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The interaction effect between gain–loss framing and monetary amount on moral decision-making: evidence from behavioral and ERPs studies 得失框架和货币金额对道德决策的交互作用：来自行为学和erp研究的证据

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109240

Yanzhen Lv , Cong Fan , Maorui Kou , Jiayi Sun , Dongxin Liu , Weiqi He , Wenbo Luo

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No support for an effect of a daytime nap on the consolidation or generalization of fear learning 没有证据支持白天小睡对恐惧学习的巩固或概括的影响。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109241

Per Davidson , Sandry M. Garcia , Dan Denis , Elizabeth A. Kensinger , Edward F. Pace-Schott

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Neuroaesthetics of the psychedelic state 迷幻状态的神经美学

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109238

Jake Hooper , Devon Stoliker , Kyle Wolfe , Kent Hutchison

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An objective neural measure of the effect of wearing facemasks on single-glance human face identity recognition 戴口罩对单目人脸识别效果的客观神经测量

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109239

P.J.N. Thomas , J. David , B. Rossion , S. Caharel

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Behavioral investigation of allocentric and egocentric cognitive maps in human spatial memory 人类空间记忆中异中心和自我中心认知图的行为研究。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109230

Laura Nett , Tim A. Guth , Philipp K. Büchel , Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana , Lukas Kunz

{"title":"Behavioral investigation of allocentric and egocentric cognitive maps in human spatial memory","authors":"Laura Nett , Tim A. Guth , Philipp K. Büchel , Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana , Lukas Kunz","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spatial memory is a fundamental cognitive function that enables humans and other species to encode and recall the locations of items in their environments. Humans employ diverse strategies to support spatial memory, including the use of cognitive maps. Cognitive maps are mental representations of the environment that organize its content along two or more continuous dimensions. In allocentric cognitive maps, these dimensions form a Cartesian coordinate system referenced to the environment. In egocentric cognitive maps, the dimensions form a polar coordinate system centered on the subject. To better understand how humans employ allocentric and egocentric cognitive maps for spatial memory, we performed a behavioral study with a novel task designed to directly and explicitly assess both types of cognitive maps. During encoding periods, participants navigated through a virtual environment and encountered objects at different locations. During recall periods, participants aimed at remembering these locations in abstract allocentric and egocentric coordinate systems. Our results show that relationships between the objects and the environment, such as their distance to boundaries and corners, were associated with allocentric memory performance. Relationships between the objects and the participant, including their distance and orientation to the participant’s starting position, were linked to egocentric memory performance. Spatial feedback during recall supported performance within allocentric and egocentric domains, but not across domains. These findings are compatible with the notion that allocentric and egocentric cognitive maps operate as (partially) independent systems for spatial memory, each specialized in processing specific types of spatial relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 109230"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144732381","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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Illusory finger stretching and somatosensory responses 幻指伸展与体感反应。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109243

Kirralise J. Hansford , Daniel H. Baker , Kirsten J. McKenzie , Catherine E.J. Preston

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Does sleep change the emotional bias in memory in older adults? 睡眠是否会改变老年人记忆中的情绪偏见？

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109237

Katrina G. Rodheim , Bethany J. Jones , Penelope R. Hollister , Morgan F. Vane , Rebecca M.C. Spencer

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Brain activities associated with two-handed interactive movement during different motor forms 在不同的运动形式中，与双手互动运动相关的大脑活动

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109235

Lingrong Jia , Ming Tang , Chengyu Li , Linzhi Yang , Jiahui Han

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Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences 通过在快速眼动睡眠期间策略性地呈现声音来重新激活清醒的体验来研究梦境。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109229

Karen R. Konkoly , Daniel J. Morris , Matthew Cho , Kaitlyn Hurka , Susana G. Torres-Platas , Lourdes Baehr , Ken A. Paller

{"title":"Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences","authors":"Karen R. Konkoly , Daniel J. Morris , Matthew Cho , Kaitlyn Hurka , Susana G. Torres-Platas , Lourdes Baehr , Ken A. Paller","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109229","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109229","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dreams may partially reflect the memory reorganizing that occurs nightly, improving the usefulness of what we learn each day. However, solid evidence has yet to link dreaming with adaptive overnight memory reorganization. Establishing this link faces several challenges, including the difficulty of experimentally controlling dream content and the susceptibility of dream reports to distortion and forgetting upon awakening. Fortunately, memory consolidation can be systematically manipulated using Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR), whereby sensory stimulation during sleep can influence previously acquired memories, often reducing forgetting. Stimuli presented during sleep can also be incorporated into dreams, but the extent to which reactivating memories with TMR can influence dream content is still unclear. In the present study, we enlisted TMR to strategically influence dreams. In the evening, participants performed two distinct tasks designed to be readily incorporated into dreams, each associated with a unique sound. The associations between the two tasks and the two (counterbalanced) sounds were further reinforced in a conditioning phase just prior to sleep. The experimenter then presented one of the two sounds when participants were in REM sleep. Dream reports revealed more incorporation of task elements from the cued task than from the uncued task, though incorporation was high for both tasks. Furthermore, dreaming of a task was linked with decreased negative valence and increased creativity. We conclude that this approach to dream curation provides a promising way to investigate the influence of dreaming on memory storage and other cognitive functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 109229"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659716","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 ventromedial prefrontal cortex and intention representation in prospective memory 前瞻记忆的腹内侧前额叶皮层与意向表征。

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Neuropsychologia Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109220

Victoria Liu , Sharon Uretzky , Asaf Gilboa

{"title":"The ventromedial prefrontal cortex and intention representation in prospective memory","authors":"Victoria Liu , Sharon Uretzky , Asaf Gilboa","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109220","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109220","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prospective memory (PM) consists of (i) a retrospective component, i.e. memory for the intentions and for the cues that should trigger an action, and (ii) a prospective component of monitoring and identifying these cues and the timely execution of the action. Here, we tested patients with damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC; N = 5) and matched controls (N = 12) for (i) the presence of an intention superiority effect (ISE) indexing prieviliged processing of memories associated with intended actions (retrospective PM) and (ii) the cognitive cost that monitoring for a prospective cue exerts on performing an ongoing task (prospective PM). We found that control participants showed a clear ISE, which was absent in patients as a group, and individually absent in 4 out of the 5 patients whose lesions encroached on posterior vmPFC. A patient with more anterior mPFC damage had normal ISE. Conversely, all patients showed normal reaction time cost for an ongoing task when a prospective task was added, if the prospective cue was aligned with the ongoing task focus of attention. When prospective cues were outside the focus of attention of the ongoing task, one patient with additional damage to the Caudate Nucleus failed the PM task completely. The other 4 patients continued to perform within normal controls' range. Together these data suggest a unique role for sub-callosal vmPFC in PM, bolstering the implicit processing of environmental cues that are relevant for realizing future intentions. This is consistent with vmPFC's role in context-sensitive value processing based on prior experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 109220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659718","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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