Mental Processes

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The human mind: building bridges between neuroscience and psychiatry.

This essay proposes the existence of four unique behavioral characteristics that distinguish Homo sapiens from its nearest evolutionary kin, the great apes. These are inventiveness, capacity for language, curiosity, and self-reflection or self-analysis. ...
Felix Strumwasser (Psychiatry, 2003SPRING)
human-mind-building-bridges-neuroscience-psychiatry.asp

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On building a clinical cognitive neuroscience.

No one can or has doubted that the brain "lights up" in the context of normal and abnormal experience and behavior. The anatomy of the brain ensures that its regions, circuits, distributed pathways, and cell assemblies have to provide the "electricity" ...
Horacio Fabrega (Psychiatry, 2003SPRING)
building-clinical-cognitive-neuroscience.asp

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Syntactic priming of relative clause attachments: persistence of structural configuration in sentence production.

Three sentence completion experiments will be reported in which participants had to generate German equivalents of "the servant of the actress who..." (NP-of-NP-RC) constructions. Target fragments (which were unconstrained as to whether the relative ...
Christoph Scheepers (Cognition, 200310)
syntactic-priming-relative-clause-attachments-persistence-structural.asp

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Arguments for adjuncts.

It is commonly assumed across the language sciences that some semantic participant information is lexically encoded in the representation of verbs and some is not. In this paper, we propose that semantic obligatoriness and verb class specificity are ...
Jean Pierre Koenig, Gail Mauner, Breton Bienvenue (Cognition, 200309)
arguments-adjuncts.asp

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CSF galanin and cognition after shunt surgery in normal pressure hydrocephalus.

BACKGROUND: "Normal" pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is associated with injury to neurotransmitter and neuropeptide systems that recovers after surgery. This could be linked to changes in galanin, a neuropeptide with inhibitory effects on basal forebrain ...
M Mataró, M A Poca, M Del Mar Matarín, R Catalan, J Sahuquillo, R Galard (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200309)
csf-galanin-cognition-after-shunt-surgery-normal-pressure.asp

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Intracerebral somatosensory event-related potentials: effect of response type (button pressing versus mental counting) on P3-like potentials within the human brain.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the contribution of different anatomical brain sites to the genesis of P3 phenomena with respect to button pressing versus mental counting tasks. METHODS: Eight intractable epileptic patients undergoing depth electrode recordings ...
Milan Brázdil, Robert Roman, Pavel Daniel, Ivan Rektor (Clin Neurophysiol, 200308)
intracerebral-somatosensory-event-related-potentials-effect-response.asp

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Processing correlates of lexical semantic complexity.

This paper explores how verb meanings that differ in semantic complexity are processed and represented. In particular, we compare eventive verbs, which denote causally structured events, with stative verbs, which denote facts without causal structure. We ...
Silvia Gennari, David Poeppel (Cognition, 200308)
processing-correlates-lexical-semantic-complexity.asp

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Alcohol and error processing.

A recent study indicates that alcohol consumption reduces the amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN), a negative deflection in the electroencephalogram associated with error commission. Here, we explore possible mechanisms underlying this result ...
Clay B Holroyd, Nick Yeung (Trends Neurosci, 200308)
alcohol-error-processing.asp

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Hemispheric asymmetries in cerebral cortical networks.

Since the middle of the 19th century it has been recognized that several higher cognitive functions, including language, are lateralized in cerebral cortex. Neuropsychological studies on patients with brain lesions and rapid developments in brain imaging ...
Jeffrey Hutsler, Ralf A W Galuske (Trends Neurosci, 200308)
hemispheric-asymmetries-cerebral-cortical-networks.asp

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Attention enhances feature integration.

Perceptual processing delays between attribute dimensions (e.g. color, form and motion) [Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 264 (1997) 1407] have been attributed to temporal processing asynchronies resulting from functional segregation ...
Liza Paul, Philippe G Schyns (Vision Res, 200308)
attention-enhances-feature-integration.asp