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Unraveling the Complexities of Motor Imagery and Its Impact on the Brain's Capabilities
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This study is dedicated to identifying differences in 4 types of motor imagery: first-person visual imagery, third-person visual imagery, kinesthetic imagery and sensory imagery. The research task includes Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) over the motor cortex, during which Motor Evoked Potentials over 3 arm muscles will be measured. Also, correlations will be calculated between MEP amplitude and motor imagery vividness, as well as with some individual characteristics of the subjects (such as depression, anxiety, handedness, footedness, alexithymia and tendency for maladaptive daydreaming).
Pechenkova E., Rachinskaya M., Vasilenko V. et al., Вопросы психологии 2024 Т. 70 № 6 С. 105–115
Modern psychological accounts of mental imagery distinguish two aspects of visual mental representation: object (representation of pictorial features, such as shape, color, and texture) and spatial (representation of spatial relations and transformations). The hypothetical neural substrates of object and spatial imagery are the ventral and dorsal visual pathways in the brain. To study spatial imagination, ...
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Davydova A., Sheronova J., Kosonogov V. et al., Journal of Visualized Experiments 2025 No. 226 Article e67500
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a powerful method for revealing causal links between specific brain regions and cognitive functions. While offline TMS has traditionally dominated cognitive neuroscience research, online repetitive TMS (rTMS) presents undoubted advantages, enabling stimulation concurrent with task performance. Leveraging advancements in this stimulation method, the study introduces a novel online rTMS protocol ...
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Volodina M., Ossadtchi A., Makarova M. et al., В кн.: Когнитивная наука в Москве: новые исследования. Материалы конференции 25 – 26 июня 2025.: М.: Буки Веди, 2025.
It is known that the motor cortex exhibits increased excitability during the systolic phase of the cardiac cycle (Al et al., 2023). Previous studies have shown that self-observation can enhance interoceptive sensitivity (Ainley et al., 2012). We hypothesized that visual stimuli enhancing bodily awareness could influence the relationship between the phase of the cardiac cycle and ...
Added: September 9, 2025
Makarova M., Некрасова Ю. Ю., Fedosov N. et al., Brain Stimulation 2025 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 495
Сortico-spinal neuron excitability can be tracked using rhythmic oscillations whose phase plays a pivotal role in assessing the state of the pertinent neural network. Brain’s oscillatory activity can be non-invasively registered with electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG). Using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) contingent upon the parameters of the ongoing brain activity was shown to have numerous applications in both research and clinics. Despite the potential, the described closed-loop ...
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Pechenkova E., Mary Rachinskaya, Vasilenko V. et al., Vision 2025 Vol. 9 No. 2 Article 30
The ability to adopt different perspectives, or vantage points, is fundamental to human cognition, affecting reasoning, memory, and imagery. While the first-person perspective allows individuals to experience a scene through their own eyes, the thirdperson perspective involves an external viewpoint, which is thought to demand greater cognitive effort and different neural processing. Despite the frequent ...
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W. Joseph MacInnes, Zhozhikashvili N., Feurra M., , in: First International Conference, AIiH 2024, Swansea, UK, September 4–6, 2024, Proceedings, Part II. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. LNCS, volume 14976Vol. 14976.: Springer, 2024. P. 221–234.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) match human performance in many visual tasks like the classification of images, however they may not simulate the underlying biological processes. We implemented a CNN to try replicate results from an object inversion experiment with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). After training on upright faces, the CNN model went through three stages ...
Added: January 28, 2025
Иванушко В. П., Vasilenko V., Pechenkova E., Психология. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2025 Т. 22 № 3 С. 522–533
Object imagery, representing pictorial features, and spatial imagery, representing spatial relations and transformations, are two aspects of visual mental imagery distinguished in the literature. While spatial imagery is assessed primarily with performance tests that allow an objective assessment of mental images, object imagery is assessed mainly on the basis of subjective self-report on imagery vividness. ...
Added: January 17, 2025
Астафьева Д. С., Власов Я. В., Стрельник А. И. et al., Нервно-мышечные болезни 2023 Т. 13 № 2 С. 20–30
По общемировым данным, нейропатическая боль встречается у 7 % населения и в 57-65 % случаев сопровождается коморбидной депрессией, что, в свою очередь, усугубляет течение болезни и ухудшает качество жизни пациентов. Ритмическая транскраниальная магнитная стимуляция (рТМС) представляет собой неинвазивный нефармакологический метод терапии депрессии, также способный помочь пациентам облегчить восприятие нейропатической боли. Представлен обзор результатов применения протоколов ...
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Fedosov N., Julia Nekrasova, Makarova M. et al., , in: 2023 IEEE Ural-Siberian Conference on Computational Technologies in Cognitive Science, Genomics and Biomedicine (CSGB), 28-30 Sept. 2023.: IEEE, 2023. P. 189–195.
The paper introduces a novel hardware-software complex for the low latency real time phase-dependent transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS) neurofeedback. The software with key elements implemented on the board of the EEGrecording device accurately tracks the sensorimotor rhythm phase with minimal time-delay and immediately sends the trigger to the TMS-device. An accurate phase estimation is achieved by ...
Added: December 7, 2023
A. G. Davydova, J. P. Sheronova, V. V. Kosonogov et al., Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology 2023 Vol. 53 No. 2 P. 247–256
The theory of cognitive dissonance (CD) is tightly linked with studies of the process of making complex decisions. In particular, CD is manifest within the framework of the “free choice paradigm” consisting of reassessment of alternatives as a result of choosing between two similar alternatives via the motivation to reduce internal conflict. The mechanisms of ...
Added: April 18, 2023
Vlasov A., Kuzmina L. P., Petraikin A. V. et al., Brain Stimulation 2023 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 278–278
Our goal was to evaluate genetic and gender differences in motor threshold (MT) using monophasic single pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).
Methods. In this pilot study, we used TMS over dominant primary motor cortex and recorded motor evoked potentials (MEP) from the contralateral which yielded a higher MT than other TMS methods. We applied the monophasic stimulation ...
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Rossi S., Santarnecchi E., Feurra M., Handbook of Clinical Neurology 2022 Vol. 184 P. 239–247
Recent technological advances in the field of noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) have allowed to interact with endogenous brain oscillatory activity, the main neural communication code of our brain, opening new scenarios for transient modifications of cognitive and behavioral performances: such a possibility can be capitalized both for research purposes in subjects healthy, as well as ...
Added: October 29, 2022
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The theory of cognitive dissonance suggested by Leon Festinger (1957) relies on the psychological observations of the inconsistency between people’s choice and actions and proposes that the conflict between choice and actions causes the internal conflict named cognitive dissonance, which leads to the potential modification of the behavior or attitudes to reduce or eliminate this ...
Added: October 24, 2022
Nazarova M., Цивилева В., Иванов Т. et al., European Stroke Journal 2021 Vol. 6 P. 248–248
Background and Aims: The possibility to evoke a motor response
(MEP) in a hand muscle by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a
common proxy of the corticospinal tract integrity after a motor stroke.
However, it is still not clear how many muscles should be studied, and
which muscles are preferable to probe. Here we aimed to investigate
corticospinal excitability in ...
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Forearm and hand muscles exhibit high coactivation and overlapping of cortical motor representations
Tardelli G., Souza V. H., Matsuda R. et al., bioRxiv 2021
Most of the motor mapping procedures using navigated transcranial magnetic stimualiton (nTMS) follows the conventional somatotopic organization of the primary motor cortex (M1) by assessesing the representation of a particular target muscle, disregarding the possible coactivation of synergistic muscles. In turn, multiple reports describe a functional organization of the M1 with an overlapping among motor ...
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Nazarova M., Козлова К. Д., Novikov P. et al., , in: European Stroke Journal -Volume 6 Issue 1_suppl, September 2021 - abstracts from the ESOC 2021 Virtual ConferenceVol. 6. Issue 1: suppl. Sep 01, 2021.: European Stroke Organisation, 2021. Ch. EPP0214/#1630 P. 247–248.
SOMATOTOPY OF THE INTERHEMISPHERIC INTERACTIONS REFLECTED IN PHYSIOLOGICAL MIRROR ACTIVITY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
M. Nazarova, K. Kozlova , P. Novikov , M. Ivanov , M. Reshetnikov , M. Mitina , E. Nikiforova , M. Baklushev and V. Nikulin
Background and Aims: Interhemispheric interaction plays an important role in motor stroke recovery, especially in the field of neuromodulation. Interhemispheric ...
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Pozdniakov I., Vorobyova A., Galli G. et al., Scientific Reports 2021 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 1–10
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that allows interaction with endogenous cortical oscillatory rhythms by means of external sinusoidal potentials. The physiological mechanisms underlying tACS effects are still under debate. Whereas online (e.g., ongoing) tACS over the motor cortex induces robust state-, phase- and frequency-dependent effects on cortical excitability, the ...
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Nazarova M., Иванина Е. О., Asmolova A. et al., Clinical Neurophysiology 2020 Vol. 131 No. 4 P. e128–e129
Question:Paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation(ppTMS) is a common approach to probe cortical excitatory and inhi-bitory processes [a]. ppTMS paradigms can be classified by the inter-stimulus interval (ISI) to long and short interval ppTMS. It isassumed, that short interval ppTMS phenomena such as short-inter-val cortical inhibition phenomenon (SICI) are rather focal and arediscussed in terms of ...
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