Joan C. Borod's research while affiliated with City University of New York - Queens College and other places

... Our observed recruitment of activity in the right hemisphere of brocas analogue aligns with a longstanding hypothesis of right-hemispheric preference for affect processing (Borod et al., 1998), potentially reflecting right inferior frontal gyrus/sulcus response to prosodic features of affective vocalisations (Rota et al., 2009). More recent work demonstrates that this network may not be quite so right-sided dominant (Frühholz & Grandjean, 2013), or in fact play a role in specific mediation of other areas during voice recognition tasks (Aglieri et al., 2018). ...

... When there is an emotional arousal, one observes bodily changes resulting from the activities of the brain and the autonomic nervous and endocrine systems. Though the involvement of the brain in emotional discharge is not so well understood, it is noted that emotion involves important interaction between the cortical and subcortical areas (Borod, 2016). Students who go to school need a level of emotional stability for functionality. ...

... Alterations in emotional processing, particularly in recognition of emotions, have been reported for several types of dementia. 9,10 In particular, it is commonly found in patients with behavioral and semantic variants of frontotemporal dementia. 10,11 For AD patients, although it is less prominent, studies have reported their difficulty in recognizing emotional expressions across different types of emotions, where it was most pronounced in recognizing "fear" and the least for "surprised." 12 For DLB, a few studies have suggested deficits in recognizing emotional expressions depending on the type of emotion, for example, diminished recognition of "surprised" faces 13 note that investigations into emotional processing alterations in DLB are still limited. ...

... These findings suggest that there might be an increase in putamen function during the early stages of the illness (Malaspina et al., 2004;Digney et al., 2005;Kumakura et al., 2007). Furthermore, studies indicate that the enlargement of the putamen in SCZ may serve as a diagnostic characteristic, and a greater putamen volume has been linked to positive treatment outcomes (Buchsbaum et al., 2003;Brickman et al., 2006;Kawasaki et al., 2007). Brain regions with significant differences in the ReHo values at baseline between patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. ...

... (2) Paired Associate Learning Test (PALT): this test is used to evaluate verbal memory, based on semantic cueing [8]. (3) Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT): for evaluation of visual (perceptual, memory, motor) and visuoconstructive abilities [9]. (4) Token Test: it is used to evaluate receptive language skills [10]. ...

... Repeatedly accessing such phonological associations in response to visual stimuli (i.e., letters) progressively automatizes that process (Ehri, 2005;Ehri & Saltmarsh, 1995;Jones et al., 2018) resulting in the apparent effortlessness of skilled reading. Performance in visual-verbal versions of the paired associate learning task ; an episodic memory paradigm which assesses the ability to accurately bind two distinct items together in memory (Scorpio et al., 2018) and retrieve them later as a single entity (Brockmole & Franconeri, 2009) -has been shown to discriminate typical readers from those with dyslexia (e.g., Jones et al., 2018;Toffalini et al., 2018;Wang, Wass, & Castles, 2017). Paired associate learning performance accounts for unique variance in reading ability, and impairments to the underlying skills appear to result in clinically significant reading difficulties (Litt & Nation, 2014;Wang et al. 2017), supporting the assumption that the task taps abilities that are crucial for skilled reading acquisition. ...

... • • Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB®) tests: Motor Screening, Pattern Recognition Memory, Spatial Recognition Memory, Spatial Span; • • Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT; using letters 'F', 'A', 'S') ( Benton and Hamsher, 1976); • • Digit Span Forwards and Backwards ( Wechsler, 1997); • • Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT; Rey, 1964); • • Consonant Vowel Consonant Verbal Learning Test (CVCT; Vierck et al., 2015). Pencil-and-paper tests were administered according to standardised instructions. ...

... For each pair, one face was presented above center (x: 680; y: 192), whereas the other was presented below center (x: 680; y: 576). Vertical placements were chosen to minimize the laterality salience of emotional valence in the left visual field, suggesting a right hemisphere advantage (Borod et al., 2001;Brosch et al., 2007). To prevent participants from becoming distracted or losing focus, they were asked to judge the expressions (happy, neutral, or sad) corresponding to the faces (infant or adult) by pressing the number keys 1, 2, and 3 to represent happy, neutral, and sad expressions, respectively, after the image pairs disappeared. ...

... The f o , intensity, and rate measures were calculated from a single sentence from the story read protocol ("Bobby and his mom are picking beets from the garden") using a custom Praat script. The measure f o was calculated only from voiced segments and in semitones to control for f o differences between speakers (Viscovich et al., 2003). The f o mean and f o SD were calculated relative to 1 Hz using the equation 12log (f o ). ...

... Die in diesem Kapitel beschriebenen Patienten wurden in Hinblick auf gestörte allgemeine kognitive Leistungen herausgesucht, auf Teilbereiche der Kognition soll hier nicht eingegangen werden. Vesper et al. (2002), Rodriguez-Oroz et al. (2004), Funkiewiez et al. (2004Funkiewiez et al. ( , 2003, Krack et al. ( ,1998a Morrison et al. (2004) und Hariz et al. (2000 Kumar et al. (1998) keine Angaben zum postoperativen Follow-up machen, Morrison et al. (1998) Operation auf ein betreutes Wohnen angewiesen war, da er nicht mehr fähig war, alleine das Alltagsleben zu bewältigen. ...