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Assessing visuospatial abilities related to visual scanning in cerebral visual impairment using the star cancellation test combined with wearable eye tracking 星消测试结合可穿戴眼动追踪技术评估脑视觉障碍患者视觉扫描相关的视觉空间能力。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-03-12 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109374

Madeleine Heynen , Alyssa W. Sullivan , Claire E. Manley , Serena Micheletti , Elisa M. Fazzi , Lotfi B. Merabet

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Spontaneous visual imagery during extended music listening is associated with reliable alpha suppression 长时间听音乐时自发的视觉意象与可靠的α抑制有关。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109346

Sarah Hashim, Diana Omigie

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Multimodal mental comparisons in those with and without aphantasia 有和没有幻像症的人的多模态心理比较。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109373

Sebastian P. Suggate , Fraser Milton , Jeremy Tree

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Ineffective imagery 无效的图像。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109347

Steve Humbert-Droz , Fabiana Caserta

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A deficit in semantic word learning in Huntington's disease 亨廷顿氏病中语义单词学习的缺陷。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109349

R. De Diego-Balaguer , G. Olivé , A. Mestres-Missé , C. Alvarez-Martin , L. Lemoine , E. Nogueira-Teixeira , A. Rodriguez-Fornells , A.C. Bachoud-Lévi

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When weak imagery is worse than none: Core aphantasia and hypophantasia relate differently to mental health, mediated by subjective interoception 当弱意象比无意象差时：主观性内感受介导的核心幻像症和次幻像症与心理健康的关系不同。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109368

Timo L. Kvamme , Merlin Monzel , Yoko Nagai , Juha Silvanto

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Negative emotion differentiation shapes attentional allocation during emotional processing: evidence from ERP components 负性情绪分化影响情绪加工过程中的注意分配：来自ERP成分的证据。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2026-01-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109355

Yuhan Lin , Fanping Wang , Xun Yan , Chao Wang

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Seeing more than schemas: the vmPFC represents imagery-rich mental scenarios 看到的不仅仅是图式：vmPFC代表了丰富的图像心理场景。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109370

Sorit Achmed Ali , Pitshaporn Leelaarporn , Rüdiger Stirnberger , Maren Bilzer , Nadja Abdel Kafi , Julia Taube , Yilmaz Sagik , Cornelia McCormick

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Electrophysiological correlates of detection and identification awareness for digits and letters 数字和字母的检测和识别意识的电生理相关。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2026-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109371

Stefan Wiens, Mingailė Greičiūtė, Billy Gerdfeldter, Annika Andersson

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Visual load does not modulate neural processing of audiovisual speech integration 视觉负荷不调节视听语音整合的神经加工。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109344

Marc Sato

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