Ferreira, Roberto A Vinson, David Dijkstra, Ton Vigliocco, Gabriella
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Neuropsychologia
We investigated the neural basis of newly learned words in Spanish as a mother tongue (L1) and English as a second language (L2). Participants acquired new names for real but unfamiliar concepts in both languages over the course of two days. On day 3, they completed a semantic categorization task during fMRI scanning. The results revealed largely o...
Bek, Judith Gowen, Emma Vogt, Stefan Crawford, Trevor J Poliakoff, Ellen
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Neuropsychologia
Action observation and imitation have been found to influence movement in people with Parkinson's disease (PD), but simple visual stimuli can also guide their movement. To investigate whether action observation may provide a more effective stimulus than other visual cues, the present study examined the effects of observing human pointing movements ...
Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh Cacucci, Francesca
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Neuropsychologia
Bertini, Caterina Làdavas, Elisabetta
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Neuropsychologia
The human brain has evolved a multifaceted fear system, allowing threat detection to enable rapid adaptive responses crucial for survival. Although many cortical and subcortical brain areas are believed to be involved in the survival circuits detecting and responding to threat, the amygdala has reportedly a crucial role in the fear system. Here, we...
Ammons, Carla J Winslett, Mary-Elizabeth Kana, Rajesh K
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Neuropsychologia
The human face communicates a wealth of socially relevant information such as person identity, emotion, and intention. A consistent behavioral finding in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is reduced attention to or difficulty drawing meaning from faces. However, neuroimaging research into the neural correlates of face processing differences in ASD has...
Altomare, Emanuele Cosimo Committeri, Giorgia Di Matteo, Rosalia Capotosto, Paolo Tosoni, Annalisa
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Neuropsychologia
We have recently described a facilitation effect for the execution of a walking-related action in response to distant objects/locations in the extrapersonal space. Based on the parallelism with the well-known effect of "micro-affordance", observed during the execution of functionally appropriate hand-related actions towards manipulable objects, we ...
Chang, Wenwen Wang, Hong Yan, Guanghui Lu, Zhiguo Liu, Chong Hua, Chengcheng
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Neuropsychologia
Humans can show emotional reactions toward humanoid robots, such as empathy. Previous neuroimaging studies have indicated that neural responses of empathy for others' pain are modulated by an early automatic emotional sharing and a late controlled cognitive evaluation process. Recent studies about pain empathy for robots found humans present simila...
Russell-Giller, Shira Wu, Tingting Spagna, Alfredo Dhamoon, Mandip Hao, Qing Fan, Jin
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Neuropsychologia
In our previous study, we have demonstrated a right hemisphere superiority in executive control of attention, with the right hemisphere being more efficient in dealing with conflict for stimuli presented in the left visual field. However, the unique and synergetic contribution of the two hemispheres to this superiority effect is still elusive. Here...
Wilf, Meytal Cerra Cheraka, Mouna Jeanneret, Max Ott, Renaud Perrin, Henri Crottaz-Herbette, Sonia Serino, Andrea
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Neuropsychologia
Prism adaptation is a method for studying visuomotor plasticity in healthy individuals, as well as for rehabilitating patients suffering spatial neglect. We developed a new set-up based on virtual-reality (VR) and haptic-robotics allowing us to induce sensorimotor adaptation and to reproduce the effect of prism adaptation in a more ecologically val...
Kumar, Sukhbinder Gander, Phillip E Berger, Joel I Billig, Alexander J Nourski, Kirill V Oya, Hiroyuki Kawasaki, Hiroto Howard, Matthew A 3rd Griffiths, Timothy D
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Neuropsychologia
This work examines how sounds are held in auditory working memory (AWM) in humans by examining oscillatory local field potentials (LFPs) in candidate brain regions. Previous fMRI studies by our group demonstrated blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) response increases during maintenance in auditory cortex, inferior frontal cortex and the hippoc...