The effects of musical instrument training on fluid intelligence and executive functions in healthy older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Brain Cogn. 2024 Feb 9;175:106137. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106137. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIntervention studiescombiningcognitive and motor demands have reported far-transfer cognitive benefits in healthy ageing. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effects of music and rhythm intervention on cognition in older adulthood. Inclusion criteria specified: 1) musical instrument training; 2) healthy, musically-naïve adults (≥60 years); 3) control group; 4) measure of executive function. Ovid, PubMed, Scopus and the Cochrane Library online databases were searched in August 2023. Data from thirteen stu...
Source: Brain and Cognition - February 10, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Fionnuala Rogers Claudia Metzler-Baddeley Source Type: research
The effects of musical instrument training on fluid intelligence and executive functions in healthy older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Brain Cogn. 2024 Feb 9;175:106137. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106137. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIntervention studiescombiningcognitive and motor demands have reported far-transfer cognitive benefits in healthy ageing. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effects of music and rhythm intervention on cognition in older adulthood. Inclusion criteria specified: 1) musical instrument training; 2) healthy, musically-naïve adults (≥60 years); 3) control group; 4) measure of executive function. Ovid, PubMed, Scopus and the Cochrane Library online databases were searched in August 2023. Data from thirteen stu...
Source: Brain and Cognition - February 10, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Fionnuala Rogers Claudia Metzler-Baddeley Source Type: research
Is it really on your hand? Spontaneous sensations are not peripheral sensations - Evidence from able-bodied individuals and a phantom limb syndrome patient
Brain Cogn. 2024 Feb 8;175:106138. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106138. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAmong other bodily signals, the perception of sensations arising spontaneously on the skin with no external triggers contributes to body awareness. The topic of spontaneous sensations (SPS) being quite recent in the literature, there is still a debate whether this phenomenon is elicited by peripheral cutaneous units' activity underlying tactile perception or originates directly from central mechanisms. In a first experiment, we figured that, if SPS depended on peripheral afferents, their perception on the glabrous hand should...
Source: Brain and Cognition - February 9, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Sara Salgues Ga ën Plancher George A Michael Source Type: research
Morning compared to afternoon school-based exercise on cognitive function in adolescents
CONCLUSION: HIIE may be more effectual in improving cognitive functioning when delivered in the morning.PMID:38306762 | DOI:10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106135 (Source: Brain and Cognition)
Source: Brain and Cognition - February 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: E Ingham-Hill A Hewitt A Lester B Bond Source Type: research
Electrophysiological correlates of cognitive control and performance monitoring in risk propensity: An event-related potential study
This study investigated the relationship between risk propensity and cognitive control processes using an event-related potentials (ERP) approach. The study employed a Cued Go/Nogo paradigm to elicit ERP components related to cognitive control processes, including contingent negative variation (CNV), P300, error-related negativity (ERN), and error positivity (Pe). Healthy participants were categorized into high-risk and low-risk groups based on their performance in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). The results revealed risk-taking behavior influenced CNV amplitudes, indicating heightened response preparation and inhib...
Source: Brain and Cognition - February 1, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Mohammad Ali Nazari Sedigheh Naghel Sevda Abbasi Ayda Khayyat Naghadehi Behzad Nikzad Saied Sabaghypour Farhad Farkhondeh Tale Navi Source Type: research
Dynamic vagal-mediated connectivity of cortical and subcortical central autonomic hubs predicts chronotropic response to submaximal exercise in healthy adults
CONCLUSION: Extensive glutamatergic innervation of the hypothalamus by the vmPFC allows for top-down control of the hypothalamus and its various autonomic efferents which facilitate chronotropic response during sub-maximal exercise.PMID:38266398 | DOI:10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106134 (Source: Brain and Cognition)
Source: Brain and Cognition - January 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Maria Di Bello Catie Chang Roger McIntosh Source Type: research
Differences in brain activation during working memory tasks between badminton athletes and non-athletes: An fNIRS study
CONCLUSIONS: Long-term professional training in badminton primarily activates the left frontal-parietal attention network (left FPA), right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (right DLPFC), and left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (left VLPFC) during working memory tasks.PMID:38241821 | DOI:10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106133 (Source: Brain and Cognition)
Source: Brain and Cognition - January 19, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yun-Ting Song Ming-Qiang Xiang Pin Zhong Source Type: research
Transcranial direct current stimulation over the left posterior temporal lobe modulates semantic control: Evidence from episodic memory distortions
Brain Cogn. 2024 Jan 13;175:106130. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106130. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEvidence accumulates to show that semantic cognition requires, in addition to semantic representations, control processes that regulate the accessibility and use of semantic knowledge in a task- and time-appropriate fashion. Semantic control has been recently proposed to rely on a distributed network that includes the posterior temporal cortex. Along these lines, recent meta-analyses of neuroimaging data and studies with patients suffering from semantic aphasia have suggested that the left posterior middle temporal gyrus (pM...
Source: Brain and Cognition - January 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Maria A Alonso Emiliano D íez Antonio M D íez-Álamo Angel Fernandez Carlos J G ómez-Ariza Source Type: research
EEG-based neurophysiological indices for expert psychomotor performance - a review
Brain Cogn. 2024 Jan 13;175:106132. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106132. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA primary objective of current human neuropsychological performance research is to define the physiological correlates of adaptive knowledge utilization, in order to support the enhanced execution of both simple and complex tasks. Within the present article, electroencephalography-based neurophysiological indices characterizing expert psychomotor performance, will be explored. As a means of characterizing fundamental processes underlying efficient psychometric performance, the neural efficiency model will be evaluated in ter...
Source: Brain and Cognition - January 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Jazmin M Morrone Charles R Pedlar Source Type: research
Perception of visual variance is mediated by subcortical mechanisms
Brain Cogn. 2024 Jan 13;175:106131. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106131. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTVariance characterizes the structure of the environment. This statistical concept plays a critical role in evaluating the reliability of evidence for human decision-making. The present study examined the involvement of subcortical structures in the processing of visual variance. To this end, we used a stereoscope to sequentially present two circle arrays in a dichoptic or monocular fashion while participants compared the perceived variance of the two arrays. In Experiment 1, two arrays were presented monocularly to the same ...
Source: Brain and Cognition - January 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Ting Zeng Yuqing Zhao Bihua Cao Jianrong Jia Source Type: research
Effort-based decision making and motivational deficits in stroke patients
Brain Cogn. 2024 Jan 5;175:106123. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106123. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMotivational deficits in patients recovering from stroke are common and can reduce active participation in rehabilitation and thereby impede functional recovery. We investigated whether stroke patients with clinically reduced drive, initiation, and endurance during functional rehabilitative training (n = 30) display systematic alterations in effort-based decision making compared to age, sex, and severity-matched stroke patients (n = 30) whose drive appeared unaffected. Notably, the two groups did not differ in self-reported r...
Source: Brain and Cognition - January 6, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Mani Erfanian Abdoust Stefan Knecht Masud Husain Campbell Le Heron Gerhard Jocham Bettina Studer Source Type: research
Effort-based decision making and motivational deficits in stroke patients
Brain Cogn. 2024 Jan 5;175:106123. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106123. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMotivational deficits in patients recovering from stroke are common and can reduce active participation in rehabilitation and thereby impede functional recovery. We investigated whether stroke patients with clinically reduced drive, initiation, and endurance during functional rehabilitative training (n = 30) display systematic alterations in effort-based decision making compared to age, sex, and severity-matched stroke patients (n = 30) whose drive appeared unaffected. Notably, the two groups did not differ in self-reported r...
Source: Brain and Cognition - January 6, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Mani Erfanian Abdoust Stefan Knecht Masud Husain Campbell Le Heron Gerhard Jocham Bettina Studer Source Type: research
Effort-based decision making and motivational deficits in stroke patients
Brain Cogn. 2024 Jan 5;175:106123. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106123. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMotivational deficits in patients recovering from stroke are common and can reduce active participation in rehabilitation and thereby impede functional recovery. We investigated whether stroke patients with clinically reduced drive, initiation, and endurance during functional rehabilitative training (n = 30) display systematic alterations in effort-based decision making compared to age, sex, and severity-matched stroke patients (n = 30) whose drive appeared unaffected. Notably, the two groups did not differ in self-reported r...
Source: Brain and Cognition - January 6, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Mani Erfanian Abdoust Stefan Knecht Masud Husain Campbell Le Heron Gerhard Jocham Bettina Studer Source Type: research
Music training affects listeners' processing of different types of accentuation information: Evidence from ERPs
In this study, a vocabulary detection task was conducted, with Chinese single sentences as materials, to investigate how musicians and non-musicians process corrective accent and information accent in the sentence-middle and sentence-final positions. In the sentence-middle position, results of the cluster-based permutation t-tests showed significant differences in the 574-714 ms time window for the control group. In the sentence-final position, the cluster-based permutation t-tests revealed significant differences in the 612-810 ms time window for the music group and in the 616-812 ms time window for the control group. The...
Source: Brain and Cognition - December 24, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Mei Han Yu-Fu Chien Zhenghua Zhang Zhen Wei Weijun Li Source Type: research
A spontaneous dissociative episode during an EEG experiment
Brain Cogn. 2023 Dec 23;174:106121. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106121. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA depersonalization episode occurred unexpectedly during an electroencephalogram (EEG) recording for a study. Experience reports tracked the time course of this event and, in conjunction, with EEG data, were analyzed. The source activity across canonical frequency bands was analyzed across four periods ended by retrospective experience reports (depersonalization was reported in the 2nd period). Delta and theta decreases occurred across all time periods with no relation to reported events. Theta and alpha increases occurred i...
Source: Brain and Cognition - December 24, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Graham Jamieson Etzel Carde ña Vilfredo de Pascalis Source Type: research
