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{"title":"Abnormal electrical brain responses to time deviance in beat deafness","authors":"Véronique Martel ,&nbsp;Isabelle Peretz","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109060","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109060","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Humans have the spontaneous capacity to track the beat of music. Yet some individuals show marked difficulties. To investigate the neural correlates of this condition known as beat deafness, the cortical electric activity of ten beat-deaf adults, the largest cohort studied so far, as well as of 14 matched controls (Experiment 2), and 16 university students (Experiment 1) were examined. All were actively engaged in detecting anisochronous time-deviants in otherwise isochronous, metronome-like, sequences. As expected, participants with beat-deafness performed more poorly than controls; this behavioral impairment was accompanied by a reduced P300 component at the neurophysiological level, yet with intact N200. Additionally, the MMN following task-irrelevant intensity-deviants was not different between groups. Together the results suggest normal auditory predictions regarding upcoming tones but unreliable access to its representations. These results mirror the findings with pitch deviants in the pitch-based form of congenital amusia and provide a similar neural signature of the disorder on the pitch and time dimension.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"207 ","pages":"Article 109060"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792150","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":"Tennis experience impacts time estimation within different timing processes: An ERP study","authors":"Hongjie Tang ,&nbsp;Zhongqi Zhao ,&nbsp;Liyue Lin ,&nbsp;Shuying Chen ,&nbsp;Huixin Han ,&nbsp;Xinhong Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109059","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Elite tennis players demonstrate an outstanding ability to predict the timing of their shots during matches, especially during prolonged rallies. Exploring the characteristics of this temporal perception advantage and its cognitive processing mechanisms may help explain the influence of sports experience on temporal perception abilities. We recruited 28 tennis athletes and 28 controls with no sports experience and measured their behavioral performance and brain neural activity characteristics using a time-to-contact paradigm under different temporal context conditions. The results indicated that in the time estimation task, tennis athletes had significantly smaller absolute bias and lower delayed response ratios than non-athlete controls. Performance of both groups in the timing task without a beat context was significantly better than that with a rhythmic context. During the timing process, the amplitude of the contingent negative variation (CNV) was most closely associated with the processing of temporal information, where tennis athletes were significantly greater than that of non-athletes. The CNV amplitude induced in the left brain area was significantly smaller than that in the midline brain area and the right brain area. Overall, we found that tennis players showed a distinct advantage in timing accuracy, characterized by earlier prediction preparation and higher utilization of temporal information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"207 ","pages":"Article 109059"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786194","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":"Semantic memory space becomes denser with age","authors":"Rebecca A. Cutler,&nbsp;Soroush Mirjalili,&nbsp;Priscilla Pham,&nbsp;Hita Devulapalli,&nbsp;Sabuhee Zafar,&nbsp;Audrey Duarte","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Semantic memory, a repository for concepts and factual information, plays a vital role in acquiring and retrieving knowledge. This study explores the impact of age-related knowledge accumulation on semantic cognition, investigating whether a denser representational space affects retrieval processes. Using a semantic feature verification task, we employ both behavioral (reaction time; RT) and neurophysiological (event-related potential; ERP) measures to explore these dynamics across young and older adults. Findings revealed an age-related RT difference in retrieval of semantically incongruent features, indicative of increased semantic search demands with age. ERP results show attenuated N400 responses in older adults for congruent features, possibly reflecting increased semantic relatedness. The late frontal effect (LFE) shows sustained modulation in older adults, indicative of enhanced post-retrieval monitoring. We propose that this extended search through semantic memory reflects an increase in the number of features to evaluate. These results support the idea that aging leads to a more densely packed semantic space, impacting the speed and dynamics of semantic retrieval.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 109083"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143040627","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":"Prospective memory performance and its resting-state functional connectivity correlates in individuals with memory complaints","authors":"Gulcan Ozturk ,&nbsp;Emre Hari ,&nbsp;Kardelen Yildirim ,&nbsp;Ali Bayram ,&nbsp;Zerrin Yildirim ,&nbsp;Tamer Demiralp ,&nbsp;Hakan Gurvit","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aimed to investigate prospective memory (PM) in patients with memory complaints but without dementia (PWD) and correlate findings with resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) alterations. We hypothesized that PM impairment would be evident at a certain relatively early point in the continuum and specific rsFC patterns would be the neuroimaging signature of this impairment.</div><div>Sixty PWD participated in the study. The Memory Screening Test for Intentions and the Virtual Week were used to assess PM. Using the participants' PM scores as a regressor, the rsFC for PM was analyzed by Network-Based Statistics (NBS). Participants were divided into high and low PM groups (HPMG, LPMG) according to their PM scores and then their neuropsychological scores, rsFC patterns, and CSF biomarker levels were compared. The effect of education on the relationship between connectivity and CSF Aβ₄₂ level was examined by moderation analysis.</div><div>Compared with HPMG, LPMG was impaired in both event- and time-based PM tasks, but the difference was more distinct in the event-based ones. While HPMG was more successful in event-based tasks than time-based ones, LPMG was not. As a result of NBS analysis, the middle frontal gyrus (MFG), supramarginal gyrus (SMG), and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) were determined as central seeds. The HPMG's performance and connectivity were higher for most comparisons but had lower CSF Aβ₄₂ than LPMG and therefore was closer to the positivity threshold. When the education level was at the mean and above, there was a negative correlation between CSF Aβ₄₂ level and overall connectivity.</div><div>The connectivities of MFG, SMG, and ACC play an important role in PM performance in the PWD. In more advanced PM impairment, the impairment of spontaneous processes is more prominent. At the onset of amyloidosis, the cognitive reserve may compensate for cognitive impairment by increasing connectivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 109082"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143040628","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":"Instruction-induced modulation of the visual stream during gesture observation","authors":"Barbara Tomasino ,&nbsp;Cinzia Canderan ,&nbsp;Raffaella I. Rumiati","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109078","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although gesture observation tasks are believed to invariably activate the action-observation network (AON), we investigated whether the activation of different cognitive mechanisms when processing identical stimuli with different explicit instructions modulates AON activations. Accordingly, 24 healthy right-handed individuals observed gestures and they processed both the actor's moved hand (hand laterality judgment task, HT) and the meaning of the actor's gesture (meaning task, MT). The main brain-level result was that the HT (vs MT) differentially activated the left and right precuneus, the left inferior parietal lobe, the left and right superior parietal lobe, the middle frontal gyri bilaterally and the left precentral gyrus. MT (vs HT) differentially activated the left and right calcarine cortex, the fusiform gyrus bilaterally, the left inferior temporal gyrus, the left and right hippocampus and parahippocampal gyri, and the temporal pole bilaterally. Processing the actor's moving hand modulates the dorsal action observation network (while processing gesture meaning modulates the ventral object recognition stream). The present results suggest instruction-induced modulation on the visual stream during gesture observation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 109078"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143029237","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":"Temporal neural dynamics of the competition between extrinsic and intrinsic grouping principles in vision: An ERP study","authors":"Pedro R. Montoro ,&nbsp;Cristina Villalba-García ,&nbsp;Jacobo Albert ,&nbsp;Antonio Prieto ,&nbsp;José A. Hinojosa","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous research has explored the brain correlates of perceptual grouping but, to our knowledge, no preceding study has investigated the neural dynamics of the competition between intrinsic and extrinsic grouping principles in vision. The present event-related potentials (ERPs) study aimed at characterizing the temporal neural dynamics of the direct competition between extrinsic (i.e., common region) and intrinsic (i.e., shape similarity) grouping cues. In separated blocks, participants selectively attended and responded to perceptual clusters based on one of the two grouping cues pitted against each other in a competing condition, which was compared to a uniform, non-grouped condition. Behavioural results indicated larger interference effect of common region over shape similarity cues when both grouping principles competed against each other, supporting a processing dominance of common region. Applying a temporo-spatial principal component analysis (PCA), our ERP data showed four main neural correlates related to perceptual grouping and competition between grouping cues: (1) an enhanced central-posterior N195 associated with perceptual dominance of common region cues during the visual analysis of perceptual grouping; (2) an enhanced posterior P245 presumably reflecting higher confidence in perceptual decisions linked to common region grouping; (3) a posterior P400 possibly indexing the differential allocation of attentional resources related to higher processing efficiency of common region cues; and (4) a P550 that seems to be related to top-down suppression activity for the termination of the current trial.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 109081"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143029239","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":"Impact of immersive virtual reality compared to a digital static approach in word (re)learning in post-stroke aphasia and neurotypical adults: Lexical-semantic effects?","authors":"Julie Franco ,&nbsp;Bertrand Glize ,&nbsp;Marina Laganaro","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Word production difficulty is one of the most common and persisting symptoms in people suffering from aphasia (i.e., anomia). However, there is a considerable variability in patients’ responses to treatment, leading to the need of new effective approaches. Also, the mechanisms underlying word (re)learning is little known in production even in neurotypical adult native language and especially in relationship with the lexical-semantic integration of (re)learnt words. The lexical-semantic network being highly contextual and multimodal, new technologies such as immersive virtual reality (iVR) may become pertinent approaches, but still need scientific proof, especially as past studies have found no advantage over a control method and have never used an immersive version of VR. Yet, the immersion has been identified as being a key factor of positive outcomes in learning. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate whether iVR provides a benefit in word learning in neurotypical adults (Study 1) and in the treatment for anomia in people suffering from aphasia following stroke (Study 2).</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>In study 1, 32 neurotypical adults learned two matched lists of 30 rare words each in their native language (French) during a one-week protocol alternating test and learning sessions with iVR and a digital static learning method. Study 2 followed the same design over a two week-period with 16 people with aphasia (re)learning two matched lists of 28 frequent words.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Neurotypical adults demonstrated a higher accuracy rate in word production for words learned with iVR in comparison to those learned with the digital static learning method. For people suffering from anomia, the iVR did not differ from the control method on total accuracy but led to a greater reduction of lexical errors.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>iVR has a potential of use for learning new words but also for the treatment of word production difficulties, especially in people with aphasia that produce mainly lexical errors. These two main results lead to the hypothesis that iVR promotes lexical-semantic processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 109069"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143024196","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":"Memory's forgotten process: What happened to the man on the bus?","authors":"Matthias G. Tholen ,&nbsp;Matthias Schurz ,&nbsp;Markus Aichhorn ,&nbsp;Anna Martin ,&nbsp;Andreas K. Kaiser ,&nbsp;Josef Perner","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Neuroscience has examined the brain processes of recognizing and identifying a known person. But the process of integrating the representation of a temporarily unrecognised person with the representation of the familiar person is not yet known (e.g., as in Mandler's <em>butcher on the bus</em>). This process is one of identification; the stranger (<em>man on the bus</em>) has to be seen as identical to the old acquaintance (<em>butcher from the supermarket</em>). Our fMRI experiment contrasts this case of belated recognition with immediate recognition. The results show stronger activation of left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) and the left anterior temporal lobe (ATL) for identification over pure recognition. The data are discussed under the mental files framework providing an important extension to current person recognition paradigms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 109080"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143008851","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":"Causal evidence for increased theta and gamma phase consistency in a parieto-frontal network during the maintenance of visual attention","authors":"Claire Bradley ,&nbsp;Emily McCann ,&nbsp;Abbey S. Nydam ,&nbsp;Paul E. Dux ,&nbsp;Jason B. Mattingley","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Endogenous visuo-spatial attention is under the control of a fronto-parietal network of brain regions. One key node in this network, the intra-parietal sulcus (IPS), plays a crucial role in maintaining endogenous attention, but little is known about its ongoing physiology and network dynamics during different attentional states. Here, we investigated the reactivity of the left IPS in response to brain stimulation under different states of selective attention. We recorded electroencephalography (EEG) in response to single pulses of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the IPS, while participants (N = 44) viewed bilateral random-dot motion displays. Individual MRI-guided TMS pulses targeted the left IPS, while the left primary somatosensory cortex (S1) served as an active control site. In separate blocks of trials, participants were cued to attend covertly to the motion display in one hemifield (left or right) and to report brief coherent motion targets. The perceptual load of the task was manipulated by varying the degree of motion coherence of the targets. Excitability, variability and information content of the neural responses to TMS were assessed by analysing TMS-evoked potential (TEP) amplitude and inter-trial phase clustering (ITPC), and by performing multivariate decoding of attentional state. Results revealed that a left posterior region displayed reduced variability in the phase of theta and gamma oscillations following TMS of the IPS, but not of S1, when attention was directed contralaterally, rather than ipsilaterally to the stimulation site. A right frontal cluster also displayed reduced theta variability and increased amplitude of TEPs when attention was directed contralaterally rather than ipsilaterally, after TMS of the IPS but not S1. Reliable decoding of attentional state was achieved after TMS pulses of both S1 and IPS. Taken together, our findings suggest that endogenous control of visuo-spatial attention leads to changes in the intrinsic oscillatory properties of the IPS and its associated fronto-parietal network.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 109079"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143008850","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":"Attentional, anticipatory and spatial cognition fluctuate throughout the menstrual cycle: Potential implications for female sport.","authors":"F Ronca, J M Blodgett, G Bruinvels, M Lowery, M Raviraj, G Sandhar, N Symeonides, C Jones, M Loosemore, P W Burgess","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108909","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Current research suggests that menstruating female athletes might be at greater risk of musculoskeletal injury in relation to hormonal changes throughout the menstrual cycle. A separate body of work suggests that spatial cognition might also fluctuate in a similar manner. Changes in spatial cognition could, in theory, be a contributing risk factor for injury, especially in fast-paced sports that require precise, millisecond accuracy in interactions with moving objects in the environment. However, existing theories surrounding causes for increased injury risk in menstruating females largely focus on biomechanical mechanisms, with little consideration of possible cognitive determinants of injury risk. Therefore, the aim of this proof-of-principle study was to explore whether menstruating females exhibit fluctuations in cognitive processes throughout their cycle on a novel sport-oriented cognitive test battery, designed to measure some of the mental processes putatively involved in these sporting situations. A total of 394 participants completed an online cognitive battery, a mood scale and a symptom questionnaire twice, 14 days apart. After exclusions, 248 eligible participants were included in the analyses (mean: 28 ± 6 years) (male = 96, female(menstruating) = 105, female(contraception) = 47). Cycle phase for menstruating females was based on self-reported information. The cognitive battery was designed to measure reaction times, attention, visuospatial functions (including 3D mental rotation) and timing anticipation. Three composite scores were generated using factor analysis with varimax rotation (Errors, Reaction Time, Intra-Individual Variability). Mixed model ANOVAs and repeated measures ANOVAs were performed to test for between and within-subject effects. There was no group difference in reaction times and accuracy between males and females (using contraception and not). However, within subject analyses revealed that regularly menstruating females performed better during menstruation compared to being in any other phase, with faster reaction times (10ms c.ca, p &lt; 0.01), fewer errors (p &lt; 0.05) and lower dispersion intra-individual variability (p &lt; 0.05). In contrast they exhibited slower reaction times (10ms c.ca, p &lt; 0.01) and poorer timing anticipation (p &lt; 0.01) in the luteal phase, and more errors in the predicted ovulatory phase (p &lt; 0.01). Self-reported mood, cognitive and physical symptoms were all worst during menstruation (p &lt; 0.01), and a significant proportion of females felt that their symptoms were negatively affecting their cognitive performance during menstruation on testing day, which was incongruent with their actual performance. These findings suggest that visuospatial and anticipatory processes may fluctuate throughout the menstrual cycle in the general population, with better performance during the menstrual phase and poorer performance during the luteal phase. If these extend to associations between phase-specific","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":" ","pages":"108909"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140958612","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}