Exceptions to the male advantage on a spatial task: family handedness and college major as factors identifying women who excel.

abstract：:The recent development of noninvasive methods for measuring local rates of energy metabolism or blood flow in the brain has made it possible to investigate functional neuroanatomy in healthy human subjects. The best of these methods, high resolution measurement of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) with positron emis...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Haxby JV,Grady CL,Ungerleider LG,Horwitz B

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Prenatal alcohol exposure causes a variety of cognitive deficits, notably in mathematics and higher order processes such as abstraction. An exploratory battery was developed to examine specific types of number processing impairments in 29 adolescent and adult patients with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcoho...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kopera-Frye K,Dehaene S,Streissguth AP

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unresolved issue in behavioral studies of hemispheric asymmetry is why both left-handers and right-handers show a right ear advantage at the group level. In the present study we screened left-handers for left- versus right-hemisphere speech dominance with fMRI by comparing right versus left hemisphere frontal lobe ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Van der Haegen L,Westerhausen R,Hugdahl K,Brysbaert M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work in theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics suggests that human linguistic knowledge forms a continuum between individual lexical items and abstract syntactic representations, with most linguistic representations falling between the two extremes and taking the form of lexical items stored together with the s...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fedorenko E,Nieto-Castañon A,Kanwisher N

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:This study examines the influence of social hierarchy on the neural electrophysiological responses to faces. In contrast with earlier EEG studies that typically manipulate social rank through competitive situations, we implemented hierarchy through occupational status and thus contrasted faces associated with high- vs...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Breton A,Ligneul R,Jerbi K,George N,Baudouin JY,Van der Henst JB

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings suggest that constructed experience, the ability to envision future events, activates the same cortical network as recollection of past events. For example, damage to one key area, the hippocampus, impairs patients' ability to remember the past and to imagine novel experiences (Hassabis, Kumaran, Vann,...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Berryhill ME,Picasso L,Arnold R,Drowos D,Olson IR

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From birth, the human visual system shows a remarkable sensitivity for perceiving biological motion. This visual ability relies on a distributed network of brain regions and can be preserved even after damage of high-level ventral visual areas. However, it remains unknown whether this critical biological skill can wit...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ruffieux N,Ramon M,Lao J,Colombo F,Stacchi L,Borruat FX,Accolla E,Annoni JM,Caldara R

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is a critical node in attentional and saccadic eye movement networks of the cerebral cortex, exerting top-down control over activity in visual cortex. Here, we sought to further elucidate the properties of PPC feedback by providing a time-resolved map of functional connectivity betw...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Parks NA,Mazzi C,Tapia E,Savazzi S,Fabiani M,Gratton G,Beck DM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warrington and Shallice (Brain 103, 99-112, 1980) proposed that letter-by-letter readers can no longer access the visual word-form system, and read by using the spelling system 'in reverse'. Contrary to their suggestion, this paper presents the case of a letter-by-letter reader who appears to use quite different strat...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hanley JR,Kay J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim of the present study was to investigate the neurophysiologic correlates of the conscious and not conscious perception of faces (presented for 14, 40, 80 ms) with happy and sad emotional valence. Electroencephalographic data of 22 participants during a report-based visual task were recorded. Both happy and sad face...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lai C,Pellicano GR,Ciacchella C,Guidobaldi L,Altavilla D,Cecchini M,Begotaraj E,Aceto P,Luciani M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of social threat is crucial for adaptive behaviour. Previous studies have shown that angry faces capture attention and are processed more efficiently than happy faces. While this anger superiority effect has been found in typical and atypical development, it is unknown whether it exists in individuals wi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Santos A,Silva C,Rosset D,Deruelle C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether people with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) demonstrate a specific impairment on tasks requiring them to make inferences about others' mental states (theory of mind tasks). Participants with severe TBI were compared to a healthy group on verbal first-order and second-order theory of...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bibby H,McDonald S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a male with acquired prosopagnosia using a battery of Implicit Association Tests (IATs) to investigate whether observing faces varying by social category would activate the patient's implicit social biases. We also asked him to categorize faces explicitly by race, gender, and political party. The patient, G...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Knutson KM,DeTucci KA,Grafman J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual hallucinations are a psychotic symptom present in numerous clinical conditions such as eye disease, Parkinsonian syndromes, neurodegenerative disorders and psychosis. Alteration of low level visual processing is a common feature in these clinical conditions, and various stages of processing from the retina to v...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bernardin F,Schwan R,Lalanne L,Ligier F,Angioi-Duprez K,Schwitzer T,Laprevote V

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosopagnosia is clinically defined as a specific and extreme inability to recognize familiar faces. However, doubts have been expressed concerning prosopagnosics' preserved ability to recognize unfamiliar faces and to make other within category discriminations. The present study pursues these doubts. If recognition o...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Davidoff J,Landis T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-knowledge concerns one's own preferences and personality. It pertains to the self (similar to episodic memory), yet does not concern events. It is factual (like semantic memory), but also idiosyncratic. For these reasons, it is unclear where self-knowledge might fall on a continuum in relation to semantic and epi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Tanguay AN,Benton L,Romio L,Sievers C,Davidson PSR,Renoult L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge about the future self may engage cognitive processes typically ascribed to episodic memory, such as awareness of the future self as an extension of the current self (i.e., autonoetic awareness) and the construction of future events. In a prior study (Tanguay et al., 2018), temporal orientation influenced the...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Tanguay AFN,Palombo DJ,Atance CM,Renoult L,Davidson PSR

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An embedded figures task was used to investigate hemispheric specialization for visual parsing. Error data from 40 normal right-handed males revealed a right-hemisphere advantage for parsing governed by the Gestalt laws of organization. In contrast, for parsing that violated those laws, subjects who could perform such...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Van Kleeck MH,Kosslyn SM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural and functional brain abnormalities have been described in anorexia nervosa (AN). The objective of this study was to examine whether there is abnormal regional brain activation during a working memory task not associated with any emotional stimuli in adolescent patients with anorexia and to detect possible c...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Castro-Fornieles J,Caldú X,Andrés-Perpiñá S,Lázaro L,Bargalló N,Falcón C,Plana MT,Junqué C

更新日期：2010-12-01 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

abstract：:A number of studies have reported correlations between subjects' asymmetry scores on left and right hemisphere specialized tasks. In this paper we report the results of meta-analyses performed on these correlations. Results showed positive correlations between subjects' asymmetry scores on left and right hemisphere sp...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kim H,Levine SC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of cognitive control processes over time can be indexed by trial-to-trial variability in reaction time (RT). Greater RT variability has been interpreted as an indicator of executive dysfunction, inhibitory inefficiency, and excessive mental noise. Previous studies have demonstrated that combat veterans w...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Swick D,Honzel N,Larsen J,Ashley V

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Working Memory model of human memory, first introduced by Baddeley and Hitch (1974), has been one of the most influential psychological constructs in cognitive psychology and human neuroscience. However the neuronal correlates of core components of this model have yet to be fully elucidated. Here we present data f...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Zamora L,Corina D,Ojemann G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that activation of the putative human mirror neuron system (MNS) can be elicited via visuomotor training. This is generally interpreted as supporting an associative learning account of the mirror neuron system (MNS) that argues against the ontogeny of the MNS to be an evol...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fitzgibbon BM,Kirkovski M,Fornito A,Paton B,Fitzgerald PB,Enticott PG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural circuits underlying initial sensory processing of somatic information are relatively well understood. In contrast, the processes that go beyond primary somatosensation to create more abstract representations related to the body are less clear. In this review, we focus on two classes of higher-order processi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Longo MR,Azañón E,Haggard P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study asks whether lesions in different parts of the brain have different effects on the processing of words typically used to refer to objects with and without action affordances, for example tools and animal-related nouns. A cohort of neurological patients with focal lesions participated in a lexical decision p...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Dreyer FR,Picht T,Frey D,Vajkoczy P,Pulvermüller F

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interplay between the cerebral hemispheres is vital for coordinating perception and behavior. One influential account holds that the hemispheres engage in rivalry, each inhibiting the other. In the somatosensory domain, a seminal paper claimed to demonstrate such interhemispheric rivalry, reporting improved tactile de...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Eshel N,Ruff CC,Spitzer B,Blankenburg F,Driver J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although studies of long-term outcomes of children born preterm consistently show low intelligence quotient (IQ) and visual-motor impairment, studies of their performance in language and reading have found inconsistent results. In this study, we examined which specific language and reading skills were associated with ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lee ES,Yeatman JD,Luna B,Feldman HM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00