Videogame interventions and spatial ability interactions.

abstract：:Due to the potential of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) for enhancement of fine sequenced movements and increasing interest in achieving high level of fine movements in the trained and untrained hands especially at initial stage of learning, we designed this study to investigate whether the app...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Hashemirad F,Fitzgerald PB,Zoghi M,Jaberzadeh S

更新日期：2017-04-03 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：:Numerous cognitive studies have demonstrated experience-induced plasticity in the primary sensory cortex, indicating that repeated decisions could modulate sensory processing. In this context, we investigated whether an auditory version of the monetary incentive delay (MID) task could change the neural processing of t...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Krugliakova E,Gorin A,Fedele T,Shtyrov Y,Moiseeva V,Klucharev V,Shestakova A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In perceptual decision making the brain extracts and accumulates decision evidence from a stimulus over time and eventually makes a decision based on the accumulated evidence. Several characteristics of this process have been observed in human electrophysiological experiments, especially an average build-up of motor-r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bitzer S,Park H,Maess B,von Kriegstein K,Kiebel SJ

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies conducted within the recent decades have utilized the Posner cuing paradigm for eliciting, measuring, and theoretically characterizing attentional orienting. However, the data from recent studies suggest that the Posner cuing task might not provide an unambiguous measure of attention, as reflexive spa...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Hayward DA,Ristic J

更新日期：2013-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at investigating different aspects of Executive Functions (EF) in children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD). A neuropsychological battery tapping verbal fluency, spoonerism, attention, verbal shifting, short-term and working memory was used to assess 60 children with DD and 65 with typical ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Varvara P,Varuzza C,Sorrentino AC,Vicari S,Menghini D

更新日期：2014-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Malfunctioning sensory systems can severely impact quality of life and repair is not always possible. One solution, called sensory substitution, is to use another sensory system to bring lost information to the brain. This approach often involves the use of bioengineered devices that electrically stimulate somatosenso...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Moritz J Jr,Turk P,Williams JD,Stone-Roy LM

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic skills are natural and widespread in the general population. The majority can track the beat of music and move along with it. These abilities are meaningful from a cognitive standpoint given their tight links with prominent motor and cognitive functions such as language and memory. When rhythmic skills are ch...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bégel V,Di Loreto I,Seilles A,Dalla Bella S

更新日期：2017-05-29 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：:During sleep, humans experience the offline images and sensations that we call dreams, which are typically emotional and lacking in rational judgment of their bizarreness. However, during lucid dreaming (LD), subjects know that they are dreaming, and may control oneiric content. Dreaming and LD features have been stud...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mota-Rolim SA,Targino ZH,Souza BC,Blanco W,Araujo JF,Ribeiro S

更新日期：2013-12-10 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：:Functional imaging studies using BOLD contrasts have consistently reported activation of the supplementary motor area (SMA) both during motor and internal timing tasks. Opposing findings, however, have been shown for the modulation of beta oscillations in the SMA. While movement suppresses beta oscillations in the SMA...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gompf F,Pflug A,Laufs H,Kell CA

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In which journal a scientist publishes is considered one of the most crucial factors determining their career. The underlying common assumption is that only the best scientists manage to publish in a highly selective tier of the most prestigious journals. However, data from several lines of evidence suggest that the m...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brembs B

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge on the patterns of repetition amongst individuals who develop language deficits in association with right hemisphere lesions (crossed aphasia) is very limited. Available data indicate that repetition in some crossed aphasics experiencing phonological processing deficits is not heavily influenced by lexical-s...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： De-Torres I,Dávila G,Berthier ML,Walsh SF,Moreno-Torres I,Ruiz-Cruces R

更新日期：2013-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum is an important contributor to feedforward control mechanisms of the central nervous system, and sequencing-the process that allows spatial and temporal relationships between events to be recognized-has been implicated as the fundamental cerebellar mode of operation. By adopting such a mode and because ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pisotta I,Molinari M

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, an increasing interest has arisen in investigating the relationship between the electrophysiological and hemodynamic measurements of brain activity, such as EEG and (BOLD) fMRI. In particular, changes in BOLD have been shown to be associated with changes in the spectral profile of neural activity, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Sclocco R,Tana MG,Visani E,Gilioli I,Panzica F,Franceschetti S,Cerutti S,Bianchi AM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying task modulations of brain connectivity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is critical to understand brain functions that support cognitive and affective processes. Existing methods such as psychophysiological interaction (PPI) and dynamic causal modeling (DCM) usually implicitly assume that th...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Di X,Fu Z,Chan SC,Hung YS,Biswal BB,Zhang Z

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research with preschool children has established that dialogic or active book reading is an effective method for expanding young children's vocabulary. In this exploratory study, we asked whether similar benefits are observed when a robot engages in dialogic reading with preschoolers. Given the established effec...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kory Westlund JM,Jeong S,Park HW,Ronfard S,Adhikari A,Harris PL,DeSteno D,Breazeal CL

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Creativity generally involves the conception of original and valuable ideas. Previous studies have suggested an association between creativity and the dopaminergic system, and that physical activity facilitates creativity. Iron plays a key role in the dopaminergic system and physical activity. Here, we newly investiga...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Takeuchi H,Taki Y,Sekiguchi A,Nouchi R,Kotozaki Y,Nakagawa S,Miyauchi CM,Iizuka K,Yokoyama R,Shinada T,Yamamoto Y,Hanawa S,Araki T,Hashizume H,Kunitoki K,Sassa Y,Kawashima R

更新日期：2013-12-18 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：: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：: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：:Focusing on avoiding failure or negative outcomes (avoidance motivation) can undermine creativity, due to cognitive (e.g., threat appraisals), affective (e.g., anxiety), and volitional processes (e.g., low intrinsic motivation). This can be problematic for people who are avoidance motivated by nature and in situations...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Icekson T,Roskes M,Moran S

更新日期：2014-02-28 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：:An electroencephalographic (EEG) marker of the limited contents of human visual short-term memory (VSTM) has previously been described. Termed contralateral delay activity, this consists of a sustained, posterior, negative potential that correlates with memory load and is greatest contralateral to the remembered hemif...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mitchell DJ,Cusack R

更新日期：2011-02-15 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：:Older adults have difficulties in navigating unfamiliar environments and updating their wayfinding behavior when faced with blocked routes. This decline in navigational capabilities has traditionally been ascribed to memory impairments and dysexecutive function, whereas the impact of visual aging has often been overlo...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ramanoël S,Durteste M,Bécu M,Habas C,Arleo A

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Dreaming is a universal experience, yet there is considerable inter-individual variability in dream recall frequency (DRF). One dominant model, the "arousal-retrieval" model, posits that intra-sleep wakefulness is required for dream traces to be encoded into long-term storage, essentially proposing that a be...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： van Wyk M,Solms M,Lipinska G

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Being able to effectively explore our visual world is of fundamental importance, and it has been suggested that the straight-ahead gaze (primary position) might play a special role in this context. We employed fMRI in humans to investigate how neural activity might be modulated for saccades relative to this putative d...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Krebs RM,Schoenfeld MA,Boehler CN,Song AW,Woldorff MG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypnosis research binds phenomenology and neuroscience. Here we show how recent evidence probing the impact of hypnosis and suggestion can inform and advance a neurophenomenological approach. In contrast to meditative practices that involve lengthy and intensive training, hypnosis induces profound alterations in subje...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lifshitz M,Cusumano EP,Raz A

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00