Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience articles from March 1995

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience archives from March 1995

Separate representation of stimulus frequency, intensity, and duration in auditory sensory memory: an event-related potential and dipole-model analysis.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Psychological studies have provided evidence for two forms of precategorical acoustic store termed "echoic memory" by Neisser (1967): a short auditory store that lasts 200 to 300 msec and is used in the initial stimulus...

Susceptibility to memory interference effects following frontal lobe damage: findings from tests of paired-associate learning.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Characterizing the underlying cognitive function associated with the frontal lobes has been a rather elusive venture. Teuber, (1964) portrayed the problem as a "riddle," because neither sensory nor motoric functions by themselves...

ERP measures assay the degree of expectancy violation of harmonic contexts in music. (human event-related potentials)
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION During the past 15 years, a substantial literature has developed describing cognitive representations of music, and a variety of psychological measures such as subjective ratings, reaction times, performance accuracy, and...

Agrammatism: behavioral description and neurobiological explanation.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Various neurolinguistic theories attempt to explain agrammatism, a set of symptoms that frequently accompanies aphasia. Agrammatism is characterized by frequent omissions and/or substitutions of small grammatical words and...

Frames of reference for hand orientation.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The ultimate goal of the process of sensorimotor integration is to bring together information from different sensory modalities for use by the motor system. In addition to being of different modalities, sensory information is...

Is there a social module? Language, face processing, and theory of mind in individuals with Williams Syndrome.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Sometimes nature provides the scientist with experiments of its own, in the form of various abnormal phenotypes. Down syndrome, autism, hydrocephaly with associated myelomeningocele, and Williams syndrome are among such examples....

Word and nonword repetition within- and across-modality: an event-related potential study.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The effects of repetition on the processing of words and other items have been the subject of intense interest for well over a decade. Initially, interest in repetition effects focused on their potential for investigating the...

Inducing agrammatic profiles in normals: evidence for the selective vulnerability of morphology under cognitive resource limitation.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Agrammatism is a clinical syndrome that is often found in patients with lesions to a frontal region of the left hemisphere called Broca's area. Patients with this syndrome commonly display difficulty in using the grammatical forms...

Recognition of CVC syllables from LVF, RVF, and central locations: hemispheric differences and interhemispheric interaction. (consonant-vowel-consonant)
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION When subjects are asked to identify consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) nonsense syllables presented briefly to the left (LVF) or right (RVF) visual field, there is typically an RVF advantage that is attributed to superiority of the...

Intermediate-level visual representations and the construction of surface perception.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION One of the basic characteristics of visual perception is our tendency to see the world as composed of objects and surfaces. In a complex scene, such as a mountain landscape or a crowded shopping mall, there are a variety of cues...

Surface area of human cerebral cortex and its gross morphological subdivisions: in vivo measurements in monozygotic twins suggest differential hemisphere effects of genetic factors.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Phylogenetic increases in brain size have evolved not as a symmetrical enlargement of the entire brain, but as a disproportionate increase in the size of the cerebral hemispheres involving, in particular, the surface area of the...

Interview with Alfonso Caramazza. (psychologist)(Interview)
March 22, 1995... Alfonso Caramazza is the David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College. He received the B.A. degree in psychology from McGill University in 1970 and the Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1974. He joined the Hopkins faculty...