“Hearing as”: Knowledge of Syntactic Structure Affects Event-related Potential Components for Musical Expectation

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractHarmonic expectation is an important mediator of musical experience. EEG research has identified event-related potential (ERP) components associated with expectation, including the early (right) anterior negativity (E(R)AN), which is theorized to index...

No Causal Role for Premotor Cortex in the Perception or Misperception of Degraded Speech: Evidence from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractAlthough listeners can enhance perception by using prior knowledge to predict the content of degraded speech signals, this process can also elicit “misperceptions.” The neurobiological mechanisms responsible for these phenomena remain a topic of debate. There...

A Scene with an Invisible Wall—Navigational Experience Shapes Visual Scene Representation

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractHuman navigation heavily relies on visual information. Although many previous studies have investigated how navigational information is inferred from visual features of scenes, little is understood about the impact of navigational experience on visual scene...

Frontal Midline Theta Promotes Context-dependent Aversive Learning in Social Anxiety

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractSocial anxiety is reliably characterized by biases toward avoidance and aversive learning. Here, we examined the neurocomputational processes underlying these biases and examined whether these biases persist across different social contexts. A sample of 154...

Temporal Dynamics of Morphological Priming: A Comparison with Orthographic and Semantic Priming in Event-related Potential Components

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractWhile the unmasked priming paradigm has effectively revealed a biphasic pattern of morphological decomposition—characterized by early morpho-orthographic segmentation followed by later morpho-semantic integration—it remains unsettled which ERP components...

State–Space Trajectories and Traveling Waves Following Distraction

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractCortical activity shows the ability to recover from distractions. We analyzed neural activity from the pFC of monkeys performing working memory tasks with mid-memory delay distractions (a cued gaze shift or an irrelevant visual input). After distraction, there...