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  • Assessment of executive functions: Review of instruments and identification of critical issues

    • R CHAN
      Original article citation: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology doi:10.1016/j.acn.2007.08.010

    • Categories: Neuroscience
    • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 02/14/2008 06:44AM GMT
      
      A well-rounded review paper on current theories and their assessment approaches of executive functions, it also calls for an integration of social, cognitive, and neuroscience factors to promote the future exploration of executive functions.
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  • Improved application of independent component analysis to functional magnetic resonance imaging study via linear projection techniques

    • Zhiying Long, Kewei Chen, Xia Wu, Eric Reiman, Danling Peng, Li Yao
      Original article citation: Hum. Brain Mapp. doi:10.1002/hbm.20515

    • Categories: Neuroscience
    • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 02/14/2008 06:07AM GMT
      
      They proposed a new technique for fMRI data analysis, which is linear project approach, to outperform traditional spatial independent component analysis when its assumption is not met. The validity of the new approach has been demonstrated using both simulated and real data in this study.
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  • Broca's area plays a role in syntactic processing during Chinese reading comprehension

    • S WANG, Z ZHU, J ZHANG, Z WANG, Z XIAO, H XIANG, H CHEN
      Original article citation: Neuropsychologia doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.020

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    • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 02/13/2008 04:19PM GMT
      
      The open question in linguistic researches is, whether results derived from studies using alphabetic materials can apply to logographic Chinese. This study shows Broca's area was activated for syntactic violation during written Chinese semantic judgment task, which is in line with the studies using English, reaffirming the role of Broca's area in syntactic processing for different language systems.
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  • Self-construal priming modulates visual activity underlying global/local perception

    • Z LIN, Y LIN, S HAN
      Original article citation: Biological Psychology 77," 93 - 97, (2008).

    • Categories: Neuroscience
    • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 01/24/2008 04:41PM GMT
      
      Their findings provide electrophysiological evidence for the notion that cognitive processing style is modifiable by centain types of self-construal priming, at least in Chinese participants. Though eastern interdependent self is dominated in asian countries, two opposite experimental manipulations on the prior self priming showed opposite effects on neural responses for global and local objects judgments.
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  • Distinct neural mechanisms for repetition effects of visual objects

    • C GUO, A LAWSON, Y JIANG
      Original article citation: Neuroscience 149," 747 - 759, (2007).

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    • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 01/24/2008 04:29PM GMT
      
      When coming across a visual stimulus that has been seen before, people might sense familiarity; their study offered the neural basis for the repetition effect of visual objects, by showing two distinctive event-related potentials (ERP), separated both temporally, localizationally and qualitatively. The early and late coponents are affected differently by previous experience of intentional learning.
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  • Electrophysiological estimates of the time course of tonal and orthographic encoding in Chinese speech production

    • Q ZHANG, M DAMIAN, Y YANG
      Original article citation: Brain Research 1184," 234 - 244, (2007).

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    • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 01/24/2008 04:13PM GMT
      
      Armed with high temporal resolution from electroencephalogram (EEG), they investigated the time course of phonological and orthographic encoding; demonstrated that, in Chinese word production, specifically in the Go/noGo task, tonal encoding occurred earlier than orhographic encoding. This pattern of result questions the notion that orthographic access constitutes a mandatory comonent of phonological encoding in speech production.
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  • Orthographic and phonological processing in Chinese dyslexic children: An ERP study on sentence reading

    • X MENG, X TIAN, J JIAN, X ZHOU
      Original article citation: Brain Research 1179," 119 - 130, (2007).

    • Categories: Neuroscience
    • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 01/24/2008 03:26PM GMT
      
      Their study helps to reveal and further understand the neural underpinning for the deficits of dyslexic children in Chinese speech comprehension. It suggests that Chinese dyslexic children are deficient in both phonological and orthographic informantion processing to make semantic judgments, as shown in behavioral and electrophysiological data (ERP).
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  • Neural basis of cultural influence on self-representation

    • Y ZHU, L ZHANG, J FAN, S HAN
      Original article citation: NeuroImage 34," 1310 - 1316, (2007).

    • Categories: Neuroscience
    • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 11/27/2007 08:05PM GMT
      
      In this study, they employed brain imaging technique (fMRI) to illuminate an issue in social psychology realm, which combination is at the cutting edge of social neuroscience. The existence of culture-induced differentiation of Western independent self and Eastern interdependent self has been known for long, here the results prove that this distinction is not solely behaviorally based, but also has its neurological basis: medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), which in Western people is engaged only in self-representation, is engaged in representation of both self and mother in Chinese people. This study, on the other hand, also suggests that culture is able to modulate neural mechanisms,
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  • Bats respond to polarity of a magnetic field

    • Yinan Wang, Yongxin Pan, Stuart Parsons, Michael Walker, Shuyi Zhang
      Original article citation: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274," (2007).

    • Categories: Ecology & Evolution and Neuroscience
    • Recommended by : Jianlan Song on 11/06/2007 09:11AM GMT
      
      It offers some insights into the relationship between the type of magnetic sense and evolution. Not for this paper, we might believe that mammals and birds use the same type of magnetic sense, which is based on the inclination instead of polarity, to judge the relative direction of the poles and Equator.
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  • Prevention of neuropathic pain in an animal model of spare nerve injury following oral immunization with recombinant adenovirus serotype 5-mediated NR2B gene transfer

    • G-M Wang, X-B Tian, J-P Chen, S-B Yang, F Gao, H Yang, K An, Y-K Tian
      Original article citation: Gene Ther doi:10.1038/sj.gt.3303025 (2007)

    • Categories: Clinical Medicine, Genetics, Neuroscience, and Biotechnology
    • Recommended by : wei zeng on 11/01/2007 06:27AM GMT
      
      This paper investigated the effect of oral immunization with recombinant adenovirus serotype 5-mediated NR2B gene transfer (rAd5/NR2B) for the modulation of neuropathic pain.
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