abstract：:Cognitive functioning was assessed in 69 left-handed males and females with a positive family history of left-handedness and in 77 left-handed and 55 right-handed males and females without familial left-handedness. Compared to females, males performed better on numerical reasoning and on two visuospatial tasks involvi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Van Strien JW,Bouma A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expectancies about face-structure can be induced by viewing parts of faces, which generates constraints due to two types of knowledge: feature-content and configuration. In a first experiment ERPs were recorded when parts of familiar faces were completed with incongruent features (from another face), as opposed to con...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Bobes MA,Valdés-Sosa M,Olivares E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first quantitative group study of recognition, expression, and other social-emotional behaviors after third ventricle damage in humans. Hypothalamic damage often induced appetitive disorders without affecting other emotional functions. In contrast, lesions in several hemispheric sites, especially right med...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Weddell RA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verbal cerebral asymmetry was examined in 96 right- and left-handed college students using dual-task methods. The manual task was finger-tapping; verbal tasks were anagram-solution in silent and aloud conditions; nonverbal tasks were solution of Raven's Progressive Matrices and forms memory. Both handedness groups wer...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Bathurst K,Kee DW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the case study of a patient (E.C.) with an Asperger syndrome, or autism with quasinormal intelligence, who shows an outstanding ability for three-dimensional drawing of inanimate objects (savant syndrome). An assessment of the subsystems proposed in recent models of object recognition evidenced intact p...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Mottron L,Belleville S

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we report the results of a test of the hypothesis that a form of attention/information processing dysfunction, attentional set impairment, is exacerbated by facial-oral tardive dyskinesia in schizophrenics. This hypothesis was tested in the context of a study that was aimed at determining whether the R...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Spohn HE,Coyne L

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On each trial, after three squares of different sizes (inducing display) were sequentially presented at central fixation, a target square was briefly lateralized to the right or left hemisphere (RH or LH) of 24 normal right-handed males. Subjects determined whether or not the target differed in size from the third ind...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： White H,Minor SW,Merrell J,Smith T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expertise in recognizing faces is associated with configural coding and configural coding is associated with a right hemisphere advantage for face recognition. Therefore one would expect the orientation-specific LVF (left visual field) advantage for face recognition to be moderated by expertise. The present experiment...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rhodes G

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether the severity of visual hemineglect follows a unimodal or bimodal frequency distribution. Seventy-seven consecutive patients with a unilateral cerebral infarct (36 left- and 41 right-hemisphere lesions) were evaluated. The severity of neglect was measured as the number...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Plourde G,Joanette Y,Fontaine FS,Laplante L,Renaseau-Leclerc C

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between hemispheric asymmetry and perceptual characteristics in general, and the spatial frequency content of input in particular, are discussed in reference to Peterzell's (1991) reply to a literature review by Christman (1989a). Three main points are presented: (1) there is evidence that spatial frequen...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Christman SD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers classified sine-wave and square-wave gratings on the basis of fundamental frequency (Are the bars wide or narrow?) or on the basis of higher harmonic frequencies (Are the bars sharp or fuzzy?). Stimuli were presented in either the left (LVF) or right (RVF) visual field. When the classification was made on th...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Kitterle FL,Hellige JB,Christman S

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are reported which investigate hemispheric processing in an object decision task. Experiment 1 used 40 pictures of objects, and 40 pictures of nonobjects, and subjects decided manually whether each lateralized stimulus represented an object. Results indicated an interaction between visual field and res...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vitkovitch M,Underwood G

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare the validity of two models which contrast with each other in the manner in which they integrate neuropsychological tests into distinct prefrontal constructs. The first prefrontal model consists of five distinct functional constructs drawn from human clinical neuropsychology. Th...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Daigneault S,Braün CM,Whitaker HA

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preliminary electroencephalographic (EEG) investigation was conducted to determine if the pattern of hemispheric activation in mathematically precocious youth differs from that of average math ability subjects. Alpha activity at four brain sites (frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes) over the left and ri...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： O'Boyle MW,Alexander JE,Benbow CP

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When subjects are required to detect a target pattern presented simultaneously with a number of similar non-target patterns in a brief exposure, marked differences of target detectability are observed as a function of the spatial location of the target (Efron, Yund, & Nichols, 1987, 1990a, b, c; Yund, Efron & Nichols,...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Ostrosky-Solis F,Efron R,Yund EW

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers indicated whether a stimulus presented to one visual field or the other consisted of two sine-wave gratings (the baseline stimulus) or those same two gratings with the addition of a 2 cycle per degree (cpd) component. When the absolute spatial frequencies of the baseline stimulus were low (0.5 and 1.0 cpd), ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Christman S,Kitterle FL,Hellige J

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to utilize semantic category cues in order to improve memory performance was examined. Categorizable lists of words or objects were presented under five different encoding conditions: (a) nouns, (b) objects, (c) objects with a semantic orienting question, (d) objec...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Herlitz A,Adolfsson R,Bäckman L,Nilsson LG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mind transforms the continuance of physical space-time into moments (the absolute Now) and blends these moments into an apparent continuity through an overlapping of unfolding capsules. The flow of psychological time is an illusion based on the rapid replacement of these capsules. Each mind computes the measure of tim...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Brown JW

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report investigations of the face processing abilities of SP, a right-handed woman who had suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage from a right middle cerebral artery aneurysm. Although she could correctly assign visual stimuli to the 'face' category without difficulty, SP performed poorly on all other face processing,...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Young AW,de Haan EH,Newcombe F

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments were conducted to examine effects of speech on concurrent unimanual tapping. Experiments 1 and 2 involved the manual tapping of a short burst of preprogrammed responses with or without concurrent articulation. Results of these experiments showed no effects of speech articulation on the concurrent exe...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Inhoff AW,Bisiacchi P

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambiguous pictures (Roschach inkblots) were lateralized for 100 msec vs. 200 msec to the right and left hemispheres (RH and LH) of 32 normal right-handed males who determined which of two previously presented words (an accurate or inaccurate one) better described the inkblot. Over the first 32 trials, subjects receivi...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： White H,Minor SW

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies involving recognition of tachistoscopically presented words have reported that the typical right visual field performance superiority associated with linguistic stimuli is enhanced by bilateral presentations (simultaneous stimuli in both visual half-fields) compared to unilateral presentations (sti...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Efron R,Yund EW,Nichols DR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments investigating the patient M.S.'s semantic memory are reported. Experiments 1 and 2 involved a category-membership decision task, in which M.S. was asked to determine whether a noun was a member of a specified semantic category. His performance in Experiment 1 was impaired for nouns from living catego...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Young AW,Newcombe F,Hellawell D,De Haan E

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are presented which investigated claims of asymmetrical transfer of training between the hands/hemispheres. In Experiment 1, 96 right- and left-handed male undergraduates practiced an inverted-reversed printing task with either the right or the left hand. Transfer to the opposite hand was then compared...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Parlow SE,Kinsbourne M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper extends the microgenetic theory of action to the problem of volition and the nature of free will and responsibility. Volition is interpreted as an elaboration of the action structure without causal or agentive status in relation to the action. The implications of this approach for philosophy of mind are exp...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Brown JW

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laterality and age of onset effects on semantic and figural memory were evaluated in 30 right-handed, left speech dominant (amobarbital test) patients with epilepsy before and after temporal lobectomy. There were no effects of focus on WAIS-R IQ scores. Early onset (less than or equal to 5 years) was associated with l...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Saykin AJ,Gur RC,Sussman NM,O'Connor MJ,Gur RE

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual input was lateralized using a specially designed contact lens system. Subjects performed a sequence of two keypresses in response to a light stimulus with either the left or the right hand in a choice reaction time paradigm. Two choice reaction time conditions were used: (A) hand certainty, sequence uncertainty...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Sivak B,MacKenzie CL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal study of three patients with CT-scan documented paramedian thalamic infarctions (bilateral, primarily right, unilateral left) is reported and the neuropsychology of human paramedian thalamic infarction is reviewed. The neuropsychological deficits following these selected lesions, the nature of the clini...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Stuss DT,Guberman A,Nelson R,Larochelle S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with a deficit in imagery ability, following a left posterior cerebral artery infarction and possible anoxic episode. This deficit was inferred from the patient's performance on several tasks, including one in which normal adults are known to rely on imagery and two that tested imagery nonverball...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Farah MJ,Levine DN,Calvanio R

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with amnesia subsequent to herpes encephalitis was assessed on a series of tasks which have been shown to result in normal or near normal performance by amnesic subjects. On a pursuit rotor learning task, our patient performed normally, and continued to show evidence of memory for the skill after a period of...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Kapur N

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes the memory deficits shown by an amnesic patient with bilateral frontal damage and a dysexecutive syndrome. He resembles a classic amnesic patient in showing grossly impaired episodic memory for both verbal and nonverbal material, together with normal digit span, and on occasion normal recency in fr...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Baddeley A,Wilson B

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke patients were tested for their ability to recognize familiar objects shown in photographs, and we have confirmed previous reports that damage to the right hemisphere impairs recognition of objects shown at an "unusual angle". Additionally, these patients were impaired in matching unfamiliar (nonsense) objects w...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Layman S,Greene E

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examined the influence of mood-congruent and mood-incongruent contexts on recognizing affective prosody after brain damage. Predictions stemmed from an associative network theory of learning and memory. Thirty-three male subjects, 11 each in right hemisphere damaged (RHD), left hemisphere damaged (LHD), ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Tompkins CA,Flowers CR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns the sentence-picture matching behavior of 100 neurologically healthy and 169 brain-damaged subjects, all of whom were unilingual adult right-handers. Within this population, 144 subjects were totally unschooled illiterates and the remaining 125 had received school education and thereafter had reta...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Lecours AR,Mehler J,Parente MA,Aguiar LR,da Silva AB,Caetano M,Camarotti H,Castro MJ,Dehaut F,Dumais C

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, the pattern of ear superiority displayed by nonmusicians in a task where dichotically presented target melodies have to be recognized among four probes was found to be correlated with subjects' descriptions of their operating modes: those who reported focusing on critical local differences in pitc...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Peretz I,Morais J,Bertelson P

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interference between concurrent tasks was used to investigate the brain basis of capacity limitations apparent when children encode information. Seventy-three right-handed children in Grades 1-4 engaged in speeded unilateral finger tapping while encoding a variable number of faces or numbers for subsequent recognition...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hiscock M,Kinsbourne M,Samuels M,Krause AE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual memory, as measured by the Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT), and resting regional cerebral metabolic rates for glucose (rCMRglc), as measured by positron emission tomography (PET) and [18-F]fluorodeoxyglucose, were examined in 40 very healthy men, aged 21 to 83 years. Age-related differences in visual memory...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Haxby JV,Grady CL,Duara R,Robertson-Tchabo EA,Koziarz B,Cutler NR,Rapoport SI

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several methodological factors associated with the concurrent activities (finger-tapping) paradigm were considered in a cross-sectional study investigating cerebral patterns of asymmetry in three groups of English-speaking non-Hispanic dextral males at three levels of second language (Spanish) acquisition and one cont...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Green A

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of acuity gradients as a moderating variable in hemifield research is not in question. Their importance as a determinant of hemifield differences is unclear, however. The major issues are as follows. First, do vertical displays provide an appropriate control for the acuity gradient? Second, do the initial...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Schwartz S,Kirsner K

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual callosal connections are more numerous and widespread in the association areas than in the primary visual cortex and adjoining visual areas. In keeping with this, the amount of "wrong" ipsilateral visual field that is represented in the various cortical areas of primates and cats increases as one goes from prim...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Marzi CA

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00