Programming social, cognitive, and neuroendocrine development by early exposure to novelty Tang AC, Akers KG, Reeb BC, Romeo RD, McEwen BS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Oct 9; [Epub ahead of print] Mildly stressful early life experiences…

Individual differences in amygdala activity predict response speed during working memory Schaefer A, Braver TS, Reynolds JR, Burgess GC, Yarkoni T, Gray JR J Neurosci. 2006 Oct 4;26(40):10120-8 The human amygdala has classically been viewe…

Frames, biases, and rational decision-making in the human brain De Martino B, Kumaran D, Seymour B, Dolan RJ. Science. 2006 Aug 4;313(5787):684-7. Human choices are remarkably susceptible to the manner in which options are presented. This …

本日の神経心理学勉強会より。 Syntactic priming of relative clause attachments: persistence of structural configuration in sentence production Scheepers C. Cognition. 2003 Oct;89(3):179-205. Three sentence completion experiments will be rep…

Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex Freedman DJ, Assad JA. Nature. 2006 Sep 7;443(7107):85-8. Epub 2006 Aug 27. LIP のニューロンは、視覚刺激の運動方向をカテゴリーの構成要素に従って符号化する。また、…

Empathy and the somatotopic auditory mirror system in humans Gazzola V, Aziz-Zadeh L, Keysers C. Curr Biol. 2006 Sep 19;16(18):1824-9. How do we understand the actions of other individuals if we can only hear them? Auditory mirror neurons …

Induction of an illusory shadow person Arzy S, Seeck M, Ortigue S, Spinelli L, Blanke O. Nature. 2006 Sep 21;443(7109):287. Stimulation of a site on the brain's left hemisphere prompts the creepy feeling that somebody is close by.The stran…

Highly ordered arrangement of single neurons in orientation pinwheels Ohki K, Chung S, Kara P, Hubener M, Bonhoeffer T, Reid RC. Nature. 2006 Aug 24;442(7105):925-8. Epub 2006 Aug 13. In the visual cortex of higher mammals, neurons are arr…

Specificity of action representations in the lateral occipitotemporal cortex Kable JW, Chatterjee A. J Cogn Neurosci. 2006 Sep;18(9):1498-517. The ability to recognize actions is important for cognitive development and social cognition. Ar…

Epilepsy-related ligand/receptor complex LGI1 and ADAM22 regulate synaptic transmission. Fukata Y, Adesnik H, Iwanaga T, Bredt DS, Nicoll RA, Fukata M. Science. 2006 Sep 22;313(5794):1792-5. Abnormally synchronized synaptic transmission in…