Researchers pinpoint brain areas affected by antismoking messages

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Price
Keyword(s):  
Brain Areas

The involvement of parietal and frontal brain areas in the inference of self-agency

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeltje E. M. van Haren ◽  
Robert A. Renes ◽  
Henk Aarts ◽  
Matthijs Vink
Keyword(s):  
Brain Areas ◽  
Frontal Brain

Structural brain changes in tinnitus: grey matter decrease in auditory and non-auditory brain areas

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Landgrebe ◽  
K Rosengarth ◽  
A Koch ◽  
T Kleinjung ◽  
A May ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Grey Matter ◽  
Brain Areas ◽  
Brain Changes ◽  
Structural Brain

Functional connectivity reveals altered activation of distinct brain areas in pruritus of cholestasis

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (01) ◽  
pp. E2-E89
Author(s):  
A Kremer ◽  
T Buchwald ◽  
M Vetter ◽  
A Dörfler ◽  
C Forster
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Brain Areas

The expressivity dimension of speech is the basis of the expression dimension. Evidence from behavioural and neuroimaging studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Hesling
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Word List ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Brain Areas ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Neuroimaging Data ◽  
List Processing ◽  
The Right

The modalities of communication are the sum of the expression dimension (linguistics) and the expressivity dimension (prosody), both being equally important in language communication. The expressivity dimension which comes first in the act of speech, is the basis on which phonemes, syllables, words, grammar and morphosyntax, i.e., the expression dimension of speech is superimposed. We will review evidence (1) revealing the importance of prosody in language acquisition and (2) showing that prosody triggers the involvement of specific brain areas dedicated to sentences and word-list processing. To support the first point, we will not only rely on experimental psychology studies conducted in newborns and young children but also on neuroimaging studies that have helped to validate these behavioral experiments. Then, neuroimaging data on adults will allow for concluding that the expressivity dimension of speech modulates both the right hemisphere prosodic areas and the left hemisphere network in charge of the expression dimension

Engaging regularly with fiction influences connectivity in cortical areas for language and mentalizing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roel M. Willems ◽  
Franziska Hartung
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Brain Areas ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Cortical Areas ◽  
Social Abilities ◽  
Behavioral Evidence ◽  
Amount Of Reading

Behavioral evidence suggests that engaging with fiction is positively correlated with social abilities. The rationale behind this link is that engaging with fictional narratives offers a ‘training modus’ for mentalizing and empathizing. We investigated the influence of the amount of reading that participants report doing in their daily lives, on connections between brain areas while they listened to literary narratives. Participants (N=57) listened to two literary narratives while brain activation was measured with fMRI. We computed time-course correlations between brain regions, and compared the correlation values from listening to narratives to listening to reversed speech. The between-region correlations were then related to the amount of fiction that participants read in their daily lives. Our results show that amount of fiction reading is related to functional connectivity in areas known to be involved in language and mentalizing. This suggests that reading fiction influences social cognition as well as language skills.

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