Can readers exert control (albeit unconsciously) over activation at particular loci in the reading system? The authors addressed this issue in 4 experiments in which participants read target words aloud and the factors of prime-target relation (semantic, repetition), context (related, unrelated), stimulus quality (bright, dim), and relatedness proportion (RP; high, low) were manipulated. In the...

1 2 3 4 Concordance between Perceptual and Categorical 5 Repetition Effects in the Ventral Visual Stream 6 7 Scott L. Fairhall1,2, Stefano Anzellotti 2, Petra Pajtas2 8 & Alfonso Caramazza1,2. 9 10 1 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Trento, Italy 11 2Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. 12 13 14 15 16 Running Head: 17 Perceptual and Categorical ...

We report a unique all fiber-based single-frequency Q-switched laser in a monolithic master oscillator power amplifier configuration at ~1920 nm by using highly Tm-doped germanate fibers for the first time. The actively Q-switched fiber laser seed was achieved by using a piezo to press the fiber in the fiber Bragg grating cavity and modulate the fiber birefringence, enabling Q-switching with pu...

The purpose of the investigations was to dissociate processes of task preparation from task execution in the task-switching paradigm. The basic assumption was that task repetitions have 2 advantages over task shifts: an activation advantage as a result of the execution of the same task type in the pretrial, and an expectation advantage, because participants, in general, implicitly expect a repe...

OBJECTIVE To determine if repetitive task training after stroke improves functional activity. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of trials comparing repetitive task training with attention control or usual care. DATA SOURCES The Cochrane Stroke Trials Register, electronic databases of published, unpublished and non-English language papers; conference proceedings, reference lists, an...

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In tasks requiring judgments about visual stimuli, humans exhibit repetition priming, responding with increased speed when a stimulus is repeated. Repetition priming might depend on repetition suppression, a phenomenon first observed in monkey inferotemporal cortex (IT) whereby, when a stimulus is repeated, the strength of the neuronal visual response is reduced. If the reduction resulted in sh...

BACKGROUND The positive relationship between cognitive and physical performance has been widely established. The influence of brain structure on both domains has been shown as well. OBJECTIVE We studied whether the relationship between brain structure and physical performance is independent of cognitive performance. METHODS This was a cross-sectional analysis of 297 middle-aged to older adu...