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{"title":"Gaze and attention: Mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effect of optokinetic stimulation in spatial neglect","authors":"H.H. Chan ,&nbsp;A.G. Mitchell ,&nbsp;E. Sandilands ,&nbsp;D. Balslev","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108883","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108883","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Left smooth pursuit eye movement training in response to large-field visual motion (optokinetic stimulation) has become a promising rehabilitation method in left spatial inattention or neglect. The mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effect, however, remain unknown. During optokinetic stimulation, there is an error in visual localisation ahead of the line of sight. This could indicate a change in the brain's estimate of one's own direction of gaze. We hypothesized that optokinetic stimulation changes the brain's estimate of gaze. Because this estimate is critical for coding the locus of attention in the visual space relative to the body and across sensory modalities, its change might underlie the change in spatial attention. Here, we report that in healthy participants optokinetic stimulation causes not only a directional bias in the proprioceptive signal from the extraocular muscles, but also a corresponding shift of the locus of attention. Both changes outlasted the period of stimulation. This result forms a step in investigating a causal link between the adaptation in the sensorimotor gaze signals and the recovery in spatial neglect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224000988/pdfft?md5=12363dbf1d1d046cb7938d85437d61af&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224000988-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140772727","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":"The electrophysiology of lexical prediction of emoji and text","authors":"Benjamin Weissman ,&nbsp;Neil Cohn ,&nbsp;Darren Tanner","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As emoji often appear naturally alongside text in utterances, they provide a way to study how prediction unfolds in multimodal sentences in direct comparison to unimodal sentences. In this experiment, participants (N = 40) read sentences in which the sentence-final noun appeared in either word form or emoji form, a between-subjects manipulation. The experiment featured both high constraint sentences and low constraint sentences to examine how the lexical processing of emoji interacts with prediction processes in sentence comprehension. Two well-established ERP components linked to lexical processing and prediction – the N400 and the Late Frontal Positivity – are investigated for sentence-final words and emoji to assess whether, to what extent, and in what linguistic contexts emoji are processed like words. Results indicate that the expected effects, namely an N400 effect to an implausible lexical item compared to a plausible one and an LFP effect to an unexpected lexical item compared to an expected one, emerged for both words and emoji. This paper discusses the similarities and differences between the stimulus types and constraint conditions, contextualized within theories of linguistic prediction, ERP components, and a multimodal lexicon.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140350205","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":"Why am I overwhelmed by bright lights? The behavioural mechanisms of post-stroke visual hypersensitivity","authors":"H. Thielen ,&nbsp;L. Welkenhuyzen ,&nbsp;N. Tuts ,&nbsp;S. Vangkilde ,&nbsp;R. Lemmens ,&nbsp;A. Wibail ,&nbsp;C. Lafosse ,&nbsp;I.M.C. Huenges Wajer ,&nbsp;C.R. Gillebert","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>After stroke, patients can experience visual hypersensitivity, an increase in their sensitivity for visual stimuli as compared to their state prior to the stroke. Candidate behavioural mechanisms for these subjective symptoms are atypical bottom-up sensory processing and impaired selective attention, but empirical evidence is currently lacking. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between post-stroke visual hypersensitivity and sensory thresholds, sensory processing speed, and selective attention using computational modelling of behavioural data. During a whole/partial report task, participants (51 stroke patients, 76 orthopedic patients, and 77 neurotypical adults) had to correctly identify a single target letter that was presented alone (for 17–100 ms) or along a distractor (for 83ms). Performance on this task was used to estimate the sensory threshold, sensory processing speed, and selective attention abilities of each participant. In the stroke population, both on a group and individual level, there was evidence for impaired selective attention and -to a lesser extent- lower sensory thresholds in patients with post-stroke visual hypersensitivity as compared to neurotypical adults, orthopedic patients, or stroke patients without post-stroke sensory hypersensitivity. These results provide a significant advancement in our comprehension of post-stroke visual hypersensitivity and can serve as a catalyst for further investigations into the underlying mechanisms of sensory hypersensitivity after other types of acquired brain injury as well as post-injury hypersensitivity for other sensory modalities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140352439","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":"Evidence for grid-cell-like activity in the time domain","authors":"Gregory Peters-Founshtein MD, PhD ,&nbsp;Amnon Dafni-Merom MSc ,&nbsp;Rotem Monsa MSc ,&nbsp;Shahar Arzy MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108878","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The relation between the processing of space and time in the brain has been an enduring cross-disciplinary question. Grid cells have been recognized as a hallmark of the mammalian navigation system, with recent studies attesting to their involvement in the organization of conceptual knowledge in humans. To determine whether grid-cell-like representations support temporal processing, we asked subjects to mentally simulate changes in age and time-of-day, each constituting “trajectory” in an age-day space, while undergoing fMRI. We found that grid-cell-like representations supported trajecting across this age-day space. Furthermore, brain regions concurrently coding past-to-future orientation positively modulated the magnitude of grid-cell-like representation in the left entorhinal cortex. Finally, our findings suggest that temporal processing may be supported by spatially modulated systems, and that innate regularities of abstract domains may interface and alter grid-cell-like representations, similarly to spatial geometry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140548565","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":"Motor or non-motor speech interference? A multimodal fMRI and direct cortical stimulation mapping study","authors":"Barbara Tomasino ,&nbsp;Luca Weis ,&nbsp;Marta Maieron ,&nbsp;Giada Pauletto ,&nbsp;Lorenzo Verriello ,&nbsp;Riccardo Budai ,&nbsp;Tamara Ius ,&nbsp;Serena D'Agostini ,&nbsp;Luciano Fadiga ,&nbsp;Miran Skrap","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108876","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108876","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We retrospectively analyzed data from 15 patients, with a normal pre-operative cognitive performance, undergoing awake surgery for left fronto-temporal low-grade glioma. We combined a pre-surgical measure (fMRI maps of motor- and language-related centers) with intra-surgical measures (MNI-registered cortical sites data obtained during intra-operative direct electrical stimulation, DES, while they performed the two most common language tasks: number counting and picture naming).</p><p>Selective DES effects along the precentral gyrus/inferior frontal gyrus (and/or the connected speech articulation network) were obtained. DES of the precentral gyrus evoked the <em>motor</em> speech arrest, i.e., anarthria (with apparent mentalis muscle movements). We calculated the number of shared voxels between the lip-tongue and overt counting related- and silent naming-related fMRI maps and the Volumes of Interest (VOIs) obtained by merging together the MNI sites at which a given speech disturbance was observed, normalized on their mean the values (i.e., Z score). Both tongue- and lips-related movements fMRI maps maximally overlapped (Z = 1.05 and Z = 0.94 for lips and tongue vs. 0.16 and −1.003 for counting and naming) with the <em>motor</em> speech arrest seed. DES of the inferior frontal gyrus, pars opercularis and the rolandic operculum induced <em>speech arrest</em> proper <em>(</em>without apparent mentalis muscle movements). This area maximally overlapped with overt counting-related fMRI map (Z = −0.11 and Z = 0.09 for lips and tongue vs. 0.9 and 0.0006 for counting and naming). Interestingly, our fMRI maps indicated reduced Broca's area activity during silent speech compared to overt speech. Lastly, DES of the inferior frontal gyrus, pars opercularis and triangularis evoked variations of the output, i.e., dysarthria, a motor speech disorder occurring when patients cannot control the muscles used to produce articulated sounds (phonemes). Silent object naming-related fMRI map maximally overlapped (Z = −0.93 and Z = −1.04 for lips and tongue vs. −1.07 and 0.99 for counting and naming) with this seed.</p><p>Speech disturbances evoked by DES may be thought of as selective interferences with specific recruitment of left inferior frontal gyrus and precentral cortex which are differentiable in terms of the specific interference induced.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140330042","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":"The role of preSMA and STS in face recognition: A transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study","authors":"Silvia Gobbo ,&nbsp;Carlotta Lega ,&nbsp;Angelica De Sandi ,&nbsp;Roberta Daini","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108877","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108877","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Current models propose that facial recognition is mediated by two independent yet interacting anatomo-functional systems: one processing facial features mainly mediated by the Fusiform Face Area and the other involved in the extraction of dynamic information from faces, subserved by Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS). Also, the pre-Supplementary Motor Area (pre-SMA) is implicated in facial expression processing as it is involved in its motor mimicry. However, the literature only shows evidence of the implication of STS and preSMA for facial expression recognition, without relating it to face recognition. In addition, the literature shows a facilitatory role of facial motion in the recognition of unfamiliar faces, particularly for poor recognizers. The present study aimed at studying the role of STS and preSMA in unfamiliar face recognition in people with different face recognition skills. 34 healthy participants received repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the right posterior STS, pre-SMA and as sham during a task of matching of faces encoded through: facial expression, rigid head movement or as static (i.e., absence of any facial or head motion). All faces were represented without emotional content. Results indicate that STS has a direct role in recognizing identities through rigid head movement and an indirect role in facial expression processing. This dissociation represents a step forward with respect to current face processing models suggesting that different types of motion involve separate brain and cognitive processes. PreSMA interacts with face recognition skills, increasing the performance of poor recognizers and decreasing that of good recognizers in all presentation conditions. Together, the results suggest the use of at least partially different mechanisms for face recognition in poor and good recognizers and a different role of STS and preSMA in face recognition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224000927/pdfft?md5=dcd4588245e6b713228e5ceeda2cdbb8&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224000927-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140330044","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":"Processing of visual social-communication cues during a social-perception of action task in autistic and non-autistic observers","authors":"B. Chouinard ,&nbsp;A. Pesquita ,&nbsp;J.T. Enns ,&nbsp;C.S. Chapman","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108880","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social perception and communication differ between those with and without autism, even when verbal fluency and intellectual ability are equated. Previous work found that observers responded more quickly to an actor's points if the actor had chosen by themselves where to point instead of being directed where to point. Notably, this ‘choice-advantage’ effect decreased across non-autistic participants as the number of autistic-like traits and tendencies increased (Pesquita et al., 2016). Here, we build on that work using the same task to study individuals over a broader range of the spectrum, from autistic to non-autistic, measuring both response initiation and mouse movement times, and considering the response to each actor separately. Autistic and non-autistic observers viewed videos of three different actors pointing to one of two locations, without knowing that the actors were sometimes freely choosing to point to one target and other times being directed where to point. All observers exhibited a choice-advantage overall, meaning they responded more rapidly when actors were freely choosing versus when they were directed, indicating a sensitivity to the actors' postural cues and movements. Our fine-grained analyses found a more robust choice-advantage to some actors than others, with autistic observers showing a choice-advantage only in response to one of the actors, suggesting that both actor and observer characteristics influence the overall effect. We briefly explore existing actor characteristics that may have contributed to this effect, finding that both duration of exposure to pre-movement cues and kinematic cues of the actors likely influence the choice advantage to different degrees across the groups. Altogether, the evidence suggested that both autistic and non-autistic individuals could detect the choice-advantage signal, but that for autistic observers the choice-advantage was actor specific. Notably, we found that the influence of the signal, when present, was detected early for all actors by the non-autistic observers, but detected later and only for one actor by the autistic observers. Altogether, we have more accurately characterized the ability of social-perception in autistic individuals as intact, but highlighted that detection of signal is likely delayed/distributed compared to non-autistic observers and that it is important to investigate actor characteristics that may influence detection and use of their social-perception signals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140330043","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":"Corrigendum to “No short-term treatment effect of prism adaptation for spatial neglect: An inclusive meta-analysis” [Neuropsychologia 189 (2023) 108566]","authors":"Orsolya Székely ,&nbsp;Antonia F. Ten Brink ,&nbsp;Alexandra G. Mitchell ,&nbsp;Janet H. Bultitude ,&nbsp;Robert D. McIntosh","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108849","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224000642/pdfft?md5=6daff8312ed4bbddfc1de2b3472a546c&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224000642-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140290649","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":"The neuropsychological evaluation of face identity recognition","authors":"Angélique Volfart ,&nbsp;Bruno Rossion","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108865","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108865","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Facial identity recognition (FIR) is arguably the ultimate form of recognition for the adult human brain. Even if the term prosopagnosia is reserved for exceptionally rare brain-damaged cases with a category-specific abrupt loss of FIR at adulthood, subjective and objective impairments or difficulties of FIR are common in the neuropsychological population. Here we provide a critical overview of the evaluation of FIR both for clinicians and researchers in neuropsychology. FIR impairments occur following many causes that should be identified objectively by both general and specific, behavioral and neural examinations. We refute the commonly used dissociation between perceptual and memory deficits/tests for FIR, since even a task involving the discrimination of unfamiliar face images presented side-by-side relies on cortical memories of faces in the right-lateralized ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Another frequently encountered confusion is between specific deficits of the FIR function and a more general impairment of semantic memory (of people), the latter being most often encountered following anterior temporal lobe damage. Many computerized tests aimed at evaluating FIR have appeared over the last two decades, as reviewed here. However, despite undeniable strengths, they often suffer from ecological limitations, difficulties of instruction, as well as a lack of consideration for processing speed and qualitative information. Taking into account these issues, a recently developed behavioral test with natural images manipulating face familiarity, stimulus inversion, and correct response times as a key variable appears promising. The measurement of electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in the frequency domain from fast periodic visual stimulation also appears as a particularly promising tool to complete and enhance the neuropsychological assessment of FIR.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224000800/pdfft?md5=e0bb941c9d8555b85cd4ebde9da0537a&pid=1-s2.0-S0028393224000800-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140207379","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":"Bypassing input to V1 in visual awareness: A TMS-EROS investigation","authors":"Ramisha S. Knight ,&nbsp;Tao Chen ,&nbsp;Evan G. Center ,&nbsp;Gabriele Gratton ,&nbsp;Monica Fabiani ,&nbsp;Silvia Savazzi ,&nbsp;Chiara Mazzi ,&nbsp;Diane M. Beck","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108864","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108864","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Early visual cortex (V1–V3) is believed to be critical for normal visual awareness by providing the necessary feedforward input. However, it remains unclear whether visual awareness can occur without further involvement of early visual cortex, such as re-entrant feedback. It has been challenging to determine the importance of feedback activity to these areas because of the difficulties in dissociating this activity from the initial feedforward activity. Here, we applied single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the left posterior parietal cortex to elicit phosphenes in the absence of direct visual input to early visual cortex. Immediate neural activity after the TMS pulse was assessed using the event-related optical signal (EROS), which can measure activity under the TMS coil without artifacts. Our results show that: 1) The activity in posterior parietal cortex 50 ms after TMS was related to phosphene awareness, and 2) Activity related to awareness was observed in a small portion of V1 140 ms after TMS, but in contrast (3) Activity in V2 was a more robust correlate of awareness. Together, these results are consistent with interactive models proposing that sustained and recurrent loops of activity between cortical areas are necessary for visual awareness to emerge. In addition, we observed phosphene-related activations of the anteromedial cuneus and lateral occipital cortex, suggesting a functional network subserving awareness comprising these regions, the parietal cortex and early visual cortex.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140194251","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}