The fictive brain: neurocognitive correlates of engagement in literature

AM Jacobs, RM Willems - Review of General Psychology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we
focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience …

Linear and nonlinear profiles of weak behavioral and neural differentiation between numerical operations in children with math learning difficulties

L Chen, T Iuculano, P Mistry, J Nicholas, Y Zhang… - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Mathematical knowledge is constructed hierarchically during development from a basic
understanding of addition and subtraction, two foundational and inter-related, but …

Dissecting the cognitive phenotype of post‐stroke fatigue using computerized assessment and computational modeling of sustained attention

KM Ulrichsen, D Alnæs, KK Kolskår… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐stroke fatigue (PSF) is prevalent among stroke patients, but its mechanisms are poorly
understood. Many patients with PSF experience cognitive difficulties, but studies aiming to …

Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging

J Reifegerste, AS Meyer, P Zwitserlood, MT Ullman - Brain and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
Lexical-processing declines are a hallmark of aging. However, the extent of these declines
may vary as a function of different factors. Motivated by findings from neurodegenerative …

[HTML][HTML] A short humorous intervention protects against subsequent psychological stress and attenuates cortisol levels without affecting attention

E Froehlich, AR Madipakkam, B Craffonara, C Bolte… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Presentation of humor simultaneously with a stressful event has been shown to dampen the
psychological and physiological responses of stress. However, whether a relatively short …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of cognitive variability in childhood autism and relation to heterogeneity in decision-making dynamics

T Iuculano, A Padmanabhan, L Chen, J Nicholas… - Developmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heterogeneity in cognitive and academic abilities is a prominent feature of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD), yet little is known about its underlying causes. Here we combine functional …

[HTML][HTML] Neurofunctionally dissecting the reading system in children

J Liebig, E Froehlich, C Morawetz, M Braun… - Developmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
The reading system can be broken down into four basic subcomponents in charge of
prelexical, orthographic, phonological, and lexico-semantic processes. These processes …

[HTML][HTML] The SLS-Berlin: validation of a German computer-based screening test to measure reading proficiency in early and late adulthood

J Lüdtke, E Froehlich, AM Jacobs, F Hutzler - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Reading proficiency, ie, successfully integrating early word-based information and utilizing
this information in later processes of sentence and text comprehension, and its assessment …

[HTML][HTML] Same same but different: processing words in the aging brain

E Froehlich, J Liebig, C Morawetz, JC Ziegler, M Braun… - Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Reading is not only one of the most appreciated leisure activities of the elderly but it clearly
helps older people to maintain functional independence, which has a significant impact on …

[HTML][HTML] Cortico-brainstem mechanisms of biased perceptual decision-making in the context of pain

K Wiech, F Eippert, J Vandekerckhove, J Zaman… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Prior expectations can bias how we perceive pain. Using a drift diffusion model, we recently
showed that this influence is primarily based on changes in perceptual decision-making …