Publications
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Novel Aspects of Nucleolar Functions in Plant Growth and Development
(2018)
The nucleolus is a prominent nuclear domain that is common to eukaryotes. Since the nucleolus was first described in the 1830s, its identity had remained a mystery for longer than 100 years. Major advances in understanding ...
Matricellular Receptors as Potential Targets in Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Strategies
(2016)
The invasive character of a primary cancer is greatly dependent on numerous interactions between tumor cells and their extracellular surroundings. Matricellular receptors are defined as (cell-surface) receptors that bind ...
Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Brain Barrier Mechanisms
(2016)
The brain functions within an internal environment that is determined and controlled by morphological structures and cellular mechanisms present at interfaces between the brain and the rest of the body. In vertebrates these ...
Online and Offline Modulators of Motor Learning
(2017)
Both the acquisition of new and the modification of previously acquired motor skills are necessary to achieve optimal levels of motor performance in everyday functioning as well as to attain expert performance levels that ...
Perception-Cognition Interface and Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Unified Consciousness
(2017)
The present Research Topic explores closely related aspects of mental functioning, namely an interplay between perception and cognition, interactions among various sensory modalities, and finally, more or less unified ...
Perceptual Linguistic Salience: Modeling Causes and Consequences
(2017)
Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the notion of salience in linguistics and related disciplines. While in top-down salience, perceivers endogenously direct their attention to a certain stimulus, in the ...
Perception, Action, and Cognition
(2016)
Even as simple a task as quenching thirst with a glass of water involves a sequence of perceptions and actions woven together by expectations and experience. What are the myriad links between perception and action, and ...
Perspective Taking: Building a neurocognitive framework for integrating the "social" and the "spatial"
(2015)
Background: Interacting with other people involves spatial awareness of one’s own body and the other’s body and viewpoint. In the past, social cognition has focused largely on belief reasoning, which is abstracted away ...
Perspectives for the Next Generation of Virus Research: Spearheading the Use of Innovative Technologies and Methodologies
(2017)
Infectious diseases are associated with approximately 20% of global mortality, with viral diseases causing about one third of these deaths. Besides newly emerging and re-emerging viral infections will continue to pose a ...
Parochial Altruism: Pitfalls and Prospects
(2016)
A number of recent influential publications have promoted the idea that the high levels of altruism and violent intergroup conflicts observed in humans might be the result of a joint evolution of behavioral traits causing ...
Plant Competition in a Changing World
(2017)
Competitiveness describes a key ability important for plants to grow and survive abiotic and biotic stresses. Under optimal, but particularly under non-optimal conditions, plants compete for resources including nutrients, ...
Plant Glycobiology - a sweet world of lectins, glycoproteins, glycolipids and glycans
(2014)
Plants synthesize a wide variety of unique glycan structures which play essential roles during the life cycle of the plant. Being omnipresent throughout the plant kingdom, ranging from simple green algae to modern flowering ...
Plant responses to flooding
(2015)
Global warming has dramatically increased the frequency and severity of flooding events worldwide. As a result, many man-made and natural ecosystems have become flood-prone. For plants, the main consequence of flooding is ...
Plant Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses: Lessons from Cell Signaling
(2017)
Facing stressful conditions imposed by their environment and affecting their growth and their development throughout their life cycle, plants must be able to perceive, to process and to translate different stimuli into ...
Plant polyamines in stress and development
(2014)
Polyamines are small aliphatic polycations which have been involved in key stress and developmental processes in plants. In the recent years, compelling genetic and molecular evidences point to polyamines as essential ...
The Proceedings from Halophiles 2013, the International Congress on Halophilic Microorganisms
(2015)
The Halophiles 2013 meeting is a multidisciplinary international congress, with a strong history of regular triennial meetings since 1978. Our mission is to bring researchers from a wide diversity of investigation interests ...
Quantum Structures in Cognitive and Social Science
(2016)
Traditional approaches to cognitive psychology correspond with a classical view of logic and probability theory. More specifically, one typically assumes that cognitive processes of human thought are founded on the Boolean ...
Processing Across Languages
(2018)
The Research Topic aims to highlight research on the processing of words, sentences and discourses across languages. Articles representing processing in a wide variety of human languages will be featured. Efforts will be ...
Promiscuous functions of the prion protein gene family
(2015)
The cellular prion protein PrPC is a ubiquitous GPI-anchored protein. While PrPC has been the focus of intense research for its involvement in a group of neurodegenerative disorders known as transmissible spongiform ...
Psychological perspectives on expertise
(2015)
Experts are persons who are very knowledgeable about or skillful in a particular area. The aim of this Research Topic is to advance knowledge in the understanding of the phenomenon of expertise by putting together different ...