Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yusaku Takamura, Shintaro Fujii, Satoko Ohmatsu, Shu Morioka, Noritaka Kawashima
Summary: Visuospatial neglect (VSN) is a neurological syndrome where patients fail to detect stimuli on the side opposite a hemispheric lesion. A study found VSN can be divided into elements such as low arousal, exogenous neglect, and spatial working memory deficit, each correlating with specific neural damage. This research sheds light on the complex structure of VSN as a deficit in attention network components.
Article
Neurosciences
Yann Cojan, Arnaud Saj, Patrik Vuilleumier
Summary: This study identified the neural substrates of different spatial processing components contributing to neglect symptoms. Results showed the critical role of the right lateral parietal cortex in bisection, while lesions in the frontal and temporal lobes were more critical for visual search in patients with focal right brain damage. The data support the existence of distinct components in spatial attentional processes damaged to different degrees in neglect patients.
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Kristina Krasich, Joanne Kim, Greg Huffman, Annika L. Klaffehn, James R. Brockmole
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impact of music on gaze control, and found that music did not affect gaze behaviors, but participants in the music conditions showed better memory performance. This suggests that music may influence cognitive processes rather than gaze.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Olof J. van der Werf, Teresa Schuhmann, Tom de Graaf, Sanne Ten Oever, Alexander T. Sack
Summary: It has been discovered that visuospatial attention operates rhythmically, with a low-frequency 7-8 Hz mechanism coordinating periodic windows of sampling. The relative importance of locations in a visual scene affects the rhythmic sampling process.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ilaria Sani, Heiko Stemmann, Bradley Caron, Daniel Bullock, Torsten Stemmler, Manfred Fahle, Franco Pestilli, Winrich A. Freiwald
Summary: Endogenous attention is controlled by dorsal fronto-parietal brain areas, but can also be modulated by a control attention area located in the temporal lobe. This area is functionally distinct and connected to parietal and frontal attentional regions, suggesting a different organizing principle for cognitive control.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Psychology
A. P. Martinez-Cedillo, Kevin Dent, Tom Foulsham
Summary: When free-viewing scenes, participants tend to preferentially fixate social elements. This preference can be disrupted by increasing the demands of a secondary spatial memory task. Results showed that the preference to look at social elements decreased when the demands of the memory task were increased from one to six locations, regardless of presentation mode. The high-load condition also resulted in more central fixations and reduced exploration of the scene.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Yige Wang, Shuai Peng, Zhi Shao, Tingyong Feng
Summary: Previous studies have shown reduced attention to the eyes in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, most eye-tracking evidence regarding this impairment has been derived from passive viewing tasks. This study compared passive viewing of faces with an active task involving face identification and found that autistic children exhibited reduced eye-looking in passive viewing, but displayed increased attention allocation to the eyes when instructed to identify faces. These findings also indicated that diminished eye-looking may be related to the severity of autism symptoms in young ASD children.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Maksymilian Korczyk, Maria Zimmermann, Lukasz Bola, Marcin Szwed
Summary: Training can improve behavioral performance and lead to brain reorganization. A study found that professional musicians perform better than non-musicians in both visual and auditory rhythmic tasks, which is associated with activation in specific brain regions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kazuaki Akamatsu, Tomohiro Nishino, Yoichi Miyawaki
Summary: This study used a deep convolutional neural network model to extract hierarchical visual features from natural scene images and evaluated the extent to which the human gaze is attracted to these visual features in space and time. The results showed that the human gaze is more strongly attracted to spatial locations containing higher-order visual features, rather than lower-order visual features or locations predicted by conventional saliency. The time course analysis of gaze attraction revealed a prominent bias towards higher-order visual features shortly after the beginning of observation.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Lei Cao, Linlin Ye, Huanxin Xie, Yichen Zhang, Weiqun Song
Summary: Visual-spatial attention disorder after stroke has a significant impact on recovery and quality of life in stroke patients. Rapid recovery from the disorder is associated with changes in brain networks.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Psychology
Kate T. McKay, Sarah A. Grainger, Sarah P. Coundouris, Daniel P. Skorich, Louise H. Phillips, Julie D. Henry
Summary: The study found that others' eye gaze reliably directs observers' attention, with the gaze-cueing effect being moderated by factors such as the type of gaze cue, task demands, and cue features. These findings provide insights into the circumstances in which reflexive gaze-cued attention is enhanced.
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Remi Lafitte, Marie Jeager, Celine Piscicelli, Shenhao Dai, Camille Lemaire, Anne Chrispin, Patrice Davoine, Eve Dupierrix, Dominic Perennou
Summary: Spatial neglect after right hemisphere stroke (RHS) may involve an altered representation of verticality, particularly in relation to body neglect. A study on 77 individuals with RHS found that spatial neglect was more associated with impaired postural vertical perception. These findings suggest that after RHS, an impaired verticality representation results from a graviceptive neglect and the human brain uses a transmodal representation of verticality.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Nicola Sambuco
Summary: Recent findings questioned the replicability of fMRI in affective processing studies, suggesting that poor replicability may be due to a lack of emotional engagement. The current study tested the replicability of emotional enhancement using a large sample size, showing that replicability increased with increasing sample size. Importantly, even with relatively small samples, fMRI replicability during emotional compared to neutral scene viewing was good to excellent, indicating the importance of successful emotional engagement in task-related brain regions.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ulrich Ansorge, Diane Baier, Soonja Choi
Summary: We argue for linguistic relativity and present an explanation through language-induced automatized stimulus-driven attention (LASA). Our mother tongue automatically influences our attention and perception, determining what we see. This attention form is difficult to suppress and shows in language-independent tasks.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tess M. Champ, SeungHyun Lee, Anne B. Martin, Cameron M. Bolles, Sun Woo Kim, Katalin M. Gothard
Summary: Humans and non-human primates can allocate visual attention based on the behaviors of their social partners. By following the gaze of others, observers can gain information about their mental states, emotions, and intentions. This study found that socially meaningful facial displays combined with body movements increased the likelihood of gaze following and joint attention.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Jurka R. Meichtry, Dario Cazzoli, Silvia Chaves, Sebastian von Arx, Tobias Pflugshaupt, Roger Kalla, Claudio L. Bassetti, Klemens Gutbrod, Rene M. Muri
JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Psychiatry
Katharina Stegmayer, Stephan Bohlhalter, Tim Vanbellingen, Andrea Federspiel, Roland Wiest, Rene M. Mueri, Werner Strik, Sebastian Walther
SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
(2018)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Beat Meier, Severin Fanger, Giannina Toller, Sibylle Matter, Rene Muri, Klemens Gutbrod
CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Thomas Baumgartner, Benedikt P. Langenbach, Lorena R. R. Gianotti, Rene M. Muri, Daria Knoch
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2019)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Alvin Chesham, Stephan Moreno Gerber, Narayan Schutz, Hugo Saner, Klemens Gutbrod, Rene Martin Muri, Tobias Nef, Prabitha Urwyler
JMIR SERIOUS GAMES
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Benedikt P. Langenbach, Thomas Baumgartner, Dario Cazzoli, Rene M. Mueri, Daria Knoch
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Kathrin Chiffi, Lorenzo Diana, Matthias Hartmann, Dario Cazzoli, Claudio L. Bassetti, Rene M. Muri, Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka
Summary: The study found that when humans visually explore an image, they tend to start on the left side. Age has a time-sensitive influence on visual exploration and pseudoneglect, and the degree of pseudoneglect in a classical line bisection task correlates with the average gaze position during visual exploration in a time-sensitive manner.
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Narayan Schutz, Hugo Saner, Angela Botros, Bruno Pais, Valerie Santschi, Philipp Buluschek, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Prabitha Urwyler, Rene M. Muri, Tobias Nef
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of body movements in bed as a sleep parameter in monitoring changes in health status among older adults. The research found that an increase in body movements in bed was associated with reported health incidents, suggesting it as a valuable predictor for health deterioration.
JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Samuel Elia Johannes Knobel, Brigitte Charlotte Kaufmann, Stephan Moreno Gerber, Prabitha Urwyler, Dario Cazzoli, Rene M. Mueri, Tobias Nef, Thomas Nyffeler
Summary: This study successfully developed a visual search task embedded in a serious game setting for iVR, which includes self-adapting difficulty scaling to adjust to the needs and ability levels of different groups of individuals.
JMIR SERIOUS GAMES
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Lorenzo Diana, Giulia Scotti, Edoardo N. Aiello, Patrick Pilastro, Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka, Rene M. Mueri, Nadia Bolognini
Summary: This research investigated the effects of tDCS on visuo-spatial attentional asymmetries and found that the efficacy of offline conventional tDCS and HD-tDCS in modulating attention in an ecological setting is not clear.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Angela A. Botros, Narayan Schuetz, Christina Rocke, Robert Weibel, Mike Martin, Rene M. Muri, Tobias Nef
Summary: This study proposes a new potential digital biomarker for evaluating cognitive abilities in older adults based on location eigenbehavior obtained from contactless ambient sensors. The prediction performance is strong for high levels of cognitive ability but weakens for low levels of cognitive ability.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Samuel Elia Johannes Knobel, Brigitte Charlotte Kaufmann, Nora Geiser, Stephan Moreno Gerber, Rene M. Muri, Tobias Nef, Thomas Nyffeler, Dario Cazzoli
Summary: This pilot study investigated the feasibility and usability of audio-tactile cueing in a 3D VR setting for patients with neglect. The results suggest that audio-tactile cueing may be a promising method to guide patient attention and have potential applications in the treatment of neglect.
JMIR SERIOUS GAMES
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Brigitte C. Kaufmann, Dario Cazzoli, Manuela Pastore-Wapp, Tim Vanbellingen, Tobias Pflugshaupt, Daniel Bauer, Rene M. Muri, Tobias Nef, Paolo Bartolomeo, Thomas Nyffeler
Summary: This study found that lesions at a specific white matter intersection can cause a breakdown of the multiple-demand network, leading to impaired cognitive performance. These findings have the potential to influence future rehabilitative approaches.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Prabitha Urwyler, Rajnish Kumar Gupta, Michael Falkner, Joel Niklaus, Rene Martin Muri, Tobias Nef
Summary: This study investigates the benefits of dynamic adaptive casual puzzle games on cognitive function and well-being in healthy adults and older people. The results show that participants showed improvements in their visual attention and visuospatial measures after the puzzle game intervention. Digital games are a feasible way to train cognition, with the algorithm-based dynamic adaption allowing accommodations for persons with different cognitive levels of skill.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Magdalena Camenzind, Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka, Dario Cazzoli, Rene M. Mueri
Summary: This paper presents the observation of a patient who had a right hemispheric stroke and subsequently produced remarkable paintings. The patient's post-stroke productivity and the distribution of text and drawings were analyzed. The patient showed enhanced verbal and figural creativity compared to the control group. Interestingly, the paintings were predominantly located on the right side, while the text was aligned to the left side. This dissociation between writing and painting behavior was also reflected in the patient's neuropsychological performance.
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.