abstract：:Most neuropsychological assessments of episodic memory bear little similarity to the events that patients actually experience as memories in daily life. The first aim of this study was to use a virtual environment to characterize episodic memory profiles in an ecological fashion, which includes memory for central and ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Plancher G,Tirard A,Gyselinck V,Nicolas S,Piolino P

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful encoding of episodic memories is thought to depend on contributions from prefrontal and temporal lobe structures. Neural processes that contribute to successful encoding have been extensively explored through univariate analyses of neuroimaging data that compare mean activity levels elicited during the enco...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kuhl BA,Rissman J,Wagner AD

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work in theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics suggests that human linguistic knowledge forms a continuum between individual lexical items and abstract syntactic representations, with most linguistic representations falling between the two extremes and taking the form of lexical items stored together with the s...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fedorenko E,Nieto-Castañon A,Kanwisher N

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of the recent introduction to cognitive neuroscience of multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) is that, unlike univariate approaches which are limited to identifying magnitudes of activity in localized parts of the brain, it affords the detection and characterization of patterns of activity distributed ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Lewis-Peacock JA,Postle BR

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving our ability to detect conscious processing in non communicating patients remains a major goal of clinical cognitive neurosciences. In this perspective, several functional brain imaging tools are currently under development. Bedside cognitive event-related potentials (ERPs) derived from the EEG signal are a g...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Faugeras F,Rohaut B,Weiss N,Bekinschtein T,Galanaud D,Puybasset L,Bolgert F,Sergent C,Cohen L,Dehaene S,Naccache L

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (A-tDCS) over the left dorsal prefrontal cortex (DPFC) has been shown to improve language production. The present study examined neurophysiological underpinnings of this effect. In a single-blinded within-subject design, we traced effects of A-tDCS compared to ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Wirth M,Rahman RA,Kuenecke J,Koenig T,Horn H,Sommer W,Dierks T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments assessed if non-human primates can be meaningfully compared to humans in a non-verbal test of serial recall. A procedure was used that was derived from variations of the Corsi test, designed to test the effects of sequence structure and movement path length in humans. Two baboons were tested in Experim...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Fagot J,De Lillo C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that synchrony of neuronal oscillations plays a critical role in effective communication between functionally distinct brain areas involving motor-sensory integration. However, the patterns of cortico-cortical coupling and their relation to behavioural success are widely unknown. Here, we analysed ch...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Rilk AJ,Soekadar SR,Sauseng P,Plewnia C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence from studies using, for example, acute tryptophan depletion or investigating genetic variation of genes related to the serotonin signaling pathway suggest a role of serotonin in executive functions such as top-down attention, working memory and inhibitory control. In the current study, we aimed at ex...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Enge S,Fleischhauer M,Lesch KP,Reif A,Strobel A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verbal short-term memory (VSTM) is thought to play a critical role in language learning. It is indexed by the nonword repetition task where listeners are asked to repeat meaningless words like 'blonterstaping'. The present study investigated the effect on nonword repetition performance of differences in efficiency of ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Barry JG,Sabisch B,Friederici AD,Brauer J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the semantic memory literature the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is frequently discussed as one homogeneous region when in fact, anatomical studies indicate that it is likely that there are discrete subregions within this area. Indeed, the influential Hub Account of semantic memory has proposed that this region is a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Skipper LM,Ross LA,Olson IR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronization of EEG alpha activity has been referred to as being indicative of cortical idling, but according to more recent evidence it has also been associated with active internal processing and creative thinking. The main objective of this study was to investigate to what extent EEG alpha synchronization is rel...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Benedek M,Bergner S,Könen T,Fink A,Neubauer AC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neglect patients are not aware of stimuli in the contralesional space. We aimed to simulate neglect-like behaviour in healthy participants, by asking them to orient their visuospatial attention in two conditions: non-hypnotic suggestion and post-hypnotic suggestion. Results showed that directing visuospatial attention...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Priftis K,Schiff S,Tikhonoff V,Giordano N,Amodio P,Umiltà C,Casiglia E

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left unilateral spatial neglect resulting from right brain damage is characterized by loss of awareness for stimuli in the contralesional side of space, despite intact visual pathways. We examined using fMRI whether patients with neglect are more likely to consciously detect in the neglected hemifield, emotionally neg...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Grabowska A,Marchewka A,Seniów J,Polanowska K,Jednoróg K,Królicki L,Kossut M,Członkowska A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research investigating the neural correlates of face processing has emphasized differences in neural activity when participants view faces versus other stimulus categories (e.g., houses). Much less is known about the neural mechanisms underlying the discrimination among individual faces. Using a large number of female...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Zheng X,Mondloch CJ,Nishimura M,Vida MD,Segalowitz SJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of age on tactile rod bisection is explored in an attempt to fully understand lateralized biases that are not driven by prior experience or visual processing. In Experiment 1, a total of 549 healthy participants aged between 3 and 84 years of age, divided into eight age groups, used touch alone without visi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Brooks JL,Della Sala S,Logie RH

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initiation of voluntary action is preceded by up to 2s of preparatory neural activity, originating in premotor and supplementary motor regions of the brain. The function of this extended period of pre-movement activity is unclear. Although recent studies have suggested that pre-movement activity is influenced by a...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Baker KS,Mattingley JB,Chambers CD,Cunnington R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude dimensions of number, time and space have been suggested to share some common magnitude processing, which may imply symmetric interaction among dimensions. Here we challenge these suggestions by presenting a double dissociation between two neuropsychological patients with left (JT) and right (CB) parieta...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cappelletti M,Freeman ED,Cipolotti L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vestibular system contributes to a wide range of functions, from postural and oculomotor reflexes to spatial representation and cognition. Vestibular signals are important to maintain an internal, updated representation of the body position and movement in space. However, it is not clear to what extent they are al...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Péruch P,Lopez C,Redon-Zouiteni C,Escoffier G,Zeitoun A,Sanjuan M,Devèze A,Magnan J,Borel L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implicit contextual learning is the ability to acquire contextual information from our surroundings without conscious awareness. Such contextual information facilitates the localization of objects in space. In a typical implicit contextual learning paradigm, subjects need to find a target among a number of distractors...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Oudman E,Van der Stigchel S,Wester AJ,Kessels RP,Postma A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has consistently shown that the left parietal cortex is critical for numerical processing, but the role of the right parietal lobe has been much less clear. This study used the intraoperative cortical electrical stimulation approach to investigate neural dissociation in the right parietal cortex for ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Yu X,Chen C,Pu S,Wu C,Li Y,Jiang T,Zhou X

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forward models, generated from the efference copies of motor commands, are thought to monitor the accuracy of ongoing movement. By comparing predicted with actual afferent information, forward models also aid in the differentiation of self-produced movements from externally generated ones. Many have proposed that a co...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Therrien AS,Richardson BA,Balasubramaniam R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to directional motion has been shown to bias the perceived direction of a subsequently presented stationary or flickering test stimulus toward the opposite direction with respect to that of adaptation. This phenomenon, called motion aftereffect, is usually generated with adaptation periods of tens of second...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Campana G,Pavan A,Maniglia M,Casco C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective memory (PM) deficits have recently been documented in individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). In this paper, we investigated whether these deficits are due to the failure of retrospective memory processes. We also examined the role played by attentional/executive processes in PM functio...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Costa A,Perri R,Zabberoni S,Barban F,Caltagirone C,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper aimed to review the limited, but growing literature on prospective memory (PM) following closed head injury (CHI). Search of two commonly used databases yielded studies that could be classified as: self- or other-report of PM deficits; behavioral PM measures in adults with CHI, behavioral PM measures in chi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Shum D,Levin H,Chan RC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory spatial functions, including the ability to discriminate between the positions of nearby sound sources, are subserved by a large temporo-parieto-frontal network. With the aim of determining whether and when the parietal contribution is critical for auditory spatial discrimination, we applied single pulse tran...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： At A,Spierer L,Clarke S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novelty seeking can be a positive trait leading to creativity and innovation, but it is also related to increased risk of damaging addictive behaviour. We have assessed novelty seeking with a three armed bandit task, in which novel stimuli were occasionally introduced, replacing choice options from which the participa...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Djamshidian A,O'Sullivan SS,Wittmann BC,Lees AJ,Averbeck BB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral amyloid beta (Aβ) deposition occurs in a substantial fraction of cognitively normal (CN) older individuals. However, it has been difficult to reliably detect evidence of amyloid-related cognitive alterations in CN using standard neuropsychological measures. We sought to determine whether a highly demanding fa...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Rentz DM,Amariglio RE,Becker JA,Frey M,Olson LE,Frishe K,Carmasin J,Maye JE,Johnson KA,Sperling RA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies converge in indicating a substantial similarity of the rules and mechanisms underlying execution, observation and imagery of actions, along with a large overlapping of their neural substrates. Recent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have demonstrated a muscle-specific facilitation of the observe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cesari P,Pizzolato F,Fiorio M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a male with acquired prosopagnosia using a battery of Implicit Association Tests (IATs) to investigate whether observing faces varying by social category would activate the patient's implicit social biases. We also asked him to categorize faces explicitly by race, gender, and political party. The patient, G...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Knutson KM,DeTucci KA,Grafman J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the seminal work of Broca in 1861, it is well established that language is essentially processed in the left hemisphere. However, the origin of hemispheric specialization remains controversial. Some authors posit that language lateralization is genetically determined, while others have suggested that hemispheric...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Pelletier I,Paquette N,Lepore F,Rouleau I,Sauerwein CH,Rosa C,Leroux JM,Gravel P,Valois K,Andermann F,Saint-Amour D,Lassonde M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans typically show left-hemisphere dominance both for language and manual gestures. If this reflects a dependence of these behaviors on a common cerebral specialization, then healthy left-handers with atypical organization of language should show a similar pattern for gesture. Consistent with this hypothesis, we re...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Króliczak G,Piper BJ,Frey SH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous behavioral studies have shown that individuals with autism are less hindered by interference from global processing during the performance of lower-level perceptual tasks, such as finding embedded figures. The primary goal of this study was to examine the brain manifestation of such atypicality in high-functi...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Liu Y,Cherkassky VL,Minshew NJ,Just MA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether listeners are sensitive to (mis)matching accentuation patterns with respect to contrasts in the linguistic and visual context, using Event-Related Potentials. We presented participants with displays of two pictures followed by a spoken reference to one of these pictures (e.g., "the red ball"). ...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Bögels S,Schriefers H,Vonk W,Chwilla DJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraindividual trial-to-trial reaction time (RT) variability is commonly found to be higher in clinical populations or life periods that are associated with impaired cognition. In the present study, higher within-person trial-to-trial RT variability in a perceptual speed task is related to more forgetting and dediffe...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Papenberg G,Bäckman L,Chicherio C,Nagel IE,Heekeren HR,Lindenberger U,Li SC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardinal pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is considered to be the increase in the activities of basal ganglia (BG) output nuclei, which excessively inhibits the thalamus and superior colliculus (SC) and causes preferential impairment of internal over external movements. Here we recorded saccade performa...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Terao Y,Fukuda H,Yugeta A,Hikosaka O,Nomura Y,Segawa M,Hanajima R,Tsuji S,Ugawa Y

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of experiments explored the mechanisms determining the encoding and storage of features and objects in visual working memory. We contrasted the effects of three types of visual suffix on cued recall of a display of colored shapes. The suffix was presented after the display and before the recall cue. The latte...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Ueno T,Mate J,Allen RJ,Hitch GJ,Baddeley AD

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent behavioral and neuroscientific evidence speaks to the question of whether the human focus of attention is limited to a single item or can accommodate several items. This issue is fundamental to an understanding of the nature of human cognition and brain function. Here I review evidence from visual working memor...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Cowan N

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an important link between pain, regulation of body temperature, and body ownership. For example, an altered feeling of body ownership - due to either chronic pain or "rubber-hand illusions" (RHI) - is associated with reduced temperature of the affected limb. However, the causal relationships within this triad...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Kammers MPM,Rose K,Haggard P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow wave ERPs were recorded from 28 young adults as they generated plans for various difficulty levels of a fixed-foreperiod version of the Tower of London task. The resulting waveform included three segments: (1) a left-lateralized negative early-interval wave, which was frontally maximal but not sensitive to diffic...

journal_title：Neuropsychologia

authors： Byrd DL,Case KH,Berg WK

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00