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Yumi Shikauchi, Shin Ishii
In a familiar city, people can recall scene views (e.g., a particular street corner scene) they could encounter again in the future. Complex objects with multiple features are represented by multiple neural units (channels) in the brain, but when anticipating a scene view, the kind of feature that is assigned to a…
Ruedeerat Keerativittayayut, Ryuta Aoki, Mitra Taghizadeh Sarabi, Koji Jimura + 3 more
'Koji Jimura' 'Kiyoshi Nakahara' 'Roberto Cabeza' 'Sabine Kastner'] Although activation/deactivation of specific brain regions has been shown to be predictive of successful memory encoding, the relationship between time-varying large-scale brain networks and fluctuations of memory encoding performance remains unclear.…
Giulia Galli, A. Dorothea Gebert, Leun J. Otten
Effective cognitive functioning not only relies on brain activity elicited by an event, but also on activity that precedes it. This has been demonstrated in a number of cognitive domains, including memory. Here, we show that brain activity that precedes the effective encoding of a word into long-term memory depends on…
Kang Wang, Dengchang Wu, Caihong Ji, Benyan Luo + 2 more
In conclusion, results from the present study suggest that brain dysfunctional activation during the memory encoding process may affect the subsequent memory retrieval performance in patients with postacute anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. Overactivation in the bilateral HG/PHG, right STG, and thalamus at the period of…
Janet M. Baker, Peter Cariani
Time is essential for understanding the brain. A temporal theory for realizing major brain functions (e.g., sensation, cognition, motivation, attention, memory, learning, and motor action) is proposed that uses temporal codes, time-domain neural networks, correlation-based binding processes and signal dynamics. It…
Peter Cariani, Janet M. Baker
Time is of the essence in how neural codes, synchronies, and oscillations might function in encoding, representation, transmission, integration, storage, and retrieval of information in brains. This Hypothesis and Theory article examines observed and possible relations between codes, synchronies, oscillations, and…
Giulia Galli
When we form new memories, their mnestic fate largely depends upon the cognitive operations set in train during encoding. A typical observation in experimental as well as everyday life settings is that if we learn an item using semantic or “deep” operations, such as attending to its meaning, memory will be better than…
Tamar R. van Raalten, Nick F. Ramsey, Jeff Duyn, Johan M. Jansma + 1 more
'Jan Lauwereyns'] Background Practice can have a profound effect on performance and brain activity, especially if a task can be automated. Tasks that allow for automatization typically involve repeated encoding of information that is paired with a constant response. Much remains unknown about the effects of practice on…
Robert Worden
This paper uses simple arguments to derive a negative conclusion: that a computer cannot be conscious. If the brain is only a neural computer, brains cannot be conscious. Consciousness implies that there is something else happening in the brain, besides computation. In a running computer, information about outside…
Célia Loriette, Julian L. Amengual, Suliann Ben Hamed
One of the major challenges in system neurosciences consists in developing techniques for estimating the cognitive information content in brain activity. This has an enormous potential in different domains spanning from clinical applications, cognitive enhancement to a better understanding of the neural bases of…
Janet M. Baker, Peter Cariani
Waves are fundamental. In our view, waves in the brain may constitute and drive organized neural activity patterns on individual neural and population levels. Their interactions follow basic physical principles. Taking a comprehensive, temporal and spatiotemporal perspective, we endeavor to explain multiple brain…
Kwok Yui Tony Yip, Johannes Gräff
A memory engram is thought to be the physical substrate of the memory trace within the brain, which is generally depicted as a neuronal ensemble activated by learning to fire together during encoding and retrieval. It has been postulated that engram cell ensembles are functionally interconnected across multiple brain…
Lee de-Wit, David Alexander, Vebjørn Ekroll, Johan Wagemans
Psychology moved beyond the stimulus response mapping of behaviorism by adopting an information processing framework. This shift from behavioral to cognitive science was partly inspired by work demonstrating that the concept of information could be defined and quantified (Shannon, [69]). This transition developed…
Karl H Pribram
What makes man human is his brain. This brain is obviously different from those of nonhuman primates. It is larger, shows hemispheric dominance and specialization, and is cytoarchitecturally somewhat more generalized. But are these the essential characteristics that determine the humanness of man? This paper cannot…