• This thesis focuses on the study of the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in emotional expressions discrimination through fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) combined with electroencephalographic recording (EEG). (univ-lorraine.fr)
  • Anodal transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to be an effective non-invasive brain stimulation method for improving cognitive and motor functioning in patients with neurological deficits. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Ana is certified in Clinical Trials by Harvard Medical School, certified in Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation by the City College of New York and certified in clinical applications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. (cienciavitae.pt)
  • In human psychophysics, decision making in a binary orientation discrimination task requires a neural decoding operation ( Gold and Ding, 2013 ) to select which of two alternative presented stimuli is the target. (frontiersin.org)
  • She was a lecturer (2000-2002) and reader (2002-2003) in the School of Psychology at the University of Liverpool before she joined the University of Surrey as a chair in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2003. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • This field of study integrates neuroscience with the psychology of mood, personality, and emotions. (edumagnate.com)
  • Participants made speeded spatial discrimination responses to an unpredictable sequence of painful laser heat and visual stimuli presented on the left forearm. (ox.ac.uk)
  • By considering the high impact of impaired somatosensory integration on many neurological disturbances in children, we aimed to verify whether mismatch-related responses to somatosensory stimulation could be obtained in healthy children. (unicatt.it)
  • Learned helplessness derives from a history, experimentally induced or naturally occurring, of having received punishment/aversive stimulation regardless of responses made. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here we developed a discrimination learning paradigm that assesses the ability to categorize threat from safety cues to test these hypotheses on age differences in neurodevelopment. (duke.edu)
  • First, when labeling threats online, adolescents reported less discrimination between threat and safety cues than adults. (duke.edu)
  • Performance measures comprised time-on-target and target-deviation, and were calculated for the periods of stimulation (or sham) and during the afterphase respectively. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Poststimulus EBA stimulation impaired people detection relative to prestimulus EBA stimulation, while timing had no effect during sham stimulation. (jneurosci.org)
  • one of four cells of the "gonda" pattern has proved sufficient for demonstrative purposes, and every much weaker one will serve for showing the flash from electrical stimulation. (yorku.ca)
  • The interaction of sinusoidal oscillation and sinusoidal electrical stimulation on the sensation of movement. (umass.edu)
  • Event-related potentials (ERPs) obtained when focused attention is kept away from the stimulus (unnoticed stimulation) are possibly linked to automatic mismatch-detection mechanisms, and could be a useful tool to investigate sensory discrimination ability. (unicatt.it)
  • Once acquired, the discriminations were specific to walking and stimulus format but generalized across actors. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Flowers, J.H., & Garner, W.R. The effect of stimulus element redundancy on speed of discrimination as a function of state and process limitation. (pstnet.com)
  • Recent studies show an age-dependent impairment in orientation discrimination of stimuli embedded in external noise, suggesting that encoding of orientation is inefficient in older adults. (frontiersin.org)
  • The Colavita effect occurs when participants performing a speeded detection/discrimination task preferentially report the visual component of pairs of audiovisual or visuotactile stimuli. (ox.ac.uk)
  • These findings suggest that maturational differences in subcortical and prefrontal regions between adolescent and adult brains may relate to age-related differences in threat/safety discrimination. (duke.edu)
  • The stimulation conditions were counterbalanced across participants and the sessions were one week apart. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Next, in experiment 2, we used this paradigm to compare the behavioral and neural correlates of threat/safety discrimination learning in adolescents and adults using functional MRI. (duke.edu)
  • In experiment 1, we first demonstrated the capacity of this paradigm to generate threat/safety discrimination learning in both adolescents and adults. (duke.edu)
  • Location- and color-based IOR in detection and discrimination task. (pstnet.com)
  • Location based IOR: A different time course for detection and discrimination task. (pstnet.com)
  • Four groups of healthy volunteers were tested with a Gabor patch detection and discrimination task. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Evaluating the use of a simple visual discrimination tool as an early predictor of mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease. (ufl.edu)
  • In our discrimination task, the effect appeared later and disappeared sooner. (pstnet.com)
  • Inhibición de retorno en una tarea de discriminación de color: No interacción con el efecto Simon [Inhibition of return in a color discrimination task: No interaction with the Simon effect]. (pstnet.com)
  • Inhibition of return in a discrimination task. (pstnet.com)
  • These studies typically used a delayed match to sample discrimination task, with stimulation applied in the interval or at test. (jneurosci.org)
  • Stimulation at 6 Hz and 10 Hz over the occipito-parietal area impaired performance in the detection task compared to the baseline. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Given that the task that is typically used in these experiments is some variant of syllable discrimination, which has long been known to double dissociate from word recognition, I strongly suspect that the answer is, no relevance. (talkingbrains.org)
  • The rewarding effects of cannabinoids have been revealed by using several paradigms: place conditioning, intracranial self-stimulation, and self-administration. (nih.gov)
  • Cannabinoids have been reported to lower intracranial self-stimulation thresholds in rats. (nih.gov)
  • In brief, Holman reported that rats would bar press for IG nutrient infusions only if the infusions were associated with orosensory stimulation. (ssib.org)
  • The study's purpose is to determine the efficacy of the Tomatis Method of auditory stimulation as a therapeutic intervention for Auditory Processing Disorders (APD). (listeningcentre.com)
  • Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a promising tool for modulating brain oscillations, as well as a possible therapeutic intervention. (gla.ac.uk)
  • It is one of several new and on-going studies led by researchers in the department of clinical and health psychology that aims to enhance cognition and prevent dementia in older adults. (ufl.edu)
  • The term "affect" can be taken to indicate an instinctual reaction to stimulation occurring before the typical cognitive processes considered necessary for the formation of a more complex emotion. (wikidoc.org)
  • In this view, an affective reaction, such as liking, disliking, evaluation, or the experience of pleasure or displeasure , is based on a prior cognitive process in which a variety of content discriminations are made and features are identified, examined for their value, and weighted for their contributions (Brewin, 1989). (wikidoc.org)
  • In a series of eight experiments, we evaluated the differences between detection and discrimination tasks with regard to IOR. (pstnet.com)
  • In three experiments, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate the role of the extrastriate body area (EBA) in the detection of people in scenes. (jneurosci.org)
  • Tactile/kinesthetic stimulation effects on preterm neonates. (wikipedia.org)
  • The doctoral dissertation study documents the effects of Phase I of the Tomatis Listening Method of sound stimulation on children with ADD ages 7-13. (listeningcentre.com)
  • Data showed that past rewards potentiate the effects of spatial memories upon the discrimination of target objects embedded within complex scenes starting from early perceptual stages. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Subjective drug effects of cannabinoids have been reported by drug discrimination studies, which show cross discrimination among different natural and synthetic agonists. (nih.gov)
  • a) Greenwald, A.G. A double stimulation test of ideomotor theory with implications for selective attention. (pstnet.com)
  • We trained 3 macaques in the discrimination of facing direction (left versus right) and forward versus backward walking using motion-capture-based locomotion displays (treadmill walking) in which the body features were represented by cylinder-like primitives. (ox.ac.uk)
  • STEP: Does IOR Occur in Discrimination Tasks? (pstnet.com)
  • At the same time, the robustness of IOR has been recently disputed, given several failures to obtain the effect in tasks requiring discrimination rather than detection. (pstnet.com)
  • We found that IOR was consistently obtained with both tasks, although the temporal parameters required to observe IOR were different in detection and discrimination tasks. (pstnet.com)
  • Reflexive and voluntary orienting in detection and discrimination tasks. (pstnet.com)
  • Inhibition of return with detection and discrimination tasks: Differences in time course. (pstnet.com)
  • At the research level, neuroethics aims to proactively deal with challenges in the development and application of advanced technologies such as functional neuroimaging and deep brain stimulation. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 2011 she was awarded with a Ph.D. scholarship in Basic Psychology to conduct her studies on the neuropsychophysiological correlates of anxiety at the Neuropsychophygiology Lab of the School of Psychology of the University of Minho, advised by Professor Óscar Filipe Gonçalves. (cienciavitae.pt)
  • Between 2016-2019, Ana conducted her postdoctoral activities as the PI of the I&D project PTDC/MHC-PAP/5618/2014 studying the neuronal correlates of mood and anxiety and the clinical applicability of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS). (cienciavitae.pt)
  • Third, adults' but not adolescents' engagement of late-maturing prefrontal cortex regions correlated positively with fear ratings during threat/safety discrimination learning. (duke.edu)
  • In these studies, the MMN was usually elicited by employing occasional frequency, duration or speech-sound changes in repetitive background stimulation while the patient was reading or watching videos. (nih.gov)
  • These findings suggest that the Tomatis Method of auditory stimulation can be effective as an intervention strategy for APD. (listeningcentre.com)
  • Back to Coimbra in 2013, she continued her Ph.D. studies co-advised by Professor Jorge Almeida at the Proaction Lab (Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention [CINEICC] at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCE-UC). (cienciavitae.pt)
  • The intervention is relatively low cost and low risk and if it is effective, then there is a possibility that it could be adapted for home use by individuals in the future," said Dawn Bowers, Ph.D., a UF professor of clinical and health psychology and another of the study's principal investigators. (ufl.edu)
  • She was head of Psychology from 2008-2011, served as associate dean international from 2009-2011, and headed the Section for Brain Sciences from 2017-19. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Since 2018, Ana is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Annual Conference in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry and she is currently a Board Member of the European Society for Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry (ESBSP). (cienciavitae.pt)
  • Is transcranial alternating current stimulation effective in modulating brain oscillations? (gla.ac.uk)
  • Brignani, D. , Ruzzoli, M. and Miniussi, C. (2013) Is transcranial alternating current stimulation effective in modulating brain oscillations? (gla.ac.uk)
  • Brain Stimulation, 8 (2). (lincoln.ac.uk)
  • The third project deals with trial initiation of deep brain stimulation in psychiatry. (bvsalud.org)
  • We're trying to enhance function in some key areas of the brain that we think are important for aging and Alzheimer's risk - brain areas like the temporal and frontal lobes, which are important for aspects of memory and complex executive functions, like problem-solving skills," said Gene Alexander, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Arizona's departments of psychology and psychiatry and a study principal investigator. (ufl.edu)
  • They discussed the role of psychology in addressing aging and demonstrated how federal investment supports innovative UF research projects focused on aging and the brain. (ufl.edu)