The capacity to appreciate beauty is one of our species' most remarkable traits. Although knowledge about its neural correlates growing, little known any gender-related differences. We have explored possible differences between men and women's aesthetic preference. used magnetoencephalography record the brain activity 10 male female participants while they decided whether or not considered examples artistic natural visual stimuli be beautiful. Our results reveal significantly different sexes...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered a transitional stage between healthy aging and dementia, specifically Alzheimer's disease (AD). The most common of MCI includes episodic memory loss difficulties in working (WM). Interference can deplete WM, an optimal WM performance requires effective control attentional resources the memoranda incoming stimuli. Difficulties handling interference lead to forgetting. However, interplay not well understood needs further investigation. current...

New technologies can provide practical solutions that respond to the needs of elderly, improving their quality life and well-being. The aim this research was validate a multimodal approach based on video call system, by comparing scores different clinically validated tests at baseline end intervention.

Abstract Unpleasant emotional distraction can impair the retention of non-emotional information in working memory (WM). Research links prefrontal cortex with successful control such biologically relevant distractors, although temporal changes this brain mechanism remain unexplored. We use magnetoencephalography to investigate dynamics cognitive both unpleasant and pleasant distraction, millisecond (ms) scale. Behavioral results demonstrate that events do not affect WM maintenance more than...

The perception of meter, or the alternation strong and weak beats, was assessed in musically trained listeners through magnetoencephalography. Metrical accents were examined with no temporal disruption serial grouping tones. Results showed an effect metrical processing among identical standard tones left hemisphere, larger responses on than beats. Moreover, occasional increases intensity (phenomenal accents) varied as a function position but not right. Our findings support view relatively...

The active maintenance of information in visual working memory (WM) is known to rely on the sustained activity over functional networks including frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal cortices. Previous studies have described interference-based disturbances coupling between prefrontal posterior cortices, that such can be restored for a successful WM performance after presentation interfering stimulus. However, very few applied connectivity measures analysis brain dynamics involved...

Introduccion. Las dificultades de aprendizaje comprenden un grupo heterogeneo trastornos que implican alteraciones significativas en diferentes dominios cognitivos (adquisicion y uso del lenguaje, razonamiento, habilidades matematicas, visuoespaciales, etc.) no justificadas por bajo nivel intelectual, desarrollo sociocultural inadecuado o falta oportunidades academicas. Estas son el resultado una alteracion los procesos psicologicos basicos, evolutivamente ligados a sistema nervioso central....

Emotional stimuli automatically recruit attentional resources. Although this usually brings more adaptive responses, it may suppose a disadvantage when emotional information is task-irrelevant and should be ignored. Previous studies have shown how with negative content exert greater interference than neutral during concurrent working memory (WM) task. However, the impact of positively valenced as has not been addressed to date. In three experiments one re-analysis we explore pleasant...

Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) might represent the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease. Given interest to characterize it, present study explores (1) if there are differences in lexical retrieval (LexR) and sentence comprehension (SComp) between SCD matched controls, (2) predictive value demographic variables executive functions relation LexR SComp each group. A sample 135 participants voluntarily took part this (66 with SCD). They all completed Trail Making, Stroop, Boston Naming,...

Neuropsychological tests have commonly been used to determine the organization of cognitive functions by identifying latent variables. In contrast, an approach which has seldom employed is network analysis. We characterize structure a set representative neuropsychological test scores in cognitively healthy older adults and MCI dementia patients using battery from National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center included controls (n = 7623), mild impairment 5981) 2040), defined according Clinical...

Object-relative clauses are generally harder to process than subject-relative clauses. Increased processing costs for object-relatives have been attributed either working memory demands the establishment of long-distance dependencies or difficulties unexpected, noncanonical structures. The current study uses self-paced reading contrast impact both kinds factors in Spanish object-relative clauses, manipulating interposition subject relative clause between object and verb. In addition, were...

Ageing entails different functional brain changes. Education, reading experience, and leisure activities, among others, might contribute to the maintenance of cognitive performance older adults are conceptualised as proxies for reserve. However, ageing also conveys a depletion working memory capacity, which adversely impacts language comprehension. This study investigated how reserve jointly predict healthy in sentence comprehension task, their predictive value changes depending on structure...

Background music is a part of our everyday activities. Considerable evidence suggests that listening to while performing cognitive tasks may negatively influence performance. However, other studies have shown it can benefit memory when the played during encoding information also provided retrieval information, in so-called context dependent effect. Since controversial results be attributed nature material memorized, aim present study compare potential effect consistent background on...

Most of human cognitive activity involves, to a greater or lesser extent, the integration information from different modalities, process also referred as 'binding'. Although neural basis several forms binding has been extensively investigated, neurobiological mechanisms encoding phase words and their spatial location have not previously investigated. This is at core what Baddeley proposed in his revised model episodic buffer. In current experiment, authors used magnetoencephalography...

Interindividual variability in vocabulary, sentence comprehension and working memory is studied older people with mild cognitive impairment, very low impairment normal state, according to the Mini Examen Cognoscitivo (MEC). In study participated 71 seniors, aged between 62 90 years of age, instructional level (from one five regular education). Variability measures were calculated a test lexical knowledge, another memory, also comprehension. The results obtained using polynomial regression...

The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the semantic verbal fluency task has revealed that people with dementia produced fewer words smaller clustering than without dementia. However, in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), research shown conflicting results regarding amount number clusters are made. aim this study was to provide new data controversial issue.Twenty-two older adults diagnosed aMCI (8 men 14 women) 43 (7 36 normal functioning served as control group, participated...

Arabic writing differs greatly from western scripts. To evaluate the influence of written on pattern language-related brain activation, a group native Arab speakers and control Spanish were scanned with magnetoencephalography during reading task. In both groups, activity was strongly left lateralized time window between 200 500 ms after stimulus onset. During late latencies (beyond ms), however, right hemispheres reached similar activation level in but not group. This suggests time-dependent...

Most research points to the ɛ4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene as most recognizable genetic risk factor associated with Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. It has been also suggested that APOEɛ4 a negative influence on cognitive functioning, which begins long before impairment becomes manifest. However, still, little is known about interaction intervention programs.The main goal this study was explore whether there differential APOE genotype modulation effect after training in different...