Consciousness: perspectives from symbolic and connectionist AI.

abstract：:Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a rare clinical dementia syndrome affecting predominantly language abilities. Word-finding difficulties and comprehension deficits despite relatively preserved cognitive functions are characteristic symptoms during the first two years, and distinguish PPA from other dementia types ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Etcheverry L,Seidel B,Grande M,Schulte S,Pieperhoff P,Südmeyer M,Minnerop M,Binkofski F,Huber W,Grodzinsky Y,Amunts K,Heim S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow wave ERPs were recorded from 28 young adults as they generated plans for various difficulty levels of a fixed-foreperiod version of the Tower of London task. The resulting waveform included three segments: (1) a left-lateralized negative early-interval wave, which was frontally maximal but not sensitive to diffic...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Byrd DL,Case KH,Berg WK

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosopagnosia is an impairment at individualizing faces that classically follows brain damage. Several studies have reported observations supporting an impairment of holistic/configural face processing in acquired prosopagnosia. However, this issue may require more compelling evidence as the cases reported were genera...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ramon M,Busigny T,Rossion B

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel words can be recalled immediately and after little exposure, but require a post-learning consolidation period to show word-like behaviour such as lexical competition. This pattern is thought to reflect a qualitative shift from episodic to lexical representations. However, several studies have reported immediate ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bakker I,Takashima A,van Hell JG,Janzen G,McQueen JM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that incomplete speech lateralization might be related to reduced articulatory speed was investigated in two studies with normal, young adults. Contrary to expectations, speech was produced faster by ambidextrous subjects than by either strongly left- or strongly right-handed subjects under a number of...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ponton CW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with right hemisphere injury frequently neglect to cancel targets primarily in the left part of the page nearest the body. Since this region is diagonally opposite the area from where such patients usually begin cancelling, near left ('diagonal') neglect may be consequent to stimulus order effects ('fatigue')...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Mark VW,Heilman KM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (A-tDCS) over the left dorsal prefrontal cortex (DPFC) has been shown to improve language production. The present study examined neurophysiological underpinnings of this effect. In a single-blinded within-subject design, we traced effects of A-tDCS compared to ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Wirth M,Rahman RA,Kuenecke J,Koenig T,Horn H,Sommer W,Dierks T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective memory (PM) refers to the functions that enables a person to carry out an intended act after a delay. Despite the ubiquity of this behaviour, little is known about the supporting brain structures and the roles that they play. In this study, eight healthy participants performed four different PM tasks, each...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Burgess PW,Quayle A,Frith CD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that a computational overload results when two activities, one motor and the other cognitive that draw on the same neural processing pathways, are performed concurrently. Healthy young adult subjects carried out two seemingly distinct tasks of maintaining standing balance control under conditi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Chong RK,Mills B,Dailey L,Lane E,Smith S,Lee KH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate perception of the emotional content of vocalisations is essential for successful social communication and interaction. However, it is not clear whether our ability to perceive emotional cues from vocal signals is specific to human signals, or can be applied to other species' vocalisations. Here, we address th...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fritz T,Mueller K,Guha A,Gouws A,Levita L,Andrews TJ,Slocombe KE

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This single case study of the ability to generate verbal and non-verbal imagery in a woman who sustained a gunshot wound to the brain reports a significant difficulty in generating images of word shapes but not a significant problem in generating object images. Further dissociation, however, was observed in her abilit...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Mehta Z,Newcombe F

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most healthy individuals display a subtle spatial attentional bias, exhibiting relative inattention for stimuli on one side of the visual field, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect. Prior work in animals and patients has implicated dopamine in spatial attention asymmetries. The current study therefore examined - in he...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Slagter HA,Davidson RJ,Tomer R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid intelligence is a crucial cognitive ability that predicts key life outcomes across the lifespan. Strong empirical links exist between fluid intelligence and processing speed on the one hand, and white matter integrity and processing speed on the other. We propose a watershed model that integrates these three exp...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kievit RA,Davis SW,Griffiths J,Correia MM,Cam-Can,Henson RN

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The belief-bias effect in syllogistic reasoning refers to the tendency for subjects to be erroneously biased when logical conclusions are incongruent with belief about the world. This study examined the role of inferior frontal cortex (IFC) in belief-bias reasoning using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Tsujii T,Masuda S,Akiyama T,Watanabe S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that a different hemispheric specialization may exist for different modalities of person identification, with a prevalent right lateralization of the sensory-motor systems allowing face and voice recognition and a prevalent left lateralization of the name recognition system. Data su...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gainotti G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) excel in face recognition and show both a remarkable concern for social stimuli and a linguistic capacity for, in particular, emotionally referenced language. The animated full facial expression comprehension test (AFFECT), a new test of emotional expression perception, was used...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gagliardi C,Frigerio E,Burt DM,Cazzaniga I,Perrett DI,Borgatti R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paralexic speech errors were examined during the oral reading of sentences for 12 right-handed adults, including four Broca's aphasics, four Wernicke's aphasics and four patients with unilateral right-hemisphere lesions. A category system of error types was developed, and 129 errors were analyzed in terms of identifia...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Payne M,Cooper WE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with left unilateral spatial neglect following right hemisphere lesions usually err rightward when bisecting a horizontal line. For very short lines (e.g. 25 mm), however, leftward errors or seemingly 'right' neglect is often observed. To explain this paradox of crossover in the direction of errors, rather co...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ishiai S,Koyama Y,Nakano N,Seki K,Nishida Y,Hayashi K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How far can proprioception contribute to time keeping? To answer this question, a deafferented patient and neurologically normal subjects produced 1- or 5-sec durations in a sustained (continuous finger press) or discrete (two successive finger taps) manner, with and without Knowledge of Results. The findings were tha...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fleury M,Macar F,Bard C,Teasdale N,Paillard J,Lamarre Y,Forget R

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the underlying deficit for some simultanagnosics is the inability to bilaterally orient attention in space due to parietal damage. In five experiments, we examine the performance of a patient with simultanagnosia secondary to bilateral occipito-parietal lesions, IC, in naming pairs of line-dr...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Pavese A,Coslett HB,Saffran E,Buxbaum L

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala is a fascinating, complex structure that lies at the center of much of our current thinking about emotion. Here, I will review data that suggest that the amygdala is involved in several processes linked to determining what a stimulus is and what the organism should therefore do - the two questions that ar...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Pessoa L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory of mind (ToM) - our ability to predict behaviors of others in terms of their underlying intentions - has been examined through verbal and nonverbal false-belief (FB) tasks. Previous brain imaging studies of ToM in adults have implicated medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) for adu...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kobayashi C,Glover GH,Temple E

更新日期：2007-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies examined the effects of word orientation and word imageability in a visual half-field procedure. The studies involved a lexical decision task in which items were presented in either a horizontal or vertical orientation randomly intermixed in Experiment 1 and blocked in Experiment 2. Overall, a RVF advantag...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Howell JR,Bryden MP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The processing of hierarchical stimuli was examined in patients with lesions in the temporal-parietal junction. In separate blocks of trials, subjects were instructed to identify the letter at the local or the global level of a hierarchical stimulus. Consistent with previous findings, reaction times for controls were ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lamb MR,Robertson LC,Knight RT

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings of pharmacological studies that have investigated the involvement of specific regions of the brain in recognition memory are reviewed. The particular emphasis of the review concerns what such studies indicate concerning the role of the perirhinal cortex in recognition memory. Most of the studies involve rats ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Brown MW,Barker GR,Aggleton JP,Warburton EC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence showing that non-verbal short-term memory has distinct visual and spatial/sequential components is reviewed. A new test, The Visual Patterns Test (VPT), which was designed to measure short-term visual memory largely shorn of its spatio-sequential component, is described. Correlational studies of the VPT and t...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Della Sala S,Gray C,Baddeley A,Allamano N,Wilson L

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the antisaccade paradigm, subjects are instructed to fixate a central point, and then move their eyes towards a position in space in the opposite direction but equidistant to a peripheral, sudden onset target. Antisaccade errors occur when subjects are "distracted" by the target and make a saccade towards it. These...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hutton SB,Joyce EM,Barnes TR,Kennard C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present ERP study aimed at providing evidence for the existence of two routes in the brain for the processing of morphosyntactic features during language comprehension; a lexical route which retrieves grammatical properties stored in the lexicon without reliance on formal cues, and a form-based route that takes ad...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Caffarra S,Janssen N,Barber HA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endel Tulving conducted pioneering work on the explicit and implicit memory systems and demonstrated that priming effects can be long-lasting. It is also well-established that emotion can amplify explicit and implicit memory. Prior work has utilized repetition suppression (RS) of the fMRI-BOLD signal-a reduction in th...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kark SM,Slotnick SD,Kensinger EA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models have proposed that different regions of the medial temporal lobes contribute to different aspects of episodic memory. For instance, according to one view, the perirhinal cortex represents specific items, parahippocampal cortex represents information regarding the context in which these items were encoun...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hannula DE,Libby LA,Yonelinas AP,Ranganath C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00