The effects of categorical and linguistic adaptation on binocular rivalry initial dominance.

abstract：:The present study investigated changes in cortical oxygenation during mental arithmetic using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Twenty-nine male volunteers were examined using a 52-channel continuous wave system for analyzing activity in prefrontal areas. With the help of a probabilistic mapping method, three regions...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Verner M,Herrmann MJ,Troche SJ,Roebers CM,Rammsayer TH

更新日期：2013-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate therapeutic benefits of electrical stimulation in cases of specific ophthalmic diseases that are associated with dysfunctional ocular microcirculation. This suggests effects of electrical stimulation on vascular functions. In the present study, we investigated the effects of electrical stimulat...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Freitag S,Hunold A,Klemm M,Klee S,Link D,Nagel E,Haueisen J

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence indicates that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuropsychological disconnection syndrome that can be analyzed using various complex network metrics used as pathology biomarkers. Recently, community detection and analysis rooted in the complex network and graph theories have been introduced to inve...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Song Y,Epalle TM,Lu H

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivity to regularities plays a crucial role in the acquisition of various linguistic features from spoken language input. Artificial grammar learning paradigms explore pattern recognition abilities in a set of structured sequences (i.e., of syllables or letters). In the present study, we investigated the function...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Goranskaya D,Kreitewolf J,Mueller JL,Friederici AD,Hartwigsen G

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), also known as Specific Language Impairment in children has been the focus of unceasing scientific attention for decades, the nature and mechanisms of this disorder remain unclear. Most importantly, we still cannot reliably identify children requiring urgent intervent...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Tomas E,Vissers C

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor imagery (MI) is defined as mental execution without any actual movement. While healthy adults usually show temporal equivalence, i.e., isochrony, between the mental simulation of an action and its actual performance, neurological disorders are associated with anisochrony. Unlike in patients with stroke and Parki...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Tacchino A,Saiote C,Brichetto G,Bommarito G,Roccatagliata L,Cordano C,Battaglia MA,Mancardi GL,Inglese M

更新日期：2018-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:WE COMPARED, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE OVERALL AND DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF THREE OF THE MOST WIDELY USED LEFT NEGLECT (LN) TREATMENTS: visual scanning training (VST), limb activation treatment (LAT), and prism adaptation (PA). Thirty-three LN patients were assigned in quasi-random order to the three groups (VST, LAT, or...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Priftis K,Passarini L,Pilosio C,Meneghello F,Pitteri M

更新日期：2013-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An important but poorly understood aspect of sensory processing is the role of active sensing, the use of self-motion such as eye or head movements to focus sensing resources on the most rewarding or informative aspects of the sensory environment. Here, we present behavioral data from a visual search experiment, as we...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ahmad S,Huang H,Yu AJ

更新日期：2014-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The proposal that dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) enhances neurocognitive functioning in term infants is controversial. Theoretical evidence, laboratory research and human epidemiological studies have convincingly demonstrated that DHA deficiency can negatively impact neurocognitive development. However, the result...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Heaton AE,Meldrum SJ,Foster JK,Prescott SL,Simmer K

更新日期：2013-11-20 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：:Research indicates that there is a specially adapted, hard-wired brain circuit, the security motivation system, which evolved to manage potential threats, such as the possibility of contamination or predation. The existence of this system may have important implications for policy-making related to security. The syste...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Woody EZ,Szechtman H

更新日期：2013-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial temporal lobe supports both navigation and declarative memory. On this basis, a theory of phylogenetic continuity has been proposed according to which episodic and semantic memories have evolved from egocentric (e.g., path integration) and allocentric (e.g., map-based) navigation in the physical world, resp...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Committeri G,Fragueiro A,Campanile MM,Lagatta M,Burles F,Iaria G,Sestieri C,Tosoni A

更新日期：2020-11-27 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：BACKGROUND:The study of the attentional system remains a challenge for current neuroscience. The "Attention Network Test" (ANT) was designed to study simultaneously three different attentional networks (alerting, orienting, and executive) based in subtraction of different experimental conditions. However, some studies ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Galvao-Carmona A,González-Rosa JJ,Hidalgo-Muñoz AR,Páramo D,Benítez ML,Izquierdo G,Vázquez-Marrufo M

更新日期：2014-10-13 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：:The intra-arterial amobarbital procedure (IAP or Wada test) is used to determine language lateralization and contralateral memory functioning in patients eligible for neurosurgery because of pharmaco-resistant epilepsy. During unilateral sedation, functioning of the contralateral hemisphere is assessed by means of neu...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Douw L,van Dellen E,Baayen JC,Klein M,Velis DN,Alpherts WC,Heimans JJ,Reijneveld JC,Stam CJ

更新日期：2010-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of brain functional connectivity have provided a better understanding of organization and integration of large-scale brain networks. Functional connectivity using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is typically based upon the correlations of the low-frequency fluctuation of fMRI signals...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Di X,Kim EH,Huang CC,Tsai SJ,Lin CP,Biswal BB

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma oscillations in neocortex are hypothesized to improve information transmission between groups of neurons. We recently showed that optogenetic drive of fast-spiking interneurons (FS) at 40 Hz in mouse neocortex in vivo modulates the spike count and precision of sensory evoked responses. At specific phases of alig...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Knoblich U,Siegle JH,Pritchett DL,Moore CI

更新日期：2010-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) are characterized by fear or anxiety about social situations, but also by important alterations in self-referential processing. Given advances in our understanding of the neurocircuitry and neurochemistry of SAD, the question arises of the relationship between this resear...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Stein DJ

更新日期：2015-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic pain due to neuropathy or musculoskeletal injury frequently exhibit reduced alpha and increased theta power densities. However, little is known about electrical brain activity and chronic pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). For this purpose, we evaluated power densities of spontaneou...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Meneses FM,Queirós FC,Montoya P,Miranda JG,Dubois-Mendes SM,Sá KN,Luz-Santos C,Baptista AF

更新日期：2016-08-04 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：:Minimally invasive and robotic surgery changes the capacity for surgical mentors to guide their trainees with the control customary to open surgery. This neuroergonomic study aims to assess a "Collaborative Gaze Channel" (CGC); which detects trainer gaze-behavior and displays the point of regard to the trainee. A rand...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Leff DR,James DR,Orihuela-Espina F,Kwok KW,Sun LW,Mylonas G,Athanasiou T,Darzi AW,Yang GZ

更新日期：2015-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketamine was introduced into clinical practice in the 1960s and continues to be both clinically useful and scientifically fascinating. With considerably diverse molecular targets and neurophysiological properties, ketamine's effects on the central nervous system remain incompletely understood. Investigators have lever...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Li L,Vlisides PE

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In electroencephalography (EEG) measurements, processing of periodic sounds in the ascending auditory pathway generates the frequency-following response (FFR) phase-locked to the fundamental frequency (F0) and its harmonics of a sound. We measured FFRs to the steady-state (vowel) part of syllables /ba/ and /aw/ occurr...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Alho K,Żarnowiec K,Gorina-Careta N,Escera C

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a detailed description of a set of FreeSurfer compatible segmentation guidelines tailored to infant MRI scans, and a unique data set of manually segmented acquisitions, with subjects nearly evenly distributed between 0 and 2 years of age. We believe that these segmentation guidelines and this dataset will h...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： de Macedo Rodrigues K,Ben-Avi E,Sliva DD,Choe MS,Drottar M,Wang R,Fischl B,Grant PE,Zöllei L

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In multiple sclerosis (MS) functional changes in connectivity due to cortical reorganization could lead to cognitive impairment (CI), or reflect a re-adjustment to reduce the clinical effects of widespread tissue damage. Such alterations in connectivity could result in changes in neural activation as assayed by execut...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Helekar SA,Shin JC,Mattson BJ,Bartley K,Stosic M,Saldana-King T,Montague PR,Hutton GJ

更新日期：2010-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals differ substantially in their susceptibility to distraction by irrelevant visual information. Previous research has uncovered how individual variability in the goal-driven component of attentional control influences distraction, yet it remains unknown whether other sources of variability between individual...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lechak JR,Leber AB

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Our sensorimotor experience unfolds in sequences over time. We hypothesize that the processing of movement sequences with and without a temporal pause will recruit distinct but cooperating neural processes, including cortico-striatal and cortico-cerebellar networks. We thus, compare neural activity during sequence lea...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jouen AL,Verwey WB,van der Helden J,Scheiber C,Neveu R,Dominey PF,Ventre-Dominey J

更新日期：2013-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Theta activity reflects a state of rhythmic modulation of excitability at the level of single neuron membranes, within local neuronal groups and between distant nodes of a neuronal network. A wealth of evidence has shown that during theta states distant neuronal groups synchronize, forming networks of spatially confin...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Womelsdorf T,Vinck M,Leung LS,Everling S

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental psychology different experiments have been developed to assess goal-directed as compared to habitual control over instrumental decisions. Similar to animal studies selective devaluation procedures have been used. More recently sequential decision-making tasks have been designed to assess the degree of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Friedel E,Koch SP,Wendt J,Heinz A,Deserno L,Schlagenhauf F

更新日期：2014-08-04 00:00:00