Minimal humanity cues induce neural empathic reactions towards non-human entities.

abstract：:Spatial neglect can be accompanied by a pusher syndrome (PS) which is characterized by a postural deviation towards the contralesional side. In this study, the representation of the body orientation in the horizontal plane was evaluated in neglect patients with and without PS. The participants had to align a luminous ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Honoré J,Saj A,Bernati T,Rousseaux M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifiers such as frequency adverbs (e.g., "always", "never") and quantity pronouns (e.g., "many", "none") convey quantity information. Whether quantifiers are processed as numbers or as general semantics has been a matter of much debate. Some neuropsychological and fMRI studies have found that the processing of qua...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cheng D,Zhou A,Yu X,Chen C,Jia J,Zhou X

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study reports on the degree of similarity in regional cerebral glucose metabolism in seven sets of female identical twins. All scans were done with subjects at rest. Glucose metabolism was measured with positron emission tomography (PET). Significant intraclass correlations were found for the orbital and p...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Clark CM,Klonoff H,Tyhurst JS,Ruth T,Adam M,Rogers J,Harrop R,Martin W,Pate B

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：:In patients with right brain damage and left visual neglect, attention tends to be captured by right-sided objects and cannot easily disengage from them. While these phenomena can account for several clinical and experimental patterns of performance such as biased visual search, its role is more controversial for othe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Toba MN,Cavanagh P,Bartolomeo P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterised by a relatively specific pattern of typical and atypical memory functioning. Convergent behavioural and neuroscientific evidence indicates that this pattern of functioning may be the result of specific impairments in hippocampally mediated relational memory processes,...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gaigg SB,Gardiner JM,Bowler DM

更新日期：2008-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Body ownership for an artificial hand and the perceived position of one's own hand can be manipulated in the so-called rubber hand illusion. To induce this illusion, typically an artificial hand is placed next to the participant's body and stroked in synchrony with the real hand, which is hidden from view. Our first a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Zopf R,Savage G,Williams MA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using repetitive transcranical magnetic stimulation (rTMS), we investigated the functional relevance of posterior parietal cortex for categorical and coordinate judgements in the spatial imagery domain. In the coordinate task, subjects were asked to imagine two analogue clock faces based on acoustically presented pair...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Trojano L,Conson M,Maffei R,Grossi D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective attention to facial emotion and identity was investigated in 12 patients with schizophrenia and 12 healthy participants. Both patients and controls were required to perform two classification tasks (according either to identity or emotion). Two separate values for identity (person A/person B) and for emo...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Baudouin JY,Martin F,Tiberghien G,Verlut I,Franck N

更新日期：2002-01-01 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

abstract：:Fifteen agentive nouns, all with meanings derivable from the meaning of the stem verb, were presented tachistoscopically to right-handed subjects. Non-agentive nouns were also presented, and subjects were asked to produce the plural form in addition to the simple stimulus form. The results show a significant right vis...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Goodall G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several studies have investigated neural oscillations in response to acoustically degraded speech, it is still a matter of debate which neural frequencies reflect speech intelligibility. Part of the problem is that effects of acoustics and intelligibility have so far not been considered independently. In the ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Steinmetzger K,Rosen S

更新日期：2017-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that the common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, displays a larger left hemimouth during production of fear expressions, with or without vocalization, and a larger right hemimouth when producing a social contact call. Thus, marmosets have right hemisphere specialization for the production of negative emotio...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hook-Costigan MA,Rogers LJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between episodic memory and episodic future thought (EFT) remains an active target of research. A growing literature suggests that similar cognitive processes and neural substrates tend to support these acts. However, direct comparisons of whole-brain activity reveal clear differences, with numerous regio...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gilmore AW,Nelson SM,Chen HY,McDermott KB

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consciousness of the finiteness of one's personal existence influences human thoughts and behaviors tremendously. However, the neural substrates underlying the processing of death-related information remain unclear. The current study addressed this issue by scanning 20 female adults, using functional magnetic resonanc...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Han S,Qin J,Ma Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The throwing performance of 104 right-handers, and 96 left-handers with inconsistent and consistent hand preferences, as classified by the procedure used by Ponton (Neuropsychologia 25, 305-311, 1987), was examined. Left-handers with inconsistent hand preference write with the left, tap faster with the left, and perfo...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Peters M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemisphere specialization for language was studied in 10 children with expressive developmental dysphasia (DD) (mean age 10 years 4 months) submitted to a dichotic listening task (in a word free-recall task and forced-attention task) and a finger tapping/vocalization dual-task paradigm. A nonsense shape dichaptic task...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Duvelleroy-Hommet C,Gillet P,Billard C,Loisel ML,Barthez MA,Santini JJ,Autret A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosody (i.e. speech melody) is an important cue to infer an interlocutor's emotional state, complementing information from face expression and body posture. Inferring fear from face expression is reported as impaired after amygdala lesions. It remains unclear whether this deficit is specific to face expression, or is...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bach DR,Hurlemann R,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensorimotor resonance, the vicarious activation of the sensory motor system during observation of another's actions, is thought to contribute to important social functions including empathy. Previous research has shown that sensorimotor resonance, as measured by suppression of the electrophysiological (EEG) mu rhythm...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： DiGirolamo MA,Simon JC,Hubley KM,Kopulsky A,Gutsell JN

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right hemisphere lesions are known to impair, in many cases, visual recognition and visuospatial orientation. We report here on the compensatory strategies used by a patient whose posterior part of the right hemisphere was either destroyed or visually deafferented. She presented a slight appreceptive agnosia, memory d...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Clarke S,Assal G,de Tribolet N

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of facial expressions of emotion was investigated in people with medicated and unmedicated Parkinson's disease (PD) and matched controls (unmedicated PD, n=16; medicated PD, n=20; controls, n=40). Participants in the medicated group showed some visual impairment (impaired contrast sensitivity) and performe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Sprengelmeyer R,Young AW,Mahn K,Schroeder U,Woitalla D,Büttner T,Kuhn W,Przuntek H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of left-right asymmetry in resting brain activity were derived from spectral estimates of electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha-band power density in 13 homologous scalp electrode pairs from 81 right-handed individuals (43 F) on two occasions separated by 6 weeks. At a third, later session, these individuals compl...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Sutton SK,Davidson RJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amnesia leads to a deficit in recollection that leaves familiarity-based recognition relatively spared. Familiarity is thought to be based on the fluent processing of studied items compared to novel items. However, whether amnesic patients respond normally to direct manipulations of processing fluency is not yet known...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ozubko JD,Yonelinas AP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directional motion processing is a pervasive and functionally important feature of the visual system. Behavioural and VEP studies indicate that it appears as a cortical function after about 7 weeks of age, with global processing, motion based segmentation, and the use of motion in complex perceptual tasks emerging sho...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Braddick O,Atkinson J,Wattam-Bell J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multitasking behavior is associated with well-known performance costs, but the question of why individuals falter when attempting to manage multiple streams of information remains difficult to answer. One reason for this difficulty may be that multitasking costs are often characterized by isolating component processes...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ward N,Hussey EK,Cunningham EC,Paul EJ,McWilliams T,Kramer AF

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has suggested that, when operating in a distributed attention mode, the visual system automatically represents visual displays by their overall statistics, rather than their individual properties. Recent neuropsychological work shows partly preserved distributed attention in simultanagnosic patients,...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Demeyere N,Rzeskiewicz A,Humphreys KA,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) imaging, two populations having high and low imagery abilities were compared at rest and while performing two cognitive tasks: silent verb conjugation and mental imagery. The imagery task produced an rCBF increase in the left visual association and left frontal cortices in bot...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Charlot V,Tzourio N,Zilbovicius M,Mazoyer B,Denis M

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that prefrontal cortex plays a critical role in accurate predictions of episodic memory performance was tested using the feeling-of-knowing (FOK) paradigm. Fourteen patients with a broad spectrum of damage to the frontal cortex and matched controls read sentences and later were tested for recall memory,...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Schnyer DM,Verfaellie M,Alexander MP,LaFleche G,Nicholls L,Kaszniak AW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pervasiveness of word-finding difficulties in aphasia has motivated several theories regarding management of the deficit and its effectiveness. Recently, the hypothesis was advanced that instead of simply accompanying speech gestures participate in language production by increasing the semantic activation of words...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Marangolo P,Bonifazi S,Tomaiuolo F,Craighero L,Coccia M,Altoè G,Provinciali L,Cantagallo A

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00