abstract：:We studied neural correlates accompanying the Fraser spiral illusion. The Fraser spiral illusion consists of twisted cords superimposed on a patchwork background arranged in concentric circles, which is typically perceived as a spiral. We tested four displays: the Fraser spiral illusion and three variants derived from...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yun X,Hazenberg SJ,Jacobs RH,Qiu J,van Lier R

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) from voxels placed in the left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was measured from 14 boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and 24 gender and age-matched typically developing (TD) control group. Our main aims were to compare the concentration of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) between...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brix MK,Ersland L,Hugdahl K,Grüner R,Posserud MB,Hammar Å,Craven AR,Noeske R,Evans CJ,Walker HB,Midtvedt T,Beyer MK

更新日期：2015-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple and unambiguous visual cues (e.g., an arrow) can be used to trigger covert shifts of visual attention away from the center of gaze. The processing of visual stimuli is enhanced at the attended location. Covert shifts of attention modulate the power of cerebral oscillations in the alpha band over parietal and oc...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Trachel RE,Clerc M,Brochier TG

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention facilitates the processing of task-relevant visual information and suppresses interference from task-irrelevant information. Modulations of neural activity in visual cortex depend on attention, and likely result from signals originating in fronto-parietal and cingulo-opercular regions of cortex. Here, we tes...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Griffis JC,Elkhetali AS,Burge WK,Chen RH,Visscher KM

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research manipulated the fluency of unstudied items using masked repetition priming procedures during an explicit recognition test. Based on fluency-attribution accounts, which posit that familiarity can be driven by multiple forms of fluency, the relationship between masked priming-induced fluency and fam...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wang W,Li B,Gao C,Xiao X,Guo C

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objectives of this study were to investigate the development of face perception in Japanese children, focusing on the changes in face processing strategies (holistic and/or configural vs. feature-based) that occur during childhood. To achieve this, we analyzed the face-related N170 component, evoked by uprigh...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Miki K,Honda Y,Takeshima Y,Watanabe S,Kakigi R

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we present ideas related to three key aspects of mindfulness training: the regulation of attention via noradrenaline, the importance of working memory and its various components (particularly the central executive and episodic buffer), and the relationship of both of these to mind-wandering. These sam...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Russell TA,Arcuri SM

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper, we will attempt to gain hints regarding the nature of tactile awareness in humans. At first, we will review some recent literature showing that an actual tactile experience can emerge in absence of any tactile stimulus (e.g., tactile hallucinations, tactile illusions). According to the current mo...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pia L,Garbarini F,Burin D,Fossataro C,Berti A

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Whether the unaffected function of the hand of patients presenting with nerve injury is affected remains inconclusive. We aimed to evaluate whether there are differences in finger tapping following central or peripheral nerve injury compared with the unaffected hand and the ipsilateral hand of a healthy subject. M...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zhang L,Han X,Li P,Liu Y,Zhu Y,Zou J,Yu Z

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to apply a novel multidimensional motor unit number index (MD-MUNIX) technique to examine hand muscles in patients with incomplete cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The MD-MUNIX was estimated from the compound muscle action potential (CMAP) and different levels of surface interference ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Li L,Li X,Liu J,Zhou P

更新日期：2015-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals tend to perceive the direction of light to come from above and slightly from the left; it has been speculated that this phenomenon is also producing similar lighting preferences within 2-dimensional artworks (e.g., paintings, advertisements). The purpose of the present study was to address if lighting bias...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Sedgewick JR,Weiers B,Stewart A,Elias LJ

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of visual cortex reorganization following injury remains controversial. We report serial functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from a patient with sequential posterior circulation strokes occurring 3 weeks apart, compared with data from an age-matched healthy control subject. At 8 days following...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brodtmann A,Puce A,Darby D,Donnan G

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper focuses on the question of what the (visual) perceptual differences are between individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing (TD) individuals. We argue against the view that autistic subjects have a deficiency in the most basic form of perceptual consciousness-namely, phenomenal ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yatziv T,Jacobson H

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory, formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro)cognitive poetics has investigated structural and functional aspects of literature reception. Despite a wealth of literature published in specialized journals ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jacobs AM

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val(158)Met polymorphism impacts cortical dopamine (DA) levels and may influence cortical electrical activity in the human brain. This study investigated whether COMT genotype influences resting-state electroencephalogram (EEG) power in the frontal, parietal and midline regions ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Solís-Ortiz S,Pérez-Luque E,Gutiérrez-Muñoz M

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:While issues of efficacy and specificity are crucial for the future of neurofeedback training, there may be alternative designs and control analyses to circumvent the methodological and ethical problems associated with double-blind placebo studies. Surprisingly, most NF studies do not report the most immediate result ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Zuberer A,Brandeis D,Drechsler R

更新日期：2015-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 3 in vol. 9, PMID: 25674060.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Naseer N,Hong KS

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies explore consumer perception of brands in a more or less passive way. This may still be representative for many situations or decisions we make each day. Nevertheless, sometimes we often actively search for and use information to make informed and reasoned choices, thus implying a rational and thinking...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Schaefer M,Rumpel F,Sadrieh A,Reimann M,Denke C

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a devastating illness characterized by disturbances in multiple domains. The cerebellum is involved in both motor and non-motor functions, and the "cognitive dysmetria" and "dysmetria of thought" models propose that abnormalities of the cerebellum may contribute to schizophrenia signs and symptoms. Th...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Shinn AK,Baker JT,Lewandowski KE,Öngür D,Cohen BM

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Some studies highlight similarities between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and healthy aging. Indeed, the decline in older individuals' ability to create a unified representation of the individual features of an event is thought to arise from a disruption of binding within the episodic buffer of working memory (WM) as...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Lecouvey G,Quinette P,Kalpouzos G,Guillery-Girard B,Bejanin A,Gonneaud J,Abbas A,Viader F,Eustache F,Desgranges B

更新日期：2015-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Helmholtz's Square illusion, a square appears wider when it is filled with vertical lines and higher when filled with horizontal lines (Helmholtz von, 1866). Recently, Pinna (2010a) demonstrated that the grouping of small squares on the basis of the similarity principle influences also perception of their...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pinna B

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a great expansion of research into human reasoning at all of Marr's explanatory levels. There is a tendency for this work to progress within a level largely ignoring the others which can lead to slippage between levels (Chater et al., 2003). It is argued that recent brain imaging research on deductive r...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Oaksford M

更新日期：2015-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Curvature is a highly informative visual cue for shape perception and object recognition. We introduce a novel illusion-the Lemon Illusion-in which subtle illusory curvature is perceived along contour regions that are devoid of physical curvature. We offer several perceptual demonstrations and observations that lead u...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Strother L,Killebrew KW,Caplovitz GP

更新日期：2015-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Population receptive field (pRF) mapping is a widely used approach to measuring aggregate human visual receptive field properties by recording non-invasive signals using functional MRI. Despite growing interest, no study to date has systematically investigated the effects of different stimulus configurations on pRF es...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Alvarez I,de Haas B,Clark CA,Rees G,Schwarzkopf DS

更新日期：2015-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a detailed description of a set of FreeSurfer compatible segmentation guidelines tailored to infant MRI scans, and a unique data set of manually segmented acquisitions, with subjects nearly evenly distributed between 0 and 2 years of age. We believe that these segmentation guidelines and this dataset will h...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： de Macedo Rodrigues K,Ben-Avi E,Sliva DD,Choe MS,Drottar M,Wang R,Fischl B,Grant PE,Zöllei L

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:All humans experience itch in the course of their life. Even a discussion on the topic of itch or seeing people scratch can evoke the desire to scratch. These events are coined "contagious itch" and are very common. We and others have shown that videos showing people scratching and pictures of affected skin or insects...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Schut C,Grossman S,Gieler U,Kupfer J,Yosipovitch G

更新日期：2015-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaphorical expressions very often involve words referring to physical entities and experiences. Yet, figures of speech such as metaphors are not intended to be understood literally, word-by-word. We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to determine whether metaphorical expressions are processed more like physi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Forgács B,Bardolph MD,Amsel BD,DeLong KA,Kutas M

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Carriers of the fragile X premutation allele (fXPCs) have an expanded CGG trinucleotide repeat size within the FMR1 gene and are at increased risk of developing fragile x-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS). Previous research has shown that male fXPCs with FXTAS exhibit cognitive decline, predominantly in execut...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Wong LM,Tassone F,Rivera SM,Simon TJ

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring neuronal activity with electrophysiological methods may be useful in detecting neurological dysfunctions, such as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). This approach may be particularly valuable for rapid detection in at-risk populations including military service members and athletes. Electrophysiological met...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Rapp PE,Keyser DO,Albano A,Hernandez R,Gibson DB,Zambon RA,Hairston WD,Hughes JD,Krystal A,Nichols AS

更新日期：2015-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Questions regarding perception of pain in non-communicating patients and the management of pain continue to raise controversy both at a clinical and ethical level. The aim of this study was to examine the cortical response to salient visual, acoustic, somatosensory electric non-nociceptive and nociceptive laser st...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： de Tommaso M,Navarro J,Lanzillotti C,Ricci K,Buonocunto F,Livrea P,Lancioni GE

更新日期：2015-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a communication system that allows the use of brain activity to control computers or other external devices. It can, by bypassing the peripheral nervous system, provide a means of communication for people suffering from severe motor disabilities or in a persistent vegetative state. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Naseer N,Hong KS

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present review aims to summarize the debate in contemporary neuroscience between inborn and experience-dependent models of conceptual representations that goes back to the description of category-specific semantic disorders for biological and artifact categories. Experience-dependent models suggest that categorica...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gainotti G

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the time course of inhibitory control in high trait anger individuals, we recorded and analyzed ERP data relevant to visual Go/Nogo task in high and low trait anger participants. Compared with low trait anger participants, high trait anger participants revealed faster RTs in the Go/Nogo task. The nogo effec...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Liu Y,Zhan X,Li W,Han H,Wang H,Hou J,Yan G,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to vision, audition plays an important role in sound localization in our world. One way we estimate the motion of an auditory object moving towards or away from us is from changes in volume intensity. However, the human auditory system has unequally distributed spatial resolution, including difficulty dist...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bainbridge CM,Bainbridge WA,Oliva A

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Preterm infants are born during critical stages of brain development, in which the adaptive capacity of the fetus to extra-uterine environment is limited. Inadequate brain perfusion has been directly linked to preterm brain damage. Advanced high-frequency ultrasound probes and processing algorithms allow v...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Camfferman FA,Ecury-Goossen GM,La Roche JE,de Jong N,van 't Leven W,Vos HJ,Verweij MD,Nasserinejad K,Cools F,Govaert P,Dudink J

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural responses demonstrate evidence of resonance, or oscillation, during the production of periodic auditory events. Music contains periodic auditory events that give rise to a sense of beat, which in turn generates a sense of meter on the basis of multiple periodicities. Metrical hierarchies may aid memory for musi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mathias B,Pfordresher PQ,Palmer C

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this pilot study near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) neurofeedback was investigated as a new method for the treatment of Attention Deficit-/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Oxygenated hemoglobin in the prefrontal cortex of children with ADHD was measured and fed back. 12 sessions of NIRS-neurofeedback were compared to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Marx AM,Ehlis AC,Furdea A,Holtmann M,Banaschewski T,Brandeis D,Rothenberger A,Gevensleben H,Freitag CM,Fuchsenberger Y,Fallgatter AJ,Strehl U

更新日期：2015-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A key feature of normal neonatal EEG at term age is interhemispheric synchrony (IHS), which refers to the temporal co-incidence of bursting across hemispheres during trace alternant EEG activity. The assessment of IHS in both clinical and scientific work relies on visual, qualitative EEG assessment without clearly qua...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Koolen N,Dereymaeker A,Räsänen O,Jansen K,Vervisch J,Matic V,De Vos M,Van Huffel S,Naulaers G,Vanhatalo S

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a growing body of data has revealed that beyond a dysfunction of connectivity among different brain areas in schizophrenia patients (SCZ), there is also an abnormal asymmetry of functional connectivity compared with healthy subjects. The loss of the cerebral torque and the abnormalities of gyrification, with...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ribolsi M,Daskalakis ZJ,Siracusano A,Koch G

更新日期：2014-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The repetition of a stimulus task reduces the neural activity within certain cortical regions responsible for working memory (WM) processing. Although previous evidence has shown that repeated vibrotactile stimuli reduce the activation in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, whether the repeated tactile spatial stimul...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Yang J,Yu Y,Kunita A,Huang Q,Wu J,Sawamoto N,Fukuyama H

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00