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...

How Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Vocalizations Shape the Perception of Emotional Faces—An Electroencephalography Study

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Saturday, April 12, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractVocal emotions are crucial in guiding visual attention toward emotionally significant environmental events, such as recognizing emotional faces. This study employed continuous EEG recordings to examine the impact of linguistic and nonlinguistic vocalizations...

Distributed Representations for Cognitive Control in Frontal Medial Cortex

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Saturday, April 12, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractIn natural and artificial neural networks, modularity and distributed structure afford complementary but competing benefits. The former allows for hierarchical representations that can flexibly recombine modules to address novel problems, whereas the latter...