Functional asymmetry between the left and right human fusiform gyrus explored through electrical brain stimulation.

abstract：:Emerging evidence from studies using, for example, acute tryptophan depletion or investigating genetic variation of genes related to the serotonin signaling pathway suggest a role of serotonin in executive functions such as top-down attention, working memory and inhibitory control. In the current study, we aimed at ex...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Enge S,Fleischhauer M,Lesch KP,Reif A,Strobel A

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Reward-predicting stimuli can induce maladaptive behavior by provoking action tendencies that conflict with long-term goals. Earlier, we showed that when human participants were permitted to respond for a reward in the presence of a task-irrelevant, reward-predicting stimulus (i.e. goCS+ trials), the CS+ provoked an a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Freeman SM,Alvernaz D,Tonnesen A,Linderman D,Aron AR

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkeys' spontaneous behaviors in cancelling a variety of visual and somatosensory stimuli were measured before, and acutely after, unilateral periarcuate (N = 16) and inferior parietal (n = 14) cortical removals. Postoperative behavior was analyzed for both severity of change from the preoperative baseline, and for t...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Deuel RK,Farrar CA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively recently, neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies have indicated that individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have deficits in a range of timing functions and their underlying neural networks. Despite this evidence, timing deficits in ADHD are still somewhat neglected in the lit...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Noreika V,Falter CM,Rubia K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While skilled readers produce an increased and left-lateralized event-related-potential (ERP) component, known as N170, for strings of letters compared to strings of less familiar units, it remains unclear whether perceptual familiarity plays an important role in driving the increased and left-lateralized N170 for pri...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Xue L,Maurer U,Weng X,Zhao J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response inhibition is typically considered a hallmark of deliberate executive control. In this article, we review work showing that response inhibition can also become a 'prepared reflex', readily triggered by information in the environment, or after sufficient training, or a 'learned reflex' triggered by the retriev...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Verbruggen F,Best M,Bowditch WA,Stevens T,McLaren IP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very few studies have investigated autobiographical memory in the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia (fv-FTD). The aim of this study was therefore to unravel the mechanisms of autobiographical memory disruption in general and in the anterograde and retrograde components of amnesia in particular, in patients su...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Matuszewski V,Piolino P,de la Sayette V,Lalevée C,Pélerin A,Dupuy B,Viader F,Eustache F,Desgranges B

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aprosodia Battery was developed to distinguish different patterns of affective-prosodic deficits in patients with left versus right brain damage by using affective utterances with incrementally reduced verbal-articulatory demands. It has also been used to assess affective-prosodic performance in various clinical g...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ross ED,Monnot M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During incremental language comprehension, the brain activates knowledge of described events, including knowledge elements that constitute semantic anomalies in their linguistic context. The present study investigates hemispheric asymmetries in this process, with the aim of advancing our understanding of the neural ba...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Metusalem R,Kutas M,Urbach TP,Elman JL

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated six patients with progressive focal dementia or progressive aphasia, who showed impairments in knowledge of word meaning ranging from moderate to very severe. In all cases, a test of oral word reading demonstrated preserved reading of words with regular spelling-to-sound correspondences (e.g. MINT), bu...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Patterson K,Hodges JR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to form spatial representations of object locations is an important component of successful spatial navigation. Evidence from behavioral studies suggests that environmental features that have a salient coordinate axis (e.g., a rectangular building or a geometrical room) may provide a reference frame for th...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Chan E,Baumann O,Bellgrove MA,Mattingley JB

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients with unilateral prefrontal cortical neurosurgical lesions (11 left and 10 right) and 38 patients with unilateral temporal lobectomy (19 left and 19 right) were compared to 44 matched control subjects on their performance on the 3-D Computerized Tower of Hanoi (3-D CTOH) test. The problems were spli...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Morris RG,Miotto EC,Feigenbaum JD,Bullock P,Polkey CE

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested an uneven profile of executive dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). For example, some authors have reported deficits on newly developed tests of executive function sensitive to rostral prefrontal function, despite spared, or even superior, performance on other tests. We investi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gilbert SJ,Bird G,Brindley R,Frith CD,Burgess PW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an early description of the mu rhythm, Gastaut and Bert [Gastaut, H. J., & Bert, J. (1954). EEG changes during cinematographic presentation. Clinical Neurophysiology, 6, 433-444] noted that it was blocked when an individual identified himself with an active person on the screen, suggesting that it may be modulated ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Oberman LM,Ramachandran VS,Pineda JA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that word-stem completion (WSC) priming and perceptual identification (PI) priming, two types of repetition priming, rely on different cognitive and neural mechanisms: WSC priming on a modification mechanism that influences lexical retrieval, and PI priming on plasticity in pre-lexical perceptual syste...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Postle BR,Corkin S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Number is a complex category, as with the word "number" we may refer to different entities. First, it is a perceptual property that characterizes any set of individual items, namely its cardinality. The ability to extract the (approximate) cardinality of sets is almost universal in the animal domain and present in hum...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Piazza M,Eger E

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to assess the development of luminance- and texture-defined static form perception in school-aged children. This was done using an adapted Landolt-C technique where C-optotypes were defined by either luminance or texture information, the latter necessitating extra-striate neural ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bertone A,Hanck J,Guy J,Cornish K

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous behavioral studies have shown that individuals with autism are less hindered by interference from global processing during the performance of lower-level perceptual tasks, such as finding embedded figures. The primary goal of this study was to examine the brain manifestation of such atypicality in high-functi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Liu Y,Cherkassky VL,Minshew NJ,Just MA

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:We report a case study of a patient (IH) with a progressive impairment of semantic memory affecting all categories of knowledge apart from numbers. Pictorial material was better understood than words, but was still severely impaired. The selective preservation of nearly all aspects of numerical knowledge suggested tha...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cappelletti M,Butterworth B,Kopelman M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disorder of the elderly, ranks third in health care cost after heart disease and cancer. Given the disproportionate aging of the population in all developed countries, the socio-economic impact of AD will continue to rise. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a t...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Apostolova LG,Thompson PM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly recognizing familiar people from their faces appears critical for social interactions (e.g., to differentiate friend from foe). However, the actual speed at which the human brain can distinguish familiar from unknown faces still remains debated. In particular, it is not clear whether familiarity can be extract...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Barragan-Jason G,Cauchoix M,Barbeau EJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:We report a Chinese-speaking patient WJX with left temporal lobe ischemic damage resulting in dementia. Similar to English speaking patients with this pathology, WJX showed impaired semantic system functioning together with a well preserved ability to read aloud Chinese characters including characters with unpredictab...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bi Y,Han Z,Weekes B,Shu H

更新日期：2007-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus has been proposed to play a critical role in memory through its unique ability to bind together the disparate elements of an experience. This hypothesis has been widely examined in rodents using a class of tasks known as "configural" or "non-linear", where outcomes are determined by specific combinatio...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kumaran D,Hassabis D,Spiers HJ,Vann SD,Vargha-Khadem F,Maguire EA

更新日期：2007-09-20 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：:We report the case of an aphasic patient, KP, whose spontaneous speech and ability to communicate verbally were severely reduced. His comprehension of written words was preserved. Naming was relatively preserved for objects but impaired for actions. We designed experiments to investigate his verb processing and senten...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Manning L,Warrington EK

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the performance of 32 normal subjects and 39 patients with focal lesions of the frontal lobes on two simple timing tasks-responding in time with a tone that regularly repeated at a rate of once every 1.5s, and then maintaining the same regular response rhythm without any external stimulus. The hypo...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Picton TW,Stuss DT,Shallice T,Alexander MP,Gillingham S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proverb interpretation task (PIT) is often used in clinical settings to evaluate frontal "executive" dysfunction. However, only a relatively small number of studies have investigated the relationship between frontal lobe lesions and performance on the PIT. We compared 52 patients with unselected focal frontal lobe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Murphy P,Shallice T,Robinson G,MacPherson SE,Turner M,Woollett K,Bozzali M,Cipolotti L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00