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Aesthetic judgement and appreciation in agenesis of the corpus callosum 胼胝体发育过程中的审美判断与鉴赏。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2026-01-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109356

Nathan M. LeFebre , Kutter D. Callaway , Kaitlyn A. Bennett , Lynn K. Paul , Warren S. Brown

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There is more social in semantics! A brief commentary and reanalysis of Balgova et al. (2024) 语义中有更多的社交性！对Balgova等人（2024）的简评与再分析。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109353

Frank Van Overwalle , Maria Arioli , Elien Heleven , Min Qiu , Natacha Deroost , Kris Baetens

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Spatial updating in amnesia using an eye movement analogue of a path integration task 利用眼动模拟路径整合任务在健忘症中的空间更新

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109354

Anisha Khosla , R. Shayna Rosenbaum , Morris Moscovitch , Jennifer D. Ryan

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Group values modulate ingroup bias in self-referential processing: Evidence from event-related potentials 群体价值调节自我参照加工中的群体内偏倚：来自事件相关电位的证据

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109345

Qianwen Gao , Wanxia Chen , Feng Zou , Yufeng Wang , Meng Zhang , Jinqi Cui , Xin Wu

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Examining differences in navigation strategy and performance in children, adolescents, and adults using the dual solution paradigm 使用双解范式研究儿童、青少年和成人在导航策略和表现上的差异。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109342

Emily E. Tighe , Jingjing (May) Liu , Jeanine K. Stefanucci , Bobby Bodenheimer , Sarah H. Creem-Regehr

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Posterior parietal cortex modulates perceptual decisions depending on psychotic phenotype 后顶叶皮层根据精神病表型调节知觉决策。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109348

Francesco Scaramozzino, Ryan McKay, Nicholas Furl

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Does visual format matter in brand name recognition? ERP evidence challenging abstractionist models 视觉格式对品牌识别有影响吗？挑战抽象主义模型的ERP证据。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109357

Melanie Labusch , Stéphanie Massol , Teresa Civera , Marta Vergara Martínez , Manuel Perea

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Opposite effects of social harm and help on prosocial behaviors: Behavioral and EEG studies 社会伤害与社会帮助对亲社会行为的相反影响：行为与脑电图研究。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109369

Xinling Chen, Shihui Han

{"title":"Opposite effects of social harm and help on prosocial behaviors: Behavioral and EEG studies","authors":"Xinling Chen, Shihui Han","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prosocial behaviors are fundamentally important for social harmony but vary across individuals with diverse experiences during development. We tested the hypothesis that receiving harms and helps from others during social interactions produce opposite (decreasing or increasing) effects on prosocial behaviors in four studies. We showed that a short experience of receiving social harms reduced both prosocial decision-making and affective empathy for others’ pain whereas a short experience of receiving social helps enhanced prosocial decision-making (Experiment 1). Social harms produced stronger effects on prosocial decision-making and subjective/electroencephalography measures of empathy related to inflictors who produced harms compared to irrelevant strangers (Experiments 2 and 3). Sustained experiences of receiving social helps were able to restore the impaired prosocial decision-making and empathy caused by a short experience of receiving social harms (Experiment 4). These findings indicate opposite relationships between prosocial behavior and social harm/help and suggest empathy as a potential intermediate psychological mechanism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"222 ","pages":"Article 109369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145998767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Bayesian cue combination best predicts straight-line distance estimation with translated visual landmarks 贝叶斯线索组合最好地预测直线距离估计与翻译的视觉标志。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109351

Abhilasha Vishwanath , Matthew F. Watson , Melanie K. Gin , Donnette C. Markham , Yinqi Huang , Yu K. Du , Arne Ekstrom , Robert C. Wilson

{"title":"Bayesian cue combination best predicts straight-line distance estimation with translated visual landmarks","authors":"Abhilasha Vishwanath , Matthew F. Watson , Melanie K. Gin , Donnette C. Markham , Yinqi Huang , Yu K. Du , Arne Ekstrom , Robert C. Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109351","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109351","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Navigation requires the ability to update and track one's location and course from available multisensory information. Multisensory input comes in two prominent forms: body-based idiothetic cues and visual allothetic cues, usually from visual landmarks. Yet, how these two streams of information are integrated remains unresolved. In this study, we used a highly controlled straight-line distance estimation task in immersive virtual reality to investigate how idiothetic and allothetic spatial cues are integrated. In our experiment, participants reproduced a walked distance in the dark (path integration), with some trials involving misleading visual feedback showing a translated virtual room with an offset of up to 1.5 m from the true distance. We used computational modeling to determine the effect of visual feedback offset on the distance participants walked. We modelled participants' performance on the task with three distinct models involving path integration, landmark navigation, and integrating landmark feedback based on the uncertainty of the participant. The model results showed that the behavior of most participants (n = 24) was best predicted by a Bayesian cue combination model that involved averaging the two spatial cues according to their perceived level of uncertainty. Our data showed considerable individual differences in the uncertainty estimates of participants, which spanned almost uniformly from pure path integration (ignoring the visual cue) to pure landmark navigation (ignoring path integration estimate). Taken together these findings provide evidence in favor of Bayesian cue combination strategy in distance reproduction with individual differences in navigation behavior dictated by perceived level of uncertainty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"222 ","pages":"Article 109351"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145827839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 role of visuospatial working memory in numerical processing - an fMRI study 视觉空间工作记忆在数值处理中的作用——fMRI研究。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2026-02-15 Epub Date: 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109326

Yael Guy, Sarit Ashkenazi

{"title":"The role of visuospatial working memory in numerical processing - an fMRI study","authors":"Yael Guy, Sarit Ashkenazi","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109326","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109326","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the last decade, studies have indicated an association between Visual-Spatial Working Memory (VSWM) domain-general cognitive ability, and number processing. We aimed to further elaborate this relationship in adults behaviorally and neuro-cognitively via <em>f</em>MRI. Fifty one student were recruited from them forty students were included in the analysis (males, N = 23; females, N = 17). Based on an outside scanner VSWM task, the participants were divided into High and Low VSWM Groups. During an fMRI scan, participants performed a Number line estimation task. Data were analyzed at the individual-participant level and at the group level. Multiple comparisons between the groups were carried out on the whole brain level and at specific ROIs (Regions of Interest). Behavioral results showed that the Low VSWM Group exhibited longer reaction time as compared with the High VSWM Group, in symbolic numerical processing. Neuroanatomical comparisons revealed greater activation mainly in right fronto-parietal regions among the High VSWM Group during the Number line estimation task, while the Low VSWM group engaged the left hemisphere, in parietal, frontal and temporal regions. ROI analyses showed that the left IPS activation was positively correlated to the Number line Task, thus indicating its specific role in symbolic number processing. These results demonstrate hemispherical differences between the groups during number processing, suggesting that people with High VSWM recruit resources from a domain-general ability (VSWM) which enables them to process symbolic numbers more efficiently, while people with Low VSWM capacity rely more on verbal abilities to compensate for lower spatial abilities when processing symbolic numerals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"222 ","pages":"Article 109326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145696013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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