abstract：:ADHD status affects both bottom-up sensory processing and top-down attentional selection, impairing professional and social functioning. The objective of the study was to investigate the functional mechanisms of attention deficits in adult ADHD by examining the electrophysiological activities associated with bottom-up...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hasler R,Perroud N,Meziane HB,Herrmann F,Prada P,Giannakopoulos P,Deiber MP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distractor suppression, the ability to filter and ignore task-irrelevant information, is critical for efficient task performance. While successful distractor suppression relies on a balance of activity in neural networks responsible for attention maintenance (dorsal attention network; DAN), reorientation (ventral atte...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Poole VN,Robinson ME,Singleton O,DeGutis J,Milberg WP,McGlinchey RE,Salat DH,Esterman M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivity to the temporal relationship between auditory and visual stimuli is key to efficient audiovisual integration. However, even adults vary greatly in their ability to detect audiovisual temporal asynchrony. What underlies this variability is currently unknown. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) while...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kaganovich N,Schumaker J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated recently that the cerebellum contributes the same prediction and learning functions to linguistic processing as it does towards motor control. For example, repetitive TMS over posterior-lateral cerebellum caused a significant loss in predictive language processing, as assessed by the latency of ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Miall RC,Antony J,Goldsmith-Sumner A,Harding SR,McGovern C,Winter JL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Working Memory model of human memory, first introduced by Baddeley and Hitch (1974), has been one of the most influential psychological constructs in cognitive psychology and human neuroscience. However the neuronal correlates of core components of this model have yet to be fully elucidated. Here we present data f...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Zamora L,Corina D,Ojemann G

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Anthrozoological neuroscience, which we propose as the use of neuroscience techniques to study human-animal interaction, may help to elucidate mechanisms underlying the associated psychological, physiological, and other purported health effects. This preliminary study investigates the neural response to animal photogr...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hayama S,Chang L,Gumus K,King GR,Ernst T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that activation of the putative human mirror neuron system (MNS) can be elicited via visuomotor training. This is generally interpreted as supporting an associative learning account of the mirror neuron system (MNS) that argues against the ontogeny of the MNS to be an evol...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fitzgibbon BM,Kirkovski M,Fornito A,Paton B,Fitzgerald PB,Enticott PG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, many studies have demonstrated that visuospatial working memory (VSWM) can be divided into two subsystems, dealing respectively with spatial and visual information. A similar dissociation has been observed in brain-damaged patients without neglect for mental imagery skills. The first aim of the p...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Wansard M,Meulemans T,Geurten M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactive association of age and dopaminergic polymorphisms on cognitive function has been studied extensively. However, there is limited research on whether age interacts with the association between genetic polymorphisms and motor learning. We examined a group of young and older adults' performance in three mo...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Noohi F,Boyden NB,Kwak Y,Humfleet J,Müller ML,Bohnen NI,Seidler RD

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During incremental language comprehension, the brain activates knowledge of described events, including knowledge elements that constitute semantic anomalies in their linguistic context. The present study investigates hemispheric asymmetries in this process, with the aim of advancing our understanding of the neural ba...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Metusalem R,Kutas M,Urbach TP,Elman JL

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common polymorphisms in the gene PCSK6, whose protein product mediates the development of brain and body asymmetry through the NODAL pathway, have recently been associated with handedness in three studies, making it a key candidate gene for understanding the developmental and expression of human lateralization. We tes...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Robinson KJ,Hurd PL,Read S,Crespi BJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electrocorticography (ECoG) research have been influential in revealing the functional characteristics of category-selective responses in human ventral temporal cortex (VTC). One important, but unanswered, question is how these two types of measurements might be related...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Jacques C,Witthoft N,Weiner KS,Foster BL,Rangarajan V,Hermes D,Miller KJ,Parvizi J,Grill-Spector K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing evidence for categorical theories of emotion mandates the inclusion of discrete emotion categories beyond the typical six "basic" emotions. Traditional neurophysiological investigations of emotion typically feature the six basic emotions with happiness as the lone positive exemplar. Here we studied how event...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： daSilva EB,Crager K,Puce A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventral temporal cortex (VTC) contains several areas with selective responses to words, numbers, faces, and objects as demonstrated by numerous human and primate imaging and electrophysiological studies. Our recent work using electrocorticography (ECoG) confirmed the presence of face-selective neuronal populations...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Rangarajan V,Parvizi J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Number is a complex category, as with the word "number" we may refer to different entities. First, it is a perceptual property that characterizes any set of individual items, namely its cardinality. The ability to extract the (approximate) cardinality of sets is almost universal in the animal domain and present in hum...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Piazza M,Eger E

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The line bisection task is commonly depicted as a valid diagnostic tool to help differentiate between primary visual field defects and spatial neglect. However, recent studies have addressed possible drawbacks in the acute phase after stroke onset. We investigated these critical assumptions in a large and homogeneous ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Sperber C,Karnath HO

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Language tasks used for clinical fMRI studies may be too complex for some patients with cognitive impairments, and "easier" versions are sometimes substituted, though the effects on brain activity of such changes in task complexity are largely unknown. To investigate these differences, we compared two versions of an f...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lopes TM,Yasuda CL,Campos BM,Balthazar MLF,Binder JR,Cendes F

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:People can communicate by using hand actions, e.g., signs. Understanding communicative actions requires that the observer knows that the actor has an intention to communicate and the meanings of the actions. Here, we investigated how this prior knowledge affects processing of observed actions. We used functional MRI t...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Möttönen R,Farmer H,Watkins KE

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Pupil size is an easy-to-measure, non-invasive method to index various cognitive processes. Although a growing number of studies have incorporated measures of pupil size into clinical investigation, there have only been limited studies in Parkinson's disease (PD). Convergent evidence has suggested PD patients exhibit ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Wang CA,McInnis H,Brien DC,Pari G,Munoz DP

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to the medial temporal lobes produces profound amnesia, greatly impairing the ability of patients to learn about new associations and events. While studies in rodents suggest a strong link between damage to the hippocampus and the ability to navigate using distal landmarks in a spatial environment, the connecti...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kolarik BS,Shahlaie K,Hassan A,Borders AA,Kaufman KC,Gurkoff G,Yonelinas AP,Ekstrom AD

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel words can be recalled immediately and after little exposure, but require a post-learning consolidation period to show word-like behaviour such as lexical competition. This pattern is thought to reflect a qualitative shift from episodic to lexical representations. However, several studies have reported immediate ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bakker I,Takashima A,van Hell JG,Janzen G,McQueen JM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the world's population ages, falls, physical inactivity, decreased attention and impairments in balance and gait arise as a consequence of decreased sensation, weakness, trauma and degenerative disease. Progressive balance and gait training can facilitate postural righting, safe ambulation and community participati...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Byl N,Zhang W,Coo S,Tomizuka M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological well-being and social acumen benefit from the recognition of humourous intent and its enjoyment. The enjoyment of humour requires recognition, but humour recognition is not necessarily accompanied by humour enjoyment. Humour recognition is crucial during social interactions, while the associated enjoymen...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Campbell DW,Wallace MG,Modirrousta M,Polimeni JO,McKeen NA,Reiss JP

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tic disorders, such as the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and persistent tic disorder, are neurodevelopmental movement disorders involving impaired motor control. Hence, patients show repetitive unwanted muscular contractions in one or more parts of the body. A cognitive-behavioral therapy, with a particular...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Morand-Beaulieu S,O'Connor KP,Sauvé G,Blanchet PJ,Lavoie ME

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variability of episodic memory decline and hippocampal atrophy observed with increasing age may partly be explained by genetic factors. KIBRA (kidney and brain expressed protein) and CLSTN2 (calsyntenin 2) are two candidate genes previously linked to episodic memory performance and volume of the hippocampus, a key...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Boraxbekk CJ,Ames D,Kochan NA,Lee T,Thalamuthu A,Wen W,Armstrong NJ,Kwok JB,Schofield PR,Reppermund S,Wright MJ,Trollor JN,Brodaty H,Sachdev P,Mather KA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is a critical node in attentional and saccadic eye movement networks of the cerebral cortex, exerting top-down control over activity in visual cortex. Here, we sought to further elucidate the properties of PPC feedback by providing a time-resolved map of functional connectivity betw...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Parks NA,Mazzi C,Tapia E,Savazzi S,Fabiani M,Gratton G,Beck DM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontal dynamic aphasia is characterised by a profound reduction in spontaneous speech despite well-preserved naming, repetition and comprehension. Since Luria (1966, 1970) designated this term, two main forms of dynamic aphasia have been identified: one, a language-specific selection deficit at the level of word/sent...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Robinson GA,Spooner D,Harrison WJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morality plays a vital role in our social life. A vast body of research has suggested that moral judgments rely on cognitive processes mediated by the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ), an area thought to be involved in belief attribution. Here we assessed the role of the rTPJ in moral judgments directly by means ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Sellaro R,Güroǧlu B,Nitsche MA,van den Wildenberg WP,Massaro V,Durieux J,Hommel B,Colzato LS

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verbs denote relations between entities acting a role in an event. Thematic roles are essential to the correct use of verbs and involve both semantic and syntactic aspects. We used repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to study the involvement of three different left parietal sites in the understanding o...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Finocchiaro C,Capasso R,Cattaneo L,Zuanazzi A,Miceli G

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD) is often attributed to dopamine deficiency in the prefrontal-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loops. Although recent studies point to a close interplay between motor and cognitive abilities in PD, the so-called "motor loop" connecting supplementary motor area (SMA) and pu...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Schönberger AR,Hagelweide K,Pelzer EA,Fink GR,Schubotz RI

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is some evidence for a positive emotional bias in the content of confabulations in brain damaged patients, findings have been inconsistent. The present study used the semantic-associates procedure to induce false recall and false recognition in order to examine whether a positive bias would be found in ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Alkathiri NH,Morris RG,Kopelman MD

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 14-year-old girl suffering from severe developmental visual impairment along with delayed language and cognitive development, and featuring a clear-cut dissociation between spared dorsal and impaired ventral visual pathways. Visual recognition of objects, including faces and printed words, was ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Martinaud O,Pouliquen D,Parain D,Goldenberg A,Gérardin E,Hannequin D,Altarelli I,Ramus F,Hertz-Pannier L,Dehaene-Lambertz G,Cohen L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used fMRI in 35 healthy participants to investigate how two neighbouring subregions in the lateral anterior temporal lobe (LATL) contribute to semantic matching and object naming. Four different levels of processing were considered: (A) recognition of the object concepts; (B) search for semantic associations relate...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Sanjuán A,Hope TM,Jones 'P,Prejawa S,Oberhuber M,Guerin J,Seghier ML,Green DW,Price CJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naming abilities are typically preserved in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI), a condition associated with increased risk of progression to Alzheimer's disease (AD). We compared the functional correlates of covert picture naming and word reading between a group of aMCI subjects and matched controls. Unimpaired...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Catricalà E,Della Rosa PA,Parisi L,Zippo AG,Borsa VM,Iadanza A,Castiglioni I,Falini A,Cappa SF

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various behavioural studies show that semantic typicality (TYP) and age of acquisition (AOA) of a specific word influence processing time and accuracy during the performance of lexical-semantic tasks. This study examines the influence of TYP and AOA on semantic processing at behavioural (response times and accuracy da...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Räling R,Holzgrefe-Lang J,Schröder A,Wartenburger I

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age is known to affect prefrontal brain structure and executive functioning in healthy older adults, patients with neurodegenerative conditions and TBI. Yet, no studies appear to have systematically investigated the effect of age on cognitive performance in patients with focal lesions. We investigated the effect of ag...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cipolotti L,Healy C,Chan E,MacPherson SE,White M,Woollett K,Turner M,Robinson G,Spanò B,Bozzali M,Shallice T

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior work has demonstrated that perspective and handedness of observed actions can affect action understanding differently in right and left-handed persons, suggesting potential differences in the neural networks underlying action understanding between right and left-handed individuals. We sought to evaluate potentia...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kelly R,Mizelle JC,Wheaton LA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly recognizing familiar people from their faces appears critical for social interactions (e.g., to differentiate friend from foe). However, the actual speed at which the human brain can distinguish familiar from unknown faces still remains debated. In particular, it is not clear whether familiarity can be extract...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Barragan-Jason G,Cauchoix M,Barbeau EJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voluntary actions are often accompanied by a conscious experience of intention. The content of this experience, and its neural basis, remain controversial. On one view, the mind just retrospectively ascribes intentions to explain the occurrence of actions that lack obvious triggering stimuli. Here, we use EEG frequenc...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Walsh E,Long C,Haggard P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00