As the interest of this study lay in the role of individual differences in the BAS on brain
activation during task - switching, only the SR measures were considered in our analysis.
Not exact matches
The brain areas that showed greater
activation on warmer days were regions typically activated by MS patients
during task performance: the frontal, dorsolateral, prefrontal and parietal cortex.
In MS patients, warmer outdoor temperature was associated with greater BOLD
activation during performance of a simple sustained attention
task.
Greg Murray and colleagues compared
activation of the brain's reward system in 16 men
during a gambling
task at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m..
«But
during the navigational memory
task, certain parts of the brains of subjects with concussion showed altered
activation patterns, either diminished or increased activity.
Some brain imaging studies have shown
activation of speech areas
during mathematical
tasks, while others have not.
Analysis focused on 22 regions of interest where brain
activation increased
during the
task, with particular attention to those regions» interactions with an area previously shown to play a role in identifying speech sounds.
One, for example, was the sequential
activation during motor
tasks of the premotor cortex, then the primary somatosensory cortex, then the primary motor cortex in healthy brains.
Comparison of event - related
activation during auditory and visual oddball
tasks using fMRI.
After treatment, greater
activation was evident on fMRI in the treatment group
during performance of a memory
task; no change was seen in the placebo group.
OBJECTIVE To use functional MRI (fMRI) to investigate whether hippocampal
activation during a memory
task can predict cognitive decline in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Do alcohol - dependent patients show different neural
activation during response inhibition than healthy controls in an alcohol - related fMRI go / no - go -
task?
Task - based functional connectivity measures the synchronization of
activation levels between brain regions
during the performance of a given cognitive
task.
In the present study, we investigated fMRI
activation at 1.5 and 3 T
during visual perception, visuospatial working memory, and affect - processing
tasks.
A 23 % increase in striate and extrastriate
activation volume was observed at 3 T compared with that for 1.5 T
during the visual perception
task.
During the working memory
task significant increases in
activation volume were observed in frontal and parietal association cortices as well as subcortical structures, including the caudate, globus pallidus, putamen, and thalamus.
Our findings provide evidence for functional heterogeneity of cytoarchitectonically defined subdivisions within IPL and offer a novel framework for synthesis and interpretation of the
task - related
activations and deactivations involving the IPL
during cognition.
While imaging captures brain
activation during specific
tasks and therefore may identify general brain regions that are abnormal in diseases, it does not have that critical cell - level resolution.
«We attribute the differences in brain
activation patterns to the effort expended
during the working memory
task rather than to differences in speed of processing,» he added.
The researchers looked at the brain
activation of 50 soon - to - be kindergartners
during a phonological processing
task — where the kids were asked to think about whether certain words started with the same sound (for instance, «goat» and «gorilla,» or «bird» and «ant.»).
Increased prefrontal
activation in adolescents born prematurely at high risk
during a reading
task.
Patterns of brain
activation in foster children and nonmaltreated children
during an inhibitory control
task.
Results: After controlling for multiple individual difference measures, dispositional mindfulness was associated with greater widespread prefrontal cortical
activation, and reduced bilateral amygdala activity
during affect labeling, compared with the gender labeling control
task.
Results indicated MBCT - C was associated with increases in
activation of the bilateral insula, lentiform nucleus, and thalamus, as well as the left anterior cingulate while viewing emotional stimuli
during the continuous processing
task with emotional and neutral distractors (CPT - END), and decreases in anxiety were correlated with change in
activation in the bilateral insula and anterior cingulate
during the viewing of emotional stimuli.
The previous studies demonstrated abnormal
activation of the anterior insula
during empathy or emotional processing
tasks in individuals with antisocial behavior (Herpertz et al., 2008; Sadeh et al., 2013).
Similarly, another recent functional imaging study focused on 1129 community youths (mean age 15.5 years) and investigated the relationship between psychopathology and
activation of the executive system
during a working memory
task.9 Overall psychopathology was associated with hypoactivation in the frontal pole, anterior cingulate, anterior insula and precuneus, implicating a network of executive regions across a range of psychiatric diagnoses.
MRIT: An fMRI Study of Inhibitory Control is designed to examine children's behavioral performance and brain
activation during an inhibitory control
task.
A developmental functional MRI study of prefrontal
activation during performance of a go - no - go
task
Beyond affect: A role for genetic variation of the serotonin transporter in neural
activation during a cognitive attention
task