abstract：:Recognition memory studies have shown that increased perceptual fluency results in more "old" responses and, presumably, increases familiarity. However, the exact neural mechanisms of these effects remain unresolved. We conducted two ERP experiments in which participants encoded words and performed a recognition test ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Stróżak P,Leynes PA,Wojtasiński M

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual narratives like comics and films often shift between showing full scenes and close, zoomed-in viewpoints. These zooms are similar to the "spotlight of attention" cast across a visual scene in perception. We here measured ERPs to visual narratives (comic strips) that used zoomed-in and full-scene panels either t...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cohn N,Foulsham T

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system that can interfere with cognitive functions. The purpose of this study is to document the impact of MS, aging and disease duration on cognitive functioning as both life expectancy and incidence of the disease among persons with MS (PwMS) aged...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Alexandra T,Kim C,Estefania B,Elaine R,Pierre D,Isabelle R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep is involved in nightly emotional processing; therefore, its disruption might be associated with an impaired ability of emotional regulation during daytime. Accordingly, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the presence of emotional dysregulation in insomnia patients and to test i...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Galbiati A,Sforza M,Fasiello E,Casoni F,Marrella N,Leitner C,Zucconi M,Ferini-Strambi L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actions have been proposed to follow hierarchical principles similar to those hypothesized for language syntax. These structural similarities are claimed to be reflected in the common involvement of certain neural populations of Broca's area, in the Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG). In this position paper, we follow an in...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Zaccarella E,Papitto G,Friederici AD

更新日期：2020-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Though the majority of studies reported impaired sequence learning in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) tested with the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task, findings are inconclusive. To elucidate this point, we used an eye tracker in an ocular SRT task version (O-SRT) that in addition to RT, enables e...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vakil E,Schwizer Ashkenazi S,Nevet-Perez M,Hassin-Baer S

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring task-evoked pupillary (TEP) responses as an index of phasic activity in the locus coeruleus (LC), we examined two competing hypotheses regarding the alerting and orienting mechanisms of attention. According to a dual mechanism account (Fernandez-Duque & Posner, 1997), two separate noradrenergic and cholinerg...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Aminihajibashi S,Hagen T,Laeng B,Espeseth T

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons between backward and forward translation (BT, FT) have long illuminated the organization of bilingual memory, with neuroscientific evidence indicating that FT would involve greater linguistic and attentional demands. However, no study has directly assessed the functional interaction between relevant mechan...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Zheng B,Báez S,Su L,Xiang X,Weis S,Ibáñez A,García AM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to enhance the efficacy and generalisation of working memory (WM) training, but there has been little systematic investigation into how coupling task-specific WM training with stimulation impacts more specifically on transfer to untrained tasks. This random...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Byrne EM,Ewbank MP,Gathercole SE,Holmes J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals who carry a premutation (PM) allele on the FMR1 gene may experience executive limitations associated with their genetic status, including inhibition deficits. However, poor understanding of individualized risk factors has limited clinical management of this group, particularly in mothers who carry the PM a...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Klusek J,Hong J,Sterling A,Berry-Kravis E,Mailick MR

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An individual's nervous and cognitive systems are lateralized, and handedness represents a behavioral manifestation of such organization. Therefore, accurately and reliably measuring handedness has repercussion on our understanding of both the human brain and cognition. The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI) is the ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Albayay J,Villarroel-Gruner P,Bascour-Sandoval C,Parma V,Gálvez-García G

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance deterioration over time, or time-on-task (TOT) effects, can be observed across a variety of tasks, but little attention has been paid to how TOT-related brain activity may differ based on task pacing and cognitive demands. Here, we employ a set of three closely related tasks to investigate the effect of th...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Teng J,Massar SAA,Tandi J,Lim J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatomic and molecular sex differences exist in the brain, which suggests there may be functional differences. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigation aimed to identify the similarities and differences in brain activity between females and males during item memory. During encoding, abstr...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Spets DS,Slotnick SD

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sentence comprehension requires the assignment of thematic relations between the verb and its noun arguments in order to determine who is doing what to whom. In some languages, such as English, word order is the primary syntactic cue. In other languages, such as German, case-marking is additionally used to assign them...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Strotseva-Feinschmidt A,Schipke CS,Gunter TC,Brauer J,Friederici AD

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain susceptibility factors, such as genetic variants or specific physiological responses to stress, can dictate the effects of stress on learning and memory. Here, we examined the influence of the BclI polymorphism of the glucocorticoid receptor gene on the time-dependent effects of pre-learning stress on long-ter...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Zoladz PR,Duffy TJ,Mosley BE,Fiely MK,Nagle HE,Scharf AR,Brown CM,Earley MB,Rorabaugh BR,Dailey AM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral eye movements (EMs) have been associated with enhancements in episodic memory and creativity. We explored the influence of EMs on behavior and event related potential (ERP) responses during the Attention Network Test (ANT). Participants completed ANT trials after bilateral EMs or a center-fixation control ma...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Fleck JI,Payne L,Halko C,Purcell M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of intellectual, communicative, and motor deficits limit the use of standardized behavioral assessments of cognition in individuals with Angelman syndrome (AS). The current study is the first to objectively evaluate learning and memory in AS using auditory event-related potentials (ERP) during passive ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Key AP,Jones D,Peters S,Dold C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective attention is a dynamic process that rapidly shifts processing resources to information that is most relevant to our goals. Although individuals often show spatial biases in attention, these biases can be modified by both long-term factors, such as musical training, or by momentary changes in the auditory con...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cruse A,Offen K,Markant J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People are often confronted with the need of estimating the market price of goods. An important question is how people estimate prices, given the variability of products and prices available. Using event-related fMRI, we investigated how numerical processing modulates the neural bases of retail price estimation by foc...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Raposo A,Frade S,Alves M,Marques JF

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intent and feelings of the speaker are often conveyed less by what they say than by how they say it, in terms of the affective prosody - modulations in pitch, loudness, rate, and rhythm of the speech to convey emotion. Here we propose a cognitive architecture of the perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes under...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Wright A,Saxena S,Sheppard SM,Hillis AE

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have long been speculations about the relationship between consciousness and language. This study aimed to determine whether an individual's level of introspective awareness, based on self-report, relates to accessibility of their semantic system as evaluated by the N400. Thirty-five university students complete...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Xu X,Kang C,Pascucci D,Guo T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is characterized by a cognitive decline of fluid abilities and is also associated with electrophysiological changes. The vascular hypothesis proposes that brain is sensitive to vascular dysfunction which may accelerate age-related brain modifications and thus explain age-related neurocognitive decline. To test t...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Angel L,Bouazzaoui B,Isingrini M,Fay S,Taconnat L,Vanneste S,Ledoux M,Gissot V,Hommet C,Andersson F,Barantin L,Cottier JP,Pasco J,Desmidt T,Patat F,Camus V,Remenieras JP

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigates the cortical representation of the visual and kinesthetic image of a rotated position of the head in highly (highs) and low hypnotizable individuals (lows) of both gender. Participants were invited to imagine maintaining their head rotated toward one side by seeing their chin aligned with their ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Campioni L,Banfi T,Santarcangelo EL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research across domains has suggested that agents, the doers of actions, have a processing advantage over patients, the receivers of actions. We hypothesized that agents as "event builders" for discrete actions (e.g., throwing a ball, punching) build on cues embedded in their preparatory postures (e.g., reaching back ...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Cohn N,Paczynski M,Kutas M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are common comorbidities during military deployment that affect emotional brain processing, yet few studies have examined the independent effects of mTBI and PTSD. The purpose of this study was to examine distinct differences in neural respons...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Zuj DV,Felmingham KL,Palmer MA,Lawrence-Wood E,Van Hooff M,Lawrence AJ,Bryant RA,McFarlane AC

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral studies showed that self-concept can be distinguished into different domains, but few neuroimaging studies have investigated either domain-specific or valence-specific activity. Here, we investigated whether evaluating self- and mother-traits in three domains (physical, academic, prosocial) relies on simila...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： van der Cruijsen R,Peters S,Crone EA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Math anxiety (MA) is characterized by negative feelings towards mathematics, resulting in avoidance of math classes and of careers that rely on mathematical skills. Focused on a long timescale, this research may miss important cognitive and affective processes that operate moment-to-moment, changing rapid reactions ev...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Pizzie RG,Kraemer DJM

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older adults tend to over-activate regions throughout frontoparietal cortices and exhibit a reduced range of functional modulation during WM task performance compared to younger adults. While recent evidence suggests that reduced functional modulation is associated with poorer task performance, it remains unclear whet...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hakun JG,Johnson NF

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedural memory, which is rooted in the basal ganglia, plays an important role in the implicit learning of motor and cognitive skills. Few studies have examined procedural learning in either Tourette syndrome (TS) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), despite basal ganglia abnormalities in both of thes...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Takács Á,Shilon Y,Janacsek K,Kóbor A,Tremblay A,Németh D,Ullman MT

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objects are said to automatically "afford" various actions depending upon the motor repertoire of the actor. Such affordances play a part in how we prepare to handle or manipulate tools and other objects. Evidence obtained through fMRI, EEG and TMS has proven that this is the case but, as yet, the temporal evolution o...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rowe PJ,Haenschel C,Kosilo M,Yarrow K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many theoretical and empirical contributions to the Predictive Processing account emphasize the important role of precision modulation of prediction errors. Recently it has been proposed that the causal models used in human predictive processing are best formally modeled by categorical probability distributions. Cruci...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Kwisthout J,Bekkering H,van Rooij I

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risky decision making is prominent during adolescence, perhaps contributed to by heightened sensation seeking and ongoing maturation of reward and dopamine systems in the brain, which are, in part, modulated by sex hormones. In this study, we examined sex differences in the neural substrates of reward sensitivity duri...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Alarcón G,Cservenka A,Nagel BJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results from numerous investigations suggest that musical training might enhance how senses interact. Despite repeated confirmation of anatomical and structural changes in visual, tactile, and auditory regions, significant changes have only been reported in the audiovisual domain and for the detection of audio-tac...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Landry SP,Champoux F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food is essential to our survival. It is also one of the greatest pleasures of life. Over the last decade, our understanding about how the brain responds to food cues and guides food search and intake has greatly increased. This special issue brings together various perspectives and research approaches on food cogniti...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rumiati RI,di Pellegrino G

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of category specific deficits in brain-damaged patients has been instrumental in explaining how knowledge about different types of objects is organized in the brain. Much of this research focused on testing putative semantic sensory/functional subsystems that could explain the observed dissociations in perfo...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Rumiati RI,Foroni F,Pergola G,Rossi P,Silveri MC

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-control in one's food choices often depends on the regulation of attention toward healthy choices and away from temptations. We tested whether selective attention to food cues can be modulated by a newly developed proactive self-control mechanism-control readiness-whereby control activated in one domain can facil...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Kleiman T,Trope Y,Amodio DM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is ample evidence supporting the dissociation between the role of the left and right cerebral hemispheres in processing words and faces, respectively. Nevertheless, research has not yet studied the effect of perceptual asymmetry in memory context effect tasks using words and faces. Thus, the present study resear...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Vakil E,Liberman H

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several recent studies investigated the hemispheric contributions to the attentional networks using the Attention Network Test (ANT), the role of the cerebral hemispheres in modulating the interaction among them remains unclear. In this study, two lateralized versions of this test (LANT) were used to investig...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Spagna A,Martella D,Fuentes LJ,Marotta A,Casagrande M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite face and emotion recognition deficits, individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) appear to experience the anger superiority effect, where an angry face in a crowd is detected faster than a neutral face. This study extended past research to examine the impacts of ecologically valid photographic stimuli, g...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： May T,Cornish K,Rinehart NJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments expand upon behavioural evidence of interactions among lateralization, hemispheric interaction, and task complexity with findings from an ecologically valid procedure. Target displays of letters or symbols were presented at fixation in go/no-go matching tasks of physical or categorical identity. Simult...

journal_title：Brain and cognition

authors： Hughes AJ,Upshaw JN,Macaulay GM,Rutherford BJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00