Faculty Opinions recommendation of Physical experience leads to enhanced object perception in parietal cortex: insights from knot tying.

The seemingly effortless ability to perceive meaningful objects in an integrated scene actually depends on complex visual processes. The ‘binding problem’ concerns the way in which we select and integrate the separate features of objects in the correct combinations. Experiments suggest that attention plays a central role in solving this problem. Some neurological patients show a dramatic breakdown in the ability to see several objects; their deficits suggest a role for the parietal cortex in the binding process. However, indirect measures of priming and interference suggest that more information may be implicitly available than we can consciously access.

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V218: Eliminating Knot Tying During Warm Ischemia Time for Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy: The Video

The Journal of Urology ◽

10.1016/s0022-5347(18)37480-9 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 171 (4S) ◽

pp. 57-58

Author(s):

Marcelo A. Orvieto ◽

Gary W. Chien ◽

R. Matthew Galocy ◽

Mitchell H. Sokoloff ◽

Gregory P. Zagaja ◽

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Keyword(s):

Partial Nephrectomy ◽

Warm Ischemia ◽

Warm Ischemia Time ◽

Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy ◽

Knot Tying ◽

Ischemia Time

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Musical Anhedonia

Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie ◽

10.1024/1016-264x/a000292 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 62-68

Author(s):

Sara E. Holm ◽

Alexander Schmidt ◽

Christoph J. Ploner

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Nucleus Accumbens ◽

Brain Damage ◽

Parietal Cortex ◽

Neurological Disorders ◽

Brain Regions ◽

Precise Information ◽

Exact Localization ◽

High Prevalence

Abstract. Some people, although they are perfectly healthy and happy, cannot enjoy music. These individuals have musical anhedonia, a condition which can be congenital or may occur after focal brain damage. To date, only a few cases of acquired musical anhedonia have been reported in the literature with lesions of the temporo-parietal cortex being particularly important. Even less literature exists on congenital musical anhedonia, in which impaired connectivity of temporal brain regions with the Nucleus accumbens is implicated. Nonetheless, there is no precise information on the prevalence, causes or exact localization of both congenital and acquired musical anhedonia. However, the frequent involvement of temporo-parietal brain regions in neurological disorders such as stroke suggest the possibility of a high prevalence of this disorder, which leads to a considerable reduction in the quality of life.

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