Search results for "herätevasteet"

Brain responses to speech sounds in infants and children with and without familial risk for dyslexia

2015

Dyslexia, a specific reading disability, runs in families. Therefore, the risk for a child to become dyslexic increases multifold if reading difficulties occur in the family. One risk factor for dyslexia is a deficit in speech perception. Using EEG, speech sound discrimination was found to be more demanding than non- speech discrimination in typical readers in Study I. In Study II, in children with dyslexia in 3rd grade, enhanced brain responses were observed and found to be associated with better performance in reading accuracy, spelling accuracy and phonemic length discrimination tasks. The brain responses of the most accurate readers in the dyslexia group originated from a more posterior…

Decoding brain activities of literary metaphor comprehension: An event-related potential and EEG spectral analysis

2022

Novel metaphors in literary texts (hereinafter referred to as literary metaphors) seem to be more creative and open-ended in meaning than metaphors in non-literary texts (non-literary metaphors). However, some disagreement still exists on how literary metaphors differ from non-literary metaphors. Therefore, this study explored the neural mechanisms of literary metaphors extracted from modern Chinese poetry by using the methods of Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) and Event-Related Spectral Perturbations (ERSPs), as compared with non-literary conventional metaphors and literal expressions outside literary texts. Forty-eight subjects were recruited to make the semantic relatedness judgment afte…

Brief psychological intervention for depression : an ERP study

2009

Intervention effects to preattentive processing of emotional information in depressed individuals : a study of ERPs and reaction times

2010

Effects of short intervention for the processing of facial expressions in depression

2010

Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää automaattisen tiedonkäsittelyn eroja masentuneiden ja mielialansa hyväksi kokevien välillä mittaamalla aivojen herätevasteita. Lisäksi tutkittiin lyhyen psykologisen intervention vaikutusta näihin vasteisiin. Tutkimukseen osallistui 40 masentunutta ja 23 kontrollikoehenkilöä. Masentuneiden koehenkilöiden aivosähkökäyrä mitattiin ennen interventiota, sen jälkeen sekä seitsemän kuukauden seurannassa. Henkilöt, jotka eivät kokeneet masennusta, mitattiin vain kerran. Masentuneet koehenkilöt jaettiin hyötyneisiin ja hyötymättömiin sen perusteella, miten he arvioivat mielialansa intervention jälkeen. Kokeessa kuvaruudulle esitettiin toistuvasti neutraali ka…

Music training enhances rapid neural plasticity of N1 and P2 source activation for unattended sounds

2012

Neurocognitive studies have demonstrated that long-term music training enhances the processing of unattended sounds. It is not clear, however, whether music training also modulates rapid (within tens of minutes) neural plasticity for sound encoding. To study this phenomenon, we examined whether adult musicians display enhanced rapid neural plasticity compared to non-musicians. More specifically, we compared the modulation of P1, N1, and P2 responses to standard sounds between four unattended passive blocks. Among the standard sounds, infrequently presented deviant sounds were presented (the so-called oddball paradigm). In the middle of the experiment (after two blocks), an active task was p…

Explicit behavioral detection of visual changes develops without their implicit neurophysiological detectability

2012

Change blindness is a failure of reporting major changes across consecutive images if separated, e.g., by a brief blank interval. Successful change detection across interrupts requires focal attention to the changes. However, findings of implicit detection of visual changes during change blindness have raised the question of whether the implicit mode is necessary for development of the explicit mode. To this end, we recorded the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) of the event-related potentials (ERPs) of the brain, an index of implicit pre-attentive visual change detection, in adult humans performing an oddball-variant of change blindness flicker task. Images of 500 ms in duration were prese…