Abstract Cross-linguistic structural priming effects suggest that bilinguals have shared or connected memory representations for similar syntactic structures. This predicts an influence of the production preferences one language in other (Bernolet & Hartsuiker, 2018). We hypothesized structures will lead to a facilitatory effect on frequencies, whereas may sometimes inhibitory due competiti...

In the present study, we investigated the point-to-point modulatory effects from the auditory cortex to the thalamus in the guinea pig. Corticofugal modulation on thalamic neurons was studied by electrical activation of the auditory cortex. The modulation effect was sampled along the frontal or sagittal planes of the auditory thalamus, focusing on the ventral division (MGv) of the medial genicu...

To determine the role of glucocorticoids in the appearance of the facilitatory effect of stress on the ACTH response to a subsequent stress, sham-operated (Sham) rats and rats adrenalectomized (ADX) and supplemented with 50 mg/l corticosterone (B) in the drinking saline (ADX + B) were subjected to 1 min of immobilization stress (Imo) four consecutive times with an interstressor interval of 90 m...

Neurotensin has bipolar (facilitatory and inhibitory) effects on pain modulation that may physiologically exist in homeostasis. Facilitation predominates at low (picomolar) doses of neurotensin injected into the rostroventral medial medulla (RVM), whereas higher doses (nanomolar) produce antinociception. SR 48692, a neurotensin receptor antagonist, discriminates between receptors mediating thes...

In visual search for pop-out targets, reaction times are facilitated when the target on the current trial appears at a previous target location, and inhibited when it appears at a previous distractor location, relative to when it appears at a previously empty (neutral) location (Maljkovic and Nakayama, Perception and Psychophysics 58:977-991, 1996). However, while normal subjects are able to po...