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Discrepant changes in structure–function coupling in dancers and musicians Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Kexin Gao, Hui He, Bao Lu, Qiushui Xie, Jing Lu, Dezhong Yao, Cheng Luo, Gujing Li
Dance and music are well known to improve sensorimotor skills and cognitive functions. To reveal the underlying mechanism, previous studies focus on the brain plastic structural and functional effects of dance and music training. However, the discrepancy training effects on brain structure–function relationship are still blurred. Thus, proficient dancers, musicians, and controls were recruited in this
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The effects of mental fatigue on fine motor performance in humans and its neural network connectivity mechanism: a dart throwing study Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Suoqing Niu, Jianrui Guo, Nicholas J Hanson, KaiQi Wang, Jinlei Chai, Feng Guo
While it is well known that mental fatigue impairs fine motor performance, the investigation into its neural basis remains scant. Here, we investigate the impact of mental fatigue on fine motor performance and explore its underlying neural network connectivity mechanisms. A total of 24 healthy male university students were recruited and randomly divided into two groups: a mental fatigue group (MF)
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Alexithymia modulates emotion concept activation during facial expression processing Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Linwei Yu, Weihan Wang, Zhiwei Li, Yi Ren, Jiabin Liu, Lan Jiao, Qiang Xu
Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties in emotional information processing. However, the underlying reasons for emotional processing deficits in alexithymia are not fully understood. The present study aimed to investigate the mechanism underlying emotional deficits in alexithymia. Using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, we recruited college students with high alexithymia (n = 24) or low alexithymia
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Utilizing graph convolutional networks for identification of mild cognitive impairment from single modal fMRI data: a multiconnection pattern combination approach Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jie He, Peng Wang, Jun He, Chenhao Sun, Xiaowen Xu, Lei Zhang, Xin Wang, Xin Gao
Mild cognitive impairment plays a crucial role in predicting the early progression of Alzheimer’s disease, and it can be used as an important indicator of the disease progression. Currently, numerous studies have focused on utilizing the functional brain network as a novel biomarker for mild cognitive impairment diagnosis. In this context, we employed a graph convolutional neural network to automatically
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Auditory prediction errors in sound frequency and duration generated different cortical activation patterns in the human brain: an ECoG study Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Megumi Takasago, Naoto Kunii, Shigeta Fujitani, Yohei Ishishita, Mariko Tada, Kenji Kirihara, Misako Komatsu, Takanori Uka, Seijiro Shimada, Keisuke Nagata, Kiyoto Kasai, Nobuhito Saito
Sound frequency and duration are essential auditory components. The brain perceives deviations from the preceding sound context as prediction errors, allowing efficient reactions to the environment. Additionally, prediction error response to duration change is reduced in the initial stages of psychotic disorders. To compare the spatiotemporal profiles of responses to prediction errors, we conducted
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Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Saima Malik-Moraleda, Olessia Jouravlev, Maya Taliaferro, Zachary Mineroff, Theodore Cucu, Kyle Mahowald, Idan A Blank, Evelina Fedorenko
How do polyglots—individuals who speak five or more languages—process their languages, and what can this population tell us about the language system? Using fMRI, we identified the language network in each of 34 polyglots (including 16 hyperpolyglots with knowledge of 10+ languages) and examined its response to the native language, non-native languages of varying proficiency, and unfamiliar languages
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The effective connectivity analysis of fMRI based on asymmetric detection of transfer brain entropy Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yuhu Shi, Yidan Li
It is important to explore causal relationships in functional magnetic resonance imaging study. However, the traditional effective connectivity analysis method is easy to produce false causality, and the detection accuracy needs to be improved. In this paper, we introduce a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging effective connectivity method based on the asymmetry detection of transfer entropy
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Low blood concentration of alcohol enhances activity related to stopping failure in the right inferior frontal cortex Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jun Shinozaki, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Hidekazu Saito, Takashi Murahara, Hiroshi Nagahama, Yuuki Sakurai, Takashi Nagamine
This study investigated the effects of low doses of alcohol, which are acceptable for driving a car, on inhibitory control and neural processing using the stop-signal task (SST) in 17 healthy right-handed social drinkers. The study employed simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging and electromyography (EMG) recordings to assess behavioral and neural responses under conditions of low-dose
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Functional and structural abnormalities of the speech disorders: a multimodal activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Hao Cai, Jie Dong, Leilei Mei, Genyi Feng, Lili Li, Gang Wang, Hao Yan
Speech disorders are associated with different degrees of functional and structural abnormalities. However, the abnormalities associated with specific disorders, and the common abnormalities shown by all disorders, remain unclear. Herein, a meta-analysis was conducted to integrate the results of 70 studies that compared 1843 speech disorder patients (dysarthria, dysphonia, stuttering, and aphasia)
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Neuroimaging genomics as a window into the evolution of human sulcal organization Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ole Goltermann, Gökberk Alagöz, Barbara Molz, Simon E Fisher
Primate brain evolution has involved prominent expansions of the cerebral cortex, with largest effects observed in the human lineage. Such expansions were accompanied by fine-grained anatomical alterations, including increased cortical folding. However, the molecular bases of evolutionary alterations in human sulcal organization are not yet well understood. Here, we integrated data from recently completed
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The developmental trajectory of 1H-MRS brain metabolites from childhood to adulthood Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Alice R Thomson, Hannah Hwa, Duanghathai Pasanta, Benjamin Hopwood, Helen J Powell, Ross Lawrence, Zeus G Tabuenca, Tomoki Arichi, Richard A E Edden, Xiaoqian Chai, Nicolaas A Puts
Human brain development is ongoing throughout childhood, with for example, myelination of nerve fibers and refinement of synaptic connections continuing until early adulthood. 1H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H-MRS) can be used to quantify the concentrations of endogenous metabolites (e.g. glutamate and γ -aminobutyric acid (GABA)) in the human brain in vivo and so can provide valuable, tractable
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Altered white matter functional pathways in Alzheimer’s disease Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yilu Li, Jinzhong Peng, Zhenzhen Yang, Fanyu Zhang, Lin Liu, Pan Wang, Bharat B Biswal
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with functional disruption in gray matter (GM) and structural damage to white matter (WM), but the relationship to functional signal in WM is unknown. We performed the functional connectivity (FC) and graph theory analysis to investigate abnormalities of WM and GM functional networks and corpus callosum among different stages of AD from a publicly available dataset
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Intrauterine exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection and early newborn brain development Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Nickie Andescavage, Yuan-Chiao Lu, Yao Wu, Kushal Kapse, Jennifer Keller, Isabelle Von Kohorn, Ashraf Afifi, Gilbert Vezina, Deidtra Henderson, David L Wessel, Adre J du Plessis, Catherine Limperopoulos
Epidemiologic studies suggest that prenatal exposures to certain viruses may influence early neurodevelopment, predisposing offspring to neuropsychiatric conditions later in life. The long-term effects of maternal COVID-19 infection in pregnancy on early brain development, however, remain largely unknown. We prospectively enrolled infants in an observational cohort study for a single-site study in
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Measures of resting-state brain network segregation and integration vary in relation to data quantity: implications for within and between subject comparisons of functional brain network organization Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Liang Han, Micaela Y Chan, Phillip F Agres, Ezra Winter-Nelson, Ziwei Zhang, Gagan S Wig
Measures of functional brain network segregation and integration vary with an individual’s age, cognitive ability, and health status. Based on these relationships, these measures are frequently examined to study and quantify large-scale patterns of network organization in both basic and applied research settings. However, there is limited information on the stability and reliability of the network
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Functional parcellation of the neonatal cortical surface Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Michael J Myers, Alyssa K Labonte, Evan M Gordon, Timothy O Laumann, Jiaxin C Tu, Muriah D Wheelock, Ashley N Nielsen, Rebecca F Schwarzlose, M Catalina Camacho, Dimitrios Alexopoulos, Barbara B Warner, Nandini Raghuraman, Joan L Luby, Deanna M Barch, Damien A Fair, Steven E Petersen, Cynthia E Rogers, Christopher D Smyser, Chad M Sylvester
The cerebral cortex is organized into distinct but interconnected cortical areas, which can be defined by abrupt differences in patterns of resting state functional connectivity (FC) across the cortical surface. Such parcellations of the cortex have been derived in adults and older infants, but there is no widely used surface parcellation available for the neonatal brain. Here, we first demonstrate
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Cognitive and neural mechanisms of voluntary versus forced language switching in Chinese–English bilinguals: an fMRI study Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Libo Geng, Xinyu Zhao, Qihui Xu, Haiyan Wu, Xueping Hu, Zhiyuan Liu, Lili Ming, Zixuan Xue, Chenyi Yue, Yiming Yang
The ecological validity of bilingual code-switching has garnered increasing attention in recent years. Contrary to traditional studies that have focused on forced language switching, emerging theories posit that voluntary switching may not incur such a cost. To test these claims and understand differences between forced and voluntary switching, the present study conducted a systematic comparison through
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Toe stimulation improves tactile perception of the genitals Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Xuesong Liang, Jiahui Lin, Peng Zhou, Wenbin Fu, Nenggui Xu, Jianhua Liu
The human body is represented in a topographic pattern in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1), and genital representation is displaced below the toe representation. However, the relationship between the representation of the genitals and toe in S1 remains unclear. In this study, tactile stimulation was applied to the big toe in healthy subjects to observe changes in tactile acuity in the unstimulated
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Early language dissociation in bilingual minds: magnetoencephalography evidence through a machine learning approach Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Nicola Molinaro, Sanjeev Nara, Manuel Carreiras
Does neural activity reveal how balanced bilinguals choose languages? Despite using diverse neuroimaging techniques, prior studies haven’t provided a definitive solution to this problem. Nonetheless, studies involving direct brain stimulation in bilinguals have identified distinct brain regions associated with language production in different languages. In this magnetoencephalography study with 45
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Auditory training remodels hippocampus-related memory in adult rats Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Guoqiang Jia, Yutian Sun, Pengying An, Weiwei Wu, Yang Shen, Hui Liu, Ye Shan, Jie Wang, Cora Sau Wan Lai, Christoph E Schreiner, Hua He, Xiaoming Zhou
Consequences of perceptual training, such as improvements in discriminative ability, are highly stimulus and task specific. Therefore, most studies on auditory training-induced plasticity in adult brain have focused on the sensory aspects, particularly on functional and structural effects in the auditory cortex. Auditory training often involves, other than auditory demands, significant cognitive components
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Beta rebound reduces subsequent movement preparation time by modulating of GABAA inhibition Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Xiangzi Zhang, Houmin Wang, Yaqiu Guo, Jinyi Long
Post-movement beta synchronization is an increase of beta power relative to baseline, which commonly used to represent the status quo of the motor system. However, its functional role to the subsequent voluntary motor output and potential electrophysiological significance remain largely unknown. Here, we examined the reaction time of a Go/No-Go task of index finger tapping which performed at the phases
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Mapping individual structural covariance network in development brain with dynamic time warping Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Hui Sun, Qinyao Sun, Yuanyuan Li, Jiang Zhang, Haoyang Xing, Jiaojian Wang
A conspicuous property of brain development or maturity is coupled with coordinated or synchronized brain structural co-variation. However, there is still a lack of effective approach to map individual structural covariance network. Here, we developed a novel individual structural covariance network method using dynamic time warping algorithm and applied it to delineate developmental trajectories of
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Predicting brain age using partition modeling strategy and atlas-based attentional enhancement in the Chinese population Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Yingtong Wu, Yingqian Chen, Yang Yang, Chuxuan Lin, Shu Su, Jing Zhao, Songxiong Wu, Guangyao Wu, Heng Liu, Xia Liu, Zhiyun Yang, Jian Zhang, Bingsheng Huang
As a biomarker of human brain health during development, brain age is estimated based on subtle differences in brain structure from those under typical developmental. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a routine diagnostic method in neuroimaging. Brain age prediction based on MRI has been widely studied. However, few studies based on Chinese population have been reported. This study aimed to construct
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Evaluating the depression state during perinatal period by non-invasive scalp EEG Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Yueheng Peng, Bin Lv, Qingqing Yang, Yan Peng, Lin Jiang, Mengling He, Dezhong Yao, Wenming Xu, Fali Li, Peng Xu
Perinatal depression, with a prevalence of 10 to 20% in United States, is usually missed as multiple symptoms of perinatal depression are common in pregnant women. Worse, the diagnosis of perinatal depression still largely relies on questionnaires, leaving the objective biomarker being unveiled yet. This study suggested a safe and non-invasive technique to diagnose perinatal depression and further
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The shorter a man is, the more he defends fairness: relative height disadvantage promoting third-party punishment—evidence from inter-brain synchronization Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Yujia Meng, Shuyu Jia, Jingyue Liu, Chenyu Zhang, He Wang, Yingjie Liu
Third-party punishment occurs in interpersonal interactions to sustain social norms, and is strongly influenced by the characteristics of the interacting individuals. During social interactions, height is the striking physical appearance features first observed, height disadvantage may critically influence men’s behavior and mental health. Herein, we explored the influence of height disadvantage on
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Asymmetrical cortical surface area decrease in epilepsy patients with postictal generalized electroencephalography suppression Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Chenyang Zhao, Yingying Tang, Yuan Xiao, Ping Jiang, Ziyi Zhang, Qiyong Gong, Dong Zhou
Postictal generalized electroencephalographic suppression is a possible electroencephalographic marker for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. We aimed to investigate the cortical surface area abnormalities in epilepsy patients with postictal generalized electroencephalographic suppression. We retrospectively included 30 epilepsy patients with postictal generalized electroencephalographic suppression
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Brain activity supporting alternating speech for semantic words: simultaneous magnetoencephalographic recording Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Risa Anada, Hayato Watanabe, Atsushi Shimojo, Hideaki Shiraishi, Koichi Yokosawa
Communication, especially conversation, is essential for human social life. Many previous studies have examined the neuroscientific underpinnings of conversation, i.e. language comprehension and speech production. However, conversation inherently involves two or more people, and unless two people actually interact with one another, the nature of the conversation cannot be truly revealed. Therefore
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Structural and functional changes of anterior cingulate cortex subregions in migraine without aura: relationships with pain sensation and pain emotion Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Yangxu Ou, Xixiu Ni, Xiaoyu Gao, Yang Yu, Yutong Zhang, Yanan Wang, Jie Liu, Zihan Yin, Jing Rong, Mingsheng Sun, Jiao Chen, Zili Tang, Wang Xiao, Ling Zhao
Migraine without aura is a multidimensional neurological disorder characterized by sensory, emotional, and cognitive symptoms linked to structural and functional abnormalities in the anterior cingulate cortex. Anterior cingulate cortex subregions play differential roles in the clinical symptoms of migraine without aura; however, the specific patterns and mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, voxel-based
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Switching of brain networks across different cerebral perfusion states: insights from EEG dynamic microstate analyses Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Xiaoying Qi, Xin Zhang, Hao Shen, Jiabin Su, Xinjie Gao, Yanjiang Li, Heng Yang, Chao Gao, Wei Ni, Yu Lei, Yuxiang Gu, Ying Mao, Yuguo Yu
The alteration of neural interactions across different cerebral perfusion states remains unclear. This study aimed to fulfill this gap by examining the longitudinal brain dynamic information interactions before and after cerebral reperfusion. Electroencephalogram in eyes-closed state at baseline and postoperative 7-d and 3-month follow-ups (moyamoya disease: 20, health controls: 23) were recorded.
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Neural correlates of object identity and reward outcome in the sensory cortical-hippocampal hierarchy: coding of motivational information in perirhinal cortex Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Julien Fiorilli, Pietro Marchesi, Thijs Ruikes, Gerjan Huis in ‘t Veld, Rhys Buckton, Mariana D Quintero, Ingrid Reiten, Jan G Bjaalie, Cyriel M A Pennartz
Neural circuits support behavioral adaptations by integrating sensory and motor information with reward and error-driven learning signals, but it remains poorly understood how these signals are distributed across different levels of the corticohippocampal hierarchy. We trained rats on a multisensory object-recognition task and compared visual and tactile responses of simultaneously recorded neuronal
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Structural and functional abnormalities in first-episode drug-naïve pediatric idiopathic generalized epilepsy Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Dingmei Deng, Hui Sun, Yuting Wang, Xin Guo, Yizhi Yuan, Jiaojian Wang, Lihua Qiu
The aim of this study was to investigate brain structure and corresponding static and dynamic functional connectivity (sFC & dFC) abnormalities in untreated, first-episode pediatric idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), with the goal of better understanding the underlying pathological mechanisms of IGE. Thirty-one children with IGE and 31 age-matched healthy controls (HC) were recruited. Structural
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Fractionating difficulty during sentence comprehension using functional neuroimaging Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Malathi Thothathiri, Jana Basnakova, Ashley G Lewis, Josephine M Briand
Sentence comprehension is highly practiced and largely automatic, but this belies the complexity of the underlying processes. We used functional neuroimaging to investigate garden-path sentences that cause difficulty during comprehension, in order to unpack the different processes used to support sentence interpretation. By investigating garden-path and other types of sentences within the same individuals
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The influence of self-esteem on interpersonal and competence evaluations: electrophysiological evidence from an ERP study Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Mei Li, Bowei Zhong, Jin Li, Jialu Li, Xukai Zhang, Xi Luo, Hong Li
Using event-related potentials, this study examined how self-esteem affects neural responses to competence (interpersonal) feedback when the need for relatedness (competence) is thwarted or met. Participants with low and high self-esteem acted as advisors who selected one of two options for a putative advisee. Subsequently, they passively observed the advisee, accepted, or rejected their advice (i
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EEG biomarkers of behavioral inhibition in patients with depression who committed violent offenses: a Go/NoGo ERP study Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Zhuohang Xian, Hao Liu, Yan Gu, Zeqing Hu, Gangqin Li
Understanding the neurobiological correlates of behavioral inhibition in patients with depression who committed violent offenses could contribute to the prediction and prevention of violence. The present study recruited 29 depressed patients with violent offenses (VD group), 27 depressed patients without violent behavior (NVD group), and 28 healthy controls (HC group) to complete a visual Go/NoGo task
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Enhanced group-level dorsolateral prefrontal cortex subregion parcellation through functional connectivity-based distance-constrained spectral clustering with application to autism spectrum disorder Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Yanling Li, Rui Li, Jiahe Gu, Hongtao Yi, Junbiao He, Fengmei Lu, Jingjing Gao
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) assumes a central role in cognitive and behavioral control, emerging as a crucial target region for interventions in autism spectrum disorder neuroregulation. Consequently, we endeavor to unravel the functional subregions within the DLPFC to shed light on the intricate functions of the brain. We introduce a distance-constrained spectral clustering (SC-DW)
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Decoding context memories for threat in large-scale neural networks Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Kevin M Crombie, Ameera Azar, Chloe Botsford, Mickela Heilicher, Michael Jaeb, Tijana Sagorac Gruichich, Chloe M Schomaker, Rachel Williams, Zachary N Stowe, Joseph E Dunsmoor, Josh M Cisler
Humans are often tasked with determining the degree to which a given situation poses threat. Salient cues present during prior events help bring online memories for context, which plays an informative role in this process. However, it is relatively unknown whether and how individuals use features of the environment to retrieve context memories for threat, enabling accurate inferences about the current
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Effect of cognitive load on time spent offline during wakefulness Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Erin J Wamsley, Megan Collins
Humans continuously alternate between online attention to the current environment and offline attention to internally generated thought and imagery. This may be a fundamental feature of the waking brain, but remains poorly understood. Here, we took a data-driven approach to defining online and offline states of wakefulness, using machine learning methods applied to measures of sensory responsiveness
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Romantic relationships attenuated competition between lovers: evidence from brain synchronization Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Shuyu Jia, Yujia Meng, Yuan Gao, Lihong Ao, Lei Yang, He Wang, Yingjie Liu
Competition is an essential component of social interaction and is influenced by interpersonal relationships. This study is based on social exchange theory and explores the relationship between brain synchronization and competition in the binary system of romantic relationships through electroencephalogram hyperscanning technology. The results found that females had a greater win rate in the romantic
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EEG evidence for racial ingroup bias in collective empathy for pain Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Shuting Mei, Martin Weiß, Grit Hein, Shihui Han
Previous research on racial ingroup bias in empathy for pain focused on neural responses to a single person’s suffering. It is unclear whether empathy for simultaneously perceived multiple individuals’ pain (denoted as collective empathy in this study) is also sensitive to perceived racial identities of empathy targets. We addressed this issue by recording electroencephalography from Chinese adults
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A radiomics-based brain network in T1 images: construction, attributes, and applications Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Han Liu, Zhe Ma, Lijiang Wei, Zhenpeng Chen, Yun Peng, Zhicheng Jiao, Harrison Bai, Bin Jing
T1 image is a widely collected imaging sequence in various neuroimaging datasets, but it is rarely used to construct an individual-level brain network. In this study, a novel individualized radiomics-based structural similarity network was proposed from T1 images. In detail, it used voxel-based morphometry to obtain the preprocessed gray matter images, and radiomic features were then extracted on each
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Individual variability in functional connectivity of human auditory cortex Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Junhao Luo, Peipei Qin, Qiuhui Bi, Ke Wu, Gaolang Gong
Individual variability in functional connectivity underlies individual differences in cognition and behaviors, yet its association with functional specialization in the auditory cortex remains elusive. Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from the Human Connectome Project, this study was designed to investigate the spatial distribution of auditory cortex individual variability
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Effects of age on the time course of syntactic priming in Chinese sentence production: an ERP study Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ying Cui, Qingfang Zhang
Using a syntactic priming task, we investigated the time course of syntactic encoding in Chinese sentence production and compared encoding patterns between younger and older adults. Participants alternately read sentence descriptions and overtly described pictures, while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. We manipulated the abstract prime structure (active or passive) as well as the lexical
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Task learning is subserved by a domain-general brain network Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jiwon Yeon, Alina Sue Larson, Dobromir Rahnev, Mark D’Esposito
One of the most important human faculties is the ability to acquire not just new memories but the capacity to perform entirely new tasks. However, little is known about the brain mechanisms underlying the learning of novel tasks. Specifically, it is unclear to what extent learning of different tasks depends on domain-general and/or domain-specific brain mechanisms. Here human subjects (n = 45) learned
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Reduced covariation between brain morphometry and local spontaneous activity in young children with ASD Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Bosi Chen, Lindsay Olson, Adriana Rios, Madison Salmina, Annika Linke, Inna Fishman
While disruptions in brain maturation in the first years of life in ASD are well documented, little is known about how the brain structure and function are related in young children with ASD compared to typically developing peers. We applied a multivariate pattern analysis to examine the covariation patterns between brain morphometry and local brain spontaneous activity in 38 toddlers and preschoolers
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Utility of cortical tissue analysis in normal pressure hydrocephalus Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Ana B W Greenberg, Kedous Y Mekbib, Neel H Mehta, Emre Kiziltug, Phan Q Duy, Hannah R Smith, Antti Junkkari, Ville Leinonen, Bradley T Hyman, Diane Chan, William T Curry Jr, Steven E Arnold, Frederick G Barker II, Matthew P Frosch, Kristopher T Kahle
Clinical improvement following neurosurgical cerebrospinal fluid shunting for presumed idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus is variable. Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus patients may have undetected Alzheimer’s disease-related cortical pathology that confounds diagnosis and clinical outcomes. In this study, we sought to determine the utility of cortical tissue immuno-analysis in predicting
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Regional GABA levels modulate abnormal resting-state network functional connectivity and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Chao Zhang, Kaihua Zhang, Xin Hu, Xianyun Cai, Yufan Chen, Fei Gao, Guangbin Wang
More evidence shows that changes in functional connectivity with regard to brain networks and neurometabolite levels correlated to cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis. However, the neurological basis underlying the relationship among neurometabolite levels, functional connectivity, and cognitive impairment remains unclear. For this purpose, we used a combination of magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Scaling patterns of cortical folding and thickness in early human brain development in comparison with primates Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Nagehan Demirci, Maria A Holland
Across mammalia, brain morphology follows specific scaling patterns. Bigger bodies have bigger brains, with surface area outpacing volume growth, resulting in increased foldedness. We have recently studied scaling rules of cortical thickness, both local and global, finding that the cortical thickness difference between thick gyri and thin sulci also increases with brain size and foldedness. Here, we
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The relationship between gray/white matter contrast and cognitive performance in first-episode schizophrenia Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Haruko Kobayashi, Daiki Sasabayashi, Tsutomu Takahashi, Atsushi Furuichi, Mikio Kido, Yoichiro Takayanagi, Kyo Noguchi, Michio Suzuki
Previous postmortem brain studies have revealed disturbed myelination in the intracortical regions in patients with schizophrenia, possibly reflecting anomalous brain maturational processes. However, it currently remains unclear whether this anomalous myelination is already present in early illness stages and/or progresses during the course of the illness. In this magnetic resonance imaging study,
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Presenting a mathematical model of blood supply chain considering the efficiency of collection centers and development of metaheuristic algorithm in M/M/C/K queuing system Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Meysam Karamipour, Mehrdad Agha Mohammad Ali Kermani
In this study, a multiobjective model was devoted to the objectives of minimizing blood supply chain costs and minimizing the waiting time of blood donors for blood transfusion and minimizing blood transfusion schedule and increasing the efficiency of fixed and mobile centers in collecting blood. One of the most important constraints considered in the mathematical model is the capacity constraints
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Corticocortical connections of the rostral forelimb area in rats: a quantitative tract-tracing study Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Edward T Urban III, Heather M Hudson, Yanming Li, Mariko Nishibe, Scott Barbay, David J Guggenmos, Randolph J Nudo
The rostral forelimb area (RFA) in the rat is a premotor cortical region based on its dense efferent projections to primary motor cortex. This study describes corticocortical connections of RFA and the relative strength of connections with other cortical areas. The goal was to provide a better understanding of the cortical network in which RFA participates, and thus, determine its function in sensorimotor
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Common and distinct patterns underlying different linguistic tasks: multivariate disconnectome symptom mapping in poststroke patients Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Yaya Jiang, Gaolang Gong
Numerous studies have been devoted to neural mechanisms of a variety of linguistic tasks (e.g. speech comprehension and production). To date, however, whether and how the neural patterns underlying different linguistic tasks are similar or differ remains elusive. In this study, we compared the neural patterns underlying 3 linguistic tasks mainly concerning speech comprehension and production. To address
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Using normative modeling to assess pharmacological treatment effect on brain state in patients with schizophrenia Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Xiao Lin, Yanxi Huo, Qiandong Wang, Guozhong Liu, Jie Shi, Yong Fan, Lin Lu, Rixing Jing, Peng Li
Quantifying individual differences in neuroimaging metrics is attracting interest in clinical studies with mental disorders. Schizophrenia is diagnosed exclusively based on symptoms, and the biological heterogeneity makes it difficult to accurately assess pharmacological treatment effects on the brain state. Using the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience data set, we built normative models
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Induced emotion counter-regulation affects attentional inhibition of emotional information: ERP evidence from a randomized manipulation approach Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Jing Zhang, Wanqi Zhang, Wanyao Guan, Pan Liu
Automatic emotion counter-regulation refers to an unintentional attentional shift away from the current emotional state and toward information of the opposite valence. It is a useful emotion regulation skill that prevents the escalation of current emotional state. However, the cognitive mechanisms of emotion counter-regulation are not fully understood. Using a randomization approach, this study investigated
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Cortical and subcortical substrates of minutes and days-long object value memory in humans Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Sepideh Farmani, Kiomars Sharifi, Ali Ghazizadeh
Obtaining valuable objects motivates many of our daily decisions. However, the neural underpinnings of object processing based on human value memory are not yet fully understood. Here, we used whole-brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine activations due to value memory as participants passively viewed objects before, minutes after, and 1–70 days following value training. Significant
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Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states that underlying working memory correlates with cognitive decline in clinically unimpaired older adults Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Linling Li, Zaili Chen, Li Zhang, Min Zhang, Honghai Liu, Donghui Wu, Ping Ren, Zhiguo Zhang
Impairments in working memory (WM) are evident in both clinically diagnosed patients with mild cognitive decline and older adults at risk, as indicated by lower scores on neuropsychological tests. Examining the WM-related neural signatures in at-risk older adults becomes essential for timely intervention. WM functioning relies on dynamic brain activities, particularly within the frontoparietal system
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Basis of executive functions in fine-grained architecture of cortical and subcortical human brain networks Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Moataz Assem, Sneha Shashidhara, Matthew F Glasser, John Duncan
Theoretical models suggest that executive functions rely on both domain-general and domain-specific processes. Supporting this view, prior brain imaging studies have revealed that executive activations converge and diverge within broadly characterized brain networks. However, the lack of precise anatomical mappings has impeded our understanding of the interplay between domain-general and domain-specific
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Alterations in white matter fiber tracts and their correlation with flying cadet behavior Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Xi Chen, Qi Chu, Qingbin Meng, Peiran Xu, Shicong Zhang
An increasing number of studies have shown that flight training alters the human brain structure; however, most studies have focused on gray matter, and the exploration of white matter structure has been largely neglected. This study aimed to investigate the changes in white matter structure induced by flight training and estimate the correlation between such changes and psychomotor and flight performance
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Differential effects of specific emotions on spatial decision-making: evidence from cross-frequency functionally independent brain networks Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Yanyan Zhao, Danli Wang, Xinyuan Wang, Qiao Jin, Xuange Gao
Emotions significantly shape the way humans make decisions. However, the underlying neural mechanisms of this influence remain elusive. In this study, we designed an experiment to investigate how emotions (specifically happiness, fear, and sadness) impact spatial decision-making, utilizing EEG data. To address the inherent limitations of sensor-level investigations previously conducted, we employed
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A framework to improve the alignment of individual cytoarchitectonic maps of the Julich-Brain atlas using cortical folding landmarks Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Xiaoyu Wang, Yann Leprince, Jessica Lebenberg, Clement Langlet, Hartmut Mohlberg, Denis Rivière, Guillaume Auzias, Timo Dickscheid, Katrin Amunts, Jean-François Mangin
The segregation of the cortical mantle into cytoarchitectonic areas provides a structural basis for the specialization of different brain regions. In vivo neuroimaging experiments can be linked to this postmortem cytoarchitectonic parcellation via Julich-Brain. This atlas embeds probabilistic maps that account for inter-individual variability in the localization of cytoarchitectonic areas in the reference
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Cognitive stimulation as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status and neural function supporting working memory: a longitudinal fMRI study Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Lucy A Lurie, Maya L Rosen, David G Weissman, Laura Machlin, Lilliana Lengua, Margaret A Sheridan, Katie A McLaughlin
Childhood experiences of low socioeconomic status are associated with alterations in neural function in the frontoparietal network and ventral visual stream, which may drive differences in working memory. However, the specific features of low socioeconomic status environments that contribute to these disparities remain poorly understood. Here, we examined experiences of cognitive deprivation (i.e.
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Neural correlates tracking different aspects of the emerging representation of novel visual categories Cereb. Cortex (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sára Jellinek, József Fiser
Current studies investigating electroencephalogram correlates associated with categorization of sensory stimuli (P300 event-related potential, alpha event-related desynchronization, theta event-related synchronization) typically use an oddball paradigm with few, familiar, highly distinct stimuli providing limited insight about the aspects of categorization (e.g. difficulty, membership, uncertainty)