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Arrigo IV, da Silva PHR, Leoni RF. Functional and Effective Connectivity Underlying Semantic Verbal Fluency. Brain Topogr 2024:10.1007/s10548-024-01059-x. [PMID: 38839695 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-024-01059-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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Semantic verbal fluency (SVF) impairment is present in several neurological disorders. Although activation in SVF-related areas has been reported, how these regions are connected and their functional roles in the network remain divergent. We assessed SVF static and dynamic functional connectivity (FC) and effective connectivity in healthy participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging. We observed activation in the inferior frontal (IFG), middle temporal (pMTG) and angular gyri (AG), anterior cingulate (AC), insular cortex, and regions of the superior, middle, and medial frontal gyri (SFG, MFG, MidFG). Our static FC analysis showed a highly interconnected task and resting state network. Increased connectivity of AC with the pMTG and AG was observed for the task. The dynamic FC analysis provided circuits with connections similarly modulated across time and regions related to category identification, language comprehension, word selection and recovery, word generation, inhibition of speaking, speech planning, and articulatory planning of orofacial movements. Finally, the effective connectivity analysis provided a network that best explained our data, starting at the AG and going to the pMTG, from which there was a division between the ventral and dorsal streams. The SFG and MFG regions were connected and modulated by the MidFG, while the inferior regions formed the ventral stream. Therefore, we successfully assessed the SVF network, exploring regions associated with the entire processing, from category identification to word generation. The methodological approach can be helpful for further investigation of the SVF network in neurological disorders.
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- Isabella Velloso Arrigo
- InBrain, Department of Physics, FFCLRP, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, 3900, 14040-901, Brazil
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- InBrain, Department of Physics, FFCLRP, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, 3900, 14040-901, Brazil
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- InBrain, Department of Physics, FFCLRP, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, 3900, 14040-901, Brazil.
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Bischof GN, Jaeger E, Giehl K, Jessen F, Onur OA, O'Bryant S, Kara E, Weiss PH, Drzezga A. Cortical Tau Aggregation Patterns associated with Apraxia in Alzheimer's Disease. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.04.09.24305535. [PMID: 38645131 PMCID: PMC11030486 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.09.24305535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/23/2024]
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Objectives Apraxia is a core feature of Alzheimer's disease, but the pathomechanism of this characteristic symptom is not well understood. Here, we systematically investigated apraxia profiles in a well-defined group of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD; N=32) who additionally underwent PET imaging with the second-generation tau PET tracer [18F]PI-2620. We hypothesized that specific patterns of tau pathology might be related to apraxic deficits. Methods Patients (N=32) with a biomarker-confirmed diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease were recruited in addition to a sample cognitively unimpaired controls (CU 1 ; N=41). Both groups underwent in-depth neuropsychological assessment of apraxia (Dementia Apraxia Screening Test; DATE and the Cologne Apraxia Screening; KAS). In addition, static PET imaging with [18F]PI-2620 was performed to assess tau pathology in the AD patients. To specifically investigate the association of apraxia with regional tau-pathology, we compared the PET-data from this group with an independent sample of amyloid-negative cognitively intact participants (CU 2; N=54) by generation of z-score-deviation maps as well as voxel- based multiple regression analyses. Results We identified significant clusters of tau-aggregation in praxis-related regions (e.g., supramarginal gyrus, angular gyrus, temporal, parietal and occipital regions) that were associated with apraxia. These regions were similar between the two apraxia assessments. No correlations between tau-tracer uptake in primary motor cortical or subcortical brain regions and apraxia were observed. Conclusions These results suggest that tau deposition in specific cortical brain regions may induce local neuronal dysfunction leading to a dose-dependent functional decline in praxis performance.
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Mizrachi N, Eviatar Z, Peleg O, Bitan T. Inter- and intra- hemispheric interactions in reading ambiguous words. Cortex 2024; 171:257-271. [PMID: 38048664 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/06/2023]
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The present study investigated how the brain processes words with multiple meanings. Specifically, we examined the inter- and intra-hemispheric connectivity of unambiguous words compared to two types of ambiguous words: homophonic homographs, which have multiple meanings mapped to a single phonological representation and orthography, and heterophonic homographs, which have multiple meanings mapped to different phonological representations but the same orthography. Using a semantic relatedness judgment task and effective connectivity analysis via Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) on previously published fMRI data (Bitan et al., 2017), we found that the two hemispheres compete in orthographic processing during the reading of unambiguous words. For heterophonic homographs, we observed increased connectivity within the left hemisphere, highlighting the importance of top-down re-activation of orthographic representations by phonological ones for considering alternative meanings. For homophonic homographs, we found a flow of information from the left to the right hemisphere and from the right to the left, indicating that the brain retrieves different meanings using different pathways. These findings provide novel insights into the complex mechanisms involved in language processing and shed light on the different communication patterns within and between hemispheres during the processing of ambiguous and unambiguous words.
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- Nofar Mizrachi
- Psychology Department, Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
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- Psychology Department, Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
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- The Program of Cognitive Studies of Language and Its Uses, and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
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- Psychology Department, Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; Department of Speech Language Pathology and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Yliranta A, Karjalainen VL, Nuorva J, Ahmasalo R, Jehkonen M. Apraxia testing to distinguish early Alzheimer's disease from psychiatric causes of cognitive impairment. Clin Neuropsychol 2023; 37:1629-1650. [PMID: 36829305 DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2023.2181223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023]
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Objective: Mood- and stress-related disorders commonly cause attentional and memory impairments in middle-aged individuals. In memory testing, these impairments can be mistakenly interpreted as symptoms of dementia; thus, more reliable diagnostic approaches are needed. The present work defines the discriminant accuracy of the Dementia Apraxia Test (DATE) between psychiatric conditions and early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) on its own and in combination with memory tests. Method: The consecutive sample included 50-70-year-old patients referred to dementia investigations for recent cognitive and/or affective symptoms. The DATE was administered and scored as a blinded measurement, and a receiver operating curve analysis was used to define the optimal diagnostic cut-off score. Results: A total of 24 patients were diagnosed with probable AD (mean age 61 ± 4) and 23 with a psychiatric condition (mean age 57 ± 4). The AD patients showed remarkable limb apraxia, but the psychiatric patients mainly performed at a healthy level on the DATE. The test showed a total discriminant accuracy of 87% for a total sum cut-off of 47 (sensitivity 79% and specificity 96%). The limb subscale alone reached an accuracy of 91% for a cut-off of 20 (sensitivity 83% and specificity 100%). All memory tests were diagnostically less accurate, while the combination of the limb praxis subscale and a verbal episodic memory test suggested a correct diagnosis in all but one patient. Conclusions: Apraxia testing may improve the accuracy of differentiation between AD and psychiatric aetiologies. Its potential in severe and chronic psychiatric conditions should be examined in the future.
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- Aino Yliranta
- Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University
- Neurology Clinic, Lapland Central Hospital
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Almeida J, Fracasso A, Kristensen S, Valério D, Bergström F, Chakravarthi R, Tal Z, Walbrin J. Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing. Commun Biol 2023; 6:940. [PMID: 37709924 PMCID: PMC10502059 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023] Open
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Understanding how we recognize objects requires unravelling the variables that govern the way we think about objects and the neural organization of object representations. A tenable hypothesis is that the organization of object knowledge follows key object-related dimensions. Here, we explored, behaviorally and neurally, the multidimensionality of object processing. We focused on within-domain object information as a proxy for the decisions we typically engage in our daily lives - e.g., identifying a hammer in the context of other tools. We extracted object-related dimensions from subjective human judgments on a set of manipulable objects. We show that the extracted dimensions are cognitively interpretable and relevant - i.e., participants are able to consistently label them, and these dimensions can guide object categorization; and are important for the neural organization of knowledge - i.e., they predict neural signals elicited by manipulable objects. This shows that multidimensionality is a hallmark of the organization of manipulable object knowledge.
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- Jorge Almeida
- Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
- CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
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- School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Seidel G, Rijntjes M, Güllmar D, Weiller C, Hamzei F. Understanding the concept of a novel tool requires interaction of the dorsal and ventral streams. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:9652-9663. [PMID: 37365863 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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The left hemisphere tool-use network consists of the dorso-dorsal, ventro-dorsal, and ventral streams, each with distinct computational abilities. In the dual-loop model, the ventral pathway through the extreme capsule is associated with conceptual understanding. We performed a learning experiment with fMRI to investigate how these streams interact when confronted with novel tools. In session one, subjects observed pictures and video sequences in real world action of known and unknown tools and were asked whether they knew the tools and whether they understood their function. In session two, video sequences of unknown tools were presented again, followed again by the question of understanding their function. Different conditions were compared to each other and effective connectivity (EC) in the tool-use network was examined. During concept acquisition of an unknown tool, EC between dorsal and ventral streams was found posterior in fusiform gyrus and anterior in inferior frontal gyrus, with a functional interaction between BA44d and BA45. When previously unknown tools were presented for a second time, EC was prominent only between dorsal stream areas. Understanding the concept of a novel tool requires an interaction of the ventral stream with the dorsal streams. Once the concept is acquired, dorsal stream areas are sufficient.
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- Gundula Seidel
- Section of Neurological Rehabilitation, Hans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Hermann-Sachse-Strasse 46, 07639 Bad Klosterlausnitz, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Moritz Klinik Bad Klosterlausnitz, CW Breisacher Str. 64, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, CW Breisacher Str. 64, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Medical Physics Group, Department of Radiology, Jena University Hospital, Philosophenweg 3, Gebäude 5, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Moritz Klinik Bad Klosterlausnitz, CW Breisacher Str. 64, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Section of Neurological Rehabilitation, Hans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Hermann-Sachse-Strasse 46, 07639 Bad Klosterlausnitz, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Moritz Klinik Bad Klosterlausnitz, CW Breisacher Str. 64, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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Schubotz RI, Ebel SJ, Elsner B, Weiss PH, Wörgötter F. Tool mastering today - an interdisciplinary perspective. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1191792. [PMID: 37397285 PMCID: PMC10311916 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1191792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023] Open
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Tools have coined human life, living conditions, and culture. Recognizing the cognitive architecture underlying tool use would allow us to comprehend its evolution, development, and physiological basis. However, the cognitive underpinnings of tool mastering remain little understood in spite of long-time research in neuroscientific, psychological, behavioral and technological fields. Moreover, the recent transition of tool use to the digital domain poses new challenges for explaining the underlying processes. In this interdisciplinary review, we propose three building blocks of tool mastering: (A) perceptual and motor abilities integrate to tool manipulation knowledge, (B) perceptual and cognitive abilities to functional tool knowledge, and (C) motor and cognitive abilities to means-end knowledge about tool use. This framework allows for integrating and structuring research findings and theoretical assumptions regarding the functional architecture of tool mastering via behavior in humans and non-human primates, brain networks, as well as computational and robotic models. An interdisciplinary perspective also helps to identify open questions and to inspire innovative research approaches. The framework can be applied to studies on the transition from classical to modern, non-mechanical tools and from analogue to digital user-tool interactions in virtual reality, which come with increased functional opacity and sensorimotor decoupling between tool user, tool, and target. By working towards an integrative theory on the cognitive architecture of the use of tools and technological assistants, this review aims at stimulating future interdisciplinary research avenues.
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- Ricarda I. Schubotz
- Department of Biological Psychology, Institute for Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Human Biology & Primate Cognition, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Inst. of Physics 3 and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Kleineberg NN, Tscherpel C, Fink GR, Grefkes C, Weiss PH. Different facets of object-use pantomime: online TMS evidence on the role of the supramarginal gyrus. Cortex 2022; 156:13-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Hand constraint reduces brain activity and affects the speed of verbal responses on semantic tasks. Sci Rep 2022; 12:13545. [PMID: 35941140 PMCID: PMC9360433 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17702-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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According to the theory of embodied cognition, semantic processing is closely coupled with body movements. For example, constraining hand movements inhibits memory for objects that can be manipulated with the hands. However, it has not been confirmed whether body constraint reduces brain activity related to semantics. We measured the effect of hand constraint on semantic processing in the parietal lobe using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. A pair of words representing the names of hand-manipulable (e.g., cup or pencil) or nonmanipulable (e.g., windmill or fountain) objects were presented, and participants were asked to identify which object was larger. The reaction time (RT) in the judgment task and the activation of the left intraparietal sulcus (LIPS) and left inferior parietal lobule (LIPL), including the supramarginal gyrus and angular gyrus, were analyzed. We found that constraint of hand movement suppressed brain activity in the LIPS toward hand-manipulable objects and affected RT in the size judgment task. These results indicate that body constraint reduces the activity of brain regions involved in semantics. Hand constraint might inhibit motor simulation, which, in turn, would inhibit body-related semantic processing.
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Graneri J, Dansilio S, Martínez-Cuitiño M, Grasso L, Cantore MS, Brasca L. Dissociation between function and manipulation in semantic representations of motor impaired subjects: A new test. Cogn Neuropsychol 2022; 39:208-226. [PMID: 36056549 DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2022.2114825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A fundamental problem in semantic cognition is the representation of human concepts in the brain. Much of the knowledge acquired in the last decades comes from the study of dissociations found in patients with acquired difficulties in language, perception, and action. In particular, some deficits involve loss of knowledge about tools. The dissociation between two relevant aspects of tools, function and manipulation, has been the focus of several studies. In this paper, a new test designed to study the dissociation between function and manipulation is proposed and normative values for a control population are provided. This novel test was additionally administered to and evaluated in a group of Parkinson's disease patients. The Graded-Controlled Hub-and-Spoke model of Lambon Ralph, Jefferies, Patterson and Rogers was used as a theoretical guide to interpret the results.
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- Jorge Graneri
- Institute of Mathematics and Statistics Prof. Ing. Rafael Laguardia (IMERL), Faculty of Engineering, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Neuropsychology, Clinical Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.,Institute of Fundamentals in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Neuropsychology and Language Laboratory Research, LINL, INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET), Argentina.,Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Psychology and Psychopedagogy Centre Research (CIPP) Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Spanish Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Research and Rehabilitation Centre Dr. Esteban Laureano Maradona, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Ghio M, Conca F, Bellebaum C, Perani D, Tettamanti M. Effective connectivity within the neural system for object-directed action representation during aware and unaware tool processing. Cortex 2022; 153:55-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Revised: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The contributions of the ventral and the dorsal visual streams to the automatic processing of action relations of familiar and unfamiliar object pairs. Neuroimage 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Wang D, Liang S. Dynamic Causal Modeling on the Identification of Interacting Networks in the Brain: A Systematic Review. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 2021; 29:2299-2311. [PMID: 34714747 DOI: 10.1109/tnsre.2021.3123964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) has long been used to characterize effective connectivity within networks of distributed neuronal responses. Previous reviews have highlighted the understanding of the conceptual basis behind DCM and its variants from different aspects. However, no detailed summary or classification research on the task-related effective connectivity of various brain regions has been made formally available so far, and there is also a lack of application analysis of DCM for hemodynamic and electrophysiological measurements. This review aims to analyze the effective connectivity of different brain regions using DCM for different measurement data. We found that, in general, most studies focused on the networks between different cortical regions, and the research on the networks between other deep subcortical nuclei or between them and the cerebral cortex are receiving increasing attention, but far from the same scale. Our analysis also reveals a clear bias towards some task types. Based on these results, we identify and discuss several promising research directions that may help the community to attain a clear understanding of the brain network interactions under different tasks.
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Hippmann B, Tzvi E, Göttlich M, Weiblen R, Münte TF, Jessen S. Effective connectivity underlying reward-based executive control. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:4555-4567. [PMID: 34173997 PMCID: PMC8410574 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Motivational influences on cognitive control play an important role in shaping human behavior. Cognitive facilitation through motivators such as prospective reward or punishment is thought to depend on regions from the dopaminergic mesocortical network, primarily the ventral tegmental area (VTA), inferior frontal junction (IFJ), and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). However, how interactions between these regions relate to motivated control remains elusive. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we used dynamic causal modeling (DCM) to investigate effective connectivity between left IFJ, ACC, and VTA in a task-switching paradigm comprising three distinct motivational conditions (prospective monetary reward or punishment and a control condition). We found that while prospective punishment significantly facilitated switching between tasks on a behavioral level, interactions between IFJ, ACC, and VTA were characterized by modulations through prospective reward but not punishment. Our DCM results show that IFJ and VTA modulate ACC activity in parallel rather than by interaction to serve task demands in reward-based cognitive control. Our findings further demonstrate that prospective reward and punishment differentially affect neural control mechanisms to initiate decision-making.
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- Department of NeurologyUniversity of LeipzigLeipzigGermany
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- Department of NeurologyUniversity of LübeckLübeckGermany
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- Department of NeurologyUniversity of LübeckLübeckGermany
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Malfatti G, Turella L. Neural encoding and functional interactions underlying pantomimed movements. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 226:2321-2337. [PMID: 34247268 PMCID: PMC8354930 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02332-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Pantomimes are a unique movement category which can convey complex information about our intentions in the absence of any interaction with real objects. Indeed, we can pretend to use the same tool to perform different actions or to achieve the same goal adopting different tools. Nevertheless, how our brain implements pantomimed movements is still poorly understood. In our study, we explored the neural encoding and functional interactions underlying pantomimes adopting multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) and connectivity analysis of fMRI data. Participants performed pantomimed movements, either grasp-to-move or grasp-to-use, as if they were interacting with two different tools (scissors or axe). These tools share the possibility to achieve the same goal. We adopted MVPA to investigate two levels of representation during the planning and execution of pantomimes: (1) distinguishing different actions performed with the same tool, (2) representing the same final goal irrespective of the adopted tool. We described widespread encoding of action information within regions of the so-called “tool” network. Several nodes of the network—comprising regions within the ventral and the dorsal stream—also represented goal information. The spatial distribution of goal information changed from planning—comprising posterior regions (i.e. parietal and temporal)—to execution—including also anterior regions (i.e. premotor cortex). Moreover, connectivity analysis provided evidence for task-specific bidirectional coupling between the ventral stream and parieto-frontal motor networks. Overall, we showed that pantomimes were characterized by specific patterns of action and goal encoding and by task-dependent cortical interactions.
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- Giulia Malfatti
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Corso Bettini 31, 38068, Rovereto, Italy
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Corso Bettini 31, 38068, Rovereto, Italy.
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Lesourd M, Servant M, Baumard J, Reynaud E, Ecochard C, Medjaoui FT, Bartolo A, Osiurak F. Semantic and action tool knowledge in the brain: Identifying common and distinct networks. Neuropsychologia 2021; 159:107918. [PMID: 34166668 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Most cognitive models of apraxia assume that impaired tool use results from a deficit occurring at the conceptual level, which contains dedicated information about tool use, namely, semantic and action tool knowledge. Semantic tool knowledge contains information about the prototypical use of familiar tools, such as function (e.g., a hammer and a mallet share the same purpose) and associative relations (e.g., a hammer goes with a nail). Action tool knowledge contains information about how to manipulate tools, such as hand posture and kinematics. The present review aimed to better understand the neural correlates of action and semantic tool knowledge, by focusing on activation, stimulation and patients' studies (left brain-damaged patients). We found that action and semantic tool knowledge rely upon a large brain network including temporal and parietal regions. Yet, while action tool knowledge calls into play the intraparietal sulcus, function relations mostly involve the anterior and posterior temporal lobe. Associative relations engaged the angular and the posterior middle temporal gyrus. Moreover, we found that hand posture and kinematics both tapped into the inferior parietal lobe and the lateral occipital temporal cortex, but no region specificity was found for one or the other representation. Our results point out the major role of both posterior middle temporal gyrus and inferior parietal lobe for action and semantic tool knowledge. They highlight the common and distinct brain networks involved in action and semantic tool networks and spur future directions on this topic.
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- Mathieu Lesourd
- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France; MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France.
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- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France; MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France
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- Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, Bron, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193 - SCALab - Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, F-59000, Lille, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), France
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- Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, Bron, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), France
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Garcea FE, Greene C, Grafton ST, Buxbaum LJ. Structural Disconnection of the Tool Use Network after Left Hemisphere Stroke Predicts Limb Apraxia Severity. Cereb Cortex Commun 2020; 1:tgaa035. [PMID: 33134927 PMCID: PMC7573742 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgaa035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Revised: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Producing a tool use gesture is a complex process drawing upon the integration of stored knowledge of tools and their associated actions with sensory-motor mechanisms supporting the planning and control of hand and arm actions. Understanding how sensory-motor systems in parietal cortex interface with semantic representations of actions and objects in the temporal lobe remains a critical issue and is hypothesized to be a key determinant of the severity of limb apraxia, a deficit in producing skilled action after left hemisphere stroke. We used voxel-based and connectome-based lesion-symptom mapping with data from 57 left hemisphere stroke participants to assess the lesion sites and structural disconnection patterns associated with poor tool use gesturing. We found that structural disconnection among the left inferior parietal lobule, lateral and ventral temporal cortices, and middle and superior frontal gyri predicted the severity of tool use gesturing performance. Control analyses demonstrated that reductions in right-hand grip strength were associated with motor system disconnection, largely bypassing regions supporting tool use gesturing. Our findings provide evidence that limb apraxia may arise, in part, from a disconnection between conceptual representations in the temporal lobe and mechanisms enabling skilled action production in the inferior parietal lobule.
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- Frank E Garcea
- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Elkins Park, PA 19027, USA
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93016, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93016, USA
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- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Elkins Park, PA 19027, USA
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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Achilles EIS, Ballweg CS, Niessen E, Kusch M, Ant JM, Fink GR, Weiss PH. Neural correlates of differential finger gesture imitation deficits in left hemisphere stroke. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 23:101915. [PMID: 31491825 PMCID: PMC6627029 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Revised: 06/15/2019] [Accepted: 06/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Behavioural studies in apraxic patients revealed dissociations between the processing of meaningful (MF) and meaningless (ML) gestures. Consequently, the existence of two differential neural mechanisms for the imitation of either gesture type has been postulated. While the indirect (semantic) route exclusively enables the imitation of MF gestures, the direct route can be used for the imitation of any gesture type, irrespective of meaning, and thus especially for ML gestures. Concerning neural correlates, it is debated which of the visuo-motor streams (i.e., the ventral steam, the ventro-dorsal stream, or the dorso-dorsal stream) supports the postulated indirect and direct imitation routes. To probe the hypotheses that regions of the dorso-dorsal stream are involved differentially in the imitation of ML gestures and that regions of the ventro-dorsal stream are involved differentially in the imitation of MF gestures, we analysed behavioural (imitation of MF and ML finger gestures) and lesion data of 293 patients with a left hemisphere (LH) stroke. Confirming previous work, the current sample of LH stroke patients imitated MF finger gestures better than ML finger gestures. The analysis using voxel-based lesion symptom mapping (VLSM) revealed that LH damage to dorso-dorsal stream areas was associated with an impaired imitation of ML finger gestures, whereas damage to ventro-dorsal regions was associated with a deficient imitation of MF finger gestures. Accordingly, the analyses of the imitation of visually uniform and thus highly comparable MF and ML finger gestures support the dual-route model for gesture imitation at the behavioural and lesion level in a substantial patient sample. Furthermore, the data show that the direct route for ML finger gesture imitation depends on the dorso-dorsal visuo-motor stream while the indirect route for MF finger gesture imitation is related to regions of the ventro-dorsal visuo-motor stream. Identification of differential neural correlates for the imitation of meaningful and meaningless finger gestures. Support for the dual-route model for gesture imitation in a substantial patient sample (n = 293). Left hemispheric damage to dorso-dorsal stream areas is associated with an impaired imitation of meaningless finger gestures Damage to ventro-dorsal regions is associated with a deficient imitation of meaningful finger gestures
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- Elisabeth I S Achilles
- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, Germany; Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Germany, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany.
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Germany, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, Germany; Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Germany, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, Germany; Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Germany, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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Garcea FE, Buxbaum LJ. Gesturing tool use and tool transport actions modulates inferior parietal functional connectivity with the dorsal and ventral object processing pathways. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 40:2867-2883. [PMID: 30900321 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Revised: 02/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Interacting with manipulable objects (tools) requires the integration of diverse computations supported by anatomically remote regions. Previous functional neuroimaging research has demonstrated the left supramarginal (SMG) exhibits functional connectivity to both ventral and dorsal pathways, supporting the integration of ventrally-mediated tool properties and conceptual knowledge with dorsally-computed volumetric and structural representations of tools. This architecture affords us the opportunity to test whether interactions between the left SMG, ventral visual pathway, and dorsal visual pathway are differentially modulated when participants plan and generate tool-directed gestures emphasizing functional manipulation (tool use gesturing) or structure-based grasping (tool transport gesturing). We found that functional connectivity between the left SMG, ventral temporal cortex (bilateral fusiform gyri), and dorsal visual pathway (left superior parietal lobule/posterior intraparietal sulcus) was maximal for tool transport planning and gesturing, whereas functional connectivity between the left SMG, left ventral anterior temporal lobe, and left frontal operculum was maximal for tool use planning and gesturing. These results demonstrate that functional connectivity to the left SMG is differentially modulated by tool use and tool transport gesturing, suggesting that distinct tool features computed by the two object processing pathways are integrated in the parietal lobe in the service of tool-directed action.
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- Frank E Garcea
- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.,Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.,Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Kleineberg NN, Dovern A, Binder E, Grefkes C, Eickhoff SB, Fink GR, Weiss PH. Action and semantic tool knowledge - Effective connectivity in the underlying neural networks. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:3473-3486. [PMID: 29700893 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2017] [Revised: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Evidence from neuropsychological and imaging studies indicate that action and semantic knowledge about tools draw upon distinct neural substrates, but little is known about the underlying interregional effective connectivity. With fMRI and dynamic causal modeling (DCM) we investigated effective connectivity in the left-hemisphere (LH) while subjects performed (i) a function knowledge and (ii) a value knowledge task, both addressing semantic tool knowledge, and (iii) a manipulation (action) knowledge task. Overall, the results indicate crosstalk between action nodes and semantic nodes. Interestingly, effective connectivity was weakened between semantic nodes and action nodes during the manipulation task. Furthermore, pronounced modulations of effective connectivity within the fronto-parietal action system of the LH (comprising lateral occipito-temporal cortex, intraparietal sulcus, supramarginal gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus) were observed in a bidirectional manner during the processing of action knowledge. In contrast, the function and value knowledge tasks resulted in a significant strengthening of the effective connectivity between visual cortex and fusiform gyrus. Importantly, this modulation was present in both semantic tasks, indicating that processing different aspects of semantic knowledge about tools evokes similar effective connectivity patterns. Data revealed that interregional effective connectivity during the processing of tool knowledge occurred in a bidirectional manner with a weakening of connectivity between areas engaged in action and semantic knowledge about tools during the processing of action knowledge. Moreover, different semantic tool knowledge tasks elicited similar effective connectivity patterns.
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- Nina N Kleineberg
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
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- Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.,Brain and Behaviour, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
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