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View article: Mental Health on Reddit: Explainable Classification with Transformers
Mental Health on Reddit: Explainable Classification with Transformers Open
Social media is a powerful tool also for discussing mental health. The conversations that take place in these spaces provide a unique insight into how users talk about the issue. This study uses state-of-the-art transformer models, BERT an…
View article: As apparent as real: alpha and beta bands desynchronization unveils apparent motion perception dynamics
As apparent as real: alpha and beta bands desynchronization unveils apparent motion perception dynamics Open
It is well-known that real motion observation engages sensorimotor processes, so that when biological motion is presented, greater activation of the sensorimotor systems is measured in the observer compared to when non-biological motion is…
View article: Thalamic involvement defines distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep
Thalamic involvement defines distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep Open
Slow waves (0.5–4 Hz) are a key feature of non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep, traditionally believed to arise from neocortical circuits. However, growing evidence suggests that subcortical structures, particularly the thalamus, may play …
View article: Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure
Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure Open
Perceived sleep depth is a key determinant of subjective sleep quality, traditionally thought to reflect unconsciousness and reduced cortical activation. Here, we combined high-density EEG with a serial awakening paradigm during NREM sleep…
View article: Innate cortical gradients constrain cross-modal plasticity
Innate cortical gradients constrain cross-modal plasticity Open
Innate cortical organisation and postnatal sensory experience interact dynamically to shape the functional architecture of the human brain. Using naturalistic stimulation, functional gradient analyses, and comparative approaches in congeni…
View article: Neural representation of action features across sensory modalities: A multimodal fMRI study
Neural representation of action features across sensory modalities: A multimodal fMRI study Open
Action representation and the sharing of feature coding within the Action Observation Network (AON) remain debated, and our understanding of how the brain consistently encodes action features across sensory modalities under variable, natur…
View article: Unexplored strains and job satisfaction for individuals with visual and auditory impairments: an Italian study
Unexplored strains and job satisfaction for individuals with visual and auditory impairments: an Italian study Open
Our study investigated for the first time specific job strains in PwSD, thus contributing to a deeper understanding of adjustment to work in a bank worker population. Older adults tend to show higher levels of technostress and a reduced se…
View article: How spontaneous brain activity encodes the observation of grasping movements
How spontaneous brain activity encodes the observation of grasping movements Open
Spontaneous brain activity forms correlated networks resembling task-evoked activation patterns, yet its functional relevance remains debated. The representational hypothesis suggests that resting-state networks (RSNs) encode frequent beha…
View article: Dopaminergic and serotonergic genetic variants predict actions and expectations of cooperation and punishment
Dopaminergic and serotonergic genetic variants predict actions and expectations of cooperation and punishment Open
Genetic variants in dopaminergic and serotonergic pathways have been linked to individual differences in social behavior. In this study, we investigated the relationship between eight allelic variants within these pathways and both behavio…
View article: Beyond Reorganization: Intrinsic cortical hierarchies constrain experience-dependent plasticity in sensory-deprived humans
Beyond Reorganization: Intrinsic cortical hierarchies constrain experience-dependent plasticity in sensory-deprived humans Open
Innate cortical organisation and postnatal sensory experience interact dynamically to shape the functional architecture of the human brain. Using naturalistic stimulation, functional gradient analyses, and comparative approaches in congeni…
View article: International Collaborations at the Intersection of Brain Sciences and Artificial Intelligence
International Collaborations at the Intersection of Brain Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Open
View article: Assessing the impact of virtual workplaces on collaboration and learning
Assessing the impact of virtual workplaces on collaboration and learning Open
Introduction The shift toward remote work and digitization has driven the widespread adoption of virtual collaboration tools. While these technologies offer opportunities for enhanced remote interaction, they also present challenges relate…
View article: Do AI Models Understand Mental HealthConversations? A Study of Subreddit Classification and Explainability
Do AI Models Understand Mental HealthConversations? A Study of Subreddit Classification and Explainability Open
Social media is a powerful tool also for discussing mental health. The conversations that take place in these spaces provide a unique insight into how users talk about the issue. This study uses state-of-the-art transformer models, BERT an…
View article: The tangled threads: Unveiling the interplay between the sense of body ownership and the sense of agency in impacting the bodily-self representation in eating disorders
The tangled threads: Unveiling the interplay between the sense of body ownership and the sense of agency in impacting the bodily-self representation in eating disorders Open
The feeling of owning a body (body ownership) and controlling its actions (sense of agency) contributes to the emergence of the bodily-self representation, whose alteration is at the root of the central psychopathology of Eating Disorders …
View article: Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking after hearing restoration
Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking after hearing restoration Open
The role of early auditory experience in the development of neural speech tracking remains an open question. To address this issue, we measured neural speech tracking in children with or without functional hearing during their first year o…
View article: Extended Cognitive Load Induces Fast Neural Responses Leading to Commission Errors
Extended Cognitive Load Induces Fast Neural Responses Leading to Commission Errors Open
Extended performance of cognitively demanding tasks induces cognitive fatigue manifested with an overall deterioration of behavioral performance. In particular, long practice with tasks requiring impulse control is typically followed by a …
View article: Thalamic involvement defines distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep
Thalamic involvement defines distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep Open
Slow waves (0.5-4 Hz) are a key feature of non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep, traditionally believed to arise from neocortical circuits. However, growing evidence suggests that subcortical structures, particularly the thalamus, may play …
View article: Hemispheric asymmetries in the auditory cortex reflect discriminative responses to temporal details or summary statistics of stationary sounds
Hemispheric asymmetries in the auditory cortex reflect discriminative responses to temporal details or summary statistics of stationary sounds Open
The processing of stationary sounds relies on both local features and compact representations. As local information is compressed into summary statistics, abstract representations emerge. Whether the brain is endowed with distinct neural a…
View article: Reactivity Changes in the Occipital Cortex of Blind Individuals: a TMS-EEG study
Reactivity Changes in the Occipital Cortex of Blind Individuals: a TMS-EEG study Open
View article: Dopaminergic and Serotonergic Genetic Variants and Their Relationships With Classical Economic Games
Dopaminergic and Serotonergic Genetic Variants and Their Relationships With Classical Economic Games Open
View article: Prolonged exertion of self-control causes increased sleep-like frontal brain activity and changes in aggressivity and punishment
Prolonged exertion of self-control causes increased sleep-like frontal brain activity and changes in aggressivity and punishment Open
Impulsive reactions in social interactions may result in poor or even detrimental outcomes. Particular cognitive states, such as mental fatigue induced by extended practice with cognitively demanding activities, especially if combined with…
View article: Dopaminergic and serotonergic genetic variants predict actions and expectations of cooperation and punishment
Dopaminergic and serotonergic genetic variants predict actions and expectations of cooperation and punishment Open
Inspired by the growing interest in linking several behaviors with specific genetic assets, research on the topic spiked in recent years, showing that several genetic variants of dopaminergic and serotonergic pathways are related to both e…
View article: Brain Encoding of Naturalistic, Continuous, and Unpredictable Tactile Events
Brain Encoding of Naturalistic, Continuous, and Unpredictable Tactile Events Open
Studies employing EEG to measure somatosensory responses have been typically optimized to compute event-related potentials in response to discrete events. However, tactile interactions involve continuous processing of nonstationary inputs …
View article: A visual representation of the hand in the resting somatomotor regions of the human brain
A visual representation of the hand in the resting somatomotor regions of the human brain Open
View article: Sensitivity and specificity of the action observation network to kinematics, target object, and gesture meaning
Sensitivity and specificity of the action observation network to kinematics, target object, and gesture meaning Open
Hierarchical models have been proposed to explain how the brain encodes actions, whereby different areas represent different features, such as gesture kinematics, target object, action goal, and meaning. The visual processing of action‐rel…
View article: Neural networks associated with eye movements in congenital blindness
Neural networks associated with eye movements in congenital blindness Open
Recent studies have shown that during the typical resting‐state, echo planar imaging (EPI) time series obtained from the eye orbit area correlate with brain regions associated with oculomotor control and lower‐level visual cortex. Here, we…
View article: The impact of face masks on face-to-face neural tracking of speech: Auditory and visual obstacles
The impact of face masks on face-to-face neural tracking of speech: Auditory and visual obstacles Open
View article: A visual representation of the hand in the resting somatomotor regions of the human brain
A visual representation of the hand in the resting somatomotor regions of the human brain Open
Hand visibility affects motor control, perception, and attention, as visual information is integrated into an internal model of somatomotor control. Spontaneous brain activity, i.e., at rest, in the absence of an active task, is correlated…
View article: Dissecting abstract, modality-specific and experience-dependent coding of affect in the human brain
Dissecting abstract, modality-specific and experience-dependent coding of affect in the human brain Open
Emotion and perception are tightly intertwined, as affective experiences often arise from the appraisal of sensory information. Nonetheless, whether the brain encodes emotional instances using a sensory-specific code or in a more abstract …
View article: Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants
Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants Open
Infants are born with biological biases that favour language acquisition. One is the auditory system’s ability to track the envelope of continuous speech, a pivotal feature for spoken language comprehension in adulthood. However, the exten…