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Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.015

Augustin Amiel , Lise Hobeika , Isabelle Viaud-Delmon , Marine Taffou

{"title":"Functional organization of distance-dependent audio-tactile integration is different in rear and front spaces","authors":"Augustin Amiel , Lise Hobeika , Isabelle Viaud-Delmon , Marine Taffou","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Peripersonal space mediates animals' interactions with the environment and is thus critical for the implementation of appropriate behaviors. Integrating multisensory information located in peripersonal space induces enhanced behavioral responses and reflects the relevance of external stimuli for the organism's survival. To date, modifications of reaction time related to peripersonal space have mostly been studied using stimuli presented in the frontal space, and limited data are available on other dimensions of peripersonal space. Here, we investigated rear and front defensive peripersonal space by testing whether the distance-dependent behavioral effect of audio-tactile integration varies around the body. Healthy human participants had to detect a tactile stimulation on their hand while an irrelevant sound was approaching them from different parts of space. We used sound spatialization techniques (3D sound) to create sound stimuli looming towards participants' bodies from the front-right, front-left, rear-right, and rear-left quadrants. In the front hemifield, sounds approaching from the left had to be closer to facilitate tactile detection compared to those from the right. In contrast, in the rear hemifield, tactile detection was enhanced at similar distances regardless of whether the sound approached from the left or right. This indicates that human auditory defensive peripersonal space is not homogeneous around the body, showing a lateral asymmetry in the front but not in the rear space. This suggests that perceptual coding of space takes into account action abilities which, in humans, are driven by a front/back organization of the biomechanic skeletal system and of the sensory organs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"194 ","pages":"Pages 220-238"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145787297","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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The neural dynamics of current and past self-face perception: Challenging the privilege access hypothesis 当前和过去自我面孔感知的神经动力学：挑战特权获取假说

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Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.006

Gyula Kovács , Lisa Göschel , Sophie Magdalena Pawlik , Antonella Tramacere

{"title":"The neural dynamics of current and past self-face perception: Challenging the privilege access hypothesis","authors":"Gyula Kovács , Lisa Göschel , Sophie Magdalena Pawlik , Antonella Tramacere","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Setting apart the neural properties of familiarity for both self and others' faces helps deepen our understanding of the cognitive, developmental, and theoretical dimensions of social dynamics and human identity. Motivated by this goal, we conducted a multivariate cross-classification EEG experiment where we tested whether individuals represent their own face as similar to other highly familiar faces or code self-faces through different familiarity processes. We compare the representational dynamics for self and other faces in both their current and past versions. Participants were presented highly variable faces of four familiarity categories (self, parent, close-friend and unknown) in two versions across lifespan: current and past images, which were taken 10 years ago. Linear discriminant classifiers were trained and tested on EEG patterns to discriminate familiar and unfamiliar faces. Time-resolved classification revealed that the neural representations of familiarity emerge before 200 msec post-stimulus onset and remains significant until 600 msec, independently of familiarity level and age. Further, our findings show that the temporal dynamics of familiarity is similar for self-faces and other highly familiar faces. Our study provides new insights into how the brain represents self-identity and suggest that important aspects of self-recognition, such as the familiarity of self-face, is supported by learning processes rather than privilege introspective mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"194 ","pages":"Pages 77-90"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145682674","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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Taxonomic semantic relation prevails in object naming: Larger and earlier effects of taxonomic relation compared to thematic relation 分类语义关系在对象命名中占主导地位：分类关系比主题关系的影响更大、更早

IF 3.3 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.10.011

Chen Feng , Mingjun Zhai , Qingqing Qu

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Comparing developmental neural incongruency effects in reading and arithmetic among children: An ERP study 儿童阅读和算术发育神经不一致效应的比较：一项ERP研究。

IF 3.3 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.12.001

Jie Ma , Brian W.L. Wong , Kelvin F.H. Lui , Jason C.M. Lo , Shuting Huo , Catherine McBride , Urs Maurer

{"title":"Comparing developmental neural incongruency effects in reading and arithmetic among children: An ERP study","authors":"Jie Ma , Brian W.L. Wong , Kelvin F.H. Lui , Jason C.M. Lo , Shuting Huo , Catherine McBride , Urs Maurer","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although reading and arithmetic abilities are considered distinct academic skills, evidence of shared cognitive structures suggests that they may also involve shared brain functions. This study investigated neural incongruency effects between sentence reading and simple addition in primary school children using event-related potentials (ERPs). Sixty children from grades 1, 2 and 3 judged whether the meanings of Chinese sentences and arithmetic additions were correct or not. ERP maps including all electrodes were analysed using timepoint-to-timepoint TANOVA analysis with factors of incongruency, task and age. Behavioural responses were faster in the congruent than incongruent condition, especially for younger children; the age-related reduction in the incongruency effect was more pronounced in the arithmetic than the reading task. TANOVA showed incongruency main effects for the N400 (306–476 msec) that were similar for reading and arithmetic. Importantly, interaction effects of task and incongruency in the early N400 (242–326 msec) time range reflected faster incongruency effects for arithmetic compared to reading. Age did not modulate any of these effects, nor had a significant main effect on ERP. Microstate findings revealed that the N400 effect differed between reading and arithmetic in latency and topographic distribution. Taken together, the results suggest that incorrectness in both reading and arithmetic is reflected by N400 effects that indicate incongruency processing, but this activity differs between reading and arithmetic and starts earlier for arithmetic than reading. Overall, the present study underscores the need for a cross-domain approach to understanding the shared and distinct neurocognitive patterns of academic skills.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"194 ","pages":"Pages 239-252"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145818377","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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Development of coarse- and orientation-tuning for native letters in children aged 3–9 years old: Oddball fast periodic stimulation study 3-9岁儿童母语字母粗调和定向调音的发展：古怪快速周期刺激研究。

IF 3.3 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.004

Daria Kostanian , Tatiana Logvinenko , Olga Sysoeva

{"title":"Development of coarse- and orientation-tuning for native letters in children aged 3–9 years old: Oddball fast periodic stimulation study","authors":"Daria Kostanian , Tatiana Logvinenko , Olga Sysoeva","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To examine the processes contributing to reading, we investigated neurophysiological letter coding in typically developing children (3.6–9.3 years) using an oddball fast periodic visual stimulation and a 32-channel electroencephalogram. Non-native (Georgian) letters appeared every fifth item in a stream of native (Russian) letters, presented at a frequency of 6 Hz. This contrast (foreign condition, n = 46) elicited significant discrimination responses at the frequency of non-native letters presentation – 1.2 Hz – and its harmonics, even in children who did not yet acquire reading skills. We also investigated native letter orientation sensitivity using 180-degree-rotated Russian letters in a stream of upright Russian letters (inverted condition, n = 42, overlap with foreign condition n = 37). Discrimination responses increased with age in both conditions but followed different trajectories. In the foreign condition, it significantly increased in the subgroup of pre-reading children and plateaued in older children. In the inverted condition, discrimination response emerged only in reading children and showed significant correlation with age in this subgroup. The results support two systems of tuning for letters: a coarse tuning system that differentiates native from foreign letters and develops in pre-reading age through environmental exposure, and an orientation tuning system that develops with reading acquisition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"194 ","pages":"Pages 63-76"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145667678","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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IF 3.3 2区心理学

Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(25)00325-9

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Mapping meaning in the brain's language 绘制大脑语言的含义

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Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.10.012

Harm Brouwer

{"title":"Mapping meaning in the brain's language","authors":"Harm Brouwer","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.10.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.10.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence have pushed the state-of-the-art from being able to decode the meaning of individual words from non-invasive brain recordings, to the reconstruction of the meaning of continuous language. Beyond game changing practical implications of such “mind reading” <em>mapping models</em>, e.g., brain-computer interfaces that restore lost ability to speak, they also hold the promise to be instrumental in addressing a fundamental question in the cognitive sciences: How does the human brain represent the meaning of concepts, phrases, and sentences? In order to fulfil this promise, however, important methodological and theoretical challenges need to be overcome: (1) extant mapping results are inconsistent and difficult to reconcile with neurocognitive theory, (2) extant neural meaning representations do not model the compositional semantics capturing the meaning of multi-word utterances, and (3) extant mapping models fail to take into account the spatiotemporal dynamics of lexical and compositional semantic representation and computation. I argue that in order to overcome these challenges, we should ground mapping models in linguistic and neurocognitive theory, and develop neurocomputational models that explicate the spatiotemporal dynamics of meaning in the brain's language.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"194 ","pages":"Pages 12-21"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145622897","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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Connectional diaschisis associated with acute psychosis after right thalamic stroke: A case report 右丘脑卒中后急性精神病伴连通性损伤1例报告

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Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.009

Giorgia Adamo , Alessandro Salvalaggio , Lorenzo Pini , Diego Cecchin , Silvia Facchini , Antonio Luigi Bisogno , Antonino Vallesi , Maurizio Corbetta

{"title":"Connectional diaschisis associated with acute psychosis after right thalamic stroke: A case report","authors":"Giorgia Adamo , Alessandro Salvalaggio , Lorenzo Pini , Diego Cecchin , Silvia Facchini , Antonio Luigi Bisogno , Antonino Vallesi , Maurizio Corbetta","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We report a rare case of sudden-onset psychiatric syndrome following a right thalamic ischemic event. Potential mechanisms involving both structural and functional thalamic disconnection are considered. A 51-year-old man was admitted to the Neurology Unit at the Azienda Ospedale-Università of Padova with sudden-onset confusion and amnesia, accompanied by visual and auditory hallucinations and emotional lability. An initial head CT scan showed no evidence of stroke; however, a follow-up MRI revealed a recent ischemic lesion in the right mediodorsal nucleus (MDN) of the thalamus. A brain [18F]FDG PET-MRI scan identified a small hypometabolic area in the right anterolateral frontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex was structurally and functionally disconnected by the thalamic lesion. Neuropsychological testing revealed deficits of executive functions, particularly in planning and abstract reasoning, as well as impairments in long-term verbal and visuospatial memory and deficits in the visuoperceptual domain. The patient was treated with risperidone and venlafaxine, leading to an improvement in psychotic symptoms at both discharge and follow-up. Understanding these network-level disruptions may offer valuable insights into therapeutic approaches and prognostic evaluation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"194 ","pages":"Pages 91-95"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145682673","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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Beta-band modulation reveals the cortical dynamics of auditory statistical learning in children β波段调制揭示了儿童听觉统计学习的皮层动态。

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Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.003

Jarrad A.G. Lum , Christine N. Moreau , Li-Ann Leow , Welber Marinovic , Sarah J. Lum , Marc F. Joanisse , Laura J. Batterink

{"title":"Beta-band modulation reveals the cortical dynamics of auditory statistical learning in children","authors":"Jarrad A.G. Lum , Christine N. Moreau , Li-Ann Leow , Welber Marinovic , Sarah J. Lum , Marc F. Joanisse , Laura J. Batterink","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Children's ability to extract statistical regularities from speech is considered fundamental to lexical, syntactic, and grammatical development. However, the neural oscillatory mechanisms supporting this process in childhood remains poorly understood. While beta-band oscillations have been linked to statistical learning in visual and motor domains, it is unclear whether similar dynamics support auditory statistical learning in children. In this study, we recorded electroencephalography (EEG) from children aged 8–12 years as they listened to a continuous stream of trisyllabic nonwords (e.g., dapiku), where syllable order within each nonword was fixed (high predictability), but transitions between nonwords were variable (low predictability). Beta power was significantly lower for the more predictable second and third syllables relative to the less predictable first syllable. This effect emerged only after repeated exposure and was localised to left prefrontal electrodes. Beta power also correlated with post-exposure recognition accuracy. Additional learning-related modulations were observed in the theta-alpha and delta-theta bands, suggesting broader oscillatory engagement. These findings indicate that auditory statistical learning in middle childhood engages frequency-specific neural dynamics, with beta power modulations showing parallel effects to those observed in other modalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"194 ","pages":"Pages 35-49"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145660567","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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The cognitive neuropsychology of action semantics: A review 动作语义学的认知神经心理学研究进展。

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Cortex Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.008

Amy L. Lebkuecher , H. Branch Coslett , Laurel J. Buxbaum

{"title":"The cognitive neuropsychology of action semantics: A review","authors":"Amy L. Lebkuecher , H. Branch Coslett , Laurel J. Buxbaum","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The conceptual knowledge that mediates our ability to use familiar objects, understand viewed actions, and engage in communication about actions is often termed “action semantics”.</div><div>The underlying format, cognitive organization, and neural substrates of these representations are matters of active scientific investigation. This review synthesizes the large and diverse literature on action semantics in individuals with neurological disorders characterized by prominent motor deficits (e.g., Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), as well as those for whom motor deficits are often less prominent (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, stroke). Research in these two groups of disorders is strikingly “siloed” and offers many contradictory findings with respect to whether action semantic representations are abstract (i.e., “disembodied”) or grounded in sensory and motor features that reflect the way knowledge was acquired. Findings across these populations also disagree as to whether action semantic representations are organized somatotopically or with a semantic feature-based architecture, and mediated by anterior motor-related or relatively posterior sensory-related brain regions. Many of these disparate findings can be reconciled with consideration of a multidimensional, multimodal representational architecture mediated by a distributed left-lateralized network of brain regions. We provide suggestions for specific methodological approaches for research with neurological populations that may further our understanding of the format, organization, and neural substrates of action semantics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"194 ","pages":"Pages 159-190"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145780500","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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