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}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2021-02-01Epub Date: 2021-06-22DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2021.1941828
Charlotte Jacquemot, Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi
{"title":"A case-study of language-specific executive disorder.","authors":"Charlotte Jacquemot, Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2021.1941828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2021.1941828","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Executive control is recruited for language processing, particularly in complex linguistic tasks. Although the issue of the existence of an executive control specific to language is still an open issue, there is much evidence that executively-demanding language tasks rely on domain-general rather than language-specific executive resources. Here, we addressed this issue by assessing verbal and non-verbal executive capacities in LG, an aphasic patient after a stroke. First, we showed that LG's performance was spared in all non-verbal tasks regardless of the executive demands. Second, by contrasting conditions of high and low executive demand in verbal tasks, we showed that LG was only impaired in verbal task with high executive demand. The performance dissociation between low and high executive demand conditions in the verbal domain, not observed in the non-verbal domain, shows that verbal executive control partly dissociates from non-verbal executive control. This language-specific executive disorder suggests that some executive processes might be language-specific.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 2","pages":"125-137"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2021.1941828","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39114855","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: 2021-04-10DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2021.1908979
Aurélie Grandjean, Isabel Suarez, Aline Miquee, David Da Fonseca, Laurence Casini
{"title":"Differential response to pharmacological intervention in ADHD furthers our understanding of the mechanisms of interference control.","authors":"Aurélie Grandjean, Isabel Suarez, Aline Miquee, David Da Fonseca, Laurence Casini","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2021.1908979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2021.1908979","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The deficit in \"interference control\" found in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) could be due to two distinct processes, which are not disentangled in most studies: a larger susceptibility to activating prepotent response impulses and a deficit in suppressing them. Here, we investigated the effect of 1/ADHD and 2/ methylphenidate (MPH), on these two components of interference control. We compared interference control between untreated children with ADHD, children with ADHD under MPH, and typically developing children performing a Simon task. The main findings were that 1/ children with ADHD were more susceptible to reacting impulsively and less efficient at suppressing impulsive actions, and 2/ MPH improved the selective inhibition of impulsive actions but did not modify the strength of response impulse. This work provides an example of how pharmacological interventions and selective responses to them can be used to investigate and further our understanding of cognitive processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 2","pages":"138-152"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2021.1908979","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25580236","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: 2020-10-23DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1833851
Melissa D Stockbridge, Alexandra Walker, William Matchin, Bonnie L Breining, Julius Fridriksson, Argye E Hillis, Gregory Hickok
{"title":"A double dissociation between plural and possessive \"s\": Evidence from the Morphosyntactic Generation test.","authors":"Melissa D Stockbridge, Alexandra Walker, William Matchin, Bonnie L Breining, Julius Fridriksson, Argye E Hillis, Gregory Hickok","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1833851","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1833851","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People with aphasia demonstrate impaired production of bound inflectional morphemes, such as noun plurals and possession. They often show greater difficulty in marking possession versus plurality. Using a new tool for eliciting language, the Morphosyntactic Generation test, we assessed people with primary progressive aphasia and those in the acute and chronic phase following left hemisphere stroke. Clinical profiles were associated with different strengths and weaknesses in language production. Performance of the plural was stronger than possessive in group analyses. However, some individuals demonstrated the inverse pattern of performance. These participants provide counter-evidence to the theory that difficulty with marking possessives is purely the result of their greater cognitive-linguistic complexity and support a functional double dissociation between possessives and plurals. The deficits resulted from morphosyntactic impairment. Future work is needed to understand why plural and possessive markers were differently sensitive to neurological disorders of language.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 1","pages":"116-123"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7855872/pdf/nihms-1641103.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38522242","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: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1869709
Christian Gerlach, Randi Starrfelt
{"title":"Patterns of perceptual performance in developmental prosopagnosia: An in-depth case series.","authors":"Christian Gerlach, Randi Starrfelt","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1869709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1869709","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a syndrome characterized by lifelong impairment in face recognition in the absence of brain damage. A key question regarding DP concerns which process(es) might be affected to selectively/disproportionally impair face recognition. We present evidence from a group of DPs, combining an overview of previous results with additional analyses important for understanding their pattern of preserved and impaired perceptual abilities. We argue that for most of these individuals, the common denominator is a deficit in (rapid) processing of global shape information. We conclude that the deficit in this group of DPs is not face-selective, but that it may appear so because faces are more visually similar-and recognized at a more fine-grained level-than objects. Indeed, when the demand on perceptual differentiation and visual similarity are held constant for faces and objects, we find no evidence for a disproportionate deficit for faces in this group of DPs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 1","pages":"27-49"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1869709","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38830102","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: 2021-04-22DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2021.1914015
Trudy Krajenbrink, Lyndsey Nickels, Saskia Kohnen
{"title":"Serial position effects in graphemic buffer impairment: An insight into components of orthographic working memory.","authors":"Trudy Krajenbrink, Lyndsey Nickels, Saskia Kohnen","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2021.1914015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2021.1914015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the nature of graphemic buffer functioning and impairment, through analysis of the spelling impairment shown by GEC, a man with acquired dysgraphia and clear characteristics of graphemic buffer impairment. We discuss GEC's error patterns in relation to different processes of orthographic working memory. This is the first study to show the contribution of these processes in one individual through performance on different spelling tasks. GEC's spelling errors in writing to dictation showed a linear serial position effect, including deletions of final letters. These \"fragment errors\" can be explained as the result of information rapidly decaying from the buffer (reduced temporal stability). However, in tasks that reduced working memory demands, GEC showed a different error distribution that may indicate impairment to a different buffer process (reduced representational distinctiveness). We argue that different error patterns can be a reflection of subcomponents of orthographic working memory that can be impaired separately.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"38 2","pages":"153-177"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2021.1914015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38898476","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 : 2020-10-01Epub Date: 2020-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1739011
Guido Gainotti
{"title":"Representional and connectivity-based accounts of the cognitive consequences of atrophy of the right and left anterior temporal lobes.","authors":"Guido Gainotti","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1739011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1739011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to the original \"hub-and-spoke\" model of conceptual representations, the neural network for semantic memory requires a single convergence zone located in the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs). However, a more recent version of this model acknowledges that a graded specialization of the left and right ATLs might emerge as a consequence of their differential connectivity with language and sensory-motor regions. A recent influential paper maintained that both the format of semantic representations (representational account) and their differential connectivity (connectivity account) could contribute to the cognitive consequences of atrophy to the left versus the right ATL atrophy. That paper, however, also raised questions as to whether the distinction between representational and connectivity accounts is a meaningful question. I argue that an important theoretical difference exists between the representational and the connectivity-based models and that investigations, based on this difference, should allow to choose between these alternative accounts.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"466-481"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1739011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37739227","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}