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2010
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Approaching the Bad and Avoiding the Good: Lateral Prefrontal Cortical Asymmetry Distinguishes between Action and Valence
■ Goal pursuit in humans sometimes involves approaching unpleasant and avoiding pleasant stimuli, such as when a dieter chooses to eat vegetables (although he does not like them...
Elliot T. Berkman, Matthew D. Lieberman
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2010
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Coercion and Compositionality
■ Research in psycholinguistics and in the cognitive neuroscience of language has suggested that semantic and syntactic integration are associated with different neurophysiologi...
Giosuè Baggio, Travis Choma, Michiel van La...
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2010
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Perception of Face Parts and Face Configurations: An fMRI Study
■ fMRI studies have reported three regions in human ventral visual cortex that respond selectively to faces: the occipital face area (OFA), the fusiform face area (FFA), and a f...
Jia Liu, Alison Harris, Nancy Kanwisher
JOCN
2010
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Action Preparation Helps and Hinders Perception of Action
■ Several theories of the mechanisms linking perception and action require that the links are bidirectional, but there is a lack of consensus on the effects that action has on p...
Clare Press, Elena Gherri, Cecilia Heyes, Martin E...
JOCN
2010
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Spatial Attention Evokes Similar Activation Patterns for Visual and Auditory Stimuli
■ Neuroimaging studies suggest that a fronto-parietal network is activated when we expect visual information to appear at a specific spatial location. Here we examined whether a...
David V. Smith, Ben Davis, Kathy Niu, Eric W. Heal...
JOCN
2010
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Neural Systems Underlying Decisions about Affective Odors
■ Decision-making about affective value may occur after the reward value of a stimulus is represented and may involve different brain areas to those involved in decision-making ...
Edmund T. Rolls, Fabian Grabenhorst, Benjamin A. P...
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2010
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Imaging Implicit Morphological Processing: Evidence from Hebrew
■ Is morphology a discrete and independent element of lexical structure or does it simply reflect a fine-tuning of the system to the statistical correlation that exists among or...
Atira S. Bick, Ram Frost, Gadi Goelman
JOCN
2010
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Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes: An fMRI Investigation
Reginald B. Adams Jr., Nicholas O. Rule, Robert G....
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2010
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Evidence for Early Morphological Decomposition in Visual Word Recognition
■ We employ a single-trial correlational MEG analysis technique to investigate early processing in the visual recognition of morphologically complex words. Three classes of affi...
Olla Solomyak, Alec Marantz
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2010
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Mechanisms and Dynamics of Cortical Motor Inhibition in the Stop-signal Paradigm: A TMS Study
■ The ability to stop ongoing motor responses in a splitsecond is a vital element of human cognitive control and flexibility that relies in large part on prefrontal cortex. We u...
Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg, Borís Burle,...