connect_review_20150316 - Royal Holloway, University of London
... Visual category perception is thought to depend on brain areas that respond specifically when certain categories are viewed. These category-sensitive areas are often assumed to be “modules” (with some degree of processing autonomy) and to act predominantly on feedforward visual input. This modular v ...
... Visual category perception is thought to depend on brain areas that respond specifically when certain categories are viewed. These category-sensitive areas are often assumed to be “modules” (with some degree of processing autonomy) and to act predominantly on feedforward visual input. This modular v ...
Towards the utilization of EEG as a brain imaging tool
... Since its inception, the MEG community uses this topographic framework for the analysis of the signals. Instead of waveforms, the MEG community generally looks at the properties of the magnetic field outside the head and infers the sources and the temporal dynamics of these sources in the brain (Salm ...
... Since its inception, the MEG community uses this topographic framework for the analysis of the signals. Instead of waveforms, the MEG community generally looks at the properties of the magnetic field outside the head and infers the sources and the temporal dynamics of these sources in the brain (Salm ...
An Integrative Theory on Prefrontal Cortex Function
... them. They provide bias signals throughout much of the rest of the brain, affecting not only visual processes but also other sensory modalities, as well as systems responsible for response execution, memory retrieval, emotional evaluation, etc. The aggregate effect of these bias signals is to guide ...
... them. They provide bias signals throughout much of the rest of the brain, affecting not only visual processes but also other sensory modalities, as well as systems responsible for response execution, memory retrieval, emotional evaluation, etc. The aggregate effect of these bias signals is to guide ...
How do you feel -- now? The anterior insula and
... between auditory and visual stimuli that should normally be synchronous (e.g. a speaking mouth)30. The second is an fMRI study which examined “inspection time” using a briefly displayed asymmetric visual ...
... between auditory and visual stimuli that should normally be synchronous (e.g. a speaking mouth)30. The second is an fMRI study which examined “inspection time” using a briefly displayed asymmetric visual ...
Reward-Related Responses in the Human Striatum
... dorsal striatum, predominantly the head of the caudate nucleus.36 This was a slightly surprising finding—in contrast with research in animals, which often highlights the role of the ventral striatum (chiefly the nucleus accumbens) in reward processes—raising a question about the role of the human do ...
... dorsal striatum, predominantly the head of the caudate nucleus.36 This was a slightly surprising finding—in contrast with research in animals, which often highlights the role of the ventral striatum (chiefly the nucleus accumbens) in reward processes—raising a question about the role of the human do ...
Common and Distinct Neural Substrates for Pragmatic, Semantic
... of words), syntactic (grammatical) and pragmatic (our understanding of the world) Ð to build up an overall representation of meaning (Kintsch, 1988; JohnsonLaird, 1987). As these different forms of linguistic information have different rules and representations, they are generally acknowledged to be ...
... of words), syntactic (grammatical) and pragmatic (our understanding of the world) Ð to build up an overall representation of meaning (Kintsch, 1988; JohnsonLaird, 1987). As these different forms of linguistic information have different rules and representations, they are generally acknowledged to be ...
Lights, Camembert, Action! - Human Reward and Decision Making lab
... contribute to discrepancies in reported results between studies. In support of the this possibility, in the Kim et al.24 study, it was found that both medial and central parts of OFC were engaged during expectation of reward, whereas only medial OFC was engaged following receipt of a rewarding outco ...
... contribute to discrepancies in reported results between studies. In support of the this possibility, in the Kim et al.24 study, it was found that both medial and central parts of OFC were engaged during expectation of reward, whereas only medial OFC was engaged following receipt of a rewarding outco ...
Travis, F.T. and Arenander, A. (2006). Cross-Sectional
... The tests of inner/outer orientation, state/trait anxiety, and emotional stability were scored using standard templates. Gibbs’s moral reasoning protocols were sent to two trained scorers. They met the requirements for reliability in scoring, set forth in Gibbs’s manual, Appendix B and C (Gibbs, et ...
... The tests of inner/outer orientation, state/trait anxiety, and emotional stability were scored using standard templates. Gibbs’s moral reasoning protocols were sent to two trained scorers. They met the requirements for reliability in scoring, set forth in Gibbs’s manual, Appendix B and C (Gibbs, et ...
The neural correlates of implicit and explicit sequence learning
... indicated (Willingham et al. 1989), a substantial number of recent studies have also clearly demonstrated associations between SRT task performance and subsequent forced-choice tasks involving, for instance, recognition of sequence fragments or sequence generation. These later findings (e.g., Perruc ...
... indicated (Willingham et al. 1989), a substantial number of recent studies have also clearly demonstrated associations between SRT task performance and subsequent forced-choice tasks involving, for instance, recognition of sequence fragments or sequence generation. These later findings (e.g., Perruc ...
Rethinking Mammalian Brain Evolution1
... SYNOPSIS. A critical review of past and current theories of mammalian brain evolution is presented in order to discuss conceptual problems that persist in the field. Problems with the concept of homology arise because of the interaction of cell lineages and axonal connectivity in the determination o ...
... SYNOPSIS. A critical review of past and current theories of mammalian brain evolution is presented in order to discuss conceptual problems that persist in the field. Problems with the concept of homology arise because of the interaction of cell lineages and axonal connectivity in the determination o ...
pre_print_Blunted_and_exaggerated_cardiac_stress_reactivity
... Doppler Echocardiography and electrocardiography on four separate occasions. A full description of the version of the PASAT used is provided elsewhere (Ginty et al., 2012). Briefly, participants were presented with a series of single digit numbers and required, in each case, to add any given number ...
... Doppler Echocardiography and electrocardiography on four separate occasions. A full description of the version of the PASAT used is provided elsewhere (Ginty et al., 2012). Briefly, participants were presented with a series of single digit numbers and required, in each case, to add any given number ...
Descartes` Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
... space, where we may put the instruments of logic to good use. We are faced by uncertainty when we have to make a moral judgment, decide on the course of a personal relationship, choose some means to prevent our being penniless in old age, or plan for the life that lies ahead. Emotion and feeling, al ...
... space, where we may put the instruments of logic to good use. We are faced by uncertainty when we have to make a moral judgment, decide on the course of a personal relationship, choose some means to prevent our being penniless in old age, or plan for the life that lies ahead. Emotion and feeling, al ...
The functional role of dorso-lateral premotor cortex
... finding of highly task-correlated activation in premotor areas, and also confirmed that primary motor cortex was not specifically involved in mental rotation of abstract objects. Notably, this finding has recently been supported by results from various other groups (e.g., de Lange et al., 2005; Ecke ...
... finding of highly task-correlated activation in premotor areas, and also confirmed that primary motor cortex was not specifically involved in mental rotation of abstract objects. Notably, this finding has recently been supported by results from various other groups (e.g., de Lange et al., 2005; Ecke ...
MAY 5, 2000 Submitted to the Annual Review of Neuroscience AN
... signals throughout much of the rest of the brain, affecting not only visual processes, but also other sensory modalities, as well as systems responsible for response execution, memory retrieval, emotional evaluation, etc.. The aggregate effect of these bias signals is to guide the flow of neural act ...
... signals throughout much of the rest of the brain, affecting not only visual processes, but also other sensory modalities, as well as systems responsible for response execution, memory retrieval, emotional evaluation, etc.. The aggregate effect of these bias signals is to guide the flow of neural act ...
Role of the basal ganglia in conditional associative learning
... The arbitrary mapping of sensory information onto action forms an important element of the intelligent behavior of primates (also called conditional associative learning). The cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loops are thought to play a key role in such behavior. The present research was under ...
... The arbitrary mapping of sensory information onto action forms an important element of the intelligent behavior of primates (also called conditional associative learning). The cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loops are thought to play a key role in such behavior. The present research was under ...
Cross modality matching of brightness and loudness
... Cross modality matching is a magnitude matching procedure, developed to study the relationships between sensory modalities. Auditory and visual sensory integration can be examined through cross modality matching of brightness and loudness. Brightness and loudness are natural correlates of one anothe ...
... Cross modality matching is a magnitude matching procedure, developed to study the relationships between sensory modalities. Auditory and visual sensory integration can be examined through cross modality matching of brightness and loudness. Brightness and loudness are natural correlates of one anothe ...
MR Imaging–Detectable Metabolic Alterations in Attention Deficit
... networks that are known to be impaired in this pathology. Neurometabolite alterations were detected in several regions: the NAA, choline, and glutamatergic compounds. The creatine pool was also altered when an absolute quantitative protocol was adopted. In particular, glutamate was increased in chil ...
... networks that are known to be impaired in this pathology. Neurometabolite alterations were detected in several regions: the NAA, choline, and glutamatergic compounds. The creatine pool was also altered when an absolute quantitative protocol was adopted. In particular, glutamate was increased in chil ...
18 Coordination in Behavior and Cognition
... representational contents. The Coherent Infomax Theory suggests that coordinating interactions are essentially modulatory in nature and, thus, have only weak effects on the information carried by neural responses, which are considered to result mainly from bottom-up inputs into the respective circui ...
... representational contents. The Coherent Infomax Theory suggests that coordinating interactions are essentially modulatory in nature and, thus, have only weak effects on the information carried by neural responses, which are considered to result mainly from bottom-up inputs into the respective circui ...
Modulation of early cortical processing during divided attention to
... movements. All had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. The experimental procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and conformed to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants provided written informed consent and received a m ...
... movements. All had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. The experimental procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and conformed to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants provided written informed consent and received a m ...
Short frontal lobe connections of the human brain
... The diffusion data was then processed using a spherical deconvolution approach based on the damped version of the Richardson Lucy algorithm as described in (Dell’acqua et al., 2010). The high SNR of the data allowed us to apply a relatively low regularisation threshold equal to h ¼ .02 without an ex ...
... The diffusion data was then processed using a spherical deconvolution approach based on the damped version of the Richardson Lucy algorithm as described in (Dell’acqua et al., 2010). The high SNR of the data allowed us to apply a relatively low regularisation threshold equal to h ¼ .02 without an ex ...
Altered neural reward and loss processing and
... We gratefully acknowledge the valuable help of our research assistants in data collection. We thank our participants for the generous cooperation and use of their time. The work was supported by grants of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; SFB636 project D4 and SFB ...
... We gratefully acknowledge the valuable help of our research assistants in data collection. We thank our participants for the generous cooperation and use of their time. The work was supported by grants of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; SFB636 project D4 and SFB ...
Differential effects of 10-Hz and 40
... cuing tasks—one to assess endogenous attention and one to assess exogenous attention. Experimental sessions were conducted in an electrically-shielded, sound-attenuated booth, and stimuli were presented on a cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor positioned 75 cm from the participant, using Presentation sof ...
... cuing tasks—one to assess endogenous attention and one to assess exogenous attention. Experimental sessions were conducted in an electrically-shielded, sound-attenuated booth, and stimuli were presented on a cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor positioned 75 cm from the participant, using Presentation sof ...
Expected Value, Reward Outcome, and
... Figure 2. Task performance. (a) The choices of a subject in the decision task. The solid line shows the EV on the right in 3 different sets of 30 trials. Right and Left responses are shown. Each subject was run with a random order of the different EV trial sets. (b) The percentage of choices to the ...
... Figure 2. Task performance. (a) The choices of a subject in the decision task. The solid line shows the EV on the right in 3 different sets of 30 trials. Right and Left responses are shown. Each subject was run with a random order of the different EV trial sets. (b) The percentage of choices to the ...
2nd year - FORTH-ICS - Foundation for Research and Technology
... Recently the role of the so called “Mirror Neuron System” (MNS) in imitation (Rizzolatti et al, Nat Rev Neurosci: 2, 661-670, 2001) has been emphasized. Dysfunction of MNS is reported in Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This leads some authors to the claim that there is a strong link between a dysf ...
... Recently the role of the so called “Mirror Neuron System” (MNS) in imitation (Rizzolatti et al, Nat Rev Neurosci: 2, 661-670, 2001) has been emphasized. Dysfunction of MNS is reported in Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This leads some authors to the claim that there is a strong link between a dysf ...
Domain-general mechanisms of complex working memory span
... requirements, with different studies requiring serial recall (Osaka et al., 2003), cued serial recall (Bunge et al., 2000), order recognition (Smith et al., 2001), and forced-choice recognition (Kondo et al., 2004; Osaka et al., 2004). Also, the studies that did require recall did not analyze the da ...
... requirements, with different studies requiring serial recall (Osaka et al., 2003), cued serial recall (Bunge et al., 2000), order recognition (Smith et al., 2001), and forced-choice recognition (Kondo et al., 2004; Osaka et al., 2004). Also, the studies that did require recall did not analyze the da ...