Article
Psychology, Biological
Yoana Vergilova, Torsten K. Jachmann, Nivedita Mani, Jutta Kray
Summary: Adult language users can infer the meaning of unfamiliar words in predictive contexts, and children can use predictive contexts to anticipate upcoming stimuli. However, the extent to which children rely on prediction to learn novel word forms is unclear. This study found that children, especially older ones, can use constraining contexts to learn the meaning of new words and integrate them into their lexicons.
Review
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Annekathrin Weise, Sabine Grimm, Johanna Maria Rimmele, Erich Schroeger
Summary: The brain integrates the basic features of short sounds into a unitary representation, but little is known about how it processes long lasting sounds. Research suggests that there is a temporal constraint in the formation of auditory representations, with a window of about 350 ms for integrating the dynamics of long sounds. We propose that representations established in adjacent integration windows can be concatenated to form an auditory representation of a long sound, overcoming the temporal constraint.
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Daniel Krause, Benjamin Richert, Matthias Weigelt
Summary: The present study found that in mental rotation tasks, the neural signature of information processing is moderated by different stimulus characteristics (such as body-related vs. non-body-related stimuli), affecting response time, error rates and neural data. Lower RRN amplitudes for letter stimuli indicate a more pronounced use of alternative processes, which is reflected in higher N350 amplitudes. Additionally, the increase in RRN amplitude and response time is positively correlated with stimulus disparity.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Yifan Sun, Zixuan Huang, Xuezheng Gao, Limin Chen, Jun Wang, Zhenhe Zhou, Hongliang Zhou
Summary: In this study, the neural underpinnings of anhedonia in major depressive disorder (MDD) were explored through the examination of two event-related potential (ERP) components: feedback-related negativity (FRN) and stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN). The study found that MDD patients exhibited lower scores in anhedonia assessment and consistently reduced amplitudes of FRN and SPN compared to healthy controls. Limited correlations were observed between ERP metrics and clinical indicators, except for positive correlations between certain amplitudes and scores. The study suggests a shared impairment in reward feedback processing and anticipatory neural mechanisms in individuals with MDD.
NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASE AND TREATMENT
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Jin Li, Nian Xu, Yiping Zhong
Summary: Individuals tend to reciprocate cooperative or aggressive actions based on their reciprocity preferences, which are positively correlated with their reciprocity expectations. Monetary payoffs can heighten expectations of negative reciprocity, particularly at the automatic outcome processing stage.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Annmarie MacNamara, Michael J. Imburgio, Kaylin E. Hill, Iulia Banica, Anna Weinberg, Dan Foti
Summary: Clayson and colleagues raised concerns about our norms for ERN, suggesting that it should not be normed due to unknown factors. We argue that the norms are specific to certain conditions and not intended for individual clinical assessment. Our data on ERN distribution in young adults aims to enhance understanding of the ERN in the field.
Review
Neurosciences
Nasrin Gohari, Zahra Hosseini Dastgerdi, Lori J. Bernstein, Claude Alain
Summary: This article reviews different paradigms used to study concurrent sound perception and the corresponding brain responses. It also discusses the clinical applications of ORN and P400 in assessing central auditory processing ability in different populations.
BRAIN AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Allison M. Letkiewicz, Justin D. Spring, Lilian Y. Li, Anna Weinberg, Stewart A. Shankman
Summary: Abuse and neglect during childhood and adolescence have negative effects on emotional and cognitive functioning, including error monitoring. It is unclear whether childhood trauma affects error monitoring and whether error monitoring mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and psychopathology in adulthood. In a large sample of young adults, this study found that cumulative childhood trauma and specific traumas like sexual abuse and emotional neglect predicted blunted error-related negativity (ERN), and ERN partially mediated the effects of childhood trauma and emotional neglect on externalizing-related symptoms. Further research should examine the link between childhood trauma and error monitoring in adulthood to inform intervention approaches.
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Yunxiao Ma, Keke Yu, Shuqi Yin, Li Li, Ping Li, Ruiming Wang
Summary: This study aimed to explore the processing of linguistic and identity information during spoken word processing by considering the modulation of attention. The results showed that identity information interacted with linguistic information at the later stage of spoken word processing, and the interaction was modulated by the task demands on attention involvement.
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Alexandria Meyer
Summary: This review focuses on the relationship between the error-related negativity (ERN) and anxiety in children and adolescents. The ERN is increased in anxious individuals and can be reliably measured in children. The ERN predicts risk for increases in anxiety among children. Parenting styles, specifically harsh or critical parenting, may potentiate the ERN in offspring. Novel computerized intervention strategies are being developed to reduce the ERN and risk for anxiety.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Xueqian Deng, Chen Yang, Jingyue Xu, Mengzhan Liufu, Zina Li, Juan Chen
Summary: Behavioral approaches and electrophysiology have made significant advancements in understanding human sensorimotor systems. Behavioral neuroscientists have identified implicit and explicit processes in motor learning, while electrophysiologists have discovered error-related potentials. However, there has been a lack of communication between these two lines of research. This article aims to bridge the gap by reviewing literature from both perspectives.
FRONTIERS IN INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Sun-Young Lee, Jeonghwa Cho, Kichun Nam, Hyeon-Ae Jeon, Youngjoo Kim
Summary: This study investigates the sound change of aspirated stops in Korea by comparing neural and behavioral responses between younger and older generations of Korean speakers. The results showed that both generations performed well in distinguishing aspirated stops from lax stops in the behavioral task, but there were generational differences in neural sensitivities.
Article
Neurosciences
Saeideh Mehrkian, Abdollah Moossavi, Nasrin Gohari, Mohammad Ali Nazari, Enayatollah Bakhshi, Claude Alain
Summary: This study investigated the sensitivity of hearing-impaired children in processing harmonic relation and found that deficits in this area may contribute to their difficulty in understanding speech in noise. As a result, rehabilitation methods aiming to improve processing of acoustic characteristics are recommended for children with hearing loss.
NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Tian Feng, Yawei Li
Summary: Athletes outperformed non-athletes in mental rotation tasks, showing higher accuracy and larger N2 and RRN amplitudes, which were correlated with performance stages and years of professional training.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Norina M. Schmidt, Juergen Hennig, Aisha J. L. Munk
Summary: This study did not find evidence of alterations in neural reactivity to positive and erotic stimuli in oral contraceptive users compared to naturally cycling women. Oral contraceptive users had significantly lower endogenous estradiol and progesterone concentrations compared to naturally cycling women. However, there were significant differences in LPP amplitudes in reaction to erotic vs. neutral pictures between measurement times in the oral contraceptive group.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Maria V. Stuckenberg, Erich Schroeger, Andreas Widmann
Summary: Research has found that visual cues misleading auditory expectations can trigger incongruency response in auditory event-related brain potentials, possibly due to a mismatch between auditory sensory expectations activated by visual predictive information and actual sensory input. The incongruency effect is more likely to occur with asynchronous presentation of visual-auditory combinations, suggesting a potential bimodal feature mismatch when violation of the visual-auditory relationship occurs.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nina Coy, Maria Bader, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: The study revealed that participants could use relative pitch to detect new melodic patterns even in the absence of absolute pitch sensitivity. Event-related potentials (ERPs) showed the importance of relative pitch in information extraction, with an increase in behavioral reaction time. The data indicated that ERP indicators MMN and P3a were elicited even with only relative pitch information available, suggesting an impact on higher-level processing.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Tjerk T. Dercksen, Maria V. Stuckenberg, Erich Schroger, Nicole Wetzel, Andreas Widmann
Summary: This study investigated the influence of stimulus repetition on the elicitation of the prediction error signal and found that higher-level associations applied in a top-down manner are involved in the generation of the prediction error signal, independent from local contingencies.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Betina Korka, Erich Schroeger, Andreas Widmann
Summary: The study demonstrates that action-effect predictions can enhance stochastic regularity-based predictions and activate higher-order deviance detection processes, expanding previous understandings of the role of action predictions at sensory levels.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Maria Bader, Erich Schroger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: The study using event-related potentials found that the auditory system can extract implicit regularities even in the presence of acoustic distortions, although distortions led to decreased amplitude of mismatch negativity and P3a. Wrong-pitch distortions had a larger impact on P3a amplitude compared to white-noise distortions, likely due to interference with relevant pattern information.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Jakob Fink-Lamotte, Andreas Widmann, Konstantin Sering, Erich Schroeger, Cornelia Exner
Summary: The study found significant differences in emotional engagement and facial muscle activity between disgust and fear, but no clear differences in behavioral inhibition and heart rate changes. Additionally, individual trait levels of disgust proneness can impact reaction speed and muscle activity in response to disgust stimuli.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sabrina Trapp, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston, Erich Schroeger
Summary: Short-term memory has traditionally been assessed by focusing on memory for past sensory input, but it may actually play an important role in predicting future sensory input.
CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Betina Korka, Andreas Widmann, Florian Waszak, Alvaro Darriba, Erich Schroeger
Summary: According to the ideomotor theory, action can produce desired sensory outcomes, with action intentions resulting in reliable top-down predictions that modulate auditory brain responses. The extended auditory event representation system explains the effects of action intention on auditory processing and allows for studying the differences and commonalities with regularity-based predictions, guiding future research on action and perception.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Alessandro Tavano, Burkhard Maess, David Poeppel, Erich Schroeger
Summary: The study suggests that both spectral predictability and temporal regularity play a role in entrainment, governed by neural phase control.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Gloria G. Parras, Lorena Casado-Roman, Erich Schroeger, Manuel S. Malmierca
Summary: The study found functional specialization in different fields of the rat auditory cortex, with the posterior auditory field showing the largest prediction error effects and other fields dominantly affected by repetition suppression effects. Results suggest that different AC fields have varying roles in context-dependent processing and being sensitive to stimulus-dependent effects in deviance detection.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Hanna Ringer, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: It is remarkable how human listeners can perceive periodicity in noise, which lacks obvious physical cues. Previous research suggested that listeners rely on short temporally local and idiosyncratic features to perceptually segment periodic noise sequences. The present study aimed to examine the consistency of perceptual segmentation within and between listeners. Results showed that the consistency was stronger for interleaved periodic sequences, likely due to reduced temporal jitter. Additionally, the finding that certain noise sequences were segmented consistently across listeners challenges the assumption that the features are necessarily idiosyncratic.
Article
Neurosciences
Hanna Ringer, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: Perceptual learning is a powerful mechanism for enhancing perceptual abilities and forming memory representations of unfamiliar sounds. The current study examined how the learning of random acoustic patterns is influenced by pattern repetition regularity and listener attention. The findings demonstrate that memory-related effects are observed even during the first occurrence of patterns, especially when listeners pay attention to the sounds.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Annekathrin Weise, Thomas Hartmann, Fabrice Parmentier, Nathan Weisz, Philipp Ruhnau
Summary: The study found that the sudden siren of an ambulance can interfere with people's attention and performance. The experiment showed that when the target and the distracting sound occurred on the same side, individuals responded faster, indicating a spatial shift of attention. The results of the brainwave data also supported this finding, suggesting that spatial attention bias influences the impact of distracting sounds.
Article
Neurosciences
Karl Kopiske, Elisa-Maria Heinrich, Georg Jahn, Alexandra Bendixen, Wolfgang Einhaeuser
Summary: In this study, the researchers investigated the contribution of visual cues and nonvisual self-motion cues to distance reproduction when walking on a treadmill through a virtual environment. They found that participants relied more on nonvisual self-motion cues, with some variability between individuals. Additionally, participants who looked more toward visual scenes containing speed and distance cues tended to weigh visual information more strongly.
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Thomas Jacobsen, Pamela Baess, Anja Roye, Istvan Winkler, Erich Schroeger, Janos Horvath
Summary: The study found that lexical meaning has a modulating effect on auditory deviance detection, providing processing advantages for denotationally meaningful items, while word frequency did not have an effect. This suggests that even apparently low-level functions like auditory deviance detection utilize information from the mental lexicon for task-irrelevant stimuli.
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Xiaomei Lin, Tianyuyi Feng, Erheng Cui, Yunfei Li, Zhang Qin, Xiaohu Zhao
Summary: This study successfully established a rat model based on the genetic-environmental interaction, which exhibited phenotype characteristics similar to human AD in terms of cognitive function, brain microstructure, and immunohistochemistry. The genetic factor (APP mutation) and the environmental factor (acrolein exposure) accounted for 39.74% and 33.3% of the AD-like phenotypes in the model, respectively.
Article
Neurosciences
Gustavo Guimara Guerrero, Giovanna Bignoto Minhoto, Camilla dos Santos Tiburcio-Machado, Itza Amarisis Ribeiro Pinto, Claudio Antonio Federico, Marcia Carneiro Valera
Summary: The present study evaluated the influence of head and neck radiotherapy on the behavior and body weight gain in Wistar rats. The results demonstrated that different doses of radiation induced depressive behavior in the animals, and that the weight gain tended to be lower in the irradiated groups.
Article
Neurosciences
Ziwei Gao, Chao Lu, Yaping Zhu, Yuxin Liu, Yuesong Lin, Wenming Gao, Liyuan Tian, Lei Wu
Summary: This study reveals the underlying mechanisms of the rapid antidepressant effects of merazin hydrate (MH), which activates CaMKII to promote neuronal activities and proliferation in the hippocampus.
Article
Neurosciences
Kathleen E. Murray, Whitney A. Ratliff, Vedad Delic, Bruce A. Citron
Summary: Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic disorder that affects approximately 30% of Veterans deployed to the Persian Gulf. This study found that exposure to toxicants during the Gulf War resulted in long-term changes in the morphology of dentate granule cells and that treatment with Nrf2 activator could improve neuronal health in the hippocampus.
Article
Neurosciences
Jing Li, Yan Zou, Xiangchuang Kong, Yangming Leng, Fan Yang, Guofeng Zhou, Bo Liu, Wenliang Fan
Summary: This study examines the functional connectivity changes in individuals with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) at the integrity, network, and edge levels. The findings reveal reduced intranetwork connectivity strength and increased internetwork connectivity in SSNHL patients. These alterations are associated with the duration of SSNHL and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory scores. The study provides crucial insights into the neural mechanisms of SSNHL and the brain's network-level responses to sensory loss.
Review
Neurosciences
Didier Majou, Anne-Lise Dermenghem
Summary: In the early stages of SAD, memory impairment is strongly correlated with cortical levels of soluble amyloid-beta peptide oligomers. A beta disrupts glutamatergic synaptic function and leads to cognitive deficits. This article describes the pathogenic mechanisms underlying cerebral amyloidosis, involving amyloid precursor protein synthesis, A beta residue clearance processes, and the role of specific molecules.
Article
Neurosciences
Jing Li, Yi Shan, Xiaojing Zhao, Guixiang Shan, Peng-Hu Wei, Lin Liu, Changming Wang, Hang Wu, Weiqun Song, Yi Tang, Guo-Guang Zhao, Jie Lu
Summary: This study investigates changes in brain anatomical structures and functional network connectivity after chronic complete thoracic spinal cord injury (cctSCI) and their impact on clinical outcomes. The findings reveal alterations in gray matter volume and functional connectivity in specific brain regions, indicating potential therapeutic targets and methods for tracking treatment outcomes.
Article
Neurosciences
Anllely Fernandez, Katherine Corvalan, Octavia Santis, Maxs Mendez-Ruette, Ariel Caviedes, Matias Pizarro, Maria -Teresa Gomez, Luis Federico Batiz, Peter Landgraf, Thilo Kahne, Alejandro Rojas-Fernandez, Ursula Wyneken
Summary: This study reveals the importance of SUMOylation in modulating the protein cargo of astrocyte-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) and its potential impact on neurons.
Article
Neurosciences
Anika Luettig, Stefanie Perl, Maria Zetsche, Franziska Richter, Denise Franz, Marco Heerdegen, Ruediger Koehling, Angelika Richter
Summary: This study found that changes in c-Fos activity during short-term stimulation of the entopeduncular nucleus (EPN) are associated with improvement in dystonia, and also discovered that the cerebellum may be involved in the antidystonic effects.
Article
Neurosciences
Yanlin Tao, Wei Shen, Houyuan Zhou, Zikang Li, Ting Pi, Hui Wu, Hailian Shi, Fei Huang, Xiaojun Wu
Summary: Depression has a higher incidence in women compared to men, and this study investigated the impact of sex on depressive behaviors and underlying mechanisms using a corticosterone-induced depression model in mice. The results showed sex-specific anxiety and depression behaviors in the model group, as well as differences in protein expression and neurotransmitter levels between male and female mice. These findings enhance our understanding of sex-specific differences in depression and support tailored interventions.
Review
Neurosciences
Dnyandev G. Gadhave, Vrashabh V. Sugandhi, Chandrakant R. Kokare
Summary: This article discusses the characteristics and importance of the tight junctions of endothelial cells in the CNS, which act as a biological barrier known as the blood-brain barrier (BBB). It focuses on overcoming the challenges of delivering therapeutic agents to the brain in neurodegenerative disorders, particularly multiple sclerosis, through the use of biomaterials. The article also highlights the current limitations of animal models for studying multiple sclerosis and suggests a potential future research direction.
Article
Neurosciences
Li-Min Mao, Khyathi Thallapureddy, John Q. Wang
Summary: Propofol can enhance synapsin phosphorylation and modulate synaptic transmission in the mouse brain. The study reveals the potential role of synapsin as a substrate of propofol and its effects on neurotransmitter release machinery.
Article
Neurosciences
Syed Maaz Ahmed Rizvi, Abdul Baseer Buriro, Irfan Ahmed, Abdul Aziz Memon
Summary: This study explores the effects of prolonged mask usage on the human brain by analyzing EEG and physiological parameters. The results show that the mean EEG spectral power in alpha, beta, and gamma sub-bands of individuals wearing masks is smaller than those without masks. The performances on cognitive tasks and oxygen saturation level differ between the two groups, while blood pressure, body temperature, and heart rate are similar. The analysis also reveals that the occipital and frontal lobes exhibit the greatest variability in channel measurements.
Article
Neurosciences
Rui-Fang Ma, Lu-Lu Xue, Jin-Xiang Liu, Li Chen, Liu-Lin Xiong, Ting-Hua Wang, Fei Liu
Summary: This study observed changes in brain infarction and blood vessels in rats during neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (NHIE) modeling using Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography (TCD). Longer duration of hypoxia was associated with more severe nerve damage. TCD can dynamically monitor cerebral infarction after NHIE modeling, which may serve as a useful auxiliary method for evaluating animal experimental models.
Article
Neurosciences
Yuxiang Dai, Chen Yu, Lu Zhou, Longyang Cheng, Hongbin Ni, Weibang Liang
Summary: Overexpression of CXCR4 in glioma is correlated with patient survival, and its inhibition can reduce invasion and migration of glioma cells. Inhibiting Nur77 also decreases cancer progression associated with CXCR4.