abstract：:We performed an event-related potential study to investigate the self-relevance effect in object recognition. Three stimulus categories were prepared: SELF (participant's own objects), FAMILIAR (disposable and public objects, defined as objects with less-self-relevant familiarity), and UNFAMILIAR (others' objects). Th...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Miyakoshi M,Nomura M,Ohira H

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of category-specific effects on visual object identification predict easier identification of non-living than living objects. The Sensory-Functional theory credits greater representational weighting of the visual properties of living objects independent of greater weighting of the functional properties of non...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： McMullen PA,Purdy KS

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined the contributions of general slowing and frontal decline to age differences in fluid intelligence. Participants aged 20-89 years completed Block Design, Matrix Reasoning, simple reaction time, choice reaction time, Wisconsin Card Sorting, and Tower of London tasks. Age-related declines in fl...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Bugg JM,Zook NA,DeLosh EL,Davalos DB,Davis HP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined preliminarily whether intensive mental activity can transiently enhance higher cognitive functioning in healthy adults. Ten healthy participants performed intensive mental activity for 2 weeks. The intervention entailed daily memorization of multiple prose passages and performance of demanding, speeded men...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Green RE,Melo B,Christensen B,Ngo L,Skene C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive action in a constantly changing environment requires the ability to maintain intentions and goals over time and to flexibly switch between these goals in response to significant changes. argued that positive affect modulates these antagonistic control demands in favor of a more flexible but also more distract...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Dreisbach G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that illiterate subjects are better at naming two-dimensional representations of real objects when presented as colored photos as compared to black and white drawings. This raises the question if color or textural details selectively improve object recognition and naming in illiterate compared ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Reis A,Faísca L,Ingvar M,Petersson KM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some studies of the event-related potentials demonstrated a reduction of the voluntary component P3 (P300 or P3b) in youngsters with the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or in conduct disorders (CD), and a reduction of the automatic processing component, mismatch negativity, in patients with both ADHD a...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Du J,Li J,Wang Y,Jiang Q,Livesley WJ,Jang KL,Wang K,Wang W

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) subjects, healthy elderly, and young adults interpreted a series of novel noun-noun expressions composed of familiar object words. Subjects interpreted each item by selecting one of three possible definitions: a definition in which the referents of each noun were associated together in a parti...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Taler V,Chertkow H,Saumier D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Several studies have identified that adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer is associated with cognitive impairment; however, the magnitude of this impairment is unclear. This study assessed the severity and nature of cognitive impairment associated with adjuvant chemotherapy by conducting a meta-analysis of...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Falleti MG,Sanfilippo A,Maruff P,Weih L,Phillips KA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prelingual deafness and developmental dyslexia have confounding developmental effects on reading acquisition. Therefore, standard reading assessment methods for diagnosing dyslexia in hearing people are ineffective for use with deaf people. Recently, Samar, Parasnis, and Berent (2002) reported visual evoked potential ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Samar VJ,Parasnis I

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual matches are sometimes faster when stimuli are presented across visual hemifields, compared to within-field matching. Using a cued geometric figure matching task, we investigated the influence of computational complexity vs. processing efficiency on this bilateral distribution advantage (BDA). Computational comp...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Maertens M,Pollmann S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that individuals with schizophrenia manifest abnormalities in structures (cerebellum and basal ganglia) and neurotransmitter systems (dopamine) linked to internal-timing processes. A single-cue tone delay eyeblink conditioning paradigm comprised of 100 learning and 50 extinction trials ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Brown SM,Kieffaber PD,Carroll CA,Vohs JL,Tracy JA,Shekhar A,O'Donnell BF,Steinmetz JE,Hetrick WP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symmetry is an important concept in biology, being related to mate selection strategies, health, and survival of species. In human faces, the relevance of left-right symmetry to attractiveness and health is not well understood. We compared the appearance of facial attractiveness, health, and symmetry in three separate...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Zaidel DW,Aarde SM,Baig K

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to evaluate the possibility that dyslexic individuals require more working memory resources than normal readers to shift attention from stimulus to stimulus. To test this hypothesis, normal and dyslexic adolescents participated in a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation experiment (Raymond, Shapi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Lacroix GL,Constantinescu I,Cousineau D,de Almeida RG,Segalowitz N,Grünau Mv

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously it has been shown that the left hemisphere, but not the right, of split-brain patients tends to match the frequency of previous occurrences in probability-guessing paradigms (Wolford, Miller, & Gazzaniga, 2000). This phenomenon has been attributed to an "interpreter," a mechanism for making interpretations ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Miller MB,Valsangkar-Smyth M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the age-related changes in the performance of the two hands on the Annett pegboard (Annett, 1970). The current study was part of a large-scale study investigating the development of unimanual and bimanual performance. Three hundred and two right-handed individual...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Bryden PJ,Roy EA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate whether the neuropsychological correlates of the symptom dimensions of schizophrenia vary with the clinical state in patients followed from the acute to stable the phase of the illness. Fifteen patients were assessed for symptoms (SAPS-SANS) and undergone a complete neuropsycholo...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Guillem F,Ganeva E,Pampoulova T,Stip E,Lalonde P,Sasseville M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraindividual variability (inconsistency) in reaction time (RT) latencies was investigated in a group of younger (M=25.46 years) and older (M=69.29 years) men. Both groups performed 300 trials in 2-, 4-, and 8-choice RT conditions where RTs for decision and motor components of the task were recorded separately. A di...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Bunce D,MacDonald SW,Hultsch DF

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent evidence highlights the differential contributions of various regions of the prefrontal cortex in the service of cognitive control, but little is understood about how the brain determines and communicates the need to recruit cognitive control, and how such signals instigate the implementation of appropriate...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Ridderinkhof KR,van den Wildenberg WP,Segalowitz SJ,Carter CS

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theories of the neural basis of performance monitoring have emphasized a central role for the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Replicating an earlier event-related potential (ERP) study, which showed an error feedback negativity that was modeled as having an ACC generator, we used event-related fMRI to investig...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： van Veen V,Holroyd CB,Cohen JD,Stenger VA,Carter CS

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently several event-related potential attention studies have described a prefrontal positivity at about the same latency as the posterior N2 (approximately 200-300 ms), variously termed the frontal selection positivity (FSP), the anterior P2 (P2a), or the frontal P3 (P3f). These components have a similar spatio-tem...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Potts GF

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental research in the field of neurophysiology has led to the discovery of two classes of visuomotor neurons: canonical neurons and mirror neurons. In light of these studies, we propose here an overview of two classical themes in the cognitive science panorama: James Gibson's theory of affordances and El...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Garbarini F,Adenzato M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate which cognitive and affective features contribute most to responder/non-responder group separation during a switching trial with atypical antipsychotic. DESIGN:A prospective open trial with an atypical antipsychotic (olanzapine). PATIENTS:One hundred and thirty-four patients meeting diagnosti...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Stip E,Mancini-Marïe A

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of ADHD children on semantic category fluency (SCF) versus initial letter fluency (ILF) tasks was examined. For each participant, word production was recorded for each 15-s time slice on each task. Performance on both fluency tasks was compared to test the hypothesis that children with ADHD are charact...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hurks PP,Hendriksen JG,Vles JS,Kalff AC,Feron FJ,Kroes M,van Zeben TM,Steyaert J,Jolles J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic dementia (SD) is a progressive condition characterized by an insidious and gradual breakdown in semantic knowledge. Patients suffering from this condition gradually lose their knowledge of objects and their attributes, concepts, famous persons, and public events. In contrast, these patients maintain a strikin...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Joubert S,Mauries S,Barbeau E,Ceccaldi M,Poncet M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research reported a priming effect for voices. However, the type of information primed is still largely unknown. In this study, we examined the influence of speaker's gender and emotional category of the stimulus on priming of non-speech vocalizations in 10 male participants, who performed a gender identifica...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Fecteau S,Armony JL,Joanette Y,Belin P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance-based measures of hand preference have been developed as an objective method of examining handedness. Previous research using this method showed that both skill demands and the position of the object in working space affect preferential hand reaching. Specifically, preferred hand reaches predominated in le...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Mamolo CM,Roy EA,Bryden PJ,Rohr LE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study presented here investigated the role of memory in normal sentence processing by looking at ERP effects to normal sentences and sentences containing grammatical violations. Sentences where the critical word was in the middle of the sentence were compared to sentences where the critical word always occurred in...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Sabourin L,Stowe L

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The orbitofrontal cortex contains the secondary taste cortex, in which the reward value of taste is represented. It also contains the secondary and tertiary olfactory cortical areas, in which information about the identity and also about the reward value of odours is represented. The orbitofrontal cortex also receives...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rolls ET

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision-making over time is an important aspect of adaptive social functioning. The main goal of this study was to investigate the development of this ability in young children. A simplified version of the Iowa Gambling Task was given to 69 children at 3 ages (3, 4, and 6 years). Children were also given an awareness...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Garon N,Moore C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemispheric activation during cognitive tasks using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be difficult to interpret, uncomfortable, and is not widely available. This study investigated whether tympanic membrane thermometry could be used as a broad measure of hemispheric activation. Infrared probes measured ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cherbuin N,Brinkman C

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slowness in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been attributed to intrusive thoughts or meticulousness. Recent research suggests that slowness in OCD may be particularly evident on tests of executive function subserved by frontostriatal circuitry. In the present study, the speed and accuracy of responding on neur...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Roth RM,Baribeau J,Milovan DL,O'Connor K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the relationship between music and nonmusical cognitive abilities has been highly debated. It has been documented that formal music training would improve verbal, mathematical or visuospatial performance in children. In the experiments described here, we tested if visual perception and imagery abilities were...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Brochard R,Dufour A,Després O

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A line-bisecting test was administered to 250 highly skilled right-handed athletes and a control group of 60 right-handed age matched non-athletes. Results revealed that athletes made overwhelmingly more rightward errors than non-athletes, who predominantly bisected lines to the left of the veridical center. These fin...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Carlstedt RA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that the observation of actions and the execution of actions activate common neural systems. More recently, we have presented data showing that action observation of prehension primes subsequent execution (Castiello, Lusher, Mari, Edwards, & Humphreys, 2002). In the current paper we examine...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Edwards MG,Humphreys GW,Castiello U

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Item recognition memory judgment can be based on two processes: item familiarity and/or the conscious recollection of the initial event. On the other hand, associative recognition relies preferably on conscious recollection. Since evidence points to a specific deficit of conscious recollection in schizophrenia, these ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Achim AM,Lepage M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep dyslexia is an acquired reading disorder resulting in the production of semantic errors during oral reading and an inability to read aloud nonwords. Several researchers have postulated that patients with deep dyslexia have both phonological and semantic access impairments but the data supporting these claims are ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Colangelo A,Stephenson K,Westbury C,Buchanan L

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study used the "tip-of-the-tongue" (TOT) experimental paradigm in a picture-naming task to explore the naming deficits of adolescents with dyslexia. As compared with a control group of typically developing readers, the adolescents with dyslexia had fewer correct responses and more TOT responses. When they ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Faust M,Sharfstein-Friedman S

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The productivity of lexical categories was studied longitudinally in a sample of 17 young hearing-impaired French-speaking children with cochlear implants. Age of implantation ranged from 22 months to 76 months. Spontaneous speech samples were collected at six-month intervals over a period of 36 months, starting at th...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Le Normand MT,Ouellet C,Cohen H

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty children with spina bifida and twenty controls were assessed on a battery of visuospatial working memory tests. Children with spina bifida performed as well as the control group in the visuospatial test and in the forward and backward versions of the Corsi test, but were impaired in the 'House Visual Span.' Thi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Mammarella N,Cornoldi C,Donadello E

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00