that provide brain to machine or computer interfacing must survive the lifetime of the person to be considered an acceptable prosthetic. The electrodes may be external such as with electroencephalographic (EEG), internal extracortical such as electrocorticographic (ECoG) or intracortical. Methods:Most i...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gearing M,Kennedy P

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging evidence has suggested that categories can often be learned via either an explicit rule-based (RB) mechanism critically dependent on medial temporal and prefrontal brain regions, or via an implicit information-integration (II) mechanism relying on the basal ganglia. In ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Morrison RG,Reber PJ,Bharani KL,Paller KA

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:When saccade amplitude becomes systematically inaccurate, adaptation mechanisms gradually decrease or increase it until accurate saccade targeting is recovered. Adaptive shortening and adaptive lengthening of saccade amplitude rely on separate mechanisms in adults. When these adaptation mechanisms emerge during develo...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lemoine-Lardennois C,Alahyane N,Tailhefer C,Collins T,Fagard J,Doré-Mazars K

更新日期：2016-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Carriers of the fragile X premutation allele (fXPCs) have an expanded CGG trinucleotide repeat size within the FMR1 gene and are at increased risk of developing fragile x-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS). Previous research has shown that male fXPCs with FXTAS exhibit cognitive decline, predominantly in execut...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wong LM,Tassone F,Rivera SM,Simon TJ

更新日期：2015-02-05 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：: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：:Behavioral, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging data support the idea that numbers are represented along a mental number line (MNL), an analogical, visuospatial representation of number magnitude. The MNL is left-to-right oriented in Western cultures, with small numbers on the left and larger numbers on the right. Le...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Priftis K,Pitteri M,Meneghello F,Umiltà C,Zorzi M

更新日期：2012-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The present review aims to summarize the debate in contemporary neuroscience between inborn and experience-dependent models of conceptual representations that goes back to the description of category-specific semantic disorders for biological and artifact categories. Experience-dependent models suggest that categorica...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gainotti G

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Face processing involves a complex, multimodal brain network. While visual-perceptual face patches in posterior parts of the brain have been studied for over a decade, the existence and properties of face-selective regions in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a relatively new area of research. While regions of OFC are imp...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Troiani V,Dougherty CC,Michael AM,Olson IR

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural bases of human olfactory memory are poorly understood. Very few studies have examined neural substrates associated with correct odor recognition, and none has tackled neural networks associated with incorrect odor recognition. We investigated the neural basis of task performance during a yes-no odor recognition...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Royet JP,Morin-Audebrand L,Cerf-Ducastel B,Haase L,Issanchou S,Murphy C,Fonlupt P,Sulmont-Rossé C,Plailly J

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined whether emotional expectations gate attention to emotional words in early visual cortex. Color cues informed about word valence and onset latency. We observed a stimulus-preceding negativity prior to the onset of cued words that was larger for negative than for neutral words. This indicates ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Trauer SM,Müller MM,Kotz SA

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimizing rehabilitation strategies requires understanding the effects of contextual cues on adaptation learning. Prior studies have examined these effects on the specificity of split-belt walking adaptation, showing that contextual visual cues can be manipulated to modulate the magnitude, transfer, and washout of sp...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Luu TP,He Y,Nakagome S,Nathan K,Brown S,Gorges J,Contreras-Vidal JL

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:During creative problem solving, initial solution attempts often fail because of self-imposed constraints that prevent us from thinking out of the box. In order to solve a problem successfully, the problem representation has to be restructured by combining elements of available knowledge in novel and creative ways. It...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Schönauer M,Brodt S,Pöhlchen D,Breßmer A,Danek AH,Gais S

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous functional MRI (fMRI) studies have shown that fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) fragile X premutation allele carriers (FXPCs) exhibit decreased hippocampal activation during a recall task and lower inferior frontal activation during a working memory task compared to matched controls. The molecular charact...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wang JM,Koldewyn K,Hashimoto R,Schneider A,Le L,Tassone F,Cheung K,Hagerman P,Hessl D,Rivera SM

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinforcement and use-dependent plasticity mechanisms have been proposed to be involved in both savings and anterograde interference in adaptation to a visuomotor rotation (cf. Huang et al., 2011). In Parkinson's disease (PD), dopamine dysfunction is known to impair reinforcement mechanisms, and could also affect use-...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Leow LA,de Rugy A,Loftus AM,Hammond G

更新日期：2013-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides a powerful way to visualize brain functions and observe brain activity in response to tasks or thoughts. It allows displaying brain damages that can be quantified and linked to neurobehavioral deficits. fMRI can potentially draw a new cartography of brain functiona...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： di Porzio U

更新日期：2016-06-08 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：:The extent of sensory eye dominance, a reflection of the interocular suppression in binocular visual processing, can be quantitatively measured using the binocular phase combination task. In this study, we aimed to provide a normative dataset for sensory eye dominance using this task. Based on that, we also assessed t...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wang Y,Cui L,He Z,Lin W,Qu J,Lu F,Zhou J,Hess RF

更新日期：2018-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly half of all mild brain injury sufferers experience long-term cognitive impairment, so an important goal in rehabilitation is to address their multiple cognitive deficits to help them return to prior levels of functioning. Cognitive training, or the use of repeated mental exercises to enhance cognition, is one r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Moore AL,Carpenter DM 2nd,James RL,Miller TM,Moore JJ,Disbrow EA,Ledbetter CR

更新日期：2020-06-24 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：:Dopaminergic drugs frequently produce paradoxical effects depending on baseline performance levels, genotype, or personality traits. The present study for the first time aimed to specify the mechanisms underlying such opposite effects using the following recently reported scenario as an example: depending on the perso...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Chavanon ML,Wacker J,Stemmler G

更新日期：2013-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between primary motor cortex (M1) activity and (muscular) force output has been studied extensively. Results from previous studies indicate that activity of a part of yet unidentified neurons in M1 are positively correlated with increased force levels. One considerable candidate causing this positive corr...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kurz A,Leukel C

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in neuroimaging technologies have rendered multimodal analysis of operators' cognitive processes in complex task settings and environments increasingly more practical. In this exploratory study, we utilized optical brain imaging and mobile eye tracking technologies to investigate the behavioral and neu...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： İşbilir E,Çakır MP,Acartürk C,Tekerek AŞ

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between the anatomical representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain and the timing of neurophysiological mechanisms involved in manipulating such information remain unclear. This is the case for superordinate semantic categorization-the extraction of general features shared by broad classe...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Costanzo ME,McArdle JJ,Swett B,Nechaev V,Kemeny S,Xu J,Braun AR

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Preterm infants are born during critical stages of brain development, in which the adaptive capacity of the fetus to extra-uterine environment is limited. Inadequate brain perfusion has been directly linked to preterm brain damage. Advanced high-frequency ultrasound probes and processing algorithms allow v...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Camfferman FA,Ecury-Goossen GM,La Roche JE,de Jong N,van 't Leven W,Vos HJ,Verweij MD,Nasserinejad K,Cools F,Govaert P,Dudink J

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper, we will attempt to gain hints regarding the nature of tactile awareness in humans. At first, we will review some recent literature showing that an actual tactile experience can emerge in absence of any tactile stimulus (e.g., tactile hallucinations, tactile illusions). According to the current mo...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pia L,Garbarini F,Burin D,Fossataro C,Berti A

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala has been implicated in the processing of emotion and animacy information and to be responsive to novelty. However, the way in which these functions interact is poorly understood. Subjects (N = 30) viewed threatening or neutral images that could be either animate (facial expressions) or inanimate (objects)...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： White SF,Adalio C,Nolan ZT,Yang J,Martin A,Blair JR

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00