Elena M. Marrón's research while affiliated with Universidad Francisco de Vitoria and other places

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Cognitive rehabilitation in patients and cognitive enhancement in healthy people is a recurrent goal in neuroscience research. To date two newly developed methods have shown positive results in this regard: noninvasive brain stimulation and the use of commercial videogames. Specifically transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has shown promising re...
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Introduction On the basis of neuroimaging (fMRI) and electrophysiological (EEG) evidence, the cascade-of-control model developed for executive processing predicts an early involvement of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in selecting task relevant information, whereas the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex would be involved at later-stages o...
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In neuroscientific research, neuro-enhancement is seldom considered as a stand-alone goal, but it is, nevertheless, a desired effect in non-invasive brain-stimulation which can provide valuable information about the underlying neural mechanisms which regulate cognitive functioning. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive stimulati...
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We aim to sumarizethe main findings of non-invasive brain stimulation studies in decision making process. Lesion and neuroimaging studies have pointed out a variety of cortical and subcortical areas involved in decision making. Recently, non-invasive brain stimulation techniques such as tDCSor TMS, have provided a new source of information about th...
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After brain injury, cortical excitability and function may be altered, affecting neural networks due to decreased activation in the location of the lesion and resulting in an imbalance in interhemispheric interactions. TMS could be a therapeutic tool that can help brain plasticity processes through neuromodulation modifying cortical excitability, i...
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Emotion has often been compared to a 'double‐edged sword', as it can either improve or hinder various characteristics of behavior and cognition. Different studies have shown that emotional information tends to impair working memory (WM) maintenance, whereas emotional information tends to be better remembered in long‐term episodic memory (EM). Funct...

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... Previous studies have shown that TMS targeting the frontal lobes improves executive functions [65]. These improvements have been noted on tests of cognitive flexibility, conceptual tracking, attention and working memory [65][66][67]. In ASD, TMS can change some of the core deficits, more specifically, those impairments in self-monitoring that constitute our supervisory attentional system [10,29,40,41,68]. ...