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The cognitive representation of intending not to act: Evidence for specific non-action-effect bindingSimone Kühn
Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Cognition 117:9-16. 2010..Our results suggest that the representation of non-actions contains a facilitation of the alternative action rather than a suppression of the action in question...
"Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotionsSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
PLoS ONE 6:e16569. 2011....
Resting-state brain activity in schizophrenia and major depression: a quantitative meta-analysisSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Schizophr Bull 39:358-65. 2013..The vmPFC has previously been identified as a crucial area for self-referential processing and may represent a target to increase the diagnostic validity of resting-state activity for disorders with dysfunctions of the self...
Whodunnit? Electrophysiological correlates of agency judgementsSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
PLoS ONE 6:e28657. 2011....
Higher prefrontal cortical thickness in high schizotypal personality traitSimone Kühn
Charite University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Große Hamburger Straße 5 11, 10115 Berlin, Germany
J Psychiatr Res 46:960-5. 2012..One may speculate that this finding is in line with the hypothesis of a compensatory role of greater prefrontal cortex in schizotypy in healthy populations...
Why ruminators won't stop: The structural and resting state correlates of rumination and its relation to depressionSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Belgium University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, United Kingdom Electronic address
J Affect Disord 141:352-60. 2012..Rumination is a good predictor of major depression. The current study explores the structural and functional neural correlates of rumination...
The neural basis of video gamingS Kuhn
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Transl Psychiatry 1:e53. 2011..This activity was likewise negatively correlated with deliberation time. The association of video game playing with higher left ventral striatum volume could reflect altered reward processing and represent adaptive neural plasticity...
Hippocampal subfields predict positive symptoms in schizophrenia: first evidence from brain morphometryS Kuhn
Charite University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
Transl Psychiatry 2:e127. 2012..Our observation opens the gate for advanced investigation of the commonly reported hippocampal abnormalities in schizophrenia in terms of specific subfields...
Quantitative meta-analysis on state and trait aspects of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophreniaSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Schizophr Bull 38:779-86. 2012....
The neural correlates of subjective pleasantnessSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Neuroimage 61:289-94. 2012..The results suggest that the evaluation of likability or pleasure is an automatic process and that it is neither elicited nor enhanced by instructions to report the outcome of these judgements...
Reduction of cerebellar grey matter in Crus I and II in schizophreniaSimone Kühn
Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Charite University Medicine, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Brain Struct Funct 217:523-9. 2012..The failure of conventional VBM to detect such effects suggests that previous studies might have underestimated the importance of cerebellar structural deficits in schizophrenia...
Brain grey matter deficits in smokers: focus on the cerebellumSimone Kühn
Charite University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany
Brain Struct Funct 217:517-22. 2012..Of note, the dependence-related magnitude of the volume deficit may support the notion that the cerebellum is substantially involved in core mechanisms of drug dependence...
Common biology of craving across legal and illegal drugs - a quantitative meta-analysis of cue-reactivity brain responseSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Eur J Neurosci 33:1318-26. 2011..The ACC, right pallidum and ventral striatum were related to drug cue reactivity as well as self-reported craving, suggesting that this set of brain regions constitutes the core circuit of drug craving in nicotine and alcohol addiction...
A quantitative meta-analysis on cue-induced male sexual arousalSimone Kühn
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology and Gent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Gent University, Henri Dunantlaan, Gent, Belgium
J Sex Med 8:2269-75. 2011..Visually induced sexual arousal is a common occurrence in human behavior. The cerebral underpinnings of this response have been explored in recent neuroimaging studies...
Structural correlates of trait anxiety: reduced thickness in medial orbitofrontal cortex accompanied by volume increase in nucleus accumbensSimone Kühn
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
J Affect Disord 134:315-9. 2011....
Planning not to do something: Does intending not to do something activate associated sensory consequences?Simone Kühn
Ghent University, Belgium
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 10:454-9. 2010....
Reduced thickness of medial orbitofrontal cortex in smokersSimone Kühn
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Biol Psychiatry 68:1061-5. 2010..However, to date an analysis of cortical thickness in smokers compared with never-smokers has not been undertaken...
Neural correlates of emotional synchronySimone Kühn
Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Clinical Experimental Psychology, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:368-74. 2011..However, incongruent emotional states activated the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as well as posterior superior temporal gyrus/sulcus, both playing a role in conflict processing...
Brain areas consistently linked to individual differences in perceptual decision-making in younger as well as older adults before and after trainingSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Gent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 23:2147-58. 2011..We conclude that the striatum is involved in regulating response thresholds, whereas the inferior parietal lobe might represent decision-making evidence related to letters and numbers...
The functional and neural mechanism of action preparation: roles of EBA and FFA in voluntary action controlSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 23:214-20. 2011..These observations provide further support for the ideomotor theory and suggest that visual imagery might play a role in voluntary action control...
Dissociating mental states related to doing nothing by means of fMRI pattern classificationSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Metabolic Imaging, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Neuroimage 53:1294-300. 2010..Hence our data support the implicit assumption of legal practice that voluntary non-action shares important features with overt voluntary action...
The neural underpinnings of event-file management: evidence for stimulus-induced activation of and competition among stimulus-response bindingsSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology, Universityof Gent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 23:896-904. 2011..The particular pattern obtained is consistent with predictions from diffusion models of decision making, which suggest a crucial role of local competition in response selection...
Why do I like you when you behave like me? Neural mechanisms mediating positive consequences of observing someone being imitatedSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Soc Neurosci 5:384-92. 2010..Moreover mOFC/vmPFC shows higher effective connectivity with striatum and mid-posterior insula during being imitated compared to not being imitated...
Minimizing motor mimicry by myself: self-focus enhances online action-control mechanisms during motor contagionStephanie Spengler
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Independent Junior Research Group Body and Self, Leipzig, Germany
Conscious Cogn 19:98-106. 2010..This indicates that a self-focus provoking situation can enhance online action-control mechanisms, needed to resist unintentional motor contagion tendencies and thereby enables a modulation of automatic mirroring responses...
The implementation of verbal instructions: an fMRI studyEgbert Hartstra
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Hum Brain Mapp 32:1811-24. 2011..Therefore, we conclude that the implementation of verbal instructions results from an interplay of a brain areas that represent novel rulelike information in domain general terms and brain areas that are specific to S-R rules...
Experience-dependent plasticity of white-matter microstructure extends into old ageMartin Lövdén
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Neuropsychologia 48:3878-83. 2010....
Intentional inhibition: how the "veto-area" exerts controlSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Hum Brain Mapp 30:2834-43. 2009..This view of dFMC is consistent with a new view of self-control as a key stage in a cognitive-motor interface...
Performance-related increases in hippocampal N-acetylaspartate (NAA) induced by spatial navigation training are restricted to BDNF Val homozygotesMartin Lövdén
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, Germany
Cereb Cortex 21:1435-42. 2011..BDNF genotype moderates these plastic changes, in line with the contention that gene-context interactions shape the ontogeny of complex phenotypes...
Inducing disbelief in free will alters brain correlates of preconscious motor preparation: the brain minds whether we believe in free will or notDavide Rigoni
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Gent, Padova, Italy
Psychol Sci 22:613-8. 2011..Our findings indicate that abstract belief systems might have a much more fundamental effect than previously thought...
Spatial navigation training protects the hippocampus against age-related changes during early and late adulthoodMartin Lövdén
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Neurobiol Aging 33:620.e9-620.e22. 2012....
The neural correlates of intending not to do somethingSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
J Neurophysiol 101:1913-20. 2009....
Common structural correlates of trait impulsiveness and perceptual reasoning in adolescenceChristina Schilling
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 34:374-83. 2013..This study investigates whether there are common structural cerebral correlates of trait impulsiveness and cognitive functioning in a large sample of healthy adolescents from the IMAGEN project...
Healthy brooders employ more attentional resources when disengaging from the negative: an event-related fMRI studyMarie Anne Vanderhasselt
Department of Experimental and Clinical Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Gent, Belgium
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 11:207-16. 2011..These mechanisms might protect them from developing depressive symptoms...
Functional mechanisms involved in the internal inhibition of taboo wordsEls Severens
Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:431-5. 2012..This finding strongly suggests that external social rules become internalized and act as a stop-signal...
Retrospective construction of the judgement of free choiceSimone Kühn
Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Conscious Cogn 18:12-21. 2009..Our data support the retrospective account of intentional action. Furthermore, we introduce an experimental approach that objectifies introspective judgments of awareness of intention...
When the brain tames the tongue: covert editing of inappropriate languageEls Severens
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Psychophysiology 48:1252-7. 2011..This component has previously been interpreted as reflecting conflict. These results indicate that taboo utterances can indeed be detected and corrected internally...
Challenging a decade of brain research on task switching: brain activation in the task-switching paradigm reflects adaptation rather than reconfiguration of task setsWouter De Baene
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Hum Brain Mapp 33:639-51. 2012..Therefore, our results call the classical reconfiguration interpretation into question and provide first evidence for adaptation of abstract task representations...
Outcome expectancy and not accuracy determines posterror slowing: ERP supportElena Núñez Castellar
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 10:270-8. 2010..The results support the hypothesis that posterror slowing is caused by attentional orienting to unexpected events...
Busy doing nothing: evidence for nonaction--effect bindingSimone Kühn
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Psychon Bull Rev 16:542-9. 2009..Moreover, we demonstrate that nonactions have to be initiated voluntarily in order to elicit nonaction-effect binding...
Testing the connection of the mirror system and speech: how articulation affects imitation in a simple response taskSimone Kühn
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuropsychologia 46:1513-21. 2008..These findings provide strong experimental support for the assumption that language production and imitation share common functional mechanisms...
Manual dexterity correlating with right lobule VI volume in right-handed 14-year-oldsSimone Kühn
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Neuroimage 59:1615-21. 2012..Although neuronal cerebellar structures mediate dexterity, classical whole brain voxel-based morphometry (VBM) has not identified structural correlates of dexterity in the cerebellum...
Cortical thickness correlates with impulsiveness in healthy adultsChristina Schilling
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Campus Mitte, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Große Hamburger Str 5 11, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Neuroimage 59:824-30. 2012..This study investigates whether there are overlapping as well as distinct structural cerebral correlates of attentional, motor and nonplanning impulsiveness in healthy adults...
When doing nothing is an option: the neural correlates of deciding whether to act or notSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Gent, Belgium
Neuroimage 46:1187-93. 2009..This finding strongly supports the assumption that intentionally not acting can be considered as a mode of action...
Better to take one long or two quick looks? Independent processing of evidence from discrete visual presentationsWolf Schwarz
Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:1337-52. 2008..These predictions were tested, confirmed, and extended in 5 letter-identification experiments that focused on the mechanism by which information extracted from single arrays is integrated across different looks...
Does taste matter? How anticipation of cola brands influences gustatory processing in the brainSimone Kühn
Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Charite University Medicine, Berlin, Germany The Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
PLoS ONE 8:e61569. 2013..The present results reveal strong effects of brand labels on neural responses signalling reward...
Gray matter correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder: a quantitative meta-analysisSimone Kühn
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Berlin, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 73:70-4. 2013..Cerebral gray matter reductions have been suggested to be a crucial pathobiological marker of PTSD. However, a quantitative meta-analysis of whole-brain voxel-based morphometry studies is lacking...
There is no free won't: antecedent brain activity predicts decisions to inhibitElisa Filevich
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 8:e53053. 2013..Last-moment decisions to inhibit or delay may depend on unconscious preparatory neural activity...
The Internal Anticipation of Sensory Action Effects: When Action Induces FFA and PPA ActivitySimone Kühn
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University Gent, Belgium
Front Hum Neurosci 4:54. 2010..This observation constitutes support for ideomotor theory...
