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 ...