{"title":"Lateralized alpha oscillatory activity in the inferior parietal lobule to the right hemisphere during left-side visual stimulation","authors":"Marino Iwakiri , Yuhi Takeo , Takashi Ikeda , Masayuki Hara , Hisato Sugata","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying spatial attention is crucial for unraveling the pathogenesis of unilateral spatial neglect (USN). However, the neural link between spatial attention and USN remains unclear. Thus, the neural mechanisms of spatial attention in the left and right hemispheres were compared. Twenty healthy volunteers participated in a hand mental rotation task in which they determined whether images depicted as left or right hands. The hand images were randomly displayed in the upper, lower, left, and right directions, centered on a fixation point. The laterality index for the alpha oscillatory activity was determined to assess the lateralization of neural activity during visual stimulation. Our results revealed a significant shift in alpha oscillatory neural activity in the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) towards the right hemisphere when visual stimulation occurred on the left side. In contrast, no significant oscillatory shift in the alpha band towards the left hemisphere was observed in the IPL when the visual stimulus was presented on the right side. These findings indicate that the spatial attention on the left side depends on oscillatory alpha activity in the right IPL, whereas that on the right side doesn't depend on either hemispheric alpha activity. These results provide valuable insights into the neural mechanisms of hemispatial neglect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 109017"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142504933","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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2024-10-19DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109016
María Roca, Facundo Manes
{"title":"Bridging experimental neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology: Fluid intelligence in frontal lobe assessments","authors":"María Roca, Facundo Manes","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This viewpoint explores the gap between theoretical frameworks in experimental neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology. It highlights how John Duncan's theory of the Multiple Demand (MD) system, which links the frontal lobe to fluid intelligence (g), helps explain general performance on classical executive tests. However, it also discusses how traditional scores often fail to capture the complexity of behaviours associated with frontal lobe damage, and we suggest that developing improved scoring methods could be useful for integrating experimental and clinical neuropsychology insights.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 109016"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142471059","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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109014
Jingwen Miao , Xiaomei Liu , Zhiwei Zheng , Michael Weigl , Xiaoyu Cui , Xinyi Zhu , Xiaodie Liu , Juan Li
{"title":"Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for preserved specific associative episodic memory in older adults","authors":"Jingwen Miao , Xiaomei Liu , Zhiwei Zheng , Michael Weigl , Xiaoyu Cui , Xinyi Zhu , Xiaodie Liu , Juan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aging is often linked to a decline in associative memory. Prior research has shown that older adults have difficulty retrieving specific associative memory but can retrieve gist associative memory when deliberately differentiating test pairs with different levels of specificity during associative recognition. In this study, we utilized the context reinstatement paradigm to examine whether older adults could retrieve specific memory in situations where associations do not necessarily need to be voluntarily retrieved. Thirty-five older adults were directed to intentionally link objects with unique background scenes during encoding. Subsequently, test objects were presented against either the reinstated or similar background scenes during a recognition memory task, where participants were required to identify whether the objects were old or new regardless of their background contexts. Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded to uncover the electrophysiological correlates of specific associative episodic memory. Behavioral results revealed higher memory sensitivity for object recognition when the background scenes were reinstated than when those were similar in older adults. ERP results indicated that older adults exhibited a more prominent fronto-centrally distributed positivity during object recognition in the reinstated than in similar contexts. Our results suggest that older adults may preserve their ability to retrieve specific memory for associations through an involuntary, spontaneous recollection process, which holds important theoretical implications for age-related associative memory deficits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 109014"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142471061","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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109015
Jody C. Culham, Gavin Buckingham, Monika Harvey, Irene Sperandio, Ingrid S. Johnsrude
{"title":"Introduction to the special issue on visual cognition and visuomotor control: A tribute to Mel Goodale","authors":"Jody C. Culham, Gavin Buckingham, Monika Harvey, Irene Sperandio, Ingrid S. Johnsrude","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 109015"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142471060","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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2024-10-12DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109013
Alisha D. Davis , Matthew W. Scott , AnnaMae K. Pond , Austin J. Hurst , Tareq Yousef , Sarah N. Kraeutner
{"title":"Transformation but not generation of motor images is disrupted following stimulation over the left inferior parietal lobe","authors":"Alisha D. Davis , Matthew W. Scott , AnnaMae K. Pond , Austin J. Hurst , Tareq Yousef , Sarah N. Kraeutner","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Motor imagery (MI) involves the generation, maintenance, and transformation of motor images; yet, the neural underpinnings of each stage are not well understood. Here, we investigated the role of the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) in the stages of MI. Healthy participants (N = 20) engaged in a MI task (making judgments about hands presented on a screen; hand laterality judgment task) over two days. Past literature demonstrates the mental rotation of hands in this task involves implicit MI (i.e., where MI occurs spontaneously in the absence of explicit instructions). During the task, active (Day A; 120% resting motor threshold) or sham (Day B; placebo) neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied to the left IPL (location determined from past neuroimaging work) on 50% of trials at 250, 500, or 750ms post-stimulus onset, corresponding to different stages of MI. A/B days were randomized across participants. Linear mixed effects (LME) modelling conducted on reaction time and accuracy revealed that longer reaction times were observed when TMS was delivered at 750ms after trial onset, and more greatly for active vs. sham stimulation. This effect was exacerbated for palm-vs. back-view stimuli and for left vs. right hands. Accuracy overall was decreased for active vs. sham stimulation, and to a greater extent for palm-vs. back-view stimuli. Findings suggest that the left IPL is involved in image transformation. Overall this work informs on the neural underpinnings of the stages of MI.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 109013"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142444655","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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109011
Soner Yücetepe, Metehan Irak
{"title":"What guides the judgment of learning: Memory or heuristics? An event-related potential study","authors":"Soner Yücetepe, Metehan Irak","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Memory monitoring ability is essential for the effectiveness of learning processes. Judgment of Learning (JOL), a metacognitive judgment, is commonly used to measure this ability. An ongoing debate questions whether JOL is an outcome of an inferential or recollective experience, as suggested by different hypotheses regarding the underlying cognitive mechanisms of this judgment. To address this question through a neuroscientific perspective, we aimed to investigate the temporal dynamic of JOL adopting event-related potential (ERP) methodology. Seventy-two young adults participated in an episodic memory task involving word-pairs as stimuli. Their JOLs were obtained through categorical choices in a delayed condition. Additionally, their memory performance was tested in the recognition phase. ERP components were compared for different JOL levels, as well as for the hit responses in the recognition test according to their JOL levels. The analyses showed that JOL processes are observable within an early time window after stimulus presentation, as evidenced by elicitation of the P100, N100, P200, N200, and P300 components across all JOL levels. However, only the amplitude of the N100 varied among these levels. A negative ERP component with 330–500 ms latency was also evident for all JOL levels in the central and parietal electrodes, which did not differ in amplitude. The analyses of the recognition phase ERPs showed that the hit responses did not exhibit a significant difference in the familiarity-related mid-frontal old/new effect (FN400) amplitude; however, those with high level of JOL elicited recollection-related parietal old-new effect with a smaller amplitude. These findings support both hypotheses suggesting that JOL is influenced by heuristics and the retrievability of information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 109011"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142400856","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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109010
Adrian W. Gilmore , Sam Audrain , Joseph Snow , Elyse Gollomp , Jenna M. Wilson , Anna M. Agron , Dima A. Hammoud , John A. Butman , Alex Martin
{"title":"Long-term retention of real-world experiences in a patient with profound amnesia","authors":"Adrian W. Gilmore , Sam Audrain , Joseph Snow , Elyse Gollomp , Jenna M. Wilson , Anna M. Agron , Dima A. Hammoud , John A. Butman , Alex Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is known to be critical for healthy memory function, but patients with MTL damage can, under certain circumstances, demonstrate successful learning of novel information encountered outside the laboratory. Here, we describe a patient, D.C., with extensive but focal bilateral MTL damage centering primarily on his hippocampus, whose memory for real-world experiences was assessed. Tests of remote memory indicated at least some capacity to retrieve specific details. To test his anterograde memory, he was taken on a tour of the NIH Clinical Center, with unique events occurring at each of ten specific locations. His memory for these events was tested after 1 h, and again after fifteen months. Initially, D.C. could not recall having participated in the tour, even when cued with photographs of specific places he had visited. However, he achieved 90% accuracy on a forced choice recognition test of old and new objects he encountered on the tour, and his recognition of these objects remained intact over a year later when he was tested once again. Subsequent recognition memory tests using novel picture stimuli in a standard laboratory-style computer task resulted in chance-level performance across multiple test formats and stimulus categories. These findings suggest a potentially privileged role for natural learning for long-term retention in a patient with severely damaged medial temporal lobes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 109010"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142400855","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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2024-10-05DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109009
Alina S. Löser , Simone Dalla Bella , Peter E. Keller , Arno Villringer , Hellmuth Obrig , Annerose Engel
{"title":"Inhibitory control and working memory predict rhythm production abilities in patients with neurocognitive deficits","authors":"Alina S. Löser , Simone Dalla Bella , Peter E. Keller , Arno Villringer , Hellmuth Obrig , Annerose Engel","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deficits in rhythm perception and production have been reported in a variety of psychiatric, neurodevelopmental and neurologic disorders. Since correlations between rhythmic abilities and cognitive functions have been demonstrated in neurotypical individuals, we here investigate whether and how rhythmic abilities are associated with cognitive functions in 35 participants with neurocognitive deficits due to acquired brain lesions. We systematically assessed a diverse set of rhythm perception and production abilities including time and beat perception and finger-tapping tasks. Neuropsychological tests were applied to assess separable cognitive functions. Using multiple regression analyses we show that lower variability in aligning movements to a pacing sequence was predicted by better inhibitory control and better working memory performance. Working memory performance also predicted lower variability of rhythmic movements in the absence of an external pacing sequence and better anticipatory timing to sequences with gradual tempo changes. Importantly, these predictors remained significant for all regression models when controlling for other cognitive variables (i.e., cognitive flexibility, information processing speed, and verbal learning ability) and potential confounders (i.e., age, symptom strength of depression, manual dexterity, duration of illness, severity of cognitive impairment, and musical experience). Thus, all rhythm production abilities were significantly predicted by measures of executive functions. In contrast, rhythm perception abilities (time perception/beat perception) were not predicted by executive functions in this study. Our results, enhancing the understanding of cognitive underpinnings of rhythmic abilities in individuals with neurocognitive deficits, may be a first mandatory step to further potential therapeutic implications of rhythm-based interventions in neuropsychological rehabilitation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 109009"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142392103","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 to ‘The human brain deals with violating general color or depth knowledge in different time courses’ [201 (2024) 1–9/ NSY_108941]","authors":"Xiaoyu Tang , Shilong Yu , Shigeko Takahashi , Jiajia Yang , Yoshimichi Ejima , Yulin Gao , Qiong Wu , Jinglong Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 109001"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142375756","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}