{"title":"Robotic movement elicits automatic imitation","authors":"Clare Press, Geoffrey Bird, Rüdiger Flach, Cecilia Heyes","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent behavioural and neuroimaging studies<span> have found that observation of human movement, but not of robotic movement, gives rise to visuomotor priming. This implies that the ‘mirror neuron’ or ‘action observation–execution matching’ system in the premotor and parietal cortices is entirely unresponsive to robotic movement. The present study investigated this hypothesis using an ‘automatic imitation’ stimulus–response compatibility procedure. Participants were required to perform a prespecified movement (e.g. opening their hand) on presentation of a human or robotic hand in the terminal posture of a compatible movement (opened) or an incompatible movement (closed). Both the human and the robotic stimuli elicited automatic imitation; the prespecified action was initiated faster when it was cued by the compatible movement stimulus than when it was cued by the incompatible movement stimulus. However, even when the human and robotic stimuli were of comparable size, colour and brightness, the human hand had a stronger effect on performance. These results suggest that effector shape is sufficient to allow the action observation–matching system to distinguish human from robotic movement. They also indicate, as one would expect if this system develops through learning, that to varying degrees both human and robotic action can be ‘simulated’ by the premotor and parietal cortices.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 632-640"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25741891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-10-20DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.013
Jason M. Chein , Walter Schneider
{"title":"Neuroimaging studies of practice-related change: fMRI and meta-analytic evidence of a domain-general control network for learning","authors":"Jason M. Chein , Walter Schneider","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Functional magnetic resonance imaging and a meta-analysis of prior neuroimaging studies were used to characterize cortical changes resulting from extensive practice and to evaluate a dual-processing account of the neural mechanisms underlying human learning. Three core predictions of the dual processing theory are evaluated: 1) that practice elicits generalized reductions in regional activity by reducing the load on the cognitive control mechanisms that scaffold early learning; 2) that these control mechanisms are domain-general; and 3) that no separate processing pathway emerges as skill develops. To evaluate these predictions, a meta-analysis of prior neuroimaging studies and a within-subjects fMRI experiment contrasting unpracticed to practiced performance in a paired-associate task were conducted. The principal effect of practice was found to be a reduction in the extent and magnitude of activity in a cortical network spanning bilateral dorsal prefrontal, left ventral prefrontal, medial frontal (anterior cingulate), left insular, bilateral parietal, and occipito-temporal (fusiform) areas. These activity reductions are shown to occur in common regions across prior neuroimaging studies and for both verbal and nonverbal paired-associate learning in the present fMRI experiment. The implicated network of brain regions is interpreted as a domain-general system engaged specifically to support novice, but not practiced, performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 607-623"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25651014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-11-02DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.010
Nicole Lambertz, Elke R. Gizewski, Armin de Greiff, Michael Forsting
{"title":"Cross-modal plasticity in deaf subjects dependent on the extent of hearing loss","authors":"Nicole Lambertz, Elke R. Gizewski, Armin de Greiff, Michael Forsting","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Cross-modal plasticity in deaf subjects is still discussed controversial. We tried to figure out whether the plasticity is dependent on the extent of hearing loss. Three groups of volunteers, comprising twelve individuals each, were investigated. They were characterized by three distinctive features, one had normal hearing, the other one lost hearing and the third had only minimal residual hearing ability. All participants, except those of group one, were capable of using German Sign Language (GSL). The groups were studied with functional MRI in a standard block design during individuals' watching sign language videos alternating with black frame. During sign language conditions, deaf subjects revealed a significant activation of the auditory cortex in both hemispheres comprising </span>Brodmann areas (BA) 42 and 22 corresponding to the secondary associative auditory areas. Additionally, activation of the angular and supramarginal gyrus was seen. Activation of the primary auditory cortex was revealed in deaf subjects with total hearing loss during sign language tasks but not in subjects with residual hearing ability. In conclusion our results indicate a </span>cortical reorganization of the auditory cortex comprising primary auditory fields only present in subjects with total hearing loss.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 884-890"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25665190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.008
Robert D. McIntosh , Igor Schindler , Daniel Birchall , A. David Milner
{"title":"Weights and measures: A new look at bisection behaviour in neglect","authors":"Robert D. McIntosh , Igor Schindler , Daniel Birchall , A. David Milner","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Horizontal line bisection is a ubiquitous task in the investigation of visual neglect. Patients with left neglect typically make rightward errors that increase with line length and for lines at more leftward positions. For short lines, or for lines presented in right space, these errors may ‘cross over’ to become leftward. We have taken a new approach to these phenomena by employing a different set of dependent and independent variables for their description. Rather than recording bisection error, we record the lateral position of the response within the workspace. We have studied how this varies when the locations of the left and right endpoints are manipulated independently. Across 30 patients with left neglect, we have observed a characteristic asymmetry between the ‘weightings’ accorded to the two endpoints, such that responses are less affected by changes in the location of the left endpoint than by changes in the location of the right. We show that a simple endpoint weightings analysis accounts readily for the effects of line length and spatial position, including cross-over effects, and leads to an index of neglect that is more sensitive than the standard measure. We argue that this novel approach is more parsimonious than the standard model and yields fresh insights into the nature of neglect impairment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 833-850"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25699345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.012
Y. Nomura , A.P. Mulavara , J.T. Richards , R. Brady , J.J. Bloomberg
{"title":"Optic flow dominates visual scene polarity in causing adaptive modification of locomotor trajectory","authors":"Y. Nomura , A.P. Mulavara , J.T. Richards , R. Brady , J.J. Bloomberg","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Locomotion and posture are influenced and controlled by vestibular, visual and somatosensory information. Optic flow and scene polarity are two characteristics of a visual scene that have been identified as being critical in how they affect perceived body orientation and self motion. The goal of this study was to determine the role of optic flow and visual scene polarity on adaptive modification in locomotor trajectory. An object is said to have visual polarity, or to be “visually polarized”, when it contains an identifiable principal axis with one end distinct from the other. Two computer-generated virtual reality scenes were shown to subjects during 20 min of treadmill walking. One scene was a highly polarized scene, while the other was composed of objects displayed in a non-polarized fashion. Both virtual scenes depicted constant rate self motion equivalent to walking counterclockwise around the perimeter of a room. Subjects performed Stepping Tests blindfolded before and after scene exposure to assess adaptive changes in locomotor trajectory. Subjects showed a significant difference in heading direction, between pre- and post-adaptation Stepping Tests, when exposed to either scene during treadmill walking. However, there was no significant difference in the subjects' heading direction between the two visual scene polarity conditions. Therefore, it was inferred from these data that optic flow has a greater role than visual polarity in influencing adaptive locomotor function.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 624-631"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25630782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.021
Joanna Morris , Phillip J. Holcomb
{"title":"Event-related potentials to violations of inflectional verb morphology in English","authors":"Joanna Morris , Phillip J. Holcomb","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Event-related brain potentials were recorded to morphologically correct and incorrect regular and irregular past tense verb forms presented in sentences and in lists. In the sentence context, all incorrect verb forms elicited a broadly distributed late posterior positivity, as well as a left anterior negativity (LAN) that was particularly pronounced for the incorrect irregulars. Using a single-word paradigm, we did not find a LAN for any of the incorrect verb forms but found an N400-like effect for all irregular verbs. In the sentence context, only the incorrect irregulars elicited a long-lasting, broadly distributed late positivity, reminiscent of the P600. For regular verbs, responses to incorrect forms produced smaller, more time restricted effects. These data show that morphological and syntactic violations produce similar patterns of brain activity, suggesting that these two systems engage cognitive processes with similar underlying neural substrates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 963-981"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25718940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-10-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.011
Dorothee J. Chwilla, Herman H.J. Kolk
{"title":"Accessing world knowledge: Evidence from N400 and reaction time priming","authors":"Dorothee J. Chwilla, Herman H.J. Kolk","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How fast are we in accessing world knowledge? In two experiments, we tested for priming for word triplets that described a conceptual script (e.g., DIRECTOR–BRIBE–DISMISSAL) but were not associatively related and did not share a category relationship. Event-related brain potentials were used to track the time course at which script information becomes available. In Experiment 1, in which participants made lexical decisions<span>, we found a facilitation for script-related relative to unrelated triplets, as indicated by (i) a decrease in both reaction time and errors, and (ii) an N400-like priming effect. In Experiment 2, we further explored the locus of script priming by increasing the contribution of meaning integration processes. The participants' task was to indicate whether the three words presented a plausible scenario. Again, an N400 script priming effect was obtained. Directing attention to script relations was effective in enhancing the N400 effect. The time course of the N400 effect was similar to that of the standard N400 effect to semantic relations. The present results show that script priming can be obtained in the visual modality, and that script information is immediately accessed and integrated with context. This supports the view that script information forms a central aspect of word meaning. The RT and N400 script priming effects reported in this article are problematic for most current semantic priming<span> models, like spreading activation models, expectancy models, and task-specific semantic matching/integration models. They support a view in which there is no clear cutoff point between semantic knowledge and world knowledge.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 589-606"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25637993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-10-20DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.004
J. Ventre-Dominey , A. Bailly , F. Lavenne , D. LeBars , H. Mollion , N. Costes , P.F. Dominey
{"title":"Double dissociation in neural correlates of visual working memory: A PET study","authors":"J. Ventre-Dominey , A. Bailly , F. Lavenne , D. LeBars , H. Mollion , N. Costes , P.F. Dominey","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using positron emission tomography (PET), we investigated the organisation of spatial versus object-based visual working memory in 11 normal human subjects. The paradigm involved a conditional colour-response association task embedded within two visual working memory tasks. The subject had to remember a position (spatial) or shape (object-based) and then use this to recover the colour of the matching element for the conditional association. Activation of the nucleus accumbens and the anterior cingulate cortex was observed during the conditional associative task, indicating a possible role of these limbic structures in associative memory. When the 2 memory tasks were contrasted, we observed activation of 2 distinct cortical networks: (1) The spatial task activated a dorsal stream network distributed in the right hemisphere in the parieto-occipital cortex and the dorsal prefrontal cortex, and (2) The non spatial task activated a ventral stream network distributed in the left hemisphere in the temporo- occipital cortex, the ventral prefrontal cortex and the striatum. These results support the existence of a domain-specific dissociation with dorsal and ventral cortical systems involved respectively in spatial and non spatial working memory functions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 747-759"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25651013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(05)00305-8
{"title":"Brain Research Young Investigator Awards","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6410(05)00305-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6410(05)00305-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Page iii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6410(05)00305-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137409551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive Brain ResearchPub Date : 2005-12-01Epub Date: 2005-11-02DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.013
Naama Barnea-Goraly , Stephan Eliez , Vinod Menon , Roland Bammer , Allan L. Reiss
{"title":"Arithmetic ability and parietal alterations: A diffusion tensor imaging study in Velocardiofacial syndrome","authors":"Naama Barnea-Goraly , Stephan Eliez , Vinod Menon , Roland Bammer , Allan L. Reiss","doi":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Velocardiofacial syndrome<span> (VCFS) is a congenital anomaly that causes somatic as well as cognitive and psychiatric impairments. Previous studies have found specific deficits in arithmetic abilities in subjects with VCFS. In this study, we investigated whether abnormalities in white matter pathways are correlated with reduced arithmetic ability. Nineteen individuals with VCFS aged 7–19 years received diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. A linear regression model was used to correlate fractional anisotropy (FA) values with scores of the arithmetic subscale on the WISC/WAIS on a voxel-by-voxel basis, after covarying for any IQ- and age-related effects. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between the arithmetic score on the WISC/WAIS and FA values in white matter tracts adjacent to the left supramarginal and </span></span>angular gyri, as well as along the left </span>intraparietal sulcus. Inferior parietal lobe white matter structural aberrations may contribute to reduced arithmetic ability in VCFS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100287,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Brain Research","volume":"25 3","pages":"Pages 735-740"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25665191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}