abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) adversely affects information processing and motor performance. The impact of aerobic exercise on modifying the deleterious effects of PD underlying information and motor control processes is not well established. The primary aim of this project was to determine the effects of an 8-week high i...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Rosenfeldt AB,Koop MM,Fernandez HH,Alberts JL

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intervention-induced neuroplastic changes within the motor or cognitive system have been shown in the human brain. While cognitive and motor brain areas are densely interconnected, it is unclear whether this interconnectivity allows for a shared susceptibility to neuroplastic changes. Using the preparation for a theor...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Berns C,Brüchle W,Scho S,Schneefeld J,Schneider U,Rosenkranz K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interlateral transfer of learning between the legs in body balance training is a topic of theoretical and practical interest, but it has been left untouched in previous research. In this investigation, we aimed to evaluate the magnitude and asymmetry of interlateral transfer of balance stability following the practice...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Marcori AJ,Teixeira LA,Mathias KR,Dascal JB,Okazaki VHA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional reorganization in a musician's brain has long been considered strong evidence of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. Highly coordinated bimanual movements require abundant communication between bilateral hemispheres. Interhemispheric inhibition (IHI) is the communication between bilateral primary motor co...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kuo YL,Fisher BE

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory dysfunction, including hypersensitivity and tinnitus, is a common symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Prenatal exposure to the antiseizure medication valproic acid (VPA) significantly increases the risk of ASD in humans and similar exposure is utilized as an animal model of ASD in rodents. Animals expo...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mansour Y,Ahmed SN,Kulesza R

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a late-onset, neurodegenerative disease associated with the loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord, brain stem and primary motor cortex. Deficit in the motor function is one of the clinical features of this disease. However, the association between adverse morphological alterat...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Das S,Nalini A,Laxmi TR,Raju TR

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that attending to a cutaneous stimulus briefly increases its subjective intensity. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether an extended period of attention would produce a longer-lasting perceptual amplification. Eighty subjects were assigned alternately to experimental and control groups....

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hollins M,Athans L

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now accepted that performing a cognitive task impacts postural control (Polskaia and Lajoie 2016; Vuillerme et al. Neurosci Lett 291: 77-80, 2000). However, the reverse impact of posture on cognitive performance is less documented. The present study investigated performance in two cognitive activities (memory an...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Abou Khalil G,Doré-Mazars K,Senot P,Wang DP,Legrand A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala has been demonstrated to contribute to pain-related behavior and food preference. Here, the effect of pain on food preference and food-matched visual-cue memory, in the presence or absence of a basolateral amygdala (BLA) lesion, has been evaluated using a novel innovative apparatus and protocol. Forty adu...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Zamyad M,Abbasnejad M,Esmaeili-Mahani S,Sheibani V,Raoof M

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated how valence, arousal, and subjective liking of music affect visually induced motion sickness (VIMS). VIMS is a common side effect when interacting with virtual environments, resulting in discomfort, dizziness, and/or nausea. Music has previously been shown to reduce VIMS, but the precise...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Peck K,Russo F,Campos JL,Keshavarz B

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that the mode of movement selection is relevant for the readiness potential, namely, internal (or free) selection of movements is associated with increased readiness potential amplitudes compared to predetermined or externally guided selection. It is little acknowledged, however, th...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Takashima S,Ogawa CY,Najman FA,Ramos RT

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming movements of the upper limbs can be classified either as discrete, or reciprocal, or cyclic. The control of these movements after a stroke can be affected. The aim of this experimental, cross-sectional study was to characterize the performance of these movements after the right and left hemisphere chronic strok...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Carvalho DB,Freitas SMSF,Alencar FAD,Silva ML,Alouche SR

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication of the article, Fig. 3 is incorrect. ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Govender S,Todd NPM,Colebatch JG

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In everyday life, we often use graphical interfaces where the visual space is mapped to the motor space with a visuomotor gain called the control display gain. One of the key objectives in the field of Human Computer Interaction is to design this control display gain so as to enhance users' performance. Although the c...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Scotto CR,Vu VH,Casiez G,Fernandez L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans show a gravitational advantage in perception: we are more precise at judging the speed of downwards-moving than upwards-moving objects, indicating that gravitational acceleration is an internalised prior. However, it is unclear whether this gravity prior is based on purely perceptual cues or whether it can inco...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Gallagher M,Torok A,Klaas J,Ferrè ER

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions from both inhibitory and excitatory interneurons are necessary components of cortical processing that contribute to the vast amount of motor actions executed by humans daily. As transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over primary motor cortex is capable of activating corticospinal neurons trans-synaptica...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Spampinato D

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wealth of evidence describes the strong positive impact that reward has on motor control at the behavioural level. However, surprisingly little is known regarding the neural mechanisms which underpin these effects, beyond a reliance on the dopaminergic system. In recent work, we developed a task that enabled the dis...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Codol O,Galea JM,Jalali R,Holland PJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum is recognised to bilaterally modulate sensorimotor function and has recently been shown to play a role in swallowing. Unilateral cerebellar repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) excites corticobulbar motor pathways to the pharynx but the effects of bilateral versus unilateral cerebellar r...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Sasegbon A,Smith CJ,Bath P,Rothwell J,Hamdy S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vestibular perceptual thresholds measure vestibular sensory and perceptual noise by quantifying how small of a passive self-motion an individual is able to reliably perceive. Vestibular thresholds have clinical and operational relevance, as they are elevated in vestibular migraine patients, and even healthy individual...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Suri K,Clark TK

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are extraordinarily skilled in the tactile evaluation of, and differentiation between, surfaces. The chemical and mechanical properties of these surfaces are translated into tactile signals during haptic exploration by mechanoreceptors in our skin, which are specialized to respond to different types of temporal...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Skedung L,Harris KL,Collier ES,Rutland MW

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abundant evidence has revealed that social observation could enhance people's norm-enforcement behaviors to norm violators. However, whether such enhancement is strategically reputation-based without changes on awareness of social norms or it is accompanied with strengthened perception of norm violations remains uncle...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ouyang H,Sun F,Che L,Zhang W,Cheng X,Zheng L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive responses to balance perturbations have been shown to be improved by training. This investigation aimed to compare the effects of block and random training perturbation schedules on stability gains of compensatory arm and leg movements in response to unpredictable large-magnitude balance perturbations. Pertur...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Takazono PS,Ribeiro de Souza C,Ávila de Oliveira J,Coelho DB,Teixeira LA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain serves to protect against bodily threat, and therefore initiates protective responses such as attending toward threat-relevant information. Since pain is often exacerbated by executing movements, these motor actions may serve as cues for pain. Up to date, however, pain-related attention during movement remains la...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Clauwaert A,Torta DM,Forster B,Danneels L,Van Damme S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associations between cognitive and motor timing performance are documented in hundreds of studies. A core finding is a correlation of about - 0.3 to - 0.5 between psychometric intelligence and time interval production variability and reaction time, but the nature of the relationship remains unclear. Here, we investiga...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Karampela O,Madison G,Holm L

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-status individuals have been found to be less attuned to the behaviour of others in the social environment, at least in the absence of any specific instructions to pay attention to them. Previous work using neural measures has shown that socioeconomic status (SES) influences the degree to which people are attuned...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Farwaha S,Obhi SS

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size constancy is the ability to perceive objects as remaining constant in size regardless of their distance from the observer. Emmert's law demonstrates that viewing distance determines the perceived size of afterimages according to the amount of depth cues that are available. Using an afterimage paradigm, we examine...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Millard AS,Sperandio I,Chouinard PA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Resuscitation Guidelines recommend that survivors of cardiac arrest (CA) be resuscitated with 100% O2 and undergo subsequent-post-return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC)-reduction of O2 supply to prevent hyperoxia. Hyperoxia produces a "second neurotoxic hit," which, together with the initial ischemic in...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Keilhoff G,Titze M,Rathert H,Lucas B,Esser T,Ebmeyer U

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When asked to identify the position of a sound, listeners can report its perceived location as well as their subjective certainty about this spatial judgement. Yet, research to date focused primarily on measures of perceived location (e.g., accuracy and precision of pointing responses), neglecting instead the phenomen...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Rabini G,Lucin G,Pavani F

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) using intensities ≤ 2 mA on physical and cognitive outcomes has been extensively investigated. Studies comparing the effects of different intensities of tDCS have yielded mixed results and little is known about how higher intensities (> 2 mA) affect outcomes. This study e...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Workman CD,Kamholz J,Rudroff T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were done to investigate the role of glutamatergic systems in the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) in the water ingestion induced by administration of angiotensin II (ANG II) in the subfornical organ (SFO) in the awake rat. Microdialysis methods were utilized to quantify the extracellular content of glutamat...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ushigome A,Momoi K,Takahashi M,Tanaka J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle synergy is important for simplifying functional movement, which constitutes spatiotemporal patterns of activity across muscles. To execute selective finger movements that are independent of synergistic movement patterns, we hypothesized that inhibitory neural activity is necessary to suppress enslaved finger mo...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Aoyama T,Kaneko F,Ohashi Y,Kohno Y

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The output from a motor nucleus is determined by the synaptic input to the motor neurons and their intrinsic properties. Here, we explore whether the source of synaptic inputs to the motor neurons (cats) and the age or post-stroke conditions (humans) may change the recruitment gain of the motor neuron pool. In cats, t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Nielsen JB,Morita H,Wenzelburger R,Deuschl G,Gossard JP,Hultborn H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays an important role in several cognitive functions, such as planning, decision making, and social behavior. We previously reported that periodontal sensory input significantly increases PFC activity during the motor task of maintaining occlusal (biting) force. However, the relationships...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kishimoto T,Goto T,Ichikawa T

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Realistic appearance and complexity in the visual field are known to affect the strength of vection (visually induced self-motion perception). Although surface properties of materials are, therefore, expected to be visual features that influence vection, to date, the results have been mixed. Here, we used computer gra...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Morimoto Y,Sato H,Hiramatsu C,Seno T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of declined accommodation on reading performance in non-native and native languages. Eighteen native Japanese speakers participated: eight presbyopes and ten non-presbyopes. In the experiment, participants were asked to scan, or sequentially read six-word items presented in two-line...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Teramoto W,Kawano S,Mori S,Sekiyama K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has highlighted the role of haptic feedback for manual dexterity, in particular for the control of precision grip forces between the index finger and thumb. It is unclear how fine motor skills involving more than just two digits might be affected, especially given that loss of sensation from the hand aff...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Miall RC,Rosenthal O,Ørstavik K,Cole JD,Sarlegna FR

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is ample evidence that motor learning changes the function of perceptual systems. Previous studies examining the interactions between speech production and perception have shown that the discrimination of phonetic contrasts characterized by the difference in articulatory place features is altered following their...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Tamura S,Ito K,Hirose N,Mori S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A startling acoustic stimulus (SAS) could cause transient effects on the primary motor cortex and its descending tracts after habituation of reflex responses. In the literature, there is evidence that the effects of SAS depend on the status of M1 excitability and delivery time of SAS. In this study, we aimed to compre...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Chen YT,Li S,Zhou P,Li S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While diverging efficacy and inter-individual response variability have repeatedly been reported for paired-associative stimulation (PAS), approaches to overcome these issues are yet lacking. Hence, the aim of the present study was to determine whether response variability could be reduced through the application of a...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Campana M,Papazova I,Pross B,Hasan A,Strube W

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 12 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD): 6 with postural instability (Hoehn and Yahr Stage 3) and 6 without (Stage 2 or 2.5), using a quantitative test based on the clinical pull test. Their findings were compared with those for 12 healthy controls. The patients on their usual medications were pulled eith...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Colebatch JG,Govender S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00