Spoken language and the decision to move the eyes: to what extent are language-mediated eye movements automatic?

abstract：:The ability to silence, in a temporally precise fashion, the electrical activity of specific neurons embedded within intact brain tissue, is important for understanding the role that those neurons play in behaviors, brain disorders, and neural computations. "Optogenetic" silencers, genetically encoded molecules that, ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chow BY,Han X,Boyden ES

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter provides evidence of spatial and temporal changes in the behavior of neurons within Areas 5 and 4 of the sensorimotor cortex of a nonhuman primate while it was executing a perturbed arm-reaching task. Chronically implanted electrode arrays were used to record simultaneously from 37 to 58 neurons. Also mea...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Weber DJ,He J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells (SCs), when implanted in the injured spinal cord, support regeneration of axons, myelinate or ensheathe regenerated axons in a normal way, reduce cyst formation in the injured tissue, reduce secondary damage of tissue around the initial injury site, and modestly improve limb movements. If SC transplantat...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Wiliams RR,Bunge MB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic potential of stem cells for regeneration after cerebral lesion has become of great interest. This is particularly so for neurodegenerative diseases as well as for stroke. Contrary to more conventional, cerebroprotective treatment approaches, the focus of regeneration lies in a longer time window during...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Adamczak J,Hoehn M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objects have specific cognitive attributes, elicit particular visuo-motor responses, and require visual processes beyond primary visual cortex to combine information over extended regions as a basis for the segmentation and integration of visual objects. As well as segmentation, the assignment of region boundaries to ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Braddick O,Atkinson J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have brought a rapid growth in knowledge of the prodromal phase of Parkinson's disease (PD). It is now clear that the clinical phase of PD is preceded by a phase of progressing neurodegeneration lasting many years. This involves not only central nervous system structures outside the substantia nigra and n...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Schaeffer E,Postuma RB,Berg D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic-neurohypophysial system undergoes dramatic morphological plasticity in response to physiological activation during parturition/lactation and dehydration, including somatic swelling, decreased glial coverage and increased synaptic innervation of the magnocellular neuroendocrine cells. Recent in-vitro e...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Tasker JG,Di S,Boudaba C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a brief review of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) as indices of cortical information processing in conditions in which conscious perception of stimuli is supposed to be absent: sleep, coma, vegetative state, general anesthesia, neglect as well as presentation of subliminal or masked stimuli. Exogenous ER...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Kotchoubey B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today's researchers are faced with a change from curiosity-driven to mandate-driven research. These two approaches are well combined within scientific networks (Actions) supported by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program. The functioning of COST Actions, although directed only to networking...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gajović S,Pochet R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the perception of our world is experienced as effortless, the processes that underlie object recognition in the brain are often difficult to determine. In this chapter, we review the effects of familiarity on the recognition of moving or static objects. In particular, we concentrate on exemplar-level stimuli ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Bülthoff I,Newell FN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter reviews research that focuses on the effects of emotionality of single words, and of simple phrases, on event-related brain potentials when these are presented visually in various tasks. In these studies, presentation of emotionally evocative language material has consistently elicited a late (c. 300-600 ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Fischler I,Bradley M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During walking, an increase in speed is accompanied by a decrease in the stance phase duration while the swing phase remains relatively invariant. By definition, the rhythm generator in the lumbar spinal cord controls cycle period, phase durations, and phase transitions. Our first aim was to determine if this asymmetr...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gossard JP,Sirois J,Noué P,Côté MP,Ménard A,Leblond H,Frigon A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular recordings from 103 photoreceptors in the excised pineal body of adult trouts were obtained by using single electrode current- and voltage-clamp techniques. The photoresponses to brief flashes showed the same polarity but a slower time course than those previously recorded from retinal photoreceptors of ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Marchiafava PL,Kusmic C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swallowing is an essential function in our daily life; nevertheless, stroke or other neurodegenerative diseases can cause the malfunction of swallowing function, ie, dysphagia. The objectives of this review are to understand the neural and cortical basis of swallowing and tongue, and review the latest techniques on th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Yang H,Ang KK,Wang C,Phua KS,Guan C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recordings of spinal INs during a flexion/extension wrist task with an instructed delay period have shown directly that many spinal neurons modulate their rate during the preparatory period soon after a visual cue. The onset time and the relation between the delay period activity of spinal INs and the ensuing movement...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Prut Y,Perlmutter SI,Fetz EE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in vitro and in other disease states where excitotoxicity is believed to be important have demonstrated that mitochondrial function is a critical determinant of cell death, reflecting key roles in intracellular calcium homeostasis, energy production and oxidative stress. Central to this is the process of mitoc...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Cock HR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puerperal psychosis, an episode of mania or psychosis precipitated by childbirth follows approximately one in 1000 deliveries. The evidence of clinical, outcome and genetic studies supports the hypothesis that the majority of puerperal psychotic episodes are manifestations of an affective disorder diathesis with a pue...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Jones I,Lendon C,Coyle N,Robertson E,Brockington I,Craddock N

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local recurrent connections endow the cerebellar cortex with an intrinsic dynamics. We performed computer simulations to predict the frequency bands of the oscillations that will most likely emerge. Feedback inhibition from the Golgi to the granule cells induced 10-50 Hz oscillations, the period at resonance being app...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Maex R,De Schutter E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, the constraints imposed on decision makers by the human physical condition - situated both as a physical agent and within physical space - have played only an incidental, if not entirely inconsequential, role in conceptualizations of human decision making. The act of deciding has been positioned as the...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： DeCaro DA,Bar-Eli M,Conlin JA,Diederich A,Johnson JG,Plessner H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the building blocks of our visual representations? Whatever we look at, the things we see will have some feature variability: even snow is not purely white but has a range of shades of white. However, in most studies investigating visual perception, homogeneous displays with all stimuli having a very limited ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Chetverikov A,Campana G,Kristjánsson Á

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life expectancies have increased substantially in the last century, dramatically amplifying the proportion of individuals who will reach old age. As individuals age, cognitive ability declines, although the rate of decline differs amongst the forms of memory domains and for different individuals. Memory domains especi...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Conrad CD,Bimonte-Nelson HA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oestrogens (E) influence the activity of oxytocin (OT) producing neurons and heighten the rate of transcription of the oxytocin receptor (OTR) gene. Working through synergistic activities of two different oestrogen receptors (ERs), likely gene duplication products, in the hypothalamus and amygdala, E supports social r...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Choleris E,Devidze N,Kavaliers M,Pfaff DW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although circannual rhythms controlling different physiological processes and various aspects of behavior have been reported in numerous organisms, our understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms is still quite limited. We examined the mechanisms controlling the circannual pupation rhythm of the varied carpe...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Miyazaki Y,Nisimura T,Numata H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniature eye movements occur involuntarily during visual fixation. The most prominent contribution to these fixational eye movements is generated by microsaccades, which are rapid small-amplitude saccades with a rate of about one per second. Recent work demonstrates that microsaccades are optimized to counteract perc...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Engbert R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review neural connections of the superior colliculus (SC) and brainstem saccade-related neurons in relation to saccade generation mechanism. The caudal and rostral SC play a role in saccade generation and visual fixation, respectively. This functional differentiation suggests that different connections should exist...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Shinoda Y,Takahashi M,Sugiuchi Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the visual thalamic relays, the lateral geniculate nucleus and pulvinar, provide three key properties that have dramatically changed the view that the thalamus serves as a simple relay to get information from subcortical sites to cortex. First, the retinal input, although a small minority (7%) in terms of n...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Sherman SM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative autoradiographic method with L-(35S)methionine was applied to investigate the effect of chronic dehydration on rates of protein synthesis in circumventricular organs (CVOs). Water deprivation for 1, 2 and 3 days causes progressive increases of protein synthesis in the subfornical organ (SFO), the area...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Lepetit P,Grange E,Gay N,Bobillier P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors have been implicated as a mediator of neuronal injury associated with many neurological disorders including ischemia, epilepsy, brain trauma, dementia and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease. To this, non-selective NMDA receptor ant...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gardoni F,Ghiglieri V,Di Luca M,Calabresi P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates are endowed with a brain about twice the size that of a mammal with the same body size, and humans have the largest brain relative to body size of all animals. This increase in brain size may be related to the acquisition of higher cognitive skills that permitted more complex social interactions, the evolutio...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Aboitiz F,Montiel JF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex migrations of neurons born in the dorsal neural tube of the isthmic and rhombomere l (rl) domains complicate the delineation of the cerebellar primordium. We show that Purkinje cells (P) are likely generated over a wide territory before gathering in the future cerebellar primordium under the developing ext...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Narboux-Nême N,Louvi A,Alexandre P,Wassef M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00