Unveiling the Causal Role of Auditory Theta Rhythms in Musical Pleasure: A Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation/Electroencephalogram Study

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, January 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractThe enjoyment of music involves a complex interplay between brain perceptual areas and the reward network. While previous studies have shown that musical liking is related to an enhancement of synchronization between the right temporal and frontal brain...

The Interactive Effects of Negative Emotion and Reward Motivation on Visual Perception

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, January 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractAlthough there is a rapidly growing interest in reward–emotion interactions, our current understanding of how negative emotion influences reward motivation and modulates reward-driven enhancements in visual perception remains limited. To address these gaps, we...

Investigating Generalizability of Top–Down Neural Representation of Meter in Infancy

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, December 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractMusic and speech rhythms are hierarchically organized, including grouping beats to create metrical structures. Previously, we showed that infants can be primed via loudness accents to interpret a metrically ambiguous (unaccented) rhythm either in duple meter...

The P600 during Sentence Reading Predicts Behavioral and Neural Markers of Recognition Memory

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, December 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractThe P600 ERP component is elicited by a wide range of anomalies and ambiguities during sentence comprehension and remains important for neurocognitive models of language processing. It has been proposed that the P600 is a more domain-general component,...

Separate Timescales for Spatial and Anatomical Information Processing of Body Stimuli

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, December 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractObserving different body stimuli can influence the speed and accuracy of our responses. Prior work indicates this effect is influenced by factors such as spatial congruence and perspective. We hypothesized that the influence of these factors would vary...

Electroencephalography Connectome-based Predictive Modeling of Nonverbal Intelligence Level in Healthy Individuals

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, December 1, 2025 | Cognitive Neuropsychology

AbstractIntelligence is increasingly recognized as a critical factor in successful behavioral and emotional regulation. Neuroimaging techniques coupled with machine learning algorithms have proven to be valuable tools for uncovering the neural foundations of...