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2010
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The Neural Substrates and Timing of Top-Down Processes during Coarse-to-Fine Categorization of Visual Scenes: A Combined fMRI an
Spatial frequencies in an image influence visual analysis across a distributed, hierarchically organized brain network. Low spatial frequency (LSF) information may rapidly reach h...
Carole Peyrin, Christoph M. Michel, Sophie Schwart...
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2010
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Is There Pain in Champagne? Semantic Involvement of Words within Words during Sense-making
In an ERP experiment, we examined whether listeners, when making sense of spoken utterances, take into account the meaning of spurious words that are embedded in longer words, eit...
Petra M. van Alphen, Jos J. A. Van Berkum
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2010
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Human Brain Dynamics Accompanying Use of Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames during Navigation
Maintaining spatial orientation while travelling requires integrating spatial information encountered from an egocentric viewpoint with accumulated information represented within ...
Klaus Gramann, Julie Onton, Davide Riccobon, Herma...
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2010
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Neural Activity in the Hippocampus and Perirhinal Cortex during Encoding Is Associated with the Durability of Episodic Memory
Studies examining medial temporal lobe (MTL) involvement in memory formation typically assess memory performance after a single, short delay. Thus, the relationship between MTL en...
Valerie A. Carr, Indre V. Viskontas, Stephen A. En...
JOCN
2010
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Functional Neuroimaging Can Support Causal Claims about Brain Function
Cognitive neuroscientists habitually deny that functional neuroimaging can furnish causal information about the relationship between brain events and behavior. However, imaging st...
Matthew J. Weber, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
JOCN
2010
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Music and Speech Listening Enhance the Recovery of Early Sensory Processing after Stroke
Our surrounding auditory environment has a dramatic influence on the development of basic auditory and cognitive skills, but little is known about how it influences the recovery o...
Teppo Särkämö, Elina Pihko, Sari La...
JOCN
2010
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Cognitive and Motor Loops of the Human Cerebro-cerebellar System
We applied fMRI and diffusion-weighted MRI to study the segregation of cognitive and motor functions in the human cerebrocerebellar system. Our fMRI results show that a load incre...
Juha Salmi, Karen Johanne Pallesen, Tuomas Neuvone...
JOCN
2010
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Defining the Units of Competition: Influences of Perceptual Organization on Competitive Interactions in Human Visual Cortex
Multiple stimuli that are present simultaneously in the visual field compete for neural representation. At the same time, however, multiple stimuli in cluttered scenes also underg...
Stephanie A. McMains, Sabine Kastner
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2010
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Morphosyntactic Processing in Late Second-Language Learners
The goal of the present study was to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of second-language (L2) morphosyntactic processing in highly proficient late learners of an L2...
Margaret Gillon-Dowens, Marta Vergara, Horacio A. ...
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2010
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Electrophysiological Evidence of Semantic Interference in Visual Search
Visual evoked responses were monitored while participants searched for a target (e.g., bird) in a four-object display that could include a semantically related distractor (e.g., f...
Anna L. Telling, Sanjay Kumar, Antje S. Meyer, Gly...