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Multidisciplinary Sciences
John Plass, David Brang
Summary: The study aimed to clarify the mechanisms behind the redundant target effect (RTE) in multisensory reactions, ruling out alternative explanations and focusing on pre-potentiation through crossmodal phase-resetting. Contrary to previous beliefs, preceding stimuli only accounted for a small percentage of the variance in apparent RTEs. The best explanation for multisensory reaction time distributions was found to be increased sensory evidence at stimulus onset, suggesting a link between neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational accounts of multisensory interactions.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Gijs Thepass, Hans G. Lemij, Koenraad A. Vermeer, Johannes van der Steen, Johan J. M. Pel
Summary: The study found that the saccadic reaction time was significantly prolonged in patients with mild, moderate, and advanced glaucoma, regardless of whether sensitivity loss was detected in SAP. This suggests that altered sensory processing in glaucoma may occur before changes in visual field sensitivity are detected, potentially enabling earlier diagnosis of the condition.
FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Isma Zulfiqar, Michelle Moerel, Agustin Lage-Castellanos, Elia Formisano, Peter De Weerd
Summary: Recent studies have highlighted the possible contributions of direct connectivity between early sensory cortices to audiovisual integration. Anatomical connections between the early auditory and visual cortices are concentrated in visual sites representing the peripheral field of view. The study found evidence for an influence of barely-detectable visual stimuli on the response times for auditory stimuli, but not for the reverse effect, suggesting an asymmetry between the auditory influence on visual processing and the visual influence on auditory processing.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Lisa Luther, Jorn M. Horschig, Jacobien M. van Peer, Karin Roelofs, Ole Jensen, Muriel A. Hagenaars
Summary: Emotional cues can enhance attention and information processing. Electrophysiological brain research suggests that increased gamma band activity and decreased alpha band activity over posterior brain areas are associated with attention allocation. This study investigated whether the modulation of brain oscillations occurs in a stimulus-induced manner or leads to prolonged state-like changes. The results showed decreased alpha and increased gamma power in response to unpleasant pictures compared to pleasant pictures, supporting a stimulus-induced effect of alpha and gamma power. The findings also suggest event-related attention toward unpleasant pictures and are discussed in relation to previous EEG research and behavioral research on threat-induced freezing-like response.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Angele Brunelliere, Marion Vincent, Laurence Delrue
Summary: Understanding spoken sentences in natural listening situations requires interactions between multiple sensory levels and linguistic levels. This study found that neural oscillations involved in word prediction based on prior sentence context increased in more challenging listening situations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
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Polymer Science
Derrick E. Hastings, Jose C. Bozelli, Richard M. Epand, Harald D. H. Stover
Summary: The transition from self-coacervation to complex coacervation of a series of charge-balanced polyampholyte (PA) and polyelectrolyte (PE) pairs based on copolymers of methacrylic acid and N-(3-aminopropyl) methacrylamide hydrochloride was described, focusing on the effects of charge distribution on coacervate properties. The study found that higher molecular weight complex coacervates exhibited increased resistance to stimuli such as ionic strength and pH, compared to liquid self-coacervates and less hydrated coacervates formed from two PE homopolymers with complementary nonstoichiometric PAs.
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Anatomy & Morphology
Mohammad Zarei, Mehran Jahed, Mohsen Parto Dezfouli, Mohammad Reza Daliri
Summary: Spike-LFP phase coupling (SPC) plays a key role in neural coding and can be used to encode sensory properties of visual stimuli.
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hyun Kim, Pukyeong Seo, Jeong Woo Choi, Kyung Hwan Kim
Summary: The study aims to investigate the impact of emotional arousal induced by emotional video stimuli on EEG activities, and to discover the cortical activity characteristics that show significant differences under different arousal levels, including changes in alpha- and beta-band activities in various regions.
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Chemistry, Physical
Weili Fan, Fengna Ma, Yuan Tong, Qian Liu, Ruoqi Liu, Yafeng He, Fucheng Liu
Summary: This paper investigates the response of oscillatory hexagon patterns in a two-layer coupled reaction diffusion system to square spatial periodic forcing. The results show that the system exhibits different responses under different types of additive forcings. In the indirect case, the oscillatory hexagon pattern transitions into other oscillatory Turing patterns or resonant Turing patterns, depending on the forcing wavenumber and strength. In the direct forcing case, only non-resonant Turing patterns can be obtained. These findings provide new insight into the modification and control of spatio-temporal patterns in multilayered systems.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Keita Mizuhara, Hiroshi Nittono
Summary: This study examined the effect of respiratory and cardiac phases on the discrimination accuracy of emotional and non-emotional visual stimuli. The results showed that fear discrimination accuracy was higher during inhalation and systole, but contrast discrimination was not affected. These findings suggest that natural nasal inhalation facilitates the discrimination of emotional stimuli, possibly through subcortical processes.
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Neurosciences
Abigail L. M. Webb, Jordi M. Asher, Paul B. Hibbard
Summary: The present study investigates the threat bias for fearful facial expressions using saccadic latency, focusing on low-level facial information such as spatial frequency and contrast. The study finds that saccadic responses are not biased towards fearful expressions but are significantly influenced by the spatial frequency and contrast of facial stimuli. These findings have important implications for the research on threat bias and behavioral responses to facial stimuli.
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Engineering, Multidisciplinary
M. Veera Krishna, N. Ameer Ahamad, A. F. Aljohani
Summary: This study investigates the characteristics of double-diffusive unsteady MHD natural convective rotating flow of micro-polar fluid past a semi-infinite vertical moving porous plate under the influence of thermal radiation, chemical reaction, Hall, and ion slip effects. Various parameters such as Hall and ion slip parameters, viscosity ratio, and chemical reaction parameter have been shown to have significant impacts on velocity, micro-rotation profiles, temperature profiles, and concentrations. The results have practical implications in various engineering applications, including chemical industry, power generation, cooling industry, and bio-medical engineering.
ALEXANDRIA ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2021)
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Chemistry, Analytical
Francesca Miraglia, Chiara Pappalettera, Sara Di Ienno, Lorenzo Nucci, Alessia Cacciotti, Rosa Manenti, Elda Judica, Paolo Maria Rossini, Fabrizio Vecchio
Summary: This study aimed to explore the differences in brain response to directional and non-directional visual stimuli. Event-related potentials (ERP) and contingent negative variation (CNV) were evaluated in 19 adults during a visuomotor task. The results showed that the late components of ERPs were modulated differently by directional and non-directional conditions in terms of amplitude and location. Furthermore, the study found differences in ERP amplitude, location, and latency according to subjects' performance, as well as modulation of the CNV slope by stimulus directionality, which contributed to motor performance.
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Chemistry, Physical
Micha M. Schleeh, Johannes Reiff, Pablo L. Garcia-Mueller, Rosa M. Benito, Florentino Borondo, Joerg Main, Rigoberto Hernandez
Summary: This paper investigates the behavior of a particle in a solvent, showing that the reaction rate of the particle in a diluted solvent is slower due to the lack of energy transfer through collisions. The flux-over-population reaction rate constant initially increases with increasing solvent density before decreasing again. By using Langevin dynamics and mean first-passage times (MFPTs), the authors observe the Kramers turnover phenomenon in the backward reaction of LiNC LiCN isomerization at intermediate and high temperatures. The results are in good agreement with the Pollak-Grabert-Hanggi (PGH) reaction rates at lower temperatures. Additionally, a square root behavior of the reaction rate is found at high temperatures. The comparison of methods in the intermediate- and high-temperature regimes suggests increased accuracy ranges for both the PGH and MFPT approaches.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Veera B. Sankar, Kamel Al-Khaled, Venkateswaraju Konduru, Obulesu Mopuri, Charan Kumar Ganteda, M. Ijaz Khan, Sami Ullah Khan, Basim M. Makhdoum, Sayed M. Eldin, Tasawar Abbas
Summary: In this study, the unsteady free convective flow of an electrically conducting viscous fluid due to an accelerated inclined perpendicular shield was investigated in the presence of heat and mass transfer phenomenon. Thermos-diffusion and heat source applications were incorporated, and the effects of chemical reactions on the concentration equation were considered. The homogeneous and practical perpendicular meadow and the oscillatory suction effects in the porous regime were observed. Closed-form expressions were derived using a perturbation approach, and the non-dimensional expression for the governing system was obtained. The graphical influence of parameters was studied, revealing a predicted decline in velocity with the chemical reactive factor and a lower thermal transport between the container and fluid for the radiative absorption parameter.
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Neurosciences
Catarina Mendonca, Steven van de Par, Hans Colonius
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2016)
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Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Hans Colonius
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2016)
Article
Neurosciences
Adele Diederich, Hans Colonius, Farid I. Kandil
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2016)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hans Colonius, Adele Diederich
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2017)
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Neurosciences
Hans Colonius, Adele Diederich
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
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Neurosciences
Anja Gieseler, Maike A. S. Tahden, Christiane M. Thiel, Hans Colonius
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2018)
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Psychology
Hans Colonius, Adele Diederich
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2018)
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Biology
Frederick Verbruggen, Adam R. Aron, Guido P. H. Band, Christian Beste, Patrick G. Bissett, Adam T. Brockett, Joshua W. Brown, Samuel R. Chamberlain, Christopher D. Chambers, Hans Colonius, Lorenza S. Colzato, Brian D. Corneil, James P. Coxon, Annie Dupuis, Dawn M. Eagle, Hugh Garavan, Ian Greenhouse, Andrew Heathcote, Rene J. Huster, Sara Jahfari, J. Leon Kenemans, Inge Leunissen, Chiang-Shan R. Li, Gordon D. Logan, Dora Matzke, Sharon Morein-Zamir, Aditya Murthy, Martin Pare, Russell A. Poldrack, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Trevor W. Robbins, Matthew R. Roesch, Katya Rubia, Russell J. Schachar, Jeffrey D. Schall, Ann-Kathrin Stock, Nicole C. Swann, Katharine N. Thakkar, Maurits W. van der Molen, Luc Vermeylen, Matthijs Vink, Jan R. Wessel, Robert Whelan, Bram B. Zandbelt, C. Nico Boehler
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hans Colonius, Adele Diederich
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
(2019)
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Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Nathan Van der Stoep, Hans Colonius, Jean-Paul Noel, Mark T. Wallace, Adele Diederich
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2020)
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Psychology
Adele Diederich, Hans Colonius
Summary: The interaction between perception and motor planning in generating action choices has been studied using the compelled-response task paradigm developed by Salinas and colleagues. The accelerated race-to-threshold model predicts saccade initiation based on two competing variables. An alternative two-stage diffusion model without assuming crosstrial parameter variability has been proposed, successfully predicting response time distributions and choice probabilities.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Hans Colonius
Summary: This paper examines the representation of best-worst choice probabilities and establishes that the non-negativity of best-worst Block-Marschak polynomials is necessary and sufficient for the existence of a random utility representation. The representation theorem is derived by extending proof techniques from a previous study on best choices by Falmagne (1978).
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Maike A. S. Tahden, Anja Gieseler, Markus Meis, Kirsten C. Wagener, Hans Colonius
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Hans Colonius, Felix Hermann Wolff, Adele Diederich
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anja Gieseler, Maike A. S. Tahden, Christiane M. Thiel, Kirsten C. Wagener, Markus Meis, Hans Colonius
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2017)