by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Sunday, November 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractWorking memory (WM), the transient storage and manipulation of information, is a cognitive function that can improve with training. Accumulating evidence suggests that sleep, particularly slow oscillations (SOs) that occur during nonrapid eye movement sleep,...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Sunday, November 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractGoal-directed behavior relies on cognitive flexibility—the ability to rapidly adapt ongoing thoughts and behaviors while preserving task-relevant information. The performance monitoring system optimizes such behavior by detecting and evaluating errors, whereas...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Sunday, November 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractPrevailing theories emphasize a “common neural currency” for social and nonsocial rewards, particularly during reward anticipation. However, direct comparisons of social and nonsocial reward anticipation remain limited, and clinical observations suggest that...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Sunday, November 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractEpisodic memories are known to change with each act of retrieval. We hypothesize that accessing semantic knowledge in different ways during episodic retrieval—from unique perceptual features to taxonomic and thematic context—shapes how those memories are...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Sunday, November 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractThe lesion correlates of syntactic deficits in aphasia remain poorly understood. Previous studies have suggested that distinct error types in expressive syntax may be associated with damage to different brain regions, but the specific lesion correlates of...
