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{"title":"Increased hierarchical influence of executive control and attention networks in the creative brain: A dependency network analysis","authors":"Junchao Li ,&nbsp;Ruiwang Huang ,&nbsp;Ming Liu ,&nbsp;Delong Zhang ,&nbsp;Bishan Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109313","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109313","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although numerous studies have primarily associated creativity with spontaneous thought and its corresponding neural networks, effective creativity entails much more than uninhibited ideation. It requires the capacity to filter out irrelevant information, maintain optimal attentional tuning, and strategically regulate and refine innovative outputs. We argue that a robust and adaptive executive control network (ECN), operating in concert with attentional networks, is essential for creativity. Accordingly, we hypothesized that high-creative individuals would exhibit enhanced top-down modulation from both the ECN and attention networks onto other brain networks. To test this hypothesis, we employed resting-state fMRI and Dependency Network Analysis (D_EPNA) to examine differences in hierarchical influence patterns across multiple brain regions and networks between individuals with high and low creative abilities. Our analyses revealed that high-creative individuals, relative to their low-creative counterpart, exhibited increased influence of specific brain regions on inter-regional functional connectivity across multiple brain regions. These regions demonstrating augmented influence were predominantly localized within the ECN and ventral attention network (VAN), specifically the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), bilateral inferior frontal sulcus (IFS), and right middle frontal gyrus (MFG). Moreover, high-creative individuals displayed significantly greater influence of the ECN and the dorsal attention network (DAN) on other large-scale brain networks. These findings suggest top-down cognitive and attentional control may be crucial in facilitating creativity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"220 ","pages":"Article 109313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145452498","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":"Navigating image space","authors":"Andrew Glennerster","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109233","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Navigation means getting from here to there. Unfortunately, for biological navigation, there is no agreed definition of what we might mean by ‘here’ or ‘there’. Computer vision (‘Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping’, SLAM) uses a 3D world-based coordinate frame but that is a poor model for biological spatial representation. Another possibility is to use an image-based rather than a map-based representation. The image-based strategy is made simpler if the observer maintains fixation on a stationary point in the scene as they move. This strategy would require a system for relating different fixation points to one another as the observer moves through the environment. I describe how this can be done by, first, relating fixations to an egocentric representation of visual direction and, second, encoding egocentric representations in a coarse-to-fine hierarchy. The coarsest level of this hierarchy is, in some sense, a world-based frame as it does not vary with eye rotation or observer translation. This representation could be implemented as a ‘policy’, a term used in reinforcement learning to describe a set of states and associated actions, or a ‘graph’ that describes how images or sensory states can be connected by actions. I discuss some of the psychophysical evidence relating to these differing hypotheses about spatial representation and navigation. I argue that this evidence supports image-based rather than map-based representation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109233"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926755","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":"No evidence for a targeted memory reactivation effect on word-meaning priming","authors":"Lewis V. Ball ,&nbsp;Eva Kimel ,&nbsp;Vanessa G. Keller ,&nbsp;Eloise Ward ,&nbsp;Scott A. Cairney ,&nbsp;Matthew H.C. Mak ,&nbsp;Lu Li ,&nbsp;Jennifer M. Rodd ,&nbsp;M. Gareth Gaskell","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The subordinate meaning of a homonym becomes temporarily more accessible after it is encountered, an effect termed word-meaning priming. Over the longer-term, word-meaning priming is better maintained across periods of sleep compared with wakefulness. This has been explained as sleep actively consolidating episodic memories related to recent linguistic events (Gaskell et al., 2019). Here, we tested this hypothesis by investigating whether word-meaning priming can be boosted following sleep using targeted memory reactivation (TMR), a technique of biassing specific memories for sleep-based consolidation by presenting information-associated sensory cues during sleep. In an exposure phase, 40 (of 80) homonyms were primed toward their subordinate meaning via a sentence, which was also associated with an auditory cue (the homonym) for TMR. Participants then took a ∼2 h nap, where half of the cues from exposure (memory cues) were replayed with the aim of strengthening the subordinate sentence meaning, along with 20 cues that had not been encountered previously (control cues). After sleep, there was an overall word-meaning priming effect, however there was no additional benefit of TMR on priming, nor did TMR benefit the recall of contextual information. Interestingly, there was an increased sleep spindle/beta band power response to memory cues relative to control cues, indicating cue-evoked memory reprocessing during sleep. These findings are consistent with a bounded role of sleep in actively consolidating linguistic-related memories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109264"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144963071","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":"Neural correlates of metacognition in education: a machine learning approach","authors":"Damien S. Fleur ,&nbsp;Esra C.S. de Groot ,&nbsp;Bert Bredeweg ,&nbsp;Wouter van den Bos","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109265","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109265","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Metacognition, the ability to reflect and regulate one's cognitive processes, has been shown to play a role in various aspects of life, particularly in academic settings. While important steps have been made in uncovering the neural basis of metacognition for highly specific domains (such as perceptual and mnemonic decision-making), little is known about how these findings relate to general forms of metacognition relevant in education. In this study, we use a data-driven approach to (i) identify brain regions associated with metacognition in education, and (ii) investigate the issue of domain-generality and to what extent these brain regions overlap with regions involved in metacognition in the context of specific decision-making tasks used in cognitive neuroscience. Individual differences in grey-matter volume in the precuneus and neighbouring brain regions were associated with education-related metacognitive knowledge and regulation. We also found overlaps between task-related mnemonic metacognitive abilities and education-related metacognitive knowledge, for example in in the superior frontal cortex. There were also regions specifically associated with metacognition in education, such as the banks of the superior temporal sulcus. Together, our findings suggest a link between lab-setting, domain-specific metacognitive abilities and real-life metacognition in the context of education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109265"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144963090","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":"Functional roles of Swedish pitch accents and their phonological and cognitive markedness","authors":"Hatice Zora ,&nbsp;Helena Bowin ,&nbsp;Mattias Heldner ,&nbsp;Tomas Riad ,&nbsp;Peter Hagoort","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109273","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109273","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Swedish, words are associated with either of two pitch contours labelled as Accent 1 and Accent 2. At least one of them is taken to be phonologically and cognitively marked. Besides encoding lexical tonal distinctions, these accents reflect intonational prominence. Drawing on data from psychometric and electroencephalographic (EEG) measures, we scrutinized the functional load of the accents for the processing of linguistic input, and explored any potential processing differences between Accent 1 and Accent 2. Experimental stimuli consisted of one hundred sets of auditory dialogues, where test words were accented either appropriately or inappropriately within their respective contexts. Native speakers of Central Swedish were tasked with judging the correctness of sentences containing the test words, actively in the psychometric paradigm and passively in the EEG paradigm. Psychometric data from forty participants revealed that accent violations exerted a statistically significant negative impact on correctness judgements. Both Accent 1 and Accent 2 violations were deemed as incorrect by the listeners, indicating that listeners use both of them to arrive at the correct interpretation of the linguistic input. Moreover, there was a statistically significant difference in the perceived correctness of violations depending on the accent pattern. Accent 2 violations received a lower rating for correctness in comparison to Accent 1 violations, suggesting that listeners show more sensitivity to accent violations in Accent 2 words than in Accent 1 words. EEG data from twenty participants were in accordance with the psychometric data, and documented larger negative ERP responses, observed at both early and later latencies, to Accent 2 violations compared to Accent 1 violations, reflecting neurocognitive difficulty associated with the processing of linguistic input. Put differently, the application of wrong accent pattern for Accent 2 words resulted in higher costs for spoken communication than Accent 1 words, which is in line with the notion that Accent 2 is marked both phonologically and cognitively in Central Swedish. This pattern of results provides evidence that the brain not only extracts and utilizes pitch accents for a coherent interpretation of the linguistic input but also treats them differently depending on their phonological and cognitive markedness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109273"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145125167","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 sacrifice of alerting in active short video users: Evidence from executive control and default mode network functional connectivity","authors":"Guanghui Zhai ,&nbsp;Yang Feng ,&nbsp;Xin Ling ,&nbsp;Jiahui Su ,&nbsp;Yifan Liu ,&nbsp;Yiwei Li ,&nbsp;Yunpeng Jiang ,&nbsp;Xia Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109291","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109291","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human attention is a limited resource increasingly taxed by continuous, socially embedded media streams, but how habitual short-video use shapes core attentional operations and their neural substrates remains unclear. Here we distinguish active from passive short video usage and examine whether they differentially relate to the alerting, orienting, and executive components of attention and to large-scale resting-state network connectivity. Our results demonstrate that frequent active short video usage predicts reduced alerting efficiency and the functional connectivity between right ventral prefrontal cortex (PFCv) and right posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) mediates this association, attenuating the direct effect and implicating interactions between default mode network (DMN) and control network. While orienting exhibits a modest interaction among different usages in which higher passive usage confers greater orienting only among low-active users, and executive control shows no reliable association. These findings extend resource-control accounts of attention to the short-video context by identifying a specific, right-lateralized coupling between brain networks that links active usage to diminished alerting. Mechanistically, we identify a right-lateralized default-control coupling that mediates the link between active short video usage and reduced alerting, isolating a modifiable resting-state pathway. These results provide actionable metrics for intervention and platform design to mitigate attentional costs in high-exposure users, informing evidence-based guidance for education and policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109291"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233019","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":"Effects of aperiodic neural activity on sleep-based emotional memory consolidation across the lifespan","authors":"Zachariah R. Cross ,&nbsp;Amanda Santamaria ,&nbsp;Scott W. Coussens ,&nbsp;Mark J. Kohler","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109270","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sleep neurophysiology undergoes significant changes across the lifespan, which coincide with age-related differences in memory, particularly for emotional information. However, the mechanisms that underlie these effects remain poorly understood. One potential mechanism is the aperiodic component, which reflects \"neural noise\", differs across age, and is predictive of perceptual and cognitive processes. In this study, we investigated how intrinsic (i.e., resting-state) aperiodic neural activity modulates sleep-based emotional memory consolidation across the human lifespan. In a within-subjects, repeated measures design, forty-two participants aged 7–72 years (<em>M</em> = 26.60, <em>SD</em> = 17.45; 26 female) completed a learning and baseline recognition emotional memory task before a 2hr afternoon sleep opportunity and an equivalent period of wake. Recognition accuracy was also assessed post-delay. We found that aperiodic slopes follow a u-shaped trajectory across the lifespan: slopes flatten from childhood to young adulthood, before steepening thereafter, with this effect most prominent in frontal regions. Age-related differences in aperiodic slopes also explained interindividual differences in emotional memory consolidation, with less age-related flattening of slopes associated with stronger consolidation of negative stimuli post-sleep but not post-wake. Lastly, independent of aperiodic activity, age-related differences in NREM oscillatory activity predicted emotional memory consolidation. These findings suggest that the efficiency of sleep-based emotional memory consolidation is modulated by age-related differences in aperiodic neural and NREM oscillatory activities, providing novel insights into the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning emotional memory across the lifespan.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145008329","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 “Navigating image space” [Neuropsychologia, Volume 219 (2025), pages 1–11, 109233]","authors":"Andrew Glennerster","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109294","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109294"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145258658","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":"Visual appearance and sensitivity are mediated by distinct mechanisms","authors":"Zahide Pamir ,&nbsp;Huseyin Boyaci","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109277","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109277","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Identifying a visual stimulus and sensitivity to changes in its features have different requirements. Thus, it is possible that different mechanisms underlie appearance and sensitivity judgments of visual stimuli. Here, we tested this possibility using a complex scene where two patches with physically identical luminances appeared to have different lightness. Human participants first judged the perceived contrast of incremental and decremental gratings superimposed on the patches. Next, we measured detection thresholds. Finally, fMRI activity was recorded in response to gratings on these patches. We found that incremental, but not the decremental gratings, appeared to have higher contrast when superimposed on the perceptually lighter patch compared to the darker. However, the thresholds were lower for both types of gratings superimposed on the lighter patch compared to the darker. Finally, using fMRI, we found that the activity in the primary visual cortex (V1) aligns well with the results of the detection task. These results suggest that partly distinct mechanisms underlie sensitivity and appearance and, further, that V1 plays an important role in sensitivity judgments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109277"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145266151","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":"Mapping the imageless mind: Towards a taxonomy of aphantasia","authors":"Paolo Bartolomeo","doi":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109276","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19279,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychologia","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 109276"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145138078","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}