We know from animal studies that a stimulating and enriched environment can enhance
recovery after stroke, but little is known about the effects of an enriched sound environment on …

Recent studies have yielded contradictory evidence on whether visual speech perception (watching
articulatory gestures) can activate the human primary auditory cortex. To circumvent …

This study examined 17 children (nine males, eight females; mean age 13 years) with prenatal
alcohol exposure of various durations. The aim of the study was to detect specific brain …

Music is a highly complex and versatile stimulus for the brain that engages many temporal,
frontal, parietal, cerebellar, and subcortical areas involved in auditory, cognitive, emotional, …

Background: Nasu-Hakola disease or polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with
sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL) is a genetically heterogeneous disease characterized …

Hemodynamic activity in occipital, temporal, and parietal cortical areas were recently shown
to correlate across subjects during viewing of a 30-minute movie clip. However, most of the …

Background Individuals with opioid dependence have cognitive deficits during abuse period
in attention, working memory, episodic memory, and executive function. After protracted …

We investigated cerebral processing of audiovisual speech stimuli in humans using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Ten healthy volunteers were scanned with a ‘…

Our surrounding auditory environment has a dramatic influence on the development of basic
auditory and cognitive skills, but little is known about how it influences the recovery of these …

Emotion plays a significant role in goal‐directed behavior, yet its neural basis is yet poorly
understood. In several psychological models the cardinal dimensions that characterize the …