abstract：:Nonlinear analysis of the multifocal cortical visual evoked potential has allowed the identification of neural generation of higher-order nonlinear components by magnocellular and parvocellular neural streams. However, the location of individual brain sources that make such contributions to these evoked responses has ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Crewther DP,Brown A,Hugrass L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is an endogenous peptide transported across the blood brain barrier that is protective in several brain injury models, including an acute animal model of Parkinson's disease (PD). Motor deficits in PD are due largely to the progressive loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons. Th...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ayadi AE,Zigmond MJ,Smith AD

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the intermittency of visual information in the bimanual coordination of an isometric force coordination task was investigated as a function of criterion force level. Eight levels of visual information intermittency (.2-25.6 Hz) were used in blocked fashion at each force level. Participants were required ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lafe CW,Pacheco MM,Newell KM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimality criteria underlying organization of arm movements are often validated by testing their ability to adequately predict hand trajectories. However, kinematic redundancy of the arm allows production of the same hand trajectory through different joint coordination patterns. We therefore consider movement optimal...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Dounskaia N,Shimansky Y

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limitations in visual working memory (VWM) have been extensively studied in psychophysical tasks, but not well understood in terms of how these memory limits translate to performance in more natural domains. For example, in reaching to grasp an object based on a spatial memory representation, overshooting the intended...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lerch RA,Sims CR

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of upright stance is commonly explained on the basis of the single inverted pendulum model (ankle strategy) or the double inverted pendulum model (combination of ankle and hip strategy). Kinematic analysis using the uncontrolled manifold (UCM) approach suggests, however, that stability in upright standing ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Park E,Reimann H,Schöner G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several types of continuous human movements comply with the so-called Two-Thirds Power Law (2/3-PL) stating that velocity (V) is a power function of the radius of curvature (R) of the endpoint trajectory. The origin of the 2/3-PL has been the object of much debate. An experiment investigated further this issue by comp...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Catavitello G,Ivanenko YP,Lacquaniti F,Viviani P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has demonstrated that negative affect influences attentional processes. Here, we investigate whether pre-experimental negative affect predicts a hypervigilant neural response as indicated by increased event-related potential amplitudes in response to neutral and positive visual stimuli. In our study,...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Schomberg J,Schöne B,Gruber T,Quirin M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is it possible to learn to perform a motor sequence without awareness of the sequence? In two experiments, we presented participants with the most elementary sequence: an alternation between two options. We used a double-step pointing task in which the final position of the target alternated between two quite similar ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Oostwoud Wijdenes L,Brenner E,Smeets JB

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our brain relies on neural mechanisms of selective attention and converging sensory processing to efficiently cope with rich and unceasing multisensory inputs. One prominent assumption holds that audio-visual synchrony can act as a strong attractor for spatial attention. Here, we tested for a similar effect of audio-v...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Keitel C,Müller MM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multisensory integration is known to create a more robust and reliable perceptual representation of one's environment. Specifically, a congruent auditory input can make a visual stimulus more salient, consequently enhancing the visibility and detection of the visual target. However, it remains largely unknown whether ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hong SW,Shim WM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tactile information is differentially processed over the various phases of goal-directed movements. Here, event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the neural correlates of tactile and visual information processing during movement. Participants performed goal-directed reaches for an object placed centra...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Juravle G,Heed T,Spence C,Röder B

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of how perception operates in real-world environments has been substantially advanced by studying both multisensory processes and "top-down" control processes influencing sensory processing via activity from higher-order brain areas, such as attention, memory, and expectations. As the two topics have...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： ten Oever S,Romei V,van Atteveldt N,Soto-Faraco S,Murray MM,Matusz PJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of visual contextual illusions on motor behaviour vary largely between experimental conditions. Whereas it has often been reported that the effects of illusions on pointing and grasping are largest when the movement is performed some time after the stimulus has disappeared, the effect of a delay has hardly...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： de Brouwer AJ,Brenner E,Smeets JB

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our perception of the vertical depends on allocentric information about the visual surrounds, egocentric information about the own body axis and gravicentric information about the pull of gravity. Previous work has documented that some individuals rely strongly on allocentric information, while others do not, and the ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bury N,Bock O

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evidence on the impact of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) on action restraint on Go/NoGO reaction time (RT) tasks in Parkinson's disease (PD) is inconsistent; with some studies reporting no effect and others finding that STN stimulation interferes with withholding of responses and results in m...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Georgiev D,Dirnberger G,Wilkinson L,Limousin P,Jahanshahi M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of discrete events during an interval to be estimated generally causes a dilation of perceived duration (event-filling effect). Here, we investigated this phenomenon in the thermal modality using multi-seconds (19 s) innocuous cool stimuli that were either constant (continuous interval) or fluctuating to ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Khoshnejad M,Martinu K,Grondin S,Rainville P

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local anesthetic may cause neurotoxicity in developing neurons. In this study, we examined the molecular mechanisms of microRNA-210 (miR-210) in regulating bupivacaine-induced dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurotoxicity in vitro. Young mouse (P30) DRG explants were cultured in vitro and treated with 5 mM bupivacaine to in...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Wang Y,Ni H,Zhang W,Wang X,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dual-task (motor and cognitive) performance of eight older adults (72.0 ± 6.4 years; 5 female; 3 male) was evaluated. Vocal choice reaction times (cognitive task) were measured at standstill as well as during unperturbed and perturbed gait (motor task). The perturbation was administered using customized shoes inst...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Nnodim JO,Kim H,Ashton-Miller JA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of spatial interactions between current and upcoming elements in a movement sequence could be due to intentional planning of a "global" action sequence (i.e., strategic effects), or to unintentional motor planning arising from merely paying attention to upcoming target objects (i.e., interference effects). The...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： LeBlanc KA,Westwood DA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a number of studies have demonstrated state-related dependence of auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs), the investigations assessing trait-related ASSR changes are limited. Five consistently identified major trait dimensions, also referred to as "big five" (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeablenes...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Korostenskaja M,Ruksenas O,Pipinis E,Griskova-Bulanova I

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the directional specificity of fear of falling (FoF) effects on the stabilizing function of anticipatory postural adjustments (APA). Participants (N = 71) performed a series of lateral leg raises from an elevated surface in three conditions: in the "Control condition", participants stood at the mid...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Gendre M,Yiou E,Gélat T,Honeine JL,Deroche T

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously established an fMRI task battery suitable for mapping the language processing network in children. Among the tasks used, the synonyms and the vowel identification task induced robust task-related activations in children with average language abilities; however, the fixed presentation time seems to b...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Máté A,Lidzba K,Hauser TK,Staudt M,Wilke M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Attention Network Test (ANT) is a frequently used computer-based tool for measuring the three attention networks (alerting, orienting, and executive control). We examined the psychometric properties of performance on a variant of the ANT, the Attention Network Test-Interaction (ANT-I) in healthy older adults (N = ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ishigami Y,Eskes GA,Tyndall AV,Longman RS,Drogos LL,Poulin MJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to explore the antinociceptive effects of the galanin receptor 1 agonist M617 in lateral habenula complex in rats. Intra-lateral habenula injection of 0.1, 0.5, 1 or 2 nmol of galanin induced dose-dependent increases in hindpaw withdrawal latencies (HWLs) to noxious thermal and mechanic...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Fu LB,Wang Y,Sun XX,Liu XX,Wang Y,Zhuang W

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-range tactile masking has been reported between mirror symmetric body locations. This suggests a general principle of contralateral inhibition between corresponding points on each side of the body that may serve to enhance distinguishing touches on the two halves of the body. Do such effects occur before or after...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： D'Amour S,Harris LR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional processing that occurs partially in advance of perceptual processing is known as pre-perceptual emotional processing. The facilitation of sensory processing due to pre-perceptual emotional processing can be observed in visual search and attentional blink tasks. However, previous event-related potential studi...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Takeshima Y,Gyoba J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Navigation through complex environments requires a greater degree of control and attentional resources from the central nervous system to ensure postural stability and efficient goal completion as compared to quiet standing or unobstructed walking. Furthermore, when a cognitive task is also performed in a dual-task sc...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Worden TA,Vallis LA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the development of information-movement couplings in a ball-bouncing task with a special interest in how space- and time-related information is used by people of different ages. Participants from four age groups (children aged 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12 years, and adults) performed a virtual ball-bouncing task in ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bazile C,Benguigui N,Siegler IA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to examine the effect of explicit cuing on reactive stepping with the paretic limb during slip-like perturbations in stroke survivors and to identify differences in postural stability and fall-risk while stepping with either limb. Eleven chronic hemiparetic stroke survivors received slip-like stance p...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Patel P,Bhatt T

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has suggested that altering the perceived shape and size of the body image significantly affects perception of somatic events. The current study investigated how multisensory illusions applied to the body altered tactile perception using the somatic signal detection task. Thirty-one healthy volunteers were as...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Treshi-marie Perera A,Newport R,McKenzie KJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A afferent fibers have been reported to participate in the development of the central sensitization induced by inflammation and injuries. Current evidence suggests that myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) induce central sensitization in the related spinal dorsal horn, and clinical studies indicate that A fibers are asso...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Meng F,Ge HY,Wang YH,Yue SW

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purposes of this pilot study were to create a model of focal cortical ischemia in Macaca fascicularis and to explore contributions of the reticulospinal system in recovery of reaching. Endothelin-1 was used to create a focal lesion in the shoulder/elbow representation of left primary motor cortex (M1) of two adult...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Herbert WJ,Powell K,Buford JA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that visual expectation and attention modulate object perception. Yet, the mechanisms underlying these top-down influences are not completely understood. Event-related potentials (ERPs) indicate late contributions of expectations to object processing around the P2 or N2. This is true independent of wh...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Stojanoski BB,Niemeier M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that there are positive effects of exercise on learning and memory. Moreover, some studies have demonstrated that forced exercise plays the role of a stressor. This study was aimed at investigating the effects of different timing of exercise and exercise withdrawal on memory, and serum and hippocampa...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Radahmadi M,Alaei H,Sharifi MR,Hosseini N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats probe objects with their whiskers and make decisions about sizes, shapes, textures and distances within a few tens of milliseconds. This perceptual analysis requires the processing of tactile high-frequency object components reflecting surface roughness. We have shown that neurons in the barrel cortex of rats enc...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ewert TA,Möller J,Engel AK,Vahle-Hinz C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the process of learning to walk from a functional perspective. To move forward, one must generate and control propulsive forces. To achieve this, it is necessary to create and tune a distance between the centre of mass (CoM) and the centre of pressure (CoP) along the antero-posterior axis. We hypot...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bril B,Dupuy L,Dietrich G,Corbetta D

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients produce large spatial errors when reaching to proprioceptively defined targets. Here, we examined whether these movement inaccuracies result mainly from impaired use of proprioceptive inputs for movement planning mechanisms or from on-line movement guidance. Med...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mongeon D,Blanchet P,Bergeron S,Messier J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent animal studies have found neuronal expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I in the central nervous system (CNS). However, the developmental expression profiles of MHC class I in human CNS remain unclear. Here, we systemically evaluate the expression and subcellular localization of MHC class ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Zhang A,Yu H,He Y,Shen Y,Zhang Y,Liu J,Fu B,Lv D,Miao F,Zhang J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have used a secondary probe reaction time (RT) task to assess attentional demands of a primary task. The current study used a startling acoustic stimulus (SAS) in a probe RT paradigm to test the hypothesis that attentional resources would be directly related to limitations in response preparation. Par...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Maslovat D,Drummond NM,Carter MJ,Carlsen AN

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00