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：:Apraxia after left inferior parietal lesions has been widely interpreted as evidence of damage or impaired access to representations of tool-use, but most research has investigated pantomime of tool actions, not handling of actual tools. An alternative account is that inferior parietal damage does not affect tool-use ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Sunderland A,Wilkins L,Dineen R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate whether error detection and subsequent regulatory processes could be influenced by pre-familiarisation with task-relevant stimulus features. To this end, 19 healthy adults performed a speeded Go/NoGo task with compound targets, involving two concurrent stimulus attribute...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Dhar M,Pourtois G

更新日期：2011-04-01 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

abstract：:In humans lacunar infarcts in the mesial and anterior regions of the thalami are frequently associated with amnesic syndromes. In this review paper, we scrutinized 41 papers published between 1983 and 2009 that provided data on a total of 83 patients with the critical ischemic lesions (i.e. 17 patients with right-side...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Carlesimo GA,Lombardi MG,Caltagirone C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When skilled readers read briefly-presented word pairs, they produce between-word errors, in which letters migrate between neighboring words (e.g., mild wind can be misread as wild mind). Such errors are also produced by individuals with attentional dyslexia, even without time limitation. In this study, we tested seve...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Shetreet E,Friedmann N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attentional blink (AB), characterized as a failure to detect a second target following correct identification of a previous target in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), has become a useful measure for investigation of the temporal dynamics of attention. In our previous work, we proposed a two-stage concurr...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kavcic V,Scheid E

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:The neural substrates of auditory motion processing are, at present, still a matter of debate. It has been hypothesized that motion information is, as in the visual system, processed separately from other aspects of auditory information, such as stationary location. Here we aimed to differentiate the location of audit...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lewald J,Staedtgen M,Sparing R,Meister IG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of morphological processing differ on the issue of how lexical and grammatical information are stored and accessed. A key point of contention is whether complex forms are decomposed during recognition (e.g., establish+ment), compared to forms that cannot be analyzed into constituent morphemes (e.g., apartment...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kielar A,Joanisse MF

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the primary visual cortex (V1) is damaged, there are a number of alternative pathways that can carry visual information from the eyes to extrastriate visual areas. Damage to the visual cortex from trauma or infarct is often unilateral, extensive and includes gray matter and white matter tracts, which can disrupt ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bridge H,Hicks SL,Xie J,Okell TW,Mannan S,Alexander I,Cowey A,Kennard C

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnocellular (M) pathway hypothesis proposes that impaired visual motion perception observed in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) might be mediated by atypical functioning of the subcortical M pathway, as this pathway provides the bulk of visual input to cortical motion detectors. To test this hypo...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Koh HC,Milne E,Dobkins K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful word learning depends on the integration of phonological and semantic information with social cues provided by interlocutors. How then, do children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) learn new words when social impairments pervade? We recorded the eye-movements of verbally-able children with ASD and thei...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Norbury CF,Griffiths H,Nation K

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Most current theories of human memory are material-general in the sense that they assume that the medial temporal lobe (MTL) is important for retrieving the details of prior events, regardless of the specific type of materials. Recent studies of amnesia have challenged the material-general assumption by suggesting tha...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Aly M,Knight RT,Yonelinas AP

更新日期：2010-11-01 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

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：:In several domains of psychology it has been shown that mood influences the way in which we process information. So far, little is known about the relation between mood and processes of language comprehension. In the present study we explore, whether, and if so how, mood affects the processing of syntactic anomalies i...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Vissers CT,Virgillito D,Fitzgerald DA,Speckens AE,Tendolkar I,van Oostrom I,Chwilla DJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulty interpreting facial expressions has been reported in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and is thought to be associated with amygdala abnormalities. To further explore the neural basis of abnormal emotional face processing in ASD, we conducted an fMRI study of emotional face matching in high-functioning adults...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kleinhans NM,Richards T,Weaver K,Johnson LC,Greenson J,Dawson G,Aylward E

更新日期：2010-10-01 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 amygdala is a fascinating, complex structure that lies at the center of much of our current thinking about emotion. Here, I will review data that suggest that the amygdala is involved in several processes linked to determining what a stimulus is and what the organism should therefore do - the two questions that ar...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Pessoa L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether the behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of synaesthetic response conflict could be disrupted by posthypnotic suggestion. We recorded event-related brain potentials while a highly suggestible face-color synaesthete and matched controls viewed congruently and incongruently colored ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Terhune DB,Cardeña E,Lindgren M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological measurements were taken from observers performing a visual search within a single feature dimension, and between multiple dimensions. The N2pc to selected singleton target stimuli (rightward tilted lines) was increased when targets varied between feature dimensions, compared to the N2pc to the sam...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Akyürek EG,Dinkelbach A,Schubö A,Müller HJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with postchiasmatic visual field defects often show a contralesional bias towards the scotoma in line bisection or when indicating their visual subjective straight ahead (VSSA). Recent evidence suggests a retinotopic misrepresentation of visual space in patients with homonymous quadrantanopia (HQ). We therefo...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kuhn C,Heywood CA,Kerkhoff G

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with closed head injuries often experience significant and persistent disruptions in their social and behavioral functioning. Studies with adults sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI) indicate deficits in emotion recognition and suggest that these difficulties may underlie some of the social deficits. The...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Schmidt AT,Hanten GR,Li X,Orsten KD,Levin HS

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:When subjects are given the balls-and-boxes problem-solving task (Kotovsky & Simon, 1990), they move rapidly towards the goal after an extended exploratory phase, despite having no awareness of how to solve the task. We investigated possible non-conscious learning mechanisms by giving subjects three runs of the task w...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Paynter CA,Kotovsky K,Reder LM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain uses regularities in the sound environment to build inference models predicting the most likely attributes of subsequent sounds. When the inference model fails, a prediction-error signal (the mismatch negativity or MMN) is generated. This study is designed to explore the capacity to use information about whe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Todd J,Robinson J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal research has, in our opinion, made an invaluable contribution to our understanding of human amnesia. In this article we summarise our and others' work in this area, focusing on a new view of amnesia we refer to as the representational-hierarchical view. According to this view-and in contrast to the prevailing p...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Saksida LM,Bussey TJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to test two hypotheses about binaural hearing: (1) that binaural cues are primarily processed in the hemisphere contralateral to the perceived location of a sound; and (2) that the two main binaural cues, interaural timing differences and interaural level differences, are processed in separate ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Johnson BW,Hautus MJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral damage in the posterior cingulate region can induce anterograde amnesia. Identifying the potential contributions of the various areas within this heterogeneous region has, however, largely depended on animal research. Within the posterior cingulate region the retrosplenial cortex stands out by virtue of its ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Aggleton JP

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that a computational overload results when two activities, one motor and the other cognitive that draw on the same neural processing pathways, are performed concurrently. Healthy young adult subjects carried out two seemingly distinct tasks of maintaining standing balance control under conditi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Chong RK,Mills B,Dailey L,Lane E,Smith S,Lee KH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are characterised by social and communication impairment, yet evidence for deficits in the ability to recognise facial expressions of basic emotions is conflicting. Many studies reporting no deficits have used stimuli that may be too simple (with associated ceiling effects), for example...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Law Smith MJ,Montagne B,Perrett DI,Gill M,Gallagher L

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used two established methods for analysing the EEG response of the neurotypical adult human brain to examine the execution and observation of simple motor actions. In one, execution or observation of a button-press in response to a tone caused a decrease in the power at 8-13 Hz ("mu") frequencies. In the other, the...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Silas J,Levy JP,Nielsen MK,Slade L,Holmes A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversation is a primary area of difficulty for individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA) although they have unimpaired formal language abilities. This likely stems from the unstructured nature of face-to-face conversation as well as the need to coordinate other modes of communication (e.g. eye gaze) with speech...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Nadig A,Lee I,Singh L,Bosshart K,Ozonoff S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visuomotor adaptation to a shift in visual input produced by prismatic lenses is an example of dynamic sensory-motor plasticity within the brain. Prism adaptation is readily induced in healthy individuals, and is thought to reflect the brain's ability to compensate for drifts in spatial calibration between different s...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Chapman HL,Eramudugolla R,Gavrilescu M,Strudwick MW,Loftus A,Cunnington R,Mattingley JB

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Callosal disconnection can reveal asymmetrical contributions of the two brain hemispheres to praxis. In this paper, we revisit a study of a patient with callosal disconnection (Goldenberg et al., 2001, Neuropsychologia, 39:1432-1443), who perfectly imitated meaningless gestures when imitation was controlled only by th...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Petreska B,Billard A,Hermsdörfer J,Goldenberg G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of cognitive abilities improves in childhood and adolescence. It has been proposed that the protracted development of executive functions is related to the relatively late maturation of the prefrontal cortex. However, this has rarely been directly investigated. In this cross-sectional study, 98 healthy childre...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Tamnes CK,Østby Y,Walhovd KB,Westlye LT,Due-Tønnessen P,Fjell AM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial expressions of emotion display a wealth of important social information that we use to guide our social judgements. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether patients with orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) lesions exhibit an impaired ability to judge the approachability of emotional faces. Furthermore, w...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Willis ML,Palermo R,Burke D,McGrillen K,Miller L

更新日期：2010-06-01 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