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{"title":"Psychological well-being modulates neural synchrony during naturalistic fMRI","authors":"Keva Klamer,&nbsp;Joshua Craig,&nbsp;Christina Haines,&nbsp;KiAnna Sullivan,&nbsp;Chelsea Ekstrand","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108987","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108987","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Psychological well-being (PWB) is a combination of feeling good and functioning efficiently, and has a significant relationship with physical and mental health. Previous research has shown that PWB is associated with improvements in selective attention, mindfulness, semantic self-images, and adaptive decision making, however, it is unclear how these differences manifest in the brain. Naturalistic stimuli better encapsulate everyday experiences and can elicit more “true-to-life” neural responses. The current study seeks to identify how differing levels of PWB modulate neural synchrony in response to an audiovisual film. With consideration of the inherent variability of the literature, we aim to ascertain the validity of the previously associated with PWB. We identified that higher levels of PWB were associated with heightened stimulus driven neural synchrony in the bilateral superior parietal lobule, right planum temporale, and left superior temporal gyrus, and that lower levels of PWB were associated with heightened neural synchrony in the bilateral lateral occipital cortex and precuneus. Taken together, this research suggests that there is an association between differing levels of PWB and differential neural synchrony during movie-watching. PWB may therefore have an effect on complex, multimodal processing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224002021/pdfft?md5=f799b4af19bf93a25c5c4aa2892d96da&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224002021-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142120338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mental imagery as part of an ‘inwardly focused’ cognitive style","authors":"Timo L. Kvamme ,&nbsp;Kristian Sandberg ,&nbsp;Juha Silvanto","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108988","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>What is the source of individual differences in the experience of mental imagery? While parallels are often drawn between imagery abilities and the perception of external stimuli, we propose that these differences need to be considered in a wider context that encompasses personality traits and tendencies geared towards focusing on one's inner world. Moreover, we suggest that imagery experience is part of a cluster of traits and tendencies that could be described as an ‘inwardly focused’ cognitive style, characterised by a propensity to engage deeply with internally generated sensations. This trait cluster is negatively associated with alexithymia, indicating that vivid imagery goes hand-in-hand with a greater ability to identify and describe one's emotions, in addition to heightened interoceptive attention. Rather than merely reflecting efficient bottom-up processing of internal signals, we propose that this cognitive style represents a bias or tendency to prioritise and attend to these signals, shaping the overall experience of mental imagery.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224002033/pdfft?md5=41dda4445b6f4cd5016545685f634037&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224002033-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142120337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Search flavor labels in beverages: An electrophysiological investigation of color-flavor congruency and association strength in visual search","authors":"Chen Cai ,&nbsp;Le Zhang ,&nbsp;Zihan Quan ,&nbsp;Xin Fang ,&nbsp;Sisi Cai ,&nbsp;Jia Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108985","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Individuals are apt to link various characteristics of an object or event through different sensory experiences. We conducted two electrophysiological experiments to investigate the effects of color-flavor congruency and association strength on visual search efficiency and the in-depth cognitive mechanisms underlying multisensory processes. Participants were prompted with a flavor label and asked to identify the primed flavor from four beverage bottle images. Experiment 1 focused on color-flavor congruency and noted faster searches for congruent targets than incongruent ones. EEG data exhibited smaller N2, larger P3 and LPC, and increased parietal-occipital midline (POM) alpha power for incongruent targets than congruent ones. Experiment 2 manipulated color-flavor association strength within each flavor. Behavioral findings showed that searches for targets with weak association strength took longer than those with strong association strength. Moreover, time-frequency analysis displayed that the former evoked greater frontal midline (FM) theta power and higher alpha power than the latter. Altogether, our research indicated that (1) color expectations based on prior experience can automatically guide people's attentional selection, (2) the color-flavor congruency and association strength impact the visual search efficiency via distinct pathways, and (3) theta and alpha activities make a pivotal role in unraveling multisensory information processing. These findings shed some light on the intricate cognitive processes involved in crossmodal visual search and the underlying neurocognitive dynamics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142096107","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}

{"title":"Olympic team rowers and team swimmers show altered functional brain activation during working memory and action inhibition","authors":"Zai-Fu Yao ,&nbsp;Ilja G. Sligte ,&nbsp;Richard Ridderinkhof","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108974","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108974","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>High-level expertise in team-sports is associated with superior performance on executive functions (EFs) such as working memory (WM) and action inhibition, and with altered activation of brain areas related to these EFs. In most such studies, athletes were sampled from the domain of dynamic (i.e., open-skill) team-sports (e.g., soccer players). Whether static (i.e., closed-skill) team-sports athletes (e.g., rowers and synchronized swimmers) also show superior EFs performance and differential EF-related functional brain activation remains unknown.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We recruited 14 elite closed-skill athletes, all national champions, and internationally competitive in various rowing disciplines, as well as 14 controls matched on gender, age, and education, and had them perform working memory and action inhibition (stop-signal) tasks during fMRI scanning.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Group differences in performance in either task failed to obtain statistical significance, although athletes showed a numerical trend toward higher WM capacity than controls. Importantly, task-related BOLD responses suggested that Olympic closed-skill team athletes show stronger recruitment of brain areas that emphasize relatively stable task demands and weaker engagement of brain areas that emphasize rapidly changing demands imposed by extraneous stimulation.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Functional brain imaging data suggest elite closed-skill athletes may employ different cognitive strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142056204","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}

{"title":"Social face processing in chronic severe traumatic brain injury: Altered decoding of emotions and mental states but preserved gaze cueing of attention","authors":"Matteo G.F. Vascello ,&nbsp;Silvia Pizzighello ,&nbsp;Maria S. Spada ,&nbsp;Andrea Martinuzzi ,&nbsp;Mario Dalmaso","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108975","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108975","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The processing of social information transmitted by facial stimuli is altered in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study investigated whether these alterations also affect the mechanisms underlying the orienting of visual attention in response to eye-gaze signals. TBI patients and a control group of healthy individuals matched on relevant criteria completed a spatial cueing task. In this task, a lateral visual target was presented along with a task-irrelevant face, with the gaze averted to the left or right. Arrows pointing towards the left or right were also used as non-social control stimuli. Social cognition abilities were further investigated through tests based on decoding emotional expressions and mental states conveyed by facial stimuli. The decoding of emotions and mental states was worse in the TBI group than in the control group. However, both groups demonstrated reliable and comparable orienting of attention to both eye-gaze and arrow stimuli. Despite impairments in certain aspects of social face processing among TBI patients, gaze cueing of attention appears to be preserved in this neuropsychological population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224001908/pdfft?md5=4686ec1fd9cda9665890a0b51a6f0d1f&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224001908-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142046948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum: Investigation of advanced mindfulness meditation cessation experiences using EEG spectral analysis in an intensively sampled case study. [Neuropsychologia (2023) 190, 108694]","authors":"A. Chowdhury,&nbsp;R. van Lutterveld,&nbsp;R.E. Laukkonen,&nbsp;H.A. Slagter,&nbsp;D.M. Ingram,&nbsp;M.D. Sacchet","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108972","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224001878/pdfft?md5=d6880f07376cbe67b6bf894efce7e92e&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224001878-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141992817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early language experience and modality affect parietal cortex activation in different hemispheres: Insights from hearing bimodal bilinguals","authors":"A. Banaszkiewicz ,&nbsp;B. Costello ,&nbsp;A. Marchewka","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of the age of acquisition (AoA) on functional brain representations of sign language in two exceptional groups of hearing bimodal bilinguals: native signers (simultaneous bilinguals since early childhood) and late signers (proficient sequential bilinguals, who learnt a sign language after puberty). We asked whether effects of AoA would be present across languages – signed and audiovisual spoken – and thus observed only in late signers as they acquired each language at different life stages, and whether effects of AoA would be present during sign language processing across groups. Moreover, we aimed to carefully control participants’ level of sign language proficiency by implementing a battery of language tests developed for the purpose of the project, which confirmed that participants had high competences of sign language.</p><p>Between-group analyses revealed a hypothesized modulatory effect of AoA in the right inferior parietal lobule (IPL) in native signers, compared to late signers. With respect to within-group differences across languages we observed greater involvement of the left IPL in response to sign language in comparison to spoken language in both native and late signers, indicating language modality effects. Overall, our results suggest that the neural underpinnings of language are molded by the linguistic characteristics of the language as well as by when in life the language is learnt.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141996208","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}

{"title":"Towards an ecologically valid naturalistic cognitive neuroscience of memory and event cognition","authors":"Raju Pooja ,&nbsp;Pritha Ghosh ,&nbsp;Vishnu Sreekumar","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108970","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108970","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The landscape of human memory and event cognition research has witnessed a transformative journey toward the use of naturalistic contexts and tasks. In this review, we track this progression from abrupt, artificial stimuli used in extensively controlled laboratory experiments to more naturalistic tasks and stimuli that present a more faithful representation of the real world. We argue that in order to improve ecological validity, naturalistic study designs must consider the complexity of the cognitive phenomenon being studied. Then, we review the current state of “naturalistic” event segmentation studies and critically assess frequently employed movie stimuli. We evaluate recently developed tools like lifelogging and other extended reality technologies to help address the challenges we identified with existing naturalistic approaches. We conclude by offering some guidelines that can be used to design ecologically valid cognitive neuroscience studies of memory and event cognition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141988416","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}

{"title":"Cortical activation among young adults during mobility in an indoor real-world environment: A mobile EEG approach","authors":"Samantha Marshall ,&nbsp;Gianna Jeyarajan ,&nbsp;Nicholas Hayhow ,&nbsp;Raphael Gabiazon ,&nbsp;Tia Seleem ,&nbsp;Mathew R. Hammerstrom ,&nbsp;Olav Krigolson ,&nbsp;Lindsay S. Nagamatsu","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108971","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108971","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Human mobility requires neurocognitive inputs to safely navigate the environment. Previous research has examined neural processes that underly walking using mobile neuroimaging technologies, yet few studies have incorporated true real-world methods without a specific task imposed on participants (e.g., dual-task, motor demands). The present study included 40 young adults (M = 22.60, SD = 2.63, 24 female) and utilized mobile electroencephalography (EEG) to examine and compare theta, alpha, and beta frequency band power (μV²) during sitting and walking in laboratory and real-world environments. EEG data was recorded using the Muse S brain sensing headband, a portable system equipped with four electrodes (two frontal, two temporal) and one reference sensor. Qualitative data detailing the thoughts of each participant were collected after each condition. For the quantitative data, a 2 × 2 repeated measures ANOVA with within subject factors of environment and mobility was conducted with full participant datasets (n = 17, M = 22.59, SD = 2.97, 10 female). Thematic analysis was performed on the qualitative data (n = 40). Our findings support that mobility and environment may modulate neural activity, as we observed increased brain activation for walking compared to sitting, and for real-world walking compared to laboratory walking. We identified five qualitative themes across the four conditions 1) physical sensations and bodily awareness, 2) responsibilities and planning, 3) environmental awareness, 4) mobility, and 5) spotlight effect. Our study highlights the importance and potential for real-world methods to supplement standard research practices to increase the ecological validity of studies conducted in the fields of neuroscience and kinesiology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224001866/pdfft?md5=052c8c274ece1da0e2ed9f714016175e&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224001866-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141917147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prioritization of social information processing: Eye gaze elicits earlier vMMN than arrows","authors":"Yijie Huang,&nbsp;Wenyi Shen,&nbsp;Shimin Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108969","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108969","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Numerous research studies have demonstrated that eye gaze and arrows act as cues that automatically guide spatial attention. However, it remains uncertain whether the attention shifts triggered by these two types of stimuli vary in terms of automatic processing mechanisms. In our current investigation, we employed an equal probability paradigm to explore the likenesses and distinctions in the neural mechanisms of automatic processing for eye gaze and arrows in non-attentive conditions, using visual mismatch negative (vMMN) as an indicator of automatic processing. The sample size comprised 17 participants. The results indicated a significant interaction between time duration, stimulus material, and stimulus type. The findings demonstrated that both eye gaze and arrows were processed automatically, triggering an early vMMN, although with temporal variations. The vMMN for eye gaze occurred between 180 and 220 ms, whereas for arrows it ranged from 235 to 275 ms. Moreover, arrow stimuli produced a more pronounced vMMN amplitude. The earlier vMMN response to eye gaze compared with arrows implies the specificity and precedence of social information processing associated with eye gaze over the processing of nonsocial information with arrows. However, arrow could potentially elicit a stronger vMMN because of their heightened salience compared to the background, and the expansion of attention focusing might amplify the vMMN impact. This study offers insights into the similarities and differences in attention processing of social and non-social information under unattended conditions from the perspective of automatic processing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141913412","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}