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Teaching an adult brain new tricks: a critical review of evidence for training-dependent structural plasticity in humans.
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It is found that limitations of experimental design, statistical methods, and methodological artifacts may underlie many of the reported effects, seriously undermining the evidence for training-dependent structural changes in adult humans.About:
This article is published in NeuroImage.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 206 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Brain mapping.read more
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Beneficial effects of physical exercise on neuroplasticity and cognition.
Kirsten Hötting,Brigitte Röder +1 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that physical exercise may trigger processes facilitating neuroplasticity and, thereby, enhances an individual's capacity to respond to new demands with behavioral adaptations.
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Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners
Kieran C. R. Fox,Savannah Nijeboer,Matthew L. Dixon,James L. Floman,Melissa Ellamil,Samuel P. Rumak,Peter Sedlmeier,Kalina Christoff +7 more
TL;DR: This meta-analysis reviewed and meta-analyzed 123 brain morphology differences from 21 neuroimaging studies examining ∼300 meditation practitioners to definitively link meditation practice to altered brain morphology.
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Assessing rodent hippocampal involvement in the novel object recognition task. A review.
TL;DR: It is asserted that standardization of the NOR protocol is essential for obtaining reliable data that can be compared across studies to build consensus as to the specific contribution of the rodent hippocampus to object memory.
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Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology.
TL;DR: This article argues that one organizing element of the many differences between liberals and conservatives is the nature of their physiological and psychological responses to features of the environment that are negative, and suggests approaches for refining understanding of the broad relationship between political views and response to the negative.
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Neuroplasticity as a function of second language learning: anatomical changes in the human brain.
TL;DR: This article reviews emerging evidence regarding how structural neuroplasticity occurs in the brain as a result of one's bilingual experience and aims at identifying the processes and mechanisms that drive experience-dependent anatomical changes, and integrating structural imaging evidence with current knowledge of functional neural plasticity of language and other cognitive skills.
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John Ashburner,Karl J. Friston +1 more
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Nonparametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging: A primer with examples
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Measuring the thickness of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images
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The basis of anisotropic water diffusion in the nervous system – a technical review
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