abstract：:RC is a 36-year-old man who sustained a closed head injury with bilateral frontal lobe hypometabolism in 1978. In 1994, after a lobectomy of a large part of the left frontal lobe, he presented no behavioral disruption and normal performances on most of intelligence, long-term memory, and executive tests. However, he s...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Allain P,Etcharry-Bouyx F,Le Gall D

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the dissociability of face, voice, and personal name recognition, we studied the performance of 36 brain-lesioned patients and 20 control subjects. Participants performed familiarity decisions for portraits, voice samples, and written names of celebrities and unfamiliar people. In those patients ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Neuner F,Schweinberger SR

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interfering effect of an unattended stimulus on processing of an attended item was studied in a single split-brain participant (LB) and in normal controls. Pairs of letters were presented to the left visual field (LVF), right visual field (RVF), or bilaterally. Participants attended to the rightmost letter while a...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Lambert A,Naikar N

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a single case study of a patient, HG, who was severely impaired on routine everyday tasks, such as cleaning his teeth and preparing a cup of tea. We used the Action Coding System developed by Schwartz et al. (1991) to provide quantitative and qualitative measures of his performance in a number of experiment...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Forde EM,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre- and postoperative IQ profiles were examined in children and adolescents with left temporal-lobe epilepsy. Participants were grouped according to their pattern of speech dominance, as indicated by the intracarotid sodium amobarbital procedure. Seven participants with typical (left hemisphere) speech representation...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Billingsley R,Smith ML

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the information processing constraints that determine whether or not imagery moderates visual field asymmetries is essential for constructing a dynamic model of hemispheric interaction during language processing. In this investigation, we manipulated the global experimental context in which imageable and n...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Chiarello C,Liu S,Quan N,Shears C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the spoken language of 49 children who had undergone hemispherectomy as part of the UCLA Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Research Program and analyzed, among a number of clinical factors, the relation between acquired vs developmental pathology and spoken language outcomes. In this paper we will briefly review t...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： de Bode S,Curtiss S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Interhemispheric Conduction Delay (ICD) theory of cerebral lateralization claims that longer interhemispheric transfer times (IHTT's) should result in greater functional lateralization for time-critical tasks. IHTT was estimated in 40 normal participants using both a visual and an auditory version of the Poffenber...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Elias LJ,Bulman-Fleming MB,McManus IC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether the semantic and episodic processes underlying the old/new effect can be dissociated by analyzing the spatial and temporal characteristics of event-related potentials (ERPs) evoked by unfamiliar face stimuli during direct and indirect memory tests. The ERP old/new effects obtained inclu...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Guillem F,Bicu M,Debruille JB

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the influence of five variables on picture naming latencies in French adult subjects: frequency, age of acquisition and length of words, name agreement in oral naming, and visual complexity of pictures. 140 pictures were presented to 56 subjects with control of individual factors (age, educational level, ge...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Kremin H,Hamerel M,Dordain M,De Wilde M,Perrier D

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal study of a left hemispherectomized boy (AB) was conducted to document linguistic evolution and maturation and determine the extent to which right hemisphere processes allow development of language. Resection of the left hemisphere occurred at age 5 years 6 months, following intractable epilepsy. Tests o...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Ménard A,Le Normand MT,Rigoard MT,Cohen H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether AD affects the control of pointing movements. Sixteen older adults with probable AD and 10 age-matched healthy adults pointed at targets varying in size (3 and 7 mm in diameter) and located at three positions (at the midline and 33 degrees to the left and right). Results revealed the patien...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Roy E,Kalbfleisch L,Bryden P,Barbour K,Black S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of oral and written discourse suggested differing cognitive demands for modes of expression. Verbal samples were provided by 8 adolescents with closed head injury (CHI) and 8 controls. A generation task using a picture stimulus was the basis for discourse. Eight measures [productivity, efficiency, semantic ti...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wilson BM,Proctor A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using functional MRI we compared the patterns of activation in an effortful word retrieval task (stem completion) performed both silently and aloud. The silent and overt conditions showed expected differences in activation magnitude in regions such as primary motor cortex. Some regions, such as frontal operculum and d...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rosen HJ,Ojemann JG,Ollinger JM,Petersen SE

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general theory is proposed that attributes the origins of human intelligence to an expansion of dopaminergic systems in human cognition. Dopamine is postulated to be the key neurotransmitter regulating six predominantly left-hemispheric cognitive skills critical to human language and thought: motor planning, working...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Previc FH

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of 18 frontal lobe lesion (FL) and 10 frontal lobe dementia (FLD) patients on an associative memory test was compared with the performance of their matched normal controls. The FL group was severely impaired on cued and free recall and was moderately impaired on a recognition condition. Left FL patient...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Dimitrov M,Granetz J,Peterson M,Hollnagel C,Alexander G,Grafman J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations using in vivo magnetic resonance (MR) morphometry have shown that left-right asymmetry of the planum temporale (PT) is a structural correlate of hemispheric functional asymmetries in adult humans (e.g., handedness, language representation). Postmortem studies of brains of fetuses and newborns have demon...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Preis S,Jancke L,Schmitz-Hillebrecht J,Steinmetz H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain damage is usually associated with behavioral deficits. However, there is an increasing amount of evidence that lesions of some brain regions are associated with improvements instead of impairments of certain behaviors. We report the results of a study of free recall performance in subjects with traumatic brain i...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Toomela A,Tomberg T,Orasson A,Tikk A,Nõmm M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a longitudinal study of facial expression of affect in 28 children with intractable infantile spasms who underwent epilepsy surgery. After a mean follow-up period of 1.8 years, there was a significant increase in positive affect, a significant decrease in neutral affect, and no change in negative affect during...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Caplan R,Guthrie D,Komo S,Shields WD,Sigman M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual asymmetries have been explained by structural, attentional bias and attentional advantage models. Structural models focus on asymmetries in the physical access information has to the hemispheres, whereas attentional models focus on asymmetries in the operation of attentional processes. A series of experimen...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Nicholls ME,Wood AG

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of speed of processing, inhibition, and presentation order in the Trail Making Test (TMT) performance were examined. One-hundred ten undergraduates performed the TMT (1/2 received order Part A-Part B, 1/2 received order Part B-Part A) and also completed computerized tests of inhibitory functioning and speed ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Miner T,Ferraro FR

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our analysis of Medical College Admission Test subtest scores by writing hand preference and sex suggests that (a) right hemispheric dominance is associated with intellectual giftedness in verbal reasoning (left-handers obtained higher scores on the verbal reasoning test and were overrepresented in the upper tail of t...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Halpern DF,Haviland MG,Killian CD

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When we learn to make one motor response to one visual stimulus and a different motor response to another, representations of these stimulus-response associations must be maintained to efficiently transduce perception into action. When an irrelevant distractor is presented adjacent to a target stimulus, interference i...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Ro T,Cohen A,Ivry RB,Rafal RD

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This single case study was designed to gather evidence regarding whether the mental representations mediating multiplication fact retrieval make use of single or multiple codes. MC is a brain-damaged volunteer whose numerical processing impairments were limited to multiplication fact retrieval. He relearned three sets...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Whetstone T

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two hemispheres of the brain often perform complementary computations and make unique contributions to task performance. This study examines the interaction of linguistic (left hemisphere) and prosodic (right hemisphere) information in speech processing. An individual differences approach is used in which interfer...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Grimshaw GM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The year 1996 marked the quattrocentenary of Descartes' birth. This paper reviews his pineal neuropsychology. It demonstrates that Descartes understood the true anatomical position of the pineal. His intraventricular pineal (or glande H) was a theoretical construct which allowed him to describe the operations of his m...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Smith CU

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported shifts in perceptual asymmetry during the menstrual cycle, but the potential confounding effect of mood changes has been largely ignored. In this study, 24 female subjects completed four visual laterality tasks and a mood questionnaire at three phases of the cycle. Results indicate no ove...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Compton RJ,Levine SC

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests of facial recognition and spatial learning were administered to presurgical patients with unilateral temporal lobe EEG foci. Right temporal lobe patients obtained lower facial recognition scores than left temporal lobe patients. The groups performed equally on the spatial learning test. A factor analysis reveale...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Barr WB

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand skill asymmetry on two handedness tasks was examined in consistent right-handed musicians and nonmusicians as well as mixed-handed and consistent left-handed nonmusicians. Musicians, although demonstrating right-hand superiority, revealed a lesser degree of hand skill asymmetry than consistent right-handed nonmus...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Jäncke L,Schlaug G,Steinmetz H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal old adults and patients in an early phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were presented with photographs of common objects under two different encoding conditions: naming and naming along with category decisions. Memory was assessed with free recall, category cued recall, and recognition. For both groups, recognit...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Lipinska B,Bäckman L

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments, subjects imagined themselves performing a tracking task under a massed practice schedule. After interpolated rest or no rest, subjects actually performed the criterion task. Some subjects' imagery was augmented with sounds that matched the temporal characteristics of the criterion task. These subje...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Kohl RM,Fisicaro SA,Roenker DL,White WL,Turner PE

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable variability among epilepsy centers in the methods and interpretations of the intracarotid amobarbital procedure. Prominent among these differences is the determination of language representation and assessment of language functions. Some centers rely on speech arrest following amobarbital injecti...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Ravdin LD,Perrine K,Haywood CS,Gershengorn J,Nelson PK,Devinsky O

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study in 20 healthy subjects, event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the identification of picture stimuli. Each of 36 landscape pictures and 36 scrambled pictures was presented by a tachistoscope repeatedly until the subject made an identification response. Presentation of one picture...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Pietrowsky R,Kuhmann W,Krug R,Mölle M,Fehm HL,Born J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD), in its pure form, is a neuropathologic condition in demented patients that is characterized by subcortical and diffusely distributed neocortical Lewy bodies with little or no concomitant Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. Clinically, DLBD patients initially present with dementia of i...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Salmon DP,Galasko D,Hansen LA,Masliah E,Butters N,Thal LJ,Katzman R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcortical dementias are a heterogeneous group of disorders in which the predominant pathological lesions occur in subcortical structures such as basal ganglia, brainstem nuclei, and the cerebellum. When the cerebral cortex is involved, the lesions are most often in the frontal lobes. These pathologic lesions are...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Darvesh S,Freedman M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research investigated alternative explanations of heightened interference in AB-AC learning in individuals with memory loss related to medial temporal lobe dysfunction. In Experiment 1, patients with left or right temporal lobectomy and control subjects were administered the standard AB-AC test. Relative t...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Winocur G,Moscovitch M,Bruni J

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a single-case study of a patient suffering from several impairments in number processing. The main focus of the paper is to describe and interpret the patient's errors in verbal to arabic transcoding. The errors were of the syntactical type and consisted of partial lexicalizations appearing mainly ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Noël MP,Seron X

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the capacity to compare retinal and vestibular signals in a heterosensorial matching task. In the first experiment, subjects evaluated the magnitude of passive whole-body rotations in relation to the eccentricity of a visual target briefly presented before rotation. Such a task elicits mult...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Blouin J,Gauthier GM,Vercher JL

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concurrent-task method was used to investigate the hemispheric locus of face encoding. In each of three experiments, 48 right-handed adults performed unimanual finger tapping while encoding whole or partial faces for subsequent recognition. Faces were upright in Experiments 1 and 2 but inverted in Experiment 3. Ir...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hillis SK,Hiscock M,Rexer JL

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper an attempt was made to describe the basic principles and procedures involved in recording, noninvasively, magnetic fields from the surface of the head and estimating the intracranial sources that give rise to these fields, presumably the same ones that result in time-varying voltages in the scalp that ar...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Papanicolaou AC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00