Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience articles from January 1997

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience archives from January 1997

Eye movements and orienting of attention in patients with visual neglect.
January 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between overt and covert orienting of attention, that is a selective turning of the eyes towards the stimulus location (overt orienting) and a shift of attention to it...

A locus in human extrastriate cortex for visual shape analysis.
January 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Although neurophysiological studies over the last 25 years have provided a richly detailed map of the 30 or more different visual areas of the macaque brain (Felleman & Van Essen, 1991), the mapping of human visual cortex has only...

On knowing the auxiliary of a verb that cannot be named: evidence for the independence of grammatical and phonological aspects of lexical knowledge.
January 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION There is ample evidence that brain damage can selectively affect distinct aspects of lexical knowledge. Thus, brain-damaged subjects have been described who are selectively impaired in processing the semantic content of words...

Research strategies for functional neuroimaging: a comment on the interview with R.G. Shulman. (biophysicist Robert G. Shulman)
January 1, 1997... In a recent interview in JOCN (September 1996), Robert G. Shulman, a distinguished biophysicist, expressed serious reservations about the use of cognitive concepts to direct research in cognitive neuroscience. One of Shulman's concerns is that...