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Cognitive trajectories after surgery: Guideline hints for assessment and treatment Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Serena Oliveri, Tommaso Bocci, Natale Vincenzo Maiorana, Matteo Guidetti, Andrea Cimino, Chiara Rosci, Giorgio Ghilardi, Alberto Priori
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Size or Strength? how components of muscle relate to behavioral and neuroelectric measures of executive function independent of aerobic fitness Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nicholas W. Baumgartner, Shih-Chun Kao
While previous research has linked cognitive function with resistance exercise, the nuanced links between muscle strength, mass, and neuroelectric function are less understood. Therefore, this study investigated the association of muscle strength and mass with inhibitory control (IC), working memory (WM), and related neuroelectric activity. A total of 123 18–50-year-old adults completed maximal aerobic
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Unveiling the efficacy of the feedback concealed information test in collaborative crime detection Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jinbin Zheng, Nan Yang, Chenxiao Zhu, Yinqi Shen, Yunzi Xie, Yunzhe Ren, Jixia Wu
Collaborative crime poses severe social hazards. In collaborative crime scenarios, previous studies have indicated that perpetrators’ collaborative encoding can impair the detection efficiency of P300-based complex trial protocols due to the collaborative encoding deficit. The feedback concealed information test (fCIT), a unique variation of the concealed information test, provides participants with
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Is it really on your hand? Spontaneous sensations are not peripheral sensations – Evidence from able-bodied individuals and a phantom limb syndrome patient Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sara Salgues, Gaën Plancher, George A. Michael
Among other bodily signals, the perception of sensations arising spontaneously on the skin with no external triggers contributes to body awareness. The topic of spontaneous sensations (SPS) being quite recent in the literature, there is still a debate whether this phenomenon is elicited by peripheral cutaneous units’ activity underlying tactile perception or originates directly from central mechanisms
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The effects of musical instrument training on fluid intelligence and executive functions in healthy older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Fionnuala Rogers, Claudia Metzler-Baddeley
Intervention studiescombiningcognitive and motor demands have reported far-transfer cognitive benefits in healthy ageing. This systematic review and -analysis evaluated the effects of music and rhythm intervention on cognition in older adulthood. Inclusion criteria specified: 1) musical instrument training; 2) healthy, musically-naïve adults (≥60 years); 3) control group; 4) measure of executive function
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Morning compared to afternoon school-based exercise on cognitive function in adolescents Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 E. Ingham-Hill, A. Hewitt, A. Lester, B. Bond
Adolescents may be less ready to learn in the mornings due to a propensity for waking up later. High-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) has been shown to acutely improve cognitive functioning in teenagers. This within-measures study explored whether the benefit of HIIE differs when delivered in the morning or afternoon. Methods: 37 teenagers (19 boys, 13.7 ± 0.4 years) each completed 3 trials in school;
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Electrophysiological correlates of cognitive control and performance monitoring in risk propensity: An event-related potential study Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Mohammad Ali Nazari, Sedigheh Naghel, Sevda Abbasi, Ayda Khayyat Naghadehi, Behzad Nikzad, Saied Sabaghypour, Farhad Farkhondeh Tale Navi
Investigating the cognitive control processes and error detection mechanisms involved in risk-taking behaviors is essential for understanding risk propensity. This study investigated the relationship between risk propensity and cognitive control processes using an event-related potentials (ERP) approach. The study employed a Cued Go/Nogo paradigm to elicit ERP components related to cognitive control
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Dynamic vagal-mediated connectivity of cortical and subcortical central autonomic hubs predicts chronotropic response to submaximal exercise in healthy adults Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Maria Di Bello, Catie Chang, Roger McIntosh
Despite accumulation of a substantial body of literature supporting the role of exercise on frontal lobe functioning, relatively less is understood of the interconnectivity of ventromedial prefrontal cortical (vmPFC) regions that underpin cardio-autonomic regulation predict cardiac chronotropic competence (CC) in response to sub-maximal exercise. Eligibility of 161 adults (mean age = 48.6, SD = 18
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Differences in brain activation during working memory tasks between badminton athletes and non-athletes: An fNIRS study Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Yun-Ting Song, Ming-Qiang Xiang, Pin Zhong
Working memory refers to our ability to temporarily store and process information, and it is crucial for efficient cognition and motor control. In the context of badminton matches, athletes need to make quick decisions and reactions in rapidly changing situations. Athletes with strong working memory capacity can better process this information and translate it into actual motor performance. Although
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Perception of visual variance is mediated by subcortical mechanisms Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Ting Zeng, Yuqing Zhao, Bihua Cao, Jianrong Jia
Variance characterizes the structure of the environment. This statistical concept plays a critical role in evaluating the reliability of evidence for human decision-making. The present study examined the involvement of subcortical structures in the processing of visual variance. To this end, we used a stereoscope to sequentially present two circle arrays in a dichoptic or monocular fashion while participants
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Transcranial direct current stimulation over the left posterior temporal lobe modulates semantic control: Evidence from episodic memory distortions Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Maria A. Alonso, Emiliano Díez, Antonio M. Díez-Álamo, Angel Fernandez, Carlos J. Gómez-Ariza
Evidence accumulates to show that semantic cognition requires, in addition to semantic representations, control processes that regulate the accessibility and use of semantic knowledge in a task- and time-appropriate fashion. Semantic control has been recently proposed to rely on a distributed network that includes the posterior temporal cortex. Along these lines, recent -analyses of neuroimaging data
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EEG-based neurophysiological indices for expert psychomotor performance – a review Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Jazmin M. Morrone, Charles R. Pedlar
A primary objective of current human neuropsychological performance research is to define the physiological correlates of adaptive knowledge utilization, in order to support the enhanced execution of both simple and complex tasks. Within the present article, electroencephalography-based neurophysiological indices characterizing expert psychomotor performance, will be explored. As a means of characterizing
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Effort-based decision making and motivational deficits in stroke patients Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Mani Erfanian Abdoust, Stefan Knecht, Masud Husain, Campbell Le Heron, Gerhard Jocham, Bettina Studer
Motivational deficits in patients recovering from stroke are common and can reduce active participation in rehabilitation and thereby impede functional recovery. We investigated whether stroke patients with clinically reduced drive, initiation, and endurance during functional rehabilitative training (n = 30) display systematic alterations in effort-based decision making compared to age, sex, and severity-matched
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Music training affects listeners’ processing of different types of accentuation information: Evidence from ERPs Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Mei Han, Yu-Fu Chien, Zhenghua Zhang, Zhen Wei, Weijun Li
Previous studies found that prolonged musical training can promote language processing, but few studies have examined whether and how musical training affects the processing of accentuation in spoken language. In this study, a vocabulary detection task was conducted, with Chinese single sentences as materials, to investigate how musicians and non-musicians process corrective accent and information
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A spontaneous dissociative episode during an EEG experiment Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Graham Jamieson, Etzel Cardeña, Vilfredo de Pascalis
A depersonalization episode occurred unexpectedly during an electroencephalogram (EEG) recording for a study. Experience reports tracked the time course of this event and, in conjunction, with EEG data, were analyzed. The source activity across canonical frequency bands was analyzed across four periods ended by retrospective experience reports (depersonalization was reported in the 2nd period). Delta
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Validation of the cognitive section of the Penn computerized adaptive test for neurocognitive and clinical psychopathology assessment (CAT-CCNB) Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Akira Di Sandro, Tyler M. Moore, Eirini Zoupou, Kelly P. Kennedy, Katherine C. Lopez, Kosha Ruparel, Lucky J. Njokweni, Sage Rush, Tarlan Daryoush, Olivia Franco, Alesandra Gorgone, Andrew Savino, Paige Didier, Daniel H. Wolf, Monica E. Calkins, J. Cobb Scott, Raquel E. Gur, Ruben C. Gur
Background The Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery is an efficient tool for assessing brain-behavior domains, and its efficiency was augmented via computerized adaptive testing (CAT). This battery requires validation in a separate sample to establish psychometric properties. Methods In a mixed community/clinical sample of N = 307 18-to-35-year-olds, we tested the relationships of the CAT tests
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Atypical reliance on monocular visual pathway for face and word recognition in developmental dyslexia Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Noa Peskin, Marlene Behrmann, Shai Gabay, Yafit Gabay
Studies with individuals with developmental dyslexia (DD) have documented impaired perception of words and faces, both of which are domains of visual expertise for human adults. In this study, we examined a possible mechanism that might be associated with the impaired acquisition of visual expertise for words and faces in DD, namely, the atypical engagement of the monocular visual pathway. Participants
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A fist bump in a political meeting? The influence of social context on affordance selection Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Léna Guézouli, Vincent Roy, Camille Bodoux, Josselin Baumard
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Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and transcranial random noise stimulation on working memory and task-related EEG in major depressive disorder Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 O.W. Murphy, K.E. Hoy, D. Wong, N.W. Bailey, P.B. Fitzgerald, R.A. Segrave
Objective To compare effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial random noise stimulation with a direct-current offset (tRNS + DC-offset) on working memory (WM) performance and task-related electroencephalography (EEG) in individuals with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Methods Using a sham-controlled, parallel-groups design, 49 participants with MDD received either
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Preterm infants show an atypical processing of the mother's voice Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Manuela Filippa, Damien Benis, Alexandra Adam-Darque, Didier Grandjean, Petra S. Hüppi
To understand the consequences of prematurity on language perception, it is fundamental to determine how atypical early sensory experience affects brain development. At term equivalent age, ten preterm and ten full-term newborns underwent high-density EEG during mother or stranger speech presentation, in the forward or backward order. A general group effect terms > preterms is evident in the theta
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The CODECS study: COgnitive DEficits in Cerebellar Stroke Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ruben S. van der Giessen, Djaina Satoer, Peter J. Koudstaal
Part of the extra-pyramidal system, the cerebellum is more and more recognized by its non-motor functions known as the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome. Several studies have identified disturbances specifically in executive and attentional functions after focal cerebellar lesions. However, most studies were performed in small and heterogeneous patient groups. Furthermore, there is a substantial
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Temporo-Parietal cortex activation during motor imagery in older adults: A case study of Baduanjin Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Xiaoxia Yuan, Xiaoxie Zhong, Chen Wang, Yuanfu Dai, Yuan Yang, Changhao Jiang
Age-associated cognitive and motor decline is related to central nervous system injury in older adults. Motor imagery training (MIT), as an emerging rehabilitative intervention, can activate neural basis similar to that in actual exercise, so as to promote motor function in older adults. The complex motor skills rely on the functional integration of the cerebral cortex. Understanding the neural mechanisms
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Monocular eye patching modulates ipsilesional reactive saccades and smooth pursuit in patients with left hemispatial neglect Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Nadine Schenke, Paul Eling, Thomas Duning, Helmut Hildebrandt
Patients with hemispatial neglect show multiple oculomotor deficits like delayed contralesional saccade latencies, hypometric saccade amplitudes, and impaired smooth pursuit. We aimed to investigate whether modulation of superior colliculus (SC) activity via monocular eye patching improves neglect patients’ eye movements to the contralesional side of space. Thirteen neglect patients with left-hemispheric
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A longitudinal study on language acquisition in monozygotic twins concordant for autism and hyperlexia Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Alexia Ostrolenk, Valérie Courchesne, Laurent Mottron
Background Hyperlexia, a strong orientation towards written materials, along with a discrepancy between the precocious acquisition of decoding skills and weaker comprehension abilities, characterizes up to 20% of autistic children. Sometimes perceived as an obstacle to oral language acquisition, hyperlexia may alternatively be the first step in a non-social pathway of language acquisition in autism
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Combined effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and aerobic exercise on inhibitory control function in healthy young adults: An event-related potential study Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Yingying Ji, Xuemei Ni, Kai Zheng, Ying Jiang, Caili Ren, Haohao Zhu, Ming Xiao, Tong Wang
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and aerobic exercise (AE) have been demonstrated to enhance inhibitory control function in healthy individuals separately. However, the potential benefits of combining these two interventions have yet to be fully explored. In this study, we aimed to use multiple event-related potential (ERP) components (P200, N200, and N450) to investigate the combined
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Separating the role of perceptual and conceptual fluency on masked word priming using event-related potentials Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 P. Andrew Leynes, Himani Kolli, Samridhi Sawhney
Masked word repetition increases “old” responses on an episodic recognition test (Jacoby & Whitehouse, 1989). This effect is commonly attributed to perceptual fluency; that is, unconscious perception of the prime speeds reading of the target and this fluency leads to elevated familiarity. Two experiments directly tested the claim that perceptual fluency is responsible for word priming effects. Experiment
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The neural substrates of how model-based learning affects risk taking: Functional coupling between right cerebellum and left caudate Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Hangfeng Huo, Elise Lesage, Wenshan Dong, Tom Verguts, Carol A. Seger, Sitong Diao, Tingyong Feng, Qi Chen
Higher executive control capacity allows people to appropriately evaluate risk and avoid both excessive risk aversion and excessive risk-taking. The neural mechanisms underlying this relationship between executive function and risk taking are still unknown. We used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis combined with resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) to evaluate how one component of executive
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Current perspectives on the brain connectome Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Victor Frak, Henri Cohen
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Electrophysiological evidence of crossmodal correspondence between auditory pitch and visual elevation affecting inhibition of return Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Shuqi Li, Tianyang Zhang, Guangyao Zu, Aijun Wang, Ming Zhang
Inhibition of return (IOR) has proved to be weakened by audiovisual integration because of the increased perceptual salience of targets. Although other audiovisual interactions, such as crossmodal correspondence, have also been shown to facilitate attentional processes, to the best of our knowledge, no study has investigated the interaction between crossmodal correspondence and IOR. The present study
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Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on learning in older adults with and without Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review with meta-analysis Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Britt Vandendoorent, Evelien Nackaerts, Demi Zoetewei, Femke Hulzinga, Moran Gilat, Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry, Alice Nieuwboer
Older adults with and without Parkinson’s disease show impaired retention after training of motor or cognitive skills. This systematic review with meta-analysis aims to investigate whether adding transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to motor or cognitive training versus placebo boosts motor sequence and working memory training. The effects of interest were estimated between three time points
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Singleton effect decreases under time pressure: An fNIRS study Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Yujie Li, Susu Wang, Qianqian Shan, Xingxing Xia
Time pressure affects multiple cognitive processes but how it affects attention capture remains unclear. Two experiments were carried out in the present study to assess whether time pressure prevents attention from capturing by salient distractors and explore the underlying neural mechanisms using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. The results of behavioral tests showed that the singleton effect
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Exercise interventions, postural control, and prefrontal cortex activation in older adults Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Kayla Bohlke, Subashan Perera, Emma M. Baillargeon, Mark S. Redfern, Patrick J. Sparto, Ervin Sejdic, Andrea L. Rosso
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Processing of complex morphosyntactic structures in French: ERP evidence from native speakers Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-18
This event-related brain potentials (ERP) study investigated the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the auditory processing of verbal complexity in French illustrated by the prescriptive present subjunctive mode. Using a violation paradigm, ERPs of 32 French native speakers were continuously recorded while they listened to 200 ecological French sentences selected from the INTEFRA oral corpus (2006)
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Increased neural activity of right temporo-parietal junction causes different effect on altruism in situations of advantageous and disadvantageous inequity Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-12
Altruism is defined as the performance of “costly acts that confer economic benefits on other individuals”, which is one of the major puzzles in the behavioural sciences today. Altruistic behaviour not only facilitates interpersonal adaptation and harmony but also enhances social welfare and social responsibility. The right temporo-parietal junction (rTPJ) has been proposed as playing a key role in
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A neurophenomenological fMRI study of a spontaneous automatic writer and a hypnotic cohort Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Etzel Cardeña, Lena Lindström, Philippe Goldin, Danielle van Westen, Johan Mårtensson
Purpose: To evaluate the neurophenomenology of automatic writing (AW) in a spontaneous automatic writer (NN) and four high hypnotizables (HH). Methods: During fMRI, NN and the HH were cued to perform spontaneous (NN) or induced (HH) AW, and a comparison task of copying complex symbols, and to rate their experience of control and agency. Results: Compared to copying, for all participants AW was associated
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Spatial orientation: A relationship with inferential memory Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Diogo João Tomás, Pedro Nascimento Alves, Maria Vânia Silva-Nunes
Two branches of the scientific literature have dominated our understanding of hippocampal function. One focuses on the support this structure offers to declarative memory, while the other views the hippocampus as a part of a system dedicated to spatial navigation. These two different visions can be reconciled in relational theory, which suggests that the hippocampus processes all kinds of associations
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Time flows vertically in Chinese Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Yang Li, Gary Oppenheim, Guillaume Thierry
Speakers of Mandarin Chinese are thought to conceptualise time along the vertical axis—as evidence for metaphor embodiment—but the extant behavioural evidence remains unclear. Here, we used electrophysiology to test space–time conceptual relationships implicitly in native speakers of Chinese. We employed a modified arrow flanker task, in which the central arrow in a set of three was replaced by a spatial
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Fixation offset decreases pupillary inhibition of return Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Łukasz Michalczyk
Inhibition of return (IOR) is reflected as a slower manual or saccadic response to a cued rather than an uncued target (manual IOR and saccadic IOR, respectively), and as a pupillary dilation when a bright, relative to a dark side of a display is cued (pupillary IOR). The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between an IOR and oculomotor system. According to the predominant view, only
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Impact of working memory capacity on predominance of parietal over frontal P300 amplitude Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Lina Guerrero, Badiâa Bouazzaoui, Michel Isingrini, Lucie Angel
Working memory-related neural activity varies with task load, and these neural variations can be constrained by working memory capacity (WMC). For instance, some studies suggest that parietal and frontal P300 amplitudes, reflecting working memory functioning, vary differentially with task load and WMC. The present study explored whether the predominance of parietal over frontal P300 amplitude is related
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Altered neural mechanisms of deception in individuals with autistic traits Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Wenrui Li, Bowen Huang, Youming Song, Lulu Hou, Wendian Shi
A successful deception involves making a decision, acting on it, and evaluating results. Here, we investigated deception in a non-clinical sample (n = 36) with varying autism traits using a coin-toss paradigm of active deception. The subjects were asked to react to the instructions by clicking one of the two boxes that could mislead their opponents, followed by feedback on their success or failure
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Reliability of the P3 component in a 3-stimulus concealed information test with known and unknown stimuli Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Anja Leue
The parietal P3 amplitude of the event-related potential (ERP) has been highlighted to signal stimulus salience in concealed information tests (CITs) with known and unknown stimuli. To extend previous validity investigations in deception research, the reliability of the early parietal P3 amplitude in a 3-stimulus CIT including known and unknown stimuli has been investigated in a sample of N = 68 participants
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Interhemispheric transfer of visual information: Meaningfulness and response formation Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Andrey Markus, David Manor, Daffy Konis, Zohar Eviatar
We examined whether Redundancy Gain (RG) can be dissociated from the response stage of a go/nogo paradigm, and whether the meaningfulness of a stimulus modulates the stage at which interhemispheric transfer occurs. Experiment 1 used a lateralized match-to-category paradigm, taken from categories with varying meaningfulness. Experiment 2 presented a novel design, which separates the perceptual stage
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Nursing home residents with Huntington’s disease: Heterogeneity in characteristics and functioning Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Marina R. Ekkel, Ruth B. Veenhuizen, Anouk M. van Loon, Marja F.I.A. Depla, Els M.L. Verschuur, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Cees M.P.M. Hertogh
Background In Huntington’s disease (HD), admission to a nursing home (NH) is required in advanced disease stages. To gain insight in care needs, more knowledge is needed on the functioning of this group. Objective Describing patient and disease characteristics, their functioning, and gender differences. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive design was used to collect data of 173 patients living in
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A bibliometric analysis of cerebral microbleeds and cognitive impairment Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Rui Yang, Jia Li, Yaya Qin, Li Zhao, Rong Liu, Fanhui Yang, Guohui Jiang
Background and objectives Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are imaging markers for small cerebral vascular diseases, which can accumulate and impact the corresponding brain networks. CMBs can affect cognitive function, including executive function, information processing speed, and visuospatial memory. Bibliometrics is a scientific and innovative method that can analyze and visualize the scientific field
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Monocular eye patching modulates reorienting of covert attention in patients with unilateral middle cerebral artery stroke Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Nadine Schenke, Elfriede Diestel, Andreas Kastrup, Paul Eling, Helmut Hildebrandt
Unilateral brain lesions can lead to impaired contralesional attention and reduced ipsilesional and enhanced contralesional superior colliculus (SC) activity. We aimed to investigate whether modulation of SC activation via monocular eye patching can improve contralesional attention. Twenty left-hemispheric (LH) and 20 right-hemispheric (RH) patients with an acute or subacute middle cerebral artery
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Reliability of self-reported dispositional mindfulness scales and their association with working memory performance and functional connectivity Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Yeji Kim, Juhyeon Lee, Marion Tegethoff, Gunther Meinlschmidt, Seung-Schik Yoo, Jong-Hwan Lee
We systematically investigated the link between trait mindfulness scores and functional connectivity (FC) features or behavioral data, to emphasize the importance of the reliability of self-report mindfulness scores. Sixty healthy young male participants underwent two functional MRI runs with three mindfulness or mind-wandering task blocks with an N-back task (NBT) block. The data from 49 participants
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Reliability and stability of oddball P300 amplitude in older adults: The role of stimulus sequence effects Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Siri-Maria Kamp, Glen Forester, Luisa Knopf
The P300 may be an individual difference marker of neuro-cognitive function, which due to age-related cognitive decline may be particularly useful in older adults. Recently, we reported effects of the local stimulus sequence in an oddball task (i.e., the number of non-targets that preceded a target) on P300 amplitude in young and older adults. The same older adults completed a second session of the
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Maintaining her image: A social comparative evaluation of the particularity of mothers in the Chinese cultural context Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Junting Yin, Mianlin Deng, Zhiyi Zhao, Wei Bao, Junlong Luo
In Chinese culture, the mother holds a special meaning in one’s self-concept, and is perceived as being stably incorporated into and consistent with the self. However, it is unclear whether the evaluation of mothers by individuals is affected following the initiation of upward and downward social comparisons (USC and DSC). This experiment manipulated USC and DSC by evaluating positive and negative
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Vividness as the similarity between generated imagery and an internal model Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Sean N. Riley, Jim Davies
Vividness in visual mental imagery has been relatively under-explored compared to imagery’s representational format and neural mechanisms. In this paper, we take a deeper look at vividness and suggest that in re-framing it, we can potentially reconcile disparate findings regarding visual cortex activation during imagery. Unlike traditional views of vividness that define the concept in terms of perception
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Font disfluency and reading performance in children: An event-related potential study Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Jack Astley, Hannah A.D. Keage, Ellen Kelson, Rebecca Callahan, Jessica Hofmann, Myra Thiessen, Mark Kohler, Scott Coussens
Expert adult readers process fluent and disfluent fonts differently, at both early perceptual and late higher-order processing stages. This finding has been interpreted as reflecting the more difficult to read disfluent fonts requiring greater neural resources. We aimed to investigate whether neural activity is affected by font disfluency in pre-adolescent readers, and to determine if neural responses
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Prediction errors arising from switches between major and minor modes in music: An fMRI study Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Chen-Gia Tsai, Yi-Fan Fu, Chia-Wei Li
The major and minor modes in Western music have positive and negative connotations, respectively. The present fMRI study examined listeners’ neural responses to switches between major and minor modes. We manipulated the final chords of J. S. Bach’s keyboard pieces so that each major-mode passage ended with either the major (Major-Major) or minor (Major-Minor) tonic chord, and each minor-mode passage
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A computational model of prefrontal and striatal interactions in perceptual category learning Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Sébastien Hélie, Li Xin Lim, Madison J. Adkins, Thomas S. Redick
Work on multiple-system theories of cognition mostly focused on the systems themselves, while limited work has been devoted to understanding the interactions between systems. Generally, multiple-system theories include a model-based decision system supported by the prefrontal cortex and a model-free decision system supported by the striatum. Here we propose a neurobiological model to describe the interactions
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Amygdala-based functional connectivity mediates the relationship between thought control ability and trait anxiety Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Yuchi Yan, Min Li, Hui Jia, Lei Fu, Jiang Qiu, Wenjing Yang
Thought control ability (TCA) refers to the ability to exclude unwanted thoughts. There has been consistent evidence on the protective effect of TCA on anxiety, that higher TCA is associated with lower anxiety. However, the underlying neural mechanism remains unclear. In this study, with a large sample (N = 495), we investigated how seed-based resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) mediates the
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The modulation of pain in reward processing is reflected by increased P300 and delta oscillation Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Xingyao Li, Xianzhen Zhou, Hong Zheng, Chenbo Wang
Pain elicits the desire for a reward to alleviate the unpleasant sensation. This may be a consequence of facilitated neural activities in the reward circuit. However, the temporal modulation of pain on reward processing remains unclear. We addressed this issue by recording electroencephalogram when participants received win or loss feedback in a simple gambling task. Pain treatment was conducted on
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Intraindividual variability in brain activation—A novel correlate of obesity risk among female college students Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Lance O. Bauer
There are published data describing impairments in the brain function of adolescents or young adults who have a genetic or familial predisposition for obesity. From these descriptions, it is often assumed that the impairments are appropriately captured by a central tendency estimate and therefore consistently detectable. The present study questions this assumption and shows that the variability in
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Linguistic and emotional responses evoked by pseudoword presentation: An EEG and behavioral study Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Joanna Daria Dołżycka, Jan Nikadon, Patrick Peter Weis, Cornelia Herbert, Magdalena Formanowicz
When the semantic properties of words are turned off, such as in pseudowords, the grammatical properties of the stimuli indicated through suffixes may provide cues to the meaning. The application of electroencephalography (EEG), combined with the pseudoword paradigm, allows for evaluating the effects of verbs and nouns as linguistic categories within the time course of processing. To contribute to
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Changes of creative ability and underlying brain network connectivity throughout the lifespan Brain Cognit. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Jordanna A. Kruse, Casey S. Martin, Noah Hamlin, Emma Slattery, Eibhlis M. Moriarty, Lucy K. Horne, Barbara Ozkalp-Poincloux, Anaelle Camarda, Stuart F. White, Jacob Oleson, Mathieu Cassotti, Gaelle E. Doucet
Creativity, or divergent thinking, is essential to and supported by cognitive functions necessary for everyday tasks. The current study investigates divergent thinking and its neural mechanisms from adolescence to late adulthood. To do this, 180 healthy participants completed a creativity task called the egg task including 86 adolescents (mean age (SD) = 13.62 (1.98)), 52 young adults (24.92 (3.60)