Neural Basis of Action Simulation in Architectural Perception: A Multi-voxel Pattern Analysis Study

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractA growing body of neuroscience evidence indicates that perceiving everyday objects and environments triggers mental simulations of potential actions, preparing the brain for movement even before any motion occurs. Although previous research on navigation has...

Content-Independent Pointers Mediate Working Memory Storage for Both Visual and Verbal Stimuli

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractProminent models of working memory (WM) have long argued that visual and verbal WM rely on distinct storage buffers. Although this claim has been bolstered by both behavioral and neural studies that reveal important differences between visual and verbal...

Neural Signatures of Flexible Temporal Orienting under Spatial and Motor Uncertainty

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractThe goal-dependent use of temporal expectations enhances visual performance, even without concurrent spatial or motor predictions, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. To identify the stages of stimulus processing influenced by temporal...

Visual Simulation Is Supported by Sequential Monitoring in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractVisual simulation—a process that allows us to create complex internal models of the world—is essential for the completion of daily tasks, such as our morning commute. We can mentally track our progress along the route and make adjustments on the fly, all...

Independent Markers of Attentional Shifts

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractVisuospatial attention has been extensively studied using a wide variety of markers in the brain and in behavior. We can broadly classify these markers into two distinct groups: reactive measures, where the presence and strength of attentional biases are...

Effects of Ultra-short Offline States on Item-level Verbal Memory

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractMemory is consolidated during offline states of reduced attention to the external stimulus environment, including sleep and resting wakefulness. While consolidation is usually studied on a timescale of hours to days, accumulating evidence suggests that...