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Dabral A, Lu AKA, Chiappe D, Houssa M, Pourtois G. A systematic study of various 2D materials in the light of defect formation and oxidation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:1089-1099. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05665j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Thermodynamic insight into defect formation, oxidation and healing in various 2D materials with relevant impact on electronic properties.
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- A. Dabral
- Ku Leuven
- 3000 Leuven
- Belgium
- IMEC
- 3001 leuven
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- Ku Leuven
- 3000 Leuven
- Belgium
- IMEC
- 3001 leuven
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- IMEC
- 3001 leuven
- Belgium
- Plasmant
- University of Antwerp
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de Jamblinne de Meux A, Pourtois G, Genoe J, Heremans P. Origin of the apparent delocalization of the conduction band in a high-mobility amorphous semiconductor. J Phys Condens Matter 2017; 29:255702. [PMID: 28198352 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aa608c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this paper, we show that the apparent delocalization of the conduction band reported from first-principles simulations for the high-mobility amorphous oxide semiconductor [Formula: see text] (a-IGZO) is an artifact induced by the periodic conditions imposed to the model. Given a sufficiently large unit-cell dimension (over 40 Å), the conduction band becomes localized. Such a model size is up to four times the size of commonly used models for the study of a-IGZO. This finding challenges the analyses done so far on the nature of the defects and on the interpretation of numerous electrical measurements. In particular, we re-interpret the meaning of the computed effective mass reported so far in literature. Our finding also applies to materials such as SiZnSnO, ZnSnO, InZnSnO, In2O3 or InAlZnO4 whose models have been reported to display a fully delocalized conduction band in the amorphous phase.
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Iordanidou K, Houssa M, van den Broek B, Pourtois G, Afanas'ev VV, Stesmans A. Impact of point defects on the electronic and transport properties of silicene nanoribbons. J Phys Condens Matter 2016; 28:035302. [PMID: 26732643 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/3/035302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We study the impact of various point defects on the structural, electronic and ballistic transport properties of armchair silicene nanoribbons, using the density functional theory and the non equilibrium Green's function method. The effect of a Stone-Wales defect, an interior/edge vacancy and an edge dangling bond is examined. Our results show that structural imperfections can alter the electronic structure (energy band structure and density of states) of the nanoribbons and can either increase or decrease the ballistic current. The dependence of the transport properties on the position of the defects (sublattice A or B) and on their distance from the contact is also investigated.
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- K Iordanidou
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Houssa M, Scalise E, van den Broek B, Lu A, Pourtois G, Afanas'ev VV, Stesmans A. Interaction of silicene and germanene with non-metallic substrates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/574/1/012015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Houssa M, van den Broek B, Scalise E, Pourtois G, Afanas'ev VV, Stesmans A. An electric field tunable energy band gap at silicene/(0001) ZnS interfaces. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:3702-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp50391g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Neyts EC, Thijsse BJ, Mees MJ, Bal KM, Pourtois G. Establishing Uniform Acceptance in Force Biased Monte Carlo Simulations. J Chem Theory Comput 2012; 8:1865-9. [PMID: 26593821 DOI: 10.1021/ct2008268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- E C Neyts
- University of Antwerp, Department of Chemistry, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium
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- Delft University of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
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- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Physics, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.,IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
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- University of Antwerp, Department of Chemistry, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium
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- University of Antwerp, Department of Chemistry, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium.,IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
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Gschwind M, Pourtois G, Schwartz S, Van De Ville D, Vuilleumier P. White-Matter Connectivity between Face-Responsive Regions in the Human Brain. Cereb Cortex 2011; 22:1564-76. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Davare M, Zénon A, Pourtois G, Desmurget M, Olivier E. Role of the medial part of the intraparietal sulcus in implementing movement direction. Cereb Cortex 2011; 22:1382-94. [PMID: 21862445 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The contribution of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) to visually guided movements has been originally inferred from observations made in patients suffering from optic ataxia. Subsequent electrophysiological studies in monkeys and functional imaging data in humans have corroborated the key role played by the PPC in sensorimotor transformations underlying goal-directed movements, although the exact contribution of this structure remains debated. Here, we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to interfere transiently with the function of the left or right medial part of the intraparietal sulcus (mIPS) in healthy volunteers performing visually guided movements with the right hand. We found that a "virtual lesion" of either mIPS increased the scattering in initial movement direction (DIR), leading to longer trajectory and prolonged movement time, but only when TMS was delivered 100-160 ms before movement onset and for movements directed toward contralateral targets. Control experiments showed that deficits in DIR consequent to mIPS virtual lesions resulted from an inappropriate implementation of the motor command underlying the forthcoming movement and not from an inaccurate computation of the target localization. The present study indicates that mIPS plays a causal role in implementing specifically the direction vector of visually guided movements toward objects situated in the contralateral hemifield.
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- M Davare
- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
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Gelder B, Pourtois G. Face detection dissociates from face recognition: evidence from ERPs and the naso-temporal asymmetry. J Vis 2010. [DOI: 10.1167/2.7.618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Pourtois G, Gelder B. Selective disruption of audio-visual interaction studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation. J Vis 2010. [DOI: 10.1167/2.7.667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Pourtois G, Rouw R, Gelder B. The time course of face recognition : evidence for a dual route model. J Vis 2010. [DOI: 10.1167/1.3.280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Pourtois G. ME5 Electrophysiology of emotions. Clin Neurophysiol 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(08)60012-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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By means of correlated quantum-chemical calculations, we explore the chain-length dependence of the electronic coupling for photoinduced charge separation in DNA hairpins associated to conjugated linkers. Pathways for charge transfer from the linker chromophore to a guanine site located at a well-defined distance along the DNA strand are identified. Importantly, these involve not only the frontier molecular orbitals of the interacting donor, bridge, and acceptor units, but also deeper lying orbitals possessing both the appropriate energy and the symmetry to overlap significantly. The relative efficiency of these channels is found to be sensitive to the chemical structure of the linker, leading to falloff parameters for the charge-transfer rates ranging from approximately 0.4 to approximately 1.2 A(-1).
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- D Beljonne
- Laboratory of Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons-Hainaut, Place du Parc 20, 7000 Mons, Belgium
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Beljonne D, Pourtois G, Silva C, Hennebicq E, Herz LM, Friend RH, Scholes GD, Setayesh S, Mullen K, Bredas JL. Interchain vs. intrachain energy transfer in acceptor-capped conjugated polymers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:10982-7. [PMID: 12177444 PMCID: PMC123196 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.172390999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 228] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The energy-transfer processes taking place in conjugated polymers are investigated by means of ultrafast spectroscopy and correlated quantum-chemical calculations applied to polyindenofluorenes end-capped with a perylene derivative. Comparison between the time-integrated luminescence and transient absorption spectra measured in solution and in films allows disentangling of the contributions arising from intrachain and from interchain energy-migration phenomena. Intrachain processes dominate in solution where photoexcitation of the polyindenofluorene units induces a rather slow energy transfer to the perylene end moieties. In films, close contacts between chains favors interchain transport of the excited singlet species (from the conjugated bridge of one chain to the perylene unit of a neighboring one); this process is characterized by a 1-order-of-magnitude increase in transfer rate with respect to solution. This description is supported fully by the results of quantum-chemical calculations that go beyond the usual point-dipole model approximation and account for geometric relaxation phenomena in the excited state before energy migration. The calculations indicate a two-step mechanism for intrachain energy transfer with hopping along the conjugated chains as the rate-limiting step; the higher efficiency of the interchain transfer process is mainly due to larger electronic coupling matrix elements between closely lying chains.
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- D Beljonne
- Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons-Hainaut, Place du Parc 20, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
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Pourtois G, Beljonne D, Cornil J, Ratner MA, Brédas JL. Photoinduced electron-transfer processes along molecular wires based on phenylenevinylene oligomers: a quantum-chemical insight. J Am Chem Soc 2002; 124:4436-47. [PMID: 11960473 DOI: 10.1021/ja017150+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Quantum-chemical techniques are applied to model the mechanisms of photoinduced charge transfer from a pi-electron donating group (tetracene, D) to a pi-electron-acceptor moiety (pyromellitimide, A) separated by a bridge of increasing size (p-phenylenevinylene oligomers, B). Correlated Hartree-Fock semiempirical approaches are exploited to calculate the four main parameters controlling the transfer rate (k(RP)) in the framework of Marcus-Jortner-Levich's formalism: (i) the electronic coupling between the initial and final states; (ii) and (iii) the internal and external reorganization energy terms; and (iv) the variation of the free Gibbs energy. The charge transfer is shown to proceed in these compounds through two competing mechanisms, coherent (superexchange) versus incoherent (bridge-mediated) pathways. While superexchange is the dominant mechanism for short bridges, incoherent transfer through hopping along the phenylene vinylene segment takes over in longer chains (for ca. three phenylenevinylene repeat units). The influence of the chemical structure of the pi-conjugated phenylenevinylene bridge on the electronic properties and the rate of charge transfer is also investigated.
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- G Pourtois
- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons-Hainaut, 20, Place du Parc, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
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Pourtois G, Vandermeeren Y, Olivier E, de Gelder B. Event-related TMS over the right posterior parietal cortex induces ipsilateral visuo-spatial interference. Neuroreport 2001; 12:2369-74. [PMID: 11496112 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200108080-00017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is implicated in visuo-spatial processing, as illustrated by patients with visuo-spatial neglect, but the precise time-course of its contribution is still an open question. In the present study we assessed whether single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can interfere with the performance of normal subjects in a standard visuo-spatial task. Participants had to perform a landmark task while TMS was applied over the right PPC, the homologue region in the left hemisphere or the right primary motor cortex. Stimulation was time-locked to the stimulus presentation with a stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) varying between 50 and 200 ms. Our results indicate that TMS interfered mainly with the visuo-spatial task when applied over the right PPC at an early stage (50 ms post-stimulus). The interference effect of single-pulse TMS in the present visuo-spatial processing is revealed by a processing cost for ipsilateral targets. These results are in agreement with neuropsychological and brain imaging studies showing a right hemispheric dominance in visuo-spatial processing but add crucial information about the time-course of visuo-spatial processing within the right PPC.
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- G Pourtois
- Donders Laboratory of Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences, Department of Psychology, University of Tilburg, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Beljonne D, Shuai Z, Pourtois G, Bredas JL. Spin−Orbit Coupling and Intersystem Crossing in Conjugated Polymers: A Configuration Interaction Description. J Phys Chem A 2001. [DOI: 10.1021/jp010187w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- D. Beljonne
- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center for Research in Molecular Electronics and Photonics, University of Mons-Hainaut, 20, Place du Parc, B-7000 Mons, Belgium, and Department of Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center for Research in Molecular Electronics and Photonics, University of Mons-Hainaut, 20, Place du Parc, B-7000 Mons, Belgium, and Department of Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center for Research in Molecular Electronics and Photonics, University of Mons-Hainaut, 20, Place du Parc, B-7000 Mons, Belgium, and Department of Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center for Research in Molecular Electronics and Photonics, University of Mons-Hainaut, 20, Place du Parc, B-7000 Mons, Belgium, and Department of Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041
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de Gelder B, Pourtois G, van Raamsdonk M, Vroomen J, Weiskrantz L. Unseen stimuli modulate conscious visual experience: evidence from inter-hemispheric summation. Neuroreport 2001; 12:385-91. [PMID: 11209955 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200102120-00040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Emotional facial expression can be discriminated despite extensive lesions of striate cortex. Here we report differential performance with recognition of facial stimuli in the intact visual field depending on simultaneous presentation of congruent or incongruent stimuli in the blind field. Three experiments were based on inter-hemispheric summation. Redundant stimulation in the blind field led to shorter latencies for stimulus detection in the intact field. Recognition of the expression of a half-face expression in the intact field was faster when the other half of the face presented to the blind field had a congruent expression. Finally, responses to the expression of whole faces to the intact field were delayed for incongruent facial expressions presented in the blind field. These results indicate that the neuro-anatomical pathways (extra-striate cortical and sub-cortical) sustaining inter-hemispheric summation can operate in the absence of striate cortex.
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- B de Gelder
- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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de Gelder B, Pourtois G, Vroomen J, Bachoud-Lévi AC. Covert processing of faces in prosopagnosia is restricted to facial expressions: evidence from cross-modal bias. Brain Cogn 2000; 44:425-44. [PMID: 11104535 DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1999.1203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We present a single case study of a brain-damaged patient, AD, suffering from visual face and object agnosia, with impaired visual perception and preserved mental imagery. She is severely impaired in all aspects of overt recognition of faces as well as in covert recognition of familiar faces. She shows a complete loss of processing facial expressions in recognition as well as in matching tasks. Nevertheless, when presented with a task where face and voice expressions were presented concurrently, there was a clear impact of face expressions on her ratings of the voice. The cross-modal paradigm used here and validated previously with normal subjects (de Gelder & Vroomen, 1995, 2000), appears as a useful tool in investigating spared covert face processing in a neuropsychological perspective, especially with prosopagnosic patients. These findings are discussed against the background of different models of the covert recognition of face expressions.
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- B de Gelder
- Psychonomics Laboratory, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
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Rossion B, Bodart JM, Pourtois G, Thioux M, Bol A, Cosnard G, Benoit G, Michel C, De Volder A. Functional imaging of visual semantic processing in the human brain. Cortex 2000; 36:579-91. [PMID: 11059456 DOI: 10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70539-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Previous neuroimaging studies have identified a large network of cortical areas involved in semantic processing in the human brain, which includes left occipito-temporal and inferofrontal areas. Most studies, however, investigated exclusively the associative/functional semantic knowledge by using mainly words and/or language related tasks, and this factor may have contributed to the large left hemisphere superiority found in semantic processing and to the controversial involvement of left prefrontal structures. The present study investigates the neural basis of visual objects knowledge, accessed exclusively through pictorial information. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was assessed using positron emission tomography (PET) during 3 conditions in right-handed normal volunteers: resting with eyes closed, retrieval of semantic information related to visual properties of objects (real size), and visual categorization based on physical properties of the image. Confirming previous experiments and neuropsychological findings, most activations were found in left occipito-temporal areas during retrieval of visual semantic knowledge. The absence of any activation in the left prefrontal inferior cortex for visual semantic processing confirms recent observations which suggest that this region would not be involved in retrieval of visual semantic knowledge from living entities. Rather, such knowledge about visual properties of objects, situated closely to cortical regions mediating perception of the visual attributes, can be retrieved directly from these regions when visual images are used as entry level stimuli.
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- B Rossion
- Positron Tomography Laboratory, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Intermodal binding between affective information that is seen as well as heard triggers a mandatory process of audiovisual integration. In order to track the time course of this audiovisual binding, event related brain potentials were recorded while subjects saw facial expression and concurrently heard auditory fragment. The results suggest that the combination of the two inputs is early in time (110 ms post-stimulus) and translates as a specific enhancement in amplitude of the auditory NI component. These findings are compatible with previous functional neuroimaging results of audiovisual speech showing strong audiovisual interactions in auditory cortex in the form of magnetic response amplifications, as well as with electrophysiological studies demonstrating early audiovisual interactions (before 200 ms post-stimulus). Moreover, our results show that the informational content present in the two modalities plays a crucial role in triggering the intermodal binding process.
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- G Pourtois
- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and molecular mechanics calculations were used to investigate the long-range packing and the structure of an heptanuclear ruthenium (II) dendritic species, as a PF6- salt. STM imaging was carried out on a mono-add layer of the ruthenium dendrimer formed by physisorption from a 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene solution at the liquid-graphite interface. The packing of the molecules on the surface was visualised by the formation of ordered patterns and a distance of 27 +/- 2 A was measured between two adjacent lamellae. The comparison of this dimension with the molecular-modelling data indicates that the lamellae were formed by rows of dendrimer molecules in which the counterions (PF6-) were strongly associated with the Ru atoms. The images acquired with higher spatial resolution revealed the presence of repeating units within the lamellae. The comparison of the STM images with the modelling results allowed the attribution of the repeating units observed in the imaged pattern to the STM signature of single dendrimer molecules.
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- L Latterini
- Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium
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Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) destroys the major source of anatomical input to extrastriate cortical areas (V2, V3, V4 and V5) and produces cortical blindness--an absence of any sensation of light and colour--in the visual field contralateral to the side of the lesion. Neuroimaging studies, nevertheless, have recently demonstrated dorsal and ventral extrastriate activation for stationary stimuli presented to the blind visual field in the absence of V1 activity in human subjects. To clarify the moment in time that visual information reaches extrastriate areas, by means of event-related potentials (ERPs) we tracked the temporal course of responses to complex visual stimuli (faces) presented in the blind field of a hemianopic patient. Stimulation of the normal visual field elicited a positive occipital deflection (P1) at 140 ms. A P1 response was also observed with stimulation of the blind field, although slightly delayed (20 ms) and reduced. Its topography and timing demonstrate that early neural activity for stationary stimuli takes place within extrastriate regions despite V1 denervation.
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- B Rossion
- Faculté de Psychologie, Unité de Neuropsychologie Cognitive (NECO), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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Functional neuroimaging experiments have shown that recognition of emotional expressions does not depend on awareness of visual stimuli and that unseen fear stimuli can activate the amygdala via a colliculopulvinar pathway. Perception of emotional expressions in the absence of awareness in normal subjects has some similarities with the unconscious recognition of visual stimuli which is well documented in patients with striate cortex lesions (blindsight). Presumably in these patients residual vision engages alternative extra-striate routes such as the superior colliculus and pulvinar. Against this background, we conjectured that a blindsight subject (GY) might recognize facial expressions presented in his blind field. The present study now provides direct evidence for this claim.
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- B de Gelder
- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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Rossion B, Bodart JM, Pourtois G, Thioux M, Michel C, De Voider A. Functional Neuroanatomy of Visual Semantic Processing: a PET Study. Neuroimage 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(18)31173-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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