Publications by Frank Scharnowski

The role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in dorsomedial prefrontal-amygdala neural circuitry during positive-social emotion regulation

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush, Gwladys Rey

Positive-social emotions mediate one's cognitive performance, mood, well-being, and social bonds, and represent a critical variable within therapeutic settings. It has been shown that the upregulation of positive emotions in social situations is associated ...

Wiley2020

No time for drifting: Comparing performance and applicability of signal detrending algorithms for real-time fMRI

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush, Rotem Roza Kopel

As a consequence of recent technological advances in the field of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), results can now be made available in real-time. This allows for novel applications such as online quality assurance of the acquisition, intra-op ...

2019

Data-driven tensor independent component analysis for model-based connectivity neurofeedback

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush, Nemanja Masala

Neurofeedback based on real-time functional MRI is an emerging technique to train voluntary control over brain activity in healthy and disease states. Recent developments even allow for training of brain networks using connectivity feedback based on dynami ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

Brain networks for engaging oneself in positive-social emotion regulation

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush

Positive emotions facilitate cognitive performance, and their absence is associated with burdening psychiatric disorders. However, the brain networks regulating positive emotions are not well understood, especially with regard to engaging oneself in positi ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

Using real-time fMRI neurofeedback to restore right occipital cortex activity in patients with left visuo-spatial neglect: proof-of-principle and preliminary results

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski

Hemineglect is common after right parietal stroke, characterised by impaired awareness for stimuli in left visual space, with suppressed neural activity in the right visual cortex due to losses in top-down attention signals. Here we sought to assess whethe ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2019

Building perception block by block: a response to Fekete et al

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski, Adrien Christophe Doerig

Is consciousness a continuous stream, or do percepts occur only at certain moments of time? This age-old question is still under debate. Both positions face difficult problems, which we proposed to overcome with a 2-stage model, where unconscious processin ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2019

OpenNFT: An open-source Python/Matlab framework for real-time fMRI neurofeedback training based on activity, connectivity and multivariate pattern analysis

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush

Neurofeedback based on real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) is a novel and rapidly developing research field. It allows for training of voluntary control over localized brain activity and connectivity and has demonstrated promising cli ...

Elsevier2017

Distributed Patterns of Brain Activity Underlying Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback Training

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Rotem Roza Kopel, Kirsten Emmert

Neurofeedback (NF) based on real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) is an exciting neuroimaging application. In most rt-fMRI NF studies, the activity level of a single region of interest (ROI) is provided as a feedback signal and the part ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept?

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski

We experience the world as a seamless stream of percepts. However, intriguing illusions and recent experiments suggest that the world is not continuously translated into conscious perception. Instead, perception seems to operate in a discrete manner, just ...

Public Library of Science2016

Manipulating motor performance and memory through real-time fMRI neurofeedback

Frank Scharnowski

Task performance depends on ongoing brain activity which can be influenced by attention, arousal, or motivation. However, such modulating factors of cognitive efficiency are unspecific, can be difficult to control, and are not suitable to facilitate neural ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Dynamic reconfiguration of human brain functional networks through neurofeedback

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Rotem Roza Kopel

Recent fMRI studies demonstrated that functional connectivity is altered following cognitive tasks (e.g., learning) or due to various neurological disorders. We tested whether real-time fMRI-based neurofeedback can be a tool to voluntarily reconfigure brai ...

Elsevier2013

Connectivity-based neurofeedback: Dynamic causal modeling for real-time fMRI

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush

Neurofeedback based on real-time fMRI is an emerging technique that can be used to train voluntary control of brain activity. Such brain training has been shown to lead to behavioral effects that are specific to the functional role of the targeted brain ar ...

Elsevier2013

Two primes priming: Does feature integration occur before response activation?

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski, Thomas Schmidt, Julianne Grainger

Responses to a target can be sped up or slowed down by a congruent or incongruent prime, respectively. Even though presentations are rapid, the prime and the target are thought to activate motor responses in strict sequence, with prime activation preceding ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2013

Connectivity Measures For Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush

2013

Automatic grouping of regular structures

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski

To cope with the continuously incoming stream of input, the visual system has to group information across space and time. Usually, spatial and temporal grouping are investigated separately. However, recent findings revealed that these two grouping mechanis ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2010

Long-lasting modulation of feature integration by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski, Johannes Rüter

The human brain analyzes a visual object first by basic feature detectors. On the objects way to a conscious percept, these features are integrated in subsequent stages of the visual hierarchy. The time course of this feature integration is largely unknown ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2009

Spatial grouping determines temporal integration

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski

To make sense out of a continuously changing visual world, people need to integrate features across space and time. Despite more than a century of research, the mechanisms of features integration are still a matter of debate. To examine how temporal and sp ...

American Psychological Association2009

How TMS and stimulus off/on signals modulate feature integration

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski, Johannes Rüter

When a right offset vernier is immediately followed by a left offset vernier (or vice versa), only one vernier is perceived. Feature fusion has occurred. In feature fusion, observers cannot resolve the two verniers individually. Subjects perform at chance ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2008

How TMS and (light) masks modulate feature integration

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski, Johannes Rüter

2008

Feature fusion reveals slow and fast visual memories

Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski

Although the visual system can achieve a coarse classification of its inputs in a relatively short time, the synthesis of qualia-rich and detailed percepts can take substantially more time. If these prolonged computations were to take place in a retinotopi ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2007