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{"title":"Evidence from aphasia suggests a bidirectional relationship between inner speech and executive function","authors":"Mackenzie E. Fama ,&nbsp;Joshua D. McCall ,&nbsp;Andrew T. DeMarco ,&nbsp;Peter E. Turkeltaub","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research over the past several decades has revealed that non-linguistic cognitive impairments can appear alongside language deficits in individuals with aphasia. One vulnerable cognitive domain is executive function, an umbrella term for the higher-level cognitive processes that allow us to direct our behavior towards a goal. Studies in healthy adults reveal that executive function abilities are supported by inner speech, the ability to use language silently in one's head. Therefore, inner speech may mediate the connection between language and executive function deficits in individuals with aphasia. Here, we investigated whether inner speech ability may link language and cognitive impairments in 59 adults with chronic, post-stroke aphasia. We used two approaches to measure inner speech: one based on internal retrieval of words and one based on internal retrieval plus silent manipulation of the retrieved phonological forms. Then, we examined relationships between these two approaches to measuring inner speech and five aspects of executive function ability: response inhibition, conflict monitoring/resolution, general task-switching ability, phonological control, and semantic control. We also looked for dissociations between inner speech ability and executive function ability. Our results show tentative relationships between inner speech (across multiple measurement approaches) and all aspects of executive function except for response inhibition. We also found evidence for a double dissociation: many participants show intact executive function despite poor inner speech, and vice versa, so neither process is strictly reliant on the other. We suggest that this work provides preliminary evidence of a bidirectional relationship between inner speech and executive function: inner speech supports some aspects of executive function via internal self-cueing and certain aspects of executive function support performance on complex inner speech tasks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 108997"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224002124/pdfft?md5=eda4b9a1bc6178e83cdeeb81785a35e9&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224002124-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142164119","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":"Linking the inner and outer mental representations of the body to social cognition skills: A systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Silvia Canino ,&nbsp;Valentina Torchia ,&nbsp;Mariachiara Gaita ,&nbsp;Simona Raimo ,&nbsp;Liana Palermo","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108989","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An interesting interpretation of embodiment highlights the critical role of mental body representations (BR), including motor, somatosensory, and interoceptive formats, for social cognition. However, the nature of this relationship is still debated at the empirical level, with various studies arriving at different conclusions. Here, we present a systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize data from 3466 participants in 21 studies to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between inner and outer BR and social cognition. We focused on two core social cognition aspects: empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM). Concerning the inner BR, our meta-analytic findings reveal a significant correlation between specific interoceptive dimensions (i.e., interoceptive sensibility and accuracy) and social cognition, which was stronger for empathy than ToM. Conversely, although further research is needed, functional BR that mainly involve the outer body processing (i.e., nonaction-oriented BR) may show positive links with ToM. These findings point to specific interactions between BR and social cognition skills, supporting multi-faceted and embodied social cognition models. However, we also identified critical knowledge gaps and highlighted the need for further investigation to deepen our theoretical understanding of these relationships and their implications for clinical practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 108989"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224002045/pdfft?md5=2f34a0321305aa06710d21ec295d674e&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224002045-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142133373","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":"EEG correlates of static and dynamic face perception: The role of naturalistic motion","authors":"Casey Becker ,&nbsp;Russell Conduit ,&nbsp;Philippe A. Chouinard ,&nbsp;Robin Laycock","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108986","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108986","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Much of our understanding of how the brain processes dynamic faces comes from research that compares static photographs to dynamic morphs, which exhibit simplified, computer-generated motion. By comparing static, video recorded, and dynamic morphed expressions, we aim to identify the neural correlates of naturalistic facial dynamism, using time-domain and time-frequency analysis. Dynamic morphs were made from the neutral and peak frames of video recorded transitions of happy and fearful expressions, which retained expression change and removed asynchronous and non-linear features of naturalistic facial motion. We found that dynamic morphs elicited increased N400 amplitudes and lower LPP amplitudes compared to other stimulus types. Video recordings elicited higher LPP amplitudes and greater frontal delta activity compared to other stimuli. Thematic analysis of participant interviews using a large language model revealed that participants found it difficult to assess the genuineness of morphed expressions, and easier to analyse the genuineness of happy compared to fearful expressions. Our findings suggest that animating real faces with artificial motion may violate expectations (N400) and reduce the social salience (LPP) of dynamic morphs. Results also suggest that delta oscillations in the frontal region may be involved with the perception of naturalistic facial motion in happy and fearful expressions. Overall, our findings highlight the sensitivity of neural mechanisms required for face perception to subtle changes in facial motion characteristics, which has important implications for neuroimaging research using faces with simplified motion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 108986"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142110015","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":"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":"204 ","pages":"Article 108987"},"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":"204 ","pages":"Article 108988"},"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":"203 ","pages":"Article 108985"},"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":"203 ","pages":"Article 108974"},"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":"203 ","pages":"Article 108975"},"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":"203 ","pages":"Article 108972"},"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":"204 ","pages":"Article 108973"},"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}