Cortex

Cortex is a scientific journal published semimonthly by Elsevier. It is devoted to the study of "cognition and of the relationship between the nervous system and mental processes". The journal was founded in 1964 and is currently edited by Sergio Della Sala.

Publisher: Elsevier
Country: UK
History: 1964–present
Website: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/714334/description#description
Impact factor: 7.251 (2010)

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19 can cause 'face blindness,' according to new study

COVID-19 can cause difficulty recognizing faces and navigational problems, according to a new Dartmouth study in Cortex.

Mar 13, 2023

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Neuroscience

Does aging change the way we interpret face processing of emotion?

Researchers analyzed the impact of aging on face processing and found that it may hamper the neural processing of facial expressions of emotion, and this difficulty may be intensified during the identification of emotions ...

Mar 13, 2023

Psychology & Psychiatry

How common is face blindness?

Face blindness, a mystifying condition that can trick us into believing we recognize people we've never met or make us fail to recognize those we have, has been previously estimated to affect between 2 and 2.5 percent of ...

Feb 27, 2023

Neuroscience

A subtitled world: Uncovering the secrets of tickertape synesthesia

The acquisition of reading and writing are complex mechanisms whose subtleties we do not yet understand. Fabien Hauw and Laurent Cohen (Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne University, AP-HP), neurologists at Paris Brain Institute, hope ...

Feb 1, 2023

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Neuroscience

Towards better management of disinhibition in frontotemporal dementia

Disinhibition is one of the main symptoms of the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), a type of dementia associated with degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Patients with bvFTD exhibit ...

Jan 26, 2023

Neuroscience

How bilingual brains work: Cross-language interplay and an integrated lexicon

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the HSE University have examined the interplay of languages in the brains of bilinguals. Using EEG data of Russian-English bilinguals, the authors were the first ...

Jul 6, 2022

Neuroscience

Researchers reveal how the volumes of brain regions change in Parkinson's disease

A team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and Ernst-von-Bergmann Klinikum Potsdam analyzed the changes of brain volumes in 37 Parkinson's patients and 27 controls at up to ...

May 17, 2022

Psychology & Psychiatry

Brain study on how to slow down climate change

When it comes to climate-friendly behavior, there is often a gap between what we want and what we actually do. Although most people want to see climate change slowed down, many do not behave in an appropriately sustainable ...

Dec 15, 2021