Neural Evidence for Feature-based Distractor Inhibition

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, June 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractInterference from a salient distractor is typically reduced when the appearance of the distractor follows either spatial or feature-based regularities. Although there is a growing body of literature on distractor location learning, the understanding of...

Saccades and Blinks Index Cognitive Demand during Auditory Noncanonical Sentence Comprehension

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, June 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractNoncanonical sentence structures pose comprehension challenges because they require increased cognitive demand. Prosody may partially alleviate this cognitive load. These findings largely stem from behavioral studies, yet physiological measures may reveal...

Beyond Routine Maintenance: Current Trends in Working Memory Research

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, June 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractWorking memory (WM) is an evolving concept. Our understanding of the neural functions that support WM develops iteratively alongside the approaches used to study it, and both can be profoundly shaped by available tools and prevailing theoretical paradigms....

Beyond Increasing Sample Sizes: Optimizing Effect Sizes in Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, June 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractLinking neurobiology to relatively stable individual differences in cognition, emotion, motivation, and behavior can require large sample sizes to yield replicable results. Given the nature of between-person research, sample sizes at least in the hundreds are...

Neural Correlates of the Musicianship Advantage to the Cocktail Party Effect

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, June 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractPrior research has indicated that musicians show an auditory processing advantage in phonemic processing of language. The aim of the current study was to elucidate when in the auditory cortical processing stream this advantage emerges in a cocktail-party-like...

Functional Brain Networks Underlying Autobiographical Event Simulation: An Update

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, June 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractfMRI studies typically explore changes in the BOLD signal underlying discrete cognitive processes that occur over milliseconds to a few seconds. However, autobiographical cognition is a protracted process and requires fMRI tasks with longer trials to capture...