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View article: The remote administration of the uniform data set neuropsychological test battery (I-UDSNB) Italian version: normative data
The remote administration of the uniform data set neuropsychological test battery (I-UDSNB) Italian version: normative data Open
The availability of remotely administered neuropsychological batteries is crucial to provide access to care in extraordinary situations, e.g., the recent pandemic, and for individuals with reduced mobility. Here we present the normative da…
View article: Alterations in topological and dynamical parameters correlate with disease biomarkers and neuropsychological scores in prodromic stages of dementia
Alterations in topological and dynamical parameters correlate with disease biomarkers and neuropsychological scores in prodromic stages of dementia Open
BACKGROUND Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a clinical condition in the continuum between normal cognition and dementia. Despite numerous studies, the heterogeneity of the underlying pathophysiology prevents a precise prediction of clini…
View article: Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Speech Markers: Insights from English, Chinese, and Italian Speakers
Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Speech Markers: Insights from English, Chinese, and Italian Speakers Open
Cross-linguistic studies with healthy individuals are vital, as they can reveal typologically common and different patterns while providing tailored benchmarks for patient studies. Nevertheless, cross-linguistic differences in narrative sp…
View article: Heterogeneity and overlap in the continuum of linguistic profile of logopenic and semantic variants of primary progressive aphasia: a Profile Analysis based on Multidimensional Scaling study
Heterogeneity and overlap in the continuum of linguistic profile of logopenic and semantic variants of primary progressive aphasia: a Profile Analysis based on Multidimensional Scaling study Open
Background Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) diagnostic criteria underestimate the complex presentation of semantic (sv) and logopenic (lv) variants, in which symptoms partially overlap, and mixed clinical presentation (mixed-PPA) and hete…
View article: Retinal and Cortical Visual Processing Dysfunction in a Case of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Lewy Bodies: A Case Report
Retinal and Cortical Visual Processing Dysfunction in a Case of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Lewy Bodies: A Case Report Open
The prodromal stage of Lewy body dementia includes a mild cognitive impairment with visual processing and/or attention-executive deficits. A clinical presentation with progressive visual loss is indeed seldom reported and can be misleading…
View article: Comparing two picture naming tasks in Primary Progressive Aphasia: insights from behavioural and neural results
Comparing two picture naming tasks in Primary Progressive Aphasia: insights from behavioural and neural results Open
Background Picture naming tests are widely used to evaluate language impairments, especially in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). The available instruments differ for type of stimuli and their psycholinguistic properties, known to affect …
View article: Virtual brain simulations reveal network-specific parameters in neurodegenerative dementias
Virtual brain simulations reveal network-specific parameters in neurodegenerative dementias Open
Introduction Neural circuit alterations lay at the core of brain physiopathology, and yet are hard to unveil in living subjects. The Virtual Brain (TVB) modeling, by exploiting structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), yi…
View article: Virtual brain simulations reveal network-specific parameters in neurodegenerative dementias
Virtual brain simulations reveal network-specific parameters in neurodegenerative dementias Open
Introduction Neural circuit alterations lay at the core of brain physiopathology, and yet are hard to unveil in living subjects. Virtual brain modelling (TVB), by exploiting structural and functional MRI, yields mesoscopic parameters of co…
View article: The Italian Sensorimotor Norms: perception and action strength measures for 959 words
The Italian Sensorimotor Norms: perception and action strength measures for 959 words Open
Neuroscience research has provided evidence that semantic information is stored in a distributed brain network involved in sensorimotor and linguistic processing. More specifically, according to the Embodied Cognition account, the represen…
View article: Effective connectivity within the neural system for object-directed action representation during aware and unaware tool processing
Effective connectivity within the neural system for object-directed action representation during aware and unaware tool processing Open
Digital study materials, study data, and analysis code for the Dynamic Causal Modelling analysis described in the submitted manuscript:Effective connectivity within the neural system for object-directed action representation during aware a…
View article: In search of different categories of abstract concepts: a fMRI adaptation study
In search of different categories of abstract concepts: a fMRI adaptation study Open
Concrete conceptual knowledge is supported by a distributed neural network representing different semantic features according to the neuroanatomy of sensory and motor systems. If and how this framework applies to abstract knowledge is curr…
View article: Conceptual semantics as grounded in personal experience
Conceptual semantics as grounded in personal experience Open
Semantic memory for an object encompasses multi-modal knowledge gained through personal experience over the lifetime, and coded in grounded sensory-motor brain systems, independently of the level of subjective awareness. Linguistic access …
View article: Disentangling sound from syntax: electrophysiological analysis of linguistics expressions
Disentangling sound from syntax: electrophysiological analysis of linguistics expressions Open
Syntax is a species-specific component of human language combining a finite set of words in a potentially infinite number of sentences. Since words are by definition expressed by sound, factoring out syntactic information is normally impos…
View article: Electrophysiological correlates of syntactic structures
Electrophysiological correlates of syntactic structures Open
Syntax is traditionally defined as a specifically human way to pair sound with meaning: words are assembled in a recursive way generating a potentially infinite set of sentences 1,2 . There can be different phrasal structures depending on …
View article: Unaware Processing of Tools in the Neural System for Object-Directed Action Representation
Unaware Processing of Tools in the Neural System for Object-Directed Action Representation Open
The hypothesis that the brain constitutively encodes observed manipulable objects for the actions they afford is still debated. Yet, crucial evidence demonstrating that, even in the absence of perceptual awareness, the mere visual appearan…
View article: Unaware processing of tools in the neural system for object-directed action representation
Unaware processing of tools in the neural system for object-directed action representation Open
The hypothesis that the brain constitutively encodes observed manipulable objects for the actions they afford is still debated. Yet, crucial supporting evidence demonstrating that such visuo-motor embodiment occurs even without awareness h…