{"title":"Comprehension and production of argument structures by Chinese post-stroke aphasics.","authors":"Guanqing He, Hui Chang","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2026.2652097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2026.2652097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines whether increased argument number and syntactic movement increase difficulty in sentence comprehension and production in Chinese aphasic patients, as predicted by the Argument Structure Complexity Hypothesis (ASCH). Twenty-four stroke-induced aphasic patients (8 agrammatic, 16 non-agrammatic) and 18 controls completed comprehension and production tasks. In comprehension, three-argument sentences were most difficult, with no difference between one- and two-argument sentences. In production, two-argument sentences were produced more accurately than one- and three-argument sentences. Agrammatic patients showed no difference between one- and three-argument sentences, while non-agrammatic patients performed better on one- than three-argument sentences. Syntactic movement had no effect. These findings do not fully support the ASCH. The results may be explained by the frequent use of null arguments in Chinese, which reduces the processing burden associated with additional arguments of two-argument sentences, and the short-distance nature of A-movement in Chinese unaccusatives and their syntactic flexibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147693335","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}
Cristiane Souza, Joana C Carmo, Khaoula Ennahli, Margarida V Garrido
{"title":"Neural signatures of naming retrieval: Theta and Alpha oscillatory dynamics functionally dissociate objects, people and places.","authors":"Cristiane Souza, Joana C Carmo, Khaoula Ennahli, Margarida V Garrido","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2026.2643159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2026.2643159","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined Alpha and Theta oscillations in picture-naming retrieval of common objects, famous people and well-known places to investigate the distinct memory processes involved in retrieving these semantic categories. Thirty-two adults participated in a picture-naming task manipulating the Objects, Peopleand Places categories. EEG recordings were obtained during the entire task. Morlet wavelets were extracted for each band and condition across different time-bins. The behavioural results indicated lower naming precision for People, although naming Places was still more challenging than naming Objects. Electrophysiological results revealed functionally dissociable Theta and Alpha oscillation patterns across categories, possibly derived from their different contextual requirements. Places (long-lasting Theta synchronicity) differed symmetrically from Objects (long-lasting Alpha desynchronization). Places also partially differed from People, with the latter eliciting early but transient Theta synchronization and a subsequent desynchronization in Alpha. These findings may inform models of declarative memory interactions and encourage innovative approaches to assessment and intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147522659","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}
Aviah Gvion, Tamar Levy, Michal Biran, Gila Tubul-Lavy
{"title":"Phonological processes and similarity constraints in consonant and vowel substitution errors: Insights from individuals with conduction aphasia.","authors":"Aviah Gvion, Tamar Levy, Michal Biran, Gila Tubul-Lavy","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2026.2625103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2026.2625103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals with conduction aphasia (CA), associated with post-lexical impairments, frequently produce phonological substitution errors. This study examined whether such substitutions reflect phonological simplification principles (e.g., preference for unmarked phonemes, sonority-based tendencies, assimilation) or are mainly constrained by phonological similarity. Under a similarity account, substitutions should preserve key phonological features of the target, even when the result is more complex. We analysed 339 consonant and 98 vowel substitution errors produced by 14 individuals with CA across naming, reading, and repetition tasks, and compared them with errors from one individual with apraxia of speech (AOS) without aphasia. CA errors were strongly guided by phonological similarity, with most substitutions differing from the target by only one or two features. Although these errors did not violate phonological principles, they often maintained salient target features even when producing more complex sounds. In contrast, the AOS participant showed a tendency toward simpler, unmarked phonemes. These findings indicate distinct underlying mechanisms in CA and AOS and highlight feature-level preservation in CA phonological encoding.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146144575","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":"Shortened stimulus exposure time in confrontation naming in aphasia reveals temporal processing impairments: Implications for assessment and treatment of anomia.","authors":"Matthew J Sayers, Jamie Reilly, Nadine Martin","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2026.2620738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2026.2620738","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Response delays in language tasks yield variable results in people with aphasia (PWA): some improve, some worsen, and others have no significant change in accuracy relative to immediate response conditions. Current models cannot account for different performance patterns between delayed naming and repetition tasks within the same individual.One key way that naming differs from repetition is the duration of stimulus exposure. We investigated the contribution of stimulus duration to temporal processing variability in aphasia. 19 PWA completed tests of immediate and delayed naming and repetition. Pictures in short-exposure naming appeared for only 100 ms, whereas pictures in the long exposure condition appeared for3000 ms. While this manipulation did not eliminate diverging performance accuracy between delayed naming and repetition, shortening picture duration did increase task difficulty and revealed greater variability in temporal processing. We discuss the role of visual semantic activation in the time course of word retrieval.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146127407","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":"Inflectional morphology and word order in agrammatic production: A cross-linguistic study of Moroccan Arabic and English.","authors":"Loubna El Ouardi, Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2594986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2025.2594986","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>This cross-linguistic study examined inflectional morphology and word order in Moroccan Arabic (MA) and English-speaking persons with agrammatic aphasia (PWAA). MA has rich verbal morphology and flexible word order, whereas English has limited morphology and rigid order, providing a strong test of accounts of agrammatism. The closed-class deficit hypothesis predicts selective impairment of inflections with preserved word order, while the syntactic deficit hypothesis (SDH) attributes the disorder to a syntactic impairment affecting both domains. Speech from nine MA speakers (four PWAA, five typical participants (TP)) and ten English speakers (five PWAA, five TP) was analyzed. In both languages, PWAA showed deficits in morphology and word order, supporting the SDH. Severity patterns differed: MA-speaking PWAA trended toward greater morphological impairment, whereas English-speaking PWAA showed greater word order disruption. MA-speaking PWAA also deviated from TP's canonical VSO pattern, suggesting compensatory subject-initial strategies. Findings support a core syntactic deficit modulated by language typology.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145662628","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}
Anusha Balasubramanian, Julia E Hofweber, Arpita Bose
{"title":"Cross-linguistic asymmetries in language production and code-switching patterns in bilingual aphasia.","authors":"Anusha Balasubramanian, Julia E Hofweber, Arpita Bose","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2573171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2025.2573171","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates cross-linguistic asymmetries in noun and verb production in a Hindi-English bilingual with Broca's aphasia (RZ), focusing on the influence of task demands (narrative vs. noun naming, verb naming, repetition), morphological richness, and code-switching (frequency and type). RZ exhibited features of agrammatism in both languages, with more pronounced deficits in English. RZ showed grammatical class asymmetries in noun-verb production across tasks. He produced more verbs than nouns in Hindi in the narrative task, likely due to its rich morphology, while showing comparable noun-verb production in naming. Verb retrieval remained consistently impaired in English across tasks. RZ frequently but rigidly code-switched, mainly inserting English nouns within Hindi matrix structure and used bilingual compound verbs, suggesting a strategy to compensate for lexical deficits in Hindi and morphosyntactic challenges in English. These findings underscore the importance of language typology and task demands in shaping aphasic symptomatology in bilinguals.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145427075","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}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2025.2611477
Gilles Vannuscorps, Marie Houbben, Albert Galaburda, Alfonso Caramazza
{"title":"The contribution and mode of integration of parvocellular and magnocellular information in the course of shape orientation perception.","authors":"Gilles Vannuscorps, Marie Houbben, Albert Galaburda, Alfonso Caramazza","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2611477","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2611477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual information reaches the cortex via multiple pathways, most notably the magnocellular (M) and parvocellular (P) streams. How their inputs are integrated remains unclear. We previously documented the case of Davida, a young woman who perceives high-contrast, sharply bounded 2D shapes as rotated or mirror-reversed, while he perception normalizes when stimuli are blurred, low in contrast, or brief. Here, we first review previous findings and propose that her disorder may reflect abnormally strong P-on-M inhibition. We then present three studies supporting this account: two demonstrate abnormally strong P-on-M inhibition in Davida, and a third shows that the degree of P-M imbalance predicts mirror-image discrimination difficulty in neurotypical individuals. Finally, re-analysis of published data suggests that distinct aspects of shape orientation are differentially sensitive to P-M imbalance. Together, these findings highlight the crucial role of dynamic P-M interactions in shaping visual perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"326-344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145935824","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":"Measuring metacognition in hemianopic and blindsight patients: perceptual profiles and theoretical implications.","authors":"Diane Derrien, Clémentine Garric, Claire Sergent, Sylvie Chokron","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2570940","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2570940","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hemianopic patients with visual field defects due to cerebral damage sometimes demonstrate residual visual capacities in their contralesional field, known as blindsight. Its associated subjective experience remains poorly understood. We developed a novel task for patients combining forced-choice detection and discrimination paradigms with a confidence scale to assess individual objective sensitivity and metacognitive sensitivity and efficiency, addressing the unique challenges of probing subjective experience in hemianopia, where <i>visual</i> nature is rarely evident. Four patients participated, revealing distinct perceptual and metacognitive profiles. One patient exhibited remarkable contralesional objective capacities and some preserved metacognition despite rarely reporting <i>visual</i> perception, suggesting subjective content may not reflect the stimulus itself. Concomitantly, preliminary results reveal ipsilesional metacognitive impairments in three patients despite optimal objective performance. Overall, we present the first application of state-of-the-art metacognitive measures to hemianopia, bridging perceptual and metacognitive measures to explore subjective experience, offering new insights into blindsight and the dissociation between consciousness and metacognitive processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"249-269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145349730","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}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2025.2572357
Amélie Van Thorre, Jean-François Patri, Gilles Vannuscorps
{"title":"Testing theories of stuttering: cognitive heterogeneity but shared orosensory tactile weaknesses.","authors":"Amélie Van Thorre, Jean-François Patri, Gilles Vannuscorps","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2572357","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2572357","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cognitive underpinnings of stuttering are likely heterogeneous. Yet existing research typically focuses on testing only one or a few hypotheses and on group-level differences. Here, 12 adults who stutter (AWS) completed a comprehensive battery assessing linguistic, auditory, somatosensory, rhythmic and motor abilities supporting fluent speech. Each AWS's performance was compared with that of 20 control participants to establish individual cognitive profiles. The AWS showed heterogeneous profiles; however, all exhibited some form of orosensory tactile weakness, which, for some, was the only weakness observed. These findings demonstrate the value of individualized cognitive profiling in stuttering and suggest a stronger link between stuttering and orosensory tactile processing than previously recognized.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"270-309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145294238","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}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2025.2576743
Andrea Adriano, Lorenzo Ciccione, Minye Zhan
{"title":"How visual is the \"groupitizing\"? The impact of visual deprivation over its emergence.","authors":"Andrea Adriano, Lorenzo Ciccione, Minye Zhan","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2576743","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02643294.2025.2576743","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research showed that people enumerate objects faster and more accurately when they form clusters, a phenomenon called \"groupitizing\". While mainly studied visually, its dependence on vision is unclear. Congenitally blind (CB) individuals provide a critical test: if vision is essential, CB people should lack groupitizing; if not, they may apply it across modalities, potentially outperforming sighted participants. We compared CB and sighted adults on an auditory groupitizing task, based on the estimation of 5-12 pure tones presented either randomly or grouped by temporal proximity. Both groups showed lower errors and higher precision for grouped sequences, confirming that groupitizing can emerge without visual experience. Importantly, for larger numerosities, sighted individuals' grouping benefit decreased, whereas CB participants maintained robust advantages across all set sizes. These findings suggest that groupitizing relies on amodal perceptual mechanisms and that congenital blindness may enhance auditory enumeration strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"310-325"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145432948","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}