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Brain Sciences, Volume 14, Issue 4

April 2024 - 111 articles

Cover Story: Knowledge of the cognitive and motor contributions during learning phases can be helpful in developing effective and targeted interventions for healthy aging. Eighty-six healthy older participants underwent an extensive cognitive, motoric, and musical test battery. Within one session, one piano-related and one music-independent movement sequence were both learned. We tested the associations between skill performance and cognito-motor abilities with Bayesian mixed models accounting for individual learning rates. Results showed that performance was positively associated with all cognito-motor abilities. Learning a piano-related task was characterized by relatively strong initial associations between performance and abilities. These associations then weakened considerably before increasing exponentially from the second trial onwards, approaching a plateau. View this paper
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Articles (111)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,024 Views
21 Pages

A screening questionnaire for autism symptoms is not yet available in Poland, and there are no recommendations regarding screening for developmental disorders in Polish primary healthcare. The aim of this study was to assess the opinions of parents a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,592 Views
14 Pages

Pragmatic Communication Deficit and Functional Outcome in Patients with Right- and Left-Brain Damage: A Pilot Study

  • Simona Spaccavento,
  • Sofia Caliendo,
  • Roberta Galetta,
  • Emilia Picciola,
  • Ernesto Losavio and
  • Robert Glueckauf

Pragmatic communication abilities refer to the capacity to use language in a social context. Despite evidence to the contrary, the left cerebral hemisphere of the majority of right handers has been considered exclusively specialized for control of la...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,076 Views
24 Pages

An Overview of the Bodily Awareness Representation and Interoception: Insights and Progress in the Field of Neurorehabilitation Research

  • Chiara Parma,
  • Federica Doria,
  • Aida Zulueta,
  • Jacopo Lanzone,
  • Marilisa Boscarino,
  • Luca Giani,
  • Christian Lunetta,
  • Marta Vassallo,
  • Eugenio Agostino Parati and
  • Mario Picozzi
  • + 1 author

In the last two decades, the scientific literature on so-called body representations has been increasing, and the notion of body awareness (BA) is particularly interesting for neurorehabilitation. In this article, we present results derived from rece...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,885 Views
10 Pages

Recent studies highlight how body psychotherapy is becoming highly cited, especially in connection with studies on trauma-related disorders. This review highlights the theoretical assumptions and recent points in common with embodied simulation and n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,131 Views
11 Pages

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the chronic and neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). It generally affects motor, sensory, cerebellar, cognitive, and language functions. It is thought that identifying MS speech disorders u...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,050 Views
18 Pages

AI and Aphasia in the Digital Age: A Critical Review

  • Adam John Privitera,
  • Siew Hiang Sally Ng,
  • Anthony Pak-Hin Kong and
  • Brendan Stuart Weekes

Aphasiology has a long and rich tradition of contributing to understanding how culture, language, and social environment contribute to brain development and function. Recent breakthroughs in AI can transform the role of aphasiology in the digital age...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,008 Views
26 Pages

This paper presents a novel approach to improving the detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) through the use of super-resolved structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and optimized deep learning models. The study introduces enhancements to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,746 Views
12 Pages

To determine the critical timing for learning and the associated synaptic plasticity, we analyzed developmental changes in learning together with training-induced plasticity. Rats were subjected to an inhibitory avoidance (IA) task prior to weaning....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,347 Views
14 Pages

The analgesic efficacy of acupuncture has been widely recognized. However, the mechanism by which manual acupuncture-generated mechanical stimuli translate into biological signals remains unclear. This study employed a CFA-induced inflammatory pain r...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,712 Views
26 Pages

Prevalence and Correlates of the Concurrence of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Claudia Aymerich,
  • Malein Pacho,
  • Ana Catalan,
  • Noorulain Yousaf,
  • Violeta Pérez-Rodríguez,
  • Matthew J. Hollocks,
  • Mara Parellada,
  • Georgina Krebs,
  • Bruce Clark and
  • Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo

Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are two common and impairing neurodevelopmental conditions with partial symptomatic overlap. The aim of this study is to systematically and meta-analytically examine t...

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