Neuropsychologia
July 28, 2026
Feng Chen, Weizhe Xu, Changye Li et al.
Formal thought disorder (FTD), a hallmark of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, manifests as incoherent speech and poses challenges for clinical assessment. Traditional clinical rating scales, though validated, are resource-intensive and lack scalability. Automated speech recognition (ASR) allows for objective quantification of linguistic and temporal features of speech, offering scalable...
Neuropsychologia
May 3, 2026
Elio Quiroga Rodríguez
The human nose occupies approximately ten to fifteen percent of each monocular visual field, yet remains completely absent from conscious awareness during normal binocular vision-a phenomenon that reveals fundamental principles about how the brain constructs perceptual reality. This paper examines the mechanisms underlying nasal suppression through multiple theoretical lenses, integrating...
Neuropsychologia
February 15, 2026
Stefan Wiens, Mingailė Greičiūtė, Billy Gerdfeldter et al.
A central feature of consciousness is the association between external events and subjective experiences of content. These experiences range from low level (detection) to high level (identification). For example, a visual experience may range from seeing something on a computer screen (detection) to seeing the digit 3 (identification). In research, neural processes that correlate with these...
Neuropsychologia
January 30, 2026
Lu Teng
Whereas aphantasics report lacking voluntary conscious visual imagery, empirical findings indicate that they employ visual strategies to complete tasks. The discrepancy has led some researchers to propose that aphantasics rely on unconscious visual imagery. This paper instead motivates and defends a "conscious" view. Consciousness research uses both visibility and confidence measures....
Neuropsychologia
October 30, 2025
Sandrine Baselgia, Björn Rasch
1 citation
Psychosocial stress induces stress responses at physiological and cognitive levels which disrupt subsequent sleep. A recent study from our group has shown that stress-induced changes are dynamic: stress before sleep led to prolonged sleep latency and changes in the early sleep period, while anticipated post-sleep stress resulted in changes in the late sleep period. A possible explanation is...
Neuropsychologia
October 10, 2025
Karen R Konkoly, Daniel J Morris, Matthew Cho et al.
Dreams may partially reflect the memory reorganizing that occurs nightly, improving the usefulness of what we learn each day. However, solid evidence has yet to link dreaming with adaptive overnight memory reorganization. Establishing this link faces several challenges, including the difficulty of experimentally controlling dream content and the susceptibility of dream reports to distortion and...
Neuropsychologia
July 26, 2025
Jake Hooper, Devon Stoliker, Kyle Wolfe et al.
1 citation
Neuroaesthetics is a subdiscipline within cognitive neuroscience which describes the biological mechanisms of aesthetic experiences. These experiences encompass perceptions and evaluations of natural objects, artwork, and environments that are ubiquitous in daily life. Empirical research demonstrates that aesthetic experiences arise from an interplay of sensory, affective, and semantic...
Neuropsychologia
June 19, 2025
The association of brain injury severity with dream cessation and nightmares.
Neuropsychologia
May 3, 2025
Matthew Kolisnyk, Geoffrey Laforge, Marie-Ève Gagnon et al.
Functional neuroimaging has fundamentally changed our understanding of disorders of consciousness (DoC). While many DoC patients exhibit minimal to no behavioural responsiveness, a significant minority show neural evidence of awareness and preserved cognitive functioning. Although several cognitive functions have been explored in DoC patients, autobiographical memory -- the ability to form and...
Neuropsychologia
April 15, 2024
David Rosen, Yongtaek Oh, Christine Chesebrough et al.
Using a creative production task, jazz improvisation, we tested alternative hypotheses about the flow experience: (A) that it is a state of domain-specific processing optimized by experience and characterized by minimal interference from task-negative default-mode network (DMN) activity versus (B) that it recruits domain-general task-positive DMN activity supervised by the fronto-parietal...
Neuropsychologia
September 28, 2023
Avijit Chowdhury, Remko Van Lutterveld, Ruben Laukkonen et al.
54 citations
Investigation of advanced mindfulness meditation "cessation" experiences using EEG spectral analysis in an intensively sampled case study.
Neuropsychologia
April 15, 2023
Bo Sun, Xianqing Zeng, Xiaomin Chen et al.
There is a theoretical debate between the early and late neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs). Previous studies using neutral face stimuli supported an early NCC and suggested that visual awareness negativity (VAN) is associated with consciousness, while late positivity (LP) reflects post-perceptual activity. However, emotional faces may help to examine the relationship between LP and...
Neuropsychologia
December 15, 2022
Older adults make fewer utilitarian decisions than younger adults during sacrificial moral dilemmas, which are associated with age-related reductions in Default Mode Network resting-state functional connectivity. Decreases on tasks associated with fluid cognitive abilities, such as working memory capacity, are also associated with age-related Default Mode Network changes. Regions within this...
Neuropsychologia
May 3, 2022
Victor N Almeida
The chief undertaking in the studies of consciousness is that of unravelling the neural correlates of consciousness. To this day, this crusade remains at an impasse, with a clash of two main theoretical stances: the Global Neuronal Workspace and the Recurrent Processing. Yet, cellular and neurophysiological studies of consciousness have been mostly dissociated from the two. Herein, a...
Neuropsychologia
November 1, 2021
Nicola Sambuco, M. Bradley, P. Lang
The default mode network (DMN) is activated when constructing and imagining narrative events, with functional brain activity in one region, the medial-prefrontal cortex, hypothesized to be modulated during emotional processing by adding value (or pleasure) to the episodic representation. However, since enhanced reactivity during emotional, compared to neutral, content is a more frequent finding...
Neuropsychologia
September 17, 2021
Elizabeth Schechter, Tim Bayne
11 citations
In a recent series of experiments, Pinto and colleagues found that the split-brain patient D.D.C. was able to respond accurately to stimuli in either visual field, whether using his right hand, his left hand, or verbally. Pinto and colleagues argue that this demonstrates that a split-brain patient remains a unitary agent and thus continues to possess a unified consciousness. This paper provides...
Neuropsychologia
October 1, 2020
Łucja Doradzińska, Michał J Wójcik, Marta Paź et al.
The P3 event-related potential has been known for over 50 years, but its function is still a matter of ongoing debate. Current theories interpret P3b either as a correlate of perceptual consciousness, or as reflecting cognitive processes, like working memory and executive functions. Unexpectedly, recent studies indicate that P3b might occur in response to unconsciously presented stimuli which,...
Neuropsychologia
April 30, 2020
Amnon Dafni-Merom, S. Arzy
One of Endel Tulving's most important contributions to memory research is the coupling of self-knowing consciousness (or "autonoesis") with episodic memory. According to Tulving, autonoetic episodic memory enables the uniquely human neurocognitive operation of "mental time travel", which is the ability to deliberately "project" oneself to a specific time and place to remember personally...
Neuropsychologia
August 1, 2019
Umberto León-Domínguez, José León-Carrión
The Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) is one of the principal brain regions studied in consciousness. Previous investigations suggest that the PFC is an important neural hub in both awareness and the manipulation of the content of consciousness. Despite a consensus in the scientific community regarding PFC function in cortico-cortical networks, there is still intense debate as to its role in the...
Neuropsychologia
June 1, 2019
Itsaso Colás, Ana B Chica, Estrella Ródenas et al.
We are conscious and verbally report some of the information reaching our senses, although a big amount of information is processed unconsciously. There is no agreement about the neural correlates of consciousness, with low-level theories proposing that neural processing on primary sensory brain regions is the most important neural correlate of consciousness, while high-level theories propose...
Neuropsychologia
June 1, 2019
Anh-Thu Mai, Tijl Grootswagers, Thomas A. Carlson
The mere presence of information in the brain does not always mean that this information is available to consciousness. Experiments using paradigms such as binocular rivalry, visual masking, and the attentional blink have shown that visual information can be processed and represented by the visual system without reaching consciousness. Using multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) and...
Neuropsychologia
May 1, 2019
Chiara Mazzi, Silvia Savazzi, Juha Silvanto
Blindsight has been central to theories of phenomenal awareness; that a lesion to primary visual cortex (V1) abolishes all phenomenal awareness while unconscious visual functions can remain has led to the view that this region plays a crucial role in generating visual consciousness. However, since the early 20th century, there have been reports, many of which controversial, of phenomenal...
Neuropsychologia
July 21, 2018
Enrico Fucci, Oussama Abdoun, Anne Caclin et al.
58 citations
Non-dual meditation aims to undo maladaptive cognitive and affective patterns by recognizing their constructed and transient nature. We previously found high-amplitude spontaneous gamma (25-40 Hz) oscillatory activity during such practice. Nonetheless, it is unclear how this meditation state differs from other practices, in terms of perceptual information processing. Here, we hypothesized that...
Neuropsychologia
March 17, 2018
Tali R. Marron, Yulia Lerner, Ety Berant et al.
128 citations
Research on creativity shows that creative thinking entails both executive (controlled) and associative (spontaneous) processes. Yet standard creativity tasks cannot reliably isolate these two types of cognitive processes, making it difficult to understand the relation between the two and the roles of their corresponding brain networks in creative cognition. In this study we used a behavioral...
Neuropsychologia
November 1, 2017
Sherain Harricharan, Andrew A Nicholson, Maria Densmore et al.
64 citations
The vestibular system integrates multisensory information to monitor one's bodily orientation in space, and is influenced by interoceptive awareness. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) involves typically alterations in interoceptive and bodily self-awareness evidenced by symptoms of hyperarousal, as well as of emotional detachment, including emotional numbing, depersonalization, and...