“Executive function” is a term describing the processes required for conscious control of
thought, emotion, and action that are central to the management of one's day-to-day life …

Learning and memory functions are crucial in the interaction of an individual with the
environment and involve the interplay of large, distributed brain networks. Recent advances …

Previous studies have suggested beneficial effects of physical activity on cognition. Here, we
asked in an interventional approach if physical activity performed at different intensity levels …

INTRODUCTION:“Theory of Mind”(ToM), ie, the ability to infer other persons' mental states, is
a key function of social cognition. It is increasingly recognized to form a multidimensional …

On the basis of a review of the extant literature describing emotion-cognition interactions, the
authors propose 4 methodological desiderata for studying how task-irrelevant affect …

Brain oscillations across all frequency bands play a key role for memory formation [1–4].
Specifically, desynchronization of local neuronal assemblies in the left inferior prefrontal …

Recent neuroimaging studies in blind persons show that the occipital cortex, including the
primary visual cortex (V1), is active during language-related and verbal-memory tasks. No …

Neuroimaging findings suggest that the lateralization of prefrontal cortex activation
associated with episodic memory performance is reduced by aging. It is still a matter of …

Objectives: To review the literature on the specific role of the right cerebral hemisphere
during recovery from aphasia in order to address the lack of consensus among authors. To …

A debated question in the literature is the degree of anatomical and functional lateralization
of the executive control processes sub-served by the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) …