Published in NeuroImage
Understanding the correct intention of a speaker is critical for social interaction. Speech prosody is an important source for understanding speakers' intentions during verbal communication. However, the neural dynamics by which the human brain translates the prosodic cues into a mental representation of communicative intentions in real time remain...
Published in NeuroImage
Internal bodily signals, such as heartbeats, can influence conscious perception of external sensory information. Spontaneous shifts of attention between interoception and exteroception have been proposed as the underlying mechanism, but direct evidence is lacking. Here, we used steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) frequency tagging to indep...
Published in Brain, behavior, and immunity
Exposure to postnatal systemic inflammation is associated with increased risk of brain injury in preterm infants, leading to impaired maturation of the cerebral cortex and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. However, the optimal method for identifying cortical dysmaturation is unclear. Herein, we compared the utility of electroencephalography (EEG...
Published in Journal of Neural Engineering
Objective. Accurately diagnosing patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) is challenging and prone to errors. Recent studies have demonstrated that EEG (electroencephalography), a non-invasive technique of recording the spontaneous electrical activity of brains, offers valuable insights for DOC diagnosis. However, some challenges remain: (1) ...
Published in Journal of Neural Engineering
Objective. Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) in response to flickering stimuli are popular in brain–computer interfacing but their implementation in virtual reality (VR) offers new opportunities also for clinical applications. While traditional SSVEP target selection relies on single-frequency stimulation of both eyes simultaneously, f...
Published in Frontiers in Medicine
Emotional recognition is a way of detecting, evaluating, interpreting, and responding to others' emotional states and feelings, which might range from delight to fear to disgrace. There is increasing interest in the domains of psychological computing and human-computer interface (HCI), especially Emotion Recognition (ER) in Virtual Reality (VR). Hu...
Published in Journal of Neural Engineering
Objective. Balance impairment is one of the most debilitating consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI). To study the neurophysiological underpinnings of balance impairment, the brain functional connectivity during perturbation tasks can provide new insights. To better characterize the association between the task-relevant functional connectivit...
Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Introduction Dichotic listening (DL) has been extensively used as a task to investigate auditory processing and hemispheric lateralisation in humans. According to the “callosal relay model,” the typical finding of a right ear advantage (REA) occurs because the information coming from the right ear has direct access to the left dominant hemisphere w...
BACKGROUND: Childhood adversity has been associated with alterations in threat-related information processing, including heightened perceptual sensitivity and attention bias towards threatening facial expressions, as well as hostile attributions of neutral faces, although there is a large degree of variability and inconsistency in reported findings...
Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Introduction Wearable in-ear electroencephalographic (EEG) devices hold significant promise for integrating brain monitoring technologies into real-life applications. However, despite the introduction of various in-ear EEG systems, there remains a necessity for validating these technologies against gold-standard, clinical-grade devices. This study ...
