Experience-driven Predictability Does Not Influence Neural Entrainment to the Beat

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractHumans spontaneously synchronize movements to a perceived underlying pulse, or beat, in music. Beat perception may be indexed by the synchronization of neural oscillations to the beat, marked by increases in EEG amplitude at the beat frequency [Nozaradan, S.,...

Context Matters: Human Faces Hinder Face Pareidolia

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractThe human visual system readily processes illusory faces (IFs) as faces, a phenomenon known as face pareidolia. Building on evidence that IF processing elicits face-like neural activity and is sensitive to contextual cues, we investigated, via two experiments,...

Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractHuman visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performance limits is how the visual system parses a scene into representational...

Experience-dependent Changes in the Visual Processing of Letters: Evidence from Electroencephalography Decoding

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractLearning to read involves the formation and tuning of letter representations, but it is unknown whether this orthographic tuning influences very early visual processing or only later processing. This study tested the hypothesis that experience increases the...

Ignoring Salient Distractors Inside and Outside the Attentional Window

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractThere has been much debate about whether salient stimuli have an automatic power to distract us, with many conflicting results. The attentional window account proposes a potential resolution by suggesting that capture depends on the breadth of attentional...

Brain Dynamics during Architectural Experience: Prefrontal and Hippocampal Regions Track Aesthetics and Spatial Complexity

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractArchitectural experience involves processing the spatial layout of an environment and our emotional reaction to it. However, these two processes are largely studied separately. Here, we used fMRI and first-person movies of journeys through buildings and cities...