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Attention, learning and behavior: Human studies

  1. Novel word acquisition is generally believed to be a rapid process, essential for ensuring a flexible and efficient communication system; at least in spoken language, learners are able to construct memory trac...

    Authors: Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto, Yury Shtyrov, David Beltrán, Fernando Cuetos and Alberto Domínguez
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:11
  2. Maternal depression can influence the early activity of a mother reading stories to a young child, as depressed mothers are less likely to read to their children. Here, maternal depression association to neuro...

    Authors: Rola Farah, Paige Greenwood, Johnathan Dudley, John Hutton, Robert T. Ammerman, Kieran Phelan, Scott Holland and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:5
  3. Language has the power to shape cognition, behavior, and even the form and function of the brain. Technological and scientific developments have recently yielded an increasingly diverse set of tools with which...

    Authors: Sayuri Hayakawa and Viorica Marian
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:6
  4. Arithmetic processing in adults is known to rely on a frontal-parietal network. However, neurocognitive research focusing on the neural and behavioral correlates of arithmetic development has been scarce, even...

    Authors: Christina Artemenko, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Ann-Christine Ehlis, Hans-Christoph Nuerk and Thomas Dresler
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:5
  5. Most research on motivational processes in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been undertaken in Western Europe and North America. The extent to which these findings apply to other cultural gr...

    Authors: Emi Furukawa, Shizuka Shimabukuro, Brent Alsop and Gail Tripp
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:13
  6. Previous studies of patients with social anxiety have demonstrated abnormal early processing of facial stimuli in social contexts. In other words, patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) tend to exhibit en...

    Authors: Jianqin Cao, Quanying Liu, Yang Li, Jun Yang, Ruolei Gu, Jin Liang, Yanyan Qi, Haiyan Wu and Xun Liu
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:12
  7. Human parental care relies heavily on the ability to monitor and respond to a child’s affective states. The current study examined pupil diameter as a potential physiological index of mothers’ affective respon...

    Authors: Santeri Yrttiaho, Dana Niehaus, Eileen Thomas and Jukka M. Leppänen
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:2
  8. Human beings frequently experience fear, phobia, migraine and hallucinations, however, the cerebral mechanisms underpinning these conditions remain poorly understood. Towards this goal, in this work, we aim to...

    Authors: Hina Abid, Fayyaz Ahmad, Soo Y. Lee, Hyun W. Park, Dongmi Im, Iftikhar Ahmad and Safee U. Chaudhary
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2016 12:31
  9. Changes of resting brain activities after visual food stimulation might affect the feeling of pleasure in eating food in daily life and spontaneous appetitive motives. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to i...

    Authors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Masaaki Tanaka, Akira Ishii, Yoko Yamano and Yasuyoshi Watanabe
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2016 12:26
  10. Brain function in schizophrenia has been probed using saccade paradigms and functional magnetic resonance imaging, but little information exists about how changing task context impacts saccade related brain ac...

    Authors: A. L. Rodrigue, B. P. Austin, K. A. Dyckman and J. E. McDowell
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2016 12:19
  11. Optimal stimulation theory and moderate brain arousal (MBA) model hypothesize that extra-task stimulation (e.g. white noise) could improve cognitive functions of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity d...

    Authors: Simon Baijot, Hichem Slama, Göran Söderlund, Bernard Dan, Paul Deltenre, Cécile Colin and Nicolas Deconinck
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2016 12:11
  12. HIV-1 Tat protein is implicated in HIV-neuropathogenesis. Tat C31S polymorphism (TatCS) has been associated with milder neuropathology in vitro and in animal models but this has not been addressed in a cohort of ...

    Authors: Jasmeen Dara, Anna Dow, Elizabeth Cromwell, Christa Buckheit Sturdevant, Macpherson Mallewa, Ronald Swanstrom, Annelies Van Rie and Vinayaka R. Prasad
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2015 11:38