The influence of explicit evaluative processes on the contextual integration of facial
expressions of emotion was studied in a procedure that required the participants to judge …

Previous research suggests that masks disrupt expression recognition, but the
neurophysiological implications of this phenomenon are poorly understood. In this study, 26 …

Primary objective: A comparison between unitary and non-unitary views on minimal
consciousness. Research design: First, unitary (all-or-none) and non-unitary (gradual or …

Statistical learning (SL) is believed to enable language acquisition by allowing individuals to
learn regularities within linguistic input. However, neural evidence supporting a direct …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been proven to be a useful tool to complement clinical
assessment and to detect residual cognitive functions in patients with disorders of …

Introduction Speech comprehension involves context-based lexical predictions for efficient
semantic integration. This study investigated how noise affects the predictability effect on …

Background Currently, it is challenging to detect the awareness of patients who suffer
disorders of consciousness (DOC). Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which do not depend …

Despite the distortion of speech signals caused by unavoidable noise in daily life, our ability
to comprehend speech in noisy environments is relatively stable. However, the neural …

A long-standing question concerns whether sensory input can reach semantic stages of
processing in the absence of attention and awareness. Here, we examine whether the …

Although several cognitive processes, including speech processing, have been studied
during sleep, working memory (WM) has never been explored up to now. Our study …