Submissions tagged with cognition
(13 documents)
The cultural epigenetics of psychopathology: The missing heritability of complex diseases found?
We extend a cognitive paradigm for gene expression to the epigenetic epidemiology of mental disorders, recognizing the fundamental role that culture plays in human biology as another heritage mecha…
Received 11 November 2009 17:52 UTC; Posted 11 November 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Neuroscience
Roman roads: The hierarchical endosymbiosis of cognitive modules
Serial endosymbiosis theory provides a unifying paradigm for examining the interaction of cognitive modules at vastly different scales of biological, social, and cultural organization. A trivial bu…
Received 22 October 2009 16:47 UTC; Posted 02 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Neuroscience, Earth & Environment, Evolutionary Biology
Cosmetic Use of Botulinum Toxin-A Affects Processing of Emotional Language
Language can evoke powerful emotions and influence consequent actions in readers, but the mechanisms underlying interactions of language and emotion are largely unknown. Since Darwin, emotional exp…
Received 24 August 2009 17:41 UTC; Posted 25 August 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
The Baseline for Response Latency Distributions
Response latency – the time taken to initiate or complete an action or task – is one of the principal measures used to investigate the mechanisms subserving human and animal cognitive processes. Th…
Received 16 August 2009 16:27 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Neural Modulation by Rhythm Induced Temporal Expectations
Time is an essential dimension of our experience, framing human behaviour at scales ranging from the millisecond organization of motor actions to circadian rhythms cycle, and beyond. Nevertheless,...
Received 18 March 2009 14:49 UTC; Posted 19 March 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Endogenous human brain dynamics recover slowly following cognitive effort
In functional magnetic resonance imaging, the brain’s response to experimental cognitive tasks is usually assumed to be independent of endogenous oscillations. To test this assumption, we measured …
Received 15 December 2008 15:22 UTC; Posted 22 December 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
‘Magnetized’ brains are slower: The cognitive effects of fMRI
MRI is generally thought to have no impact on cognition. Although safety experiments have shown that MRI is not harmful, its finer effects have not been investigated. Because we repeatedly observed…
Received 27 October 2008 11:02 UTC; Posted 29 October 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Dimension-based attention in the recognition of facial identity and facial expression
Although the human visual system is constantly flooded with sensory information, the brain is remarkable in inferring structures from the massive inputs and selectively attending to behaviorally re…
Received 22 August 2008 21:15 UTC; Posted 26 August 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Body Fat is Associated with Decreased Endocrine and Cognitive Resilience to Acute Emotional Stress
Objective: Cortisol is elevated both in individuals with increased emotional stress as well as with higher percentages of body fat. Cortisol is also known to affect cognitive performance, particu…
Received 11 July 2008 18:15 UTC; Posted 14 July 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
D-aspartate exerts an opposing role upon age-dependent NMDAR-related synaptic plasticity and memory decay
In the present study, we demonstrated that D-aspartate acts as an in vitro and in vivo neuromodulatory molecule upon hippocampal NMDAR transmission. Accordingly, we showed that this D-amino aci…
Received 14 May 2008 19:45 UTC; Posted 15 May 2008
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Neuroscience
