There are striking behavioural and neural parallels between the acquisition of speech in humans and song learning in songbirds. In humans, language-related brain activation is mostly lateralised to the left hemisphere. During language acquisition in humans, brain hemispheric lateralisation develops as language proficiency increases. Sleep is important for the formation of long-term memory, in h...

Neonatal and adult strokes are more common in the left than right cerebral hemisphere middle arterial territory, extracranial intracranial vessels systematically left-dominant. The aim of research reported here was to determine whether asymmetric vascular ground plan found adults present healthy term neonates (n = 97). A new transcranial Doppler ultrasonography dual-view scanning protocol, with...

Handedness is the clearest example of behavioral lateralization in humans. It is not known whether the obvious asymmetry manifested by hand preference is associated with similar asymmetry in brain activation during movement. We examined the functional activation in cortical motor areas during movement of the dominant and nondominant hand in groups of right-handed and left-handed subjects and fo...

This paper presents a novel multimodal approach to automatically detect learner uncertainty through the integration of multiple sensors. An acquisition protocol was established for the recording of learner electrical brain activity and physiological signals while interacting with a problem solving system specifically designed for uncertainty elicitation. Data were collected from 38 subjects usi...

This paper addresses the problem of signal responses variability within a single subject in P300 speller Brain-Computer Interfaces. We propose here a method to cope with these variabilities by considering a single learner for each acquisition session. Each learner consists of a channel selection procedure and a classifier. Our algorithm has been benchmarked with the data and the results of the ...

Objective The dominant model of cognitive impairment in focal epilepsy has emphasised structural bases for cognitive deficits. Current theories of cognition in the healthy brain emphasise the importance of the reweighting of brain network interactions in support of task performance. Here, we explore the hypothesis that cognitive deficits in epilepsy arise through abnormalities of dynamic functi...

Alien hand syndrome is a rare neurological disorder in which movements are performed without conscious will. By using functional magnetic resonance imaging in a patient with alien hand syndrome after right parietal lesion, we could identify brain regions activated during involuntary or voluntary actions with the affected left hand. Alien hand movements involved a selective activation of contral...

A twenty-five year old woman suffered the acute onset of dysequilibrium followed by headache, nausea, vomiting, vertigo, and slurred speech while swimming. Brain imaging revealed a right cerebellar infarct. Intravenous digital subtraction angiography showed a hypoplastic right vertebral artery and focal narrowing of the dominant left vertebral at the level of the C1-C2 junction. The patient was...