Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience articles from June 1995

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience archives from June 1995

A model of corticostriatal plasticity for learning oculomotor associations and sequences.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION: TASKS, CONTEXTS, AND BEHAVIOR While the basal ganglia have traditionally been associated with initiation and control of movement (see Alexander, DeLong, & Strick, 1986), accumulating evidence links basal ganglia additionally to...

Spatial versus object working memory: PET investigations. (positron emission tomography)
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The construct of working memory is central to our understanding of higher-level cognition. The few broad-based theories of cognition that exist - notably the computational models of Anderson (1983) and Newell (1990) - include...

PET studies of auditory and phonological processing: effects of stimulus characteristics and task demands.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The ability to integrate information that changes rapidly in time may be extremely important for the perceptual analysis of speech sounds. Tallal and colleagues (Tallal & Piercy, 1974, 1975; Tallal & Newcombe, 1978; Tallal, Stark,...

Who did what and when? Using word- and clause-level ERPs to monitor working memory usage in reading.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Studies using ERP measures of sentence processing have usually focused on the processing of single words rather than larger linguistic units (for reviews see Kutas & Van Petten, 1988; Fischler & Raney, 1991). This study augments...

Representation of grammatical categories of words in the brain.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Knowledge of the meaning and of the phonological and orthographic forms of words is represented independently in the brain as evidenced by the fact that each of these forms of word knowledge can be selectively impaired as the...

Interview with Daniel C. Dennett. (professor of cognitive studies)(Interview)
June 22, 1995... JOCN: You are known both as a philosopher and as a cognitive scientist. How do think of yourself?. Where does the one role stop and the other start? DD: I consider myself a philosopher. Before the twentieth century philosophers often became...

Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate.
June 22, 1995... Reviewed by Melvyn A. Goodale This is a book about mental images and how they are generated by the brain. It is a book that 20 years ago could not have been written - not simply because we did not have the technology to carry out many of the...

Contrast Sensitivity.
June 22, 1995... Reviewed by Mark T. Wallace Although it is not immediately apparent to most of us, psychophysical examples, such as a picture of equally luminant circles on a nonuniform background, teach us that our visual perceptions are more a function of...

Synaptic Plasticity: Molecular, Cellular, and Functional Aspects.
June 22, 1995... Reviewed by Douglas O. Frost Neural plasticity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and has many manifestations. Among the oldest forms of plasticity to be recognized are those studied by behaviorists, such as associative learning,...