abstract：:During social interactions our brains continuously integrate incoming auditory and visual input from the movements and vocalizations of others. Yet, the dynamics of the neural events elicited to these multisensory stimuli remain largely uncharacterized. Here we recorded audiovisual scalp event-related potentials (ERPs...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Puce A,Epling JA,Thompson JC,Carrick OK

更新日期：2007-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the effects of the duration of the stimulus on the reading performance of right-brain-damaged patients with left neglect dyslexia. Three Italian patients read aloud words and nonwords, under conditions of unlimited time of stimulus exposure and of timed presentation. In the untimed condi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Arduino LS,Vallar G,Burani C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain activity during a sentence reading task and a visual control task was examined with fMRI in 13 German dyslexic readers and 15 age-matched fluent readers (age: 14-16 years). These participants came from a longitudinal study and the dyslexic readers exhibited a persistent reading fluency deficit from early on....

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kronbichler M,Hutzler F,Staffen W,Mair A,Ladurner G,Wimmer H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a 3-week computerised alertness training on chronic (>3 months) visuospatial hemineglect were investigated prospectively in seven patients by means of neuropsychological tests and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Following the alertness training, the group showed improved alertness and a si...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Thimm M,Fink GR,Küst J,Karbe H,Sturm W

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present essay reviews a series of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies conducted in parallel in humans and awake monkeys, concentrating on the intraparietal sulcus (IPS). MR responses to a range of visual stimuli indicate that the human IPS contains more functional regions along its anterior-poster...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Orban GA,Claeys K,Nelissen K,Smans R,Sunaert S,Todd JT,Wardak C,Durand JB,Vanduffel W

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The right postero-lateral cerebellum participates with the left frontal lobe in the selection and production of words. Using fMRI, we examined whether cerebellar activity switches hemispheres in parallel with recruitment of putative compensatory right homologous frontal regions in post-stroke aphasia. Re-examining the...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Connor LT,DeShazo Braby T,Snyder AZ,Lewis C,Blasi V,Corbetta M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologically healthy participants systematically misbisect horizontal lines to the left of centre, a phenomenon termed 'pseudoneglect'. According to the activation-orientation hypothesis, the distribution of attention is biased in the direction opposite to the more activated hemisphere. Since visuospatial tasks invo...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bultitude JH,Aimola Davies AM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain imaging studies have suggested a predominant involvement of prefrontal areas during retrieval of information from working memory (WM). This study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess the gradual recruitment of brain areas during verbal WM-retrieval with a parametrically varied modif...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Wolf RC,Vasic N,Walter H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is characterized by bilateral parieto-occipito-temporal atrophy and hypometabolism. Neuropsychological impairments include complex visual disturbances, alexia, agraphia, finger agnosia, right-left disorientation and dyscalculia. A recent case study reported severe numerical deficits wi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Delazer M,Benke T,Trieb T,Schocke M,Ischebeck A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with homonymous hemianopia may report the completion of forms that overlap the vertical meridian of their field defects. While previous investigations of "hemianopic completion" have variously attributed to the disorder to inattention, residual vision or unstable fixation, we believe that our investigation ha...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： McCarthy RA,James-Galton M,Plant GT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To cast light on the possible neural substrate of visual imagery we tested normal participants and one hemianopic patient on simple reaction time (RT) to real and imagined visual stimuli. In one experiment participants were to detect as quickly as possible a luminous square presented at one out of two different retina...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Marzi CA,Mancini F,Metitieri T,Savazzi S

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Prepulse inhibition (PPI) refers to the attenuation of the amplitude of the startle reflex in response to sudden intense stimuli (pulse) if preceded by a weaker sensory stimulus (prepulse). PPI reflects the ability to filter out irrelevant information in the early stages of processing so that attention can be directed...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bitsios P,Giakoumaki SG,Theou K,Frangou S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the processing of Arabic numerals in three patients with dense left unilateral neglect. Three tasks have been used: a test of visual awareness (is the stimulus on the left, on the right or on both sides?), a number comparison task (is the number larger or smaller than 5?), a number parity judgment ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cappelletti M,Cipolotti L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LIM kinase1 protein (LIMK1) is thought to be involved in neuronal development and brain function. However, its role in spatial cognition in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) is currently ambiguous, with conflicting reports on the cognitive phenotypes of individuals who do not have classic WS but harbour part...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gray V,Karmiloff-Smith A,Funnell E,Tassabehji M

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Changes in many domains of cognition occur with development. In this paper, we discuss neuroimaging approaches to understanding these changes at a neural level. We highlight how modern imaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are being used to examine how ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Durston S,Casey BJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phonological deficit hypothesis of dyslexia has been investigated in the present research by analysing language-related lateralization of the EEG theta band in a sample of dyslexic children. To this aim, a paradigm based on word-pair visual presentation was used in which the same words were processed in Semantic a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Spironelli C,Penolazzi B,Vio C,Angrilli A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional-neuroanatomic relationship that describes the involvement of the parietal cortex in visual search was investigated using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS; 10 Hz, 500 ms in duration). Twelve adult participants performed feature-based visual search for a unique letter-without eye movemen...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Rosenthal CR,Walsh V,Mannan SK,Anderson EJ,Hawken MB,Kennard C

更新日期：2006-01-01 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 schizophrenia deficit in facial emotion recognition could be accounted for by a deficit in processing the configural information of the face. The present experiment was designed to further test this hypothesis by studying the face-inversion effect in a facial emotion recognition task. The ability of 26 schizophren...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Chambon V,Baudouin JY,Franck N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like faces, human bodies are recognized via the configuration of their parts; their recognition is impaired by inversion. Processing of configural relations has been shown to depend on perceptual expertise with certain classes of objects. Because people see their own body and others' bodies frequently, humans are expe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bosbach S,Knoblich G,Reed CL,Cole J,Prinz W

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurobiology of handedness is still poorly understood in nonhuman primates. Recently, an association between hand preference and precentral gyrus morphology in chimpanzees was reported. The aim of this study was to further evaluate the association between handedness and asymmetries in the precentral gyrus of chimp...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Dadda M,Cantalupo C,Hopkins WD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves not only gray matter but also white matter pathology, as reflected by atrophy of the corpus callosum (CC). Since decreased CC size may indicate reduced functional interhemispheric connectivity, differences in callosal size may have cognitive consequences that may become specifically a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gootjes L,Bouma A,Van Strien JW,Van Schijndel R,Barkhof F,Scheltens P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), a degenerative disorder primarily affecting the nigrostriatal dopamine system, exhibit deficits in selecting task-relevant stimuli in the presence of irrelevant stimuli, such as in visual search tasks. However, results from previous studies suggest that these deficits may vary a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Horowitz TS,Choi WY,Horvitz JC,Côté LJ,Mangels JA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory for visual items can evoke activity in visual processing regions, which is typically assumed to reflect conscious remembering. However, based on previous findings, we hypothesized that such activity in early visual areas (BA17, BA18) may reflect priming, a form of nonconscious memory. We tested this hypothesis ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Slotnick SD,Schacter DL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes hippocampal damage. The hippocampus can be macroscopically divided into the head, body and tail, which differ in terms of their sensitivity to excitability and also in terms of their cortical connections. We investigated whether damage also varies according to the hippocampal area i...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ariza M,Serra-Grabulosa JM,Junqué C,Ramírez B,Mataró M,Poca A,Bargalló N,Sahuquillo J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental dyslexia is characterized by poor reading ability and impairments on a range of tasks including phonological processing and processing of sensory information. Some recent studies have found deficits in implicit sequence learning using the serial reaction time task, but others have not. Other skills, such...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Howard JH Jr,Howard DV,Japikse KC,Eden GF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalizations about neural function are often drawn from non-human animal models to human cognition, however, the assumption of cross-species conservation may sometimes be invalid. Humans may use different strategies mediated by alternative structures, or similar structures may operate differently within the context...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Moses SN,Villate C,Ryan JD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of where in the human cortex coding of sound location is represented still is a matter of debate. It is unclear whether there are cortical areas that are specifically activated depending on the location of sound. Are identical or distinct cortical areas in one hemisphere involved in processing of sounds from...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Zimmer U,Lewald J,Erb M,Karnath HO

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:One of the most constant findings of studies about selective attention is that detection of visual stimuli is enhanced when a visual cue is presented at the position of the upcoming target. In healthy participants, comparable benefits were reported when the cue was presented in a different modality than the target. Th...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Golay L,Hauert CA,Greber C,Schnider A,Ptak R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissociation between the ability to recognize misoriented objects and to determine their orientation has been reported in a small number of patients, but the long-term course of this deficit has not been reported so far. Here, we describe the case of a 32-year-old female who had bilateral occipito-temporal damage caus...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fujinaga N,Muramatsu T,Ogano M,Kato M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are reported exploring the effect of cAsE aLtErNaTiOn on lexical decisions to words and nonwords presented laterally or centrally. In line with previous research, Experiment 1 found that case alternation slowed lexical decision responses to words more in the right visual field (RVF) than in the left vi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ellis AW,Brooks J,Lavidor M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we explored the functional properties of person recognition system by investigating the onset, magnitude, and scalp distribution of within- and cross-domain self-priming effects on event-related potentials (ERPs). Recognition of degraded pictures of famous people was enhanced by a prior exposure to the ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Jemel B,Pisani M,Rousselle L,Crommelinck M,Bruyer R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not known whether, or to what degree, odor memory is influenced by lateralized brain processes. In this study, we administered a 12-item match-to-sample odor memory test separately to the left and right sides of the nose of 30 left- and 30 right-handed subjects of equivalent age, sex distribution, and overall ge...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Doty RL,Kerr KL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that actions are intrinsically linked to perception. The idea behind these theories is that observing, imagining or in any way representing an action excites the motor programs used to execute that same action. There is neurophysiological evidence that neurons in premotor cortex of monkeys respond...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Blakemore SJ,Frith C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to determine whether the bradykinesia of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients during the execution of reaching-grasping movements (i) is related to an impaired implementation of movement parameters and (ii) selectively involves the control of reach and/or grasp movements. We compared the kinematic...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Negrotti A,Secchi C,Gentilucci M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affecting up to 4-10% of the population, dyslexia is a highly prevalent, childhood onset developmental disorder adversely influencing multiple domains of adaptive functioning throughout the lifespan. The present brain imaging study was conducted in order to investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of developmental d...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Vinckenbosch E,Robichon F,Eliez S

更新日期：2005-01-01 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