by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractMemory is consolidated during offline states of reduced attention to the external stimulus environment, including sleep and resting wakefulness. While consolidation is usually studied on a timescale of hours to days, accumulating evidence suggests that...
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 | 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/s41593-026-02364-3Hippocampal neural activity sweeps toward remembered goals on internal maps during navigation. These goal-directed sweeps coordinate with prefrontal cortex activity and are...
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...
