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Potassium-Ion Storage In article number 2203976, Songping Wu, Zhiguang Xu, Yurong Yan, and co-workers successfully fabricate 2D [email protected] carbon sheets with a powerful BiOC bond internal void space for achieving ultrahigh rate stable potassium-ion storage. The influence of interface microstructure chemical coupling on the electrochemical properties are revealed by ex/in-situ technique...

Some neuroimaging studies have reported activation by imitation in the left Brodmann area 44 (BA 44), a part of Broca's area considered to be a neural substrate for speech production. However, in these previous studies the subjects were required to perform the same movements repeatedly so that the experimental stimuli could be viewed as cues when to do the given movements rather than a specific...

In this study we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine differences in recruited brain regions during the concentric and the eccentric phase of an imagined maximum resistance training task of the elbow flexors in healthy young subjects. The results showed that during the eccentric phase, pre-frontal cortex (BA44) bilaterally was recruited when contrasted to the concentric ...

Watching someone scratch himself can induce feelings of itchiness in the perceiver. This provides a unique opportunity to characterize the neural basis of subjective experiences of itch, independent of changes in peripheral inputs. In this study, we first established that the social contagion of itch is essentially a normative response (experienced by most people), and that the degree of contag...