Publications related to Neurolinguistics

Hearing structure in music: An empirical inquiry into listening as representation and processing

As a universal expression of human creativity, music is capable of conveying great subtlety and complexity. Crucially, this complexity is not encoded in the score or in the sounds, but is rather construed in the mind of the listener in the form of nuanced ...

EPFL2024

High levels of childhood trauma associated with changes in hippocampal functional activity and connectivity in young adults during novelty salience

Elenor Morgenroth

Childhood trauma (CT) has been linked to increased risk for psychosis. Moreover, CT has been linked to psychosis phenotypes such as impaired cognitive and sensory functions involved in the detection of novel sensory stimuli. Our objective was to investigat ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2023

Exploring the spatial resolution of TMS-EEG coupling on the sensorimotor region

Estelle Emeline Raffin, Sylvain Jean-François Harquel

The use of TMS-EEG coupling as a neuroimaging tool for the functional exploration of the human brain recently gained strong interest. If this tool directly inherits the fine temporal resolution from EEG, its spatial counterpart remains unknown. In this stu ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Predicting task performance from biomarkers of mental fatigue in global brain activity

Mahsa Shoaran

Objective. Detection and early prediction of mental fatigue (i.e. shifts in vigilance), could be used to adapt neuromodulation strategies to effectively treat patients suffering from brain injury and other indications with prominent chronic mental fatigue. ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Breathing is coupled with voluntary action and the cortical readiness potential

Olaf Blanke, Oliver Alan Kannape, Hyeongdong Park, Coline Barnoud, Henri Dan Trang

Voluntary action is a fundamental element of self-consciousness. The readiness potential (RP), a slow drift of neural activity preceding self-initiated movement, has been suggested to reflect neural processes underlying the preparation of voluntary action; ...

Nature Research2020

Intracellular recording of cardiomyocyte action potentials with nanopatterned volcano-shaped microelectrodes

Benoît Xavier Emmanuel Desbiolles

Micro-nanotechnology based multielectrode arrays have led to remarkable progress in the field of transmembrane voltage recordings of excitable cells. However, electrode geometries alone have failed to produce a cell-electrode interface that is sufficiently ...

EPFL2020

Volcano-Shaped Scanning Probe Microscopy Probe for Combined Force-Electrogram Recordings from Excitable Cells

Philippe Renaud, Georg Fantner, Arnaud Bertsch, Mélanie Thérèse Marie Hannebelle, Benoît Xavier Emmanuel Desbiolles

Atomic force microscopy based approaches have led to remarkable advances in the field of mechanobiology. However, linking the mechanical cues to biological responses requires complementary techniques capable of recording these physiological characteristics ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Disentangling the origins of confidence in speeded perceptual judgments through multimodal imaging

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira, Stéphanie Martin, Arnaud Marc Desvachez, Marco Wirthlin

The human capacity to compute the likelihood that a decision is correct—known as metacognition—has proven difficult to study in isolation as it usually cooccurs with decision making. Here, we isolated postdecisional from decisional contributions to metacog ...

2020

Metabolite concentration changes associated with positive and negative BOLD responses in the human visual cortex: A functional MRS study at 7 Tesla

Rolf Gruetter, Yohan Boillat, Lijing Xin, Wietske Van der Zwaag

Negative blood oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) signal observed during task execution in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be caused by different mechanisms, such as a blood-stealing effect or neuronal deactivation. Electrophysiological re ...

2019

Whole brain measurements of the positive BOLD response variability during a finger tapping task at 7 T show regional differences in its profiles

Wietske Van der Zwaag, Yohan Boillat

PURPOSE: The positive BOLD response can vary across brain regions. Here, the positive BOLD responses of motor regions, including the cerebellum, were investigated by fast fMRI acquisition. METHODS: The participants were asked to perform an event-related fi ...

Wiley2019

Mapping and characterization of positive and negative BOLD responses to visual stimulation in multiple brain regions at 7T

Rolf Gruetter, Wietske Van der Zwaag, João Pedro Forjaco Jorge, Patricia Figueiredo

External stimuli and tasks often elicit negative BOLD responses in various brain regions, and growing experimental evidence supports that these phenomena are functionally meaningful. In this work, the high sensitivity available at 7T was explored to map an ...

Wiley2018

Quantification Of Resting-State Fmri Networks Driven By Hemodynamically Informed Spatiotemporal Regularization

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Fikret Isik Karahanoglu, Younes Farouj

The brain's spontaneous fluctuations measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging during rest cluster into recurrent activity patterns known as resting-state networks (RSNs). The spatial organization of RSNs in health and disease has been immensely in ...

IEEE2018

Time course of prediction errors in sequential decision making

Michael Herzog, He Xu

In reinforcement learning, an agent makes sequential decisions to maximize reward. During learning, the actual and expected outcome are compared to tell whether a decision was good or bad. The difference between the actual outcome and expected outcome is t ...

2018

Motor Attempt EEG Paradigm As a Diagnostic Tool for Disorders of Consciousness

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Christoph Schneider

To investigate whether a motor attempt EEG paradigm coupled with functional electrical stimulation can detect command following and, therefore, signs of conscious awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness, we recorded nine patients admitted to ...

2018

EEG paradigms as a supplemental tool to behavioral assessments of DOC

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Andrea Serino, Jean-Paul Noel

Introduction Diagnosis and prediction of recovery in the acute phase of disorders of consciousness (DOC) are critical for subsequent medical decisions. However, reliable assessment remains elusive due to the inability of current validated clinical scales t ...

2017

Electrophysiological correlates of visual backward masking in high schizotypic personality traits participants

Michael Herzog, Christine Mohr, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Guillaume Sierro

Visual backward masking is strongly deteriorated in patients with schizophrenia. Masking deficits are associated with strongly reduced amplitudes of the global field power in the EEG. Healthy participants who scored high in cognitive disorganization (a sch ...

Elsevier2017

EEG topographies provide subject-specific correlates of motor control

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Silvestro Micera, Elvira Pirondini, Martina Coscia, Jesús Minguillón Campos

Electroencephalography (EEG) of brain activity can be represented in terms of dynamically changing topographies (microstates). Notably, spontaneous brain activity recorded at rest can be characterized by four distinctive topographies. Despite their well-es ...

Nature Research2017

Apparent compensation mechanisms in relatives of schizophrenia patients in visual backward masking

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Patricia Figueiredo, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Visual backward masking (VBM) is strongly deteriorated in schizophrenia patients. VBM is a potential endophenotype of schizophrenia reflecting the genetic underpinnings of the disease (Chkonia et al., 2010). Masking deficits are highly correlated with redu ...

2016

Towards building an attentive artificial listener: on the perception of attentiveness in audio-visual feedback tokens

Jean-Marc Odobez, Kenneth Alberto Funes Mora, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach, Yu Yu

Current dialogue systems typically lack a variation of audio-visual feedback tokens. Either they do not encompass feedback tokens at all, or only support a limited set of stereotypical functions. However, this does not mirror the subtleties of spontaneous ...

ACM2016

Touch-Based System for Beat-to-Beat Impedance Cardiogram Acquisition and Hemodynamic Parameters Estimation

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Srinivasan Murali, Dionisije Sopic

Among all cardiovascular diseases, congestive heart failure (CHF) has a very high rate of hospitalization and mortality. In order to prevent hospitalization, there is a strong need to identify patients at risk of a CHF event by estimating a set of relevant ...

IEEE/ACM Press2016