abstract：:Greater amounts of physical activity (PA) and omega-3 fatty acids have both been independently associated with better cognitive performance. Because of the overlapping biological effects of omega-3 fatty acids and PA, fatty acid intake may modify the effects of PA on neurocognitive function. The present study tested t...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Leckie RL,Manuck SB,Bhattacharjee N,Muldoon MF,Flory JM,Erickson KI

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed that haptic activation of the shape-selective lateral occipital complex (LOC) reflects a model of multisensory object representation in which the role of visual imagery is modulated by object familiarity. Supporting this, a previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study from our laborator...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lacey S,Stilla R,Sreenivasan K,Deshpande G,Sathian K

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of faces, facial expressions and affective pictures involves processes of higher mental activity that have considerable applications in the psychology of moods and emotions. At present, the search for functional correlates of brain oscillations is an important trend in neuroscience. Furthermore, an...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Güntekin B,Başar E

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The left anterior temporal lobe (LATL) is robustly implicated in semantic processing by a growing body of literature. However, these results have emerged from two distinct bodies of work, addressing two different processing levels. On the one hand, the LATL has been characterized as a 'semantic hub׳ that binds feature...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Westerlund M,Pylkkänen L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approaching or looming sounds are salient, potentially threatening stimuli with particular impact on visual processing. The early crossmodal effects by looming sounds (Romei, Murray, Cappe, & Thut, 2009) and their selective impact on visual orientation discrimination (Leo, Romei, Freeman, Ladavas, & Driver, 2011) sugg...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cecere R,Romei V,Bertini C,Làdavas E

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether contextual regularities facilitate perceptual stages of scene processing is widely debated, and empirical evidence is still inconclusive. Specifically, it was recently suggested that contextual violations affect early processing of a scene only when the incongruent object and the scene are presented a-synchron...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Mudrik L,Shalgi S,Lamy D,Deouell LY

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intentions are commonly conceived of as discrete mental states that are the direct cause of actions. In the last several decades, neuroscientists have taken up the project of finding the neural implementation of intentions, and a number of areas have been posited as implementing these states. We argue, however, that t...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Uithol S,Burnston DC,Haselager P

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of literature shows that the emotional content of verbal material affects reading, wherein emotional words are given processing priority compared to neutral words. Human emotions can be conceptualised within a two-dimensional model comprised of emotional valence and arousal (intensity). These variables ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Citron FM,Gray MA,Critchley HD,Weekes BS,Ferstl EC

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do people imagine performing actions together? The present study investigated motor imagery of joint actions that requires integrating one's own and another's part of an action. In two experiments, individual participants imagined jumping alone or jointly next to an imagined partner. The joint condition required c...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Vesper C,Knoblich G,Sebanz N

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the princeps investigations of Marc Jeannerod on action-perception, specifically, goal-directed movement, this review article addresses visual and non-visual processes involved in guiding the hand in reaching or grasping tasks. The contributions of different sources of correction of ongoing movements are con...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gaveau V,Pisella L,Priot AE,Fukui T,Rossetti Y,Pélisson D,Prablanc C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amnesia leads to a deficit in recollection that leaves familiarity-based recognition relatively spared. Familiarity is thought to be based on the fluent processing of studied items compared to novel items. However, whether amnesic patients respond normally to direct manipulations of processing fluency is not yet known...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ozubko JD,Yonelinas AP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "schema" has been used to describe vastly different knowledge structures within the memory neuroscience literature. Ambiguous terminology hinders cross-study comparisons and confounds interpretation of the suggested role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in schema functions. Based on an extensive ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ghosh VE,Gilboa A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown a systematic relationship between phonological working memory capacity and second language proficiency for alphabetic languages. However, little is known about the impact of working memory processes on second language learning in a non-alphabetic language such as Mandarin Chinese. Due to th...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Opitz B,Schneiders JA,Krick CM,Mecklinger A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lip-read speech is integrated with heard speech at various neural levels. Here, we investigated the extent to which lip-read induced modulations of the auditory N1 and P2 (measured with EEG) are indicative of speech-specific audiovisual integration, and we explored to what extent the ERPs were modulated by phonetic au...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Baart M,Stekelenburg JJ,Vroomen J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mirror paradigm has been used extensively both as a research tool for studying kinesthesia in healthy individuals and as a therapeutic tool for improving recovery and/or alleviating symptoms in patients. The present study of healthy participants assessed the contribution of the mirror paradigm to motor control in ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Metral M,Guinot M,Bresciani JP,Luyat M,Roulin JL,Guerraz M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The neural correlates of response to psychosocial stress and gender differences therein are difficult to model experimentally as this type of stressor is difficult to induce in a brain imaging environment. The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), a behavioral paradigm that reliably induces moderate levels of str...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lee MR,Cacic K,Demers CH,Haroon M,Heishman S,Hommer DW,Epstein DH,Ross TJ,Stein EA,Heilig M,Salmeron BJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of cognitive control processes over time can be indexed by trial-to-trial variability in reaction time (RT). Greater RT variability has been interpreted as an indicator of executive dysfunction, inhibitory inefficiency, and excessive mental noise. Previous studies have demonstrated that combat veterans w...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Swick D,Honzel N,Larsen J,Ashley V

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Executive cognitive functions play a critical role in falls risk—a pressing health care issue in seniors. In particular, intact attentional processing is integral for safe mobility and navigation. However, the specific contribution of impaired visual–spatial attention in falls remains unclear. In this study, we examin...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Nagamatsu LS,Munkacsy M,Liu-Ambrose T,Handy TC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid auditory processing and auditory change detection abilities are crucial aspects of speech and language development, particularly in the first year of life. Animal models and adult studies suggest that oscillatory synchrony, and in particular low-frequency oscillations play key roles in this process. We hypothesi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Musacchia G,Choudhury NA,Ortiz-Mantilla S,Realpe-Bonilla T,Roesler CP,Benasich AA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that lifelong bilingualism may contribute to cognitive reserve (CR) in normal aging. However, there is currently no neuroimaging evidence to suggest that lifelong bilinguals can retain normal cognitive functioning in the face of age-related neurodegeneration. Here we explored this issue by com...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gold BT,Johnson NF,Powell DK

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paying selective attention to a word in a multi-word utterance results in a decreased probability of error on that word (benefit), but an increased probability of error on the other words (cost). We ask whether excitation of the prefrontal cortex helps or hurts this cost. One hypothesis (the resource hypothesis) predi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Nozari N,Thompson-Schill SL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human can easily detect other's eyes and gaze from early in life. Such sensitivity is supported by the contrast polarity of human eyes, which have a white sclera contrasting with the darker colored iris (Kobayashi & Kohshima, (1997). Nature, 387, 767-768; Kobayashi & Kohshima, (2001). Journal of Human Evolution, 40, 4...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ichikawa H,Otsuka Y,Kanazawa S,Yamaguchi MK,Kakigi R

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models have proposed that different regions of the medial temporal lobes contribute to different aspects of episodic memory. For instance, according to one view, the perirhinal cortex represents specific items, parahippocampal cortex represents information regarding the context in which these items were encoun...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Hannula DE,Libby LA,Yonelinas AP,Ranganath C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insight into the neural architecture of multitasking is crucial when investigating the pathophysiology of multitasking deficits in clinical populations. Presently, little is known about how the brain combines dual-tasking with a concurrent short-term memory task, despite the relevance of this mental operation in daily...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Deprez S,Vandenbulcke M,Peeters R,Emsell L,Amant F,Sunaert S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifiers such as frequency adverbs (e.g., "always", "never") and quantity pronouns (e.g., "many", "none") convey quantity information. Whether quantifiers are processed as numbers or as general semantics has been a matter of much debate. Some neuropsychological and fMRI studies have found that the processing of qua...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cheng D,Zhou A,Yu X,Chen C,Jia J,Zhou X

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proverb interpretation task (PIT) is often used in clinical settings to evaluate frontal "executive" dysfunction. However, only a relatively small number of studies have investigated the relationship between frontal lobe lesions and performance on the PIT. We compared 52 patients with unselected focal frontal lobe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Murphy P,Shallice T,Robinson G,MacPherson SE,Turner M,Woollett K,Bozzali M,Cipolotti L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that appetitive motivation enhances episodic memory formation via a network including the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area (SN/VTA), striatum and hippocampus. This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study now contrasted the impact of aversive and appetitive motivation on ep...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Wittmann BC,Tan GC,Lisman JE,Dolan RJ,Düzel E

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosody (i.e. speech melody) is an important cue to infer an interlocutor's emotional state, complementing information from face expression and body posture. Inferring fear from face expression is reported as impaired after amygdala lesions. It remains unclear whether this deficit is specific to face expression, or is...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bach DR,Hurlemann R,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory systems research has typically described the different types of long-term memory in the brain as either declarative versus non-declarative or implicit versus explicit. These descriptions reflect the difference between declarative, conscious, and explicit memory that is dependent on the medial temporal lobe (MTL...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Reber PJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive network of cortical areas is involved in multisensory object and action recognition. This network draws on inferior frontal, posterior temporal, and parietal areas; activity is modulated by familiarity and the semantic congruency of auditory and visual component signals even if semantic incongruences are ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Meyer GF,Harrison NR,Wuerger SM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an example of complex auditory signal processing, the analysis of accented speech is potentially vulnerable in the progressive aphasias. However, the brain basis of accent processing and the effects of neurodegenerative disease on this processing are not well understood. Here we undertook a detailed neuropsychologi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fletcher PD,Downey LE,Agustus JL,Hailstone JC,Tyndall MH,Cifelli A,Schott JM,Warrington EK,Warren JD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that a different hemispheric specialization may exist for different modalities of person identification, with a prevalent right lateralization of the sensory-motor systems allowing face and voice recognition and a prevalent left lateralization of the name recognition system. Data su...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Gainotti G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy aging beyond the age of 65 is characterized by a general decrease in cognitive control over actions: old adults have more difficulty than young adults in stopping overt responses. Responsible for this cognitive decrement is the continuous decline of striatal and extrastriatal dopamine (DA). The resource-modula...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Colzato LS,van den Wildenberg WP,Hommel B

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the left hemisphere of the human brain is critical in understanding and producing spoken language, but it remains a topic of great interest determining the cerebral lateralization of multiple languages. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of similarity between languages on hemispheric asym...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： D'Anselmo A,Reiterer S,Zuccarini F,Tommasi L,Brancucci A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing unfamiliar faces is more difficult than familiar face recognition, and this has been attributed to qualitative differences in the processing of familiar and unfamiliar faces. Familiar faces are assumed to be represented by view-independent codes, whereas unfamiliar face recognition depends mainly on view-d...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Zimmermann FG,Eimer M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor imagery is a mental representation of motor behavior which has been widely used to study the cognitive basis of movement. The assumption that real movements and motor imagery (virtual movements) use the same neurobiological basis has been questioned by functional magnetic resonance data. The functional similarit...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Llanos C,Rodriguez M,Rodriguez-Sabate C,Morales I,Sabate M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While viewing works of art in galleries, we evaluate them by integrating at least two types of information: their visual properties (e.g., colors, symmetry, and proportion) and contextual information accompanying them (e.g., titles and names of artists). How rapidly the brain integrates visual and contextual informati...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Noguchi Y,Murota M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjective experience often accompanies perception and cognition. This elusive feeling is difficult to characterize, both theoretically and experimentally. Perceptual subjective experience is at the heart of a theoretical debate in consciousness research: does it correspond to a genuine psychological and biological pr...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Campana F,Tallon-Baudry C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding a word requires mapping sounds to a word-form and then identifying its correct meaning, which in some cases necessitates the recruitment of cognitive control processes to direct the activation of semantic knowledge in a task appropriate manner (i.e., semantic control). Neuroimaging and neuropsychological...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Harvey DY,Wei T,Ellmore TM,Hamilton AC,Schnur TT

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous non-invasive studies have proposed that the deeply seated region of the medial frontal cortex engages in conflict processing in humans, but its core region has remained to be elucidated. By means of direct cortical stimulation, which excels other techniques in temporal and spatial resolutions and in the capac...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Usami K,Matsumoto R,Kunieda T,Shimotake A,Matsuhashi M,Miyamoto S,Fukuyama H,Takahashi R,Ikeda A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00