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Cognitive strengths in neurodevelopmental disorders, conditions and differences: A critical review Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Katherine J. Maw, Geoff Beattie, Edwin J. Burns
Neurodevelopmental disorders are traditionally characterised by a range of associated cognitive impairments in, for example, sensory processing, facial recognition, visual imagery, attention, and coordination. In this critical review, we propose a major reframing, highlighting the variety of unique cognitive strengths that people with neurodevelopmental differences can exhibit. These include enhanced
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Dysfunctional feedback processing in male methamphetamine abusers: Evidence from neurophysiological and computational approaches Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sadegh Ghaderi, Jamal Amani Rad, Mohammad Hemami, Reza Khosrowabadi
Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) as a major public health risk is associated with dysfunctional neural feedback processing. Although dysfunctional feedback processing in people who are substance dependent has been explored in several behavioral, computational, and electrocortical studies, this mechanism in MUDs requires to be well understood. Furthermore, the current understanding of latent components
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The line bisection bias as a deficit of proportional reasoning − evidence from number line estimation in neglect Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 S. Smaczny, E. Klein, S. Jung, K. Moeller, H.-O. Karnath
This study aimed to investigate whether neurological patients presenting with a bias in line bisection show specific problems in bisecting a line into two equal parts or their line bisection bias rather reflects a special case of a deficit in more generally. In the latter case, the bias should also be observed for segmentations into thirds or quarters. To address this question, six neglect patients
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Hemispheric asymmetry of hand and tool perception in left- and right-handers with known language dominance Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Emma M. Karlsson, David P. Carey
Regions in the brain that are selective for images of hands and tools have been suggested to be lateralised to the left hemisphere of right-handed individuals. In left-handers, many functions related to tool use or tool pantomime may also depend more on the left hemisphere. This result seems surprising, given that the dominant hand of these individuals is controlled by the right hemisphere. One explanation
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(What) can patients with semantic dementia learn? Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Zubaida Shebani, Karalyn Patterson
Semantic Dementia (SD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by progressive deterioration of semantic knowledge, resulting in diminished understanding of concepts, whether encountered in verbal or non-verbal form. Over the past three decades, a number of studies employing a range of treatment techniques and learning methods have examined whether patients with SD can relearn previously known
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Contemporary neurocognitive models of memory: A descriptive comparative analysis Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 A, l, b, a, , M, a, r, c, e, l, a, , Z, á, r, a, t, e, -, R, o, c, h, í, n
The great complexity involved in the study of memory has given rise to numerous hypotheses and models associated with various phenomena at different levels of analysis. This has allowed us to delve deeper in our knowledge about memory but has also made it difficult to synthesize and integrate data from different lines of research. In this context, this work presents a descriptive comparative analysis
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Reciprocal interactions between parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed actions Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Bradford Z. Mahon, Jorge Almeida
Everyday interactions with common manipulable objects require the integration of conceptual knowledge about objects and actions with real-time sensory information about the position, orientation and volumetric structure of the grasp target. The ability to successfully interact with everyday objects involves analysis of visual form and shape, surface texture, material properties, conceptual attributes
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Recurring memory reactivation: The offline component of learning Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 K, e, n, , A, ., , P, a, l, l, e, r
One can be aware of the effort needed to memorize a new fact or to recall the name of a new acquaintance. Because of experiences like this, learning can seem to have only two components, encoding information and, after some delay, retrieving information. To the contrary, learning entails additional, intervening steps that sometimes are hidden from the learner. For firmly acquiring fact and event knowledge
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FMRI correlates of autobiographical memory: Comparing silent retrieval with narrated retrieval Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Charles S. Ferris, Cory S. Inman, Stephan Hamann
FMRI studies of autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval typically ask subjects to retrieve memories silently to avoid speech-related motion artifacts. Recently, some fMRI studies have started to use overt (spoken) retrieval to probe moment-to-moment retrieved content. However, the extent to which the overt retrieval method alters fMRI activations during retrieval is unknown. Here we examined this question
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Language brain responses and neurodevelopmental outcome in preschoolers with congenital heart disease: A fNIRS study Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sarah Provost, Solène Fourdain, Phetsamone Vannasing, Julie Tremblay, Kassandra Roger, Laura Caron-Desrochers, Alejandra Hüsser, Natacha Paquette, Amélie Doussau, Nancy Poirier, Marie-Noëlle Simard, Anne Gallagher
Neurodevelopmental disabilities affect up to 50% of survivors of congenital heart disease (CHD). Language difficulties are frequently identified during preschool period and can lead to academic, social, behavioral, and emotional difficulties. Structural brain alterations are associated with poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes in patients with CHD during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. However,
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Role of corpus callosum in unconscious vision Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Javier Sanchez-Lopez, Nicolo Cardobi, Giorgia Parisi, Silvia Savazzi, Carlo A. Marzi
The existence of unconscious visually triggered behavior in patients with cortical blindness (e.g., homonymous hemianopia) has been amply demonstrated and the neural bases of this phenomenon have been thoroughly studied. However, a crosstalk between the two hemispheres as a possible mechanism of unconscious or partially conscious vision has not been so far considered. Thus, the aim of this study was
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The contribution of semantic distance knowledge to size constancy in perception and grasping when visual cues are limited Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Gexiu Wang, Chao Zheng, Xiaoqian Wu, Zhiqing Deng, Irene Sperandio, Melvyn A. Goodale, Juan Chen
To achieve a stable perception of object size in spite of variations in viewing distance, our visual system needs to combine retinal image information and distance cues. Previous research has shown that, not only retinal cues, but also extraretinal sensory signals can provide reliable information about depth and that different neural networks (perception versus action) can exhibit preferences in the
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Creative flow as optimized processing: Evidence from brain oscillations during jazz improvisations by expert and non-expert musicians Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 David Rosen, Yongtaek Oh, Christine Chesebrough, Fengqing (Zoe) Zhang, John Kounios
Using a creative production task, jazz improvisation, we tested alternative hypotheses about the flow experience: (A) that it is a state of domain-specific processing optimized by experience and characterized by minimal interference from task-negative default-mode network (DMN) activity versus (B) that it recruits domain-general task-positive DMN activity supervised by the fronto-parietal control network
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No support for a causal role of primary motor cortex in construing meaning from language: An rTMS study Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Pablo Solana, Omar Escámez, Daniel Casasanto, Ana B. Chica, Julio Santiago
Embodied cognition theories predict a functional involvement of sensorimotor processes in language understanding. In a preregistered experiment, we tested this idea by investigating whether interfering with primary motor cortex (M1) activation can change how people construe meaning from action language. Participants were presented with sentences describing actions (e.g., "turning off the light”) and
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Children's and adults' memory for the order of events in a museum: A preliminary study about temporal memory and its development using photo-taking and event-related potentials Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Thanujeni Pathman, Anousheh Shafa, Elizabeth A. Vogt, Patricia J. Bauer
Remembering personal past events and their order is important. These capacities are essential to episodic and autobiographical memory theories, are needed in the creation of life stories and vital in forensic settings. As important as memory for events and their order are, relatively little is known about their development and the underlying neural processes that support them. Further, there is a paucity
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Neural mechanisms of odour imagery induced by non-figurative visual cues Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Gabriela Hossu, Luca Fantin, Céline Charroud, Jacques Felblinger, Muriel Jacquot, Hadrien Ceyte
Odour imagery, the ability to experience smell when an appropriate stimulus is absent, has widely been documented as being particularly difficult. However, previous studies have shown the beneficial effect of visual cues ( pictures or words) to facilitate performance in numerous tasks of olfactory nature. Therefore, the use of visual cues to evoke odours seems relevant. In this study, our interest
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Resting heart rate variability is associated with neural adaptation when repeatedly exposed to emotional stimuli Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jungwon Min, Julian Koenig, Kaoru Nashiro, Hyun Joo Yoo, Christine Cho, Julian F. Thayer, Mara Mather
Higher heart rate variability (HRV) at rest is associated with better emotion regulation ability. While the neurovisceral integration model explains this by postulating that HRV can index how the brain adaptively modulates responses to emotional stimuli, neuroimaging studies directly supporting this idea are scarce. We examined the neural correlates of regulating negative and positive emotion in relation
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Dramatic changes to well-known places go unnoticed Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 R.S. Rosenbaum, J.G. Halilova, S. Agnihotri, M.C. D'Angelo, G. Winocur, J.D. Ryan, M. Moscovitch
How well do we know our city? It turns out, much more poorly than we might imagine. We used declarative memory and eye-tracking techniques to examine people's ability to detect modifications to real-world landmarks and scenes in Toronto locales with which they have had extensive experience. Participants were poor at identifying which scenes contained altered landmarks, whether the modification was
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Delayed auditory experience results in past tense production difficulties and working memory deficits in children with cochlear implants: A comparison with children with developmental language disorder Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 A. Delcenserie, F. Genesee, F. Champoux
Extent evidence has shown that morphosyntax is one of the most challenging linguistic areas for children with atypical early language experiences. Over the last couple of years, comparisons between deaf children with CIs and children with DLD have gained interest – as cases of atypical early language experiences, including, but not restricted to, delayed onset of exposure to language input and language-processing
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A shared neural code for perceiving and remembering social interactions in the human superior temporal sulcus Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Haemy Lee Masson, Janice Chen, Leyla Isik
Recognizing and remembering social information is a crucial cognitive skill. Neural patterns in the superior temporal sulcus (STS) support our ability to perceive others' social interactions. However, despite the prominence of social interactions in memory, the neural basis of remembering social interactions is still unknown. To fill this gap, we investigated the brain mechanisms underlying memory
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Effects of type of emission and masking sound, and their spatial correspondence, on blind and sighted people's ability to echolocate Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 L. Thaler, J.G. Castillo-Serrano, D. Kish, L.J. Norman
Ambient sound can mask acoustic signals. The current study addressed how echolocation in people is affected by masking sound, and the role played by type of sound and spatial (i.e. binaural) similarity. We also investigated the role played by blindness and long-term experience with echolocation, by testing echolocation experts, as well as blind and sighted people new to echolocation. Results were obtained
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The reading-attention relationship: Variations in working memory network activity during single word decoding in children with and without dyslexia Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Niki Sinha, C. Nikki Arrington, Jeffrey G. Malins, Kenneth R. Pugh, Jan C. Frijters, Robin Morris
This study utilized a neuroimaging task to assess working memory (WM) network recruitment during single word reading. Associations between WM and reading comprehension skills are well documented. Several converging models suggest WM may also contribute to foundational reading skills, but few studies have assessed this contribution directly. Two groups of children (77 developmental dyslexia (DD), 22
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Body fat predictive of acute effects of exercise on prefrontal hemodynamics and speed Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 James Crum, Flaminia Ronca, George Herbert, Estela Carmona, Isla Jones, Uzair Hakim, Mark Hamer, Joy Hirsch, Antonia Hamilton, Ilias Tachtsidis, Paul W. Burgess
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Self-motion induced environmental kinetopsia and pop-out illusion – Insight from a single case phenomenology Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Thirumal Appaswamy Prabhakar, George Abraham Ninan, Anupama Roy, Sharath Kumar, Kavitha Margabandhu, Jessica Michael, Deepti Bal, Pavithra Mannam, Allison M. McKendrick, Olivia Carter, Marta I. Garrido
Stable visual perception, while we are moving, depends on complex interactions between multiple brain regions. We report a patient with damage to the right occipital and temporal lobes who presented with a visual disturbance of inward movement of roadside buildings towards the centre of his visual field, that occurred only when he moved forward on his motorbike. We describe this phenomenon as “self-motion
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The impact of early and late blindness on language and verbal working memory: A brain-constrained neural model Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Rosario Tomasello, Maxime Carriere, Friedemann Pulvermüller
Neural circuits related to language exhibit a remarkable ability to reorganize and adapt in response to visual deprivation. Particularly, early and late blindness induce distinct neuroplastic changes in the visual cortex, repurposing it for language and semantic processing. Interestingly, these functional changes provoke a unique cognitive advantage – enhanced verbal working memory, particularly in
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Shift in excitation-inhibition balance underlies perceptual learning of temporal discrimination Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Rannie Xu, Edward G. Walsh, Takeo Watanabe, Yuka Sasaki
Temporal perceptual learning (TPL) constitutes a unique and profound demonstration of neural plasticity within the brain. Our understanding for the neurometabolic changes associated with TPL on the other hand has been limited in part by the use of traditional fMRI approaches. Since plasticity in the visual cortex has been shown to underlie perceptual learning of visual information, we tested the hypothesis
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Characterizing the discriminability of visual categorical information in strongly connected voxels Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Jon Walbrin, Paul E. Downing, Filipa Dourado Sotero, Jorge Almeida
Functional brain responses are strongly influenced by connectivity. Recently, we demonstrated a major example of this: category discriminability within occipitotemporal cortex (OTC) is enhanced for voxel sets that share strong functional connectivity to distal brain areas, relative to those that share lesser connectivity. That is, within OTC regions, sets of ‘most-connected’ voxels show improved multivoxel
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Why consciousness? Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Robert J. Aumann
Conscious emotions drive all we do, except for automatic tasks like breathing. Specifically, they enable the operation of incentives—like hunger for eating—that motivate us to perform tasks that are vital to our lives. Indeed, we act because we want to act, and desire is an emotion. Next, we want to act because we expect the action to lead to some positive emotion such as pleasure, enjoyment, satisfaction
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Facial feedback manipulation influences the automatic detection of unexpected emotional body expressions Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Jianyi Liu, Yang Liu, Heng Jiang, Jingjing Zhao, Xiaobin Ding
Unexpected or changing facial expressions are known to be able to engage more automatic processing than frequently occurring facial expressions, thereby inducing a neural differential wave response known as expression mismatch negativity (EMMN). Recent studies have shown that EMMN can be modulated by the observer's facial feedback (i.e., feedback from their own facial movements). A similar EMMN activity
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Revisiting the effect of visual illusions on grasping in left and right handers Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Tzvi Ganel, Melvyn A. Goodale
Visual illusions have provided compelling evidence for a dissociation between perception and action. For example, when two different-sized objects are placed on opposite ends of the Ponzo illusion, people erroneously perceive the physically smaller object to be bigger than the physically larger one, but when they pick up the objects, their grip aperture reflects the real difference in size between
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Regionally specific cortical lateralization of abstract and concrete verb processing: Magnetic mismatch negativity study Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Maxim Ulanov, Grigory Kopytin, Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto, Ioannis Ntoumanis, Aleksei Gorin, Olesya Moiseenko, Evgeny Blagovechtchenski, Victoria Moiseeva, Anna Shestakova, Iiro Jääskeläinen, Yury Shtyrov
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Examining the consistency in bilingualism and white matter research: A meta-analysis Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 John A.E. Anderson, Asli Yurtsever, Odin Fisher-Skau, Lucia A. Cherep, Imola MacPhee, Gigi Luk, John G. Grundy
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Successful learning of alpha up-regulation through neurofeedback training modulates sustained attention Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Wenya Nan, Wenjie Yang, Anmin Gong, Roi Cohen Kadosh, Tomas Ros, Yunfa Fu, Feng Wan
As a fundamental attention function, sustained attention plays a critical role in general cognitive abilities and is closely linked to EEG alpha oscillations. Neurofeedback training (NFT) of alpha activity on different aspects of attention has been studied previously. However, it remains unclear how NFT with up- or down-regulation directions modulates sustained attention. Here we employed a counterbalanced
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Corticospinal excitability reductions during action preparation and action stopping in humans: Different sides of the same inhibitory coin? Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Carsten Bundt, René J. Huster
Motor functions and cognitive processes are closely associated with each other. In humans, this linkage is reflected in motor system state changes both when an action must be prepared and stopped. Single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation showed that both action preparation and action stopping are accompanied by a reduction of corticospinal excitability, referred to as preparatory and response
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Holistic processing and face expertise after pediatric resection of occipitotemporal cortex Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Claire Simmons, Michael C. Granovetter, Sophie Robert, Tina T. Liu, Christina Patterson, Marlene Behrmann
The nature and extent of hemispheric lateralization and its potential for reorganization continues to be debated, although there is general agreement that there is a right hemisphere (RH) advantage for face processing in human adults. Here, we examined face processing and its lateralization in individuals with a single preserved occipitotemporal cortex (OTC), either in the RH or left hemisphere (LH)
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Positive math attitudes are associated with greater frontal activation among children from higher socio-economic status families Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Macarena Suárez-Pellicioni, Ö. Ece Demir-Lira, James R. Booth
Math learning is explained by the interaction between cognitive, affective, and social factors. However, studies rarely investigate how these factors interact with one another to explain math performance. This study aims to fill this gap in the literature by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to understand the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the interaction between parental socioeconomic
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Impoverished details with preserved gist in remote and recent spatial memory following hippocampal and fornix lesions Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Adrienne Li, Xuehui Lei, Katherine Herdman, Shani Waidergoren, Asaf Gilboa, R. Shayna Rosenbaum
Introduction Cognitive Map Theory predicts that the hippocampus (HPC) plays a specialized, time-invariant role in supporting allocentric spatial memory, while Standard Consolidation Theory makes the competing prediction that the HPC plays a time-limited role, with more remote memories gaining independence of HPC function. These theories, however, are largely informed by the results of laboratory-based
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Ventral temporal and posteromedial sulcal morphology in autism spectrum disorder Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Javier Ramos Benitez, Sandhya Kannan, William L. Hastings, Benjamin J. Parker, Ethan H. Willbrand, Kevin S. Weiner
Two parallel research tracks link the morphology of small and shallow indentations, or sulci, of the cerebral cortex with functional features of the cortex and human cognition, respectively. The first track identified a relationship between the mid-fusiform sulcus (MFS) in ventral temporal cortex (VTC) and cognition in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The second track identified a new
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Can people empathize with offenders and victims during violent scenes? Behavioral and brain correlates of affective and cognitive empathy considering victim vs. offender perspective using the Bochumer affective and cognitive empathy task (BACET). Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Lucia Hernandez Pena, Kathrin Weidacker, Claudia Massau, Kai Wetzel, Anna-Lena Brand, Katharina Weckes, Mareile Opwis, Boris Schiffer, Christian Kärgel
Empathy is defined as the capacity to resonate with others' emotions and can be subdivided into affective and cognitive components. Few studies have focused on the role of perspective-taking within this ability. Utilizing the novel Bochumer Affective and Cognitive Empathy Task (BACET), the present study aims to determine the characteristics of specific empathy components, as well as the impact of offender
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The convergence of naturalistic paradigms and cognitive neuroscience methods to investigate memory and its development Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Tarnpreet Virk, Thierry Letendre, Thanujeni Pathman
Studies that involve lab-based stimuli (e.g., words, pictures) are fundamental in the memory literature. At the same time, there is growing acknowledgment that memory processes assessed in the lab may not be analogous to how memory operates in the real world. Naturalistic paradigms can bridge this gap and over the decades a growing proportion of memory research has involved more naturalistic events
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Scene-selectivity in CA1/subicular complex: Multivoxel pattern analysis at 7T Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Marie-Lucie Read, Samuel C. Berry, Kim S. Graham, Natalie L. Voets, Jiaxiang Zhang, John P. Aggleton, Andrew D. Lawrence, Carl J. Hodgetts
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Schema-congruency supports the formation of unitized representations: Evidence from event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Julia A. Meßmer, Regine Bader, Axel Mecklinger
The main goal of the present study was to investigate whether schema-based encoding of novel word pairs (novel compound words) supports the formation of unitized representations and thus associative familiarity-based recognition. We report two experiments that both comprise an incidental learning task, in which novel noun-noun compound words were presented in semantically congruent contexts, enabling
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The impact of degraded vision on emotional perception of audiovisual stimuli: An event-related potential study Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Yuchen Li, Jing Wang, Junyu Liang, Chuanlin Zhu, Zhao Zhang, Wenbo Luo
Emotion recognition will be challenged for individuals when visual signals are degraded in real-life scenarios. Recently, researchers have conducted many studies on the distinct neural activity between clear and degraded audiovisual stimuli. These findings addressed the “how” question, but the precise stage of the distinct activity that occurred remains unknown. Therefore, it is crucial to use event-related
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Keeping track of who knows what in multiparty conversation despite severe memory impairment Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Si On Yoon, Melissa C. Duff, Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Language use has long been understood to be tailored to the intended addressee, a process termed audience design. Audience design is reflected in multiple aspects of language use, including adjustments based on the addressee's knowledge about the topic at hand. In group settings, audience design depends on representations of multiple individuals, each of whom may have different knowledge about the
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The impact of fear and psychopathological symptoms on neural responses to naturalistic stimuli in adolescents Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 M. Oliveira, C. Fernandes, F. Barbosa, F. Ferreira-Santos
The presentation of real-world images can swiftly engage processing mechanisms within specific brain regions and neural pathways. In this study, we explore the effects of fear and psychopathological symptoms on neural processing of realistic stimuli during a free viewing naturalistic task in a sample of adolescents (11–16y). Thirty-one participants performed an experimental task consisting of the visualization
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Motivated cognitive control during cued anticipation and receipt of unfamiliar musical themes: An fMRI study Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Chia-Wei Li, Chen-Gia Tsai
Principal themes, particularly choruses in pop songs, hold a central place in human music. Singing along with a familiar chorus tends to elicit pleasure and a sense of belonging, especially in group settings. These principal themes, which frequently serve as musical rewards, are commonly preceded by distinctive musical cues. Such cues guide listeners' attention and amplify their motivation to receive
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Insights from simultaneous EEG-fMRI and patient data illuminate the role of the anterior medial temporal lobe in N400 generation Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Patric Meyer, Christian Baeuchl, Michael Hoppstädter
The N400, a negative event-related potential (ERP) peaking approximately 400 ms after stimulus onset, is known to reflect the processing of semantic information. While scalp recordings have contributed to understanding the psychological processes underlying the N400, they have been limited in identifying its neural basis. However, recent intracranial ERP recordings and fMRI studies have shed light
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Will you read how I will read? Naturalistic fMRI predictors of emergent reading Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Elizabeth K. Wat, David C. Jangraw, Emily S. Finn, Peter A. Bandettini, Jonathan L. Preston, Nicole Landi, Fumiko Hoeft, Stephen J. Frost, Airey Lau, Gang Chen, Kenneth R. Pugh, Peter J. Molfese
Despite reading being an essential and almost universal skill in the developed world, reading proficiency varies substantially from person to person. To study why, the fMRI field is beginning to turn from single-word or nonword reading tasks to naturalistic stimuli like connected text and listening to stories. To study reading development in children just beginning to read, listening to stories is
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The role of recollection, familiarity, and the hippocampus in episodic and working memory Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Andrew Yonelinas, Chris Hawkins, Ani Abovian, Mariam Aly
The hippocampus plays an essential role in long-term episodic memory by supporting the recollection of contextual details, whereas surrounding regions such as the perirhinal cortex support familiarity-based recognition discriminations. Working memory - the ability to maintain information over very brief periods of time - is traditionally thought to rely heavily on frontoparietal attention networks
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Beyond the tried and true:How virtual reality, dialog setups, and a focus on multimodality can take bilingual language production research forward Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Alex Titus, Ton Dijkstra, Roel M. Willems, David Peeters
Bilinguals possess the ability of expressing themselves in more than one language, and typically do so in contextually rich and dynamic settings. Theories and models have indeed long considered context factors to affect bilingual language production in many ways. However, most experimental studies in this domain have failed to fully incorporate linguistic, social, or physical context aspects, let alone
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Anatomical predictors of mental rotation with bodily and non-bodily stimuli: A lesion-symptom study Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Naz Doganci, Sélim Yahia Coll, Emilie Marti, Radek Ptak
Mental rotation (MR) is widely regarded as a quintessential example of an embodied cognitive process. This viewpoint stems from the functional parallels between MR and the physical rotation of tangible objects, as well as participants' inclination to employ motor-based strategies when tackling MR tasks involving bodily stimuli. These commonalities imply that MR may depend on brain regions crucial for
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Electrophysiological study of visual processing in children with cochlear implants Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 David P. Corina, S. Coffey-Corina, E. Pierotti, Kelsey Mankel, Lee Miller
Electrophysiological studies of congenitally deaf children and adults have reported atypical visual evoked potentials (VEPs) which have been associated with both behavioral enhancements of visual attention as well as poorer performance and outcomes in tests of spoken language speech processing. This pattern has often been interpreted as a maladaptive consequence of early auditory deprivation, whereby
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Action-specific feature processing in the human cortex: An fMRI study Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Simona Monaco, Nicholas Menghi, J Douglas Crawford
Sensorimotor integration involves feedforward and reentrant processing of sensory input. Grasp-related motor activity precedes and is thought to influence visual object processing. Yet, while the importance of reentrant feedback is well established in perception, the top-down modulations for action and the neural circuits involved in this process have received less attention. Do action-specific intentions
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Examining the role of self-reported somatosensory sensations in body (dis)ownership: A scoping review and empirical study of patients with a disturbed sense of limb ownership Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Valentina Moro, Michele Scandola, Valeria Gobbetto, Sara Bertagnoli, Maddalena Beccherle, Sahba Besharati, Sonia Ponzo, Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Paul M. Jenkinson
Patients with a disturbed sense of limb ownership (DSO) offer a unique window of insight into the multisensory processes contributing to the sense of body ownership. A limited amount of past research has examined the role of sensory deficits in DSO, and even less is known regarding the role of patient self-reported somatosensory sensations in the pathogenesis of DSO. To address this lack of knowledge
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Interhemispheric transfer time correlates with white matter integrity of the corpus callosum in healthy older adults Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 David Riedel, Nicolai Lorke, Tim Fellerhoff, Andreas Mierau, Heiko K. Strüder, Dominik Wolf, Florian Fischer, Andreas Fellgiebel, Oliver Tüscher, Bianca Kollmann, Kristel Knaepen
The corpus callosum (CC) has been identified as an important structure in the context of cognitive aging (Fling et al., 2011). Interhemispheric transfer time (IHTT) is regularly used in order to estimate interhemispheric integration enabled by the CC (Marzi, 2010; Nowicka and Tacikowski, 2011). However, only little is known with regards to the relationship between IHTT and the structural properties
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Reduced occipital alpha power marks a movement induced state change that facilitates creative thinking Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Barbara F. Händel, Xinyu Chen, Supriya Murali
Walking and minimized movement restriction has a positive effect on creativity, such as divergent thinking. Walking is further known to reduce occipital alpha activity. We used mobile EEG during free and restricted movement, while subjects (N = 23) solved a Guilford's alternate uses test, to understand if occipital alpha power is also affected by movement restriction and if it is a neural marker for
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The effect of negative arousal on declarative memory Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Marianna Constantinou, Katherine Karadachka, Lars Marstaller, Hana Burianová
Arousing events influence retrieval success, with a number of studies supporting a context-dependent effect of arousal on episodic memory retrieval. An improvement in speed and accuracy of episodic memories is observed when negative arousal is attached to them. In contrast, enhancing effects of negative arousal have not been reported to improve semantic memory retrieval. Episodic and semantic memory
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Neural substrates of specific and general autobiographical memory retrieval in younger and older adults Neuropsychologia (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Aleea L. Devitt, Reece Roberts, Abby Metson, Lynette J. Tippett, Donna Rose Addis
Healthy aging is associated with a shift away from the retrieval of specific episodic autobiographical memories (AMs), towards more general and semanticized memories. Younger adults modulate activity in the default mode network according to the episodic specificity of AM retrieval. However, little is known about whether aging disrupts this neural modulation. In the current study we examine age-related