Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience articles from November 1998

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience archives from November 1998

Hemispheric and facial asymmetry: faces of academe.
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Various aspects of human and animal laterality long have been the subject of study and research, especially in relation to handedness and the hemispheres of the brain. Particularly noteworthy in the last decade or so has been...

When true recognition suppresses false recognition: evidence from amnesic patients.
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Although memory is often accurate, it is also subject to various kinds of errors and distortions (for recent reviews, see Johnson, Hashtroudi, & Lindsay, 1993; Roediger, 1996; Schacter, 1995). Memory distortions are important...

Disentangling gravitational, environmental, and egocentric reference frames in spatial neglect.
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Spatial neglect in humans is predominantly found in patients with lesions of the right inferior parietal lobe (Vallar & Perani, 1986). These patients demonstrate a deficient response to stimuli located contralaterally to the...

The von Restorff effect in visual object recognition memory in humans and monkeys: the role of frontal/perirhinal interaction.
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION There are good grounds for arguing that the detection of novelty is important for encoding information into memory. This argument can been couched in evolutionary terms, whereby novelty detection affords an advantage in that...

Effects of parietal lesions in humans on color and location priming.
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Early in visual processing, codes for different stimulus attributes, such as location, color, and shape, are activated in parallel, as is semantic information related to the object (Posner, 1978). Code activation facilitates...

Processing syntactic relations in language and music: an event-related potential study.
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The perception of both speech and music depends on the rapid processing of signals rich in acoustic detail and structural organization. For both domains, the mind converts a dynamic stream of sound into a system of discrete...

Dissociable processes for learning the surface structure and abstract structure of sensorimotor sequences.
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Essentially all aspects of cognitive function are embedded in a sequential context, as seen in the perception and production of language, game playing, problem solving, and motor control. In such domains, humans regularly...

Cerebellar contributions to motor timing: a PET study of auditory and visual rhythm reproduction.
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Speech and music rely on the perception and production of temporal patterns, or rhythms, as a vital part of their power to communicate. However, the way in which the human brain achieves accurate timing of perceptual input and...

Functional neuroanatomy of the semantic system: divisible by what?
November 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The issue of where and how the brain represents knowledge about the world is a topic of continuing debate in cognitive neuroscience. Studies of normal subjects and of patients with brain damage suggest that there may be...

Interview with Larry R. Squire.(psychiatrist and academician)(Interview)(Transcript)
November 1, 1998... Larry R. Squire is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and Research Career Scientist at the San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College, a...