119 results on '"Ciaramelli, Elisa"'
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102. Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage Impairs Source but Not Associative Memory
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Ciaramelli, Elisa, primary and Spaniol, Julia, additional
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- 2007
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103. A pilot study for rehabilitation of central executive deficits after traumatic brain injury
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Serino, Andrea, primary, Ciaramelli, Elisa, additional, Santantonio, Anna Di, additional, Malagù, Susanna, additional, Servadei, Franco, additional, and Làdavas, Elisabetta, additional
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- 2007
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104. Improving memory following prefrontal cortex damage with the PQRST method.
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Ciaramelli, Elisa, Neri, Francesco, Marini, Luca, Braghittoni, Davide, Ptak, Radek, and Jee Hyun Kim
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MEMORY disorders ,BRAIN damage ,BRAIN injuries ,PREFRONTAL cortex ,LONG-term memory ,EPISODIC memory ,MEDICAL rehabilitation - Abstract
We tested (1) whether the PQRST method, involving Preview (P), Question (Q), Read (R), State (S), and Test (T) phases, is effective in enhancing long-term memory in patients with mild memory problems due to prefrontal cortex lesions, and (2) whether patients also benefit from a more self-initiated version of the PQRST. Seven patients with prefrontal lesions encoded new texts under three different conditions: the Standard condition, requiring to read texts repeatedly, the PQRST-Other condition, in which the experimenter formulated questions about the text (Q phase), and the PQRST-Self condition, in which patients formulated the relevant questions on their own. Compared to the Standard condition, both the PQRST-Other and the PQRST-Self condition resulted in higher immediate and delayed recall rates, as well as a higher ability to answer questions about the texts. Importantly, the two PQRST conditions did not differ in efficacy. These results confirm that the PQRST method is effective in improving learning of new material in brain-injured populations with mild memory problems. Moreover, they indicate that the PQRST proves effective even under conditions with higher demands on patients' autonomy and self-initiation, which encourages its application to real-life situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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105. Dissociating episodic from semantic access mode by mutual information measures: Evidence from aging and Alzheimer’s disease
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Ciaramelli, Elisa, primary, Lauro-Grotto, Rosapia, additional, and Treves, Alessandro, additional
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- 2006
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106. Central executive system impairment in traumatic brain injury
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Serino, Andrea, primary, Ciaramelli, Elisa, additional, Di Santantonio, Anna, additional, Malagù, Susanna, additional, Servadei, Franco, additional, and Làdavas, Elisabetta, additional
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- 2006
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107. Myopic Discounting of Future Rewards after Medial Orbitofrontal Damage in Humans.
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Sellitto, Manuela, Ciaramelli, Elisa, and Pellegrino, Giuseppe di
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PREFRONTAL cortex , *CONTROL groups , *REWARD (Psychology) , *FRONTAL lobe , *PRECANCEROUS conditions , *IMPULSE control disorders , *TUMORS - Abstract
Choices are often intertemporal, requiring tradeoff of short-term and long-term outcomes. In such contexts, humans may prefer small rewards delivered immediately to larger rewards delivered after a delay, reflecting temporal discounting (TD) of delayed outcomes. The medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) is consistently activated during intertemporal choice, yet its role remains unclear. Here, patients with lesions in the mOFC (mOFC patients), control patients with lesions outside the frontal lobe, and healthy individuals chose hypothetically between small-immediate and larger-delayed rewards. The type of reward varied across three TD tasks, including both primary (food) and secondary (money and discount vouchers) rewards. We found that damage to mOFC increased significantly the preference for small-immediate over larger-delayed rewards, resulting in steeper ID of future rewards in mOFC patients compared with the control groups. This held for both primary and secondary rewards. All participants, including mOFC patients, were more willing to wait for delayed money and discount vouchers than for delayed food, suggesting that mOFC patients' (impatient) choices were not due merely to poor motor impulse control or consideration of the goods at stake. These findings provide the first evidence in humans that mOFC is necessary for valuation and preference of delayed rewards for intertemporal choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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108. The space for memory in posterior parietal cortex: Re-analyses of bottom-up attention data.
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Ciaramelli, Elisa and Moscovitch, Morris
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EPISODIC memory , *SIGNAL detection , *MEMORY , *ATTENTION , *SPACE - Abstract
The ventral (VPC) and dorsal sectors of the posterior parietal cortex are long known to mediate bottom-up and top-down attention to the external space. Because these regions also are implicated in retrieval of episodic memories, we proposed they also mediate attention to the internal (memory) space. One objection to this Attention to Memory hypothesis is that parietal regions involved in directing attention to percepts and memory are spatially adjacent but not overlapping, suggesting that different neural mechanisms are involved in each. This misalignment is most pronounced in VPC. Here, we re-examine fMRI data, and show that (1) different VPC subregions are associated with different aspects of bottom-up attention to the external space, (2) only VPC subregions showing invalid cue (but not oddball) effects overlap with those associated with episodic memory retrieval, leading us to conclude that (3) the same regions that signal unexpected percepts also signal unexpected memories. These findings are consistent with the 'overarching view' of VPC as deploying bottom-up attention during both perception and episodic memory retrieval, and suggest that the degree of anatomical convergence across the two domains depends on the correspondence between the specific bottom-up attention demands of perceptual and memory tasks. • Different VPC subregions mediate different aspects of bottom-up attention. • Overlapping VPC subregions signal detection of unexpected percepts and memories. • VPC plays an 'overarching role' in bottom-up attention. • Findings supports the role of posterior parietal cortex in Attention-to-Memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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109. Taking time to compose thoughts with prefrontal schemata.
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Ryom, Kwang Il, Basu, Anindita, Stendardi, Debora, Ciaramelli, Elisa, and Treves, Alessandro
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FRONTAL lobe , *PREFRONTAL cortex , *POTTS model , *MIND-wandering , *HIPPOCAMPUS (Brain) - Abstract
Under what conditions can prefrontal cortex direct the composition of brain states, to generate coherent streams of thoughts? Using a simplified Potts model of cortical dynamics, crudely differentiated into two halves, we show that once activity levels are regulated, so as to disambiguate a single temporal sequence, whether the contents of the sequence are mainly determined by the frontal or by the posterior half, or by neither, depends on statistical parameters that describe its microcircuits. The frontal cortex tends to lead if it has more local attractors, longer lasting and stronger ones, in order of increasing importance. Its guidance is particularly effective to the extent that posterior cortices do not tend to transition from state to state on their own. The result may be related to prefrontal cortex enforcing its temporally-oriented schemata driving coherent sequences of brain states, unlike the atemporal "context" contributed by the hippocampus. Modelling a mild prefrontal (vs. posterior) lesion offers an account of mind-wandering and event construction deficits observed in prefrontal patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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110. Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Does Not Play a Selective Role in Pattern Separation.
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Lauzon, Claire, Chiasso, Daniel, Rabin, Jennifer S., Ciaramelli, Elisa, and Rosenbaum, R. Shayna
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PREFRONTAL cortex , *MNEMONICS , *RECOLLECTION (Psychology) , *COGNITIVE aging , *MILD cognitive impairment , *HIPPOCAMPUS (Brain) - Abstract
Humans have the capacity to form new memories of events that are, at times, highly similar to events experienced in the past, as well as the capacity to integrate and associate new information within existing knowledge structures. The former process relies on mnemonic discrimination and is believed to depend on hippocampal pattern separation, whereas the latter is believed to depend on generalization signals and conceptual categorization supported by the neocortex. Here, we examine whether and how the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) supports discrimination and generalization on a widely used task that was primarily designed to tax hippocampal processes. Ten individuals with lesions to the vMPFC and 46 neurotypical control participants were administered an adapted version of the mnemonic similarity task [Stark, S. M., Yassa, M. A., Lacy, J. W., & Stark, C. E. L. A task to assess behavioral pattern separation (BPS) in humans: Data from healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2442–2449, 2013], which assesses the ability to distinguish previously learned images of everyday objects (targets) from unstudied, highly similar images (lures) and dissimilar images (foils). Relative to controls, vMPFC-lesioned individuals showed intact discrimination of lures from targets but a propensity to mistake studied targets and similar lures for dissimilar foils. This pattern was accompanied by inflated confidence despite low accuracy when responding to similar lures. These findings demonstrate a more general role of the vMPFC in memory retrieval, rather than a specific role in supporting pattern separation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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111. The relationship between moral judgment and intertemporal choice.
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Sellitto, M. anuela, Ciaramelli, Elisa, and di Pellegrino, Giuseppe
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MORAL judgment , *REWARD (Law) , *DILEMMA - Abstract
During intertemporal choice, people consider payoffs of both short- and long-term interests in prior to decide between smaller-sooner and larger-later rewards. Moral judgment, the ability to decide if action can be deemed as moral or immoral, is often intertemporal, requiring considering short- vs. long-term consequences of action. We investigated the relation between intertemporal choice and moral judgment in healthy young adults. Intertemporal choices involved larger-later reward against smaller-immediate or smaller-sooner monetary reward. Moral judgments included impersonal dilemmas, where violations did not involve one's own agency, and personal dilemmas, where violations involved one's own agency. Crucially, increased preference for immediate economic gratification was accompanied by increased willingness to accept personal and impersonal violations, and by reduced time to accept personal violations. We suggest that, once a common mechanism of anticipating consequences and emotions associated with action is less efficient, individuals are unable to make long-sighted choices, thus being less willing to wait longer for more convenient monetary reward, and unable to envision future negative consequences of being the agent of immoral action in the immediate present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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112. Retrograde amnesia abolishes the self-reference effect in anterograde memory.
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Stendardi, Debora, De Luca, Flavia, Gambino, Silvia, and Ciaramelli, Elisa
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AMNESIA , *MEMORY disorders , *PERSONALITY , *MEMORY , *SELF - Abstract
Is retrograde amnesia associated with an ability to know who we are and imagine what we will be like in the future? To answer this question, we had S.G., a patient with focal retrograde amnesia following hypoxia, two brain-damaged (control) patients with no retrograde memory deficits, and healthy controls judge whether each of a series of trait adjectives was descriptive of their present self, future self, another person, and that person in the future, and later recognize studied traits among distractors. Healthy controls and control patients were more accurate in recognizing self-related compared to other-related traits, a phenomenon known as the self-reference effect (SRE). This held for both present and future self-views. By contrast, no evidence of (present or future) SRE was observed in SG, who concomitantly showed reduced certainty about his personality traits. These findings indicate that retrograde amnesia can weaken the self-schema and preclude its instantiation during self-related processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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113. Who am I really? The ephemerality of the self-schema following vmPFC damage.
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Stendardi, Debora, Giordani, Luca Giacometti, Gambino, Silvia, Kaplan, Raphael, and Ciaramelli, Elisa
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JUDGMENT (Psychology) , *PREFRONTAL cortex , *INFORMATION retrieval , *REGRESSION analysis - Abstract
We studied the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in supporting the self-schema, by asking vmPFC patients, along with healthy and brain-damaged controls, to judge the degree to which they (or another person) were likely to engage in a series of activities, and how confident they were in their responses. Critically, participants provided their judgments on two separate occasions, a week apart. Our underlying assumption was that a strong self-schema would lead to confident and stable self-related judgments. We observed that control groups exhibited higher across-session consistency for self-related compared to other-related judgments, while this self-advantage was absent in vmPFC patients. In addition, regression analyses showed that in control groups the level of confidence associated with a specific (self- or other-related) judgment predicted the stability of that judgment across sessions. In contrast, vmPFC patients' confidence and rating consistency were aligned only for other-related judgments. By contrast, self-related judgments changed across sessions regardless of the confidence level with which they were initially endorsed. These findings indicate that the vmPFC is crucial to maintaining the self-schema and supporting the reliable retrieval of self-related information. • We studied the stability of self- and other-related judgments in vmPFC patients. • vmPFC (vs control) patients gave inconsistent self- but not other-related judgments. • vmPFC patients' confidence predicted the stability of other-related judgments. • vmPFC patients' confidence did dstnot predict the stability of self-related judgments. • vmPFC damage selectively impairs the self-schema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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114. The role of posterior parietal cortex and medial prefrontal cortex in distraction and mind-wandering.
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Giacometti Giordani, Luca, Crisafulli, Andrea, Cantarella, Giovanni, Avenanti, Alessio, and Ciaramelli, Elisa
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MIND-wandering , *PARIETAL lobe , *PREFRONTAL cortex , *ATTENTIONAL blink , *TRANSCRANIAL direct current stimulation , *DISTRACTION , *VISUAL perception - Abstract
Distraction reflects a drift of attention away from the task at hand towards task-irrelevant external or internal information (mind-wandering). The right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) are known to mediate attention to external information and mind-wandering, respectively, but it is not clear whether they support each process selectively or rather they play similar roles in supporting both. In this study, participants performed a visual search task including salient color singleton distractors before and after receiving cathodal (inhibitory) transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the right PPC, the mPFC, or sham tDCS. Thought probes assessed the intensity and contents of mind-wandering during visual search. The results show that tDCS to the right PPC but not mPFC reduced the attentional capture by the singleton distractor during visual search. tDCS to both mPFC and PPC reduced mind-wandering, but only tDCS to the mPFC specifically reduced future-oriented mind-wandering. These results suggest that the right PPC and mPFC play a different role in directing attention towards task-irrelevant information. The PPC is involved in both external and internal distraction, possibly by mediating the disengagement of attention from the current task and its reorienting to salient information, be this a percept or a mental content (mind-wandering). By contrast, the mPFC uniquely supports mind-wandering, possibly by mediating the endogenous generation of future-oriented thoughts capable to draw attention inward, away from ongoing activities. • tDCS over the PPC reduces attention toward external distractors and mind-wandering. • tDCS over mPFC attenuates future-based mind-wandering. • PPC mediates both external and internal distraction (mind-wandering). • mPFC selectively mediates in mind-wandering, especially towards the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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115. Episodic future thinking and future-based decision-making in a case of retrograde amnesia
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Francesca Benuzzi, Elena Bertossi, Davide Braghittoni, Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Elisa Ciaramelli, Flavia De Luca, De Luca, Flavia, Benuzzi, Francesca, Bertossi, Elena, Braghittoni, Davide, di Pellegrino, Giuseppe, and Ciaramelli, Elisa
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Male ,Memory, Episodic ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Decision Making ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,050105 experimental psychology ,Thinking ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Source amnesia ,Retrospective memory ,medicine ,Humans ,Semantic memory ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Gray Matter ,Episodic memory ,Episodic future thinking ,Autobiographical memory ,Decision-making ,Retrograde amnesia ,Long-term memory ,05 social sciences ,Brain ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Semantics ,nervous system ,Imagination ,Amnesia, Retrograde ,Childhood memory ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
We investigated episodic future thinking (EFT) and future-based cognition and decision-making in patient SG, who developed a dense retrograde amnesia following hypoxia due to a cardiac arrest. Despite intact general cognitive and executive functioning, SG was unable to remember events from his entire lifetime. He had, however, relatively spared anterograde memory and general semantic knowledge. Voxel-based morphometry detected a reduction of gray matter in the thalamus, cerebellum and fusiform gyrus bilaterally, and, at a reduced threshold, in several regions of the autobiographical memory network, including the hippocampi. We show that SG is unable to imagine personal future events, but can imagine fictitious events not self-relevant and not located in subjective time. Despite severely impaired EFT, SG shows normal attitudes towards the future time, and normal delay discounting rates. These findings suggest that retrieval of autobiographical information from long-term memory is necessary for EFT. However, relatively spared anterograde memory and general semantic knowledge may be sufficient to allow construction of fictitious experiences. As well, EFT is not necessary to drive future-oriented cognition and choice. These findings highlight the relation between autobiographical memory and EFT, and the fractionation of human temporal consciousness. Moreover, they contribute to our understanding of retrograde amnesia as an impairment of memory as well as future thinking.
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- 2018
116. Ventromedial prefrontal damage reduces mind-wandering and biases its temporal focus
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Elena Bertossi, Elisa Ciaramelli, Bertossi, E., and Ciaramelli, Elisa
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Adult ,Male ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Chronesthesia ,Ventromedial prefrontal cortex ,Prefrontal Cortex ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Aneurysm, Ruptured ,ventromedial prefrontal cortex ,Brain mapping ,050105 experimental psychology ,Thinking ,default mode network ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Mind-wandering ,medicine ,Humans ,Attention ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,mental time travel ,Dominance, Cerebral ,Prefrontal cortex ,Default mode network ,Brain Mapping ,fungi ,05 social sciences ,mind-wandering ,Intracranial Aneurysm ,Cognition ,Original Articles ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Stroke ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Brain Damage, Chronic ,Female ,Nerve Net ,Construct (philosophy) ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Mind-wandering, an ubiquitous expression of humans' mental life, reflects a drift of attention away from the current task towards self-generated thoughts, and has been associated with activity in the brain default network. To date, however, little is understood about the contribution of individual nodes of this network to mind-wandering. Here, we investigated whether the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is critically involved in mind-wandering, by studying the propensity to mind-wander in patients with lesion to the vmPFC (vmPFC patients), control patients with lesions not involving the vmPFC, and healthy individuals. Participants performed three tasks varying in cognitive demands while their thoughts were periodically sampled, and a self-report scale of daydreaming in daily life. vmPFC patients exhibited reduced mind-wandering rates across tasks, and claimed less frequent daydreaming, than both healthy and brain-damaged controls. vmPFC damage reduced off-task thoughts related to the future, while it promoted those about the present. These results indicate that vmPFC critically supports mind-wandering, possibly by helping to construct future-related scenarios and thoughts that have the potential to draw attention inward, away from the ongoing tasks.
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- 2016
117. Transcranial direct current stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex dampens mind-wandering in men
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Elena Bertossi, Elisa Ciaramelli, Alessio Avenanti, Ludovica Peccenini, Andrea Solmi, Bertossi, Elena, Peccenini, Ludovica, Solmi, Andrea, Avenanti, Alessio, and Ciaramelli, Elisa
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_treatment ,media_common.quotation_subject ,lcsh:Medicine ,Prefrontal Cortex ,Choice Behavior ,Fantasy ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,050105 experimental psychology ,Article ,Thinking ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Perception ,Mind-wandering ,medicine ,Reaction Time ,gender ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Attention ,lcsh:Science ,Prefrontal cortex ,Default mode network ,media_common ,Choice reaction time ,Transcranial direct-current stimulation ,lcsh:R ,05 social sciences ,fungi ,mind-wandering ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Memory, Short-Term ,lcsh:Q ,Female ,Functional organization ,transcranial direct current stimulation ,Psychology ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,psychological phenomena and processes ,medial prefrontal cortex ,multidisciplinary - Abstract
Mind-wandering, the mind’s capacity to stray from external events and generate task-unrelated thought, has been associated with activity in the brain default network. To date, little is understood about the contribution of individual nodes of this network to mind-wandering. Here, we investigated the role of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in mind-wandering, by perturbing this region with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Young healthy participants performed a choice reaction time task both before and after receiving cathodal tDCS over mPFC, and had their thoughts periodically sampled. We found that tDCS over mPFC - but not occipital or sham tDCS - decreased the propensity to mind-wander. The tDCS-induced reduction in mind-wandering occurred in men, but not in women, and was accompanied by a change in the content of task-unrelated though, which became more related to other people (as opposed to the self) following tDCS. These findings indicate that mPFC is crucial for mind-wandering, possibly by helping construction of self-relevant scenarios capable to divert attention inward, away from perceptual reality. Gender-related differences in tDCS-induced changes suggest that mPFC controls mind-wandering differently in men and women, which may depend on differences in the structural and functional organization of distributed brain networks governing mind-wandering, including mPFC.
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- 2017
118. Improving memory following prefrontal cortex damage with the PQRST method
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Elisa eCiaramelli, Francesco eNeri, Luca eMarini, Davide eBraghittoni, Ciaramelli, Elisa, Neri, F, Marini, L, and Braghittoni, Davide
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Cognitive Neuroscience ,Amnesia ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,Developmental psychology ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,long-term memory ,amnesia ,medicine ,In patient ,Cognitive rehabilitation therapy ,Prefrontal cortex ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,Episodic memory ,Original Research ,prefrontal cortex ,Long-term memory ,Long term memory, PFC, neuropsychology ,Neuropsychology ,episodic memory ,Memory problems ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,medicine.symptom ,cognitive rehabilitation ,Psychology ,Neuroscience ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
We tested (1) whether the PQRST method, involving Preview (P), Question (Q), Read (R), State (S), and Test (T) phases, is effective in enhancing long-term memory in patients with mild memory problems due to prefrontal cortex lesions, and (2) whether patients also benefit from a more self-initiated version of the PQRST. Seven patients with prefrontal lesions encoded new texts under three different conditions: the Standard condition, requiring to read texts repeatedly, the PQRST-Other condition, in which the experimenter formulated questions about the text (Q phase), and the PQRST-Self condition, in which patients formulated the relevant questions on their own. Compared to the Standard condition, both the PQRST-Other and the PQRST-Self condition resulted in higher immediate and delayed recall rates, as well as a higher ability to answer questions about the texts. Importantly, the two PQRST conditions did not differ in efficacy. These results confirm that the PQRST method is effective in improving learning of new material in brain-injured populations with mild memory problems. Moreover, they indicate that the PQRST proves effective even under conditions with higher demands on patients' autonomy and self-initiation, which encourages its application to real-life situations.
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- 2015
119. Time bisection and reproduction: Evidence for a slowdown of the internal clock in right brain damaged patients.
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Cantarella G, Vianello G, Vezzadini G, Frassinetti F, Ciaramelli E, and Candini M
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- Humans, Cerebral Cortex, Prefrontal Cortex, Neuropsychological Tests, Brain Mapping, Functional Laterality, Brain diagnostic imaging, Brain Injuries complications, Time Perception
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Previous studies show that the right hemisphere is involved in time processing, and that damage to the right hemisphere is associated with a tendency to perceive time intervals as shorter than they are, and to reproduce time intervals as longer than they are. Whether time processing deficits following right hemisphere damage are related and what is their neurocognitive basis is unclear. In this study, right brain damaged (RBD) patients, left brain damaged (LBD) patients, and healthy controls underwent a time bisection task and a time reproduction task involving time intervals varying between each other by milliseconds (short durations) or seconds (long durations). The results show that in the time bisection task RBD patients underestimated time intervals compared to LBD patients and healthy controls, while they reproduced time intervals as longer than they are. Time underestimation and over-reproduction in RBD patients applied to short but not long time intervals, and were correlated. Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) showed that time underestimation was associated with lesions to a right cortico-subcortical network involving the insula and inferior frontal gyrus. A small portion of this network was also associated with time over-reproduction. Our findings are consistent with a slowdown of an 'internal clock' timing mechanism following right brain damage, which likely underlies both the underestimation and the over-reproduction of time intervals, and their (overlapping) neural bases., (Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
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- 2023
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