Behavioral and electctrophysiological evidence for enhanced sensitivity to subtle variations of pain expressions of same-race than other-race faces.

abstract：:Recordings were made from neurons in parafoveal striate cortex while monkey performed a brightness discrimination task. The earliest post-stimulus firing reflected only stimulus parameters. Later firing as 44% greater on trials where the monkeys performed correctly. A third epoch of cell activity, averaged backward in...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bridgeman B

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing unfamiliar faces is more difficult than familiar face recognition, and this has been attributed to qualitative differences in the processing of familiar and unfamiliar faces. Familiar faces are assumed to be represented by view-independent codes, whereas unfamiliar face recognition depends mainly on view-d...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Zimmermann FG,Eimer M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Embedded Figure Test (EFT) requires locating a simple shape embedded within a background of overlapping target-irrelevant scene elements. Observers with autism, or those with high levels of autistic-like traits, typically outperform matched comparison groups on the EFT. This research investigated the critical visu...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Almeida RA,Dickinson JE,Maybery MT,Badcock JC,Badcock DR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tic disorders, such as the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and persistent tic disorder, are neurodevelopmental movement disorders involving impaired motor control. Hence, patients show repetitive unwanted muscular contractions in one or more parts of the body. A cognitive-behavioral therapy, with a particular...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Morand-Beaulieu S,O'Connor KP,Sauvé G,Blanchet PJ,Lavoie ME

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The location and possible function of the human frontal eye-field (FEF) were evaluated by reviewing results of cerebral blood-flow (CBF) and lesion studies. A remarkable consistency was found regarding the rostro-caudal (Y: from -6 to 1 mm) and dorso-ventral (Z: from 44 to 51 mm) location of the FEF, as defined by the...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Paus T

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conclusions about the duration of hippocampal contributions to our autobiographical record of personal episodes have come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Interpretation is complicated by such factors as extent and site of lesions as well as test sensitivity. We describe the case of an amnesic person, K.C., wit...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Rosenbaum RS,McKinnon MC,Levine B,Moscovitch M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual motion processing is often attributed to the dorsal visual pathway despite visual motion's involvement in almost all visual functions. Furthermore, some visual motion tasks critically depend on the structural integrity of regions outside the dorsal pathway. Here, based on numerous studies, I propose that visual...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gilaie-Dotan S

更新日期：2016-08-01 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 LIM kinase1 protein (LIMK1) is thought to be involved in neuronal development and brain function. However, its role in spatial cognition in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) is currently ambiguous, with conflicting reports on the cognitive phenotypes of individuals who do not have classic WS but harbour part...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gray V,Karmiloff-Smith A,Funnell E,Tassabehji M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When subjects are given the balls-and-boxes problem-solving task (Kotovsky & Simon, 1990), they move rapidly towards the goal after an extended exploratory phase, despite having no awareness of how to solve the task. We investigated possible non-conscious learning mechanisms by giving subjects three runs of the task w...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Paynter CA,Kotovsky K,Reder LM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using stimuli with ambiguous figure-ground relationships, Ricci and Blundo (1990, Neuropsychologia 28, 1163-1173) demonstrated that patients with frontal-lobe lesions are impaired at shifting perspective. No significant difference between right frontal and left frontal groups was found. To investigate this phenomenon ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Meenan JP,Miller LA

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to a longstanding view, inferior as opposed to superior parietal cortex critically contributes to the spatial attentional deficits encountered following unilateral parietal ischemic lesions. We review the evidence on which this view is based and contrast it with more recent structural lesion evidence concern...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Vandenberghe R,Molenberghs P,Gillebert CR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-associated damage in the microstructure of frontally-based connections (e.g. genu of the corpus callosum and superior longitudinal fasciculus) is believed to lead to impairments in processing speed and executive function. Using mediation analysis, we tested the potential contribution of callosal and frontoparietal...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bourbon-Teles J,Canário N,Jorge L,Castelo-Branco M

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Only a small amount of studies have looked at the structural neural correlates of children's arithmetic. Furthermore, these studies mainly implemented voxel-based morphometry, which only takes the volume of regions into account, without looking at other structural properties. The current study aimed to contribute know...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Polspoel B,Vandermosten M,De Smedt B

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutual adaptive timing (MAT), the capacity to adapt one's timing to the timing of a partner, is a form of interpersonal entrainment necessary to play music in ensemble. To this respect, two questions can be advanced. First, whether MAT can be seen also in non-musician populations. This might imply interesting theoreti...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Dell'Anna A,Fossataro C,Burin D,Bruno V,Salatino A,Garbarini F,Pia L,Ricci R,Leman M,Berti A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four forebrain commissurotomized patients were compared with one partially commissurotomized control subjects on their ability to cross-compare simultaneously flashed bilateral visual stimuli (colors, schematic faces, numbers, letters, patterns) as same or different, or to name the two stimuli. Two of the four patient...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Johnson LE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two left- and right-hemispherectomized patients with contralateral hemianopia and 20 normal controls were administered a line bisection task. All hemispherectomized patients showed a strong bisection bias towards their blind visual field. This contralateral bias persisted when patients were forced to start scanning wi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hausmann M,Waldie KE,Allison SD,Corballis MC

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of recent studies have shown that selective attention can influence the emotional value of both selected as well as ignored items. Specifically, ignored items (distractors) were consistently rated less positively in emotional evaluations, following attentional selection, relative to (typically) simultaneously...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fragopanagos N,Cristescu T,Goolsby BA,Kiss M,Eimer M,Nobre AC,Raymond JE,Shapiro KL,Taylor JG

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we postulated a divergence in reflexive versus voluntary saccade behavior in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and hypothesized a fronto-striatal dysfunction. The voluntary saccade tasks included antisaccades (AS) and remembered saccades (RemS). However, multiple cognitive processes are involved i...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Crevits L,Vandierendonck A,Stuyven E,Verschaete S,Wildenbeest J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have examined how parenting behavior influences individuals' brain structure and behavioral development, primarily among people who have experienced maltreatment. However, information relating to the anatomical structure associated with the parenting behavior in young healthy individuals who have not exper...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Yang J,Wei D,Wang K,Yi Z,Qiu J

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten adults, who were blind from infancy or childhood, laterally slid a horizontal rod within a short length of pipe located at the body midline, until the rod extremities were tactually-kinesthetically judged to be equidistant from the ends of the pipe. Whereas sighted subjects normally set the left extremity of the r...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bradshaw JL,Nettleton NC,Nathan G,Wilson L

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments, normal subjects named briefly presented pictures of objects that were shown either to the left or to the right of fixation. The net effects attributable to hemifield were negligible: naming RTs were 12 msec lower for pictures shown in the left visual field but error rates were slightly lower, by 0....

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Biederman I,Cooper EE

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has suggested a time-of-day effect for response inhibition on a task known to be dependent on frontal lobe function. We used a forced desynchronisation protocol to separate effects of circadian and sleep homeostat processes on a modified version of this task. Fourteen healthy young adults followed an...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Harrison Y,Jones K,Waterhouse J

更新日期：2007-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This multifactorial study investigates the interrelationships between head circumference (HC) and intellectual quotient (IQ), learning, nutritional status and brain development in Chilean school-age children graduating from high school, of both sexes and with high and low IQ and socio-economic strata (SES). The sample...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ivanovic DM,Leiva BP,Pérez HT,Olivares MG,Díaz NS,Urrutia MS,Almagià AF,Toro TD,Miller PT,Bosch EO,Larraín CG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with visual field disorders often exhibit impairments in visual exploration and a typical defective oculomotor scanning behaviour. Recent evidence [Bolognini, N., Rasi, F., Coccia, M., & Làdavas, E. (2005b). Visual search improvement in hemianopic patients after audio-visual stimulation. Brain, 128, 2830-2842...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Passamonti C,Bertini C,Làdavas E

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to test two hypotheses about binaural hearing: (1) that binaural cues are primarily processed in the hemisphere contralateral to the perceived location of a sound; and (2) that the two main binaural cues, interaural timing differences and interaural level differences, are processed in separate ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Johnson BW,Hautus MJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People hate being deceived. However, what would it be if lies come from in-group members compared with that from out-group members? In the current Electroencephalography (EEG) study, we recruited thirty-six participants to play a modified estimator and advisor game to investigate the mental and neural processes to lie...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Mei D,Zhang W,Yin L

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Stroop is a classical paradigm that presumably involves the inhibition of automatic responses and is frequently used to assess the frontal lobe functions. We investigated the effect of discrete prefrontal lesions in a Stroop task. A sample of 32 patients with frontal lesions were matched with normal controls by se...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Vendrell P,Junqué C,Pujol J,Jurado MA,Molet J,Grafman J

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive estimation is an important function in daily living. In early studies it was proposed that estimation deficits are associated with frontal lobe damage and executive dysfunctions. In this study, we assessed Alzheimer patients and patients with alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome with a newly developed cognitive es...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Brand M,Kalbe E,Fujiwara E,Huber M,Markowitsch HJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding a word requires mapping sounds to a word-form and then identifying its correct meaning, which in some cases necessitates the recruitment of cognitive control processes to direct the activation of semantic knowledge in a task appropriate manner (i.e., semantic control). Neuroimaging and neuropsychological...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Harvey DY,Wei T,Ellmore TM,Hamilton AC,Schnur TT

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00