Neurocognitive processes of linguistic cues related to death.

abstract：:We investigated how perceptual and semantic relationships between the left and right half of chimeric stimuli influence overt and covert visual processing by asking eight right brain damaged (RBD) patients with hemispatial neglect to identify complete, half-, and chimeric drawings. Chimeric stimuli belonged in one of ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Peru A,Moro V,Avesani R,Aglioti S

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioural, neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches emphasise the active and constructive nature of visual perception, determined not solely by the environmental input, but modulated top-down by prior knowledge. For example, degraded images, which at first appear as meaningless 'blobs', can easily be recognize...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Loth E,Gómez JC,Happé F

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:In adult patients who suffer from a visual field defect due to cerebral lesions, visual functions can be restored by systematic visual field training. Such visual field training is not feasible in young, brain-damaged children, who are unable to cooperate like adults. We have already shown earlier [Werth, R., and Moeh...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Werth R,Seelos K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairments on lexical and semantic fluency tasks occur in both cortical and subcortical dementia. Recent reports that the average size of phonemic and semantic clusters is reduced in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but not in Parkinson's disease (PD) could support the hypothesis that in AD verbal fluency deficits arise fro...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Tröster AI,Fields JA,Testa JA,Paul RH,Blanco CR,Hames KA,Salmon DP,Beatty WW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemispheric differences in a negative brain potential associated with selectively attending the location and type of stimulation were investigated. The earlier portion of this negativity (between 125 and 222 msec after stimulation) was associated with attending the location of the stimulus. It was symmetrical in the c...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Harter MR,Aine C,Schroeder C

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：:To ascertain the generality of a sex difference noted in odor identification ability, the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) was administered to four groups of subjects: Black Americans (n = 438), White Americans (n = 1559), Korean Americans (n = 106), and Native Japanese (n = 308). The women...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Doty RL,Applebaum S,Zusho H,Settle RG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-band oscillatory activity is involved in modulating memory and attention. However, few studies have investigated individual differences in oscillatory activity during the encoding of emotional memory, particularly in sleep paradigms where sleep is thought to play an active role in memory consolidation. The curre...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cross ZR,Santamaria A,Corcoran AW,Chatburn A,Alday PM,Coussens S,Kohler MJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：: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：:This series of experiments was aimed at assessing spatial abilities in high functioning individuals with autism (HFA), using a human-size labyrinth. In the context of recent findings that the performance of individuals with HFA was superior to typically developing individuals in several non-social cognitive operations...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Caron MJ,Mottron L,Rainville C,Chouinard S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain imaging studies of voice perception often contrast activation from vocal and verbal tasks to identify regions uniquely involved in processing voice. However, such a strategy precludes detection of the functional relationship between speech and voice perception. In a pair of experiments involving identifying voic...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Perrachione TK,Wong PC

更新日期：2007-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The HERA (Hemispheric Encoding/Retrieval Asymmetry) model captures hemispheric lateralization of prefrontal cortex (PFC) brain activity during memory encoding and retrieval. Reduced HERA has been observed in cross-sectional aging studies, but there is no longitudinal evidence, to our knowledge, on age-related changes ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Johansson J,Salami A,Lundquist A,Wåhlin A,Andersson M,Nyberg L

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that an early-blind echolocating individual (EB) showed robust occipital activation when he identified distant, silent objects based on echoes from his tongue clicks (Thaler, Arnott, & Goodale, 2011). In the present study we investigated the extent to which echolocation activation in EB's o...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Arnott SR,Thaler L,Milne JL,Kish D,Goodale MA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we attempted to better delineate the changes in corticospinal excitability that accompany perceptual to motor transformations when people are asked to observe, image or imitate actions. Motor evoked potentials (MEP) from transcranial magnetic stimulation were recorded in the first dorsal interosseous (F...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Clark S,Tremblay F,Ste-Marie D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on a woman who suffered left anterior cerebral artery hemorrhage with a focal lesion undercutting the left supplementary motor area. After almost complete recovery of language the patient was left with dysfluent, halting speech. In a series of four experiments we examined the major factors influenci...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ziegler W,Kilian B,Deger K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of false recognition in patients with dementia and diffuse temporal lobe pathology who report their memory difficulty as being one of persistent déjà vecu--the sensation that they have lived through the present moment before. On a number of recognition tasks, the patients were found to have high ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Moulin CJ,Conway MA,Thompson RG,James N,Jones RW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of pure retrograde amnesia following mild head injury is reported. Neuropsychological, psychodynamic and statistical approaches are employed in an attempt to disentangle the clinical picture presented by the patient. Focal retrograde amnesia, psychogenic retrograde amnesia and simulated amnesia are all taken in...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Barbarotto R,Laiacona M,Cocchini G

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic deficits underlying the severe and persistent reading difficulties in dyslexia are still highly debated. One of the major topics of debate is whether these deficits are language specific, or affect both verbal and non-verbal stimuli. Recently, Ahissar and colleagues proposed the "anchoring-deficit hypothesis...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Oganian Y,Ahissar M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

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：:The electrophysiological correlates of retrieval cue processing were investigated in healthy young (18-30 years) and older (63-75 years) subjects (n = 16 per group). Retrieval orientation--the differential processing of cues according to the form of the sought-for information--and retrieval difficulty were manipulated...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Morcom AM,Rugg MD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our sense of self is thought to develop through sensory-motor contingencies provided, not only by observing one's own body, but also by mirroring interactions with others. This suggests that there is a strong link between mirroring mechanisms and the bodily self. The present study tested whether this link is expressed...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Adler J,Schabinger N,Michal M,Beutel ME,Gillmeister H

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of unilateral temporal- or frontal-lobe lesions on the capacity of short-term memory for a single pattern was explored; this measure has been designated pattern span. Pattern span was assessed under different delays and with and without distraction. Both the passage of time and presence of distraction decre...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Pigott S,Milner B

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have suggested that the right hemisphere is superior at processing emotional facial expressions because it contains stored perceptual 'templates' of facial expressions. We tested each hemisphere of a split-brain patient on two tasks involving emotional facial expressions. Both hemispheres performed equally...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Stone VE,Nisenson L,Eliassen JC,Gazzaniga MS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Semantic Dementia (SD), in addition to their central semantic disorder, tend to show obsessive behaviours. Some SD cases take up jigsaw puzzles post-onset, and continue doing these, sometimes for many hours per day, after other abilities and interests are lost. The current study demonstrates that skill a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Green HA,Patterson K

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:We investigated whether concurrent processing of a tone (T1) interferes with early sensory-perceptual processing of a visual target (T2) in variants of the psychological refractory period paradigm using the event-related potential (ERP) method and 70-channel electroencephalographic recordings. T1, which required a spe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Brisson B,Jolicoeur P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed that haptic activation of the shape-selective lateral occipital complex (LOC) reflects a model of multisensory object representation in which the role of visual imagery is modulated by object familiarity. Supporting this, a previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study from our laborator...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lacey S,Stilla R,Sreenivasan K,Deshpande G,Sathian K

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00