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New framework for rehabilitation - fusion of cognitive and physical rehabilitation: the hope for dancing.

Front Psychol

February 2015

Department of Biology, York University Toronto, ON, Canada ; Department of Psychology, Centre for Vision Research, York University Toronto, ON, Canada.

Neurorehabilitation programs are commonly employed with the goal to help restore functionality in patients. However, many of these therapies report only having a small impact. In response to the need for more effective and innovative approaches, rehabilitative methods that take advantage of the neuroplastic properties of the brain have been used to aid with both physical and cognitive impairments.

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Beat-induced fluctuations in auditory cortical beta-band activity: using EEG to measure age-related changes.

Front Psychol

July 2014

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada ; McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada ; Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Hospital Toronto, ON, Canada.

People readily extract regularity in rhythmic auditory patterns, enabling prediction of the onset of the next beat. Recent magnetoencephalography (MEG) research suggests that such prediction is reflected by the entrainment of oscillatory networks in the brain to the tempo of the sequence. In particular, induced beta-band oscillatory activity from auditory cortex decreases after each beat onset and rebounds prior to the onset of the next beat across tempi in a predictive manner.

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The voice is one of the most important media for communication, yet there is a wide range of abilities in both the perception and production of the voice. In this article, we review this range of abilities, focusing on pitch accuracy as a particularly informative case, and look at the factors underlying these abilities. Several classes of models have been posited describing the relationship between vocal perception and production, and we review the evidence for and against each class of model.

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The most recently encountered information is often most easily remembered in psychological tests of memory. Recent investigations of the neural basis of such "recency effects" have shown that activation in the lateral inferior parietal cortex (LIPC) tracks the recency of a probe item when subjects make recognition memory judgments. A key question regarding recency effects in the LIPC is whether they fundamentally reflect the storage (and strength) of information in memory, or whether such effects are a consequence of task difficulty or an upswing in resting state network activity.

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Older adults typically exhibit poorer face recognition compared to younger adults. These recognition differences may be due to underlying age-related changes in eye movement scanning. We examined whether older adults' recognition could be improved by yoking their eye movements to those of younger adults.

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