[HTML][HTML] Consensus paper: Current perspectives on abstract concepts and future research directions

B Banks, AM Borghi, R Fargier, C Fini… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract concepts are relevant to a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science,
linguistics, psychology, cognitive, social, and affective neuroscience, and philosophy. This …

Biomarkers of the endocannabinoid system in substance use disorders

F Navarrete, MS García-Gutiérrez, A Gasparyan… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite substance use disorders (SUD) being one of the leading causes of disability and
mortality globally, available therapeutic approaches remain ineffective. The difficulty in …

[HTML][HTML] Cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation (ccPAS) over premotor-motor areas affects local circuitries in the human motor cortex via Hebbian plasticity

S Turrini, F Fiori, E Chiappini, B Lucero, E Santarnecchi… - Neuroimage, 2023 - Elsevier
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that cortico-cortical paired
associative stimulation (ccPAS) can strengthen connectivity between the ventral premotor …

Gradual enhancement of corticomotor excitability during cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation

S Turrini, F Fiori, E Chiappini, E Santarnecchi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation (ccPAS) is an effective transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS) method for inducing associative plasticity between interconnected brain …

Neuromodulatory effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on language performance in healthy participants: Systematic review and meta-analysis

X Qu, Z Wang, Y Cheng, Q Xue, Z Li, L Li… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background The causal relationships between neural substrates and human language have
been investigated by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). However, the robustness of …

Multidimensional inhibitory signatures of sentential negation in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

MN Díaz-Rivera, A Birba, S Fittipaldi, D Mola… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Processing of linguistic negation has been associated to inhibitory brain
mechanisms. However, no study has tapped this link via multimodal measures in patients …

Existential negation modulates inhibitory control processes and impacts recognition memory. Evidence from ERP and source localisation data

B Liu, B Gu, M de Vega, H Wang… - Language, Cognition and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
It has recently been proposed that comprehension of negation reuses the inhibitory control
mechanisms. However, this Reusing Inhibition for Negation (RIN) hypothesis has mostly …

You are fired! Exclusion words induce corticospinal modulations associated with vicarious pain

F Vitale, M Urrutia, A Avenanti… - Social Cognitive and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Self-and vicarious experience of physical pain induces inhibition of the motor cortex (M1).
Experience of social rejections recruits the same neural network as physical pain; however …

Understanding an implicated causality: The brain network for processing concessive relations

X Xu, H Yu, X Gao, B Shen, W Feng, X Zhou - Brain and Language, 2022 - Elsevier
Concessive relations, often indicated by conjunction words such as although, are
semantically and pragmatically more complex than causal relations (expressed using …

Negation and social avoidance in language recruits the right inferior frontal gyrus: a tDCS study

E García-Marco, A Nuez Trujillo, I Padrón… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction In the process of comprehension, linguistic negation induces inhibition of
negated scenarios. Numerous studies have highlighted the role of the right Inferior Frontal …