abstract：:Semantic fluency tasks, with the categories of birds and furniture as stimuli, were administered to normal subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Normal subjects showed a gender-related double dissociation consistent with the literature data because men were more fluent with the birds category and women ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Marra C,Ferraccioli M,Gainotti G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed visual information processing in high-functioning individuals with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) and their parents. The authors used tasks for contrast sensitivity, motion, and form perception to test visual processing occurring relatively early and late in the magnocellular-dorsal and p...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： de Jonge MV,Kemner C,de Haan EH,Coppens JE,van den Berg TJ,van Engeland H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment examines whether the age-related decrease in the generation effect of rhymes is mediated by executive functioning. Young and elderly adults read and generated pairs of rhyming words for subsequent recall. Participants were also administered neuropsychological tests (executive and mnemonic functions). R...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Taconnat L,Baudouin A,Fay S,Clarys D,Vanneste S,Tournelle L,Isingrini M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, researchers (E. Festa-Martino, B. R. Ott, & W. C. Heindel, 2004; A. Tales, J. L. Muir, A. Bayer, R. Jones, & R. J. Snowden, 2002; A. Tales, J. L. Muir, A. Bayer, & R. J. Snowden, 2002 have found significantly abnormal spatial orienting together with the abolishment of the alerting effect in Alzheimer's disea...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Tales A,Snowden RJ,Brown M,Wilcock G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the cognitive and neurochemical factors underlying learned irrelevance, one of the mechanisms thought to be responsible for attentional set-shifting deficits in Parkinson's disease (PD), were investigated. In a visual discrimination learning task, the extent to which a target dimension was irrelevant pr...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Slabosz A,Lewis SJ,Smigasiewicz K,Szymura B,Barker RA,Owen AM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a distributed network model of visuospatial attention, the authors used an A-X version of the Continuous Performance Test and a covert orienting paradigm to examine the vigilance, anterior, and posterior attention systems. Compared with control participants without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (A...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Huang-Pollock CL,Nigg JT,Halperin JM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to examine the role of the corpus callosum (CC) in dichotic listening. For this purpose, 40 right-handed healthy male participants were assessed with morphological and diffusion tensor imaging, which yielded macrostructural (midsagittal area) and microstructural (mean diffusion, ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Westerhausen R,Woerner W,Kreuder F,Schweiger E,Hugdahl K,Wittling W

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairment in the inhibitory mechanism of visual selective attention in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) is controversial. The present study sought to understand disparate findings in a manner analogous to the relative preservation of exogenously evoked movement and impairment of endogenously evoked movement. Th...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Grande LJ,Crosson B,Heilman KM,Bauer RM,Kilduff P,McGlinchey RE

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition can be guided by familiarity, a restricted form of retrieval devoid of contextual recall, or by recollection, which occurs when retrieval is sufficient to support the full experience of remembering an episode. Recollection and familiarity were disentangled by testing recognition memory using silhouette obj...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Westerberg CE,Paller KA,Weintraub S,Mesulam MM,Holdstock JS,Mayes AR,Reber PJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Configural processing in autism was studied in Experiment 1 by using the face inversion effect. A normal inversion effect was observed in the participants with autism, suggesting intact configural face processing. A priming paradigm using partial or complete faces served in Experiment 2 to assess both local and config...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Lahaie A,Mottron L,Arguin M,Berthiaume C,Jemel B,Saumier D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation between intact priming and reduced explicit memory in aging has been called into question on the basis of limited information that suggests that priming measures are less reliable than explicit memory measures. No aging study to date, however, has offered a comprehensive examination of the reliability...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Fleischman DA,Gabrieli JD,Wilson RS,Moro TT,Bennett DA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implicit and explicit memory were examined in 8- to 15-year-old children with myelomeningocele and shunted hydrocephalus, severe traumatic brain injuries, or orthopedic injuries. Each group included between 22 and 29 children. Children completed a fragmented picture identification task to assess perceptual priming and...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Yeates KO,Enrile BG

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to an increase in time to react to a target in a previously attended location. Children with spina bifida meningomyelocele (SBM) and hydrocephalus have congenital dysmorphology of the midbrain, a brain region associated with the control of covert orienting in general and with IOR in p...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Dennis M,Edelstein K,Copeland K,Frederick JA,Francis DJ,Hetherington R,Blaser SE,Kramer LA,Drake JM,Brandt ME,Fletcher JM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental flexibility is required to track and systematically alternate between 2 response sets. In this study, 719 individuals, 20 to 89 years old, engaged in 3 different tasks that required verbal and nonverbal cognitive switching. Of importance, each task allowed for independent measurement of component skills that ar...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Wecker NS,Kramer JH,Hallam BJ,Delis DC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic misuse of alcohol affects an integrated neural circuit supporting the formation of associative memories acquired during eyeblink classical conditioning (R. McGlinchey-Berroth et al., 1995). The authors of this study investigated single-cue trace conditioning in amnesic and nonamnesic abstinent alcoholic indivi...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： McGlinchey RE,Fortier CB,Capozzi SM,Disterhoft JF

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epsilon4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) is an established risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, despite uncertainty as to its effect on cognitive function in normal aging. Some evidence suggests poor episodic memory and executive functioning in epsilon4 allele carriers. Prospective memory has been overlooked in ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Driscoll I,McDaniel MA,Guynn MJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with schizophrenia (n = 41) and healthy comparison participants (n = 46) completed neuropsychological measures of intelligence, memory, and executive function. A subset of each group also completed magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies (fractional anisotropy and cross-sectional area) of th...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Nestor PG,Kubicki M,Gurrera RJ,Niznikiewicz M,Frumin M,McCarley RW,Shenton ME

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors delineated the time evolution of alpha event-related desynchronization over human frontal, parietal, and primary sensorimotor areas during the expectancy of a go/no-go task. The main issue under investigation was whether anticipatory processes impinged upon cortical areas in sequential or parallel mode. Co...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Babiloni C,Brancucci A,Arendt-Nielsen L,Babiloni F,Capotosto P,Carducci F,Cincotti F,Romano L,Chen AC,Rossini PM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strategies can be used to find a destination in the environment. Using a virtual environment, the authors identified 2 strategies dependent on 2 different memory systems. A spatial strategy involved the use of multiple landmarks available in the environment, and a response strategy involved right and left turn...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Bohbot VD,Iaria G,Petrides M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT; n = 53, ages 55-91), healthy older adults (n = 75, ages 59-91), and younger adults (n = 24, ages 18-24) performed a word-primed picture-naming task. Word primes were neutral (ready), semantically or phonologically related, or unrelated to the correct picture name. ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Faust ME,Balota DA,Multhaup KS

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In prior studies, it was observed that patients with schizophrenia show abnormally high knowledge corruption (i.e., high-confident errors expressed as a percentage of all high-confident responses were increased for schizophrenic patients relative to controls). The authors examined the conditions under which excessive ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Moritz S,Woodward TS,Cuttler C,Whitman JC,Watson JM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of semantic organization in verbal memory efficiency in schizophrenia was investigated. Patients and healthy controls were administered a free-recall task involving 1 nonsemantically organizable list, 1 list organizable in semantic categories with typical instances, and 1 list organizable in semantic categori...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Brébion G,David AS,Jones H,Pilowsky LS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical mediation modeling was used to test the hypothesis that poor use of a semantic organizational strategy contributes to verbal learning and memory deficits in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Comparison of 28 adults with ADHD and 34 healthy controls revealed lower performance by t...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Roth RM,Wishart HA,Flashman LA,Riordan HJ,Huey L,Saykin AJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hebrew and Arabic are Semitic languages with a similar morphological structure and orthographies that differ in visual complexity. Two experiments explored the interaction of the characteristics of orthography and hemispheric abilities on lateralized versions of a letter-matching task (Experiment 1) and a global-local...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Eviatar Z,Ibrahim R,Ganayim D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral presentations of words, 1 in the left visual hemifield (LVF) and 1 in the right (RVF), are used widely in studies of hemispheric asymmetry. However, although words shown centrally (i.e., nonlaterally) produce perceptual interactions in which 1 word alters the perceived identity of the other, perceptual inter...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Jordan TR,Patching GR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological, qualitative, and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging findings were examined in subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD), non-AD dementia or mixed neuropsychiatric disorder, subjects characterized as mild/ambiguous, and controls, all with known apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype. Neuropsychological ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Bigler ED,Lowry CM,Kerr B,Tate DF,Hessel CD,Earl HD,Miller MJ,Rice SA,Smith KH,Tschanz JT,Welsh-Bohmer K,Plassman B,Victoroff J

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that music training can improve verbal memory was tested in children. The results showed that children with music training demonstrated better verbal but not visual memory than did their counterparts without such training. When these children were followed up after a year, those who had begun or continu...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Ho YC,Cheung MC,Chan AS

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young people with Tourette's syndrome (TS) alone, TS plus attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (+ADHD), or TS plus obsessive-compulsive disorder (+OCD) were compared with a healthy control group on a set of measures of executive functioning, memory, and learning. The TS-alone group was impaired on one executive me...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Channon S,Pratt P,Robertson MM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G. Storms, T. Dirikx, J. Saerens, S. Verstaeten, and P. P. De Deyn (2003) have provided an important critique of the use of multidimensional scaling (MDS) to evaluate semantic knowledge in Alzheimer's disease. If MDS is to be used with semantic proximity data (in spite of well-documented reasons for not doing so), at ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Ober BA,Shenaut GK

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the performance of heterosexual and homosexual men and women on 2 tests of spatial processing, mental rotation (MR) and Benton Judgment of Line Orientation (JLO). The sample comprised 60 heterosexual men, 60 heterosexual women, 60 homosexual men, and 60 homosexual women. There were significant main...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Rahman Q,Wilson GD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), 15 older controls (OCs), and 109 younger controls (YCs) were compared in 2 category-learning tasks. Participants attempted to assign colored geometric figures to 1 of 2 categories. In rule-based tasks, category membership was defined by an explicit rule that was easy to ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Ashby FG,Noble S,Filoteo JV,Waldron EM,Ell SW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal neuropsychological outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) were investigated in 53 children with severe TBI, 56 children with moderate TBI, and 80 children with orthopedic injuries only. Neuropsychological functioning was assessed at baseline, at 6- and 12-month follow-ups, and at an extended follow-up (...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Yeates KO,Taylor HG,Wade SL,Drotar D,Stancin T,Minich N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept identification and concept formation aspects of abstract reasoning were examined in 90 nonmentally retarded individuals with autism and 107 normal controls. It was hypothesized that pronounced deficits would be found on concept formation tests, whereas performance on concept identification tests would be r...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Minshew NJ,Meyer J,Goldstein G

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study by J. R. Keith et al. (2002) purported to find postoperative changes in attention in a sample of patients who underwent cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. Detecting differential patterns of neuropsychological change following treatment presents formidable methodological and statistical challenges. This commentary...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Millis SR

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed alternation tasks are frequently used as probes of frontal lobe functioning. To clarify the neural substrates of delayed alternation performance in humans, the authors measured regional cerebral blood flow with H2(15)O positron emission tomography in healthy subjects as they performed delayed spatial and objec...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Zald DH,Curtis C,Folley BS,Pardo JV

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has demonstrated broad neurobehavioral abnormalities in bipolar affective disorder (cf. G. Cassens, L. Wolfe, & M. Zola, 1990). However, there have been no comparisons of neuropsychological function across patients with manic, depressed, or mixed subtypes. In the present study, 37 manic, 24 mixed-epi...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Basso MR,Lowery N,Neel J,Purdie R,Bornstein RA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated handedness of 109 Korean patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and 120 normal control participants. Left TLE was associated with a significantly raised incidence of left-handers relative to normal controls. More important for the present purpose, right TLE was associated with a sign...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Kim H,Yi S,Son EI,Kim J

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of episodic memories on interhemispheric processing was tested. In Experiment 1, positive familial sinistrality (FS+; e.g., presence of left-handed relatives) was associated with superior episodic memory and inferior implicit memory in comparison with negative familial sinistrality (i.e., FS-). This ref...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Christman SD,Propper RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n = 104) were compared with a control group (n = 64) on time estimation and reproduction tasks. Results were unaffected by ADHD subtype or gender. The ADHD group provided larger time estimations than the control group, particularly at long intervals. This bec...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Barkley RA,Murphy KR,Bush T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences favoring women have been found in a number of studies of episodic memory. This study examined sex differences in verbal, nonverbal, and visuospatial episodic memory tasks. Results showed that although women performed at a higher level on a composite verbal and nonverbal episodic memory score, men perfo...

journal_title：Neuropsychology

authors： Lewin C,Wolgers G,Herlitz A

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00