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The influence of preterm birth on structural alterations of the vision-deprived brain
16 May 2012
Catherine Y. Wan, Amanda G. Wood, Jian Chen, Sarah J. Wilson, David C. Reutens
Abstract: Differences in brain structures between blind and sighted individuals have not been widely investigated. Furthermore, existing studies have included individuals who were blinded by retinopat...
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Cortex special issue: Language and the motor system
14 May 2012
Stefano F. Cappa, Friedemann Pulvermüller
To propose a relationship between language and the motor system is certainly not a novel idea. Theories about the gestural origin of language can be traced back to the writings of Vico and Condillac i...
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Amblyopic deficits in the timing and strength of visual cortical responses to faces
14 May 2012
Éva M. Bankó, Judit Körtvélyes, János Németh, Béla Weiss, Zoltán Vidnyánszky
Abstract: Behavioral research revealed that object vision is impaired in amblyopia. Nevertheless, neurophysiological research in humans has focused on the amblyopic effects at the earliest stage of vi...
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Distinct representations for shifts of spatial attention and changes of reward contingencies in the human brain
14 May 2012
Annalisa Tosoni, Gordon L. Shulman, Anna L.W. Pope, Mark P. McAvoy, Maurizio Corbetta
Abstract: Success in a dynamically changing world requires both rapid shifts of attention to the location of important objects and the detection of changes in motivational contingencies that may alter...
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The neurophenomenology of neutral hypnosis
14 May 2012
Etzel Cardeña, Peter Jönsson, Devin B. Terhune, David Marcusson-Clavertz
Abstract: Introduction: After a hypnotic induction, medium and highly hypnotizable individuals often report spontaneous alterations in various dimensions of consciousness. Few studies investigating th...
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