abstract：:The study investigated the processes underlying the retrieval of action information about functional object pairs, focusing on the contribution of procedural and semantic knowledge. We further assessed whether the retrieval of action knowledge is affected by task demands and age. The contribution of procedural knowled...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wulff M,Stainton A,Rotshtein P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old right-handed woman had an extensive lesion in the left hemisphere due to an infarction caused by vasospasm secondary to subarachnoid bleeding. She exhibited persistent expressive-vocal amusia with no symptoms of aphasia. Evaluation of the patient's musical competence using the Montreal Battery for Evalua...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Uetsuki S,Kinoshita H,Takahashi R,Obata S,Kakigi T,Wada Y,Yokoyama K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoneglect is a tendency to pay more attention to the left side of space, typically demonstrated on tasks like visuo-spatial line bisection, tactile rod bisection and the mental representation of numbers. The developmental trajectory of this bias on these three tasks is not fully understood. In the current study yo...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Brooks JL,Darling S,Malvaso C,Della Sala S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empathy is highly relevant for social behavior and can be verbally expressed by voicing sympathy and concern (emotional empathy) as well as by paraphrasing or stating that one can mentally reconstruct and understand another person's thoughts and feelings (cognitive empathy). In this study, we investigated the emotiona...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Seehausen M,Kazzer P,Bajbouj M,Heekeren HR,Jacobs AM,Klann-Delius G,Menninghaus W,Prehn K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examines verbal working memory over time in boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS) compared to nonverbal mental-age (NVMA) matched, typically developing (TD) boys. Concomitantly, the relationship between cortisol-a physiological marker for stress-and verbal working memory performance over time is examine...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Scherr JF,Hahn LJ,Hooper SR,Hatton D,Roberts JE

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging has been associated with declines in sensory-perceptual processes. Sensory gating (SG), or repetition suppression, refers to the attenuation of neural activity in response to a second stimulus and is considered to be an automatic process to inhibit redundant sensory inputs. It is controversial whether SG deficit...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cheng CH,Baillet S,Lin YY

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with schizophrenia often display deficits on tasks thought to measure "executive" processes. Recently, it has been suggested that reductions in fluid intelligence test performance entirely explain deficits reported for patients with focal frontal lesions on classical executive tasks. For patients wit...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Martin AK,Mowry B,Reutens D,Robinson GA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The present study investigates cortical structures associated with personality dimension of positivity (POS) by using a standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA), which provides EEG localization measures that are independent of the recording reference. Resting EEG and self-report...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Alessandri G,Caprara GV,De Pascalis V

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of repetition for place learning in children although the acquisition of organizing spatial concepts is often seen as more essential. In a reaction-time accuracy task, 7- and 9-year-old children were presented with a randomized sequence of objects-in-places. In a novelty condition (NC), memory...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Lange-Küttner C,Küttner E

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to read emotional expressions from human face and voice is an important skill in our day-to-day interactions with others. How this ability develops may be influenced by atypical experiences early in life. Here, we investigated multimodal processing of fearful and happy face/voice pairs in 9-month-olds pren...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Otte RA,Donkers FC,Braeken MA,Van den Bergh BR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to its fast temporal evolution and its representation and integration among complex and widespread neural networks, the emotion perception process should preferably be examined by means of multimethodological approach. Indeed the indubitable vantage of acquiring both the autonomic (arousal-related) and the central...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Balconi M,Grippa E,Vanutelli ME

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Apraxic agraphia (AA) is a peripheral writing disorder generally considered to result from a causative lesion in the parietal and/or prefrontal lobe of the language dominant hemisphere (De Smet, Engelborghs, Paquier, De Deyn, & Mariën, 2011). De Smet et al. (2011), however, confirmed that AA might be associa...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vandenborre D,van Dun K,Mariën P

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers who study human cognition and behavior, especially from a neuroscience perspective, often measure subjects' handedness. The most common measure of handedness is the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI; Oldfield, 1971). Several potential problems with the EHI have been identified during its long history. We...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Edlin JM,Leppanen ML,Fain RJ,Hackländer RP,Hanaver-Torrez SD,Lyle KB

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal welfare concerns have raised an interest in animal affective states. These states also play an important role in the proximate control of behaviour. Due to their potential to modulate short-term emotional reactions, one specific focus is on long-term affective states, that is, mood. These states can be assessed...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Guldimann K,Vögeli S,Wolf M,Wechsler B,Gygax L

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain imaging studies have identified two cortical areas, the parahippocampal place area (PPA) and the retrosplenial complex (RSC), that respond preferentially to the viewing of scenes. Contrary to the PPA, little is known about the functional maturation and cognitive control of the RSC. Here we used functional magnet...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Jiang P,Tokariev M,Aronen ET,Salonen O,Ma Y,Vuontela V,Carlson S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that visual perception and, in particular, visual discrimination, can be influenced by verbal category boundaries. One issue that still awaits systematic investigation is the specific influence of semantic contents of verbal categories on categorical perception (CP). We tackled this issu...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Maier M,Glage P,Hohlfeld A,Abdel Rahman R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at identifying potential behavioral and neural correlates of Emotional Intelligence (EI) by using scalp-recorded Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). EI levels were defined according to both self-report questionnaire and a performance-based ability test. We identified ERP correlates of emotiona...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Raz S,Dan O,Zysberg L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Studies suggest that the right hemisphere is dominant for emotional facial recognition. In addition, whereas some studies suggest the right hemisphere mediates the processing of all emotions (dominance hypothesis), other studies suggest that the left hemisphere mediates positive emotions the right mediates n...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Armaghani SJ,Crucian GP,Heilman KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has attributed to the right hemisphere (RH) a key role in eliciting false memories to visual emotional stimuli. These results have been explained in terms of two right-hemisphere properties: (i) that emotional stimuli are preferentially processed in the RH and (ii) that visual stimuli are represented...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Buratto LG,Zimmermann N,Ferré P,Joanette Y,Fonseca RP,Stein LM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retrieval processes supporting recognition memory for faces were investigated using event-related potentials (ERPs). The focus for analyses was ERP old/new effects, which are the differences between neural activities associated with correct judgments to old (studied) and new (unstudied) test stimuli. In two experi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Yick YY,Wilding EL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging studies have contributed to a major advance in understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms underpinning deductive reasoning. However, the dynamics of cognitive events associated with inference making have been largely neglected. Using electroencephalography, the present study aims at describing the ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Bonnefond M,Castelain T,Cheylus A,Van der Henst JB

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adolescent age period is often characterized as a health paradox because it is a time of extensive increases in physical and mental capabilities, yet overall mortality/morbidity rates increase significantly from childhood to adolescence, often due to preventable causes such as risk taking. Asynchrony in developmen...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Willoughby T,Good M,Adachi PJ,Hamza C,Tavernier R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of recent studies have shown conflicting evidence as to common or distinct representations between symbolic ordinality and quantity. We investigated this issue through a series of neuropsychological tests in a unique Chinese patient with the left angular gyrus and left supramarginal gyrus lesions. Behavioral ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Chen Z,Xu M,Shang D,Peng G,Luo B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study is to analyze how the Slow Wave develops in the retention period on a visual Delayed Match-to-Sample task performed by 170 subjects between 6 and 26 years old, divided into 5 age groups. In addition, a neuropsychological test (Working Memory Test Battery for Children) was correlated wi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Barriga-Paulino CI,Rodríguez-Martínez EI,Rojas-Benjumea MÁ,Gómez CM

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research has indicated that self-reported violent media exposure is associated with poorer performance on some neuropsychological tests in adolescents. This study aimed to examine the relationship of executive functioning to violent television viewing in healthy young adult males and examine how brain structure ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hummer TA,Kronenberger WG,Wang Y,Anderson CC,Mathews VP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present investigation was to test the somatosensory processing model's (SPM) assertion that tactile actions and perceptions are mediated via egocentric and allocentric frames of reference, respectively (Dijkerman & de Hann's 2007: Behavioral and Brain Sciences). To accomplish that objective, Experiment...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Davarpanah Jazi S,Heath M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were conducted using both behavioral and Event-Related brain Potentials methods to examine conceptual priming effects for realistic auditory scenes and for auditory words. Prime and target sounds were presented in four stimulus combinations: Sound-Sound, Word-Sound, Sound-Word and Word-Word. Within eac...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Frey A,Aramaki M,Besson M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a syndrome resulting from exposure to a severe traumatic event that poses threatened death or injury and produces intense fear and helplessness. The neural structures implicated in PTSD development belong to the limbic system, an important region for emotional processing. Brain...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Angelucci F,Ricci V,Gelfo F,Martinotti G,Brunetti M,Sepede G,Signorelli M,Aguglia E,Pettorruso M,Vellante F,Di Giannantonio M,Caltagirone C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-store models of working memory (WM) have given way to more dynamic approaches that conceive WM as an activated subset of long-term memory (LTM). The resulting framework considers that memory representations are governed by a hierarchy of accessibility. The activated part of LTM holds representations in a heighte...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： López-Frutos JM,Poch C,García-Morales I,Ruiz-Vargas JM,Campo P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful interaction with the environment depends on flexible behaviors which require shifting attention, inhibiting primed responses, ignoring distracting information, and withholding motor responses. These abilities, termed executive function (EF), are believed to be mediated by inhibitory processes in the frontal...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Fernandez M,Tartar JL,Padron D,Acosta J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between exercise mode and executive function and its effect on behavior and neuroelectric activity. Forty-eight older adults were classified into open-skill, closed-skill, and irregular exercise groups based on their experience of exercise participation. Ex...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Dai CT,Chang YK,Huang CJ,Hung TM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People can discriminate cheaters from cooperators by their appearance. However, successful cheater detection can be thwarted by a posed smile, which cheaters display with greater emotional intensity than cooperators. The present study investigated the underlying neural and cognitive mechanisms of a posed smile, which ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Okubo M,Ishikawa K,Kobayashi A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of concurrent task and modality switching effects have to date been studied under conditions of uni-modal stimulus presentation. As such, it is difficult to directly compare resultant task and modality switching effects, as the stimuli afford both tasks on each trial, but only one modality. The current ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Sandhu R,Dyson BJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An issue of continued debate in the visuomotor control literature surrounds whether a 2D object serves as a representative proxy for a 3D object in understanding the nature of the visual information supporting grasping control. In an effort to reconcile this issue, we examined the extent to which aperture profiles for...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Holmes SA,Heath M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of object-centred (allocentric) neglect and the possibility of dissociating it from egocentric (subject-centred) forms of neglect are controversial. Originally, allocentric neglect was described by Gainotti, D'Erme, Monteleone & Silveri (1986) and Gainotti, Messerli, & Tissot (1972) in patients who reproduc...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Gainotti G,Ciaraffa F

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the effects of acute bouts of cardiovascular exercise on cognitive performances show contradictory findings due to methodological differences (e.g., exercise intensity, cognitive function assessed, participants' aerobic fitness level, etc.). The present study assessed the acute effect of exercise intensity ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Labelle V,Bosquet L,Mekary S,Bherer L

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the consequences of premature birth on the functional neuroanatomy of the dorsal stream of visual processing. fMRI was recorded while sixteen healthy participants, 8 (two men) adults (19 years 6 months old, SD 10 months) born premature (mean gestational age 30 weeks), referred to as Premas, and 8 (two ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Chaminade T,Leutcher RH,Millet V,Deruelle C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research investigating hemispheric asymmetries in meaning selection using homophonic homographs (e.g., bank), suggests that the left hemisphere (LH) quickly selects contextually relevant meanings, whereas the right hemisphere (RH) maintains a broader spectrum of meanings including those that are contextually irrelevan...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Peleg O,Markus A,Eviatar Z

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the relation between the error-related negativity (ERN) and post-error behavior over time in healthy young adults (N=61). Event-related brain potentials were collected during two sessions of an identical flanker task. Results indicated changes in ERN and post-error accuracy were related across task...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Themanson JR,Rosen PJ,Pontifex MB,Hillman CH,McAuley E

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual system has the remarkable ability to generalize across different viewpoints and exemplars to recognize abstract categories of objects, and to discriminate between different viewpoints and exemplars to recognize specific instances of particular objects. Behavioral experiments indicate the critical role of th...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Harvey DY,Burgund ED

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00