Article
Biology
Jorge Almeida, Alessio Fracasso, Stephanie Kristensen, Daniela Valerio, Fredrik Bergstroem, Ramakrishna Chakravarthi, Zohar Tal, Jonathan Walbrin
Summary: Understanding how we recognize objects involves unraveling the variables that govern our thinking about objects and the neural organization of their representations. This study explores the multidimensionality of object processing and demonstrates the importance of these dimensions for object knowledge organization and neural representation.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Mingtong Liu, Chang Hong Liu, Shuang Zheng, Ke Zhao, Xiaolan Fu
Summary: This study used an ALE method to meta-analyze 96 neuroimaging studies and found that the left fusiform face area plays a crucial role in facial expression processing. A revised model was constructed with prominent roles assigned to the amygdala, FFA, occipital gyrus, and inferior frontal gyrus in a co-activating neural network.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Psychology
Daniela Valerio, Akbar Hussain, Jorge Almeida
Summary: Feature generation tasks and databases play a crucial role in understanding the organization of knowledge in semantic memory. This study focuses on manipulable objects and creates a detailed feature database, contributing to within-category processing. Results show meaningful grouping of objects based on feature type and demonstrate participants' ability to recognize and associate features with specific objects.
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Justin L. Gardner
Summary: The human category-selective visual cortex provides a set of texture-like features that can be flexibly reconfigured to learn and identify new object categories. The representations in this visual cortex are not explicitly encoding objects, but rather capturing complex visual features that support object perception.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Vladislav Ayzenberg, Michael C. Granovetter, Sophia Robert, Christina Patterson, Marlene Behrmann
Summary: Hemispherectomy is a surgical procedure used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy. This study found that pediatric patients who undergo hemispherectomy show a high level of perceptual function despite losing certain visual pathways. The study also discovered that the ventral visual pathway has a greater ability to reorganize compared to the dorsal pathway.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Vladislav Ayzenberg, Marlene Behrmann
Summary: This study reveals the specific functional contributions of the dorsal visual pathway to object recognition. The dorsal cortex computes the spatial relations among an object's parts and transmits this information to the ventral pathway to support object categorization. The dorsal cortex is a crucial source of input to the ventral pathway and may support the ability to categorize objects based on global shape.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Giuseppe Marrazzo, Maarten J. Vaessen, Beatrice de Gelder
Summary: The study investigates the impact of critical category attributes like emotional expression on brain activity, showing that the type of task is the main determinant of brain activity, with higher activity in the VLPFC during explicit tasks. Results suggest the importance of task and category attributes in understanding the functional organization of the high-level visual cortex.
Article
Neurosciences
Shan Xu, Xingyu Liu, Jorge Almeida, Dietmar Heinke
Summary: Recent studies have shown that both the ventral and dorsal visual streams respond to action relations between objects, with contributions from each stream differentiating their neural activities. The involvement of either stream in the automatic extraction of action relations is not solely dependent on familiarity of the objects, suggesting a division of labor between the two visual streams.
Article
Neurosciences
Serena Micheletti, Fleur Corbett, Janette Atkinson, Oliver Braddick, Paola Mattei, Jessica Galli, Stefano Calza, Elisa Fazzi
Summary: The dorsal stream cortical networks support various visual functions related to visuomotor, visuospatial, and visual attention. Poor sensitivity to global motion compared to global static form has been found in various neurodevelopmental disorders, indicating a vulnerability in the dorsal stream. In children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), impaired sensitivity to global motion but not global static form was observed, with a significant linear relationship between motor impairment and form sensitivity and a significant quadratic relationship between motor impairment and motion sensitivity.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Malathi Thothathiri
Summary: The debate over whether sentences are primarily formulated using lexically based or non-lexically based information has been discussed extensively. Evidence suggests that sentences can be constructed flexibly depending on the statistical properties of the input and the validity of lexical vs. abstract cues for predicting sentence structure. Different neural pathways seem to be recruited for individuals with different executive function abilities and for verbs with different statistical properties, indicating alternative routes for producing the same structure. The human brain adapts to ongoing language experience during adulthood, with the nature of the adjustment depending rationally on the statistical contingencies of the current context.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Meng Xing, Zhiyong Feng, Yong Su, Weilong Peng, Jianhai Zhang
Summary: The proposed VD-ZSAR method extracts nonredundant visual features based on the Ventral & Dorsal Stream Theory, and learns the correlation between actions through a visual-semantic joint embedding space. Experimental results demonstrate the favorable performance of the approach across multiple datasets.
PATTERN RECOGNITION
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Experimental
Ronan Guerineau, Loic P. Heurley, Nicolas Morgado, Denis Brouillet, Vincent Dru
Summary: Merely seeing large objects potentiates power grip while seeing small objects potentiates precision grip, possibly due to an overlap between magnitude codes. Results show that response times are shorter when the object and the anticipated response outcome are of the same magnitude, supporting the magnitude-coding hypothesis.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Edmund T. Rolls, Gustavo Deco, Chu-Chung Huang, Jianfeng Feng
Summary: This study investigates the effective connectivity in the human hippocampal memory system, revealing the directionality and strength of the connections between different brain regions. By connecting different information streams with the hippocampus, the hippocampal function is optimized.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Qing Ma, Edmund T. Rolls, Chu-Chung Huang, Wei Cheng, Jianfeng Feng
Summary: This study analyzed the functional connectivity of the human hippocampal memory system and found complex connections between the hippocampus and other brain regions, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the operation of the human hippocampal memory system.
Article
Neurosciences
Ibrahim Kiremitci, Ozgur Yilmaz, Emin Celik, Mo Shahdloo, Alexander G. Huth, Tolga Cukur
Summary: Attention plays a crucial role in selectively listening to desired speakers in noisy environments, causing broad modulations in speech representations at multiple levels and growing stronger towards later stages of processing. Unattended speech is still represented up to the semantic level in parabelt auditory cortex.
Review
Neurosciences
Alice Mado Proverbio
Summary: Studies have found neuro-functional differences between male and female brains in various aspects of social cognition, particularly in emotional coding, face processing, and response to baby schema. These differences can be explained through the perspective of evolutionary psychobiology.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Patrizia Steca, Roberta Adorni, Andrea Greco, Francesco Zanatta, Francesco Fattirolli, Cristina Franzelli, Cristina Giannattasio, Marco D'Addario
Summary: This study investigated adherence to governmental measures in frail individuals and found that being female, being retired, and having hypertension for a relatively short time positively predicted adherence, while impulsivity negatively predicted adherence.
Article
Neurosciences
Alice M. Proverbio, Alice Cerri
Summary: Wearing masks reduces the ability to recognize emotions, especially affecting the recognition of sadness and disgust, while anger recognition remains unaffected. Women perform better in recognizing subtle facial expressions, while men perform better in recognizing fear.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Adon F. G. Rosen, Emma Auger, Nicholas Woodruff, Alice Mado Proverbio, Hairong Song, Lauren E. Ethridge, David Bard
Summary: This study highlights the introduction of parameter bias from the application of two-stage approaches and the manifestation of differential item functioning (DIF) in cognitive neuroscience data. The use of the multiple indicator multiple cause (MIMIC) model is shown to identify and remove items with DIF and model brain-behavior relationships with greater sensitivity. The results suggest that the MIMIC model can derive complex item-level brain-behavior relationships.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maria Giovanna Luciani, Alessandra Cortelazzo, Alice Mado Proverbio
Summary: This study found that auditory feedback plays a more important role in musical learning for beginners, improving their learning outcomes. Compared to first sight reading, silent practice and listening to musical pieces can enhance the rhythm, expression, and smoothness of musical performances.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Roberta Adorni, Elena Lonati, Francesco Zanatta, Michael Belingheri, Massimiliano Rossetti, Matteo Colleoni, Michele Augusto Riva, Paola Palestini, Patrizia Steca
Summary: This study aims to identify different lifestyle profiles and analyze their associations with sociodemographic factors in an Italian academic community to plan targeted initiatives to promote healthy lifestyles. The results showed that age, gender, and academic role were associated with different lifestyle profiles.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
A. M. Proverbio, F. Pischedda
Summary: This study investigated electrophysiological markers of imagined motivational states and found that anterior N400 component provides clear markers of subjects' physiological needs and motivational states, especially cold, pain, and fear, which can signal life-threatening conditions.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Nan Qin, Francesca Crespi, Alice Mado Proverbio, Gilles Pourtois
Summary: The study investigated the effect of attentional load on the C1 component through two EEG experiments. The results showed that in Experiment 1, the C1 was larger in the high load condition compared to the low load condition, regardless of SOA. In Experiment 2, there was no significant load modulation of the C1, but a larger CNV was observed in the low load condition. Additionally, the C1 was larger when the peripheral distractor appeared after the central stimulus. These findings suggest that different top-down control processes can influence the initial feedforward stage of visual processing in V1 captured by the C1 ERP component.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Alice Mado Proverbio, Alice Cerri, Cristina Gallotta
Summary: Previous research indicates that masks disrupt expression recognition, but the neurophysiological implications are unclear. This study used EEG/ERP recording to examine the effects of masks on facial expression recognition. The results showed that masks increased brain activity for masked faces, especially for positive emotions like happiness. Masked faces also elicited a higher workload, while unmasked faces and angry faces were associated with a higher certainty of categorization. Masking had a greater impact on negative emotions (sadness, fear, disgust) compared to positive emotions. However, angry faces were still recognizable due to visible facial features. Overall, masking polarized nonverbal communication towards happiness/anger, reducing empathic responses.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Claudia Manzi, Roberta Adorni, Valeria Amata Giannella, Patrizia Steca
Summary: A considerable amount of research suggests that negative attitudes toward aging can harm mental and physical well-being in later stages of life. Previous research has mainly focused on individual factors such as personality traits. However, our study proposes and tests a new model called positive contact with aging (PCA), which considers both individual and social factors that influence attitudes towards one's own aging. The model was tested in a large sample of the Italian population and demonstrated a good fit to the data, explaining 12% of the variance in attitudes toward one's own aging. This model has implications for promoting intergenerational exchanges and enhancing health-related self-efficacy to improve attitudes towards aging.
JOURNAL OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biology
Alice Mado Proverbio
PHYSICS OF LIFE REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Jessica Leoni, Silvia Carla Strada, Mara Tanelli, Alice Mado Proverbio
Summary: MIRACLE is a novel BCI system that decodes patients' minds from elicited potentials using functional data analysis and machine-learning techniques. It recognizes 10 different semantic categories of imagined stimuli and has been validated on an extensive dataset collected from 20 volunteers. The importance of each EEG channel in the decision-making process of the classifier has been quantified.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Linda Dalle Nogare, Alice Mado Proverbio
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the neural mechanisms and timing of emoji recognition. The results showed that participants recognized emojis faster and more accurately than facial expressions. The N400 and P300 components had different responses to emojis and faces, and the responses to faces were slower than to emojis. Both emojis and faces activated the brain's emotional system and the orbitofrontal cortex, supporting anthropomorphization.
SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Andrea Greco, Roberta Adorni, Chiara De Matteis, Marco D'Addario, Francesco Fattirolli, Cristina Franzelli, Cristina Giannattasio, Koen Luyckx, Patrizia Steca
Summary: This study examined the role of resilience resources in lifestyle changes after the first Acute Coronary event. Path analysis using latent change models found that baseline levels of Sense of Coherence (SOC) and Disease-specific Self-efficacy were associated with smoking decrease and overall lifestyle improvement. Enhancements in SOC and Disease-specific Self-efficacy were related to smoking decrease and increase in physical activity, respectively. The findings highlight the importance of psychological interventions promoting Disease-specific Self-efficacy and SOC.
HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY OPEN
(2023)
Article
Communication
Claudia Manzi, Roberta Adorni, Gabriele Di Cicco, Valeria Milano, Efisio Manunta, Fabio Montermini, Maja Becker, Patrizia Steca
Summary: The study found that using informal language in media communication can promote positive attitudes towards hearing aids, especially among people who have direct contact with older adults.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
