What the “man in the moon” can tell us about the future of our brains

Högl, Birgit

doi:10.21037/atm.2017.06.05

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“…Interestingly, iRBD patients with pareidolia showed symptoms suggesting that they belong to a subgroup close to DLB (Sasai-Sakuma, Nishio, Yokoi, Mori, & Inoue, 2017). Högl commented their findings were “not only another fast and convenient test for neurodegeneration in iRBD, but also has the potential to indicate a more specific pathologic profile and clinical endpoint” (Högl, 2017).…”

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Do you see the “face”? Individual differences in face pareidolia

Zhou

Meng

2020

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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People tend to see faces from non-face objects or meaningless patterns. Such illusory face perception is called face pareidolia. Previous studies have revealed an interesting fact that there are huge individual differences in face pareidolia experience among the population. Here, we review previous findings on individual differences in face pareidolia experience from four categories: sex differences, developmental factors, personality traits and neurodevelopmental factors. We further discuss underlying cognitive or neural mechanisms to explain why some perceive the objects as faces while others do not. The individual differences in face pareidolia could not only offer scientific insights on how the brain works to process face information, but also suggest potential clinical applications.

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Do you see the “face”? Individual differences in face pareidolia

Zhou

Meng

2020

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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“…The direct cortical electrical stimulation (DCES) technique is the gold standard in testing language areas. Many studies have demonstrated the presence of specific cortical language areas in bilinguals using DCES; specifically, they found that the electrical stimulation on certain cortical areas caused disturbances in only one of the two languages (7)(8)(9)(10). This shows that the language areas of two languages may not fully overlapped.…”

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Positioning features of vocal, semantic, and graphemic task zones in Chinese-English bilinguals

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Background: Bilinguals are people that can use two languages for oral communication. Many bilinguals have specific language-associated cortical regions. This study aimed to analyze the cortical positioning features of vocal, semantic, and graphemic task zones in unskilled late Chinese (first)-English (second) (ULCE) bilinguals using the blood-oxygen-level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-fMRI) technique.Methods: Twelve ULCE bilinguals were assigned Chinese-English (C-E) vocal, semantic, and graphemic tasks; SPM8 software was used to compare and investigate the brain activation maps towards different language tasks and to calculate their corresponding lateralization indexes (LIs).Results: These three language tasks in simple Chinese could activate most traditional language zones, which all exhibited obvious left-deviated activation dominance. A simple English task could also activate most traditional language zones, but only the semantic task appeared to have obvious left-deviated lateralization.However, none of the three tasks displayed any specific language zones between Chinese and English on the group level.Conclusions: Vocal, semantic, and graphemic tasks can all activate multiple brain regions in the language network and reflect their respective cognitive processing characteristics. Bilingual processing in ULCE bilinguals has similar neural mechanisms, but the left-deviated lateralization is not obvious when performing English vocal and graphemic tasks.

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Idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder and neurodegeneration — an update

2017

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So-called idiopathic rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), formerly seen as a rare parasomnia, is now recognized as the prodromal stage of an α-synucleinopathy. Given the very high risk that patients with idiopathic RBD have of developing α-synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson disease (PD), PD dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies or multiple system atrophy, and the outstandingly high specificity and very long interval between the onset of idiopathic RBD and the clinical manifestations of α-synucleinopathies, the prodromal phase of this disorder represents a unique opportunity for potentially disease-modifying intervention. This Review provides an update on classic and novel biomarkers of α-synuclein-related neurodegeneration in patients with idiopathic RBD, focusing on advances in imaging and neurophysiological, cognitive, autonomic, tissue-specific and other biomarkers. We discuss the strengths, potential weaknesses and suitability of these biomarkers for identifying RBD and neurodegeneration, with an emphasis on predicting progression to overt α-synucleinopathy. The role of video polysomnography in providing quantifiable and potentially treatment-responsive biomarkers of neurodegeneration is highlighted. In light of all these advances, and the now understood role of idiopathic RBD as an early manifestation of α-synuclein disease, we call for idiopathic RBD to be reconceptualized as isolated RBD.

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What the “man in the moon” can tell us about the future of our brains

Cited by 3 publications

References 37 publications

Do you see the “face”? Individual differences in face pareidolia

Do you see the “face”? Individual differences in face pareidolia

Positioning features of vocal, semantic, and graphemic task zones in Chinese-English bilinguals

Idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder and neurodegeneration — an update

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