abstract：:The goal of the present study was to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of second-language (L2) morphosyntactic processing in highly proficient late learners of an L2 with long exposure to the L2 environment. ERPs were collected from 22 English-Spanish late learners while they read sentences in which morp...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Dowens MG,Vergara M,Barber HA,Carreiras M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion and neuroimaging studies suggest that orbito-frontal cortex (OFC) supports temporal aspects of episodic memory. However, it is unclear whether OFC contributes to the encoding and/or retrieval of temporal context and whether it is selective for temporal relative to nontemporal (spatial) context memory. We addres...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Duarte A,Henson RN,Knight RT,Emery T,Graham KS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many examples exist for shared neural representations of self and other, it is unknown how such shared representations interact with the rest of the brain. Furthermore, do high-level inference-based shared mentalizing representations interact with lower level embodied/simulation-based shared representations? ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Lombardo MV,Chakrabarti B,Bullmore ET,Wheelwright SJ,Sadek SA,Suckling J,MRC AIMS Consortium.,Baron-Cohen S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common complaint of normal aging is the increase in word-finding failures such as tip-of-the-tongue states (TOTs). Behavioral research identifies TOTs as phonological retrieval failures, and recent findings [Shafto, M. A., Burke, D. M., Stamatakis, E. A., Tam, P., & Tyler, L. K. On the tip-of-the-tongue: Neural corr...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Shafto MA,Stamatakis EA,Tam PP,Tyler LK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological studies consistently find N400 effects of semantic incongruity in nonnative (L2) language comprehension. These N400 effects are often delayed compared with native (L1) comprehension, suggesting that semantic integration in one's second language occurs later than in one's first language. In this st...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： FitzPatrick I,Indefrey P

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an ongoing debate whether visual object representations can be formed outside the focus of voluntary attention. Recently, implicit behavioral measures suggested that grouping processes can occur for task-irrelevant visual stimuli, thus supporting theories of preattentive object formation (e.g., Lamy, D., Sega...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Müller D,Winkler I,Roeber U,Schaffer S,Czigler I,Schröger E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the dominant approach posits that developmental dyslexia arises from deficits in systems that are exclusively linguistic in nature (i.e., phonological deficit theory), dyslexics show a variety of lower level deficits in sensory and attentional processing. Although their link to the reading disorder remains co...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Facoetti A,Trussardi AN,Ruffino M,Lorusso ML,Cattaneo C,Galli R,Molteni M,Zorzi M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation combined behavioral and functional neuroimaging measures to explore whether perception of pain is modulated by the target's stigmatized status and whether the target bore responsibility for that stigma. During fMRI scanning, participants were exposed to a series of short video clips featuring age-ma...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Decety J,Echols S,Correll J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that attention to a specific location on a uniform visual object spreads throughout the entire object. Here we demonstrate that, similar to the visual system, spatial attention in touch can be object guided. We measured event-related brain potentials to tactile stimuli arising from objects ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Gillmeister H,Adler J,Forster B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lucas, Voss, and Paller sympathize with our intentions but disagree with our findings. They argue that a relation between frequency and conceptual priming may have been obscured by methodological details in our second experiment, therefore failing to complete a bridge between conceptual priming and FN400 with name fre...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Stenberg G,Johansson M,Hellman J,Rosén I

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging data emphasize that older adults often show greater extent of brain activation than younger adults for similar objective levels of difficulty. A possible interpretation of this finding is that older adults need to recruit neuronal resources at lower loads than younger adults, leaving no resources for high...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Schneider-Garces NJ,Gordon BA,Brumback-Peltz CR,Shin E,Lee Y,Sutton BP,Maclin EL,Gratton G,Fabiani M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pFC plays a key role in flexible, context-specific decision making. One proposal [Machens, C. K., Romo, R., & Brody, C. D. Flexible control of mutual inhibition: A neural model of two-interval discrimination. Science, 307, 1121-1124, 2005] is that prefrontal cells may be dynamically organized into opponent coding ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Kusunoki M,Sigala N,Nili H,Gaffan D,Duncan J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In social interactions, it is often necessary to rapidly encode the association between visually presented faces and auditorily presented names. The present study used event-related potentials to examine the neural correlates of associative encoding for multimodal face-name pairs. We assessed study-phase processes lea...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Mangels JA,Manzi A,Summerfield C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual learning is sometimes characterized by rapid improvements in performance within the first hour of training (fast perceptual learning), which may be accompanied by changes in sensory and/or response pathways. Here, we report rapid physiological changes in the human auditory system that coincide with learning...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Alain C,Campeanu S,Tremblay K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of cognition often use an "oddball" paradigm to study effects of stimulus novelty and significance on information processing. However, an oddball tends to be perceptually more novel than the standard, repeated stimulus as well as more relevant to the ongoing task, making it difficult to disentangle effects due...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Ferrari V,Bradley MM,Codispoti M,Lang PJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We know that human neurocognitive systems rapidly and implicitly evaluate emotionally charged stimuli. But what about more everyday, frequently encountered kinds of objects, such as computer desktop icons and business logos? Do we rapidly and implicitly evaluate these more prosaic visual images, attitude objects that ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Handy TC,Smilek D,Geiger L,Liu C,Schooler JW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals and humans share an evolutionary ancient quantity representation which is characterized by analog magnitude features: Discriminating magnitudes becomes more difficult with increasing set sizes (size effect) and with decreasing distance between two numerosities (distance effect). Humans show these effects even ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Diester I,Nieder A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention selects objects or groups as the most fundamental unit, and this may be achieved through a process in which attention automatically spreads throughout their entire region. Previously, we found that a lateralized potential relative to an attended hemifield at occipito-temporal electrode sites reflects attenti...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Kasai T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective goal-directed behavior relies on a network of regions including anterior cingulate cortex and ventral striatum to learn from negative outcomes in order to improve performance. We employed fMRI to determine if this frontal-striatal system is also involved in instances of behavior that do not presume negative ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Magno E,Simões-Franklin C,Robertson IH,Garavan H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both local discourse and world knowledge are known to influence sentence processing. We investigated how these two sources of information conspire in language comprehension. Two types of critical sentences, correct and world knowledge anomalies, were preceded by either a neutral or a local context. The latter made the...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Menenti L,Petersson KM,Scheeringa R,Hagoort P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the neurocognitive mechanisms of nonaffective language comprehension have been studied extensively, relatively less is known about how the emotional meaning of language is processed. In this study, electrophysiological responses to affectively positive, negative, and neutral words, presented within nonconstra...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Holt DJ,Lynn SK,Kuperberg GR

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cognitive processing of concepts, that is, abstract general ideas, has been mostly studied with language. However, other domains, such as music, can also convey concepts. Koelsch et al. [Koelsch, S., Kasper, E., Sammler, D., Schulze, K., Gunter, T., & Friederici, A. D. Music, language and meaning: Brain signatures...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Daltrozzo J,Schön D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metamemory refers to knowledge and monitoring of one's own memory. Metamemory monitoring can be done prospectively with respect to subsequent memory retrieval or retrospectively with respect to previous memory retrieval. In this study, we used fMRI to compare neural activity during prospective feeling-of-knowing and r...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Chua EF,Schacter DL,Sperling RA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional attention, the boosting of the processing of emotionally relevant stimuli, has, up to now, mainly been investigated within a sensory modality, for instance, by using emotional pictures to modulate visual attention. In real-life environments, however, humans typically encounter simultaneous input to several d...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Brosch T,Grandjean D,Sander D,Scherer KR

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the target areas of dopaminergic midbrain neurons, the dorsal (DS) and ventral striatum (VS), are differently involved in reinforcement learning especially as actor and critic. Whereas the critic learns to predict rewards, the actor maintains action values to guide future decisions. The diff...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Kahnt T,Park SQ,Cohen MX,Beck A,Heinz A,Wrase J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human moral judgment depends critically on "theory of mind," the capacity to represent the mental states of agents. Recent studies suggest that the right TPJ (RTPJ) and, to lesser extent, the left TPJ (LTPJ), the precuneus (PC), and the medial pFC (MPFC) are robustly recruited when participants read explicit statement...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Young L,Saxe R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is substantial evidence that object representations in adults are dynamically updated by learning. However, it is not clear to what extent these effects are induced by active processing of visual objects in a particular task context on top of the effects of mere exposure to the same objects. Here we show that th...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Gillebert CR,Op de Beeck HP,Panis S,Wagemans J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visuospatial working memory is one of the most extensively investigated functions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Theories of prefrontal cortical function have suggested that this area exerts cognitive control by modulating the activity of structures to which it is connected. Here, we used the oculomoto...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Johnston K,Everling S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the neural circuitry guiding anger, angry rumination, and aggressive personality. In the present fMRI experiment, participants were insulted and induced to ruminate. Activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex was positively related to self-reported feelings of anger and individual diff...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Denson TF,Pedersen WC,Ronquillo J,Nandy AS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to find the most prominent source of intersubject variability in neuronal activation for reading familiar words aloud. To this end, we collected functional imaging data from a large sample of subjects (n = 76) with different demographic characteristics such as handedness, sex, and age, while ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Kherif F,Josse G,Seghier ML,Price CJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selectively retrieving a target memory among related memories requires some degree of inhibitory control over interfering and competing memories, a process assumed to be supported by inhibitory mechanisms. Evidence from behavioral studies suggests that such inhibitory control can lead to subsequent forgetting of the i...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Wimber M,Rutschmann RM,Greenlee MW,Bäuml KH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent interest has been drawn to the separate components of recognition memory, as studied by event-related potentials (ERPs). In ERPs, recollection is usually accompanied by a late, parietal positive deflection. An earlier, frontal component has been suggested to be a counterpart, accompanying recognition by familia...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Stenberg G,Hellman J,Johansson M,Rosén I

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-modal fusion phenomena suggest specific interactions of auditory and visual sensory information both within the speech and nonspeech domains. Using whole-head magnetoencephalography, this study recorded M50 and M100 fields evoked by ambiguous acoustic stimuli that were visually disambiguated to perceived /ta/ or...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Hertrich I,Mathiak K,Lutzenberger W,Ackermann H

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One fifth of neurons in the medial-temporal lobe of human epilepsy patients respond selectively to categories of images, such as faces or cars. Here we show that responses of hippocampal neurons are rapidly modified as subjects alternate (over 60 sec) between two tasks (1) identifying images from a category, or (2) pl...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Steinmetz PN

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate how L1 phonology and semantics affect processing of interlingual homographs by manipulating language context before, and auditory input during, a visual experiment in the L2. Three experiments contained German--English homograph primes (gift=German "poison") in English sentences and was performed by Ger...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Elston-Güttler KE,Gunter TC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research has shown that perceived social isolation (loneliness) motivates people to attend to and connect with others but to do so in a self-protective and paradoxically self-defeating fashion. Although recent research has shed light on the neural correlates of social perception, cooperation, empathy, rejection,...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Cacioppo JT,Norris CJ,Decety J,Monteleone G,Nusbaum H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between auditory and visual speech streams is a seamless and surprisingly effective process. An intriguing example is the "McGurk effect": The acoustic syllable /ba/ presented simultaneously with a mouth articulating /ga/ is typically heard as /da/ [McGurk, H., & MacDonald, J. Hearing lips and seeing v...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Kislyuk DS,Möttönen R,Sams M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of research, there is still disagreement regarding the nature of the information that is maintained in linguistic short-term memory (STM). Some authors argue for abstract phonological codes, whereas others argue for more general sensory traces. We assess these possibilities by investigating linguistic ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Pa J,Wilson SM,Pickell H,Bellugi U,Hickok G

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of an object's cortical representation seems to rely on synchronized neuronal activity within the gamma band frequency range (gamma band activity [GBA]). In this study, we investigated whether electroencephalogram (EEG) GBA, and its phase synchronization between electrodes, is necessary for the formation...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Matsumoto A,Iidaka T

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies on the neural correlates of perceptual awareness implicate sensory-specific regions and higher cortical regions such as the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in this process. The specific role of PFC regions is, however, unknown. PFC activity could be bottom-up driven, integrating signals from sensory regions. ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Eriksson J,Larsson A,Nyberg L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00