Online transcranial Doppler ultrasonographic control of an onscreen keyboard.

abstract：:In daily life the brain is exposed to a large amount of external signals that compete for processing resources. The attentional system can select relevant information based on many possible combinations of goal-directed and stimulus-driven control signals. Here, we investigate the behavioral and physiological effects ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Nardo D,Console P,Reverberi C,Macaluso E

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its impact on everyday functioning, spatial perspective-taking has rarely been investigated in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and previous findings are surprisingly sparse and inconsistent. In the present study, we aimed to investigate spatial perspective-taking abilities in children and adolescents with ASD...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Cardillo R,Erbì C,Mammarella IC

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive affect has been associated with improvement in performance in various attentional domains. Negative affect has been associated with narrowing of attention and lowering of performance in attentional tasks. Previous behavioral studies have put forth the diffuse mental state idea as the mechanism of these effect...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Dhinakaran J,De Vos M,Thorne JD,Braun N,Janson J,Kranczioch C

更新日期：2013-12-18 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：:The aim of the current study was to investigate what impact a state of alcohol hangover (AH) has upon everyday prospective memory (PM; memory for future events/intentions). Previous research has shown that the AH has a detrimental effect upon cognitive abilities, including memory and attentional deficits. No published...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Heffernan T

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The present single-case study examined functional brain imaging patterns in a participant that reported being able, at will, to produce somatosensory sensations that are experienced as her body moving outside the boundaries of her physical body all the while remaining aware of her unmoving physical body. We found that...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Smith AM,Messier C

更新日期：2014-02-10 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：:This study examines with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) whether 20 min of repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation (rPMS) has a facilitating effect on associated motor controlling regions. Trains of rPMS with a stimulus intensity of 150% of the motor thr...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gallasch E,Christova M,Kunz A,Rafolt D,Golaszewski S

更新日期：2015-07-14 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：: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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00098.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zhang Y,Du G,Yang Y,Qin W,Li X,Zhang Q

更新日期：2019-04-09 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：:Cerebral palsy (CP) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are neuromuscular disorders characterized by muscle weakness. Weakness in CP has neural and non-neural components, whereas in DMD, weakness can be considered as a predominantly non-neural problem. Despite the different underlying causes, weakness is a constrain...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Goudriaan M,Shuman BR,Steele KM,Van den Hauwe M,Goemans N,Molenaers G,Desloovere K

更新日期：2018-01-31 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：: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

abstract：:The repetition of a stimulus task reduces the neural activity within certain cortical regions responsible for working memory (WM) processing. Although previous evidence has shown that repeated vibrotactile stimuli reduce the activation in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, whether the repeated tactile spatial stimul...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yang J,Yu Y,Kunita A,Huang Q,Wu J,Sawamoto N,Fukuyama H

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cooperation represents a core facet of human social behavior there exists considerable variability across people in terms of the tendency to cooperate. One factor that may contribute to individual differences in cooperation is a key gene within the oxytocin (OT) system, the OT reception gene (OXTR). In this a...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Haas BW,Anderson IW,Smith JM

更新日期：2013-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, there have been a large number of studies using resting state fMRI to characterize abnormal brain connectivity in patients with a variety of neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders. However, interpreting what the differences in resting state fMRI functional connectivity (rsfMRI-FC) actually re...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Horwitz B,Hwang C,Alstott J

更新日期：2013-11-11 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：: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：:Current theories of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia have focused on abnormal temporal coordination of neural activity. Oscillations in the gamma-band range (>25 Hz) are of particular interest as they establish synchronization with great precision in local cortical networks. However, the contribution of high gamma...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Grützner C,Wibral M,Sun L,Rivolta D,Singer W,Maurer K,Uhlhaas PJ

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalography (EEG) is typically viewed through the lens of spectral analysis. Recently, multiple lines of evidence have demonstrated that the underlying neuronal dynamics are characterized by scale-free avalanches. These results suggest that techniques from statistical physics may be used to analyze EEG sign...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zorick T,Mandelkern MA

更新日期：2015-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine differences in spinal motoneuron dysfunction between the abductor pollicis brevis (APB) and the abductor digiti minimi (ADM) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients based on studying F-waves. Forty ALS patients and 20 normal controls (NCs) underwent motor nerve conduction studies ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Fang J,Cui L,Liu M,Guan Y,Li X,Li D,Cui B,Shen D,Ding Q

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:PREHENSION, THE CAPACITY TO REACH AND GRASP OBJECTS, COMPRISES TWO MAIN COMPONENTS: reaching, i.e., moving the hand towards an object, and grasping, i.e., shaping the hand with respect to its properties. Knowledge of this topic has gained a huge advance in recent years, dramatically changing our view on how prehension...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Turella L,Lingnau A

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations of interaction (connectivity) of the EEG reflect pathological processes in patients with neurologic disorders. Nevertheless, it is questionable whether these patterns are reliable over time in different measures of interaction and whether this reliability of the measures is the same across different patien...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Höller Y,Butz K,Thomschewski A,Schmid E,Uhl A,Bathke AC,Zimmermann G,Tomasi SO,Nardone R,Staffen W,Höller P,Leitinger M,Höfler J,Kalss G,Taylor AC,Kuchukhidze G,Trinka E

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a great expansion of research into human reasoning at all of Marr's explanatory levels. There is a tendency for this work to progress within a level largely ignoring the others which can lead to slippage between levels (Chater et al., 2003). It is argued that recent brain imaging research on deductive r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Oaksford M

更新日期：2015-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The default mode network (DMN) has been widely defined as a set of brain regions that are engaged when people are in a "resting state" (left to themselves in a scanner, with no explicit task instruction). The network emerged as a scientific object in the early twenty-first century, and in just over a decade has become...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Callard F,Margulies DS

更新日期：2014-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding ourselves has been a fundamental topic for psychologists and philosophers alike. In this paper we review the evidence linking specific brain structures to self-reflection. The brain regions most associated with self-reflection are the posterior cingulate and medial prefrontal (mPFC) cortices, together kn...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Moran JM,Kelley WM,Heatherton TF

更新日期：2013-07-17 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：:Recent studies suggested that internet gaming disorder (IGD) was associated with impulsivity and structural abnormalities in brain gray matter (GM). However, no morphometric study has examined the association between GM and impulsivity in IGD individuals. In this study, 25 adolescents with IGD and 27 healthy controls ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Du X,Qi X,Yang Y,Du G,Gao P,Zhang Y,Qin W,Li X,Zhang Q

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00