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A cognitive neuroscience approach to individual differences in sensitivity to reward

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A comparison of brain activation patterns during covert and overt paced auditory serial addition test tasks.

scientific article published in June 2008

A functional magnetic resonance imaging assessment of small animals' phobia using virtual reality as a stimulus

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A new window to understanding individual differences in reward sensitivity from attentional networks

scientific article published on 3 April 2014

A symbol digit modalities test version suitable for functional MRI studies

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Abstinence duration modulates striatal functioning during monetary reward processing in cocaine patients.

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

Accelerated long-term forgetting in resected and seizure-free temporal lobe epilepsy patients

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

An effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex

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An fMRI Study to Analyze Neural Correlates of Presence during Virtual Reality Experiences

Analysis of multiple waveforms by means of functional principal component analysis: normal versus pathological patterns in sit-to-stand movement

scientific article published on 08 April 2008

Anatomical and functional differences between the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test and the Symbol Digit Modalities Test.

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BAS-drive trait modulates dorsomedial striatum activity during reward response-outcome associations.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Behavioral Inhibition System activity is associated with increased amygdala and hippocampal gray matter volume: A voxel-based morphometry study.

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

Behavioral activation system modulation on brain activation during appetitive and aversive stimulus processing.

scientific article published on 10 February 2010

Bilateral inferior frontal language-related activation correlates with verbal recall in patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy and typical language distribution.

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Bilingualism at the core of the brain. Structural differences between bilinguals and monolinguals revealed by subcortical shape analysis.

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals to perform non-linguistic switching tasks

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Bridging language and attention: brain basis of the impact of bilingualism on cognitive control.

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Characterizing individual differences in reward sensitivity from the brain networks involved in response inhibition.

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Comparison of two fMRI tasks for the evaluation of the expressive language function.

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Compensatory activations in patients with multiple sclerosis during preserved performance on the auditory N-back task.

scientific article published in May 2007

Compensatory cortical mechanisms in Parkinson's disease evidenced with fMRI during the performance of pre-learned sequential movements.

scientific article published on 27 February 2007

Complexity analysis of cortical surface detects changes in future Alzheimer's disease converters.

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Cortical reorganization during PASAT task in MS patients with preserved working memory functions.

scientific article published on 8 February 2006

Differential dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation during a verbal n-back task according to sensory modality.

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Differential neural control in early bilinguals and monolinguals during response inhibition

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Do bilinguals show neural differences with monolinguals when processing their native language?

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Erratum to: A new window to understanding individual differences in reward sensitivity from attentional networks.

scientific article published in May 2015

Evidence for degraded low frequency verbal concepts in left resected temporal lobe epilepsy patients.

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Exploring Neural Efficiency in Multiple Sclerosis Patients during the Symbol Digit Modalities Test: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Frontostriatal response to set switching is moderated by reward sensitivity.

scientific article published on 6 July 2011

Functional Connectivity Between Superior Parietal Lobule and Primary Visual Cortex "at Rest" Predicts Visual Search Efficiency.

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Functional connectivity in resting state as a phonemic fluency ability measure.

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging correlates of cognitive performance in patients with a clinically isolated syndrome suggestive of multiple sclerosis at presentation: an activation and connectivity study.

scientific article published on 9 August 2011

Hand gestures as visual prosody: BOLD responses to audio-visual alignment are modulated by the communicative nature of the stimuli.

scientific article published on 15 February 2016

Hippocampal dysfunction is associated with memory impairment in multiple sclerosis: A volumetric and functional connectivity study.

scientific article published in January 2017

How bilingualism shapes the functional architecture of the brain: A study on executive control in early bilinguals and monolinguals.

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Impulsivity and sustained attention in pathological gamblers: influence of childhood ADHD history

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Increased regional gray matter atrophy and enhanced functional connectivity in male multiple sclerosis patients.

scientific article published on 16 July 2016

Individual differences in the Behavioral Inhibition System are associated with orbitofrontal cortex and precuneus gray matter volume

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Inferior frontal cortex activity is modulated by reward sensitivity and performance variability

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Information-processing speed is the primary deficit underlying the poor performance of multiple sclerosis patients in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT).

scientific article published on 13 February 2008

Involvement of the human midbrain and thalamus in auditory deviance detection.

scientific article published on January 2015

Learning and Memory Impairments in Patients with Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy are Associated with Structural and Functional Connectivity Alterations in Hippocampus.

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Left frontoparietal network activity is modulated by drug stimuli in cocaine addiction.

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Left-handed musicians show a higher probability of atypical cerebral dominance for language

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Long-term brain effects of N-back training: an fMRI study

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Lower activation in the right frontoparietal network during a counting Stroop task in a cocaine-dependent group

scientific article published on September 29, 2011

Measuring impulsivity in school-aged boys and examining its relationship with ADHD and ODD ratings

scientific article published in June 2004

Morphological and functional evaluation of visual disturbances in a bilateral hand allograft recipient

scientific article published on 23 February 2009

Neural bases of language switching in high and early proficient bilinguals

scientific article published on 07 May 2011

Neural differences between monolinguals and early bilinguals in their native language during comprehension.

scientific article published on September 2015

Reduced activity in functional networks during reward processing is modulated by abstinence in cocaine addicts.

scientific article published on 27 November 2015

Reduced posterior parietal cortex activation after training on a visual search task

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

Reduced resting state connectivity and gray matter volume correlate with cognitive impairment in minimal hepatic encephalopathy.

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Reduced white matter microstructural integrity correlates with cognitive deficits in minimal hepatic encephalopathy.

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Regional brain atrophy and functional connectivity changes related to fatigue in multiple sclerosis

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Resting-state fMRI detects the effects of learning in short term: A visual search training study

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Reward sensitivity is associated with brain activity during erotic stimulus processing.

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Reward sensitivity modulates brain activity in the prefrontal cortex, ACC and striatum during task switching

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Reward sensitivity modulates connectivity among reward brain areas during processing of anticipatory reward cues.

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Right parietal hypoactivation in a cocaine-dependent group during a verbal working memory task.

scientific article published on 21 December 2010

Selective alteration of native, but not second language articulation in a patient with foreign accent syndrome

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Separate Contribution of Striatum Volume and Pitch Discrimination to Individual Differences in Music Reward

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Spontaneous brain activity predicts learning ability of foreign sounds.

scientific article published in May 2013

State and Training Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Brain Networks Reflect Neuronal Mechanisms of Its Antidepressant Effect.

scientific article published on 21 February 2016

Striatum gray matter reduction in males with an overactive behavioral activation system.

scientific article published on 16 October 2006

Subcortical grey matter structures in multiple sclerosis: what is their role in cognition?

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Task-load manipulation in the Symbol Digit Modalities Test: an alternative measure of information processing speed

scientific article published on 07 May 2013

The Modulation of the Startle Reflex as Predictor of Alcohol Use Disorders in a Sample of Heavy Drinkers: A 4-Year Follow-Up Study.

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

The TaqIA polymorphism linked to the DRD2 gene is related to lower attention and less inhibitory control in alcoholic patients.

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The dynamic imprint of word learning on the dorsal language pathway.

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The link between resting-state functional connectivity and cognition in MS patients

scientific article published on 04 July 2013

The role of behavioral impulsivity in the development of alcohol dependence: a 4-year follow-up study.

scientific article published on 9 July 2008

Top-down attention regulates the neural expression of audiovisual integration.

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Usefulness of Video-EEG monitoring in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy

scientific article published on 08 December 2010

Varieties of impulsivity in males with alcohol dependence: the role of Cluster-B personality disorder.

scientific article published on 11 September 2007

Visual search task immediate training effects on task-related functional connectivity

scientific article published on 01 December 2019