CortexPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.11.003
Anjan Chatterjee
{"title":"The curious case of Cortex covers","authors":"Anjan Chatterjee","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"182 ","pages":"Pages 199-202"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001631","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}
CortexPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.013
Neta Haluts, Doron Levy, Naama Friedmann
{"title":"Bimodal aphasia and dysgraphia: Phonological output buffer aphasia and orthographic output buffer dysgraphia in spoken and sign language","authors":"Neta Haluts, Doron Levy, Naama Friedmann","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We report a case of crossmodal bilingual aphasia—aphasia in two modalities, spoken and sign language—and dysgraphia in both writing and fingerspelling. The patient, Sunny, was a 42 year-old woman after a left temporo-parietal stroke, a speaker of Hebrew, Romanian, and English and an adult learner, daily user of Israeli Sign language (ISL). We assessed Sunny's spoken and sign languages using a comprehensive test battery of naming, reading, and repetition tasks, and also analysed her spontaneous-speech and sign. Her writing and fingerspelling were assessed using tasks of dictation, naming, and delayed copying.</div><div>In spoken language production, Sunny showed a classical phonological output buffer (POB) impairment in naming, reading, repetition, and spontaneous production, with phonological errors (transpositions, substitutions, insertions, and omissions) in words and pseudo-words, and whole-unit errors in morphological affixes, function-words, and number-words, with a length effect. Importantly, her error pattern in ISL was remarkably similar in the parallel tasks, with phonological errors in signs and pseudo-signs, affecting all the phonological parameters of the sign (movement, handshape, location, and orientation), and whole-unit errors in morphemes, function-signs, and number-signs. Sunny's impairment was selective to the POB, without phonological input, semantic-conceptual, or syntactic deficits. This shows for the first time how POB impairment, a kind of conduction aphasia, manifests itself in a sign language, and indicates that the POB for sign-language has the same cognitive architecture as the one for spoken language. It may also indicate similar neural underpinnings for spoken and sign languages.</div><div>In writing, Sunny forms the first case of a selective type of dysgraphia in fingerspelling, orthographic (graphemic) output buffer dysgraphia. In both writing and fingerspelling, she made letter errors (letter transpositions, substitutions, insertions, and omissions), as well as morphological errors and errors in function words, and showed length effect. Sunny's impairment was selective to the orthographic output buffer, whereas her reading, including orthographic input processing, was intact. This suggests that the orthographic output buffer is shared for writing and fingerspelling, at least in a late learner of sign language. The results shed further light on the architecture of phonological and orthographic production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"182 ","pages":"Pages 147-180"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142821902","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}
CortexPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.008
René Zeelenberg , Diane Pecher , Mirthe E.M. van der Meijden , Sean Trott , Benjamin Bergen
{"title":"Non-native language comprehenders encode implied shapes of objects in memory","authors":"René Zeelenberg , Diane Pecher , Mirthe E.M. van der Meijden , Sean Trott , Benjamin Bergen","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Barsalou (1999) proposes that conceptual knowledge is represented by mental simulations containing perceptual information derived from actual experiences. Although a substantial number of studies have provided evidence consistent with this view in native language comprehension, it remains unclear whether the non-native language comprehension processes also include mental simulations. The current study successfully replicates the shape match effect in sentence-picture verification (Zwaan et al., 2002) for non-native English language comprehenders, indicating native-like visual simulations. In addition, participants displayed better delayed recognition memory when the shape of the depicted objects matched the shape that was implied by the sentence than when it did not, suggesting that visual simulations were generated spontaneously in naturalistic non-native language comprehension. Additional correlational analyses revealed no relationship between English proficiency and the size of the match effect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"182 ","pages":"Pages 100-111"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142544231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CortexPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.012
Natalie V. Covington , Melissa C. Duff
{"title":"Hippocampus supports long-term maintenance of language representations: Evidence of impaired collocation knowledge in amnesia","authors":"Natalie V. Covington , Melissa C. Duff","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional systems consolidation theories of memory suggest that the role of the hippocampus in maintaining memory representations diminishes over time, with learned information eventually becoming fully independent of the hippocampus. Knowledge of collocations in one’s native (L1) language are acquired during development and are solidly acquired by adulthood. Remote semantic knowledge of collocations might therefore be expected to be resistant to hippocampal pathology. Patients with hippocampal damage and severe anterograde amnesia completed two tasks testing English collocation knowledge originally designed for use with English language learners. Patients with hippocampal damage demonstrated impairments in recognition of common English collocations, despite a lifetime of language experience (including postsecondary education) prior to sustaining this damage. These results suggest the hippocampus contributes to the long-term maintenance of linguistic representations and provides a challenge to traditional consolidation views of memory and an extension of newer theories to include a role for the hippocampus in maintaining semantic memory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"182 ","pages":"Pages 71-86"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142590401","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}
{"title":"Anarchy in the brain: Behavioural and neuroanatomical core of the anarchic hand syndrome","authors":"Valentina Pacella , Sara Bertagnoli , Riccardo Danese , Cristina Bulgarelli , Valeria Gobbetto , Giuseppe Kenneth Ricciardi , Valentina Moro","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An individual's inability to control the movements of their own hand is known as the Anarchic Hand Syndrome. The hand may perform apparently purposeful actions but acts as if it has a will of its own. Although the syndrome was first described over a century ago, the nature of the condition remains, for the most part, obscure, in particular in terms of the definition of the main symptoms and the underlying neural networks.</div><div>The present study compares the results from in-depth assessments, made at repeated intervals (2, 4 and 7 months from the lesion onset) of the anarchic hand symptoms in three patients suffering from various different forms of brain damage. An investigation of direct grey matter damage and structural connectivity allowed us to compare the grey matter lesions and white matter disconnections in the three patients.</div><div>A “core” characteristic relating to anarchic hand symptoms was identified, involving, in particular, both apparently purposeful movements (i.e., magnetic apraxia, grasping, bimanual incoordination, disorders in manual dexterity and action sequencing) and non-purposeful movements (i.e., levitation, synkinesis and mirror movements). Furthermore, ideomotor apraxia may also be associated with this syndrome. No overlapping areas of grey matter lesions were found in the three patients. In contrast, a pattern of common white matter disconnections was found, which involves inter-hemispheric disconnections (via corpus callosum), the long intra-hemispheric tracts (via SLF, IFOF and Arcuate) and the descendent tracts (corticospinal tract). These results are discussed in terms of awareness of motor intention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"182 ","pages":"Pages 181-194"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142754839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CortexPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.11.008
Adrian Danek
{"title":"The 1888 dissertation of a female medical student, Ueber Character-Veränderungen des Menschen in Folge von Laesionen des Stirnhirns (On character changes of man as a consequence of lesions of the frontal lobe)","authors":"Adrian Danek","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.11.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.11.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A case of brain injury with a transient syndrome of mainly disinhibited behaviour (Franz Binz) was the subject of the 1888 medical dissertation of Leonore Welt (∗1859 Chernivtsi, Ukraine; †1944 Geneva, Switzerland) which came to be discussed quite controversially. Although Binz was never fully forgotten, the similar “American crow-bar case” (Phineas Gage) attracted more interest. Welt's study, in contrast, provides not only well-illustrated neuropathological findings but also more detailed clinical data. Here, the clinical report and sections of its analysis are translated from the German original. Through comparison with similar cases, Welt proposed the straight gyrus (gyrus rectus) as the main area responsible. The transient nature of the behavioural alteration was taken as indicating a peculiar disease process at that location. She stressed that disinhibited behaviour suggests fronto-orbital lesions, but that the conclusion is not to be reversed. She had noted the absence of symptoms in the majority of similarly situated injuries: normal behaviour thus being no proof of an intact fronto-orbital region. Along with two sisters, Rosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) and Sara Welt-Kakels (1860–1943), Leonore Gourfein-Welt was among the first females from then Austria to graduate in medicine – against considerable resistance. After her thesis work, she turned to practising ophthalmology in Geneva.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"182 ","pages":"Pages 217-227"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142892687","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}
CortexPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.07.018
Richard J. Allen , Steven Kemp , Amy L. Atkinson , Sarah Martin , Kata Pauly-Takacs , Courtney M. Goodridge , Ami Gilliland , Alan D. Baddeley
{"title":"Detecting accelerated long-term forgetting remotely in a community sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests","authors":"Richard J. Allen , Steven Kemp , Amy L. Atkinson , Sarah Martin , Kata Pauly-Takacs , Courtney M. Goodridge , Ami Gilliland , Alan D. Baddeley","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.07.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.07.018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People with epilepsy often report experiencing memory problems though these are not always detectable using standard neuropsychological measures. One form of difficulty that may be relatively prevalent in epilepsy is termed accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF), typically described as relatively greater loss of memory over days or weeks following initial encoding. The current study used remote assessment to examine memory and forgetting over one week in a broad community sample of people with epilepsy and healthy control participants, using two recently developed tests, one verbal (the Crimes test) and one visual (the Four Doors test). These were administered as part of a short battery of cognitive measures, run remotely with participants over Zoom. Across this community-derived sample, people with epilepsy reported more memory complaints and demonstrated significantly faster forgetting on both the verbal and visual tests. This difference was not attributable to level of initial learning performance and was not detectable through delayed recall on a standard existing test. Our results suggests that ALF may be more common than suspected in people with epilepsy, leading to a potentially important source of memory problems that are currently undetected by standard memory tests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"182 ","pages":"Pages 29-41"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CortexPub Date : 2024-12-27DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.12.014
Punit Shah , Florence Y.N. Leung , Christopher Jarrold
{"title":"Neurodevelopmental neurodiversity: A cortex special issue","authors":"Punit Shah , Florence Y.N. Leung , Christopher Jarrold","doi":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.12.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cortex.2024.12.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10758,"journal":{"name":"Cortex","volume":"184 ","pages":"Pages 73-78"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142982839","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}