Article
Behavioral Sciences
James Chard, Richard Cook, Clare Press
Summary: Healthy aging is associated with decline in social, emotion, and identity perception, which may be attributed to specific deficits in configural processing. Two signal detection experiments showed that healthy older adults were particularly impaired in detecting configural changes in faces, compared to detecting changes in features. These findings indicate that problems in processing configural information contribute to the difficulties in face processing in healthy aging.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Leonie Nowack, Kathrin Finke, Anna Lena Biel, Ingo Keller, Hermann J. Muller, Markus Conci
Summary: The study found that in neglect patients with attentional deficits, a grouped object presented in the unattended left hemispace can significantly improve contralesional target detection, but it does not facilitate target detection when presented with an ipsilesional isolated object. This demonstrates that attentional resources are crucial for both part-to-whole object integration and search guidance by salient, integrated objects.
Article
Robotics
Darren Tsai, Julie Stephany Berrio, Mao Shan, Stewart Worrall, Eduardo Nebot
Summary: This research proposes a novel unsupervised multi-target domain adaptation framework called SEE to address the sampling discrepancies between different lidar sensors. By interpolating and normalizing the scan patterns, the performance of state-of-the-art 3D detectors can be transferred to different types of lidars without the need for model fine-tuning.
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Min Xu, Jing Shao, Hongwei Ding, Lan Wang
Summary: This study found that older adults have lower accuracy in identifying affricatives and fricatives in phonated condition, while have challenges in recognizing voiced consonants and aspirated-unaspirated distinction in whispered condition. Some consonants, however, became easier to be recognized in whispered condition.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Axel D. Vitterso, Gavin Buckingham, Antonia F. Ten Brink, Monika Halicka, Michael J. Proulx, Janet H. Bultitude
Summary: Evidence suggests that individuals with CRPS do not differ significantly from controls in MSA endpoint errors, and the arm used (Side of Body) does not have a significant impact on the results. In MSA tasks, pointing errors tend to be biased towards the hand being used.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xinyao He, Xinlin Zhou, Jin Zhao, Yiyun Zhang
Summary: This study found a correlation between numerosity comparison and arithmetical performance in adults, even after controlling for age, gender differences, and general cognitive processing. However, the association between numerosity comparison and arithmetic performance disappeared after controlling for visual figure matching, supporting the visual perception hypothesis.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kefeng Lv, Yongsheng Zhang, Ying Yu, Zhenchao Zhang, Lei Li
Summary: This study proposes a visual localization method using semantic information, which integrates panoptic segmentation and the matching network to optimize the position and orientation of the sensor and complete target perception. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves visual localization and accurately perceives the target.
Review
Clinical Neurology
Robert L. Whitwell, Christopher L. Striemer, Jonathan S. Cant, James T. Enns
Summary: This article discusses the historical and contemporary treatments of visual agnosia and neglect, as well as their similarities in the quality of conscious experience, proposing a closer association between visual agnosia and neglect and a theoretical framework based on scale attention.
CURRENT NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chiuhsiang Joe Lin, Susmitha Canny
Summary: This study compares the theoretical eye vergence angle and gaze-based eye vergence angle to investigate the phenomenon of vergence-accommodation conflict. The results show that the gaze-based eye vergence angle is largest at the greatest parallax, and the eye vergence angle accuracy is highest at the nearest parallax.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Robotics
Yangqi Long, Huimin Yu, Biyang Liu
Summary: This letter proposes a two-stream based multi-stage hybrid decoder to combine single-image scene information and multi-frame matching information, resulting in more accurate depth estimation results.
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Michael C. W. English, Murray T. Maybery, Troy A. W. Visser
Summary: The study found that males displayed higher accuracy and shorter reaction time in visual search tasks when targets were presented in the left visual field, with sex differences diminishing as the target moved further rightward. This suggests that greater hemispheric asymmetry in males influences task performance across the visual field.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Angela Meyer
Summary: The trend towards larger wind turbines and remote locations of wind farms has increased the demand for automated condition monitoring strategies that can reduce operating costs and prevent unplanned downtime. This research explores multi-target models as a new approach to capturing a wind turbine's normal behavior, which can reduce the cost and effort of practical condition monitoring without sacrificing accuracy. Future research in this area is outlined for further exploration.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Ying-Zi Xiong, Douglas A. Addleman, Nam Anh Nguyen, Peggy B. Nelson, Gordon E. Legge
Summary: Visual and auditory localization abilities are crucial in real-life tasks. This study investigates the effect of typical aging on spatial localization and sensory integration strategies. The results show age-related differences in localization abilities and suboptimal integration in peripheral locations.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Huixi Dou, Huan Wang, Sainan Liu, Jun Huang, Zuxiang Liu, Tiangang Zhou, Yan Yang
Summary: This study reveals that monkeys exhibit a bias towards tracking the motion direction of a target with a hole, and this target is assigned a higher weight for vector computation compared to other form properties.
NEUROSCIENCE BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Gerontology
Sophie J. Nightingale, Kimberley A. Wade, Derrick G. Watson
Summary: This study suggests that people have limited ability to distinguish between genuine and manipulated images, with older adults performing slightly worse than younger and middle-aged adults. A short video intervention can marginally improve performance. The study also found that different age groups use different strategies, which may account for age differences in accuracy.
PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Michael Orth, Carole Wagnon, Elisabeth Neumann-Dunayevska, Christoph Phillipp Kaller, Stefan Kloeppel, Beat Meier, Katharina Henke, Jessica Peter
Summary: The role of hemispheric lateralization in the prefrontal cortex in memory formation, especially for emotionally valenced information, is debated. By modulating the activity of the left or right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during encoding, the study found that enhancing left DLPFC activity improved encoding and free recall performance, particularly for semantically processed words. Additionally, left DLPFC stimulation increased memory formation for positive content, while right DLPFC stimulation increased memory formation for negative content. The study suggests that hemispheric laterlization plays a role in establishing successful episodic memories.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Nadine Schmidt, Maximilian Haas, Christine Krebs, Stefan Kloppel, Matthias Kliegel, Jessica Peter
Summary: In laboratory time-based prospective memory tasks, older adults perform worse than younger adults. Less frequent clock checking due to executive function problems may be responsible. This study aimed to investigate the role of clock checking in older adults' time-based prospective memory and whether executive functions would be associated with clock checking and time-based prospective memory. The results showed that time-based prospective memory declined with age due to less frequent clock checking. The link between executive functions and clock checking or time-based prospective memory was only found when not controlling for age.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Jonas A. Hosp, Andrea Dressing, Anika Engesser, Volkmar Glauche, Dorothee Kummerer, Ema B. Vaidelyte, Mariachristina Musso, Michel Rijntjes, Cornelius Weiller
Summary: This study explores the role of the dopaminergic ventral tegmental midbrain nuclei-motor cortex (VTMC) tract in post-stroke recovery. The study found that both the VTMC tract and the corticospinal tract (CST) degenerate after stroke, but only the degeneration of the VTMC tract is associated with lesion size. Regression analysis showed that changes in VTMC tract integrity are more strongly related to independence in daily activities, upper limb motor impairment, and cortical symptoms compared to CST, which is mainly associated with the degree of hemiparesis.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Christoph Sperber, Laura Gallucci, Roza Umarova
Summary: For years, dissociation studies on neurological single-case patients with brain lesions were used to infer cognitive functions in neuropsychology, but the association between deficits was considered of less value. In contrast, computational methods such as principal component analysis became popular for identifying cognitive functions in stroke patients. However, the anatomy of stroke lesions alone influenced the dimensionality of data and limited the interpretability of cognitive deficits and insights into human cognitive architecture. It is suggested to use qualitative criteria and dissociation patterns to refine estimates and optimize interpretation strategies in cognitive deficit studies.
Article
Neurosciences
Mariacristina Musso, Eckart Altenmueller, Marco Reisert, Jonas Hosp, Ralf Schwarzwald, Bettina Blank, Julian Horn, Volkmar Glauche, Christoph Kaller, Cornelius Weiller, Martin Schumacher
Summary: Conducting is a well-structured system used to convey information about the rhythm and dynamic of a musical piece. Conductors communicate the musical tempo to the orchestra, creating a unified and expressive musical gestalt. This study found that conducting activates specific regions of the brain, including the supplementary and premotor cortex, superior temporal gyrus, and Broca's area, which are involved in sensorimotor mapping and language processing.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Clinical Neurology
Cornelius Weiller, Michel Rijntjes
Letter
Clinical Neurology
Christoph Sperber, Laura Gallucci, Roza Umarova
Article
Clinical Neurology
Nils Schroeter, Antonia Weiller, Michel Rijntjes, Andreas Harloff, Horst Urbach, Juraj Kukolja, Juergen Bardutzky, Cornelius Weiller, Lena-Alexandra Beume
Summary: Telemedicine plays an important role in emergency neurology, and head and/or gaze deviation can serve as a reliable biomarker for ischemic stroke and large vessel occlusions (LVOs), making it easier to assess.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Christoph Sperber, Laura Gallucci, Stefan Smaczny, Roza Umarova
Summary: Statistical lesion-symptom mapping is dominated by frequentist approaches, but Bayesian lesion deficit inference (BLDI) has advantages in dealing with small samples and low statistical power. BLDI collects evidence for the null hypothesis and provides more flexibility. However, it suffers from the association problem.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Anina Schwarzwald, Urs Fischer, David Seiffge, Morin Beyeler, Adrian Scutelnic, Johannes Kaesmacher, Pasquale Mordasini, Tomas Dobrocky, Jan Gralla, Mirjam R. Heldner, Roza Umarova, Thomas R. Meinel, Marcel Arnold, Simon Jung, Barbara Goeggel Simonetti
Summary: This study investigated the sex differences in young stroke patients and found that women have a higher incidence of stroke in the very young age group, possibly due to sex specific risk factors such as pregnancy, puerperium, the use of oral contraceptives, and hormonal replacement therapy. There were no differences in stroke severity, etiology, stroke localization, management, and outcome between women and men.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Nils Schroeter, Tobias Bormann, Michel Rijntjes, Ganna Blazhenets, Raissa Berti, Bastian E. A. Sajonz, Horst Urbach, Cornelius Weiller, Philipp T. Meyer, Alexander Rau, Lars Frings
Summary: This study suggests that microangiopathic white matter lesions do not have a significant impact on neurocognitive performance in Parkinson's disease, while neuronal dysfunction does.
MOVEMENT DISORDERS CLINICAL PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Christoph Sperber, Arsany Hakim, Laura Gallucci, David Seiffge, Beata Rezny-Kasprzak, Eugen Jager, Thomas Meinel, Roland Wiest, Urs Fischer, Marcel Arnold, Roza Umarova
Summary: Based on brain imaging features, different subtypes of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) were identified, and the validity of these features as part of clinical ratings and biomarkers for stroke outcome was evaluated. A total of five clusters were identified, with EPVS and WMH identified as imaging features of presumably early progression. The number of microbleeds and WMH severity appeared to be promising biomarkers for distinguishing clinical subgroups.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Thomas R. Meinel, Camilla B. Triulzi, Johannes Kaesmacher, Adnan Mujanovic, Marco Pasi, Lester Y. Leung, David M. Kent, Yi Sui, David Seiffge, Philipp Bucke, Roza Umarova, Marcel Arnold, Laurent Roten, Thanh N. Nguyen, Joanna Wardlaw, Urs Fischer
Summary: This survey study found a high degree of uncertainty and heterogeneity in the management of covert brain infarction (CBI), even among experienced stroke physicians. There is a lack of evidence to guide management decisions for CBI, highlighting the need for more data to inform clinical practice.
EUROPEAN STROKE JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Alexander Rau, Nils Schroeter, Michel Rijntjes, Fabian Bamberg, Wolfgang H. H. Jost, Maxim Zaitsev, Cornelius Weiller, Stephan Rau, Horst Urbach, Marco Reisert, Maximilian F. F. Russe
Summary: This study compared the performance of a Deep Neural Patchwork (DNP) with other established segmentation algorithms in accurately delineating atrophic structures in multiple system atrophy (MSA), Parkinson's disease (PD), and healthy controls. The results showed that DNP had significantly better performance in delineating the putamen compared to other algorithms, and it also demonstrated superior diagnostic accuracy in distinguishing MSA, PD, and healthy controls.
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neuroimaging
Christoph Sperber, Laura Gallucci, Daniel Mirman, Marcel Arnold, Roza M. Umarova
Summary: Lesion size is a decent biomarker for stroke outcome and severity, slightly inferior to spatial lesion features but particularly suited in studies with small samples.
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Andrea Gajardo-Vidal, Maxime Montembeault, Diego L. Lorca-Puls, Abigail E. Licata, Rian Bogley, Sabrina Erlhoff, Buddhika Ratnasiri, Zoe Ezzes, Giovanni Battistella, Elena Tsoy, Christa Watson Pereira, Jessica Deleon, Boon Lead Tee, Maya L. Henry, Zachary A. Miller, Katherine P. Rankin, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Katherine L. Possin, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
Summary: This study investigates the potential differences in processing speed and neural correlates among the three variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). The findings reveal that non-verbal cognitive abilities, such as processing speed, are significantly impacted in nfvPPA and lvPPA patients compared to healthy controls and svPPA patients. Neuroimaging results confirm the importance of fronto-parietal regions associated with processing speed and executive control.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Holger Wiese, Tsvetomila Popova, Maya Schipper, Deni Zakriev, Mike Burton, Andrew W. Young
Summary: Previous experiments have shown that brief exposure to unfamiliar individuals leads to the formation of new facial representations, which undergo changes and consolidation within the first day after learning.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Astrid Prochnow, Xianzhen Zhou, Foroogh Ghorbani, Paul Wendiggensen, Veit Roessner, Bernhard Hommel, Christian Beste
Summary: Individuals organize events in their environment by partitioning them into discrete units. This study reveals that the neural activity in the brain plays a critical role in this process, reflecting the key elements of event segmentation.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Zhenzhen Huo, Zhiyi Chen, Rong Zhang, Junye Xu, Tingyong Feng
Summary: Procrastination has adverse effects on personal growth and social development. Reward sensitivity is positively correlated with procrastination. This study used VBM and RSFC analyses to investigate the neural substrates underlying the association between reward sensitivity and procrastination. The results showed that the functional connectivity of the right parahippocampal gyrus-precuneus mediated the relationship between reward sensitivity and procrastination.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Stefano Lasaponara, Gabriele Scozia, Silvana Lozito, Mario Pinto, David Conversi, Marco Costanzi, Tim Vriens, Massimo Silvetti, Fabrizio Doricchi
Summary: Cholinergic (Ach), Noradrenergic (NE), and Dopaminergic (DA) pathways are crucial in regulating spatial attention and determining inter-individual differences in temperamental traits. This study found that temperamental traits predict individual differences in the ability to orient spatial attention based on the probabilistic association between cues and targets. These findings highlight the importance of considering temperamental and personality traits in social and professional environments where attention control is essential.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Darren J. Yeo, Courtney Pollack, Benjamin N. Conrad, Gavin R. Price
Summary: The processing of numerals as visual objects is supported by an Inferior Temporal Numeral Area (ITNA) in the bilateral inferior temporal gyri (ITG). Extant findings suggest some degree of hemispheric asymmetry in how the bilateral ITNAs process numerals. The study found that digit sensitivity did not differ between ITNAs, and digit sensitivity in both left and right ITNAs was associated with calculation skills. The study also revealed a right lateralization in engagement in alphanumeric categorization, and that the right ITNA showed greater discriminability between digits and letters.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Beste Gulsuna, Abuzer Gungor, Alp O. Borcer, Ugur Ture
Summary: The fiber dissection technique has been used to study the internal structures of the brain, with less focus on white matter. The sagittal stratum, a white matter structure, has not received enough attention and has been a subject of controversy. Recent studies suggest potential functions of the sagittal stratum, emphasizing the importance of understanding this structure accurately.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Nora Geiser, Brigitte Charlotte Kaufmann, Samuel Elia Johannes Knobel, Dario Cazzoli, Tobias Nef, Thomas Nyffeler
Summary: This study compared the effects of auditory and visual motion stimulation on spatial neglect and found that both interventions were equally effective in improving neglect. Multimodal motion stimulation also improved neglect, but did not show greater improvement than unimodal auditory or visual motion stimulation alone.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Anna E. Hughes, Anna Nowakowska, Alasdair D. F. Clarke
Summary: This study examines the relationship between search slopes and search efficiency in visual search tasks, introduces the Target Contrast Signal (TCS) Theory, and extends it to a Bayesian multi-level framework. The findings demonstrate that TCS can predict data well, but distinguishing between contrast combination models proves to be difficult.
