Imaging structural co-variance between human brain regions

A Alexander-Bloch, JN Giedd, E Bullmore - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Brain structure varies between people in a markedly organized fashion. Communities of
brain regions co-vary in their morphological properties. For example, cortical thickness in …

Neuroplasticity as a function of second language learning: Anatomical changes in the human brain

P Li, J Legault, KA Litcofsky - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
The brain has an extraordinary ability to functionally and physically change or reconfigure its
structure in response to environmental stimulus, cognitive demand, or behavioral …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Apprendre!: les talents du cerveau, le défi des machines

S Dehaene - 2018 - shs.cairn.info
Un socle génétique, notre ADN (acide désoxyribonucléique), composé de trois milliards de
paires de nucléotides1, sorte de «gros œuvre» qui détermine la mise en place d'un réseau …

Plasticity in gray and white: neuroimaging changes in brain structure during learning

RJ Zatorre, RD Fields, H Johansen-Berg - Nature neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
Human brain imaging has identified structural changes in gray and white matter that occur
with learning. However, ascribing imaging measures to underlying cellular and molecular …

Explaining world‐wide variation in navigation ability from millions of people: citizen science project sea hero quest

HJ Spiers, A Coutrot… - Topics in cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Navigation ability varies widely across humans. Prior studies have reported that being
younger and a male has an advantage for navigation ability. However, these studies have …

Do “brain-training” programs work?

DJ Simons, WR Boot, N Charness… - … science in the …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2014, two groups of scientists published open letters on the efficacy of brain-training
interventions, or “brain games,” for improving cognition. The first letter, a consensus …

Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation

A Lutz, HA Slagter, JD Dunne, RJ Davidson - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional
regulatory training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well …

[HTML][HTML] Acquiring “the Knowledge” of London's layout drives structural brain changes

K Woollett, EA Maguire - Current biology, 2011 - cell.com
The last decade has seen a burgeoning of reports associating brain structure with specific
skills and traits (eg,[1–8]). Although these cross-sectional studies are informative, cause and …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] How can the human mind occur in the physical universe?

JR Anderson - 2009 - books.google.com
" The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now
know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles …

Experience-dependent structural plasticity in the adult human brain

A May - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2011 - cell.com
Contrary to assumptions that changes in brain networks are possible only during crucial
periods of development, research in the past decade has supported the idea of a …