Stereotype activation is unintentional: Behavioural and event-related potenials evidence.

In this study, a priming Stroop paradigm was used to determine whether stereotype activation is unintentional. Priming conditions (priming/no-priming) and the relationship between priming and target (consistent/inconsistent/no-relation) were the independent variables; accuracy, reaction time and N400 amplitude were used as dependent variables. The reaction time revealed that stereotype activation is, to some extent, unintentional.

Prevalence and predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms among child survivors 1 year following the Wenchuan earthquake in China.

The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence rates of probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression and to explore potential risk factors among child and adolescent survivors 1 year following the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. 3052 participants were administered the Child PTSD Symptom Scale, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children, and the earthquake experience scale. Results indicated that the prevalence rates of probable PTSD and depression were 8.

Electrophysiological correlates of reading the single- and interactive-mind.

Understanding minds is the cognitive basis of successful social interaction. In everyday life, human mental activity often happens at the moment of social interaction among two or multiple persons instead of only one-person. Understanding the interactive mind of two- or multi-person is more complex and higher than understanding the single-person mind in the hierarchical structure of theory of mind.

Neural correlates of audio-visual modal interference inhibition investigated in children by ERP.

In order to detect cross-sectional age characteristics of cognitive neural mechanisms in audio-visual modal interference inhibition, event-related potentials (ERP) of 14 10-year-old children were recorded while performing the words interference task. In incongruent conditions, the participants were required to inhibit the audio interference words of the same category. The present findings provided the preliminary evidence of brain mechanism for the children's inhibition development in the specific childhood stage.

Event-related potential effects of superior action anticipation in professional badminton players.

The ability to predict the trajectory of a ball based on the opponent's body kinematics has been shown to be critical to high-performing athletes in many sports. However, little is known about the neural correlates underlying such superior ability in action anticipation. The present event-related potential study compared brain responses from professional badminton players and non-player controls when they watched video clips of badminton games and predicted a ball's landing position.

Athletic training in badminton players modulates the early C1 component of visual evoked potentials: a preliminary investigation.

One basic question in brain plasticity research is whether individual life experience in the normal population can affect very early sensory-perceptual processing. Athletes provide a possible model to explore plasticity of the visual cortex as athletic training in confrontational ball games is quite often accompanied by training of the visual system. We asked professional badminton players to watch video clips related to their training experience and predict where the ball would land and examined whether they differed from non-player controls in the elicited C1, a visual evoked potential indexing V1 activity.

Involvement of the left inferior frontal gyrus in predictive inference making.

Although predictive inference in reading has been extensively investigated with behavioral paradigms, little is known about its neural substrates. Manipulating the likelihood that a particular event can be predicted from the content of a preceding three-sentence story, the present functional MRI study showed that the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) and the right lingual gyrus were involved in predictive inference generation. It is suggested that the LIFG was responsible for the construction of predictive inference and the right lingual gyrus for integrating the constructed inference into a coherent text representation.

False belief reasoning in the brain: an ERP study.

Understanding others mind and interpersonal interaction are the cognitive basis of successful social interactions. People's mental states and behaviors rely on their holding beliefs for self and others. To investigate the neural substrates of false belief reasoning, the 32 channels event-related potentials (ERP) of 14 normal adults were measured while they understood false-belief and true belief used deceptive appearance task.