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2011
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Neural Correlates of Sublexical Processing in Phonological Working Memory
Carolyn McGettigan, Jane E. Warren, Frank Eisner, ...
JOCN
2011
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Role for Presupplementary Motor Area in Inhibition of Cognitive Set Interference
■ Proactive interference (PI), which is formed through repetition of certain behavior and lasts for a while, needs to be inhibited in order for subsequent behavior to prevail ov...
Seiki Konishi, Takamitsu Watanabe, Koji Jimura, Ju...
JOCN
2011
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From Agents to Objects: Sexist Attitudes and Neural Responses to Sexualized Targets
■ Agency attribution is a hallmark of mind perception; thus, diminished attributions of agency may disrupt social–cognition processes typically elicited by human targets. The ...
Mina Cikara, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Susan T. Fiske
JOCN
2011
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Attentional Control in Anterior Cingulate Cortex Based on Probabilistic Cueing
■ In Stroop-like tasks, conflict effects in behavioral measures and ACC activity are smaller on trials following an incongruent trial than following a congruent one. Researchers...
Esther Aarts, Ardi Roelofs
JOCN
2011
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Early Stages of Figure-Ground Segregation during Perception of the Face-Vase
■ The temporal sequence of neural processes supporting figure– ground perception was investigated by recording ERPs associated withsubjectsʼ perceptions of the face–vase fi...
Michael A. Pitts, Antígona Martínez,...
JOCN
2011
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Cross-domain Effects of Music and Language Experience on the Representation of Pitch in the Human Auditory Brainstem
■ Neural encoding of pitch in the auditory brainstem is known to be shaped by long-term experience with language or music, implying that early sensory processing is subject to e...
Gavin M. Bidelman, Jackson T. Gandour, Ananthanara...
JOCN
2011
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Reasoning with Exceptions: An Event-related Brain Potentials Study
■ Defeasible inferences are inferences that can be revised in the light of new information. Although defeasible inferences are pervasive in everyday communication, little is kno...
Judith Pijnacker, Bart Geurts, Michiel van Lambalg...
JOCN
2011
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The Packet Switching Brain
■ The computer metaphor has served brain science well as a tool for comprehending neural systems. Nevertheless, we propose here that this metaphor be replaced or supplemented by...
Daniel J. Graham, Daniel N. Rockmore
JOCN
2011
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Dissociating Linguistic and Task-related Activity in the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus
■ The left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) has long been claimed to play a key role in language function. However, there is considerable controversy as to whether regions within L...
Paul Wright, Billi Randall, William D. Marslen-Wil...
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2011
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Changes in Cerebello-motor Connectivity during Procedural Learning by Actual Execution and Observation
■ The cerebellum is involved in motor learning of new procedures both during actual execution of a motor task and during observational training. These processes are thought to d...
Sara Torriero, Massimiliano Oliveri, Giacomo Koch,...