Pathological perturbations of the brain are rarely confined to a single locus; instead, they
often spread via axonal pathways to influence other regions. Patterns of such disease …

The availability of neuroimaging technology has spurred a marked increase in the human
cognitive neuroscience literature, including the study of cognitive ageing. Although there is a …

Psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, arise from abnormalities in brain
systems that underlie cognitive, emotional, and social functions. The brain is enormously …

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a brain response to violations of a rule, established by a
sequence of sensory stimuli (typically in the auditory domain)[Näätänen R. Attention and …

Bayesian model selection (BMS) is a powerful method for determining the most likely among
a set of competing hypotheses about the mechanisms that generated observed data. BMS …

The motor system comprises a network of cortical and subcortical areas interacting via
excitatory and inhibitory circuits, thereby governing motor behaviour. The balance within the …

Over the last 2 decades, a large number of neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies of
patients with schizophrenia have furnished in vivo evidence for dysconnectivity, ie, abnormal …

Musical rhythm, consisting of apparently abstract intervals of accented temporal events, has
a remarkable capacity to move our minds and bodies. How does the cognitive system …

Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) is a generic Bayesian framework for inferring hidden
neuronal states from measurements of brain activity. It provides posterior estimates of …

Although the processes that underlie sharing others' emotions (empathy) and understanding
others' mental states (mentalizing, Theory of Mind) have received increasing attention, it is …