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Open AccessHuman brain activity reflecting facial attractiveness from skin reflection
Facial attraction has a great influence on our daily social interactions. Previous studies have mainly focused on the attraction from facial shape and expression. We recently found that faces with radiant skin...
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Open AccessCutaneous and stick rabbit illusions in individuals with autism spectrum disorder
Prediction is the process by which future events are anticipated based on past events; in contrast, postdiction is the retrospective interpretation of past events based on latter, more recent events. The predi...
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Open AccessNeural mechanisms underlying touch-induced visual perceptual suppression: An fMRI study
Crossmodal studies have demonstrated inhibitory as well as facilitatory neural effects in higher sensory association and primary sensory cortices. A recent human behavioral study reported touch-induced visual ...
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Open AccessLearning efficacy of explicit visuomotor sequences in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and Asperger syndrome
Developmental disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Asperger syndrome (AS) are often associated with learning disabilities. This study investigated the explicit learning of visu...
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Stepwise differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into retinal cells
Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent cells derived from the inner cell mass of blastocyst-stage embryos. They can maintain an undifferentiated state indefinitely and can differentiate into derivatives of ...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Toward the generation of rod and cone photoreceptors from mouse, monkey and human embryonic stem cells
Nat. Biotechnol. 26, 215–224 (2008); published online 3 February 2008; corrected after print 26 February 2008 In the version of this article initially published, the author name Akiori Akaike should have been ...
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Toward the generation of rod and cone photoreceptors from mouse, monkey and human embryonic stem cells
We previously reported the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells into retinal progenitors. However, these progenitors rarely differentiate into photoreceptors unless they are cultured with embryon...
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Effects of explicit knowledge of workspace rotation in visuomotor sequence learning
Previous experimental and theoretical studies have suggested that two separate neural networks contribute to visuomotor learning of spatial sequences, one to the accuracy of performance and the other to the sp...
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Expanded polyglutamine in the Machado–Joseph disease protein induces cell death in vitro and in vivo
Recently, we identified a novel gene, MJD1, which contains an expanded GAG triplet repeat in Machado–Joseph disease. Here we report the induction of apoptosis in cultured cells expressing a portion of the MJD1 ge...
