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{"title":"Remembering the past affects new learning: The temporal dynamics of integrative encoding","authors":"Inês Bramão,&nbsp;Zhenghao Liu,&nbsp;Mikael Johansson","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Memories link elements across event boundaries, integrating overlapping content experienced at different times and places. Such memory representations are thought to rely on memory integration mechanisms. The present study used multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) of electroencephalographic (EEG) data to elucidate the temporal dynamics of integrative encoding memory processes. Memory integration was investigated with the associative inference task. Participants learned overlapping paired associates, AB and BC pairs, comprising a word and a picture (a face or a bird) and were later tested on the AC inferred associations. MVPA was used to measure the online reactivation of previously learned AB memories while encoding overlapping but new BC events. Reliable AB reactivation was observed approximately 1500 ms after the onset of the BC event. Participants (n = 29) were divided into two groups according to their AC performance: high and low memory integration. Interestingly, while both groups showed comparable levels of AB reactivation, the reactivation effects were associated with different behavioral consequences. For participants in the high memory-integration group, reactivation was predictive of later AC performance, suggesting that an integrated ABC representation was formed during BC learning. Conversely, for participants in the low memory-integration group, the reactivation of AB was negatively correlated with BC performance, indicating that reactivation of overlapping memories impaired new learning. The present study extends previous literature by revealing the temporal dynamics of the integrative encoding mechanisms and by providing an account of inter-individual differences in the capacity to integrate memories across distinct episodes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 109148"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828576","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":"A holistic focus on the psychophysiology of reinvestment: A systematic review on reinvestment-related neural, cardiac vagal and oculomotor activity","authors":"Patricia Grove ,&nbsp;Rich S.W. Masters ,&nbsp;Markus Raab ,&nbsp;Lisa Musculus ,&nbsp;Sylvain Laborde","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109139","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109139","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Reinvestment is a psychological phenomenon during which people consciously engage in controlling their movements (i.e., movement-specific reinvestment) or decision making (i.e., decision-specific reinvestment). This can result in performance deterioration and can have detrimental consequences for individuals in various sports.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This systematic review aimed to identify psychophysiological correlates of reinvestment to tackle the need for more objective measurements of reinvestment and to develop interventions to counteract performance-related decrements in the future. Considering brain, parasympathetic and oculomotor activity, jointly adds a holistic perspective on mechanisms underlying reinvestment.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We conducted a systematic literature search using the PRISMA guidelines in three electronic databases (Pubmed, Web of Science and SportDiscus) on 20^th of November 2024. The included studies assessed reinvestment together with psychophysiological parameters. The risk of bias of the included studies was assessed by the authors using \"The Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for Analytical Cross Sectional Studies” (Moola et al., 2020).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of <em>N</em> = 21 studies containing a total of 791 participants were included. Of these, twelve studies considered brain activity, five considered parasympathetic cardiac activity, and two considered heart rate. Finally, two studies considered gaze behavior.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The findings indicate potential relationships between reinvestment and the considered psychophysiological parameters, but methods and findings appear heterogeneous in terms of task variability, population groups, and study design. To be able to draw more accurate conclusions, more systematic research programs are required to move towards a better holistic understanding of the psychophysiological correlates of reinvestment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 109139"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143974684","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":"Early cortical processing of coherent vs. non-coherent motion stimuli in younger and older adults: An event-related potential (ERP) study investigating visually induced vection","authors":"Brandy Murovec ,&nbsp;Stefan Berti ,&nbsp;Susan Yahya ,&nbsp;Julia Spaniol ,&nbsp;Behrang Keshavarz","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The neurophysiological basis of vection (i.e., the illusion of self-motion) is not well understood. Preliminary evidence suggests that neural predictors of vection can be identified through event-related potentials (ERPs) and that these markers may correlate with vection intensity. The current study examined age-related differences in neurocortical activity during the early stages of sensory processing of vection-inducing stimuli. Twenty-two younger (age range: 20–35 years) and 25 older adults (age range: 65–83) observed optokinetic stimuli in two blocks, a short (∼3s) presentation block and a long (35s) presentation block. In both types of blocks, the optokinetic stimuli varied in motion coherence (coherent vs. non-coherent motion). During the short presentation block, EEG was used to measure neural activity in the form of ERPs time-locked to the onset of visual motion, whereas subjective ratings of vection intensity, duration, and onset latency were collected during the long presentation block. Vection was significantly stronger following coherent vs. non-coherent motion for both age groups. ERP analyses revealed differences between coherent and non-coherent motion at parietal-occipital electrodes around 100–150 ms (P1) and 150–230 ms (P2), with greater area under the curve (AUC) during non-coherent vs. coherent motion. Neither vection ratings nor ERPs showed significant age differences for coherent visual motion; however, age differences in ERPs were observed during the processing of non-coherent visual motion. These findings indicate that the subjective experience of vection and the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying visual processing preceding vection remain relatively stable with age. However, they also reveal age-related differences in the processing of non-coherent motion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 109140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828579","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":"The relationship between executive functions and the perspective-taking skill of theory of mind: Insights from deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants","authors":"Mario Figueroa ,&nbsp;Sònia Darbra ,&nbsp;Gary Morgan","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous research in hearing children has consistently found theory of mind (ToM) is positively associated with executive functions (EF). However, this question has been far less examined in deaf and hard of hearing children (DHH) with cochlear implants. This may be because of the heterogeneity of developmental contexts and especially related to language that DHH children experience. The purpose of the study was to explore developmental differences in the perspective-taking skill of ToM and EF by using cluster analysis to compare groups of DHH adolescents who are CI users with typically developing hearing adolescents, aiming to identify subgroups with similar cognitive and processing profiles. Participants were 88 adolescents (12–16 years old) of which 34 were DHH with cochlear implants. The results showed that in the hearing group EF scores correlated positively with perspective-taking performance but not in the DHH group. The analysis of the hearing children's results revealed there were three clusters based on clear performance levels. In the DHH group, there was much variability and more complex relationships between both abilities. We conclude that DHH children's variable experience with early communication and access to language disrupts the typical coupling of ToM and EF.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 109141"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143825558","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":"Impaired neural discrimination of regular words from pseudowords in dyslexic adults as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation","authors":"Aliette Lochy ,&nbsp;Emilie Collette ,&nbsp;Bruno Rossion ,&nbsp;Christine Schiltz","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We used Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation with EEG recordings to assess the sensitivity of adults with dyslexia to fine-grained psycholinguistic variations of letter strings: lexicality and orthographic regularity. Dyslexic and non-dyslexic university students watched 60-s streams of stimuli presented at 10 Hz with deviant items (words) inserted periodically (1/8, at 1.25 Hz). While there was no overall difference in neural response between groups at the base stimulation frequency (10 Hz), individuals with dyslexia showed significantly reduced 1.25 Hz discrimination response for regular and irregular words among pseudowords (lexicality) over the left occipito-temporal cortex. Interestingly, while dyslexic individuals had significant weaker responses for irregular words than normal readers, they did not show any discrimination response for regular words within streams of pseudowords. However, they displayed responses to regularity changes within streams of words, that were not significantly below typical readers’. Overall, these observations suggest that lexical processes are not automatically triggered in dyslexia when a decoding strategy is enhanced by context (i.e., pseudowords) but may be at work when the overall activation of the lexicon is high (i.e., words). The results also show the diagnostic value of the FPVS-EEG approach to determine and characterize reading impairments rapidly, objectively and implicitly.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 109137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143803845","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":"Distribution of attention in three-dimensional space","authors":"Noah Britt ,&nbsp;Hanna Haponenko ,&nbsp;Brett A. Cochrane ,&nbsp;Bruce Milliken ,&nbsp;Hong-jin Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109138","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109138","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The distribution of spatial attention has mostly been studied for visual events presented within a two-dimensional space. In this study, we examined the distribution of spatial attention in a three-dimensional space (i.e., across the z-axis). Much previous research suggests that attention is universally biased toward stimuli appearing in near space compared to far space. However, the results of some studies suggest this ‘near advantage’ is task-specific, with some tasks instead producing an attention bias toward stimuli in far space. The current study investigated whether two tasks that differ in attentional priorities (i.e., target localization vs target discrimination) differentially bias attention across near and far depth. Across three experiments, we compared target localization and target discrimination tasks when a single target appeared as the stimulus (Experiment 1) and then, for a cue-target task, compared target localization (Experiment 2A) and target discrimination tasks (Experiment 2B). Our results support the proposal that the near advantage is task-specific. For target localization, reaction times (RTs) were shorter for near-targets than for far-targets, however, for target discrimination, RTs were shorter for far-targets than for near-targets. This result was revealed in both uncued and cue-target paradigms. The cue-target paradigm also showed that relative to same-depth conditions, the cueing effect pointed to greater facilitation when orienting attention from far-to-near space for target localization but from near-to-far space for target discrimination. These findings argue against a universal near advantage. Overall, the results were consistent with the notion that different task demands can differentially bias the distribution of attention across near and far depth, a proposal that has implications for the potential involvement of the dorsal and ventral visual processing streams.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 109138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143786239","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":"Increase of phonological errors in dual-task conditions in patients with aphasia and neurotypical individuals: Impact of the verbal nature of the concurrent task","authors":"Cyrielle Demierre ,&nbsp;Bertrand Glize ,&nbsp;Marina Laganaro","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Speaking is affected under dual-task conditions and studies have shown an impact on lexical and on phonological processes even in single word production. In the present study, we aimed at investigating if dual-task interference on lexical and phonological encoding is modulated by the linguistic nature of the concurrent task and in particular to determine whether the increase of phonological errors observed in previous studies using auditory syllables as concurrent stimuli is due to the phonological overlap between the tasks.</div><div>Patients with aphasia (PWA, Experiment 1) and neurotypical individuals (Experiment 2) underwent a picture naming task and an auditory detection task of non-verbal sounds of daily life under single and dual-task conditions with different stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs), namely +150 and + 300 ms, likely targeting lexical processes and phonological encoding. In both groups, naming latencies were slower under dual-task conditions at each SOA and in PWA, phonological errors increased with sounds of daily life presented at SOA +300. The results on errors replicate what was observed previously in studies using syllables as concurrent auditory stimuli in PWA. To investigate whether the increase of errors is larger with syllables relative to non-verbal sounds independent of the clinical condition, another neurotypical group performed a dual-task paradigm with syllables as concurrent auditory stimuli (Experiment 3).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>showed an increase of phonological errors at late SOA also in neurotypical participants, thus confirming the impact of concurrent syllables on phonological errors independently of the population.</div><div>The results indicate that non-verbal auditory stimuli in the concurrent task impact phonological errors, although to a lesser extent than syllables, suggesting that the increase of errors in previous studies cannot be entirely attributed to the phonological overlap between the tasks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"211 ","pages":"Article 109136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143738158","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":"A dual-site HD-tDCS of the left inferior frontal gyrus and inferior parietal lobe modulates picture-word naming performance in healthy individuals","authors":"Mingjing Bao,&nbsp;Bin Xuan","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The selection of appropriate lexical entries constitutes a crucial stage in the process of speech production. The theories of lexical choice competition and the hypothesis of response exclusion both propose that inhibitory control might play a significant role in handling cognitive conflicts arising from lexical selection. Previous studies have utilized transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to enhance speech function in individuals by primarily targeting stimulation on the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). However, the effects of this intervention have been inconsistent in healthy individuals. In this study, we apply tDCS successively to both the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) of healthy individuals, along with picture naming training. We aim to investigate the potential enhancement of word production performance in healthy individuals through a combined intervention targeting verbal functioning and inhibitory control. The experimental findings indicated that speech training in isolation did not have a significant impact on picture-word interference performance. Furthermore, it was observed that speech training in healthy individuals only showed an effect when combined with stimulation of two specific brain regions. However, this effect varied depending on the type of interfering word. The findings of this study support the lexical selection and generation require the involvement of inhibitory control, and provide an analysis of the phenomenon of unstable effects of tDCS applied to left IFG in healthy individuals. Additionally, new insights are provided for the clinical application of tDCS in treating speech dysfunction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"211 ","pages":"Article 109135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143704674","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":"Prosodic intonation modulates semantic incongruence: Evidence from an electrophysiological study","authors":"Jing Wang ,&nbsp;Zhongting Chen ,&nbsp;Hailun Liu ,&nbsp;Ciping Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109134","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109134","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People always make semantic predictions based on preceding contexts which, however, can be beyond semantic information. This study examines the role of prosodic intonation as a non-semantic cue in semantic prediction. To compare effects of different intonation conditions on attenuating semantic incongruence between preceding contexts and target utterances, we recorded electroencephalogram when the participants listened to emotional utterances with congruent or incongruent endings and focused on two event-related potential components, N400 and P600, which relate to semantic and pragmatic processing, respectively. Interestingly, we observed that surprising intonation can mitigate the N400 in response to semantic incongruence, and this modulation was strongly correlated (r = 0.78) with the increase of P600 amplitude induced by the same intonation across individual participants. These findings consistently indicate the importance of prosodic intonation in promoting semantic prediction by lessening listeners’ perceived semantic incongruence, broadening our understanding of how non-semantic cues affect human verbal communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"211 ","pages":"Article 109134"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143692741","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":"Where creativity meets aesthetics: The Mirror Model of Art revisited with fMRI","authors":"Oshin Vartanian ,&nbsp;Delaram Farzanfar ,&nbsp;Dirk B. Walther ,&nbsp;Pablo P. L. Tinio","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How meaning is conveyed from creator to observer is debated in the psychology of art. The <em>Mirror Model of Art</em> represents a theoretical framework for bridging the psychological processes that underpin creative production and aesthetic appreciation of art. Specifically, it postulates that creating art and having an aesthetic experience are “mirrored” processes such that the early stage of aesthetic appreciation corresponds to the late stage of creative production, and conversely, that the late stage of aesthetic appreciation corresponds to the early stage of creative production. We conducted a meta-analysis of fMRI studies in the visual domain to test this hypothesis. Our results reveal that creative production engages the prefrontal cortex, which we attribute to its role in idea generation, whereas aesthetic appreciation engages the visual cortex, anterior insula, parahippocampal gyrus, the fusiform gyrus, and the frontal lobes, regions involved primarily in sensory, perceptual, reward and mnemonic processing. Their direct comparison revealed that creative production was associated with greater activation in the prefrontal cortex, whereas aesthetic appreciation was associated with greater activation in the visual cortex. This meta-analysis largely supports predictions derived from the <em>Mirror Model of Art</em>, by providing a snapshot of neural activity in the relatively early stages in art creators' and observers’ minds. Future studies that capture brain function across longer spans of time are needed to understand the expression of creativity and aesthetic appreciation in different stages of information processing in relation to the <em>Mirror Model of Art</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 109127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143692782","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}