Menegaux, Aurore Meng, Chun Bäuml, Josef G Berndt, Maria T Hedderich, Dennis M Schmitz-Koep, Benita Schneider, Sebastian Nuttall, Rachel Zimmermann, Juliana Daamen, Marcel
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Premature birth is associated with alterations in brain structure, particularly in white matter. Among white matter, alterations in cortico-thalamic connections are present in premature-born infants, and they have been suggested both to last until adulthood and to contribute to impaired cognitive functions. To test these hypotheses, 70 very prematu...
Ceh, Simon Majed Annerer-Walcher, Sonja Koschutnig, Karl Körner, Christof Fink, Andreas Benedek, Mathias
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Many goal-directed, as well as spontaneous everyday activities (e.g., planning, mind-wandering), rely on an internal focus of attention. This fMRI-eye-tracking coregistration study investigated brain mechanisms and eye behavior related to internally versus externally directed cognition. Building on an established paradigm, we manipulated internal a...
Takamura, Yusaku Fujii, Shintaro Ohmatsu, Satoko Ikuno, Koki Tanaka, Kohei Manji, Atsushi Abe, Hiroaki Morioka, Shu Kawashima, Noritaka
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) was originally regarded as a parietal syndrome, but it has become evident that USN is a disturbance in the widespread attention network. Here, we focused on an interaction between spatial neglect and non-spatial aspect of attention deficit, and aimed to establish a novel evaluation approach based on the characterist...
Lungu, Laura Rothen, Nicolas Terhune, Devin B
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is a neurodevelopmental condition wherein perception of numbers and letters consistently and involuntarily elicits concurrent experiences of colour photisms. Accumulating evidence suggests that heterogeneity in the visuospatial phenomenology of synaesthesia is attributable to the operation of top-down processes underlyi...
Sorrentino, Giuliana Franza, Matteo Zuber, Charlène Blanke, Olaf Serino, Andrea Bassolino, Michela
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
To efficiently interact with the external world, the brain needs to represent the size of the involved body parts - body representations (BR) - and the space around the body in which the interactions with the environment take place - peripersonal space representation (PPS). BR and PPS are both highly flexible, being updated by the continuous flow o...
Klein Selle, Nathalie Gueta, Chen Harpaz, Yuval Deouell, Leon Y Ben-Shakhar, Gershon
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
In the pursuit of new methods for concealed memory detection, event-related potential components (ERP) have been placed at the forefront of research. No method, however, is scientifically complete without a theory and the present study therefore aimed to unravel the cognitive processes underlying these ERPs (i.e., orienting and arousal inhibition)....
Marschall, Theresa M Ćurčić-Blake, Branislava Brederoo, Sanne G Renken, Remco J Linszen, Mascha M J Koops, Sanne Sommer, Iris E C
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Auditory hallucinations, the perception of a sound without a corresponding source, are common in people with hearing impairment. Two forms can be distinguished: simple (i.e., tinnitus) and complex hallucinations (speech and music). Little is known about the precise mechanisms underlying these types of hallucinations. Here we tested the assumption t...
Petzka, Marit Charest, Ian Balanos, George M Staresina, Bernhard P
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Sleep stabilizes newly acquired memories, a process referred to as memory consolidation. According to recent studies, sleep-dependent consolidation processes might be deployed to different extents for different types of memories. In particular, weaker memories might benefit greater from post-learning sleep than stronger memories. However, under sta...
Aziz, Jasmine R Good, Samantha R Klein, Raymond M Eskes, Gail A
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Studying age-related changes in working memory (WM) and visual search can provide insights into mechanisms of visuospatial attention. In visual search, WM is used to remember previously inspected objects/locations and to maintain a mental representation of the target to guide the search. We sought to extend this work, using aging as a case of reduc...
Schindler, Sebastian Bruchmann, Maximilian Gathmann, Bettina Moeck, Robert Straube, Thomas
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Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Emotional facial expressions lead to modulations of early event-related potentials (ERPs). However, it has so far remained unclear how far these modulations represent face-specific effects rather than differences in low-level visual features, and to which extent they depend on available processing resources. To examine these questions, we conducted...
