Individual visual working memory capacities and related brain oscillatory activities are modulated by color preferences.

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：:Spinal cord excitability, as assessed by modulation of Hoffmann (H-) reflexes, is reduced with fatiguing isometric contractions. Furthermore, spinal cord excitability is reduced during non-fatiguing arm and leg cycling. Presynaptic inhibition of Ia terminals is believed to contribute to this suppression of spinal cord...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pearcey GEP,Noble SA,Munro B,Zehr EP

更新日期：2017-12-18 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：:At present, a healthy diet appears to be one of the suitable strategies in slowing down cognitive decline in the process of aging. A number of evidence-based studies confirm its efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness. The aim of this mini review is to evaluate and describe recent randomized clinical and cohort studi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Klimova B,Dziuba S,Cierniak-Emerych A

更新日期：2020-08-11 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：:To the naïve observer, cubist paintings contain geometrical forms in which familiar objects are hardly recognizable, even in the presence of a meaningful title. We used fMRI to test whether a short training session about Cubism would facilitate object recognition in paintings by Picasso, Braque and Gris. Subjects, who...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wiesmann M,Ishai A

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor inhibitory control (IC), the ability to suppress unwanted actions, has been previously shown to rely on domain-general IC processes that are involved in a wide range of IC tasks. Nevertheless, the existence of effector-specific regions and activation patterns that would differentiate manual vs. oculomotor respon...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Simonet M,Ruggeri P,Barral J

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The prospect of enhancing cognition is undoubtedly among the most exciting research questions currently bridging psychology, neuroscience, and evidence-based medicine. Yet, convincing claims in this line of work stem from designs that are prone to several shortcomings, thus threatening the credibility of training-indu...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Moreau D,Kirk IJ,Waldie KE

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Where hemispheric lateralization was once considered an exclusively human trait, it is increasingly recognized that hemispheric asymmetries are evident throughout the animal kingdom. Emotion is a prime example of a lateralized function: given its vital role in promoting adaptive behavior and hence survival, a growing ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lindell AK

更新日期：2013-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have been proposed as a new therapeutic way to enhance the cognition of patients with dementia. However, serious methodological limitations appear to affect the estimates of their efficacy. We reviewed the stimulatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Holczer A,Németh VL,Vékony T,Vécsei L,Klivényi P,Must A

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The present fMRI study investigated the neural areas involved in implicit perceptual sequence learning. To obtain more insight in the functional contributions of the brain areas, we tracked both the behavioral and neural time course of the learning process, using a perceptual serial color matching task. Next, to inves...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gheysen F,Van Opstal F,Roggeman C,Van Waelvelde H,Fias W

更新日期：2011-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Curvature is a highly informative visual cue for shape perception and object recognition. We introduce a novel illusion-the Lemon Illusion-in which subtle illusory curvature is perceived along contour regions that are devoid of physical curvature. We offer several perceptual demonstrations and observations that lead u...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Strother L,Killebrew KW,Caplovitz GP

更新日期：2015-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Elderly depressed patients manifest pronounced executive dysfunction compared with younger subjects with depressive disorder. Aging-related brain changes may result in executive dysfunction in geriatric depression. We investigated the neural correlates of inhibitory control processing in depressed subjects at differen...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zhang BW,Xu J,Chang Y

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Workload in the human brain can be a useful marker of internal brain state. However, due to technical limitations, previous workload studies have been unable to record brain activity via conventional electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) devices in mobile participants. In this study, we used a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yokota Y,Tanaka S,Miyamoto A,Naruse Y

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceiving the external spatial location of touch requires that tactile information about the stimulus location on the skin be integrated with proprioceptive information about the location of the body in external space, a process called tactile spatial remapping. Recent results have suggested that this process relies ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Longo MR

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In constantly changing environments, it is crucial to adaptively respond to threatening events. In particular, painful stimuli are not only processed in terms of their absolute intensity, but also with respect to their context. While contextual pain processing can simply entail the repeated processing of information (...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bauch EM,Andreou C,Rausch VH,Bunzeck N

更新日期：2017-12-21 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：: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：:Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) leads to nonfluent speech where the voice of a speaker is heard after a delay. Previous studies suggested the involvement of attention to auditory feedback in speech disfluency. To date, there are no studies that have revealed the relationship between attention and nonfluent speech by c...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ishida O,Iimura D,Miyamoto S

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Numerous studies have demonstrated that individuals exhibit structured neural activity in many brain regions during rest that is also observed during different tasks, however it is still not clear whether and how resting state activity patterns may relate to underlying tuning for specific stimuli. In the p...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Breshears JD,Hamilton LS,Chang EF

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether a sensorimotor deficit of the upper limb following a brachial plexus injury (BPI) affects the upright balance. DESIGN:Eleven patients with a unilateral BPI and 11 healthy subjects were recruited. The balance assessment included the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), the number of feet touches o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Souza L,Lemos T,Silva DC,de Oliveira JM,Guedes Corrêa JF,Tavares PL,Oliveira LA,Rodrigues EC,Vargas CD

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Helmholtz's Square illusion, a square appears wider when it is filled with vertical lines and higher when filled with horizontal lines (Helmholtz von, 1866). Recently, Pinna (2010a) demonstrated that the grouping of small squares on the basis of the similarity principle influences also perception of their...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pinna B

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect speech acts-responding "I forgot to wear my watch today" to someone who asked for the time-are ubiquitous in daily conversation, but are understudied in current neurobiological models of language. To comprehend an indirect speech act like this one, listeners must not only decode the lexical-semantic content o...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Healey M,Howard E,Ungrady M,Olm CA,Nevler N,Irwin DJ,Grossman M

更新日期：2021-01-14 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：:Repeated pairing of electrical stimulation of a peripheral nerve with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the primary motor cortex (M1) representation for a target muscle can induce neuroplastic adaptations in the human brain related to motor learning. The extent to which the motor state during this form of p...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Palmer JA,Halter A,Gray W,Wolf SL,Borich MR

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical spinal cord injuries (SCIs) often lead to loss of motor function in both hands and legs, limiting autonomy and quality of life. While it was shown that unilateral hand function can be restored after SCI using a hybrid electroencephalography/electrooculography (EEG/EOG) brain/neural hand exoskeleton (B/NHE), i...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Nann M,Peekhaus N,Angerhöfer C,Soekadar SR

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine has been implicated in the fine-tuning of complex cognitive and motor function and also in the anticipation of future rewards. This dual function of dopamine suggests that dopamine might be involved in the generation of active motivated behavior. The DRD2 TaqIA polymorphism of the dopamine D2 receptor gene (r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Richter A,Richter S,Barman A,Soch J,Klein M,Assmann A,Libeau C,Behnisch G,Wüstenberg T,Seidenbecher CI,Schott BH

更新日期：2013-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity is increasing in the last decades, also in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Even though it has been established that an increase in weight can have important negative effects on gait in healthy adults and children, it has not been investigated what the effect is of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Meyns P,Van Gestel L,Bar-On L,Goudriaan M,Wambacq H,Aertbeliën E,Bruyninckx H,Molenaers G,De Cock P,Ortibus E,Desloovere K

更新日期：2016-12-23 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：:The abilities to sing and to move to the beat of a rhythmic auditory stimulus emerge early during development, and both engage perceptual, motor, and sensorimotor processes. These similarities between singing and synchronization to a beat may be rooted in biology. Patel (2008) has suggested that motor synchronization ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Dalla Bella S,Berkowska M,Sowiński J

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00