Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2021-07-01Epub Date: 2021-11-28DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2021.2004108
Saul Sternberg
{"title":"Sex differences in the effects on the brain of early cognitive stimulation.","authors":"Saul Sternberg","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2021.2004108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2021.2004108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study by Farah and colleagues (2021) of the effects on the adult brain of a cognitively intense early childhood experience revealed large effects, but primarily in the brains of male subjects, while causing equally large increases of childhood IQ in males and females. The present analysis advances and tests a conjecture about one reason for the sex difference. Among the control subjects, the summed volume of four small regions of the cortex, associated with language and cognitive processes, is proportionally larger in females. Based on these four regions, a new brain measure, the \"cognitive ratio\", is defined. The cognitive ratio is found to be strongly and negatively correlated with variations in the effect of the early experience on brain volume among the males, and explains a large proportion of the difference between males and females, as well as the greater sensitivity of the male brains to that experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 5","pages":"336-348"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39673484","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 : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-09-16DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2021.1976127
Gwendolyn Sandoboe, Iris Berent
{"title":"The seductive allure of the brain: Dualism and lay perceptions of neuroscience.","authors":"Gwendolyn Sandoboe, Iris Berent","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2021.1976127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2021.1976127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Laypeople prefer brain explanations of behavior (Weisberg, Keil, Goodstein, Rawson, & Gray, 2008). We suggest that this preference arises from 'intuitive Dualism'. For the Dualist, mentalistic causation elicits a mind-body dissonance, as it suggests that the immaterial mind affects the body. Brain causation attributes behavior to the body, so it alleviates the dissonance, hence, preferred. We thus predict stronger brain preference for epistemic traits - those perceived as least material, even when no explanation is required. To test this prediction, participants diagnosed clinical conditions using matched brain- and behavioral tests. Experiments 1-2 showed that epistemic traits elicited stronger preference for brain tests. Experiment 3 confirmed that epistemic traits are perceived as immaterial. Experiment 4 showed that, the less material the trait seems, the stronger the surprise (possibly, dissonance) and brain preference. Results offer new insights into public perception of science, the role of intuitive Dualism, and the seductive allure of neuroscience.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 3","pages":"205-230"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39422184","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":"Apraxia of speech and the study of speech production impairments: Can we avoid further confusion? Reply to Romani (2021).","authors":"Marja-Liisa Mailend, Edwin Maas, Brad H Story","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2021.2009790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2021.2009790","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We agree with Cristina Romani (CR) about reducing confusion and agree that the issues raised in her commentary are central to the study of apraxia of speech (AOS). However, CR critiques our approach from the perspective of basic cognitive neuropsychology. This is confusing and misleading because, contrary to CR's claim, we did not attempt to inform models of typical speech production. Instead, we relied on such models to study the impairment in the clinical category of AOS (translational cognitive neuropsychology). Thus, the approach along with the underlying assumptions is different. This response aims to clarify these assumptions, broaden the discussion regarding the methodological approach, and address CR's concerns. We argue that our approach is well-suited to meet the goals of our recent studies and is commensurate with the current state of the science of AOS. Ultimately, a plurality of approaches is needed to understand a phenomenon as complex as AOS.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 4","pages":"309-317"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011684/pdf/nihms-1873932.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9161624","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}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-09-16DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2021.1969900
Tina Thomas, Shiva Khalaf, Elena L Grigorenko
{"title":"A systematic review and meta-analysis of imaging genetics studies of specific reading disorder.","authors":"Tina Thomas, Shiva Khalaf, Elena L Grigorenko","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2021.1969900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2021.1969900","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The imaging genetics of specific reading disabilities (SRD) is an emerging field that aims to characterize the disabilities' neurobiological causes, including atypical brain structure and function and distinct genetic architecture. The present review aimed to summarize current imaging genetics studies of SRD, characterize the effect sizes of reported results by calculating Cohen's <i>d,</i> complete a Fisher's Combined Probability Test for genes featured in multiple studies, and determine areas for future research. Results demonstrate associations between SRD risk genes and reading network brain phenotypes. The Fisher's test revealed promising results for the genes <i>DCDC2, KIAA0319, FOXP2, SLC2A3,</i> and <i>ROBO1.</i> Future research should focus on exploratory approaches to identify previously undiscovered genes. Using comprehensive neuroimaging (e.g., functional and effective connectivity) and genetic (e.g., sequencing and epigenetic) techniques, and using larger samples, diverse stages of development, and longitudinal investigations, would help researchers understand the neurobiological correlates of SRD to improve early identification.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 3","pages":"179-204"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8500943/pdf/nihms-1736356.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39422115","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}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-09-16DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2021.1974369
Monireh Feizabadi, Andrea Albonico, Randi Starrfelt, Jason J S Barton
{"title":"Whole-object effects in visual word processing: Parallels with and differences from face recognition.","authors":"Monireh Feizabadi, Andrea Albonico, Randi Starrfelt, Jason J S Barton","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2021.1974369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2021.1974369","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual words and faces differ in their structural properties, but both are objects of high expertise. Holistic processing is said to characterize expert face recognition, but the extent to which whole-word processes contribute to word recognition is unclear, particularly as word recognition is thought to proceed by a component-based process. We review the evidence for experimental effects in word recognition that parallel those used to support holistic face processing, namely inversion effects, the part-whole task, and composite effects, as well as the status of whole-word processing in pure alexia and developmental dyslexia, contrasts between familiar and unfamiliar languages, and the differences between handwriting and typeset font. The observations support some parallels in whole-object influences between face and visual word recognition, but do not necessarily imply similar expert mechanisms. It remains to be determined whether and how the relative balance between part-based and whole-object processing differs for visual words and faces.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 3","pages":"231-257"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39422116","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 : 2021-02-01Epub Date: 2020-11-26DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1847060
Christina D Kühn, Christian Gerlach, Kristian Bjerre Andersen, Mads Poulsen, Randi Starrfelt
{"title":"Face recognition in developmental dyslexia: evidence for dissociation between faces and words.","authors":"Christina D Kühn, Christian Gerlach, Kristian Bjerre Andersen, Mads Poulsen, Randi Starrfelt","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1847060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1847060","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developmental dyslexia is primarily a reading disorder, but recent studies have indicated that face processing problems may also be present. Using a case-series approach, we tested face recognition and visual word recognition in 24 high school students diagnosed with developmental dyslexia. Contrary to previous findings, no face recognition problems were found on the group-level. Rather, a significant classical dissociation with impaired word reading and normal face recognition was demonstrated on a group-level and for six individuals with developmental dyslexia. However, four individuals with dyslexia did show face recognition problems. Thus, while problems in face recognition can be present in developmental dyslexia, the dissociation strongly suggests that face recognition can also be preserved. Combined with previously reported dissociations between face and word recognition in developmental prosopagnosia, this constitutes a double dissociation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 1","pages":"107-115"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1847060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38644704","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 : 2021-02-01Epub Date: 2020-11-29DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1847059
Marja-Liisa Mailend, Edwin Maas, Pélagie M Beeson, Brad H Story, Kenneth I Forster
{"title":"Examining speech motor planning difficulties in apraxia of speech and aphasia via the sequential production of phonetically similar words.","authors":"Marja-Liisa Mailend, Edwin Maas, Pélagie M Beeson, Brad H Story, Kenneth I Forster","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1847059","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1847059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the underlying nature of apraxia of speech (AOS) by testing two competing hypotheses. The <i>Reduced Buffer Capacity Hypothesis</i> argues that people with AOS can plan speech only one syllable at a time Rogers and Storkel [1999. Planning speech one syllable at a time: The reduced buffer capacity hypothesis in apraxia of speech. <i>Aphasiology</i>, <i>13</i>(9-11), 793-805. https://doi.org/10.1080/026870399401885]. The <i>Program Retrieval Deficit Hypothesis</i> states that selecting a motor programme is difficult in face of competition from other simultaneously activated programmes Mailend and Maas [2013. Speech motor programming in apraxia of speech: Evidence from a delayed picture-word interference task. <i>American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology</i>, <i>22</i>(2), S380-S396. https://doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360(2013/12-0101)]. Speakers with AOS and aphasia, aphasia without AOS, and unimpaired controls were asked to prepare and hold a two-word utterance until a go-signal prompted a spoken response. Phonetic similarity between target words was manipulated. Speakers with AOS had longer reaction times in conditions with two similar words compared to two identical words. The Control and the Aphasia group did not show this effect. These results suggest that speakers with AOS need additional processing time to retrieve target words when multiple motor programmes are simultaneously activated.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 1","pages":"72-87"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7895325/pdf/nihms-1648226.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38311847","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}
Myrthe G Rijpma, Suzanne M Shdo, Tal Shany-Ur, Gianina Toller, Joel H Kramer, Bruce L Miller, Katherine P Rankin
{"title":"Salience driven attention is pivotal to understanding others' intentions.","authors":"Myrthe G Rijpma, Suzanne M Shdo, Tal Shany-Ur, Gianina Toller, Joel H Kramer, Bruce L Miller, Katherine P Rankin","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1868984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1868984","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interpreting others' beliefs, desires and intentions is known as \"theory of mind\" (ToM), and is often evaluated using simplified measurement tools, which may not correctly reflect the brain circuits that are required for real-life ToM functioning. We aimed to identify the brain structures necessary to correctly infer intentions from realistic scenarios by administering The Awareness of Social Inference Test, Enriched subtest to 47 patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, 24 patients with progressive supranuclear palsy syndrome, 31 patients with Alzheimer's syndrome, and 77 older healthy controls. Neuroimaging data was analyzed using voxel based morphometry, and participants' understanding of intentions was correlated with voxel-wise and region-of interest data. We found that structural integrity of the cinguloinsular cortex in the salience network (SN) was more pivotal for accurate ToM than previously described, emphasizing the importance of the SN for selectively recognizing and attending to social cues during ToM inferences.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 1","pages":"88-106"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1868984","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25317733","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}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2021-02-01Epub Date: 2020-11-05DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1837092
Grant M Walker, Julius Fridriksson, Gregory Hickok
{"title":"Connections and selections: Comparing multivariate predictions and parameter associations from latent variable models of picture naming.","authors":"Grant M Walker, Julius Fridriksson, Gregory Hickok","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1837092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1837092","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Connectionist simulation models and processing tree mathematical models of picture naming have complementary advantages and disadvantages. These model types were compared in terms of their predictions of independent language measures and their associations between model components and measures that should be related according to their theoretical interpretations. The models were tasked with predicting independent picture naming data, neuropsychological test scores of semantic association and speech production, grammatical categories of formal errors, and lexical properties of target items. In all cases, the processing tree model parameters provided better predictions and stronger associations between parameters and independent language measures than the connectionist simulation model. Given the enhanced generalizability of latent variable measurements afforded by the processing tree model, evidence regarding mechanistic and representational features of the speech production system are re-evaluated. Several areas are indicated as being potentially viable targets for elaboration of the mechanistic descriptions of picture naming errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 1","pages":"50-71"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1837092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38572003","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}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2021-02-01Epub Date: 2021-01-17DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1858772
Roberto G de Almeida, Forouzan Mobayyen, Caitlyn Antal, Eva Kehayia, Vasavan P Nair, George Schwartz
{"title":"Category-specific verb-semantic deficits in Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from static and dynamic action naming.","authors":"Roberto G de Almeida, Forouzan Mobayyen, Caitlyn Antal, Eva Kehayia, Vasavan P Nair, George Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1858772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1858772","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated the representation and breakdown of verb knowledge employing different syntactic and semantic classes of verbs in a group of individuals with probable Alzheimer's Disease (pAD). In an action naming task with coloured photographs (Fiez & Tranel, 1997. Standardized stimuli and procedures for investigating the retrieval of lexical and conceptual knowledge for action. <i>Memory and Cognition</i>, 25(4), 543-569. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03201129), pAD individuals were impaired for naming actions compared to objects. Verb tense was also affected, with simple-past (e.g., <i>chopped</i>) being more difficult to name than the gerundial form (e.g., <i>chopping</i>). Employing action-naming with short movies depicting events and states, we contrasted three verb classes based on their hypothetical structural and semantic/conceptual properties: argument structure, thematic structure, and conceptual templates. The three classes were: causatives (<i>peel</i>), verbs of perception (<i>hear</i>), and verbs of motion (<i>run</i>) Overall, results suggest that individuals with pAD are selectively impaired for verb tense and thematic assignment, but not conceptual-template complexity. Methodologically, we also show that dynamic scenes are more ecologically valid than static scenes to probe verb knowledge in AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1858772","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38830874","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}