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Noninvasive- and invasive mapping reveals similar language network centralities – A function-based connectome analysis Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Sebastian Ille MD, Haosu Zhang MD&PhD, Nina Stassen, Maximilian Schwendner MD, Axel Schröder, Benedikt Wiestler MD, Bernhard Meyer MD, Sandro M. Krieg MD MBA
Former comparisons between direct cortical stimulation (DCS) and navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) only focused on cortical mapping. While both can be combined with diffusion tensor imaging, their differences in the visualization of subcortical and even network levels remain unclear. Network centrality is an essential parameter in network analysis to measure the importance of nodes
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Studying the Social Mind: An Updated Summary of Findings from the Vietnam Head Injury Study Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Irene Cristofori, Shira Cohen-Zimerman, Frank Krueger, Roxana Jabbarinejad, Ekaterina Delikishkina, Barry Gordon, Pierre-Aurélien Beuriat, Jordan Grafman
Lesion mapping studies allow us to evaluate the potential causal contribution of specific brain areas to human cognition and complement other cognitive neuroscience methods, as several authors have recently pointed out. Here, we present an updated summary of the findings from the Vietnam Head Injury Study (VHIS) focusing on the studies conducted over the last decade, that examined the social mind and
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The inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus correlates with early precursors of mathematics and reading before the start of formal schooling Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Floor Vandecruys, Maaike Vandermosten, Bert De Smedt
Diffusion-weighted imaging studies in preschoolers have almost exclusively been done in the field of reading. As a result, virtually nothing is known about white matter tracts associated with individual differences in mathematics at this age. Studying the preschoolers’ brain is crucial because it allows us to identify individual differences in brain anatomy without influences of formal mathematics
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Conscious perception of fear in faces: Insights from high-density EEG and perceptual awareness scale with threshold stimuli Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Antonio Maffei, Filippo Gambarota, Mario Liotti, Roberto Dell'Acqua, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Paola Sessa
Contrary to the extensive research on processing subliminal and/or unattended emotional facial expressions, only a minority of studies have investigated the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) of emotions conveyed by faces. In the present high-density electroencephalography (EEG) study, we first employed a staircase procedure to identify each participant's perceptual threshold of the emotion
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When does perceptual organization happen? Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Alexis D.J. Makin, Ned Buckley, Emma Austin, Marco Bertamini
Reflectional (mirror) symmetry is an important visual cue for perceptual organization. The brain processes symmetry rapidly and efficiently. Previous work suggests that symmetry activates the extrastriate cortex and generates an event related potential (ERP) called the (SPN). It has been claimed that no tasks completely block symmetry processing and abolish the SPN. We tested the limits of this claim
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Updating functional brain units: Insights far beyond Luria Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jordi Peña-Casanova, Gonzalo Sánchez-Benavides, Jorge Sigg-Alonso
This paper reviews Luria's model of the three functional units of the brain. To meet this objective, several issues were reviewed: the theory of functional systems and the contributions of phylogenesis and embryogenesis to the brain's functional organization. This review revealed several facts. In the first place, the relationship/integration of basic homeostatic needs with complex forms of behavior
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Visual attention patterns during a gaze following task in neurogenetic syndromes associated with unique profiles of autistic traits: Fragile X and Cornelia de Lange syndromes Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Katherine Ellis, Sarah White, Malwina Dziwisz, Paridhi Agarwal, Jo Moss
Gaze following difficulties are considered an early marker of autism, thought likely to cumulatively impact the development of social cognition, language and social skills. Subtle differences in gaze following abilities may contribute to the diverse range social and communicative autistic characteristics observed across people with genetic syndromes, such as Cornelia de Lange (CdLS) and fragile X (FXS)
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Acute right opercular stroke-associated polyopic heautoscopy and hallucinations caused by disconnection to the inferior parietal lobule through the superior longitudinal fasciculus III: A single case study Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mihailo Obrenovic, Michael Mouthon, Camille Chavan, Arnaud Saj, Sebastian Dieguez, Jerôme Aellen, Joelle N. Chabwine
Illusory neuropsychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations or the feeling of a presence (FOP) can occur in diffuse brain lesion or dysfunction, in psychiatric diseases as well as in healthy individuals. Their occurrence due to focal brain lesions is rare, most probably due to underreporting, which limits progress in understanding their underlying mechanisms and anatomical determinants.
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Effects of absolute pitch on brain activation and functional connectivity during hearing-in-noise perception Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Hung-Chen Tseng, I-Hui Hsieh
Hearing-in-noise (HIN) ability is crucial in speech and music communication. Recent evidence suggests that absolute pitch (AP), the ability to identify isolated musical notes, is associated with HIN benefits. A theoretical account postulates a link between AP ability and neural network indices of segregation. However, how AP ability modulates the brain activation and functional connectivity underlying
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On the (un)reliability of common behavioral and electrophysiological measures from the stop signal task: Measures of inhibition lack stability over time Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Christina Thunberg, Thea Wiker, Carsten Bundt, Rene J. Huster
Response inhibition, the intentional stopping of planned or initiated actions, is often considered a key facet of control, impulsivity, and self-regulation. The stop signal task is argued to be the purest inhibition task we have, and it is thus central to much work investigating the role of inhibition in areas like development and psychopathology. Most of this work quantifies stopping behavior by calculating
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Exploration of the influence of the quantification method and reference scheme on feedback-related negativity and standardized measurement error of feedback-related negativity amplitudes in a trust game Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Johannes Rodrigues, Saskia Müller, Marko Paelecke, Yiwen Wang, Johannes Hewig
Various approaches have been taken over the years to quantify event-related potential (ERP) responses and these approaches may vary in their utility connecting empirical research and scientific claims. In this work we compared different quantification methods as well as the influence of three reference methods (linked mastoids, average reference, and current source density) on the resulting ERP amplitude
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What is developmental about developmental prosopagnosia? Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Gabriela Epihova, Duncan E. Astle
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is characterised by difficulties recognising face identities and is associated with diverse co-occurring object recognition difficulties. The high co-occurrence rate and heterogeneity of associated difficulties in DP is an intrinsic feature of developmental conditions, where co-occurrence of difficulties is the rule, rather than the exception. However, despite its name
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A network approach to subjective cognitive decline: Exploring multivariate relationships in neuropsychological test performance across Alzheimer's disease risk states Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Nicholas Grunden, Natalie A. Phillips, the Consortium for the Early Identification of Alzheimer's Disease-Quebec (CIMA-Q), for the COMPASS-ND group
Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is characterized by subjective concerns of cognitive change despite test performance within normal range. Although those with SCD are at higher risk for developing further cognitive decline, we still lack methods using objective cognitive measures that reliably distinguish SCD from cognitively normal aging at the group level. Network analysis may help to address this
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How and when social evaluative feedback is processed in the brain: A systematic review on ERP studies Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Antje Peters, Hanne Helming, Maximilian Bruchmann, Anja Wiegandt, Thomas Straube, Sebastian Schindler
Social evaluative feedback informs the receiver of the other's views, which may contain judgments of personality-related traits and/or the level of likability. Such kinds of social evaluative feedback are of particular importance to humans. Event-related potentials (ERPs) can directly measure where in the processing stream feedback valence, expectancy, or contextual relevance modulate information processing
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Reconsidering Luria's speech mediation: Verbalization and haptic picture identification in children with congenital total blindness Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Amedeo D'Angiulli, Dana Wymark, Santa Temi, Sahar Bahrami, Andre Telfer
Current accounts of behavioral and neurocognitive correlates of plasticity in blindness are just beginning to incorporate the role of speech and verbal production. We assessed Vygotsky/Luria's hypothesis, according to which speech activity can become a mediating tool for perception of complex stimuli, specifically, for encoding tactual/haptic spatial patterns which convey pictorial information (haptic
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Cognitive, behavioral, and psychological phenotypes in small fiber neuropathy: A case–control study Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 A. Telesca, E. Soldini, G. Devigili, D. Cazzato, E. Dalla Bella, L. Grazzi, S. Usai, G. Lauria, M. Consonni
Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) is a well-defined chronic painful condition causing severe individual and societal burden. While mood disorders have been described, cognitive and behavioral profiles of SFN patients has not been investigated. Thirty-four painful SFN patients underwent comprehensive cognitive, behavioral, psychological, quality of life (QoL), and personality assessment using validated questionnaires
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Doubling down on dual systems: A cerebellum–amygdala route towards action- and outcome-based social and affective behavior Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 David Terburg, Jack van Honk, Dennis J.L.G. Schutter
The amygdala and cerebellum are both evolutionary preserved brain structures containing cortical as well as subcortical properties. For decades, the amygdala has been considered the fear-center of the brain, but recent advances have shown that the amygdala acts as a critical hub between cortical and subcortical systems and shapes social and affective behaviors beyond fear. Likewise, the cerebellum
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Examining the relationship between brain activation and proxies of disease severity using quantile regression in individuals at risk of Alzheimer's disease Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Laurie Décarie-Labbé, Isaora Zefania Dialahy, Nick Corriveau-Lecavalier, Samira Mellah, the Consortium for the Early Identification of Alzheimer's Disease, (CIMA-Q) and, Sylvie Belleville
Previous studies have reported a pattern of hyperactivation in the pre-dementia phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD), followed by hypoactivation in later stages of the disease. This pattern was modeled as an inverse U-shape function between activation and markers of disease severity. In this study, we used quantile regression to model the association between task-related brain activation in AD signature
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Linguistic and attentional factors – Not statistical regularities – Contribute to word-selective neural responses with FPVS-oddball paradigms Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Aliette Lochy, Bruno Rossion, Matthew Lambon Ralph, Angélique Volfart, Olaf Hauk, Christine Schiltz
Studies using frequency-tagging in electroencephalography (EEG) have dramatically increased in the past 10 years, in a variety of domains and populations. Here we used Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation (FPVS) combined with an oddball design to explore visual word recognition. Given the paradigm's high sensitivity, it is crucial for future basic research and clinical application to prove its robustness
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Multisensory peripersonal space: Visual looming stimuli induce stronger response facilitation to tactile than auditory and visual stimulations Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 L. Geers, P. Kozieja, Yann Coello
Anticipating physical contact with objects in the environment is a key component of efficient motor performance. Peripersonal neurons are thought to play a determinant role in these predictions by enhancing responses to touch when combined with visual stimuli in peripersonal space (PPS). However, recent research challenges the idea that this visuo-tactile integration contributing to the prediction
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Resting-state brain network connectivity is an independent predictor of responsiveness to language therapy in chronic post-stroke aphasia Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Isaac Falconer, Maria Varkanitsa, Swathi Kiran
Post-stroke aphasia recovery, especially in the chronic phase, is challenging to predict. Functional integrity of the brain and brain network topology have been suggested as biomarkers of language recovery. This study sought to investigate functional connectivity in four predefined brain networks (i.e., language, default mode, dorsal attention, and salience networks), in relation to aphasia severity
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Can group membership modulate the social abilities of autistic people? An intergroup bias in smile perception Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Ruihan Wu, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Sarah J. White
Autistic adults struggle to reliably differentiate genuine and posed smiles. Intergroup bias is a promising factor that may modulate smile discrimination performance, which has been shown in neurotypical adults, and which could highlight ways to make social interactions easier. However, it is not clear whether this bias also exists in autistic people. Thus, the current study aimed to investigate this
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Can face recognition be selectively preserved in some cases of amnesia? A cautionary tale Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 James R.B. Wingrove, Jeremy J. Tree
Evidence suggests that some patients with isolated hippocampal damage appear to present with selective preservation of unfamiliar face recognition relative to other kinds of visual test stimuli (e.g., words). Bird and Burgess (2008) formulated a review and secondary analysis of a group of 10 cases all tested on a clinical assessment of word and face recognition memory (RMT, Warrington, 1984), which
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Neural correlates of confidence during decision formation in a perceptual judgment task Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Yiu Hong Ko, Andong Zhou, Eva Niessen, Jutta Stahl, Peter H. Weiss, Robert Hester, Stefan Bode, Daniel Feuerriegel
When we make a decision, we also estimate the probability that our choice is correct or accurate. This probability estimate is termed our degree of decision confidence. Recent work has reported event-related potential (ERP) correlates of confidence both during decision formation (the centro-parietal positivity component; CPP) and after a decision has been made (the error positivity component; Pe).
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Reply to commentaries on enhanced mind-matter interactions following rTMS induced frontal lobe inhibition Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Morris Freedman, Malcolm A. Binns, Jed A. Meltzer, Rohila Hashimi, Robert Chen
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The influence of hand posture on tactile processing: Evidence from a 7T functional magnetic resonance imaging study Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Elisabetta Ambron, Frank E. Garcea, Samuel Cason, Jared Medina, John A. Detre, H. Branch Coslett
Although behavioral evidence has shown that postural changes influence the ability to localize or detect tactile stimuli, little is known regarding the brain areas that modulate these effects. This 7T functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study explores the effects of touch of the hand as a function of hand location (right or left side of the body) and hand configuration (open or closed). We
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Enhanced motor network engagement during reward gain anticipation in fibromyalgia Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Su Hyoun Park, Andrew M. Michael, Anne K. Baker, Carina Lei, Katherine T. Martucci
Reward motivation is essential in shaping human behavior and cognition. Both reward motivation and reward brain circuits are altered in chronic pain conditions, including fibromyalgia. In this study of fibromyalgia patients, we used a data-driven independent component analysis (ICA) approach to investigate how brain networks contribute to altered reward processing. From females with fibromyalgia (N=24)
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Reduced categorical learning of faces in dyslexia Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Ayelet Gertsovski, Odeya Guri, Merav Ahissar
The perception of phonological categories in dyslexia is less refined than in typically developing (TD) individuals. Traditionally, this characteristic was considered unique to phonology, yet many studies showed non-phonological perceptual difficulties. Importantly, measuring the dynamics of cortical adaptation, associated with category acquisition, revealed a broadly distributed faster decay of cortical
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Exploring the intra-individual reliability of tDCS: A registered report Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Nicholas Willmot, Li-Ann Leow, Hannah L. Filmer, Paul E. Dux
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a form of non-invasive brain stimulation, has become an important tool for the study of brain function due to its modulatory effects. Over the past two decades, interest in the influence of tDCS on behaviour has increased markedly, resulting in a large body of literature spanning multiple domains. However, the effect of tDCS on human performance often
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Discriminating nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants with automatically extracted morphosyntactic measures from connected speech Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Sladjana Lukic, Zekai Fan, Adolfo M. García, Ariane E. Welch, Buddhika M. Ratnasiri, Stephen M. Wilson, Maya L. Henry, Jet Vonk, Jessica Deleon, Bruce L. Miller, Zachary Miller, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
Morphosyntactic assessments are important for characterizing individuals with nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA). Yet, standard tests are subject to examiner bias and often fail to differentiate between nfvPPA and logopenic variant PPA (lvPPA). Moreover, relevant neural signatures remain underexplored. Here, we leverage natural language processing tools to automatically
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Tumour-infiltrated cortex participates in large-scale cognitive circuits Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ayan S. Mandal, Chemda Wiener, Moataz Assem, Rafael Romero-Garcia, Pedro Coelho, Alexa McDonald, Emma Woodberry, Robert C. Morris, Stephen J. Price, John Duncan, Thomas Santarius, John Suckling, Michael G. Hart, Yaara Erez
The extent to which tumour-infiltrated brain tissue contributes to cognitive function remains unclear. We tested the hypothesis that cortical tissue infiltrated by diffuse gliomas participates in large-scale cognitive circuits using a unique combination of intracranial electrocorticography (ECoG) and resting-state functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) imaging in four patients. We also assessed the relationship
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Unpacking the Overlap between Autism and ADHD in Adults: A Multi-Method Approach Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Lucy H. Waldren, Florence Y.N. Leung, Luca D. Hargitai, Alexander P. Burgoyne, Van Rynald T. Liceralde, Lucy A. Livingston, Punit Shah
The overlap between Autism and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is widely observed in clinical settings, with growing interest in their co-occurrence in neurodiversity research. Until relatively recently, however, concurrent diagnoses of Autism and ADHD were not possible. This has limited the scope for large-scale research on their cross-condition associations, further stymied by a dearth
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Situating word deafness within aphasia recovery: A case report Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Marianne Casilio, Anna V. Kasdan, Sarah M. Schneck, Jillian L. Entrup, Deborah F. Levy, Kelly Crouch, Stephen M. Wilson
Word deafness is a rare neurological disorder often observed following bilateral damage to superior temporal cortex and canonically defined as an auditory modality-specific deficit in word comprehension. The extent to which word deafness is dissociable from aphasia remains unclear given its heterogeneous presentation, and some have consequently posited that word deafness instead represents a stage
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Negative emotions enhance memory-guided attention in a visual search task by increasing frontoparietal, insular, and parahippocampal cortical activity Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Ilenia Salsano, Rongwen Tain, Giovanni Giulietti, Dewayne P. Williams, Cristina Ottaviani, Gabriella Antonucci, Julian F. Thayer, Valerio Santangelo
Previous literature demonstrated that long-term memory representations guide spatial attention during visual search in real-world pictures. However, it is currently unknown whether memory-guided visual search is affected by the emotional content of the picture. During fMRI, participants were asked to encode the position of high-contrast targets embedded in emotional (negative or positive) or neutral
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Awareness is needed for contextual effects in ambiguous object recognition Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Amir Tal, May Sar-Shalom, Tzahi Kravitz, Dan Biderman, Liad Mudrik
Despite its centrality to human experience, the functional role of conscious awareness is not yet known. One hypothesis suggests that consciousness is necessary for allowing high-level information to refine low-level processing in a “top-down” manner. To test this hypothesis, in this work we examined whether consciousness is needed for integrating contextual information with sensory information during
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Mapping neurodevelopmental diversity in executive function Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Silvana Mareva, The CALM Team, Lead Investigators, Duncan Astle, Kate Baker, Susan Gathercole, Joni Holmes, Rogier Kievit, Tom Manly, Team of Researchers and PhD Students, Danyal Akarca, Joe Bathelt, Madalena Bettencourt, Marc Bennett, Giacomo Bignardi, Sarah Bishop, Erica Bottacin, Lara Bridge, Diandra Brkic, Annie Bryant, Sally Butterfield, Elizabeth Byrne, Gemma Crickmore, Edwin Dalmaijer, Fanchea
Executive function, an umbrella term used to describe the goal-directed regulation of thoughts, actions, and emotions, is an important dimension implicated in neurodiversity and established malleable predictor of multiple adult outcomes. Neurodevelopmental differences have been linked to both executive function strengths and weaknesses, but evidence for associations between specific profiles of executive
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Enhancing cognitive control with transcranial magnetic stimulation in subject-specific frontoparietal networks Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Julia Dengler, Benjamin L. Deck, Harrison Stoll, Guadalupe Fernandez-Nunez, Apoorva S. Kelkar, Ryan R. Rich, Brian A. Erickson, Fareshte Erani, Olufunsho Faseyitan, Roy H. Hamilton, John D. Medaglia
Cognitive control processes, including those involving frontoparietal networks, are highly variable between individuals, posing challenges to basic and clinical sciences. While distinct frontoparietal networks have been associated with specific cognitive control functions such as switching, inhibition, and working memory updating functions, there have been few basic tests of the role of these networks
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The odd one out – Orthographic oddball processing in children with poor versus typical reading skills in a fast periodic visual stimulation EEG paradigm Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Christina G. Lutz, Seline Coraj, Gorka Fraga-González, Silvia Brem
The specialization of left ventral occipitotemporal brain regions to automatically process word forms develops with reading acquisition and is diminished in children with poor reading skills (PR). Using a fast periodic visual oddball stimulation (FPVS) design during electroencephalography (EEG), we examined the level of sensitivity and familiarity to word form processing in ninety-two children in 2nd
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A new way of classifying developmental prosopagnosia: Balanced Integration Score Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Judith Lowes, Peter J.B. Hancock, Anna K. Bobak
Despite severe everyday problems recognising faces, some individuals with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) can achieve typical accuracy scores on laboratory face recognition tests. To address this, studies sometimes also examine response times (RTs), which tend to be longer in DPs relative to control participants. In the present study, 24 potential (according to self-report) DPs and 110 age-matched
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Order effects in task-free learning: Tuning to information-carrying sound features Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Juanita Todd, Mattsen Yeark, Paul Auriac, Bryan Paton, István Winkler
Event-related potentials (ERPs) acquired during task-free passive listening can be used to study how sensitivity to common pattern repetitions and rare deviations changes over time. These changes are purported to represent the formation and accumulation of precision in internal models that anticipate future states based on probabilistic and/or statistical learning. This study features an unexpected
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Questionable evidence for prefrontal cortex as an alleged psi inhibitor Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Artur Pilacinski, Christian Klaes, Jason Friedman, Michael Wiesing
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Why we publish papers reporting findings we may not believe Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Sergio Della Sala, Jordan Grafman
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Disentangling empathy impairment along Alzheimer's disease continuum: From subjective cognitive decline to Alzheimer's dementia Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Giulia Giacomucci, Valentina Moschini, Diletta Piazzesi, Sonia Padiglioni, Cecilia Caruso, Claudia Nuti, Alice Munarin, Salvatore Mazzeo, Giulia Galdo, Cristina Polito, Filippo Emiliani, Daniele Frigerio, Carmen Morinelli, Silvia Bagnoli, Assunta Ingannato, Benedetta Nacmias, Sandro Sorbi, Valentina Berti, Valentina Bessi
Little is known about empathy changes from the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) continuum. The aim of this study is to investigate empathy across AD spectrum from Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and AD dementia (AD-d).
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Deepening temporal cues in reading manipulations for dyslexia: A commentary on Horowitz-Kraus et al. (2023) Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Alice Cancer, Alessandro Antonietti
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Neuropsychology comes to parapsychology: Comment on Freedman et al. “Enhanced Mind–Matter Interactions Following rTMS Induced Frontal Lobe Inhibition” Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 M, o, r, r, i, s, , M, o, s, c, o, v, i, t, c, h
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Lesion voxels to lesion networks: The enduring value of the Vietnam Head Injury Study Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Calvin W. Howard, Michael H. Ferguson, Shan H. Siddiqi, Michael D. Fox
The Vietnam Head Injury Study has been curated by Dr Jordan Grafman since the 1980s in an effort to study patients with penetrating traumatic brain injuries suffered during the Vietnam War. Unlike many datasets of ischemic stroke lesions, the VHIS collected extraordinarily deep phenotyping and was able to sample lesion locations that are not constrained to typical vascular territories. For decades
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Cortex 60th anniversary: Reminiscence and comments Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Sergio Della Sala
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When direction matters: Neural correlates of interlimb coordination of rhythm and beat Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Signe H. Mårup, Boris A. Kleber, Cecilie Møller, Peter Vuust
In a previous experiment, we found evidence for a bodily hierarchy governing interlimb coordination of rhythm and beat, using five effectors: 1) Left foot, 2) Right foot, 3) Left hand, 4) Right hand and 5) Voice. The hierarchy implies that, during simultaneous rhythm and beat performance and using combinations of two of these effectors, executing the task by performing the rhythm with an effector that
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Contributions of listening effort and intelligibility to cortical tracking of speech in adverse listening conditions Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Hadeel Ershaid, Mikel Lizarazu, Drew McLaughlin, Martin Cooke, Olympia Simantiraki, Maria Koutsogiannaki, Marie Lallier
Cortical tracking of speech is vital for speech segmentation and is linked to speech intelligibility. However, there is no clear consensus as to whether reduced intelligibility leads to a decrease or an increase in cortical speech tracking, warranting further investigation of the factors influencing this relationship. One such factor is listening effort, defined as the cognitive resources necessary
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Contextual novelty detection and novelty-related memory enhancement in amnestic mild cognitive impairment Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Anaïs Servais, Emmanuel J. Barbeau, Christine Bastin
Though novelty processing plays a critical role in memory function, little is known about how it influences learning in memory-impaired populations, such as amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI). 21 aMCI patients and 22 age- and education-matched healthy older participants performed two tasks—(i) an oddball paradigm where fractals that were often repeated (60 % of the stimuli), less frequently
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Enhanced mind–matter interactions? A commentary on Freedman et al., 2024 Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Alberto Pisoni, Eleonora Arrigoni, Nadia Bolognini, Giacomo Guidali, Leonor J. Romero Lauro, Alessandra Vergallito
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Enhanced degrees of freedom. A Commentary on Freedman et al. Enhanced Mind-Matter Interactions Following rTMS Induced Frontal Lobe Inhibition Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Z, o, l, t, a, n, , K, e, k, e, c, s
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Beyond corticocentrism in human neuropsychology: discoveries unattainable 60 years ago Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Julie Anne Péron
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The Utilitarian Brain: Moving Beyond the Free Energy Principle Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Babak Hemmatian, Lav R. Varshney, Frederick Pi, Aron K. Barbey
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) is a normative computational framework for iterative reduction of prediction error and uncertainty through perception-intervention cycles that has been presented as a potential unifying theory of all brain functions (Friston, 2006). Decision-making is an important cognitive faculty whose mechanisms must be explained by any theory hoping to unify the brain sciences. This
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Feedforward connectivity patterns from visual areas to the front of the brain contain information about sensory stimuli regardless of awareness or report Cortex (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Elise G. Rowe, Marta I. Garrido, Naotsugu Tsuchiya
Current theories of consciousness can be categorized to some extent by their predictions about the putative role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in conscious perception. One family of the theories proposes that the PFC is necessary for conscious perception. The other postulates that the PFC is not necessary and that other areas (e.g., posterior cortical areas) are more important for conscious perception