4 results match your criteria: "University of Trento Mattarello[Affiliation]"

Objects are reminiscent of actions often performed with them:knife and apple remind us on peeling the apple or cutting it. Mnemonic representations of object-related actions (action codes) evoked by the sight of an object may constrain and hence facilitate recognition of unrolling actions. The present fMRI study investigated if and how action codes influence brain activation during action observation.

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Altered GABAergic markers, increased binocularity and reduced plasticity in the visual cortex of Engrailed-2 knockout mice.

Front Cell Neurosci

July 2014

Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council (CNR) Pisa, Italy ; Laboratory of Molecular Neuropathology, Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento Mattarello, Trento, Italy.

The maturation of the GABAergic system is a crucial determinant of cortical development during early postnatal life, when sensory circuits undergo a process of activity-dependent refinement. An altered excitatory/inhibitory balance has been proposed as a possible pathogenic mechanism of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The homeobox-containing transcription factor Engrailed-2 (En2) has been associated to ASD, and En2 knockout (En2 (-/-)) mice show ASD-like features accompanied by a partial loss of cortical GABAergic interneurons.

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Processing of complex distracting sounds in school-aged children and adults: evidence from EEG and MEG data.

Front Psychol

October 2013

Center for Mind/Brain Science, University of Trento Mattarello, Italy ; Institute of Psychology, University of Leipzig Leipzig, Germany.

When a perceiver performs a task, rarely occurring sounds often have a distracting effect on task performance. The neural mismatch responses in event-related potentials to such distracting stimuli depend on age. Adults commonly show a negative response, whereas in children a positive as well as a negative mismatch response has been reported.

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Unimanual SNARC Effect: Hand Matters.

Front Psychol

October 2012

Laboratories of Functional Neuroimaging, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento Mattarello, Italy.

A structural representation of the hand embedding information about the identity and relative position of fingers is necessary to counting routines. It may also support associations between numbers and allocentric spatial codes that predictably interact with other known numerical spatial representations, such as the mental number line (MNL). In this study, 48 Western participants whose typical counting routine proceeded from thumb-to-little on both hands performed magnitude and parity binary judgments.

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