Brain and Cognition – ESC Research

Converging operations and the role of perceptual and decisional influences on the perception of faces: Neural and behavioral evidence

Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 59-75 Abstract “Theoretical analyses suggest that the regularities indicative of holistic processing can be obtained by combinations of perceptual and decisional factors. Kuefner and colleagues used electrophysiological results to suggest that the composite face effect is driven solely by perceptual factors. Two limitations of their approach are […]

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Task-residual functional connectivity of language and attention networks

Brain and Cognition

Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 52-58 Abstract “Functional connectivity using task-residual data capitalizes on remaining variance after mean task-related signal is removed from a time series. The degree of network specificity in language and attention domains featured by task-residual and resting-state data types were compared. Functional connectivity based on task-residual data evidenced

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Prefrontal cortex activation during obstacle negotiation: What’s the effect size and timing?

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Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 45-51 Abstract “Background Obstacle negotiation is a daily activity that requires the integration of sensorimotor and cognitive information. Recent studies provide evidence for the important role of prefrontal cortex during obstacle negotiation. We aimed to explore the effects of obstacle height and available response time on prefrontal

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More far is more right: Manual and ocular line bisections, but not the Judd illusion, depend on radial space

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Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 34-43 Abstract “Line bisection studies generally find a left-to-right shift in bisection bias with increasing distance between the observer and the target line, which may be explained by hemispheric differences in the processing of proximo-distal information. In the present study, the segregation between near and far space

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Reduced inter-hemispheric interference in ageing: Evidence from a divided field Stroop paradigm

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Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 26-33 Abstract “One of the most important structural changes that occur in the brain during the course of life relates to the corpus callosum, the largest neural pathway that connects the two cerebral hemispheres. It has been shown that the corpus callosum, and in particular its anterior

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Association of the N100 TMS-evoked potential with attentional processes: A motor cortex TMS–EEG study

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Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 9-16 Abstract “The most thoroughly studied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-evoked electroencephalogram (EEG) potential (TEP), N100, is often defined as a measure of cortical inhibition. We explored the association of the N100 amplitude with attention in 51 young healthy adults. Navigated TMS with simultaneous EEG registering was applied

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Aerobic exercise is more effective than goal-based exercise for the treatment of cognition in Parkinson’s disease

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Published in: Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 1-8 Abstract ” Background Little is known about how different exercise modalities influence cognition in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Moreover, the focus of previous investigations on examining the effects of exercise mainly on executive functions and the exclusion of individuals with cognitive impairment may limit the potential to

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