The experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates.

abstract：:The human cortical regions for processing high-level visual (HLV) functions of different categories remain ambiguous, especially in terms of their conjunctions and specifications. Moreover, the neurobiology of declined HLV functions in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has not been fully investigated. This study ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Deng Y,Shi L,Lei Y,Liang P,Li K,Chu WC,Wang D,Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2016-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticipation of emotional pictures has been found to be relevant to the encoding of the pictures as well as their later recognition performance. However, it is as yet unknown whether anticipation modulates neural activity in the later recognition of emotional pictures. To address this issue, participants in the presen...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lin H,Xiang J,Li S,Liang J,Jin H

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated the time course of the other-race classification advantage (ORCA) in the subordinate classification of normally configured faces and distorted faces by race. Slightly distorting the face configuration delayed the categorization of own-race faces and had no conspicuous effects on other-ra...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lv J,Yan T,Tao L,Zhao L

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Verbal learning tests (VLTs) are widely used to evaluate memory deficits in neuropsychiatric and developmental disorders. However, their validity has been called into question by studies showing significant differences in VLT scores obtained by different examiners. Here we describe the computerized Bay Area Verbal Lea...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Woods DL,Wyma JM,Herron TJ,Yund EW

更新日期：2017-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Human locomotion is a complex motor task. Previous research hypothesized that muscle synergies reflect the modular control of muscle groups operated by the Central Nervous System (CNS). Despite the high stride-to-stride variability characterizing human gait, most studies analyze only a few strides. This may be limitin...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Rimini D,Agostini V,Knaflitz M

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventral temporal cortex (VTC) in humans includes functionally defined regions that preferentially respond to objects, faces, and places. Recent developmental studies suggest that the face selective region in the fusiform gyrus ('fusiform face area', FFA) undergoes a prolonged development involving substantial incr...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Golarai G,Liberman A,Yoon JM,Grill-Spector K

更新日期：2010-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of visual cortex reorganization following injury remains controversial. We report serial functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from a patient with sequential posterior circulation strokes occurring 3 weeks apart, compared with data from an age-matched healthy control subject. At 8 days following...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brodtmann A,Puce A,Darby D,Donnan G

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Propylene glycol, also denoted as 1.2 propanediol (C3H8O2), often serves as a solvent for dilution of olfactory stimuli. It is supposed to serve as a neutral substance and has been used in many behavioral and electrophysiological studies to dilute pure olfactory stimuli. However, the effect of propylene glycol on perc...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Sirous M,Sinning N,Schneider TR,Friese U,Lorenz J,Engel AK

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Phonological awareness skills in children with reading difficulty (RD) may reflect impaired automatic integration of orthographic and phonological representations. However, little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms involved in phonological awareness for children with RD. Eighteen children with RD, ages 9-...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Randazzo M,Greenspon EB,Booth JR,McNorgan C

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally supposed that there is a single, hierarchically organized pathway dedicated to form processing, in which complex forms are elaborated from simpler ones, beginning with the orientation-selective cells of V1. In this psychophysical study, we undertook to test another hypothesis, namely that the brain's v...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lo YT,Zeki S

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood adversity, such as neglect, or physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, is prevalent in the U.S. and worldwide, and connected to an elevated incidence of disease in adulthood. A pathway in this relationship might be altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning, as a result of differential hippo...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kuras YI,Assaf N,Thoma MV,Gianferante D,Hanlin L,Chen X,Fiksdal A,Rohleder N

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Top-down attention towards nociceptive stimuli can be modulated by asking participants to pay attention to specific features of a stimulus, or to provide a rating about its intensity/unpleasantness. Whether and how these different top-down processes may lead to different modulations of the cortical response to nocicep...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Torta DME,Ninghetto M,Ricci R,Legrain V

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal and neonatal brain connectivity development is highly complex. Studies have shown that functional networks change dramatically during development. The purpose of the current study was to determine how the mean phase lag index (mPLI), a measure of functional connectivity (FC), assessed with electroencephalography...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： van de Pol LA,van 't Westende C,Zonnenberg I,Koedam E,van Rossum I,de Haan W,Steenweg M,van Straaten EC,Stam CJ

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to apply a novel multidimensional motor unit number index (MD-MUNIX) technique to examine hand muscles in patients with incomplete cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The MD-MUNIX was estimated from the compound muscle action potential (CMAP) and different levels of surface interference ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Li L,Li X,Liu J,Zhou P

更新日期：2015-05-08 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：: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：: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：OBJECTIVE:Emotional disturbance is a common complication of stroke significantly affecting functional recovery and quality of life. Identifying relevant neurophysiologic markers associated with post-stroke emotional disturbance may lead to a better understanding of this disabling condition, guiding the diagnosis, devel...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Doruk D,Simis M,Imamura M,Brunoni AR,Morales-Quezada L,Anghinah R,Fregni F,Battistella LR

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Gait and balance impairments are frequently considered as the most significant concerns among individuals suffering from neurological diseases. Robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) has shown to be a promising neurorehabilitation intervention to improve gait recovery in patients following stroke or brain injury by poten...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Berger A,Horst F,Müller S,Steinberg F,Doppelmayr M

更新日期：2019-06-05 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：:A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory, formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro)cognitive poetics has investigated structural and functional aspects of literature reception. Despite a wealth of literature published in specialized journals ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jacobs AM

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions fill our everyday life and put strong demands on our brain function. However, the possibilities for studying the brain basis of social interaction are still technically limited, and even modern brain imaging studies of social cognition typically monitor just one participant at a time. We present he...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Baess P,Zhdanov A,Mandel A,Parkkonen L,Hirvenkari L,Mäkelä JP,Jousmäki V,Hari R

更新日期：2012-04-10 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 this study, we investigated the combined effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and an intensive Conversational therapy treatment on discourse skills in 12 persons with chronic aphasia. Six short video clips depicting everyday life contexts were prepared. Three videoclips were used to elicit spont...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Marangolo P,Fiori V,Calpagnano MA,Campana S,Razzano C,Caltagirone C,Marini A

更新日期：2013-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to vision, audition plays an important role in sound localization in our world. One way we estimate the motion of an auditory object moving towards or away from us is from changes in volume intensity. However, the human auditory system has unequally distributed spatial resolution, including difficulty dist...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bainbridge CM,Bainbridge WA,Oliva A

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals can improve their levels of psychological well-being (PWB) through utilization of psychological interventions, including the practice of mindfulness meditation, which is defined as the non-judgmental awareness of experiences in the present moment. We recently reported that an 8-week-mindfulness-based stres...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Singleton O,Hölzel BK,Vangel M,Brach N,Carmody J,Lazar SW

更新日期：2014-02-18 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：:[This corrects the article on p. 293 in vol. 8, PMID: 24860475.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Whitlock JR

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory change detection is crucial for the development of the auditory system and a prerequisite for language development. In neonates, stimuli with broad spectral width like white noise (WN) elicit the highest response compared to pure tone and combined tone stimuli. In the current study we addressed for the first ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Muenssinger J,Matuz T,Schleger F,Draganova R,Weiss M,Kiefer-Schmidt I,Wacker-Gussmann A,Govindan RB,Lowery CL,Eswaran H,Preissl H

更新日期：2013-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the compositional properties of surfaces in the environment is an important visual capacity. One such property is specular reflectance, which encompasses the range from matte to shiny surfaces. Visual estimation of specular reflectance can be informed by characteristic motion profiles; a surface with a spe...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kam TE,Mannion DJ,Lee SW,Doerschner K,Kersten DJ

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00