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...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractHumans can create completely new concepts through semantic composition. These “conceptual combinations” can be created by attributing the features of one concept to another (e.g., a “lemon flamingo” might be a yellow flamingo) or drawing on a relationship...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Sunday, February 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractNeuroscientific investigations of human dreaming have been hampered by reliance on dream recall after awakening. For example, a challenge of associating EEG features with post-waking dream reports is that they are subject to distortion, forgetting, and poor...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, January 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractPredictive processing plays a central role in language comprehension, allowing listeners to generate predictions about upcoming linguistic input. Although considerable evidence supports segmental prediction, less is known about whether listeners can form...
by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, January 1, 2026 | Cognitive Neuropsychology
AbstractWhen faced with a familiar situation, we can use memory to make predictions about what will happen next. If such predictions turn out to be erroneous, the brain can adapt by differentiating the representations of the cue from the mispredicted item itself,...
