The Impact of Auditory Distraction on Visual Memory Encoding in Middle-aged and Older Adults: A High-density Electroencephalography Study

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, September 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractMultitasking is essential for facing the complexity of everyday life environments, where the simultaneous processing of multiple information streams is ubiquitous, and it often requires an increased deployment of attentional resources to manage concurrent...

A Role of Pupil-linked Arousal, Cingulo-insular Cortex, and Intralaminar Thalamus for Auditory Near-threshold Perception

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, September 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractThe perception of near-threshold tones varies strongly across trials, likely because of fluctuations in sustained attention or arousal. We used parallel fMRI and pupillometry to study the role of attention networks for the detection of near-threshold tones in...

Target Detection Modulates Electroencephalographic Spectral Correlates of Memory Encoding

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, September 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractThe current study investigates whether changes in scalp electroencephalographic activity over time reflect the effects of target detection and divided attention on memory encoding. We recorded electroencephalographic activity in 61 young adults as they...

Contralateral Delay Activity Tracks Storage Load in Visual Working Memory: Evidence from the Multiple Object Tracking Task

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, September 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractContralateral delay activity (CDA) is a measure used to assess the amount of information being stored in visual working memory (VWM). However, it has also been suggested that CDA reflects the current focus of spatial attention, as seen in the multiple object...

Theta Stimulation Enhances Early Consolidation of Semantic Memory

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, September 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractThis study investigates the role of theta frequency transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in enhancing the consolidation of newly acquired semantic knowledge. Although postencoding theta oscillatory power increase has been reported to benefit...

High-frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Can Improve Attentional Control Under Stress: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, September 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractPsychological stress impairs cognition, forcing attention toward stressor-related information. However, stress may reallocate limited cognitive resources in adaptive ways. How stress modulates the attentional control remains unclear. In this study, the...