abstract：:The relations among spatial memory, Stroop-like colour-word subtests, and errors on antisaccade and memory-guided saccadic eye-movement trials for older and younger adults were tested. Two types of errors in the antisaccade task were identified: short latency prosaccade errors that were immediately corrected and longe...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bowling AC,Hindman EA,Donnelly JF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a choice reaction time (RT) paradigm, providing partial advance information (a precue) about the upcoming response has been shown to decrease RT, presumably due to preprogramming of the precued parameters. When advance information about a particular aspect of a movement is provided (precued), several different stra...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Forgaard CJ,Maslovat D,Carlsen AN,Franks IM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether priming stimulation influences the responses of intracortical inhibitory and facilitatory motor circuits to a subsequent plasticity-inducing inhibitory theta burst TMS paradigm. Using standard transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) procedures, MEP amplitude, short-interval intracortical inhibit...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Doeltgen SH,Ridding MC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth eye pursuit is believed to involve the integration of an extraretinal signal formed by an internal representation of the moving target and a retinal signal using the visual feedback to evaluate performance. A variation of the smooth eye pursuit paradigm (in which the moving target is occluded for a short period...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kattoulas E,Smyrnis N,Stefanis NC,Avramopoulos D,Stefanis CN,Evdokimidis I

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) is reported in Parkinson's disease (PD) and is considered to reflect abnormal GABAergic inhibitory system of the primary motor cortex in PD. We have recently shown, however, that SICI using anterior-posterior directed currents in the brain was normal in focal dyst...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hanajima R,Terao Y,Shirota Y,Ohminami S,Nakatani-Enomoto S,Okabe S,Matsumoto H,Tsutsumi R,Ugawa Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the direction of the line of sight (gaze) allow successive sampling of the visual environment. Saccadic eye movements accomplish this goal when the head does not move. Medium-lead burst neurons (MLBs) in the paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF) discharge a high frequency burst of action potentials ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Walton MM,Freedman EG

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research is about the role of categorical and coordinate spatial relations and allocentric and egocentric frames of reference in processing spatial information. To this end, we asked whether spatial information is firstly encoded with respect to a frame of reference or with respect to categorical/coordinate spati...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ruotolo F,Iachini T,Postma A,van der Ham IJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is influenced by brain excitability and is related to neurological diseases, such as epilepsy. In vitro evidence indicates that neuronal electrical activity is potentiated after CSD. Malnutrition can cause electrophysiological changes in the brain, both in animals and in humans. Her...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： de Souza TK,e Silva MB,Gomes AR,de Oliveira HM,Moraes RB,de Freitas Barbosa CT,Guedes RC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A compensatory stepping response (CSR) is a common strategy to restore dynamic stability in response to a postural disturbance. Currently, few studies have investigated the CSR to laterally directed disturbances delivered to subjects during quiet standing. The purpose of this study was to characterize the CSR of young...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hurt CP,Rosenblatt NJ,Grabiner MD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the theoretical notion that tools often extend one's body, in the present study, we investigated whether imitation of hand or tool actions is modulated by effector-specific information. Subjects performed grasping actions toward an object with either a handheld tool or their right hand. Actions were initiate...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： van Elk M,van Schie HT,Bekkering H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity to acquire motor skills through repeated practice of a sequence of movements underlies many everyday activities. Extensive research in humans has dealt with the importance of spatial and temporal factors on motor sequence learning, standing in contrast to the few studies available in animals, particularly...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Deffains M,Legallet E,Apicella P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been shown that spatially uninformative sounds can cause a visual stimulus to pop out from an array of similar distractor stimuli when that sound is presented in temporal proximity to a feature change in the visual stimulus. Until now, this effect has predominantly been demonstrated by using stationary...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Staufenbiel SM,van der Lubbe RH,Talsma D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent results on the nature and limits of multisensory enhancement are inconsistent when stimuli are presented across spatial regions. We presented visual, tactile and visuotactile stimuli to participants in two speeded response tasks. Each unisensory stimulus was presented to either the left or right hemispace, and ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Girard S,Collignon O,Lepore F

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied characteristics of digit action and their co-variation patterns across trials (prehension synergies) during static holding of an object while the external torque could change slowly and smoothly. The subjects held in the air an instrumented handle with an attachment that allowed a smooth change in the exter...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Sun Y,Park J,Zatsiorsky VM,Latash ML

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermodal attention (IA) is assumed to allocate limited neural processing resources to input from one specific sensory modality. We investigated effects of sustained IA on the amplitude of a 40-Hz auditory (ASSR) and a 4.3-Hz visual steady-state response (VSSR). To this end, we concurrently presented amplitude-modula...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Keitel C,Schröger E,Saupe K,Müller MM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descending control is critically important for the generation of locomotor activities. Yet, our understanding of the descending control system of locomotion is limited. We hypothesized that stimulation of the ventrolateral funiculus (VLF) induces rhythmic activity in lumbar neurons that is correlated with locomotor-li...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Cheng J,Magnuson DS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxious individuals have been shown to interpret others' emotional states negatively. Since most studies have used facial expressions as emotional cues, we examined whether trait anxiety affects the recognition of emotion in a dynamic face and voice that were presented in synchrony. The face and voice cues conveyed ei...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Koizumi A,Tanaka A,Imai H,Hiramatsu S,Hiramoto E,Sato T,de Gelder B

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filial imprinting was originally proposed to be an irreversible process by which a young animal forms a preference for an object experienced early in life. The present study examined the effects of experience after imprinting on the stability of preferences of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) for an imprinti...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Town SM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) is a non-invasive form of brain stimulation applied via a weak electrical current passed between electrodes on the scalp. In recent studies, TDCS has been shown to improve learning when applied to the prefrontal cortex (e.g., Kincses et al. in Neuropsychologia 42:113-117,...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bullard LM,Browning ES,Clark VP,Coffman BA,Garcia CM,Jung RE,van der Merwe AJ,Paulson KM,Vakhtin AA,Wootton CL,Weisend MP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some experimental evidence suggests that grasping should be regarded as independent control of the thumb and the index finger (digit control hypothesis). To investigate this further, we compared how the tips of the thumb and the index finger moved in space when grasping spheres to how they moved when they were hitting...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Schot WD,Brenner E,Smeets JB

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined ERP responses during the generation of word associates or mental images in response to concrete and abstract concepts. Of interest were the predictions of dual coding theory (DCT), which proposes that processing lexical concepts depends on functionally independent but interconnected verbal and nonverbal sy...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Welcome SE,Paivio A,McRae K,Joanisse MF

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When humans pursue motion stimuli composed of alternating constant velocity segments of randomised duration (RD), they nevertheless initiate anticipatory eye deceleration before stimulus direction changes at a pre-programmed time based on averaging prior stimulus timing. We investigated, in both the time and frequency...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Barnes GR,Collins CJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When grasping an object, our gaze marks key positions to which the fingertips are directed. In contrast, eye fixations during perceptual tasks are typically concentrated on an object's centre of mass (COM). However, previous studies have typically required subjects to either grasp the object at predetermined sites or ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Desanghere L,Marotta JJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performing joint actions often requires precise temporal coordination of individual actions. The present study investigated how people coordinate their actions at discrete points in time when continuous or rhythmic information about others' actions is not available. In particular, we tested the hypothesis that making ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Vesper C,van der Wel RP,Knoblich G,Sebanz N

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors determined the effects of changes in task demands on interpersonal and intrapersonal coordination. Participants performed a joint task in which one participant held a stick to which a circle was attached at the top (holding role), while the other held a pointer through the circle without touching its borde...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ramenzoni VC,Davis TJ,Riley MA,Shockley K,Baker AA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong assumption shared by major theoretical approaches to cognition posits that the human cognitive system has a limited capacity for information processing. Evidence supporting this claim comes from the dual-task paradigm in which one cognitive system has to process two tasks simultaneously. In this study, we exa...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Liepelt R,Prinz W

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upright stance has allowed for substantial flexibility in how the upper limbs interact with each other: the arms can be coordinated in alternating, synchronous, or asymmetric patterns. While synchronization is thought to be the default mode of coordination during bimanual movement, there is little evidence for any bil...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Vasudevan EV,Zehr EP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on joint attention has addressed both the effects of gaze following and the ability to share representations. It is largely unknown, however, whether sharing attention also affects the perceptual processing of jointly attended objects. This study tested whether attending to stimuli with another person from op...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Böckler A,Knoblich G,Sebanz N

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on animal models as well as human subjects has demonstrated that the vestibular system contributes to regulating the distribution of blood in the body through effects on the sympathetic nervous system. Elimination of vestibular inputs results in increased blood flow to the hindlimbs during vestibular stimulat...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Sugiyama Y,Suzuki T,Yates BJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation aimed at assessing the extent to which memory from practice in a specific condition of target displacement modulates temporal errors and movement timing of interceptive movements. We compared two groups practicing with certainty of future target velocity either in unchanged target velocity or in tar...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： de Azevedo Neto RM,Teixeira LA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in the vestibular field has revealed the existence of a central process, called 'velocity storage', that is activated by both visual and vestibular rotation cues and is modified by gravity, but whose functional relevance during natural motion has often been questioned. In this review, we explore spatial orien...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Laurens J,Angelaki DE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response time, or latency, is increasingly being used to provide information about neural decision processes. LATER (Linear Approach to Threshold with Ergodic Rate) is a quasi-Bayesian model of decision-making, with the additional feature that it introduces a degree of gratuitous randomisation into the decision proces...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Noorani I,Gao MJ,Pearson BC,Carpenter RH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When two target elements are presented in close proximity, the endpoint of a saccade is generally positioned at an intermediate location ('global effect'). Here, we investigated whether the global effect also occurs for eye movements executed to distracting elements. To this end, we adapted the oculomotor capture para...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Van der Stigchel S,de Vries JP,Bethlehem R,Theeuwes J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that TMS can induce blinking, but it is unknown to what extent and at what time TMS-induced blinking can cover the pupil. We applied single-pulse TMS with a leftward and rightward monophasic current through a round coil over the occipital pole in 8 healthy subjects, using high-speed video to monitor left o...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Corthout E,Hallett M,Cowey A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A photograph of an action contains implicit information about the depicted motion. Previous studies using either psychophysics or neuroimaging suggested that the neural processing of implied-motion images shares some features of real-motion processing. According to the hypothesis that the target depicted in photograph...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Moscatelli A,Polito L,Lacquaniti F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity of corticospinal tract (CST) activity likely plays a key role in motor function recovery after central nervous system (CNS) lesions. In non-injured adults, 30 min of repetitive common peroneal nerve stimulation (rCPnS) increases CST excitability by 40-50% and the effect persists for at least 30 min. The pre...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Thompson AK,Lapallo B,Duffield M,Abel BM,Pomerantz F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of food intake is very important for health. It has been reported that people have decreased appetite at high altitude (HA). The current study recruited long-term HA residents to participate in an fMRI experiment which involved food craving. Result shows that the HA group showed decreased activation in the ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Yan X,Zhang J,Gong Q,Weng X

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinsonian rigidity is characterized by an increased resistance of a joint to externally imposed motion that remains uniform with changing joint angle. Two candidate mechanisms are proposed for the uniformity of rigidity, involving neural-mediated excitation of shortening muscles, i.e., shortening reaction (SR), or ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Xia R,Powell D,Rymer WZ,Hanson N,Fang X,Threlkeld AJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stair walking is a challenging locomotor task, and visual information about the steps is considered critical to safely walk up and down. Despite the importance of such visual inputs, there remains relatively little information on where gaze is directed during stair walking. The present study investigated the role of v...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Miyasike-daSilva V,Allard F,McIlroy WE

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use a vibrotactile-delayed match-to-sample paradigm to evaluate the effects of interference on working memory. One of the suggested mechanisms through which interference affects performance in working memory is feature overwriting: Short-term representations are maintained in a finite set of feature units (such as ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bancroft T,Servos P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00