Search Results - "Progress in brain research"

Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, and learning: Theory and applications in educational technologies by Oudeyer, P-Y, Gottlieb, J, Lopes, M

“…This chapter studies the bidirectional causal interactions between curiosity and learning and discusses how understanding these interactions can be leveraged…”
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Balancing plasticity/stability across brain development by Takesian, Anne E, Hensch, Takao K

“…The potency of the environment to shape brain function changes dramatically across the lifespan. Neural circuits exhibit profound plasticity during early life…”
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The gut microbiome in Parkinson's disease: A culprit or a bystander? by Keshavarzian, Ali, Engen, Phillip, Bonvegna, Salvatore, Cilia, Roberto

“…In recent years, large-scale metagenomics projects such as the Human Microbiome Project placed the gut microbiota under the spotlight of research on its role…”
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The insular cortex: a review by Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf

“…The human insular cortex forms a distinct, but entirely hidden lobe, situated in the depth of the Sylvian fissure. Here, we first review the recent literature…”
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Cortico-hippocampal systems involved in memory and cognition: the PMAT framework by Ritchey, Maureen, Libby, Laura A, Ranganath, Charan

“…In this chapter, we review evidence that the cortical pathways to the hippocampus appear to extend from two large-scale cortical systems: a posterior medial…”
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Innate and adaptive immune responses in Parkinson's disease by Schonhoff, Aubrey M, Williams, Gregory P, Wallen, Zachary D, Standaert, David G, Harms, Ashley S

“…Parkinson's disease (PD) has classically been defined as a movement disorder, in which motor symptoms are explained by the aggregation of alpha-synuclein…”
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Musicians and music making as a model for the study of brain plasticity by Schlaug, Gottfried

“…Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and…”
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Human prefrontal cortex: evolution, development, and pathology by Teffer, Kate, Semendeferi, Katerina

“…The prefrontal cortex is critical to many cognitive abilities that are considered particularly human, and forms a large part of a neural system crucial for…”
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Mechanisms of alpha-synuclein toxicity: An update and outlook by Brás, Inês Caldeira, Xylaki, Mary, Outeiro, Tiago Fleming

“…Alpha-synuclein (aSyn) was identified as the main component of inclusions that define synucleinopathies more than 20 years ago. Since then, aSyn has been…”
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Neurosteroids: endogenous role in the human brain and therapeutic potentials by Reddy, Doodipala Samba

“…This chapter provides an overview of neurosteroids, especially their impact on the brain, sex differences and their therapeutic potentials. Neurosteroids are…”
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What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory? by Cowan, Nelson

“…In the recent literature there has been considerable confusion about the three types of memory: long-term, short-term, and working memory. This chapter strives…”
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Cerebellar and prefrontal cortex contributions to adaptation, strategies, and reinforcement learning by Taylor, Jordan A, Ivry, Richard B

“…Traditionally, motor learning has been studied as an implicit learning process, one in which movement errors are used to improve performance in a continuous,…”
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The biological impact of listening to music in clinical and nonclinical settings: A systematic review by Finn, Saoirse, Fancourt, Daisy

“…This systematic review explored the evidence base on the impact of listening to music on biological response in both clinical and nonclinical settings. Human…”
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Advances in user-training for mental-imagery-based BCI control: Psychological and cognitive factors and their neural correlates by Jeunet, C, N'Kaoua, B, Lotte, F

“…While being very promising for a wide range of applications, mental-imagery-based brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) remain barely used outside laboratories,…”
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Quantifying motivation with effort-based decision-making paradigms in health and disease by Chong, T T-J, Bonnelle, V, Husain, M

“…Motivation can be characterized as a series of cost-benefit valuations, in which we weigh the amount of effort we are willing to expend (the cost of an action)…”
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How motivation and reward learning modulate selective attention by Bourgeois, A, Chelazzi, L, Vuilleumier, P

“…Motivational stimuli such as rewards elicit adaptive responses and influence various cognitive functions. Notably, increasing evidence suggests that stimuli…”
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Cholinergic systems, attentional-motor integration, and cognitive control in Parkinson's disease by Albin, Roger L, van der Zee, Sygrid, van Laar, Teus, Sarter, Martin, Lustig, Cindy, Muller, Martijn L T M, Bohnen, Nicolaas I

“…Dysfunction and degeneration of CNS cholinergic systems is a significant component of multi-system pathology in Parkinson's disease (PD). We review the basic…”
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A passive brain-computer interface application for the mental workload assessment on professional air traffic controllers during realistic air traffic control tasks by Aricò, P, Borghini, G, Di Flumeri, G, Colosimo, A, Pozzi, S, Babiloni, F

“…In the last decades, it has been a fast-growing concept in the neuroscience field. The passive brain-computer interface (p-BCI) systems allow to improve the…”
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Targeting plasticity with vagus nerve stimulation to treat neurological disease by Hays, Seth A, Rennaker, Robert L, Kilgard, Michael P

“…Pathological neural activity in a variety of neurological disorders could be treated by directing plasticity to specifically renormalize aberrant neural…”
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Neurovascular coupling and energy metabolism in the developing brain by Kozberg, M, Hillman, E

“…In the adult brain, increases in local neural activity are almost always accompanied by increases in local blood flow. However, many functional imaging studies…”
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