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Simultanagnosia: when a rose is not redH Branch Coslett
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:36-48. 2008..We suggest that binding of object identity and location is a limited-capacity operation that is essential for conscious awareness for which the posterior parietal lobe is crucial...
Cognitive timing: neuropsychology and anatomic basisH Branch Coslett
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Brain Res 1254:38-48. 2009..There was a significant correlation between impaired performance and lesions of the parietal lobe but there was no effect of laterality of lesion or correlation between lateral frontal lobe lesions and impairment on any task...
Mental motor imagery and chronic pain: the foot laterality taskH Branch Coslett
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 16:603-12. 2010..These data suggest that motor imagery may provide important insights into the nature of the pain experience...
Dissociable neural systems for timing: evidence from subjects with basal ganglia lesionsH Branch Coslett
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e10324. 2010..Although controversy persists, many lines of evidence, including studies in animals, functional imaging studies in humans and lesion studies in humans and animals suggest that the basal ganglia are important for temporal processing [1]...
Anosognosia and body representations forty years laterH Branch Coslett
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Cortex 41:263-70. 2005
Increased effect of target eccentricity on covert shifts of visual attention in patients with neglectRoy H Hamilton
Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Cortex 46:68-76. 2010..By either account, we argue that neglect is characterized by an eccentricity-dependent deficit in the allocation of attention...
Bare hands and attention: evidence for a tactile representation of the human bodyH Branch Coslett
Department of Neurology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 42:1865-76. 2004..These data demonstrate that the hand may serve as a conduit for attention and provide strong evidence for a distinct representation of the body surface that is at least in part independent of spatial representations...
Simultanagnosia: effects of semantic category and repetition blindnessH Branch Coslett
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 46:1853-63. 2008..More generally, these data are consistent with the claim that the posterior parietal cortex is crucial for individuating a stimulus by computing its unique spatio-temporal characteristics...
Mental motor imagery indexes pain: the hand laterality taskH Branch Coslett
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Eur J Pain 14:1007-13. 2010..The hand laterality task may supplement the assessment of subjects with chronic arm/shoulder pain...
Accurate reaching after active but not passive movements of the hand: evidence for forward modelingH Branch Coslett
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Behav Neurol 19:117-25. 2008..The possibility that such estimates may also contribute to the awareness of body position and to self-recognition is discussed...
Knowledge of the human body: a distinct semantic domainH Branch Coslett
Department of Neurology, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neurology 59:357-63. 2002..These descriptions of specific semantic category deficits have contributed substantially to the understanding of the architecture of semantic representations...
Longitudinal patterns of semantic and episodic memory in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and Alzheimer's diseaseSharon X Xie
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 16:278-86. 2010..These data suggest the presence of specific longitudinal patterns of impairment for episodic and semantic memory in AD and FTLD patients suggesting that all forms of dementia do not necessarily converge into a single phenotype...
Neuropsychological decline in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a longitudinal analysisDavid J Libon
Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19129, USA
Neuropsychology 23:337-46. 2009..These data indicate that distinct patterns of neuropsychological impairment are maintained longitudinally, reflecting the unique anatomic distribution of relative disease burden in AD and FTLD...
Anterior temporal involvement in semantic word retrieval: voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping evidence from aphasiaMyrna F Schwartz
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, MossRehab 4th fl Sley, 1200 West Tabor Road, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
Brain 132:3411-27. 2009..At the same time, they cast doubt on the classical linkage of semantic error production to lesions in and around Wernicke's area...
Left inferior parietal representations for skilled hand-object interactions: evidence from stroke and corticobasal degenerationLaurel J Buxbaum
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
Cortex 43:411-23. 2007....
Disruption of temporal processing in a subject with probable frontotemporal dementiaMartin Wiener
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 46:1927-39. 2008..These data suggest that bifrontal pathology disrupts the "clock" or memory for time...
The effects of bromocriptine on attention deficits after traumatic brain injury: a placebo-controlled pilot studyJohn Whyte
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 87:85-99. 2008..To evaluate the effects of bromocriptine on a variety of aspects of attention, ranging from laboratory-based impairment measures to caregiver ratings and work productivity, in individuals after traumatic brain injury...
Assessment of spatial attention and neglect with a virtual wheelchair navigation taskLaurel J Buxbaum
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 30:650-60. 2008..The VR task thus shows promise as a sensitive, efficient measure of real-life navigation...
Support for anterior temporal involvement in semantic error production in aphasia: new evidence from VLSMGrant M Walker
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Brain Lang 117:110-22. 2011....
Executive function as a predictor of inattentive behavior after traumatic brain injuryJunghoon Kim
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 11:434-45. 2005..The current study supports the hypothesis that executive function, measured by commonly used neuropsychological tests, significantly predicts certain aspects of inattentive behavior in real-world tasks after TBI...
Distinct antemortem profiles in patients with pathologically defined frontotemporal dementiaMurray Grossman
Department of Neurology, 2 Gibson, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Arch Neurol 64:1601-9. 2007..Clinical-pathologic studies are crucial to understanding brain-behavior relations and improving diagnostic accuracy in neurodegenerative diseases...
An acquired deficit of audiovisual speech processingRoy H Hamilton
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Brain Lang 98:66-73. 2006..Unlike normal controls, he showed no McGurk effect. We propose that multisensory binding of audiovisual language cues can be selectively disrupted...
Carving the clock at its component joints: neural bases for interval timingElaine B Wencil
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Neurophysiol 104:160-8. 2010..Therefore accumulator and comparator functioning of the internal clock are mediated by distinct as well as partially overlapping neural regions...
The Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition (PBAC): a validated screening measure for dementiaDavid J Libon
Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 25:1314-30. 2011..The PBAC is a valid tool and able to assesses differential patterns neuropsychological/behavioral impairment in a broad range of neurodegenerative conditions...
Role of inflectional regularity and semantic transparency in reading morphologically complex words: evidence from acquired dyslexiaA Cris Hamilton
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Neurocase 14:347-68. 2008....
Two-component models of reaching: evidence from deafferentation in a Fitts' law taskJared Medina
Department of Neurology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neurosci Lett 451:222-6. 2009..Furthermore, these data also demonstrate that proprioception is needed to calibrate and maintain internal models of action...
Mental motor imagery and the body schema: evidence for proprioceptive dominanceJeffrey T Shenton
University of Pennsylvania, 3 West Gates Building, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neurosci Lett 370:19-24. 2004..We suggest that, at least under some circumstances, proprioceptive inflow may represent the dominant sensory input to the on-line representation of the body in space...
The role of sensory-motor information in object recognition: evidence from category-specific visual agnosiaDavid A Wolk
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 3400 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Brain Lang 94:131-46. 2005..These data suggest that both information about object form computed in the ventral visual system as well as sensory-motor information specifying the manner of manipulation contribute to object recognition...
Illusory conjunctions in simultanagnosia: coarse coding of visual feature location?Simon M McCrea
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 34 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:1724-36. 2006..Finally, the data provide additional support for the claim that the dorsal parieto-occipital cortex is implicated in the binding of visual feature information...
Frontotemporal dementia: clinicopathological correlationsMark S Forman
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283, USA
Ann Neurol 59:952-62. 2006....
Differences in word associations to pictures and wordsEleanor M Saffran
Department of Communication Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:1541-6. 2003....
From maps to form to space: touch and the body schemaJared Medina
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:645-54. 2010....
Computer-mouse tracking reveals TMS disruptions of prefrontal function during semantic retrievalNicholas C Hindy
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
J Neurophysiol 102:3405-13. 2009....
Inappropriate usage of the Brunner-Munzel test in recent voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping studiesJared Medina
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:341-3. 2010..To correct for this we suggest that researchers use a permutation derived correction as implemented in current versions of MRIcron when using the Brunner-Munzel test...
Interval timing disruptions in subjects with cerebellar lesionsCynthia M Gooch
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce St, 2 Gibson 4283, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:1022-31. 2010..We suggest that this region be considered part of a network of brain structures including the DLPFC that is crucial for interval timing...
Distinctions between manipulation and function knowledge of objects: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imagingConsuelo B Boronat
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Korman 213, 1200 W. Tabor Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23:361-73. 2005..No brain regions were significantly more activated in the F than M condition. These data suggest that brain regions specialized for sensory-motor function are a critical component of distributed representations of manipulable objects...
Research with rTMS in the treatment of aphasiaMargaret A Naeser
Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and the Harold Goodglass Boston University Aphasia Research Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Restor Neurol Neurosci 28:511-29. 2010..Part 4 also addresses some of the possible mechanisms involved with improved naming and speech, following rTMS with nonfluent aphasia patients...
Contributions of efference copy to limb localization: evidence from deafferentationJared Medina
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Brain Res 1355:104-11. 2010..We propose that efference copy can provide a consistent estimate of limb position that becomes less informative over the course of the movement. We discuss the implications of these data for current models of motor control...
Improved proper name recall by electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobesLars A Ross
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19112, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:3671-4. 2010..These findings are consistent with the notion that the anterior temporal lobes are critically involved in the retrieval of people's names...
Localization of sublexical speech perception componentsPeter E Turkeltaub
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 3 West Gates Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Brain Lang 114:1-15. 2010....
Implicit timing activates the left inferior parietal cortexMartin Wiener
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:3967-71. 2010..Furthermore, in conjunction with a previously reported meta-analysis of explicit timing tasks, our data support the claim that implicit and explicit timing are supported by at least partially distinct neural structures...
Refractory access disorders and the organization of concrete and abstract semantics: do they differ?A Cris Hamilton
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 3 West Gates, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
Neurocase 14:131-40. 2008..We discuss the implications of our data for models of semantic organization of abstract and concrete words...
Double dissociation of dopamine genes and timing in humansMartin Wiener
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 23:2811-21. 2011..These data provide a potential biological basis for the distinctions between sub- and supra-second timing and suggest that BG are integral for the former whereas pFC is implicated in the latter...
Power in Voxel-based lesion-symptom mappingDaniel Y Kimberg
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 19:1067-80. 2007..Here, we outline general considerations for voxel-based methods, characterize the use of a nonparametric permutation test adapted from functional neuroimaging, and present methods for regional power analysis in lesion studies...
Hemispheric mediation of spatial attention: pseudoneglect after callosal strokeDavid A Wolk
Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Ann Neurol 56:434-6. 2004..These results are consistent with the notion that each hemisphere supports spatial attention-intention toward contralateral space and that the corpus callosum is critical in the integration of such information...
Amantadine treatment of hemispatial neglect: a double-blind, placebo-controlled studyLaurel J Buxbaum
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 86:527-37. 2007....
Disorders of the perceptual-motor systemSteven A Jax
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Adv Exp Med Biol 629:377-91. 2009....
Cerebrospinal fluid profile in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's diseaseMurray Grossman
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Ann Neurol 57:721-9. 2005..We conclude that CSF tau levels are significantly reduced in many patients with FTD...
Stimulating conversation: enhancement of elicited propositional speech in a patient with chronic non-fluent aphasia following transcranial magnetic stimulationRoy H Hamilton
Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Brain Lang 113:45-50. 2010..These findings suggest that manipulation of the intact contralesional cortex in patients with non-fluent aphasia may result in language benefits that generalize beyond naming to include other aspects of language production...
Effects of methylphenidate on attention deficits after traumatic brain injury: a multidimensional, randomized, controlled trialJohn Whyte
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 83:401-20. 2004..Further research is needed to identify the optimal dose and to extend these findings to less carefully selected individuals...
Limitations of attentional orienting. Effects of abrupt visual onsets and offsets on naming two objects in a patient with simultanagnosiaAntonella Pavese
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Neuropsychologia 40:1097-103. 2002..Visual offset of the first object disengages attention from the first object, allowing it to be allocated to the second object...
Impairment in writing, but not reading, morphologically complex wordsA Cris Hamilton
Department of Neurology, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:1586-90. 2007..The data also suggest that the lexical representations mediating reading and writing are, at least in part, dissociable...
Evidence for multiple, distinct representations of the human bodyJohn Schwoebel
Cabrini College, Radnor, PA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:543-53. 2005....
Screening for frontotemporal dementias and Alzheimer's disease with the Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition: a preliminary analysisDavid J Libon
New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 24:441-7. 2007..A neuropsychological screening instrument sensitive to neuropsychological deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) would be valuable for diagnostic evaluation...
Research Grants
- Cognitive neuroscience of temporal processingH Branch Coslett; Fiscal Year: 2010..Finally, we propose to use transcranial magnetic stimulation to identify specific brain regions that are necessary for normal temporal processing. ..
- Cognitive neuroscience of temporal processingH Coslett; Fiscal Year: 2009..Finally, we propose to use transcranial magnetic stimulation to identify specific brain regions that are necessary for normal temporal processing. ..
- The cognitive neuroscience of body knowledgeH Coslett; Fiscal Year: 2007..Understanding the cerebral basis of motor control and the body schema is likely to contribute substantially to the development of interventions that target these representations. ..
- Cognitive neuroscience of temporal processingH Coslett; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, we propose to use transcranial magnetic stimulation to identify specific brain regions that are necessary for normal temporal processing. ..
- Motor Imagery as a Measure of Pain SeverityH Coslett; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, as mental motor imagery tasks require minimal language capacity or abstract reasoning, we propose to investigate the use of these measures in subjects with cognitive impairment. ..
- SPATIAL INFLUENCES ON LANGUAGE FUNCTIONH Coslett; Fiscal Year: 2002..abstract_text> ..
- BODY REPRESENTATIONS--NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND ANATOMIC BASISH Coslett; Fiscal Year: 2001..The potential clinical significance of this work is also clear. If, as hypothesized, the body schema is crucial to action, interventions targeting this representations may have important therapeutic implications. ..
- Cognitive neuroscience of temporal processingH Branch Coslett; Fiscal Year: 2010..Finally, we propose to use transcranial magnetic stimulation to identify specific brain regions that are necessary for normal temporal processing. ..
