abstract：:Extraversion and Neuroticism are two fundamental dimensions of human personality that influence cognitive functioning in healthy subjects. Little is known about personality changes that may occur in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) nor about, in particular, their neurofunctional basis. The aim of this study is to...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Gioia MC,Cerasa A,Valentino P,Fera F,Nisticò R,Liguori M,Lanza P,Quattrone A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently much interest in investigating the neural substrates of metaphor processing. In particular, it has been suggested that the right hemisphere plays a special role in the comprehension of figurative (non-literal) language, and in particular metaphors. However, some studies find no evidence of right hem...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Schmidt GL,Seger CA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia may be associated with a fundamental disturbance in the temporal coordination of information processing in the brain, leading to classic symptoms of schizophrenia such as thought disorder and disorganized and contextually inappropriate behavior. Although a variety of behavioral studies have provided stro...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Carroll CA,O'Donnell BF,Shekhar A,Hetrick WP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valence and arousal are thought to be the primary dimensions of human emotion. However, the degree to which valence and arousal interact in determining brain responses to emotional pictures is still elusive. This functional MRI study aimed to delineate neural systems responding to valence and arousal, and their intera...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Nielen MM,Heslenfeld DJ,Heinen K,Van Strien JW,Witter MP,Jonker C,Veltman DJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital amusia refers to a lifelong disorder of music processing and is linked to pitch-processing deficits. The present study investigated congenital amusics' short-term memory for tones, musical timbres and words. Sequences of five events (tones, timbres or words) were presented in pairs and participants had to i...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Tillmann B,Schulze K,Foxton JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When we observe a movement and then reproduce it, how is this visual input transformed into motor output? Studies on stroke patients with apraxia suggest that there may be two distinct routes used for gesture imitation; an indirect route that recruits stored movement memories (motor programs) and a direct route that b...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Gravenhorst RM,Walter CB

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the second part of a review of the work of quantum physicists on the 'hard part' of the problem of mind. After an introduction which sets the scene and a brief review of contemporary work on the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) the work of four prominent modern investigators is examined: J.C. Eccles/Fr...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Smith CU

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has demonstrated that horizontal saccadic eye movements enhance verbal episodic memory retrieval, particularly in strongly right-handed individuals. The present experiments test three primary assumptions derived from this research. First, horizontal eye movements should facilitate episodic memory for both ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Brunyé TT,Mahoney CR,Augustyn JS,Taylor HA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the temporal sequence of, and the relationship between, the left and right hemispheres (LH and RH) during semantic memory (SM) processing we identified the neural networks involved in the performance of functional MRI semantic object retrieval task (SORT) using group independent component analysis (ICA) in ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Assaf M,Jagannathan K,Calhoun V,Kraut M,Hart J Jr,Pearlson G

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used the Remember/Know (R/K) procedure combined with signal detection analyses to assess recognition memory in 20 elders with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), 10 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as matched healthy older adults. Signal detection analyses first indicated that ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hudon C,Belleville S,Gauthier S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated preparatory processes involved in adapting to changing episodic memory retrieval demands. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants performed a general old/new recognition task and a specific task that also required retrieval of perceptual details. The relevant task remai...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Benoit RG,Werkle-Bergner M,Mecklinger A,Kray J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women's cradling side preference has been related to contralateral hemispheric specialization of processing emotional signals; but not of processing baby's facial expression. Therefore, 46 nulliparous female volunteers were characterized as left or non-left holders (HG) during a doll holding task. During a signal dete...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Huggenberger HJ,Suter SE,Reijnen E,Schachinger H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome is the world's most common hereditary cause of developmental delay in males and is now well characterized at the biological, brain and cognitive levels. The disorder is caused by the silencing of a single gene on the X chromosome, the FMR1 gene. The premutation (carrier) status, however, is less wel...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cornish KM,Kogan CS,Li L,Turk J,Jacquemont S,Hagerman RJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A handful of patients have been described as being impaired in performing transitive gestures, despite being still able to perform intransitive gestures. This impairment need not be explained by assuming different mechanisms; rather, it can be due to transitive actions being more difficult. In this study we tested whe...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Carmo JC,Rumiati RI

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of the human brain have reported evidence for sexual dimorphism. In addition to sex differences in overall cerebral volume, differences in the proportion of gray matter (GM) to white matter (WM) volume have been observed, particularly in the parietal lobe. To our kno...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Koscik T,O'Leary D,Moser DJ,Andreasen NC,Nopoulos P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate separately the inhibitory response capacity and the lateralization effect in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) in the endogenous and exogenous modes of orienting attention. Children with DCD on the lower extremities (DCD-LEs), along with age-matched controls...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Tsai CL,Yu YK,Chen YJ,Wu SK

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The voice is a marker of a person's identity which allows individual recognition even if the person is not in sight. Listening to a voice also affords inferences about the speaker's emotional state. Both these types of personal information are encoded in characteristic acoustic feature patterns analyzed within the aud...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Spreckelmeyer KN,Kutas M,Urbach T,Altenmüller E,Münte TF

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study extends Duff and Hampson's [Duff, S., & Hampson, E. (2001). A sex difference on a novel spatial working memory task in humans. Brain and Cognition,47, 470-493] finding of a sex-related difference in favor of females for an object location memory task. Twenty female and 20 male undergraduate students perform...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Lejbak L,Vrbancic M,Crossley M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural activity associated with self-referential processing of emotional stimuli was investigated using whole brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Fifteen healthy subjects underwent fMRI scanning while making judgments about positive and negative trait words in four conditions (self-reference, other-ref...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Yoshimura S,Ueda K,Suzuki S,Onoda K,Okamoto Y,Yamawaki S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants (n=13) were presented with mirrored and normal letters at different orientations and were asked to make mirror-normal letter discriminations. As it has been suggested that a mental rotation out of the plane might be necessary to decide on mirrored ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Núñez-Peña MI,Aznar-Casanova JA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas right parietal damage can result in left hemineglect, the general population shows a subtle neglect of the right hemispace-known as pseudoneglect. A recent study has demonstrated that people collide to the right more often and attributed this bias to pseudoneglect. [Nicholls, M. E. R., Loftus, A., Meyer, K., &...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Nicholls ME,Loftus AM,Orr CA,Barre N

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to examine the effects of aging on processes underlying task switching. The response time data revealed an age-related increase in mixing costs before controlling for general slowing and no effect of aging on switching costs. In the cue-locked epoch, the ERP...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： West R,Travers S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial expression and direction of gaze are two important sources of social information, and what message each conveys may ultimately depend on how the respective information interacts in the eye of the perceiver. Direct gaze signals an interaction with the observer but averted gaze amounts to "pointing with the eyes"...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hadjikhani N,Hoge R,Snyder J,de Gelder B

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous literature suggests that Parkinson's disease is marked by deficits in timed behaviour. However, the majority of studies of central timing mechanisms in patients with Parkinson's disease have used timing tasks with a motor component. Since the motor abnormalities are a defining feature of the condition, the st...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wearden JH,Smith-Spark JH,Cousins R,Edelstyn NM,Cody FW,O'Boyle DJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between activation of the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) and empathy was investigated. Twenty-two men and 73 women participated by completing a chimeric face task and empathy questionnaire. For the face task, participants were asked to pick which of the two chimeric faces looked happier. Both men and ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rueckert L,Naybar N

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has revealed microstructural aspects of adolescent brain development, the cognitive correlates of which remain relatively uncharacterized. METHODS:DTI was used to assess white matter microstructure in 18 typically developing adolescents (ages 16-18). Fractional anisotropy (FA)...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Fryer SL,Frank LR,Spadoni AD,Theilmann RJ,Nagel BJ,Schweinsburg AD,Tapert SF

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments were aimed at verifying whether the modality of interaction with objects and the goals defined by the task influences the weight of the properties used for categorization. In Experiment 1 we used everyday objects (cups and glasses). In order to exclude that the results depended on pre-stored categori...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Iachini T,Borghi AM,Senese VP

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored possible deficits in selective attention brought about by Dementia of Alzheimer Type (DAT). In three experiments, we tested patients with early DAT, healthy elderly, and young adults under low memory demands to assess perceptual filtering, conflict resolution, and set switching abilities. We found ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Fernandez-Duque D,Black SE

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal observers demonstrate a bias to process the left sides of faces during perceptual judgments about identity or emotion. This effect suggests a right cerebral hemisphere processing bias. To test the role of the right hemisphere and the involvement of configural processing underlying this effect, young and older c...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Coolican J,Eskes GA,McMullen PA,Lecky E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates the event related potential (ERP) components associated with the random version of the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART). The random SART is a Go/No-Go task in which the No-Go target appears unpredictably and rarely. In the present experiment, the EEG was recorded from 58 elect...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Zordan L,Sarlo M,Stablum F

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficits in working memory have been shown to contribute to poor performance on the Iowa Gambling Task [IGT: Bechara, A., & Martin, E.M. (2004). Impaired decision making related to working memory deficits in individuals with substance addictions. Neuropsychology, 18, 152-162]. Similarly, a secondary memory load task h...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Dretsch MN,Tipples J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coupling of hand grasping stimuli and the subsequent grasp execution was explored in normal participants. Participants were asked to respond with their right- or left-hand to the accuracy of an observed (dynamic) grasp while they were holding precision or power grasp response devices in their hands (e.g., precisio...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vainio L,Tucker M,Ellis R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with autism demonstrate impairments on measures of executive function (EF) relative to typically developing comparison participants. EF is comprised of several processes including inhibition, working memory and set shifting that develop throughout the lifespan. Impairments in EF may appear early in develop...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Russo N,Flanagan T,Iarocci G,Berringer D,Zelazo PD,Burack JA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have shown that infants prefer infant-directed (ID) speech to adult-directed (AD) speech. ID speech functions to aid language learning, obtain and/or maintain an infant's attention, and create emotional communication between the infant and caregiver. We examined psychophysiological responses to ID speech ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Santesso DL,Schmidt LA,Trainor LJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the prediction that the error-related negativity (ERN), a physiological measure of error monitoring, would be enhanced in anxious individuals, particularly in conditions with threatening cues. Participants made gender judgments about faces whose expressions were either happy, angry, or neutral. Repli...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Compton RJ,Carp J,Chaddock L,Fineman SL,Quandt LC,Ratliff JB

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of motor imagery training on cognitive performance was examined and the physiological mechanisms involved in the contribution of mental practice to motor learning were considered. The subject's mental effort during motor imagery was assessed by using psychophysiological measures and particularly eye ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Papadelis C,Kourtidou-Papadeli C,Bamidis P,Albani M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We find a spatially asymmetric allocation of attention in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) despite the lack of obvious asymmetry in neurological indicators. Identification performance was measured for simple spatial patterns presented briefly to a locus 5 degrees into the left or right hemifield, after precu...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Pavlovskaya M,Groswasser Z,Keren O,Mordvinov E,Hochstein S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samar and Parasnis [Samar, V. J., & Parasnis, I. (2005). Dorsal stream deficits suggest hidden dyslexia among deaf poor readers: correlated evidence from reduced perceptual speed and elevated coherent motion detection thresholds. Brain and Cognition, 58, 300-311.] reported that correlated measures of coherent motion d...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Samar VJ,Parasnis I

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ideomotor (IM) theory suggests that observing someone else perform an action activates an internal motor representation of that behaviour within the observer. Evidence supporting the case for an ideomotor theory of imitation has come from studies that show imitative responses to be faster than the same behavioural mea...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Aicken MD,Wilson AD,Williams JH,Mon-Williams M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that the right hemisphere would be superior to the left hemisphere in remembering having seen a specific picture before, given its superiority in perceptually encoding specific aspects of visual form. A large set of pictures (N=1500) of animals, human faces, artifacts, landscapes, and art paintings wer...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Laeng B,Øvervoll M,Ole Steinsvik O

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00