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Sensitivity to amplitude envelope rise time in infancy and vocabulary development at 3 years: A significant relationship

Kalashnikova, Marina; Goswami, Usha; Burnham, Denis (Developmental Science, 2019)

Here we report, for the first time, a relationship between sensitivity to amplitude envelope rise time in infants and their later vocabulary development. Recent research in auditory neuroscience has revealed that amplitude ...

Sensorimotor activation related to speaker vs. listener role during natural conversation

Mandel, Anne; Bourguignon, Mathieu; Parkkonen, Lauri; Hari, Riitta (Neuroscience Letters, 2016)

Although the main function of speech is communication, the brain bases of speaking and listening are typically studied in single subjects, leaving unsettled how brain function supports interactive vocal exchange. Here ...

Separate lanes for adding and reading in the white matter highways of the human brain

Grotheer, Mareike; Zhen, Zonglei; Lerma-Usabiaga, Garikoitz; Grill-Spector, Kalanit (Nature Communications, 2019)

Math and reading involve distributed brain networks and have both shared (e.g. encoding of visual stimuli) and dissociated (e.g. quantity processing) cognitive components. Yet, to date, the shared vs. dissociated gray ...

Setting the alarm: Word emotional attributes require consolidation to be operational

Dumay, Nicolas; Sharma, Dinkar; Kellen, Nora; Abdelrahim, Sarah (Emotion, 2018)

Demonstrations of emotional Stroop in conditioned made-up words are flawed because of the lack of task ensuring similar word encoding across conditions. Here, participants were trained on associations between made-up words ...

Sign language serial verb constructions fit into the bigger picture.

Costello, Brendan (Sign Language & Linguistics, 2016)

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Similar history biases for distinct prospective decisions of selfperformance

Mei, Ning; Rankine, Sean; Olafsson, Einar; Soto, David (Scientific Reports, 2020)

Metacognition can be deployed retrospectively -to reflect on the correctness of our behavior- or prospectively -to make predictions of success in one’s future behavior or make decisions about strategies to solve future ...

Simulations to benchmark time-varying connectivity methods for fMRI

Thompson, William Hedley; Richter, Craig Geoffrey; Plavén-Sigray, Pontus; Fransson, Peter (PLOS Computational Biology, 2018)

There is a current interest in quantifying time-varying connectivity (TVC) based on neuroimaging data such as fMRI. Many methods have been proposed, and are being applied, revealing new insight into the brain’s dynamics. ...

Simultaneous Bayesian correction of slab boundary artifacts and bias field for high resolution ex vivo MRI

Iglesias, J. Eugenio; Paz-Alonso, Pedro M.; Lerma-Usabiaga, Garikoitz; Insausti, Ricardo; Miller, K.; Caballero Gaudes, César (IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2016)

Multi-slab MRI overcomes some of the hardware limitations of today's clinical scanners (e.g., memory size), enabling the acquisition of ultra-high resolution ex vivo MRI of the whole human brain with high SNR efficiency. ...

Sleep in children triggers rapid reorganization of memory-related brain processes

Urbain, Charline; De Tiège, Xabier; Op De Beeck, Marc; Bourguignon, Mathieu; Wens, Vincent; Verheulpen, Denis; Van Bogaert, Patrick; Peigneux, Philippe (NeuroImage, 2016)

Behavioral evidence shows that sleep is crucial for the consolidation of declarative memories in children as in adults. However, the underlying cerebral mechanisms remain virtually unexplored. Using magnetoencephalography, ...

Sleep not just protects memories against forgetting, it also makes them more accessible

Dumay, Nicolas (Cortex, 2016)

Two published datasets (Dumay & Gaskell, 2007, Psychological Science; Tamminen, Payne, Stickgold, Wamsley, & Gaskell, 2010, Journal of Neuroscience) showing a positive influence of sleep on declarative memory were ...

Sleep State Modulates Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Neonates

Wai Lee, Chuen; Blanco, Borja; Dempsey, Laura; Chalia, Maria; Hebden, Jeremy C.; Caballero-Gaudes, César; Austin, Topun; Cooper, Robert J. (Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020)

The spontaneous cerebral activity that gives rise to resting-state networks (RSNs) has been extensively studied in infants in recent years. However, the influence of sleep state on the presence of observable RSNs has yet ...

Some people are ‘‘More Lexical” than others

Ishida, Mako; Samuel, Arthur G.; Arai, Takayuki (Cognition, 2016)

People can understand speech under poor conditions, even when successive pieces of the waveform are flipped in time. Using a new method to measure perception of such stimuli, we show that words with sounds based on rapid ...

Sound changes that lead to seeing longer-lasting shapes

Samuel, Arthur G.; Tangella, Kavya (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2018)

To survive, people must construct an accurate representation of the world around them. There is a body of research on visual scene analysis, and a largely separate literature on auditory scene analysis. The current study ...

SPALEX: A Spanish Lexical Decision Database From a Massive Online Data Collection

Aguasvivas, Jose Armando; Carreiras, Manuel; Brysbaert, Marc; Mandera, Paweł; Keuleers, Emmanuel; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (Frontiers in Psychology, 2018)

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Spatial frequency tuning of motor responses reveals differential contribution of dorsal and ventral systems to action comprehension

Amoruso, Lucia; Finisguerra, Alessandra; Urgesi, Cosimo (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020)

Understanding object-directed actions performed by others is central to everyday life. This ability is thought to rely on the interaction between the dorsal action observation network (AON) and a ventral object recognition ...