abstract：:Understanding the functional neuroanatomy of planning and problem solving may substantially benefit from better insight into the chronology of the cognitive processes involved. Based on the assumption that regularities in cognitive processing are reflected in overtly observable eye-movement patterns, here we recorded ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Nitschke K,Ruh N,Kappler S,Stahl C,Kaller CP

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudoneglect is a normal left sided spatial bias observed with attempted bisections of horizontal lines and a normal upward bias observed with attempted bisections of vertical lines. Horizontal pseudoneglect has been attributed to right hemispheric dominance for the allocation of attention. The goal of this...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Suavansri K,Falchook AD,Williamson JB,Heilman KM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valence-specific laterality effects have been frequently obtained in facial emotion perception but not in vocal emotion perception. We report a dichotic listening study further examining whether valence-specific laterality effects generalise to vocal emotions. Based on previous literature, we tested whether valence-sp...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Schepman A,Rodway P,Geddes P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is characterized by heterogeneous brain abnormalities involving cerebral regions implied in the executive functioning. The dysexecutive syndrome is one of the most prominent and functionally cognitive features of schizophrenia. Nevertheless, it is not clear to what extend executive deficits are heterogen...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Raffard S,Bayard S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article follows the culmination of the scientific thought of the neurobiologist Christfried Jakob (1866-1956) during the later part of his career, based on publications from 1930 to 1949, when he was between 64 and 83 years of age. Jakob emphasized the necessity of bridging philosophy to the biological sciences, ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Théodoridou ZD,Triarhou LC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two behavioral experiments involving lateralized stimulus presentation, we tested whether one of the most commonly used measures of holistic face processing-the composite face effect-would be more pronounced for stimuli presented to the right as compared to the left hemisphere. In experiment 1, we investigated the ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Ramon M,Rossion B

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interaction requires the ability to infer another person's mental state (Theory of Mind, ToM) and also executive functions. This fMRI study aimed to identify the cerebral correlates activated by ToM during a specific social interaction, the human-human competition. In this framework, we tested a conflict resolu...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Polosan M,Baciu M,Cousin E,Perrone M,Pichat C,Bougerol T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review article, we summarize the main findings from empirical studies that used dance-related forms of rhythmical full body movement as a research tool for investigating action understanding and social cognition. This work has proven to be informative about behavioral and brain mechanisms that mediate links be...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Sevdalis V,Keller PE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predictive relations of peer victimization, depressive symptoms, and salivary cortisol on memory in 168 children aged 12 at Time 1 (T1) were examined using a longitudinal design in which data were collected on four occasions over a 2-year period. Results indicated that: (1) peer victimization, depressive symptoms,...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vaillancourt T,Duku E,Becker S,Schmidt LA,Nicol J,Muir C,Macmillan H

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia patients exhibit perceptual and cognitive deficits, including in visual motion processing. Given that cognitive systems depend upon perceptual inputs, improving patients' perceptual abilities may be an effective means of cognitive intervention. In healthy people, motion perception can be enhanced through...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Norton DJ,McBain RK,Ongür D,Chen Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interlimb transfer of motor learning, indicating an improvement in performance with one limb following training with the other, often occurs asymmetrically (i.e., from non-dominant to dominant limb or vice versa, but not both). In the present study, we examined whether interlimb transfer of the same motor task could o...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Stöckel T,Wang J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controversial concept suggests that impaired finger dexterity in Parkinson's disease may be related to limb kinetic apraxia that is not explained by elemental motor deficits such as bradykinesia. To explore the nature of dexterous difficulties, the aim of the present study was to assess the relationship of finger de...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vanbellingen T,Kersten B,Bellion M,Temperli P,Baronti F,Müri R,Bohlhalter S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of handedness differences in the retrieval of episodic memories is well-documented, but virtually all have been obtained under conditions of intentional learning. Two experiments are reported that extend the presence of such handedness differences to memory retrieval under conditions of incidental learni...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Christman SD,Butler M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses to threat occur via two known independent processing routes. We propose that early, reflexive processing is predominantly tuned to the detection of congruent combinations of facial cues that signal threat, whereas later, reflective processing is predominantly tuned to incongruent combinations of threat. To t...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Adams RB Jr,Franklin RG Jr,Nelson AJ,Gordon HL,Kleck RE,Whalen PJ,Ambady N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory attention may be important in generating odor-induced tastes - an arguably universal form of synesthesia - by ensuring that the taste concurrent is captured by the nose and olfaction, not by the mouth and gustation (oral-capture). To examine the role of olfactory attention in generating odor-induced tastes a...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Tham WW,Stevenson RJ,Miller LA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree to which emotional aspects of stimuli are processed automatically is controversial. Here, we assessed the automatic elicitation of emotion-related brain potentials (ERPs) to positive, negative, and neutral words and facial expressions in an easy and superficial face-word discrimination task, for which the e...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rellecke J,Palazova M,Sommer W,Schacht A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoneglect is a slight but consistent leftward attentional bias commonly observed in healthy young populations, purportedly explained by right hemispheric dominance. It has been suggested that normal aging might be associated with a decline of the right hemisphere. According to this hypothesis, a few studies have s...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Schmitz R,Peigneux P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manipulation of voice onset time (VOT) during dichotic listening has provided novel insights regarding brain function. To date, the most common design is the utilisation of four VOT conditions: short-long pairs (SL), where a CV syllable with a short VOT is presented to the left ear and a CV syllable with a long VO...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Arciuli J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents evidence for changes in dichotic listening asymmetries across the menstrual cycle, which replicate studies from our laboratory and others. Increases in the right ear advantage (REA) were present in women at phases of the menstrual cycle associated with higher levels of ovarian hormones. The data a...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cowell PE,Ledger WL,Wadnerkar MB,Skilling FM,Whiteside SP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compassion is considered a moral emotion related to the perception of suffering in others, and resulting in a motivation to alleviate the afflicted party. We compared brain correlates of compassion-evoking images in women and men. BOLD functional images of 24 healthy volunteers (twelve women and twelve men; age=27±2.5...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Mercadillo RE,Díaz JL,Pasaye EH,Barrios FA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments conducted aimed to investigate whether reduced accuracy when counting stimuli presented in rapid temporal sequence in adults with dyslexia could be explained by a sensory processing deficit, a general slowing in processing speed or difficulties shifting attention between stimuli. To achieve these aims,...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Conlon EG,Wright CM,Norris K,Chekaluk E

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Stroop color-naming task is one of the most widely studied tasks involving the inhibition of a prepotent response, regarded as an executive function. Several studies have examined performance on versions of the Stroop task under conditions of acute sleep deprivation. Though these studies revealed effects on Stroop...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cain SW,Silva EJ,Chang AM,Ronda JM,Duffy JF

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetries of emotional facial expressions in humans offer reliable indexes to infer brain lateralization and mostly revealed right hemisphere dominance. Studies concerned with oro-facial asymmetries in nonhuman primates largely showed a left-sided asymmetry in chimpanzees, marmosets and macaques. The presence of asy...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wallez C,Vauclair J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remembering the past and envisioning the future rely on episodic memory which enables mental time travel. Studies in young adults indicate that past and future thinking share common cognitive and neural underpinnings. No imaging data is yet available in healthy aged subjects. Using fMRI, we scanned older subjects whil...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Viard A,Chételat G,Lebreton K,Desgranges B,Landeau B,de La Sayette V,Eustache F,Piolino P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor overflow refers to involuntary movement or muscle activity coinciding with voluntary movement. We examined whether 16 young adults (18-30 years) and 16 older adults (50-80 years) could voluntarily inhibit overflow. Participants performed a finger pressing task, exerting 50% of their maximal force. Overflow was c...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Addamo PK,Farrow M,Bradshaw JL,Moss S,Georgiou-Karistianis N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-visual gaze patterns (NVGPs) involve saccades and fixations that spontaneously occur in cognitive activities that are not ostensibly visual. While reasons for their appearance remain obscure, convergent empirical evidence suggests that NVGPs change according to processing requirements of tasks. We examined NVPGs i...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Micic D,Ehrlichman H,Chen R

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal preparation was assessed in 15 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, 20 persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 28 healthy older adults. Participants completed a simple reaction time task in which the preparatory interval duration varied randomly within two blocks (short versus long temporal window). Re...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Sylvain-Roy S,Bherer L,Belleville S

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that imagined perspective rotations elicit spatial and low-level cortical motor areas of the brain when participants rely on knowledge of their physical body, or body percept (Wraga, Flynn, Boyle, & Evans, 2010). The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wraga M,Boyle HK,Flynn CM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review of neuropsychological case studies, a number of dissociations are shown between different visual abilities including low-level motion perception, static form perception, form-from-motion perception and biological motion perception. These dissociations reveal counter-intuitive results. Specifically, high...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Matheson HE,McMullen PA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the influence of sex on hemispheric asymmetry and cooperation in a face recognition task. We used a masked priming paradigm in which the prime stimulus was centrally presented; it could be a bisymmetric face or a hemi-face in which facial information was presented in the left or ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Godard O,Fiori N

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in eye tracking are consistently observed in schizophrenia patients and their relatives and have been proposed as an endophenotype of the disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the performance of patients at Ultra High Risk (UHR) for developing psychosis on a task of smooth pursuit eye movemen...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： van Tricht MJ,Nieman DH,Bour LJ,Boerée T,Koelman JH,de Haan L,Linszen DH

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated the neurobiological role of white matter in visuospatial versus linguistic processing abilities in autism using diffusion tensor imaging. We examined differences in white matter integrity between high-functioning children with autism (HFA) and typically developing controls (CTRL), in rel...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Sahyoun CP,Belliveau JW,Mody M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of handedness and saccadic bilateral eye movements on autobiographical recollection were investigated. Recall of autobiographical memories was cued by the use of neutral and emotional words. Autobiographical recollection was assessed by the autobiographical memory questionnaire. Experiment 1 found that mix...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Parker A,Dagnall N

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progressive myelination during adolescence implicates an increased vulnerability to neurotoxic substances and enduring neurocognitive consequences. This study examined the cognitive manifestations of altered white matter microstructure in chronic marijuana and alcohol-using (MJ+ALC) adolescents. METHODS:Thi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Bava S,Jacobus J,Mahmood O,Yang TT,Tapert SF

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Making the right choice depends crucially on the accurate valuation of the available options in the light of current needs and goals of an individual. Thus, the valuation of identical options can vary considerably with motivational context. The present study investigated the neural structures underlying context depend...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Piech RM,Lewis J,Parkinson CH,Owen AM,Roberts AC,Downing PE,Parkinson JA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that facial attractiveness represents a dual judgment, a combination of reward-based, sexual processes, and aesthetic, cognitive processes. Herein we describe a study that demonstrates that sexual and nonsexual processes both contribute to attractiveness judgments and that these processes can be dissoc...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Franklin RG Jr,Adams RB Jr

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have proposed that changes of the human language faculty caused by neural maturation can explain the substantial differences in ultimate attainment of grammatical competences between first language (L1) acquirers and second language (L2) learners. However, little evidence on the effect of neural matur...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Isel F,Baumgaertner A,Thrän J,Meisel JM,Büchel C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric motor severity is common in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and provides a method for examining the neurobiologic mechanisms underlying cognitive and linguistic deficits associated with the disorder. In the present research, PD participants (N=31) were assessed in terms of the asymmetry of their motor symptoms. In...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Holtgraves T,McNamara P,Cappaert K,Durso R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory is devoted to the temporary storage and on-line manipulation of information. Recently, an integrative system termed the episodic buffer has been proposed to integrate and hold information being entered or retrieved from episodic memory. Although the brain system supporting such an integrative buffer is ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Luck D,Danion JM,Marrer C,Pham BT,Gounot D,Foucher J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive control, the ability to voluntarily guide our behavior, continues to improve throughout adolescence. Below we review the literature on age-related changes in brain function related to response inhibition and working memory, which support cognitive control. Findings from studies using functional magnetic reso...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Luna B,Padmanabhan A,O'Hearn K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00