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Tien M, Albonico A, Barton JJS. Faces, English words and Chinese characters: a study of dual-task interference in mono-and bilingual speakers. Exp Brain Res 2023; 241:1131-1144. [PMID: 36856801 PMCID: PMC9975443 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06580-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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The many-to-many hypothesis suggests that face and visual-word processing tasks share neural resources in the brain, even though they show opposing hemispheric asymmetries in neuroimaging and neuropsychologic studies. Recently it has been suggested that both stimulus and task effects need to be incorporated into the hypothesis. A recent study found dual-task interference between face and text functions that lateralized to the same hemisphere, but not when they lateralized to different hemispheres. However, it is not clear whether a lack of interference between word and face recognition would occur for other languages, particularly those with a morpho-syllabic script, like Chinese, for which there is some evidence of greater right hemispheric involvement. Here, we used the same technique to probe for dual-task interference between English text, Chinese characters and face recognition. We tested 20 subjects monolingual for English and 20 subjects bilingual for Chinese and English. We replicated the prior result for English text and showed similar results for Chinese text with no evidence of interference with faces. We also did not find interference between Chinese and English text. The results support a view in which reading English words, reading Chinese characters and face identification have minimal sharing of neural resources.
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- Marko Tien
- grid.17091.3e0000 0001 2288 9830Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3N9 Canada
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- grid.17091.3e0000 0001 2288 9830Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3N9 Canada
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- grid.17091.3e0000 0001 2288 9830Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3N9 Canada
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Robotham RJ, Rice GE, Leff AP, Lambon Ralph MA, Starrfelt R. Systematic evaluation of high-level visual deficits and lesions in posterior cerebral artery stroke. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad050. [PMID: 36938522 PMCID: PMC10018645 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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Knowledge about the consequences of stroke on high-level vision comes primarily from single case studies of patients selected based on their behavioural profiles, typically patients with specific stroke syndromes like pure alexia or prosopagnosia. There are, however, no systematic, detailed, large-scale evaluations of the more typical clinical behavioural and lesion profiles of impairments in high-level vision after posterior cerebral artery stroke. We present behavioural and lesion data from the Back of the Brain project, to date the largest (N = 64) and most detailed examination of patients with cortical posterior cerebral artery strokes selected based on lesion location. The aim of the current study was to relate behavioural performance with faces, objects and written words to lesion data through two complementary analyses: (i) a multivariate multiple regression analysis to establish the relationships between lesion volume, lesion laterality and the presence of a bilateral lesion with performance and (ii) a voxel-based correlational methodology analysis to establish whether there are distinct or separate regions within the posterior cerebral artery territory that underpin the visual processing of words, faces and objects. Behaviourally, most patients showed more general deficits in high-level vision (n = 22) or no deficits at all (n = 21). Category-selective deficits were rare (n = 6) and were only found for words. Overall, total lesion volume was most strongly related to performance across all three domains. While behavioural impairments in all domains were observed following unilateral left and right as well as bilateral lesions, the regions most strongly related to performance mainly confirmed the pattern reported in more selective cases. For words, these included a left hemisphere cluster extending from the occipital pole along the fusiform and lingual gyri; for objects, bilateral clusters which overlapped with the word cluster in the left occipital lobe. Face performance mainly correlated with a right hemisphere cluster within the white matter, partly overlapping with the object cluster. While the findings provide partial support for the relative laterality of posterior brain regions supporting reading and face processing, the results also suggest that both hemispheres are involved in the visual processing of faces, words and objects.
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- Ro Julia Robotham
- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1353, Denmark
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK
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- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1353, Denmark
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With childhood hemispherectomy, one hemisphere can support—but is suboptimal for—word and face recognition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2212936119. [PMID: 36282918 PMCID: PMC9636967 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212936119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The right and left cerebral hemispheres are important for face and word recognition, respectively—a specialization that emerges over human development. The question is whether this bilateral distribution is necessary or whether a single hemisphere, be it left or right, can support both face and word recognition. Here, face and word recognition accuracy in patients (median age 16.7 y) with a single hemisphere following childhood hemispherectomy was compared against matched typical controls. In experiment 1, participants viewed stimuli in central vision. Across both face and word tasks, accuracy of both left and right hemispherectomy patients, while significantly lower than controls' accuracy, averaged above 80% and did not differ from each other. To compare patients' single hemisphere more directly to one hemisphere of controls, in experiment 2, participants viewed stimuli in one visual field to constrain initial processing chiefly to a single (contralateral) hemisphere. Whereas controls had higher word accuracy when words were presented to the right than to the left visual field, there was no field/hemispheric difference for faces. In contrast, left and right hemispherectomy patients, again, showed comparable performance to one another on both face and word recognition, albeit significantly lower than controls. Altogether, the findings indicate that a single developing hemisphere, either left or right, may be sufficiently plastic for comparable representation of faces and words. However, perhaps due to increased competition or “neural crowding,” constraining cortical representations to one hemisphere may collectively hamper face and word recognition, relative to that observed in typical development with two hemispheres.
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Sun L, Zhang W, Wang M, Wang S, Li Z, Zhao C, Lin M, Si Q, Li X, Liang Y, Wei J, Zhang X, Chen R, Li C. Reading-related Brain Function Restored to Normal After Articulation Training in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate: An fMRI Study. Neurosci Bull 2022; 38:1215-1228. [PMID: 35849311 PMCID: PMC9554179 DOI: 10.1007/s12264-022-00918-6] [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: 12/18/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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Cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) are the most common craniofacial malformations in humans. Speech problems often persist even after cleft repair, such that follow-up articulation training is usually required. However, the neural mechanism behind effective articulation training remains largely unknown. We used fMRI to investigate the differences in brain activation, functional connectivity, and effective connectivity across CLP patients with and without articulation training and matched normal participants. We found that training promoted task-related brain activation among the articulation-related brain networks, as well as the global attributes and nodal efficiency in the functional-connectivity-based graph of the network. Our results reveal the neural correlates of effective articulation training in CLP patients, and this could contribute to the future improvement of the post-repair articulation training program.
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- Liwei Sun
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
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- Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing, 100005, China
- Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Capital Medical University), Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100005, China
- Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100005, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100026, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
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- Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China.
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China.
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China.
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- Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China.
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China.
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China.
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Ji Y, Cheng Q, Fu WW, Zhong PP, Huang SQ, Chen XL, Wu XR. Exploration of abnormal dynamic spontaneous brain activity in patients with high myopia via dynamic regional homogeneity analysis. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:959523. [PMID: 35992950 PMCID: PMC9390771 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.959523] [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: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aim Patients with high myopia (HM) reportedly exhibit changes in functional brain activity, but the mechanism underlying such changes is unclear. This study was conducted to observe differences in dynamic spontaneous brain activity between patients with HM and healthy controls (HCs) via dynamic regional homogeneity (dReHo) analysis. Methods Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) scans were performed on 82 patients with HM and 59 HCs who were closely matched for age, sex, and weight. The dReHo approach was used to assess local dynamic activity in the human brain. The association between mean dReHo signal values and clinical symptoms in distinct brain areas in patients with HM was determined via correlation analysis. Results In the left fusiform gyrus (L-FG), right inferior temporal gyrus (R-ITG), right Rolandic operculum (R-ROL), right postcentral gyrus (R-PoCG), and right precentral gyrus (R-PreCG), dReHo values were significantly greater in patients with HM than in HCs. Conclusion Patients with HM have distinct functional changes in various brain regions that mainly include the L-FG, R-ITG, R-ROL, R-PoCG, and R-PreCG. These findings constitute important evidence for the roles of brain networks in the pathophysiological mechanisms of HM and may aid in the diagnosis of HM.
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Chen YC, Ton That V, Ugonna C, Liu Y, Nadel L, Chou YH. Diffusion MRI-guided theta burst stimulation enhances memory and functional connectivity along the inferior longitudinal fasciculus in mild cognitive impairment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2113778119. [PMID: 35594397 PMCID: PMC9173759 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113778119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) during aging is often a harbinger of Alzheimer’s disease, and, therefore, early intervention to preserve cognitive abilities before the MCI symptoms become medically refractory is particularly critical. Functional MRI–guided transcranial magnetic stimulation is a promising approach for modulating hippocampal functional connectivity and enhancing memory in healthy adults. Here, we extend these previous findings to individuals with MCI and leverage theta burst stimulation (TBS) and white matter tractography derived from diffusion-weighted MRI to target the hippocampus. Our preliminary findings suggested that TBS could be used to improve associative memory performance and increase resting-state functional connectivity of the hippocampus and other brain regions, including the occipital fusiform, frontal orbital cortex, putamen, posterior parahippocampal gyrus, and temporal pole, along the inferior longitudinal fasciculus in MCI. Although the sample size is small, these results shed light on how TBS propagates from the superficial cortex around the parietal lobe to the hippocampus.
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- Yu-Chin Chen
- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
- Program in Cognitive Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
- Program in Cognitive Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
- Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Recognition Of Pareidolic Objects In Developmental Prosopagnosic And Neurotypical Individuals. Cortex 2022; 153:21-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Zhang L, Chen P, Schafer M, Zheng S, Chen L, Wang S, Liang Q, Qi Q, Zhang Y, Huang R. A specific brain network for a social map in the human brain. Sci Rep 2022; 12:1773. [PMID: 35110581 PMCID: PMC8810806 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05601-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Individuals use social information to guide social interactions and to update relationships along multiple social dimensions. However, it is unclear what neural basis underlies this process of abstract "social navigation". In the current study, we recruited twenty-nine participants who performed a choose-your-own-adventure game in which they interacted with fictional characters during fMRI scanning. Using a whole-brain GLM approach, we found that vectors encoding two-dimensional information about the relationships predicted BOLD responses in the hippocampus and the precuneus, replicating previous work. We also explored whether these geometric representations were related to key brain regions previously identified in physical and abstract spatial navigation studies, but we did not find involvement of the entorhinal cortex, parahippocampal gyrus or the retrosplenial cortex. Finally, we used psychophysiological interaction analysis and identified a network of regions that correlated during participants' decisions, including the left posterior hippocampus, precuneus, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), and the insula. Our findings suggest a brain network for social navigation in multiple abstract, social dimensions that includes the hippocampus, precuneus, dlPFC, and insula.
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- Lu Zhang
- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China.
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China.
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China.
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Li CH, Wang MY, Kuo BC. The effects of stimulus inversion on the neural representations of Chinese character and face recognition. Neuropsychologia 2022; 164:108090. [PMID: 34801520 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108090] [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: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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This study investigates whether stimulus inversion influences neural responses of Chinese character recognition similarly to its effect on face recognition in category-selective and object-related brain areas using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants performed a one-back matching task for simple (one radical) and compound (two radicals) Chinese characters and faces with upright and inverted orientations. Inverted stimuli produced slower response times with stronger activity within the fusiform gyrus (FG) than upright stimuli for faces and Chinese characters. While common inversion-related activation was identified in the left FG among stimulus types, we observed a significant inter-regional correlation between the left FG and the intraparietal sulcus for face inversion. Importantly, analyses of region-of-interest (ROI) multivariate pattern classification showed that classifiers trained on face inversion can decode the representations of character inversion in the character-selective ROI. However, this was not true for face inversion in face-selective ROIs when the classifiers were trained on characters. Similar activity patterns for character and face inversion were observed in the object-related ROIs. We also showed higher decoding accuracy for upright stimuli in the face-selective ROI than in the character-selective ROI but this was not true for inverted ones or when patterns were examined in the object-related ROIs. Together, our results support shared and distinct configural representations for character and face recognition in category-selective and object-related brain areas.
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- Chun-Hui Li
- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Nan W, Liu Y, Zeng X, Yang W, Liang J, Lan Y, Fu S. The spatiotemporal characteristics of N170s for faces and words: A meta-analysis study. Psych J 2022; 11:5-17. [PMID: 34986520 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.511] [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: 08/07/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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N170 is a negative event-related potential (ERP) component in response to visual stimuli, such as faces. It remains controversial whether N170 reflects the specific processing of faces or can also be elicited by objects of expertise (e.g., words). In this research, we conducted a meta-analysis for the spatiotemporal characteristics of N170 of face and word stimuli from 24 studies in which both stimuli were presented for each subject. We observed that (1) both face and word stimuli can elicit conspicuous N170s and that there was no difference between the amplitude of face-N170 and word-N170; (2) there is no difference in the latencies between the two N170s; and (3) both N170s are distributed in the occipitotemporal regions but with a reversed hemispheric distribution pattern-face-N170 is more negative in the right than left occipitotemporal regions, while word-N170 is the opposite. These results showed that the face- and word-N170s are qualitatively the same but have different hemispheric lateralization advantages-N170 might be a general neural index of the expertise-dependent object-recognition process in occipitotemporal regions.
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- Weizhi Nan
- Department of Psychology and Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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Xu YL, Wang XY, Chen J, Kang M, Wang YX, Zhang LJ, Shu HY, Liao XL, Zou J, Wei H, Ling Q, Shao Y. Altered Spontaneous Brain Activity Patterns of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction in Severely Obese Population Measured Using the Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:914039. [PMID: 35633781 PMCID: PMC9130486 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.914039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Utilizing the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) technique, this study sought to correlate spontaneous cerebral abnormalities with the clinical manifestations of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) in severely obese (SO) population. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Twelve MGD patients in SO population (PATs) (4 males and 8 females) and twelve healthy controls (HCs) (6 males and 6 females) matched by gender and age were enrolled. Every participant underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-MRI) scanning. Spontaneous cerebral activity alterations were examined using the fALFF method. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were utilized to classify the medial fALFF values of the PATs and HCs. PATs were also asked to complete anxiety and depression score forms, permitting a correlation analysis. RESULTS In contrast with HCs, PATs had prominently increased fALFF values in the left lingual gyrus, the right globus pallidus, the right anterior cingulate and paracingulate gyri and the left middle occipital lobe (P < 0.05), and decreased fALFF values in the right cerebellum, the left fusiform gyrus, the right medial orbitofrontal gyrus, the left triangle inferior frontal gyrus and the left inferior parietal gyrus (P < 0.05). The results of the ROC curve indicated that changes in regional fALFF values might help diagnose MGD in SO population. Moreover, fALFF values in the right cerebellum of PATs were positively correlated with hospital anxiety and depression scores (HADS) (r = 0.723, P = 0.008). The fALFF values in the left triangle inferior frontal gyrus of PAT were negatively correlated with HADS (r = -0.651, P = 0.022). CONCLUSIONS Aberrant spontaneous activity was observed in multiple regions of the cerebrum, offering helpful information about the pathology of MGD in SO population. Aberrant fALFF values in these regions likely relates to the latent pathologic mechanisms of anomalous cerebral activities in PATs.
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- Yu-Ling Xu
- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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Albonico A, Yu S, Corrow SL, Barton JJS. Facial identity and facial speech processing in developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia 2022; 168:108163. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Hagen S, Lochy A, Jacques C, Maillard L, Colnat-Coulbois S, Jonas J, Rossion B. Dissociated face- and word-selective intracerebral responses in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 226:3031-3049. [PMID: 34370091 PMCID: PMC8541991 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02350-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The extent to which faces and written words share neural circuitry in the human brain is actively debated. Here, we compare face-selective and word-selective responses in a large group of patients (N = 37) implanted with intracerebral electrodes in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC). Both face-selective (i.e., significantly different responses to faces vs. non-face visual objects) and word-selective (i.e., significantly different responses to words vs. pseudofonts) neural activity is isolated with frequency-tagging. Critically, this sensitive approach allows to objectively quantify category-selective neural responses and disentangle them from general visual responses. About 70% of significant electrode contacts show either face-selectivity or word-selectivity only, with the expected right and left hemispheric dominance, respectively. Spatial dissociations are also found within core regions of face and word processing, with a medio-lateral dissociation in the fusiform gyrus (FG) and surrounding sulci, respectively. In the 30% of overlapping face- and word-selective contacts across the VOTC or in the FG and surrounding sulci, between-category-selective amplitudes (faces vs. words) show no-to-weak correlations, despite strong correlations in both the within-category-selective amplitudes (face-face, word-word) and the general visual responses to words and faces. Overall, these observations support the view that category-selective circuitry for faces and written words is largely dissociated in the human adult VOTC.
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- Simen Hagen
- CRAN UMR 7039, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Pavillon Krug, Hôpital Central, CHRU-Nancy, 29 Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 54035, Nancy, France
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Cognitive Science and Assessment Institute, University of Luxembourg, 365, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Psychological Sciences Research Institute and Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, 1348, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
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- CRAN UMR 7039, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Pavillon Krug, Hôpital Central, CHRU-Nancy, 29 Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 54035, Nancy, France
- Service de Neurologie, Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, 54000, Nancy, France
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- CRAN UMR 7039, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Pavillon Krug, Hôpital Central, CHRU-Nancy, 29 Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 54035, Nancy, France
- Service de Neurochirurgie, Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, 54000, Nancy, France
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- CRAN UMR 7039, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Pavillon Krug, Hôpital Central, CHRU-Nancy, 29 Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 54035, Nancy, France
- Service de Neurologie, Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, 54000, Nancy, France
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- CRAN UMR 7039, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Pavillon Krug, Hôpital Central, CHRU-Nancy, 29 Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 54035, Nancy, France.
- Psychological Sciences Research Institute and Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, 1348, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
- Service de Neurologie, Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, 54000, Nancy, France.
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Burns EJ, Bukach CM. Face processing predicts reading ability: Evidence from prosopagnosia. Cortex 2021; 145:67-78. [PMID: 34689033 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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There is considerable interest in whether face and word processing are reliant upon shared or dissociable processes. Developmental prosopagnosia is associated with lifelong face processing deficits, with these cases providing strong support for a dissociation between face and word recognition in three recent papers (Burns et al., 2017; Rubino et al., 2016; Starrfelt et al., 2018). However, the sample sizes in each of these studies may have been too small to detect significant effects. We therefore combined their data to increase power and reassessed their results. While only a non-significant trend for reading impairments was found in prosopagnosia using a one-sample t-test, poorer face memory performance was correlated with slower reading speeds across prosopagnosia and control participants. Surprisingly, poorer face perception skills in prosopagnosia were associated with smaller word length effects. This suggests that while mild reading impairments exist in developmental prosopagnosia, there may be a trade-off between their residual face perception abilities and reading skill. A reanalysis of Hills and colleagues' (2015) acquired prosopagnosia data also revealed a positive relationship between words and faces: severe impairments in face recognition were related to poorer word processing. In summary, the developmental and acquired prosopagnosia literature supports models of visual perception that posit face and word processing are reliant upon broadly shared processes.
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Hsu CH, Wu YN. Application of Empirical Mode Decomposition for Decoding Perception of Faces Using Magnetoencephalography. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21186235. [PMID: 34577441 PMCID: PMC8472346 DOI: 10.3390/s21186235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Neural decoding is useful to explore the timing and source location in which the brain encodes information. Higher classification accuracy means that an analysis is more likely to succeed in extracting useful information from noises. In this paper, we present the application of a nonlinear, nonstationary signal decomposition technique—the empirical mode decomposition (EMD), on MEG data. We discuss the fundamental concepts and importance of nonlinear methods when it comes to analyzing brainwave signals and demonstrate the procedure on a set of open-source MEG facial recognition task dataset. The improved clarity of data allowed further decoding analysis to capture distinguishing features between conditions that were formerly over-looked in the existing literature, while raising interesting questions concerning hemispheric dominance to the encoding process of facial and identity information.
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Boring MJ, Silson EH, Ward MJ, Richardson RM, Fiez JA, Baker CI, Ghuman AS. Multiple Adjoining Word- and Face-Selective Regions in Ventral Temporal Cortex Exhibit Distinct Dynamics. J Neurosci 2021; 41:6314-6327. [PMID: 34099511 PMCID: PMC8287994 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3234-20.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2020] [Revised: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The map of category-selectivity in human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) provides organizational constraints to models of object recognition. One important principle is lateral-medial response biases to stimuli that are typically viewed in the center or periphery of the visual field. However, little is known about the relative temporal dynamics and location of regions that respond preferentially to stimulus classes that are centrally viewed, such as the face- and word-processing networks. Here, word- and face-selective regions within VTC were mapped using intracranial recordings from 36 patients. Partially overlapping, but also anatomically dissociable patches of face- and word-selectivity, were found in VTC. In addition to canonical word-selective regions along the left posterior occipitotemporal sulcus, selectivity was also located medial and anterior to face-selective regions on the fusiform gyrus at the group level and within individual male and female subjects. These regions were replicated using 7 Tesla fMRI in healthy subjects. Left hemisphere word-selective regions preceded right hemisphere responses by 125 ms, potentially reflecting the left hemisphere bias for language, with no hemispheric difference in face-selective response latency. Word-selective regions along the posterior fusiform responded first, then spread medially and laterally, then anteriorally. Face-selective responses were first seen in posterior fusiform regions bilaterally, then proceeded anteriorally from there. For both words and faces, the relative delay between regions was longer than would be predicted by purely feedforward models of visual processing. The distinct time courses of responses across these regions, and between hemispheres, suggest that a complex and dynamic functional circuit supports face and word perception.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Representations of visual objects in the human brain have been shown to be organized by several principles, including whether those objects tend to be viewed centrally or peripherally in the visual field. However, it remains unclear how regions that process objects that are viewed centrally, such as words and faces, are organized relative to one another. Here, invasive and noninvasive neuroimaging suggests that there is a mosaic of regions in ventral temporal cortex that respond selectively to either words or faces. These regions display differences in the strength and timing of their responses, both within and between brain hemispheres, suggesting that they play different roles in perception. These results illuminate extended, bilateral, and dynamic brain pathways that support face perception and reading.
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- Matthew J Boring
- Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Magnuson Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02144
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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- National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Magnuson Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
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- Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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Yen C, Chiang MC. Examining the effect of online advertisement cues on human responses using eye-tracking, EEG, and MRI. Behav Brain Res 2021; 402:113128. [PMID: 33460680 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Revised: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This study sought to emphasize how disciplines such as neuroscience and marketing can be applied in advertising and consumer behavior. The application of neuroscience methods in analyzing and understanding human behavior related to the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) and brain activity has recently garnered attention. This study examines brain processes while participants attempted to elicit preferences for a product, and demonstrates factors that influence consumer behavior using eye-tracking, electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) from a neuroscience approach. We planned two conditions of online advertising, namely, peripheral cues without argument and central cues with argument strength. Thirty respondents participated in the experiment, consisting of eye-tracking, EEG, and MRI instruments to explore brain activity in central cue conditions. We investigated whether diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) analysis could detect regional brain changes. Using eye-tracking, we found that the responses were mainly in the mean fixation duration, number of fixations, mean saccade duration, and number of saccade durations for the central cue condition. Moreover, the findings show that the fusiform gyrus and frontal cortex are significantly associated with building a relationship by inferring central cues in the EEG assay. The MRI images show that the fusiform gyrus and frontal cortex are significantly active in the central cue condition. DTI analysis indicates that the corpus callosum has changed in the central cue condition. We used eye-tracking, EEG, MRI, and DTI to understand that these connections may apprehend responses when viewing advertisements, especially in the fusiform gyrus, frontal cortex, and corpus callosum.
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- Chiahui Yen
- Department of International Business, Ming Chuan University, Taipei 111, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Science, College of Science and Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 242, Taiwan.
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Yang YC, Li QY, Chen MJ, Zhang LJ, Zhang MY, Pan YC, Ge QM, Shu HY, Lin Q, Shao Y. Investigation of Changes in Retinal Detachment-Related Brain Region Activities and Functions Using the Percent Amplitude of Fluctuation Method: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2021; 17:251-260. [PMID: 33536757 PMCID: PMC7850567 DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s292132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The percent amplitude of fluctuation (PerAF) method was used to study the changes in neural activities and functions in specific brain regions of patients with a retinal detachment (RD). PATIENTS AND METHODS In this study, we recruited 15 RD patients (nine males and six females) and 15 healthy controls (HCs) matched for gender, age, and weight. All participants were scanned with resting functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). The PerAF method was then used for data analysis to evaluate and detect changes in neural activity in relevant brain regions. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to evaluate the two groups. RESULTS The PerAF signal values of the right fusiform gyrus and the left inferior temporal gyrus of RD patients were significantly higher than those of HCs. This may indicate changes in neural activity and function in the related brain regions. The anxiety and depression scores of hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) and the durations in RD patients were positively correlated with the PerAF values of the left inferior temporal gyrus. CONCLUSION In this study, we demonstrated that there were significant changes in the PerAF values in specific areas of the brain in patients with RD. The change of PerAF values represent the changes of BOLD signal intensity, which reflect the hyperactivity or weakening of specific brain regions in RD patients, which are helpful to predict the development and prognosis of RD patients, and play an important role in the early diagnosis of RD. In addition, according to the results, changes in neural activity in specific brain regions of RD patients increase the risk of brain dysfunction related diseases, which may help to understand the pathological mechanism of vision loss in RD patients.
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- Yan-Chang Yang
- Department of Ophthalmology, Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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Furubacke A, Albonico A, Barton JJS. Alternating dual-task interference between visual words and faces. Brain Res 2020; 1746:147004. [PMID: 32615082 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2020.147004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2018] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The many-to-many hypothesis proposes that face and visual word recognition share and even compete for high-level perceptual resources in both hemispheres. However, it is still not clear whether the processing performed by the two hemispheres on faces and visual words is equivalent or complementary. We performed an alternating dual-task experiment to determine if the processing of visual words and faces interfered with each other, and if such interference depended upon the stimulus attribute being processed. Subjects saw a series of alternating stimuli and made same-different judgments comparing the current stimulus with the one two trials before. In some blocks faces or visual words alternated with colored gratings, in other blocks they alternated between different sets of words or different sets of faces. In the key experimental blocks they alternated between visual words and faces. Subjects were also asked to focus on different properties of the stimuli (identity or speech sounds for faces, handwriting or word content for visual words, color or orientation for gratings). There was no evidence of specific interference when subjects alternated between face and word attributes thought to be processed by opposite hemispheres (e.g. face identity and word identity, facial speech and handwriting). Rather interference occurred when subjects alternated between attributes that may be processed by the same hemisphere. The results support a modified version of the many-to-many hypothesis which takes into account complementary functions of the left and the right hemispheres in the processing of faces and visual words.
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- Amanda Furubacke
- Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Volfart A, Jonas J, Maillard L, Colnat-Coulbois S, Rossion B. Neurophysiological evidence for crossmodal (face-name) person-identity representation in the human left ventral temporal cortex. PLoS Biol 2020; 18:e3000659. [PMID: 32243450 PMCID: PMC7159237 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Revised: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Putting a name to a face is a highly common activity in our daily life that greatly enriches social interactions. Although this specific person-identity association becomes automatic with learning, it remains difficult and can easily be disrupted in normal circumstances or neurological conditions. To shed light on the neural basis of this important and yet poorly understood association between different input modalities in the human brain, we designed a crossmodal frequency-tagging paradigm coupled to brain activity recording via scalp and intracerebral electroencephalography. In Experiment 1, 12 participants were presented with variable pictures of faces and written names of a single famous identity at a 4-Hz frequency rate while performing an orthogonal task. Every 7 items, another famous identity appeared, either as a face or a name. Robust electrophysiological responses were found exactly at the frequency of identity change (i.e., 4 Hz / 7 = 0.571 Hz), suggesting a crossmodal neural response to person identity. In Experiment 2 with twenty participants, two control conditions with periodic changes of identity for faces or names only were added to estimate the contribution of unimodal neural activity to the putative crossmodal face-name responses. About 30% of the response occurring at the frequency of crossmodal identity change over the left occipito-temporal cortex could not be accounted for by the linear sum of unimodal responses. Finally, intracerebral recordings in the left ventral anterior temporal lobe (ATL) in 7 epileptic patients tested with this paradigm revealed a small number of "pure" crossmodal responses, i.e., with no response to changes of identity for faces or names only. Altogether, these observations provide evidence for integration of verbal and nonverbal person identity-specific information in the human brain, highlighting the contribution of the left ventral ATL in the automatic retrieval of face-name identity associations.
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- Angélique Volfart
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRAN, Nancy, France
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Institute of Research in Psychological Science, Institute of Neuroscience, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRAN, Nancy, France
- Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Service de Neurologie, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRAN, Nancy, France
- Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Service de Neurologie, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRAN, Nancy, France
- Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Service de Neurochirurgie, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRAN, Nancy, France
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Institute of Research in Psychological Science, Institute of Neuroscience, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
- Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Service de Neurologie, Nancy, France
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Batouli SAH, Alemi R, Khoshkhouy Delshad H, Oghabian MA. The influence of mental fatigue on the face and word encoding activations. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2020; 189:105626. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2019.105626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 11/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Liu Y, He Y, Li R, Yu S, Xu J, Xie Y. Coupled Temporal Fluctuation and Global Signal Synchronization of Spontaneous Brain Activity in Hypnosis for Respiration Control: An fMRI Study. Neuroscience 2020; 429:56-67. [PMID: 31917344 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Hypnosis is a psychological technology proved to be effective in respiratory motion control, which is essential to reduce radiation dose during radiotherapy. This study explored the neural mechanisms and cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis for respiration control by functional magnetic resonance imaging with a within-subject design of 15 healthy volunteers in rest state (RS) and hypnosis state (HS). Temporal fluctuation and signal synchronization of brain activity were employed to investigate the altered physiological performance in hypnosis. The altered correlations between temporal fluctuation and signal synchronization were examined within large scale of intrinsic networks which were identified by seed-wise functional connectivity. As a result, hypnosis was observed with increased activity in the right calcarine, bilateral fusiform gyrus and left middle temporal gyrus, and with decreased activity in the left cerebellum posterior lobe (inferior semilunar lobule part). Compared to RS, enhanced positive correlations were observed between temporal fluctuation and signal synchronization in HS. Most importantly, coupled correlation was observed between temporal fluctuation and global signal synchronization within the identified intrinsic networks (R = 0.3843, p > 0.05 in RS; R = 0.6212, p < 0.005 in HS). The findings provide implications for the neural basis of hypnosis for respiratory motion control and suggest the involvement of emotional processing and regulation of perceptual consciousness in hypnosis.
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- Yanjun Liu
- Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
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- Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; Team of Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Science and Technology Center, Ping An Life Insurance of China Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518000, China
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- Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States
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- Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
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Liu X, Song D, Yin Y, Xie C, Zhang H, Zhang H, Zhang Z, Wang Z, Yuan Y. Altered Brain Entropy as a predictor of antidepressant response in major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord 2020; 260:716-721. [PMID: 31563070 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.09.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Revised: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To explore the alterations and value of brain entropy (BEN) in major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS 85 MDD patients and 45 matched normal controls were recruited. MDD was diagnosed based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed (DSM-IV). Symptoms of depression were assessed using the Hamilton depression scale-24 (HAMD-24) at baseline and follow-up (after 8-week treatment). All subjects underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans at baseline, and 30 MDD patients completed scans at 8th week. Whole brain BEN maps at each session was calculated using the BEN mapping toolbox. RESULTS The 8-week antidepressant treatment improved symptoms for all MDD patients. As compared to normal controls, MDD showed reduced BEN in medial orbitofrontal cortex (MOFC)/subgenual cingulate cortex (sgACC), but increased BEN in motor cortex (MC). In MDD patients, higher baseline BEN in MOFC/sgACC and lower baseline BEN in temporal cortex (TC) were associated with higher baseline HAMD scores; higher baseline BEN in MOFC/sgACC and hippocampus were associated with greater reduction of HAMD scores after 8-week medication; greater reduction of HAMD scores after 8-week medication was correlated with greater BEN reduction in MOFC/sgACC but were correlated with less BEN reduction in MC, TC, fusiform gyrus (FG) and visual cortex (VC). CONCLUSION The results highlighted MOFC/sgACC BEN as a potential marker for the prediction of MDD diagnosis and treatment effect. MDD might have increased MOFC/sgACC BEN but reduced BEN in visual and sensory-motor circuits corresponding to the imbalanced emotional and sensory-motor information processing. Reversing this unbalanced BEN would improve disease conditions in MDD.
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- Xiaoyun Liu
- Department of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Department of Psychology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Departments of Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, China
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- Departments of Psychiatry, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, China
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- Department of Neurology, ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA.
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- Department of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
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Nemrodov D, Ling S, Nudnou I, Roberts T, Cant JS, Lee ACH, Nestor A. A multivariate investigation of visual word, face, and ensemble processing: Perspectives from EEG‐based decoding and feature selection. Psychophysiology 2019; 57:e13511. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2019] [Revised: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Dan Nemrodov
- Department of Psychology at Scarborough University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology at Scarborough University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology at Scarborough University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology at Scarborough University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology at Scarborough University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology at Scarborough University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology at Scarborough University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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Li Z, Li C, Liang Y, Wang K, Zhang W, Chen R, Wu Q, Zhang X. Altered Functional Connectivity and Brain Network Property in Pregnant Women With Cleft Fetuses. Front Psychol 2019; 10:2235. [PMID: 31649585 PMCID: PMC6795235 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Non-syndromic clefts of the lip and/or palate (NSCLP) is the most common congenital anomaly in the craniofacial region. NSCLP is a highly gene-associated malformation. We speculate that pregnant women with NSCLP fetuses (pregnancies with NSCLP) may have specific brain changes during pregnancy. To explore characteristic brain function changes of pregnancies with NSCLP, we analyzed resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) data of 42 pregnant women (21 pregnancies with NSCLP and 21 pregnancies with normal fetuses) to compare intergroup differences of (fractional) amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (fALFF/ALFF), regional homogeneity (Reho), functional connectivity (FC) and network topological properties. Compared with the control group, increased ALFF in the left hippocampus, the right fusiform and the left anterior cingulate (ACG), increased Reho in left middle occipital gyrus (MOG) and right medial frontal gyrus (MFG) were found for pregnancies with NSCLP. Meanwhile, FC between the left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and bilateral olfactory cortex (OLF), FC between left precentral gyrus (PreCG) and right MFG, FC between right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and left inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) were enhanced in pregnancies with NSCLP. Besides, FC between left PreCG and left amygdala, bilateral para-hippocampal gyrus, FC between left amygdala and left MFG, right IFG were decreased. Graph theory-based analysis explored increased degree centrality (DC), betweenness centrality (BC) and nodal efficiency (Ne) in the left ITG and left SMG for pregnancies with NSCLP. Pregnancies with NSCLP has widespread decreased FC within neural networks of speech and language, which indicated that they were more likely to be associated with defects in speech and language skills. At the same time, increased topological indices showed that speech and language related regions played dominant role in their brain networks. These findings may provide clues for early detection of NSCLP fetuses.
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- Zhen Li
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic and Trauma Surgery, Center of Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment, Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic and Trauma Surgery, Center of Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment, Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Li J, Kronemer SI, Herman WX, Kwon H, Ryu JH, Micek C, Wu Y, Gerrard J, Spencer DD, Blumenfeld H. Default mode and visual network activity in an attention task: Direct measurement with intracranial EEG. Neuroimage 2019; 201:116003. [PMID: 31295566 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.07.016] [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: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Dynamic attention states are necessary to navigate the ever changing task demands of daily life. Previous investigations commonly utilize a block paradigm to study sustained and transient changes in attention networks. fMRI investigations have shown that sustained attention in visual block design attention tasks corresponds to decreased signal in the default mode and visual processing networks. While task negative networks are anticipated to decrease during active task engagement, it is unexpected that visual networks would also be suppressed during a visual task where event-related fMRI studies have found transient increases to visual stimuli. To resolve these competing results, the current investigations utilized intracranial EEG to directly interrogate visual and default mode network dynamics during a visual continuous performance task. We used the electrophysiological data to model expected fMRI signals and to maximize interpretation of current results with previous investigations. Results show broadband gamma power decreases in the default mode network, corresponding to previous EEG and fMRI findings. Meanwhile, visual processing regions including the primary visual cortex and fusiform gyrus demonstrate both sustained decreases during task engagement and stimuli-driven transient increases in gamma power. Modeled fMRI based on gamma power reproduces signal decreases reported in the fMRI literature, and emphasizes the insensitivity of fMRI to transient, regularly spaced signal changes embedded within sustained network dynamics. The signal processing functions of the dynamic visual and default mode network changes explored in this study are unknown but may be elucidated through further investigation.
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- Jiajia Li
- Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Neurosurgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Wang Y, Zhao Y, Nie H, Liu C, Chen J. Disrupted Brain Network Efficiency and Decreased Functional Connectivity in Multi-sensory Modality Regions in Male Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:513. [PMID: 30631268 PMCID: PMC6315123 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background: Recent studies have reported altered efficiency in selective brain regions and functional networks in patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Inefficient processing can reflect or arise from the disorganization of information being conveyed from place to place. However, it remains unknown whether the efficiency and functional connectivity are altered in large-scale topological organization of patients with AUD. Methods: Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data were experimentally collected from 21 right-handed males with AUD and 21 right-handed, age-, gender- and education-matched healthy controls (HCs). Graph theory was used to investigate inter-group differences in the topological parameters (global and nodal) of networks and inter-regional functional connectivity. Correlations between group differences in network properties and clinical variables were also investigated in the AUD group. Results: The brain networks of the AUD group showed decreased global efficiency when compared with the HC group. Besides, increased nodal efficiency was found in the left orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), while reduced nodal efficiency was observed in the right OFC, right fusiform gyrus (FFG), right superior temporal gyrus, right inferior occipital gyrus (IOG), and left insula. Moreover, hypo-connectivity was detected between the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and right superior occipital gyrus (SOG) in the AUD group when compared with the HC group. The nodal efficiency of the left OFC was associated with cognitive performance in the AUD group. Conclusions: AUD patients exhibited alterations in brain network efficiency and functional connectivity, particularly in regions linked to multi-sensory modalities. These disrupted topological properties may help to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of large-scale brain network activity. Furthermore, these data provide a potential neural mechanism of impaired cognition in individuals with AUD.
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- Yaqi Wang
- Department of Radiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Specific problems in visual cognition of dyslexic readers: Face discrimination deficits predict dyslexia over and above discrimination of scrambled faces and novel objects. Cognition 2018; 175:157-168. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Revised: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Ventura P, Delgado J, Ferreira M, Farinha-Fernandes A, Guerreiro JC, Faustino B, Leite I, Wong ACN. Hemispheric asymmetry in holistic processing of words. Laterality 2018; 24:98-112. [PMID: 29756509 DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2018.1475483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Holistic processing has been regarded as a hallmark of face perception, indicating the automatic and obligatory tendency of the visual system to process all face parts as a perceptual unit rather than in isolation. Studies involving lateralized stimulus presentation suggest that the right hemisphere dominates holistic face processing. Holistic processing can also be shown with other categories such as words and thus it is not specific to faces or face-like expertize. Here, we used divided visual field presentation to investigate the possibly different contributions of the two hemispheres for holistic word processing. Observers performed same/different judgment on the cued parts of two sequentially presented words in the complete composite paradigm. Our data indicate a right hemisphere specialization for holistic word processing. Thus, these markers of expert object recognition are domain general.
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- Paulo Ventura
- a Faculdade de Psicologia , Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade , Lisboa , Portugal
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- a Faculdade de Psicologia , Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade , Lisboa , Portugal
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- a Faculdade de Psicologia , Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade , Lisboa , Portugal
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- a Faculdade de Psicologia , Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade , Lisboa , Portugal
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- a Faculdade de Psicologia , Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade , Lisboa , Portugal
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- b Departamento de Psicologia , Universidade de Évora, Colégio Pedro da Fonseca, Parque Industrial e Tecnológico de Évora , Évora , Portugal
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- c Department of Psychology , The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Shatin, N.T. , Hong Kong
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Collins E, Dundas E, Gabay Y, Plaut DC, Behrmann M. Hemispheric Organization in Disorders of Development. VISUAL COGNITION 2017; 25:416-429. [PMID: 30464702 DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1370430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A recent theoretical account posits that, during the acquisition of word recognition in childhood, the pressure to couple visual and language representations in the left hemisphere (LH) results in competition with the LH representation of faces, which consequently become largely, albeit not exclusively, lateralized to the right hemisphere (RH). We explore predictions from this hypothesis using a hemifield behavioral paradigm with words and faces as stimuli, with concurrent ERP measurement, in a group of adults with developmental dyslexia (DD) or with congenital prosopagnosia (CP), and matched control participants. Behaviorally, the DD group exhibited clear deficits in both word and face processing relative to controls, while the CP group showed a specific deficit in face processing only. This pattern was mirrored in the ERP data too. The DD group evinced neither the normal ERP pattern of RH dominance for faces nor the LH dominance for words. In contrast, the CP group showed the typical ERP superiority for words in the LH but did not show the typical RH superiority for faces. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the typical hemispheric organization for words can develop in the absence of typical hemispheric organization for faces but not vice versa, supporting the account of interactive perceptual development.
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- Elliot Collins
- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890.,School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3550 Terrace St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890.,Department of Special Education, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave. Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Face perception is critical for normal social functioning and is mediated by a network of regions in the ventral visual stream. In this review, we describe recent neuroimaging findings regarding the macro- and microscopic anatomical features of the ventral face network, the characteristics of white matter connections, and basic computations performed by population receptive fields within face-selective regions composing this network. We emphasize the importance of the neural tissue properties and white matter connections of each region, as these anatomical properties may be tightly linked to the functional characteristics of the ventral face network. We end by considering how empirical investigations of the neural architecture of the face network may inform the development of computational models and shed light on how computations in the face network enable efficient face perception.
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- Kalanit Grill-Spector
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305;
- Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305;
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- Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Neurosciences Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305
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Encoding, preparation and implementation of novel complex verbal instructions. Neuroimage 2017; 148:264-273. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Revised: 01/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Neural processing of negative emotional stimuli and the influence of age, sex and task-related characteristics. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2016; 68:773-793. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2015] [Revised: 04/05/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Catenaccio E, Mu W, Lipton ML. Estrogen- and progesterone-mediated structural neuroplasticity in women: evidence from neuroimaging. Brain Struct Funct 2016; 221:3845-3867. [PMID: 26897178 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-016-1197-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Accepted: 01/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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There is substantial evidence that the ovarian sex hormones, estrogen and progesterone, which vary considerably over the course of the human female lifetime, contribute to changes in brain structure and function. This structured, quantitative literature reviews aims to summarize neuroimaging literature addressing physiological variation in brain macro- and microstructure across an array of hormonal transitions including the menstrual cycle, use of hormonal contraceptives, pregnancy, and menopause. Twenty-five studies reporting structural neuroimaging of women, addressing variation across hormonal states, were identified from a structured search of PUBMED and were systematically reviewed. Although the studies are heterogenous with regard to methodology, overall the results point to overlapping areas of hormone related effects on brain structure particularly affecting the structures of the limbic system. These findings are in keeping with functional data that point to a role for estrogen and progesterone in mediating emotional processing.
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- Eva Catenaccio
- The Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- The Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- The Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA. .,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. .,Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. .,Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. .,Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
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Hatin B, Sykes Tottenham L. What's in a line? Verbal, facial, and emotional influences on the line bisection task. Laterality 2016; 21:689-708. [PMID: 26847405 DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2015.1134562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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In Bryden and MacRae's [(1988). Dichotic laterality effects obtained with emotional words. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology, 1(3), 171-176] dichotic listening task, attending to verbal (left hemisphere) or emotional (right hemisphere) auditory stimuli can result in opposite patterns of behaviour. We examined whether performance on the line bisection task might also be influenced in opposite ways by left- and right-lateralized functions. The line bisection task is a simple and effective measure of visuospatial bias. Pseudoneglect, a leftward bias, is typically found on this task, and appears to result from right hemisphere dominance for spatial processing. We investigated how emotion, verbal, and facial processing impacted line bisection performance, while also examining the influence of hand-use. Line type (face, word, and solid), valence (positive, negative, and neutral), and hand-use (left, right, and both) were manipulated. Results indicated that face and word lines decreased and increased the extent of pseudoneglect, respectively, and that valence accentuated these results. These results were in the opposite direction from our predictions. Hand-use had little influence. We discuss the impact that visual scanning, and local and global processing, may have had on line bisection performance. Until future research clarifies how lateralized functions affect line bisections, we suggest caution in adapting the line bisection task as a general measure of relative hemispheric activation.
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- Bianca Hatin
- a Department of Psychology , University of Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
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