abstract：:The N170 component of the event-related potential (ERP) reflects experience-dependent neural changes in several forms of visual expertise, including expertise for visual words. Readers skilled in writing systems that link characters to phonemes (i.e., alphabetic writing) typically produce a left-lateralized N170 to vi...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Maurer U,Zevin JD,McCandliss BD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hayling Sentence Completion Task (HSCT) is known to activate left hemisphere frontal and temporal language regions. However, the effective connectivity between frontal and temporal language regions associated with the task has yet to be examined. The aims of the study were to examine activation and effective conne...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Allen P,Mechelli A,Stephan KE,Day F,Dalton J,Williams S,McGuire PK

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How the cerebellum is involved in the practice and proficiency of non-motor functions is still unclear. We tested whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the cerebellum (cerebellar tDCS) induces after-effects on the practice-dependent increase in the proficiency of a working memory (WM) task (Stern...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Ferrucci R,Marceglia S,Vergari M,Cogiamanian F,Mrakic-Sposta S,Mameli F,Zago S,Barbieri S,Priori A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that both the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and the extrastriate occipital cortex (OC) participate in the spatial processing of sounds. However, the precise time-course of their contribution remains unknown, which is of particular interest, considering that it could give new insights into the m...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Collignon O,Davare M,De Volder AG,Poirier C,Olivier E,Veraart C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young and older adults are more likely to remember emotional information than neutral information. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging study examined the neural processes supporting young (ages 18-35) and older (ages 62-79) adults' successful encoding of positive, negative, and neutral objects (e.g., a s...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Kensinger EA,Schacter DL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well documented that children undergo a productive vocabulary spurt late in the second year, it is unclear whether this development is accompanied by equally significant advances in receptive word processing. In the present study, we tested an electrophysiological procedure for assessing receptive word ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： von Koss Torkildsen J,Svangstu JM,Hansen HF,Smith L,Simonsen HG,Moen I,Lindgren M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to detect errors and adjust behavior accordingly is essential for maneuvering in an uncertain environment. Errors are particularly prone to occur when multiple, conflicting responses are registered in a situation that requires flexible behavioral outputs; for instance, when a go signal requires a response ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Li CS,Huang C,Yan P,Paliwal P,Constable RT,Sinha R

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored age-related differences in executive function during selection of a target from among active representations. Refreshing (thinking briefly of a just-activated representation) is an executive process that foregrounds a target relative to other active representations. In a behavioral study, participants saw ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Raye CL,Mitchell KJ,Reeder JA,Greene EJ,Johnson MK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, there is considerable controversy regarding the degree to which top-down control can affect attentional capture by salient events. According to the contingent capture hypothesis, attentional capture by a salient stimulus is contingent on a match between the properties of the stimulus and top-down attentiona...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Leblanc E,Prime DJ,Jolicoeur P

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a popular tool for mapping perceptual and cognitive processes in the human brain. It uses a magnetic field to stimulate the brain, modifying ongoing activity in neural tissue under the stimulating coil, producing an effect that has been likened to a "virtual lesion." However,...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Harris JA,Clifford CW,Miniussi C

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual context plays a prominent role in everyday perception. Contextual information can facilitate recognition of objects within scenes by providing predictions about objects that are most likely to appear in a specific setting, along with the locations that are most likely to contain objects in the scene. Is such id...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Gronau N,Neta M,Bar M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If subjects are required to name the color of the word red printed in blue ink, interference between word meaning and ink color occurs, which slows down reaction time. This effect is well known as the Stroop effect. It is still an unresolved issue how the brain deals with interference in this type of task. To explore ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Hanslmayr S,Pastötter B,Bäuml KH,Gruber S,Wimber M,Klimesch W

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The lateral occipital complex (LOC) is a set of areas in the human occipito-temporal cortex responding to objects as opposed to low-level control stimuli. Conventional functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis methods based on regional averages could not detect signals discriminative of different ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Eger E,Ashburner J,Haynes JD,Dolan RJ,Rees G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Parapsychology is the scientific investigation of apparently paranormal mental phenomena (such as telepathy, i.e., "mind reading"), also known as psi. Despite widespread public belief in such phenomena and over 75 years of experimentation, there is no compelling evidence that psi exists. In the present study,...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Moulton ST,Kosslyn SM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Previous research suggests that the right hemisphere (RH) may contribute uniquely to the processing of metaphoric language. However, causal relationships between local brain activity in the RH and metaphors comprehension were never established. In addition, most studies have focused on familiar metaphoric exp...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Pobric G,Mashal N,Faust M,Lavidor M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain has evolved to process motivationally relevant information in an optimized manner. The perceptual benefit for emotionally arousing material, termed motivated attention, is indexed by electrocortical amplification at various levels of stimulus analysis. An outstanding issue, particularly on a neuronal l...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Ihssen N,Heim S,Keil A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A briefly exposed visual stimulus may not be consciously perceived if it is preceded and followed by a dissimilar visual pattern or mask. Despite the subject's lack of awareness, prior behavioral studies have shown that such masked stimuli, nevertheless, engage domain-specific processes [Dehaene, S., Naccache, L., Coh...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Diaz MT,McCarthy G

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients (TC and SS) with lesions that included the hippocampal regions (predominantly on the left side) were severely impaired in their recall of simple, verbally stated facts. However, both patients remembered spatial information that was temporally associated with semantic information. Specifically, TC and SS c...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Laeng B,Waterloo K,Johnsen SH,Bakke SJ,Låg T,Simonsen SS,Høgsaet J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional auditory oddball paradigms imply the brain's ability to encode regularities, but are not optimal for investigating the process of regularity establishment. In the present study, a dynamic experimental protocol was developed that simulates a more realistic auditory environment with changing regularities. Th...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Bendixen A,Roeber U,Schröger E

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although biases toward signals of fear may be an evolutionary adaptation necessary for survival, heightened biases may be maladaptive and associated with anxiety or depression. In this study, event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to examine the time course of neural responses to facial fear stimuli (versus neutral...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Williams LM,Kemp AH,Felmingham K,Liddell BJ,Palmer DM,Bryant RA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In masking, a stimulus is rendered invisible through the presentation of a second stimulus shortly after the first. Over the years, authors have typically explained masking by postulating some early disruption process. In these feedforward-type explanations, the mask somehow "catches up" with the target stimulus, disr...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Fahrenfort JJ,Scholte HS,Lamme VA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report results from two experiments in which subjects had to categorize briefly presented upright or inverted natural scenes. In the first experiment, subjects decided whether images contained animals or human faces presented at different scales. Behavioral results showed virtually identical processing speed betwee...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Rousselet GA,Macé MJ,Thorpe SJ,Fabre-Thorpe M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right hemisphere lesions often lead to severe disorders in spatial awareness and behavior, such as left hemispatial neglect. Neglect involves not only pathological biases in attention and exploration but also deficits in internal representations of space and spatial working memory. Here we designed a new paradigm to t...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Vuilleumier P,Sergent C,Schwartz S,Valenza N,Girardi M,Husain M,Driver J

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Priming of pop-out" is a form of implicit memory that facilitates detection of a recently inspected search target. Repeated presentation of a target's features or its spatial position improves detection speed (feature/spatial priming). This study investigated a role for the human frontal eye fields (FEFs) in the prim...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： O'Shea J,Muggleton NG,Cowey A,Walsh V

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired retrieval of conceptual knowledge for actions has been associated with lesions of left premotor, left parietal, and left middle temporal areas [Tranel, D., Kemmerer, D., Adolphs, R., Damasio, H., & Damasio, A. R. Neural correlates of conceptual knowledge for actions. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 409-432, 2003]....

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Assmus A,Giessing C,Weiss PH,Fink GR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the interplay between motor programs and their timing in the brain by using precise pulses of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applied to the primary motor cortex. The movement of the finger performing a tapping task is periodically perturbed in synchronization with a metronome. TMS perturbation can pr...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Levit-Binnun N,Handzy NZ,Peled A,Modai I,Moses E

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is broad consensus that the visual word recognition system is sensitive to morphological structure (e.g., "hunter" = "hunt" + "er"). Moreover, it has been assumed that the analysis of morphologically complex words (e.g., "hunter") occurs only if the meaning of the complex form can be derived from the meanings of...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Lavric A,Clapp A,Rastle K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stimulus that suddenly appears in the corner of the eye inevitably captures our attention, and this in turn leads to faster detection of a second stimulus presented at the same position shortly thereafter. After about 250 msec, however, this effect reverses and the second stimulus is detected faster when it appears ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Müller NG,Kleinschmidt A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to unimanual task execution, simultaneous bimanual tapping tasks are associated with a significantly reduced intertap variability. It has been suggested that this bimanual advantage is based on the integration of timing signals which otherwise control each hand independently. Although its functional and anato...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Pollok B,Butz M,Gross J,Schnitzler A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A task that has been intensively studied at the neural level is f lutter discrimination. I argue that f lutter discrimination entails a combination of a temporal assignment problem and a quantity comparison problem, and propose a neural network model of how these problems are solved. The network combines unsupervised ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Verguts T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of commonality between the perceptual mechanisms involved in processing faces and objects of expertise is intensely debated. To clarify this issue, we recorded occipito-temporal event-related potentials in response to faces when concurrently processing visual objects of expertise. In car experts fixating pi...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Rossion B,Collins D,Goffaux V,Curran T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interhemispheric inhibition (IHI) between motor cortical areas is thought to play a critical role in motor control and could influence manual dexterity. The purpose of this study was to investigate IHI preceding movements of the dominant and nondominant hands of healthy volunteers. Movement-related IHI was studied by ...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Duque J,Murase N,Celnik P,Hummel F,Harris-Love M,Mazzocchio R,Olivier E,Cohen LG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the correlation between perception and hemodynamic activity in the visual cortex in a change detection task. Whenever the observer perceived the location of a change, rightly or wrongly, the blood oxygenation level-dependent signal increased in the primary visual cortex and the nearby extrastriate areas abo...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Moradi F,Hipp C,Koch C

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioral inhibition system [Gray, J. A. The neuropsychology of anxiety: An enquiry into the functions of the septo-hippocampal system. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982] proposes that anxiety is associated with the processing of novel stimuli. We aimed to explore this relationship by recording auditory event...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Hogan AM,Butterfield EL,Phillips L,Hadwin JA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological, event-related potential (ERP), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods were combined to provide a comprehensive description of performance and neurobiological profiles for K.W., a case of congenital prosopagnosia. We demonstrate that K.W.'s visual perception is characterized by alm...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Bentin S,Degutis JM,D'Esposito M,Robertson LC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We employed a parametric version of the comparison Stroop paradigm to investigate the processing of numerical magnitude and physical size under task-relevant and -irrelevant conditions to investigate two theoretical issues: (1) What is the neural fate of task-irrelevant information? (2) What is the neural basis of the...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Tang J,Critchley HD,Glaser DE,Dolan RJ,Butterworth B

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humor is a unique ability in human beings. Suls [A two-stage model for the appreciation of jokes and cartoons. In P. E. Goldstein & J. H. McGhee (Eds.), The psychology of humour. Theoretical perspectives and empirical issues. New York: Academic Press, 1972, pp. 81-100] proposed a two-stage model of humor: detection an...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Bartolo A,Benuzzi F,Nocetti L,Baraldi P,Nichelli P

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite smooth pursuit eye movements, we are unaware of resultant retinal image motion. This example of perceptual invariance is achieved by comparing retinal image slip with an internal reference signal predicting the sensory consequences of the eye movement. This prediction can be manipulated experimentally, allowin...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Lindner A,Haarmeier T,Erb M,Grodd W,Thier P

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different structures within the medial-temporal lobe likely make distinct contributions to declarative memory. In particular, several current psychological and computational models of memory predict that the hippocampus and parahippocampal regions play different roles in the formation and retrieval of declarative memo...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Viskontas IV,Knowlton BJ,Steinmetz PN,Fried I

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous psycholinguistic research has debated the nature of the mental representation of verbs and the access of relevant verb information in sentence processing. In this study, we used behavioral and electrophysiological methods to examine the representation of verbs in and out of sentence contexts. In five experime...

journal_title：Journal of cognitive neuroscience

authors： Li X,Shu H,Liu Y,Li P

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00