Growth trajectories of cognitive and motor control in adolescence: How much is development and how much is practice?
Conclusions: Estimation of learning effects is crucial for examining developmental changes longitudinally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - November 22, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Subjective memory concerns, poor vascular health, and male sex predict exacerbated memory decline trajectories: An integrative data-driven class and prediction analysis.
Conclusion: Among SMD facets, memory concerns represent the most severe degree of apprehension about subjectively experienced memory losses. The present integrative data-driven analysis indicated that such concerns predicted membership in declining memory trajectory classes in addition to worse vascular health (higher PP) and sex (male). In nondemented aging, concerns about increasing memory failures may be veridical indicators of memory loss, especially when coupled with vascular comorbidity and being male. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - November 18, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Implicit prototype learning in patients with memory deficit: Evidence from a study with Alzheimer’s disease patients.
Conclusions: Results support both of our claims: first, that also severe amnesic people can learn new visual prototypes with a fully implicit paradigm and, second, that the classical dot pattern task requires some degree of episodic resources. Further research is needed to rule out the role of working memory in solving the FPLT. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - November 4, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Episodic memory for emotional and neutral pictures in Parkinson’s disease.
Objective: Prior studies have shown that individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) exhibit deficits in the processing of emotional information. Here, we investigated whether such deficits caused by PD reduce the mnemonic benefits typically produced by emotion in healthy individuals. Method: Thirty individuals with PD and 30 healthy individuals, matched for sex, age, and education, were recruited for the study. To assess their memory for emotional information, we asked them to observe a series of negative, positive, and neutral images distributed in three consecutive blocks. After a short interval, all observed images wer...
Source: Neuropsychology - October 28, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Metamemory and financial decision making in older adults without dementia.
Conclusions: Metamemory deficit in older adults is a potential indicator of impaired financial decision making. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - October 28, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
The incremental validity of primacy as a predictor of everyday functioning.
Conclusion: The present study suggests that serial position effects predict future subjective and performance-based functional changes, beyond demographic information and global cognition. The study adds to a growing literature about the relative importance of primacy, especially in the prediction of functional changes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - October 21, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Apathy in a high prevalence population of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: An investigation in Vietnam.
Conclusions: These findings support the multidimensional characterizations and socio-cultural considerations of apathy after TBI, which will potentially develop both individual-specific and symptom-specific approaches in clinical practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - October 14, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Cross-modal aftereffects of visuo-manual prism adaptation: Transfer to auditory divided attention in healthy subjects.
Conclusions: For the first time, these findings demonstrate that L-PA produced an orientation of the auditory divided attention in favor of the right ear in healthy participants. This asymmetrical aftereffect provides a new argument in favor of the cross-modal dimension of prism adaptation, although an acclimatization effect of the dichotic listening task is also discussed. Our study opens up a new avenue for using prism adaptation in the field of auditory rehabilitation requiring a modulation of auditory attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - October 14, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
The influence of early visual deprivation on audio-spatial working memory.
Conclusions: Lack of early visual experience affects the ability to encode the surrounding space. Congenital blindness influences the processing and retrieval of spatial auditory items, suggesting that visual experience plays a pivotal role in calibrating spatial memory abilities using the remaining sensory modalities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - October 14, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
The functional brain networks activated by music listening: A neuroimaging meta-analysis and implications for treatment.
Objective: Previous behavioral studies show that music listening enhances attention and working memory in both healthy and clinical populations. However, how music listening engages brain functional networks remains elusive due to inconsistent results from previous findings. Method: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data using seed-based d mapping (SDM) with permutation of subject images was performed. Studies that presented music listening paradigms to healthy individuals were included. Subgroup analyses were performed to investigate the effects of music genres on brain activation. To examine functi...
Source: Neuropsychology - October 11, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Validation of an automated scoring program for a digital complex figure copy task within healthy aging and stroke.
Conclusions: These results demonstrate that the novel Automated Scoring Program was able to reliably extract and accurately score Figure Copy Task data, even in cases where drawings were highly distorted due to comorbid fine-motor deficits. This represents a significant advancement as this novel technology can be employed to produce immediate, unbiased, and reproducible scores for Figure Copy Task responses in clinical and research environments. Key Points—Question: We aimed to develop and evaluate a novel, automated method for scoring a tablet-based Figure Copy Task. Findings: The novel Automated Scoring Program was abl...
Source: Neuropsychology - October 7, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Data-driven approaches to executive function performance and structure in aging: Integrating person-centered analyses and machine learning risk prediction.
Conclusions: Data-driven modeling approaches tested the possibility of an EF aging class that displayed both preserved EF performance levels and sustained multidimensional structure. The two observed classes differed in both performance level (lower, higher) and structure (unidimensional, multidimensional). Machine learning prediction analyses showed that the higher performing and multidimensional class was associated with multiple brain health-related protective factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - September 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Depression associated with APOE status and hippocampal volume but not cognitive decline in older adults aging with traumatic brain injury.
Conclusions: APOE carrier status was predictive of depression in a sample of older adults with a history of TBI. Depressive symptoms were also associated with decreased hippocampal volume but did not predict cognitive deficits in the examined domains beyond the effects of cognitive reserve. Despite the relationship between GDS and biological risks for decline, depressive symptoms in this population showed no direct relationship with cognitive decline. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - September 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
What about lexical competition? Exploring the locus of lexical retrieval deficits in adults with developmental dyslexia.
Conclusions: We found that AwDs experience difficulties with resolving lexical competition that go beyond their phonological deficits. Future studies will need to establish the mechanisms behind the increased lexical competition that AwDs exhibit. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - September 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Development of executive functioning from childhood to young adulthood in autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A 10-year longitudinal study.
Conclusions: The ASD and ADHD groups mainly displayed similar maturation on the neuropsychological measures, and displayed continuous impairment relative to the TD group. The need for support and facilitation of EF in school, workplace, and social arenas might continue into young adulthood among certain individuals with ASD and ADHD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - September 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
