NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2025-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109081
Pedro R. Montoro , Cristina Villalba-García , Jacobo Albert , Antonio Prieto , José A. Hinojosa
{"title":"Temporal neural dynamics of the competition between extrinsic and intrinsic grouping principles in vision: An ERP study","authors":"Pedro R. Montoro , Cristina Villalba-García , Jacobo Albert , Antonio Prieto , 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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109069
Julie Franco , Bertrand Glize , Marina Laganaro
{"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 , Bertrand Glize , 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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2025-01-18DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109080
Matthias G. Tholen , Matthias Schurz , Markus Aichhorn , Anna Martin , Andreas K. Kaiser , Josef Perner
{"title":"Memory's forgotten process: What happened to the man on the bus?","authors":"Matthias G. Tholen , Matthias Schurz , Markus Aichhorn , Anna Martin , Andreas K. Kaiser , 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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109079
Claire Bradley , Emily McCann , Abbey S. Nydam , Paul E. Dux , Jason B. Mattingley
{"title":"Causal evidence for increased theta and gamma phase consistency in a parieto-frontal network during the maintenance of visual attention","authors":"Claire Bradley , Emily McCann , Abbey S. Nydam , Paul E. Dux , 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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2025-01-10Epub Date: 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108909
F Ronca, J M Blodgett, G Bruinvels, M Lowery, M Raviraj, G Sandhar, N Symeonides, C Jones, M Loosemore, P W Burgess
{"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":"<p><p>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 < 0.01), fewer errors (p < 0.05) and lower dispersion intra-individual variability (p < 0.05). In contrast they exhibited slower reaction times (10ms c.ca, p < 0.01) and poorer timing anticipation (p < 0.01) in the luteal phase, and more errors in the predicted ovulatory phase (p < 0.01). Self-reported mood, cognitive and physical symptoms were all worst during menstruation (p < 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}
NeuropsychologiaPub Date : 2025-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109068
Annika Kluge , Niloufar Zebarjadi , Matilde Tassinari , Fa-Hsuan Lin , Iiro P. Jääskeläinen , Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti , Jonathan Levy
{"title":"Supportive but biased: Perceptual neural intergroup bias is sensitive to minor reservations about supporting outgroup immigration","authors":"Annika Kluge , Niloufar Zebarjadi , Matilde Tassinari , Fa-Hsuan Lin , Iiro P. Jääskeläinen , Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti , Jonathan Levy","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While decreasing negative attitudes against outgroups are often reported by individuals themselves, biased behaviour prevails. This gap between words and actions may stem from unobtrusive mental processes that could be uncovered by using neuroimaging in addition to self-reports. In this study we investigated whether adding neuroimaging to a traditional intergroup bias measure could detect intersubject differences in intergroup bias processes in a societal context where opposing discrimination is normative. In a sample of 43 Finnish students, implicit behavioural measures failed to indicate intergroup bias against Middle Eastern and Muslim immigrants, and explicit measures reported rather positive attitudes and sentiments towards that targeted group. Yet, while implementing a repeatedly validated method for detecting intergroup bias, an implicit association paradigm presenting stereotypical ingroup and outgroup face stimuli while undergoing magnetoencephalography, we detected a clear neural difference between two experimental conditions. The neural effect is thought to reflect intergroup bias in the valence of the associations that faces evoke. The activity cluster of the neural bias peaked in BA37 and included significant activity in the fusiform gyrus, which has been repeatedly found to be active during face perception bias. Importantly, this neural pattern was driven by participants who were explicitly favourable of immigration – but to a lesser extent than others. These findings suggest that such variations in explicit support of immigration are associated with the differential neural sensitivity to the congruency of associations between intergroup faces and valence. This research showcases the potential of neuroimaging to unravel covert perceptual bias against outgroup members and its sensitivity to small variations in explicit attitudes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 109068"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142952341","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 : 2024-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109035
F. Kathryn King , Yanlong Song , Lorenzo Fabbri , M. Scott Perry , Christos Papadelis , Crystal M. Cooper
{"title":"Spatiotemporal correlates of emotional conflict processing in typically developing adolescents using magnetoencephalography","authors":"F. Kathryn King , Yanlong Song , Lorenzo Fabbri , M. Scott Perry , Christos Papadelis , Crystal M. Cooper","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Brain networks involved in emotional conflict processing have been extensively studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging in adults. Yet, the temporal correlates of these brain activations are still largely unknown, particularly in a key phase of emotional development, adolescence. Here, we elucidate the spatiotemporal profile of emotional conflict processing in 24 typically developing adolescents (10–18 years; 22 Caucasian) during an emotional face-word Stroop task. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we calculated dynamic statistical parametric maps and compared trials with and without emotional conflict whole-brain cluster-based permutation tests, followed by cluster-based ROI time-frequency analyses. Cluster analysis revealed four significant clusters, including early activation of the cingulate and temporal cortices, which may be related to dorsal and ventral streams of processing, respectively. This was followed by late components in the middle frontal and prefrontal cortices, which are likely related to response execution and post-response monitoring. Time-frequency analysis revealed event-related synchronizations and desynchronizations in beta and gamma bands across the cingulate cortex, which highlight the different roles of the cingulate subdivisions. Our findings provide further evidence of the cingulate's key role in emotional conflict processing across time. Improving our understanding of this key cognitive process will guide future work with neuropsychiatric populations, which may aid diagnosis and treatment outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"207 ","pages":"Article 109035"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142682350","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 : 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109034
Akbar Hussain , Jon Walbrin , Marija Tochadse , Jorge Almeida
{"title":"Primary manipulation knowledge of objects is associated with the functional coupling of pMTG and aIPS","authors":"Akbar Hussain , Jon Walbrin , Marija Tochadse , Jorge Almeida","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Correctly using hand-held tools and manipulable objects typically relies not only on sensory and motor-related processes, but also centrally on conceptual knowledge about how objects are typically used (e.g. grasping the handle of a kitchen knife rather than the blade avoids injury). A wealth of fMRI connectivity-related evidence demonstrates that contributions from both ventral and dorsal stream areas are important for accurate tool knowledge and use. Here, we investigate the combined role of ventral and dorsal stream areas in representing “primary” manipulation knowledge - that is, knowledge that is hypothesized to be of central importance for day-to-day object use. We operationalize primary manipulation knowledge by extracting the first dimension from a multi-dimensional scaling solution over a behavioral judgement task where subjects arranged a set of 80 manipulable objects based on their overall manipulation similarity. We then relate this dimension to representational and time-course correlations between ventral and dorsal stream areas. Our results show that functional coupling between posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG) and anterior intraparietal sulcus (aIPS) is uniquely related to primary manipulation knowledge about objects, and that this effect is more pronounced for objects that require precision grasping. We reason this is due to precision-grasp objects requiring more ventral/temporal information relating to object shape, material and function to allow correct finger placement and controlled manipulation. These results demonstrate the importance of functional coupling across these ventral and dorsal stream areas in service of manipulation knowledge and accurate grasp-related behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 109034"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142624598","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":"Temporal dynamics of implicit moral evaluation: From empathy for pain to mentalizing processes","authors":"Kamela Cenka , Chiara Spaccasassi , Stella Petkovic , Rachele Pezzetta , Giorgio Arcara , Alessio Avenanti","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109033","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To understand how we evaluate harm to others, it is crucial to consider the offender's intent and the victim's suffering. Previous research investigating event-related potentials (ERPs) during moral evaluation has been limited by small sample sizes and a priori selection of electrodes and time windows that may bias the results. To overcome these limitations, we examined ERPs in 66 healthy human adults using a data-driven analytic approach involving cluster-based permutation tests. Participants performed an implicit moral evaluation task requiring to observe scenarios depicting intentional harm (IHS), accidental harm (AHS), and neutral actions (NAS) while judging whether each scenario was set indoors or outdoors. Our results revealed two distinct clusters, peaking at ∼170 and ∼250 ms, showing differences between harm scenarios (IHS and AHS) and NAS, suggesting rapid processing of the victim's physical outcome. The difference between IHS and AHS scenarios emerged later, at ∼400 ms, potentially reflecting subsequent evaluation of the agent's intentions. Source analysis showed that brain regions associated with empathy for pain were associated with the earlier peaks at ∼170 and ∼250 ms, while the modulation of the activity of the mentalizing network was presented at ∼250 and ∼400 ms. These findings advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying implicit moral evaluation. Notably, they provide electrocortical new insights for models of implicit moral evaluation, suggesting an early neural response linked to empathy for pain, with subsequent integration of empathy response with mentalizing processes, followed by later cognitive evaluations, likely reflecting the assessment of the agent's moral responsibility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 109033"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142624604","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 : 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109032
B.S. DeCouto , M. Bilalić , A.M. Williams
{"title":"Neuroimaging and perceptual-cognitive expertise in sport: A narrative review of research and future directions","authors":"B.S. DeCouto , M. Bilalić , A.M. Williams","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Perceptual-cognitive expertise is crucial in domains that require rapid extraction of information for anticipation (e.g., sport, aviation, warfighting). Yet, published reports on the neuroscience of perceptual-cognitive expertise in such dynamic performance environments focus almost exclusively on biological motion processing (i.e., action observation network), leaving gaps in knowledge about the neural mechanisms underlying other frequently cited perceptual-cognitive skills, such as pattern recognition, the use of contextual priors, and global processing. In this paper, we provide a narrative review of research on the neural mechanisms underlying perceptual-cognitive expertise in sport, a domain where individuals possess highly specialized perceptual-cognitive skills (i.e., expertise) that enable successful performance in dynamic environments. Additionally, we discuss how work from domains with more static, predictable stimuli for perception and decision-making (e.g., radiology, chess) can enhance understanding of the neuroscience of expertise in sport. In future, efforts are needed to address the neural mechanisms underpinning less studied perceptual-cognitive skills (i.e., pattern recognition, contextual priors, global processing) and to explore how experts prioritize these skills within different contexts, thereby enhancing our understanding of perceptual-cognitive expertise across numerous professional domains.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 109032"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591279","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}