Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-10-01Epub Date: 2020-08-26DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1808455
Tessa M van Leeuwen, Janina Neufeld, James Hughes, Jamie Ward
{"title":"Synaesthesia and autism: Different developmental outcomes from overlapping mechanisms?","authors":"Tessa M van Leeuwen, Janina Neufeld, James Hughes, Jamie Ward","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1808455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1808455","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synaesthesia, a mixing of the senses, is more common in individuals with autism. Here, we review the evidence for the association between synaesthesia and autism with regard to their genetic background, brain connectivity, perception, cognitive mechanisms and their contribution to exceptional talents. Currently, the overlap between synaesthesia and autism is established most convincingly at the level of alterations in sensory sensitivity and perception, with synaesthetes showing autism-like profiles of sensory sensitivity and a bias towards details in perception. Shared features may include a predominance of local over global connectivity in the brain. When autism and synaesthesia co-occur in the same individual, the chance of developing heightened cognitive and memory abilities is increased. We discuss how the same theoretical models could potentially explain both conditions. Given the evidence, we believe the phenotypical overlap between autism and synaesthesia has been established clearly enough to invite future research to confirm overlapping mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"433-449"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1808455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38309735","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: 2020-05-26DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1765754
Stephen Man Kit Lee, Xiuli Tong
{"title":"Spelling in developmental dyslexia in Chinese: Evidence of deficits in statistical learning and over-reliance on phonology.","authors":"Stephen Man Kit Lee, Xiuli Tong","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1765754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1765754","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study employed a multi-dimensional (i.e., orthographic, phonological, and semantic) and bi-level (i.e., character and radical) approach to analyze the character writing of 120 Hong Kong Chinese children with developmental dyslexia in Grades 2-5 and 120 typically developing age-matched controls. Relative to their typically developing peers, children with dyslexia were less sensitive to the positional and functional consistencies of sublexical radicals and exhibited prolonged use of phonology at the character level as grade-level advanced. Furthermore, the children with dyslexia relatively relied more on phonology at the radical level than younger, reading level-matched children. These results indicate the effects of implicit statistical learning on the development of Chinese character writing skills and suggest that the prolonged use and overreliance on phonology in character writing by Chinese children with dyslexia may reflect their difficulties in implicit statistical learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"494-510"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1765754","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37973779","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: 2020-06-30DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1785412
Laurence R Harris
{"title":"Does the vestibular system exert specific or general influences on cognitive processes?","authors":"Laurence R Harris","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1785412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1785412","url":null,"abstract":"Vestibular cognition is a newly emerging field with exciting and unexpected implications for our understanding of how the brain works and our ability to provide therapies when neural processes are ...","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"430-432"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1785412","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38101821","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: 2020-03-19DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1736018
Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Patrick Haggard
{"title":"Vestibular cognition: State-of-the-art and future directions.","authors":"Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Patrick Haggard","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1736018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1736018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vestibular information has been traditionally considered as a specialized input for basic orienting behaviours, such as oculo-motor adjustments, postural control and gaze orientation. However, in the past two decades a widespread vestibular network in the human brain has been identified, that goes far beyond the low-level reflex circuits emphasized by earlier work. Because this vestibular cortical network is so widely distributed, it could, in principle, impact multiple neurocognitive functions in health and disease. This paper focuses on the relations between <i>vestibular input</i>, <i>vestibular networks</i>, and <i>vestibular interventions</i> by providing the authors' personal viewpoint on the state-of-the-art of vestibular cognitive neuropsychology, and its potential relevance for neurorehabilitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"413-420"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1736018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37755198","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: 2020-06-03DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1765753
Guo Jiahui, Hua Yang, Bradley Duchaine
{"title":"Attentional modulation differentially affects ventral and dorsal face areas in both normal participants and developmental prosopagnosics.","authors":"Guo Jiahui, Hua Yang, Bradley Duchaine","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1765753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1765753","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Face-selective cortical areas that can be divided into a ventral stream and a dorsal stream. Previous findings indicate selective attention to particular aspects of faces have different effects on the two streams. To better understand the organization of the face network and whether deficits in attentional modulation contribute to developmental prosopagnosia (DP), we assessed the effect of selective attention to different face aspects across eight face-selective areas. Our results from normal participants found that ROIs in the ventral pathway (OFA, FFA) responded strongly when attention was directed to identity and expression, and ROIs in the dorsal pathway (pSTS-FA, IFG-FA) responded the most when attention was directed to facial expression. Response profiles generated by attention to different face aspects were comparable in DPs and normals. Our results demonstrate attentional modulation affects the ventral and dorsal steam face areas differently and indicate deficits in attentional modulation do not contribute to DP.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"482-493"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1765753","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38004289","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: 2020-06-03DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1770207
Bruna Seixas-Lima, Kelly Murphy, Angela K Troyer, Brian Levine, Naida L Graham, Carol Leonard, Elizabeth Rochon
{"title":"Episodic memory decline is associated with deficits in coherence of discourse.","authors":"Bruna Seixas-Lima, Kelly Murphy, Angela K Troyer, Brian Levine, Naida L Graham, Carol Leonard, Elizabeth Rochon","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1770207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1770207","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates coherence of discourse in the production of autobiographical narratives by individuals with aMCI. Autobiographical interviews were analyzed to determine whether reduced episodic recall was related to deficits in discourse coherence. A coherence rating scale was used to evaluate relatedness of the autobiographical details produced by participants to the topic of discourse. Interviews were transcribed, segmented into details, and divided into sets of episodic, semantic, or supplementary information, which were subsequently analysed with the coherence rating scale. We predicted that the known episodic deficits observed in aMCI could also affect the retrieval of coherent episodic information. The results revealed deficits in coherence could be found in both episodic and semantic information in the aMCI group. These results suggest that the cognitive deficits experienced by individuals with aMCI may go beyond their known difficulty in recalling episodic details, as they also affect the controlled retrieval of both episodic and semantic information.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"511-522"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1770207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38003240","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: 2020-06-12DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1767560
Junhua Ding, Keliang Chen, Nan Zhang, Mingyue Luo, Xiaoxia Du, Yan Chen, Qing Yang, Yingru Lv, Yumei Zhang, Luping Song, Zaizhu Han, Qihao Guo
{"title":"White matter networks dissociate semantic control from semantic knowledge representations: Evidence from voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping.","authors":"Junhua Ding, Keliang Chen, Nan Zhang, Mingyue Luo, Xiaoxia Du, Yan Chen, Qing Yang, Yingru Lv, Yumei Zhang, Luping Song, Zaizhu Han, Qihao Guo","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1767560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1767560","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although semantic system is composed of two distinctive processes (i.e., semantic knowledge and semantic control), it remains unknown in which way these two processes dissociate from each other. Investigating the white matter neuroanatomy underlying these processes helps improve understanding of this question. To address this issue, we recruited brain-damaged patients with semantic dementia (SD) and semantic aphasia (SA), who had selective predominant deficits in semantic knowledge and semantic control, respectively. We built regression models to identify the white matter network associated with the semantic performance of each patient group. Semantic knowledge deficits in the SD patients were associated with damage to the left medial temporal network, while semantic control deficits in the SA patients were associated with damage to the other two networks (left frontal-temporal/occipital and frontal-subcortical networks). The further voxel-based analysis revealed additional semantic-relevant white matter tracts. These findings specify different processing principles of the components in semantic system.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"450-465"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1767560","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38041310","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: 2020-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1783222
Kathleen E Cullen, Lin Wang
{"title":"Predictive coding in early vestibular pathways: Implications for vestibular cognition.","authors":"Kathleen E Cullen, Lin Wang","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1783222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1783222","url":null,"abstract":"Single unit neurophysiological and anatomical studies have provided us with a fundamental understanding of the circuit-based mechanisms by which vestibular information is processed to ensure accura...","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"423-426"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1783222","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38120196","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 : 2020-10-01Epub Date: 2020-06-23DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1784863
Gabriella Bottini, Gerardo Salvato
{"title":"In medio stat virtus: Integrating two functional models of vestibular cognition.","authors":"Gabriella Bottini, Gerardo Salvato","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1784863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1784863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"427-429"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1784863","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38079577","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: 2020-08-26DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1809364
Pierluigi Zoccolotti
{"title":"The reading level matched design: Limitations and possible alternatives.","authors":"Pierluigi Zoccolotti","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1809364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1809364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wybrow & Hanley (2015) reported that proportions of phonological and surface dyslexics change depending on how control groups are selected. This observation questions the appropriateness of the reading-level match design for establishing causality in cognitive studies of reading. Here, I focus on three features: (1) the lack of an explicit definition of the reading-level concept; (2) the metric problems associated with using this design; and (3) the ambiguity of the delay-deviance contrast in interpreting reading deficits. I also delineate alternative methodological features that could effectively inform developmental designs. Thus, I argue that (a) control variables should be as independent of the target-dependent measure as possible; (b) they should be shaped within the theoretical aims of the study and be explicitly considered in the interpretation of findings; and, (c) conditions of interest should be viewed along with critically associated conditions using approaches that allow predicting the size of the expected deficit..</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"523-534"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1809364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38309630","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}