abstract：:Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), defined as episodic memory impairment beyond what is expected in normal aging, is often associated with hippocampal atrophy (HA) and may represent incipient Alzheimer's disease. However, recent studies suggest that MCI is very heterogeneous and multiple etiologies likely exist. One pos...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Nordahl CW,Ranganath C,Yonelinas AP,DeCarli C,Reed BR,Jagust WJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined remote spatial memory in a test that spans several months to determine whether remote memories are spared relative to more recent ones, as predicted by models of memory consolidation. At 3, 6 or 12 months of age, groups of rats received forced-choice training as to the location of food rewar...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Winocur G,Moscovitch M,Caruana DA,Binns MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the cerebral correlates of the Trail Making Test (TMT), used commonly as a measure of frontal lobe function. Such work sheds additional light on the known shortcomings of the TMT as a localizing instrument, as indicated, for example, by studies of patients with focal brain lesions. Functional m...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Zakzanis KK,Mraz R,Graham SJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is usually thought that numbers are represented on a "mental number line" on which the progression of smaller to larger numbers occurs from left to right suggesting a spatial representation of numbers. Reciprocally, number processing has been shown to influence space representation [Fischer, M. (2001). Number proce...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Calabria M,Rossetti Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the incidental and intentional learning performance of 29 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 20 healthy volunteers. Measures of incidental and intentional memory were assessed with a spoken verbal recall task followed by a temporal word order task, a picture recall task followed by a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Vingerhoets G,Vermeule E,Santens P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a left-handed man (MCR), who presented with a peripheral agraphia as an early sign of multiple sclerosis. His left-handed writing was neologistic, whilst oral spelling, typing and spelling with the right hand were intact. Structural MRI scanning revealed a lesion of the body of the corpus callosu...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Varley R,Cowell PE,Gibson A,Romanowski CA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have demonstrated that many aspects of number knowledge remain unimpaired in semantic dementia, despite severe comprehension problems in other domains. It is argued that this advantage for numbers arises because the disease spares the parietal lobe magnitude system thought to be critical for number pr...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Jefferies E,Bateman D,Lambon Ralph MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether people with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) demonstrate a specific impairment on tasks requiring them to make inferences about others' mental states (theory of mind tasks). Participants with severe TBI were compared to a healthy group on verbal first-order and second-order theory of...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bibby H,McDonald S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The judgement of line orientation test (JLOT) is widely used to assess visuo-spatial processing. Most neuropsychological studies have shown that on this task right hemisphere damaged (RHD) patients are significantly more impaired than left hemisphere damaged (LHD) patients, suggesting a dominant role of the right hemi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Treccani B,Torri T,Cubelli R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In everyday social interactions, hearing our own first name captures our attention and gives rise to a sense of self-awareness, since it is one of the most socially self related stimulus. In the present study, we combined ERPs and PET scan methods to explore the cerebral mechanisms underlying the detection of our own ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Perrin F,Maquet P,Peigneux P,Ruby P,Degueldre C,Balteau E,Del Fiore G,Moonen G,Luxen A,Laureys S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we examined whether individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) systematically vary motion of the trunk and co-contraction in the upper limb as a function of accuracy demands. Four participants with spastic tetraparesis, four with spastic hemiparesis, and four healthy controls were asked to repeatedly m...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： van Roon D,Steenbergen B,Meulenbroek RG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frith and Happe (Frith, U., & Happe, F. (1994). Autism: Beyond theory of mind. Cognition, 50, 115-132) argue that individuals with autism exhibit 'weak central coherence': an inability to integrate elements of information into coherent wholes. Some authors have speculated that a high-level impairment might be present ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Pellicano E,Gibson L,Maybery M,Durkin K,Badcock DR

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Number processing is known to involve several sites within the posterior regions of parietal cortex. Here, we investigated whether neural activity in the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) is essential for number processing, by observing the effects of interfering with its activity during the execution of a standard numbe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Sandrini M,Rossini PM,Miniussi C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conclusions about the duration of hippocampal contributions to our autobiographical record of personal episodes have come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Interpretation is complicated by such factors as extent and site of lesions as well as test sensitivity. We describe the case of an amnesic person, K.C., wit...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Rosenbaum RS,McKinnon MC,Levine B,Moscovitch M

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:The study of the neuroanatomical correlates of category-specific semantic disorders has strongly supported the 'sensory/motor model of semantic knowledge,' which assumes that the cortical areas that have critically contributed to the development of various categories are also implicated in their semantic representatio...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gainotti G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested achromatopsic observer, MS, on a number of tasks to establish the extent to which he can process chromatic contour. Stimuli, specified in terms of cone-contrast, were presented in a three-choice oddity paradigm. First we show that MS is able to discriminate the magnitude of chromatic and luminance contrast, ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kentridge RW,Heywood CA,Cowey A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cases of cross-modal influence have been observed since the beginning of psychological science. Yet some abilities like face recognition are traditionally only investigated in the visual domain. People with normal visual face-recognition capacities identify inverted faces more poorly than upright faces. An abnormal pa...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kilgour AR,de Gelder B,Lederman SJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This multifactorial study investigates the interrelationships between head circumference (HC) and intellectual quotient (IQ), learning, nutritional status and brain development in Chilean school-age children graduating from high school, of both sexes and with high and low IQ and socio-economic strata (SES). The sample...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ivanovic DM,Leiva BP,Pérez HT,Olivares MG,Díaz NS,Urrutia MS,Almagià AF,Toro TD,Miller PT,Bosch EO,Larraín CG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with right brain damage (RBD) or left brain damage (LBD) and healthy subjects, tactile and three basic gustatory stimuli (sour, salty, bitter) were applied to the left or right hemitongues or to both hemitongues simultaneously. Tactile stimuli were detected and localized by verbal report, whereas gustatory...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Berlucchi G,Moro V,Guerrini C,Aglioti SM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight healthy adults aged 65-85 were recruited for structural magnetic resonance scans after an extensive neuropsychological battery that ensured a high degree of variability across the sample in performance on long-term memory tests, and on tests traditionally thought to rely on prefrontal cortex. Gray matter v...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Van Petten C,Plante E,Davidson PS,Kuo TY,Bajuscak L,Glisky EL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkeys with crossed unilateral excitotoxic lesions of the anterior thalamus and unilateral inferotemporal cortex ablation were severely impaired at learning two tasks which required the integration of information about the appearance of objects and their positions in space. The lesioned monkeys were also impaired at ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ridley RM,Baker HF,Mills DA,Green ME,Cummings RM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To delineate the time course and processing stages of pitch encoding at the level of the supratemporal plane, the present study recorded evoked magnetic fields in response to rippled noise (RN) stimuli. RN largely masks simple tonotopic representations and addresses pitch processing within the temporal domain (periodi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hertrich I,Mathiak K,Lutzenberger W,Ackermann H

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:The hypothesis that prefrontal cortex plays a critical role in accurate predictions of episodic memory performance was tested using the feeling-of-knowing (FOK) paradigm. Fourteen patients with a broad spectrum of damage to the frontal cortex and matched controls read sentences and later were tested for recall memory,...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Schnyer DM,Verfaellie M,Alexander MP,LaFleche G,Nicholls L,Kaszniak AW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since Balint's first description, optic ataxia has been considered as a pure visuomotor impairment produced by a lesion of the posterior parietal cortex. Beyond general agreement on the parietal involvement in visually guided behaviour, the exact role of the dorsal posterior parietal cortex in the temporal aspects of ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Roy AC,Stefanini S,Pavesi G,Gentilucci M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with left unilateral spatial neglect following right hemisphere lesions usually err rightward when bisecting a horizontal line. For very short lines (e.g. 25 mm), however, leftward errors or seemingly 'right' neglect is often observed. To explain this paradox of crossover in the direction of errors, rather co...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ishiai S,Koyama Y,Nakano N,Seki K,Nishida Y,Hayashi K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:We examined whether facial emotion perception was compromised in adults with recent traumatic brain injury (TBI). Few studies have examined emotion perception in TBI; those that have, examined chronic patients only. Recent and chronic TBI populations differ according to degree of functional reorganization of...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Green RE,Turner GR,Thompson WF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we postulated a divergence in reflexive versus voluntary saccade behavior in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and hypothesized a fronto-striatal dysfunction. The voluntary saccade tasks included antisaccades (AS) and remembered saccades (RemS). However, multiple cognitive processes are involved i...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Crevits L,Vandierendonck A,Stuyven E,Verschaete S,Wildenbeest J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of facial expressions of emotion was investigated in people with medicated and unmedicated Parkinson's disease (PD) and matched controls (unmedicated PD, n=16; medicated PD, n=20; controls, n=40). Participants in the medicated group showed some visual impairment (impaired contrast sensitivity) and performe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Sprengelmeyer R,Young AW,Mahn K,Schroeder U,Woitalla D,Büttner T,Kuhn W,Przuntek H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observing hand postures interacts with the preparation of similar actions. This may be due to motor encoding of the observed displays and/or to enhanced visual processing induced by motor planning. We studied the effects of the observer's perspective on motor representation, using a visuomotor priming task with simple...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Vogt S,Taylor P,Hopkins B

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and great apes, both the planum temporale (PT-part of Wernicke's area) and the sylvian fissure (SF) in the left cerebral hemisphere have been consistently shown to be larger than the corresponding structures in the right hemisphere. The greater length of the SF in the left hemisphere is commonly thought to b...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cantalupo C,Pilcher DL,Hopkins WD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broca's area in the inferior frontal gyrus consists of two cytoarchitectonically defined regions-Brodmann areas (BA) 44 and 45. Combining probabilistic maps of these two areas with functional neuroimaging data obtained using PET, it is shown that BA45, not BA44, is activated by both speech and signing during the produ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Horwitz B,Amunts K,Bhattacharyya R,Patkin D,Jeffries K,Zilles K,Braun AR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directional motion processing is a pervasive and functionally important feature of the visual system. Behavioural and VEP studies indicate that it appears as a cortical function after about 7 weeks of age, with global processing, motion based segmentation, and the use of motion in complex perceptual tasks emerging sho...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Braddick O,Atkinson J,Wattam-Bell J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) excel in face recognition and show both a remarkable concern for social stimuli and a linguistic capacity for, in particular, emotionally referenced language. The animated full facial expression comprehension test (AFFECT), a new test of emotional expression perception, was used...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gagliardi C,Frigerio E,Burt DM,Cazzaniga I,Perrett DI,Borgatti R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topographagnosia is most commonly attributed to an agnosia for landmarks. In order to define the nature of this agnosia, we studied a patient with isolated topographic disorientation (TD) after a stroke in the right medial occipitotemporal region. The patient got lost in familiar environments but could readily read an...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Mendez MF,Cherrier MM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study used the flanker task [Percept. Psychophys. 16 (1974) 143] to identify neural structures that support response selection processes, and to determine which of these structures respond differently depending on the type of stimulus material associated with the response. Participants performed two versio...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hazeltine E,Bunge SA,Scanlon MD,Gabrieli JD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable cooperation requires that each party's pay-offs exceed those available through individual action. The present experimental study on brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) investigated if decisions about cooperation are (a) guided by the amount of competition expected to follow the cooperation, and (b) made insta...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： de Waal FB,Davis JM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social cognitive neuroscience is a fledgling discipline that has already accrued an impressive body of data, but important questions remain regarding the theoretical constructs and methodological approaches that it utilizes. An overview of the papers in this special issue points to several key issues facing the field....

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Adolphs R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00