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Presearch Attentional Focus Supports Learned Suppression in Visual Search. 预先注意焦点支持视觉搜索中的习得抑制。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.61

Yinfei Zhou, Lishuang Wang, Xinyu Li, Jan Theeuwes, Benchi Wang

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Time-efficient Methodology for Robustly Assessing Speech-related Mismatch Responses in Adults and Infants. 有效评估成人和婴儿言语相关错配反应的时间效率方法。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2397

Tzu-Han Zoe Cheng, Victoria Hennessy, Tian Christina Zhao

{"title":"Time-efficient Methodology for Robustly Assessing Speech-related Mismatch Responses in Adults and Infants.","authors":"Tzu-Han Zoe Cheng, Victoria Hennessy, Tian Christina Zhao","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.2397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2397","url":null,"abstract":"The mismatch response (MMR) is a critical neural indicator of discrimination of speech contrasts. Using MMRs, previous research has demonstrated that language experience can affect MMRs, such that MMRs to native speech contrasts are different from ones to nonnative speech contrasts. This effect is observed as early as 11-12 months, but not at 6-7 months of age, indicating early learning of speech sounds. Yet, many challenges remain to use MMR to advance our understanding of speech learning especially in infants, including prolonged recording time, inefficient use of data, and a lack of reconciliation of MMR recorded using different technologies (i.e., EEG vs. magnetoencephalography [MEG]). Using an improved recording paradigm and analysis approaches, the current study addressed these challenges by examining (1) whether MEG-MMR is linked to well-established EEG-MMR in the same adults and (2) whether our methods capture the difference of MEG-MMR between native and nonnative speech contrasts in adults and (3) in older infants. Results from 18 adults with simultaneous M/EEG demonstrated a high correlation between the MEG-MMR and the EEG-MMR. Additionally, MEG-MMRs to native speech contrasts were different from ones to nonnative speech contrasts, replicating spatiotemporal patterns documented in existing literature. Finally, we replicated this effect in the MEG-MMR in 14 infants aged between 9 and 14 months using the same methods. These findings validate our new methodologies (less than 15 min) for acquiring and analyzing speech-related MMR across ages, paving the way for studying early language development, and improving early detection of language-related disorders.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dissociating Spatial Attention and Working Memory Storage with Pupillometry. 瞳孔测量法解离空间注意和工作记忆储存。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2395

Damian Koevoet, Henry M Jones, Stefan Van der Stigchel, Edward Awh

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Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence for Intertrial Priming of Pop-out in Touch. 接触中弹出动作的审间启动的行为和电生理证据。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2400

Fabiola Rosaria Fiorino, Cristina Iani, Sandro Rubichi, Elena Gherri

{"title":"Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence for Intertrial Priming of Pop-out in Touch.","authors":"Fabiola Rosaria Fiorino, Cristina Iani, Sandro Rubichi, Elena Gherri","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.2400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2400","url":null,"abstract":"In mixed-features search tasks, the target-defining feature changes unpredictably across trials. Responses are faster when the same feature is repeated across successive trials. This effect, known as intertrial priming of pop-out (PoP), suggests that the selection of a perceptually salient singleton target is modulated by the properties of the preceding search array. To investigate whether PoP can be observed in touch, we developed a mixed-features search task in which a singleton target was presented simultaneously with three homogeneous distractors to the index and middle fingers of the left and right hands. The target-defining vibrotactile frequency varied across trials (either a high-frequency target among low-frequency distractors or vice versa) so that on half of the trials, the singleton frequency was repeated on successive trials, while on the other half, it was alternated. To investigate the presence and the mechanisms underlying PoP in touch, behavioral and ERPs were recorded. Specifically, the N140cc component was used as a marker of spatial selective attention in touch. In line with visual search studies, improved performance for both RTs and accuracy was observed when the singleton target feature was repeated across trials than when it was alternated. Importantly, the N140cc component showed larger amplitudes on repetition compared with change trials, demonstrating that the attentional selection of a tactile target was modulated by PoP. Results demonstrate for the first time that PoP effects emerge also during the search for a tactile target.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145349779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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More Complex Cognitive Tasks Increasingly Connect Functionally Dissimilar Brain Regions. 更复杂的认知任务越来越多地连接功能不同的大脑区域。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2396

Daniel Zeitlen, Kaixiang Zhuang, Mathias Benedek, Jiang Qiu, Roger Beaty

{"title":"More Complex Cognitive Tasks Increasingly Connect Functionally Dissimilar Brain Regions.","authors":"Daniel Zeitlen, Kaixiang Zhuang, Mathias Benedek, Jiang Qiu, Roger Beaty","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.2396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2396","url":null,"abstract":"Complex cognition, such as creativity, relies on cognitive integration of various component processes (e.g., memory, attention, and imagery). Yet, current methods cannot fully capture how the brain integrates cognitive processes during complex tasks. Previous research suggests that communication between functionally dissimilar regions might underlie cognitive integration, allowing for complex cognition. Here, we provide a formal test of this notion using task-based fMRI (n = 28) to assess functional connectivity (FC) among sets of regions (\"levels\") varying in their functional dissimilarity (defined by differences in resting-state FC profiles) across five tasks hypothesized to vary in cognitive complexity. Each task involved conceptual association and/or idea generation. We found that as task complexity increased, task-FC between regions with greater functional dissimilarity also increased, and the strength of this linear trend positively predicted the relative complexity of tasks. Thus, more complex tasks recruited greater interactions between functionally dissimilar regions. Furthermore, this effect was primarily driven by the default mode and frontoparietal control networks, especially connector hubs within these networks. Task-FC at the highest functional dissimilarity levels was mostly related to metaphor production and bi-association (involving integrating two concepts), followed by generating novel object uses and uncommon association (involving expanding one concept), and was least related to common association (thus, this task was the least complex). Altogether, task-FC across functional dissimilarity levels robustly tracked the cognitive complexity of tasks, supporting the validity of this neural feature for measuring cognitive complexity in a continuous manner and for data-driven tests of theorized differences in task complexity.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Visual Perspective Shapes Subjective Experience: Dissociable Parietal Contributions to the Constructive Nature of Memory. 视觉视角塑造主观经验：可分离的顶叶对记忆的建构性的贡献。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2403

Peggy L St Jacques

{"title":"Visual Perspective Shapes Subjective Experience: Dissociable Parietal Contributions to the Constructive Nature of Memory.","authors":"Peggy L St Jacques","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.2403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2403","url":null,"abstract":"Subjective features of memory are often treated as secondary to the objective content of remembered events. However, growing evidence suggests that these features actively shape how memories are constructed, experienced, and used. Rather than treating visual perspective as a peripheral correlate of subjectivity, this review positions it as a key mechanism that shapes the memory. Because perspective can be flexibly controlled and reliably measured, it offers a unique window into how retrieval goals interact with mental simulation to produce vivid and emotionally resonant recollections. Drawing on behavioral and neuroimaging research, this review shows that visual perspective determines the spatial framing of memory and the emotional and sensory qualities of recollection. Focusing on the posterior parietal cortex, it outlines distinct roles for the angular gyrus (AG) and the precuneus in supporting perspective-dependent retrieval. The AG contributes to the selection and maintenance of a retrieval perspective, integrating perceptual and conceptual features into a coherent scene. In contrast, the precuneus supports spatial transformation and modulates the vividness, emotional tone, and embodied character of recollection, particularly when individuals recall events from a nondominant or shifted perspective. Together, these findings position visual perspective as a central mechanism in the construction of subjectivity. Understanding how perspective shapes the process of remembering provides insight into how memory supports emotion regulation, mental simulation, and the continuity of the self across time.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145349810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Missing Link: Bridging Cognitive Fatigue with Working Memory. 缺失的一环：连接认知疲劳与工作记忆。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2398

Brodie E Mangan, Dimitrios Kourtis

{"title":"The Missing Link: Bridging Cognitive Fatigue with Working Memory.","authors":"Brodie E Mangan, Dimitrios Kourtis","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.2398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2398","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive fatigue, a key contributor to failures in high-stakes domains, is poorly understood due to imprecise definitions, inconsistent protocols, and neglect of working memory (WM) mechanisms. We propose that active fatigue, arising from sustained cognitive demands, should be studied through WM frameworks, distinguishing it from passive (low arousal) fatigue. Contemporary WM models identify theta/alpha-gamma oscillatory dynamics as fundamental to WM function, plausibly providing testable markers of fatigue-induced breakdown. Conceptualizing active fatigue as specifically a disruption of WM's oscillatory dynamics provides a framework for the precise identification of its core neurophysiological basis. Specifically, tracking destabilized theta/alpha-gamma coupling and frequency synchrony provides a direct link to observed performance declines, enabling targeted rhythm-specific interventions such as frequency-matched brain stimulation. Current induction tasks rarely sustain optimal cognitive difficulty and are confounded by learning effects, prompting us to develop WAND (working-memory adaptive-fatigue with n-back difficulty), an open-source adaptive fatigue induction n-back suite. WAND reduces learning effects, classifies participant performance, and maintains task performance in the \"optimal challenge zone\"; optional distractor probes and multimodal logging enable robust mechanistic analyses. This approach shifts the field toward mechanistic, intervention-ready insights, enhancing fatigue detection and mitigation through theoretically grounded neural markers and standardized induction protocols.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145245250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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No Causal Role for Premotor Cortex in the Perception or Misperception of Degraded Speech: Evidence from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. 运动前皮层在言语退化的感知或误解中没有因果作用：来自经颅磁刺激的证据。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2402

Valeriya Tolkacheva, Sonia L E Brownsett, Katie L McMahon, Greig I de Zubicaray

{"title":"No Causal Role for Premotor Cortex in the Perception or Misperception of Degraded Speech: Evidence from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.","authors":"Valeriya Tolkacheva, Sonia L E Brownsett, Katie L McMahon, Greig I de Zubicaray","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.2402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2402","url":null,"abstract":"Although listeners can enhance perception by using prior knowledge to predict the content of degraded speech signals, this process can also elicit \"misperceptions.\" The neurobiological mechanisms responsible for these phenomena remain a topic of debate. There is relatively consistent evidence for involvement of the bilateral posterior superior temporal gyri (pSTG) in speech perception in noise; however, a role for the left premotor cortex (PMC) is debated. In this study, we employed transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and a prime-probe paradigm for the first time to investigate causal roles for the left PMC and pSTG in speech perception and misperception. To produce misperceptions, we created partially mismatched pseudosentence probes via homophonic nonword transformations (e.g., She moved into her apartment soon after signing the lease-Che moffed inso har apachment sool amter siphing tha leals). All probe sentences were then spectrotemporally degraded and preceded by a clear prime sentence. Compared with a control site (vertex), inhibitory stimulation of the left pSTG selectively disrupted priming of real but not pseudosentences. However, inhibitory stimulation of the left PMC did not significantly influence perception of either real sentences or misperceptions of pseudosentences. These results confirm a role for the left pSTG in the perception of degraded speech. However, they do not support a role for the left PMC in either lexical or sublexical processing during perception of degraded speech using ecologically valid sentence stimuli. We discuss the implications of these findings for neurobiological models of speech perception.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145349807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Simultaneous and Sequential Presentations Differentially Modulate the Temporal Dynamics of Working Memory Processes. 同时呈现和顺序呈现对工作记忆过程时间动态的差异调节。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2399

Ya-Ting Chen, Bo-Cheng Kuo

{"title":"Simultaneous and Sequential Presentations Differentially Modulate the Temporal Dynamics of Working Memory Processes.","authors":"Ya-Ting Chen, Bo-Cheng Kuo","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.2399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2399","url":null,"abstract":"Working memory (WM) involves continuous and dynamic processes, including encoding, maintenance, and retrieval. While many studies have focused on the maintenance of WM information, encoding strategies also impact WM performance and can be shaped by the presentation format of stimuli. However, how presentation formats modulate neural responses across WM stages remains unclear. To address this issue, we conducted an EEG study examining the effects of presentation formats (simultaneous, location-sequential, and center-sequential presentation) and WM loads (one and three abstract shapes). Behavioral results showed longer RTs for the location-sequential than for the center-sequential format. Additionally, the recency effects observed in both sequential conditions reflect the influence of ordinal information. EEG results revealed distinct load-dependent alpha activity patterns across presentation formats during WM maintenance. Simultaneous presentations exhibited a persistent decrease in alpha power, whereas both sequential presentations exhibited an initial decrease followed by a subsequent increase. During sequential encoding, alpha power decreased cumulatively with each additional item in the location-sequential format, but not in the center-sequential format. At retrieval, the probe elicited a load-dependent negative potential (i.e., the N3rs) across all formats. The N3rs load modulation was stronger for simultaneous presentations than sequential ones and was more pronounced for earlier positions than for the last position in sequential presentations. In conclusion, our findings demonstrate that the spatial and temporal order information embedded in presentation formats modulates load-dependent neural responses across WM stages. These effects extend beyond maintenance to encoding and retrieval, highlighting the influence of presentation formats on WM neural dynamics.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145349781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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"Hearing as": Knowledge of Syntactic Structure Affects Event-Related Potential Components for Musical Expectation. “听作为”：句法结构知识影响音乐期望的事件相关电位成分。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.2404

Andrew Goldman, Nazbanou Nozari, Yeoeun Lim, Megan Kibler

{"title":"\"Hearing as\": Knowledge of Syntactic Structure Affects Event-Related Potential Components for Musical Expectation.","authors":"Andrew Goldman, Nazbanou Nozari, Yeoeun Lim, Megan Kibler","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.2404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2404","url":null,"abstract":"Harmonic expectation is an important mediator of musical experience. EEG research has identified event-related potential (ERP) components associated with expectation, including the early (right) anterior negativity (E(R)AN), which is theorized to index harmonic surprisal with reference to long-term memory of the statistical structure of music. However, the role of top-down influences on harmonic predictions remains underexplored. One specific influence concerns how a given harmony can be interpreted in different ways, depending on its syntactic role in a musical context. We present data from a novel paradigm that cues listeners to the syntactic structure of the stimuli (but not whether they contain improbable events). Our main result revealed larger E(R)AN amplitudes for improbable chords when listeners knew that additional context would follow a surprising harmony; P3a and P600 amplitudes were also larger in such cases. Using the theoretical framework of predictive coding, we propose that, in such cases, listeners assign higher precision to their predictions, leading to larger prediction errors as indexed by the E(R)AN, P3a, and P600 ERP components, and that prior context alone does not fully explain how unpredictable events are processed. Musical surprisal arises from a dynamic interplay between bottom-up cues and a listener's top-down anticipation within specific syntactic contexts.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145349833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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