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Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.019

Josefina Weinerova , Sabine Yeung , Panyuan Guo , Alice Yau , Connor Horne , Molly Ghinn , Lyn Curtis , Francess Adlard , Vidita Bhagat , Seraphina Zhang , Muzaffer Kaser , Mirjana Bozic , Denis Schluppeck , Andrew Reid , Roni Tibon , Lucy Cheke

{"title":"Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from the Covid and Cognition online study","authors":"Josefina Weinerova , Sabine Yeung , Panyuan Guo , Alice Yau , Connor Horne , Molly Ghinn , Lyn Curtis , Francess Adlard , Vidita Bhagat , Seraphina Zhang , Muzaffer Kaser , Mirjana Bozic , Denis Schluppeck , Andrew Reid , Roni Tibon , Lucy Cheke","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, has been shown to have an impact on cognitive function, but the specific aspects of cognition that are affected remain unclear. In this Registered Report, we analysed cognitive data collected online from 296 participants (209 who had experienced Covid-19 infection and 87 who did not). We have found previously reported effect of Covid status on accuracy in 2 long-term memory tasks (verbal item memory task and nonverbal associative memory task), but did not replicate previously reported effect on reaction times. Further, across 4 long-term memory tasks, we found consistent effect of Covid status on memory accuracy but not reaction times. Contrary to our predictions, we did not find an interaction with memory type (associative versus item) or stimulus type (verbal versus nonverbal). Moreover, we compared cognitive functioning amongst vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals to explore the role of vaccination status in cognitive symptoms associated with Covid-19. Using Bayesian analysis, we did not find conclusive evidence for either the null or alternative hypothesis. Overall, the study replicates and extends previously reported findings, thereby providing valuable insights into the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on cognitive functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"189 ","pages":"Pages 205-225"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144338274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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No facilitatory effects of transcranial random noise stimulation on motion processing: A registered report 经颅随机噪声刺激对运动加工无促进作用：一份注册报告

IF 3.2 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.06.001

Grace Edwards , Ryan Ruhde , Micaela B. Carroll , Chris I. Baker

{"title":"No facilitatory effects of transcranial random noise stimulation on motion processing: A registered report","authors":"Grace Edwards , Ryan Ruhde , Micaela B. Carroll , Chris I. Baker","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques have the potential to demonstrate the causal impact of targeted brain regions on specific behaviors. Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) is one form of transcranial electric stimulation in which an alternating current is passed between electrodes at random frequencies. High-frequency tRNS (hf-tRNS) is thought to enhance excitability and have facilitatory effects on behavior, demonstrated in healthy and clinical populations. Due to the potential application of tRNS, clear demonstrations of the efficacy and replicability of stimulation are critical. Here, we focused on replicating the facilitatory effect of hf-tRNS over the human middle temporal complex (hMT+) on contralateral motion processing, initially demonstrated by Ghin et al. (2018). In this prior study, the improvement in performance was specific to global motion processing in the visual field contralateral to stimulation. The motivation to replicate this effect was reinforced by the well-supported hypothesis that hMT+ is critical for contralateral global motion processing. However, our results indicated that hf-tRNS does not improve motion discrimination with <em>n</em> = 42. Specifically, we were unable to replicate a contralateral global motion processing facilitation following hf-tRNS to hMT+. In our within-subject controls, we also found no difference between hf-tRNS to hMT+ on contralateral global motion processing in comparison to sham stimulation, or in comparison to hf-tRNS to the forehead. Although our lack of replication could be due to minor changes in the protocol from the original study, for hf-tRNS to become a widely applied method, its modulatory effect should be robust to slight adjustments to the procedure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"189 ","pages":"Pages 279-296"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144631620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Information processing in the Hand Laterality Judgement Task: Fundamental differences between dorsal and palmar views revealed by a “forced response” paradigm 手侧度判断任务中的信息处理：由“强迫反应”范式揭示的背侧和掌侧视角的根本差异

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Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.06.002

Marcos Moreno-Verdú, Baptiste M. Waltzing, Siobhán M. McAteer, Elise E. Van Caenegem, Gautier Hamoline, Robert M. Hardwick

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Emotional distractors modulate event-related potentials even at very low contrast levels 情绪干扰物即使在非常低的对比水平下也能调节事件相关电位

IF 3.2 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.018

Germán A. Cipriani , Dominique Kessel, Fátima Álvarez, Uxía Fernández-Folgueiras, Manuel Tapia, Luis Carretié

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The self in motion: The advantage for one’s own movements at an implicit but not explicit level 运动中的自我：一个人在隐性而非显性水平上的运动优势

IF 3.2 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.013

Tina Iachini , Michela Candini , Francesco Ruotolo , Gennaro Ruggiero , Francesca Frassinetti

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Special Issue: The multidimensionality, variability and flexibility of concepts. Editorial 特刊：概念的多维性、可变性和灵活性。编辑

IF 3.2 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.011

Veronica Diveica , Emiko J. Muraki , Richard J. Binney , Penny M. Pexman

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IF 3.2 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(25)00146-7

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Language disorders in understudied languages: Opening editorial 未被充分研究的语言中的语言障碍：开幕社论

IF 3.2 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.009

Adolfo M. García , Boon Lead Tee , Jessica de Leon , Suvarna Alladi , Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini

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Preserving the basal temporal language area: A paradigm shift in predicting verbal memory outcomes after dominant temporal lobectomy 保留基底颞叶语言区：颞叶切除后预测言语记忆结果的范式转变

IF 3.2 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.016

Olivier Aron , Judith Mercier , Natacha Forthoffer , Mickael Ferand , Insafe Mezjan , Helene Brissart , Sophie Colnat-Coulbois , Louis Maillard

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Cross-language interaction during sequential anomia treatment in three languages: Evidence from a trilingual person with aphasia 序贯三语治疗失语症期间的跨语言互动：来自三语失语症患者的证据

IF 3.2 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.017

Claudia Peñaloza , Manuel Jose Marte , Anne Billot , Swathi Kiran

{"title":"Cross-language interaction during sequential anomia treatment in three languages: Evidence from a trilingual person with aphasia","authors":"Claudia Peñaloza , Manuel Jose Marte , Anne Billot , Swathi Kiran","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Language rehabilitation research has reported mixed evidence in bilinguals with aphasia suggesting that therapy can benefit the treated language alone or additionally result in cross-language generalization to the untreated language, while cross-language interference effects are less common. However, treatment effects in multilinguals with aphasia (MWA) have been less frequently investigated, and examining cross-language interactions during therapy may help to better understand their treatment response in each language. This study reports on P1, a trilingual person with severe aphasia with extensive damage to cortical language regions and the basal ganglia, who received sequential semantic-based treatment for anomia in her L3 French, L1 Spanish and L2 English. Overall, significant treatment gains in the treated language were restricted to her L3 French, the weakest language, while her treatment response was limited across languages likely due to severe language impairment and extensive damage to the language processing network. Cross-language generalization effects were absent and P1 showed cross-language interference in her L2 English during treatment in her L3 French. Cross-language intrusions were observed between languages, more frequently in her L2 English (the least available language in treatment) than in her L1 Spanish (the strongest language). The absence of cross-language generalization and presence of cross-language interference in P1 were likely due to damage in the basal ganglia and executive deficits reflecting damage to the language control network. Severe language processing and language control impairments can hinder the balance between activation and inhibition mechanisms necessary to support response to language treatment in MWA.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"189 ","pages":"Pages 107-130"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144271965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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