by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractA growing body of neuroscience evidence indicates that perceiving everyday objects and environments triggers mental simulations of potential actions, preparing the brain for movement even before any motion occurs. Although previous research on navigation has...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractProlonged cognitive imbalance, induced by directing attention to one visual field, can paradoxically enhance performance in the opposite, nonattended visual field. This effect is likely driven by the brain’s homeostatic mechanisms that regulate...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractThis study investigates whether syntactic unification, the process whereby lexical items are combined into a structured sentence representation, operates independently of semantic influence in Cantonese. Specifically, we compared Cantonese with English to...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 01 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02365-2Yu et al. show that hippocampal theta sweeps encode goal direction during memory-guided navigation, independent of movement or head direction and correlating with performance, providing...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 01 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02366-1Planning is a cognitive process that is thought to be grounded in hippocampal sequences, but recent studies have suggested that a simpler mechanism, fundamentally incompatible with...
