5/26/2014

Green tea consumption is associated with lower incidence of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly people

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Mitigating effects of dietary habits, including drinking of tea or coffee, on cognitive decline (and even dementias) in aging is a research...
2/13/2014

Brain activity patterns predict risky and safe choices in healthy human volunteers

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The question of which neural events predict risky vs . safe behaviors such as overtaking a slower vehicle when there is little space to do ...
1/24/2014

Context modulates perception and cortical processing of neutral faces

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The vast majority of cognitive neuroscience research on perception of facial expressions has utilized static stimuli with emotional express...
1/15/2014

Natural sounds are represented as spectrotemporal modulations in human auditory cortex

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The question of how the human auditory cortex represents complex natural sounds is one of the most fundamental ones in cognitive neuroscien...
1/07/2014

Across-cultures replicable bodily maps of experienced emotions

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In linguistic expressions, emotional experiences are often described as bodily sensations, such as someone “having cold feet” or “heartache...
12/30/2013

Stress-response mediated by repeated media exposure to collective traumatic events

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In the modern world, information about traumatic events, such as earthquakes, major accidents, and terrorist strikes claiming innocent live...
12/22/2013

Increased functional brain network modularity predicts working memory deficits in early-stage multiple sclerosis

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Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disorder where, due to inflammatory processes, there is focal demyelination and axonal damage that ste...
11/24/2013

Speech motor system may mediate visual information to auditory cortex during silent speech reading

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While the sense of hearing is clearly the dominant channel for speech perception, humans are surprisingly good at reading the lips of one’s...
11/17/2013

Chronic two-photon imaging of entire cortical columns in awake mice using microprisms

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In the scientific quest to unravel the neural basis of many perceptual and cognitive functions, animal models are very important in complem...
11/03/2013

Visual-cortex GABA concentrations predict incidence of cognitive failures in daily life in healthy volunteers

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Since the amount of information one receives in daily life by far exceeds the limited capacity of one’s processing resources, selecting rel...
10/29/2013

Use of three-dimensional movies with surround sound as stimuli during functional magnetic resonance imaging

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Naturalistic stimuli such as movies are being increasingly used as stimuli in cognitive neuroimaging studies. One of the advantages offered...
10/21/2013

Providing sense of touch via intracortical microstimulation of somatosensory cortex from a prosthetic limb

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Research on brain computer interfaces has shown amazing progress over the past decade, with non-human primate studies showing that it is po...
10/14/2013

Direct causal evidence for auditory cortical "what" and "where" processing streams provided by transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Since initial observations in animal models, there has been accumulating evidence suggesting that sound identity and location information i...
10/07/2013

Brain regions involved in processing gestural, facial, and actor-orientation cues in short video clips revealed by functional MRI

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How is the human brain able to process social gestures so quickly and with (seemingly) so little effort? Answering this question is one of ...
9/27/2013

Dietary polyamine supplement prevents aging-related memory impairments in Drosophila

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It is well known that aging results in cognitive decline, including memory impairments, even in the absence of any dementing neurodegenerat...
9/23/2013

Economic conditions at the time of birth predict cognitive ability late in life

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Severe economic recessions are known to adversely affect population health, and it is also well known that exposure to adverse stimuli duri...
9/15/2013

Watching short emotional movie clips robustly activates the human dorsal visual stream areas

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Rapid advances in neuroimaging method development are currently making it possible to answer one of the most intriguing questions in cognit...
9/09/2013

Human electrocorticography shows phase resetting of visual cortical oscillatory activity by auditory stimuli

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Perception is inherently multisensory, as evidenced by multisensory integration effects such as increased comprehensibility of speech when ...
9/01/2013

Self-initiated task selection is predicted by multi-voxel pattern activity in medial prefrontal and parietal cortices

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Based on clinical observations in brain-damaged individuals, it has been known for a long time that the brain mechanisms underlying externa...
8/25/2013

The head and tail of caudate nucleus code flexible and stable reward value of visual objects

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Being able to estimate the reward value of visual objects is a crucial factor in guiding ones behavioral choices. What makes this task even...