The Impact of Early Amygdala Damage on Juvenile Rhesus Macaque Social Behavior Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Gilda Moadab, Melissa D. Bauman, and David G. Amaral Abstract ■ The present experiments continue a longitudinal study of rhesus macaque social behavior following bilateral neonatal ibotenic acid lesions of the amygdala or hippocampus, or sham operations. Juvenile animals (approximately 1.5–2.5 years) were tested in four different social contexts—alone, while inter-

Veto and Vacillation: A Neural Precursor of the Decision to Withhold Action Erman Misirlisoy and Patrick Haggard Abstract ■ The capacity to inhibit a planned action gives human behavior its characteristic flexibility. How this mechanism operates and what factors influence a decision to act or not act remain relatively unexplored. We used EEG readiness potentials (RPs) to examine preparatory activity before each action of an

The Shape of the ACC Contributes to Cognitive Control Efficiency in Preschoolers Arnaud Cachia1,2*, Grégoire Borst1,2*, Julie Vidal1,2, Clara Fischer3, Arlette Pineau4, Jean-François Mangin3, and Olivier Houdé1,2,5 Abstract ■ Cognitive success at school and later in life is supported by executive functions including cognitive control (CC). The pFC plays a major role in CC, particularly the dorsal part of ACC or midcingulate cortex. Genes, environnement

What Evidence Supports Special Processing for Faces? A Cautionary Tale for fMRI Interpretation Rosemary A. Cowell1 and Garrison W. Cottrell2 Abstract ■ We trained a neurocomputational model on six categories of photographic images that were used in a previous fMRI study of object and face processing. Multivariate pattern analyses of the activations elicited in the object-encoding layer of the model yielded results consistent with two

Tʼainʼt What You Say, Itʼs the Way That You Say It—Left Insula and Inferior Frontal Cortex Work in Interaction with Superior Temporal Regions to Control the Performance of Vocal Impersonations Carolyn McGettigan1,2, Frank Eisner3, Zarinah K. Agnew1, Tom Manly4, Duncan Wisbey1, and Sophie K. Scott1 D o w n l o a d e d f r o m Abstract ■ Historically, the study of

Neurobiological Systems for Lexical Representation and Analysis in English Mirjana Bozic1,2, Lorraine K. Tyler1, Li Su1,2, Cai Wingfield2, and William D. Marslen-Wilson1,2 Abstract ■ Current research suggests that language comprehension engages two joint but functionally distinguishable neurobiological processes: a distributed bilateral system, which supports general perceptual and interpretative processes underpinning speech comprehension, and a left hemisphere (LH) frontotemporal system, selectively tuned to the processing of

Objects and Categories: Feature Statistics and Object Processing in the Ventral Stream Lorraine K. Tyler1, Shannon Chiu1, Jie Zhuang1, Billi Randall1, Barry J. Devereux1, Paul Wright1, Alex Clarke1, and Kirsten I. Taylor1,2,3 D o w n l o a d e d f r o m Abstract ■ Recognizing an object involves more than just visual anal- yses; its meaning must also be decoded. Extensive

Perceptual Integration for Qualitatively Different 3-D Cues in the Human Brain Dicle Dövencioğlu1*, Hiroshi Ban1,2*, Andrew J. Schofield1, and Andrew E. Welchman1 Abstract ■ The visual systemʼs flexibility in estimating depth is remark- capable: We readily perceive 3-D structure under diverse condi- tions from the seemingly random dots of a “magic eye” stereogram to the aesthetically beautiful, but obviously flat, canvasses of the Old Masters.

A Surface-based Analysis of Language Lateralization and Cortical Asymmetry Douglas N. Greve1, Lise Van der Haegen2, Qing Cai2,3,4, Steven Stufflebeam1, Mert R. Sabuncu1,5, Bruce Fischl1,5, and Marc Brysbaert2 D o w n l o a d e d f r o m Abstract ■ Among brain functions, language is one of the most lateral- dimensionné. Cortical language areas are also some of the most asymmet-

Effects of Pulvinar Inactivation on Spatial Decision-making between Equal and Asymmetric Reward Options Melanie Wilke1,2,3, Igor Kagan1,3, and Richard A. Andersen1 Abstract ■ The ability to selectively process visual inputs and to decide between multiple movement options in an adaptive manner is critical for survival. Such decisions are known to be influenced by factors such as reward expectation and visual saliency. The dorsal pulvinar connects

Corticostriatal Contributions to Musical Expectancy Perception Carol A. Seger, Brian J. Spiering*, Anastasia G. Sares Sarah I. Quraini, Catherine Alpeter, James David, and Michael H. Thaut D o w n l o a d e d f r o m Abstract ■ This study investigates the functional neuroanatomy of harmonic music perception with fMRI. We presented short pieces of Western classical music to nonmusicians. Le

Neural Representation of Reward Probability: Evidence from the Illusion of Control Wouter Kool, Sarah J. Getz, and Matthew M. Botvinick Abstract ■ To support reward-based decision-making, the brain must encode potential outcomes both in terms of their incentive value and their probability of occurrence. Recent research has made it clear that the brain bears multiple representations of reward mag- nitude, meaning that a single choice

Early Visual Responses Predict Conscious Face Perception within and between Subjects during Binocular Rivalry Kristian Sandberg1,2, Bahador Bahrami1,2,3, Ryota Kanai2, Gareth Robert Barnes4, Morten Overgaard1, and Geraint Rees2,4 D o w n l o a d e d f r o m Abstract ■ Previous studies indicate that conscious face perception may be related to neural activity in a large time window around 170–800 msec

Neural Responses to Ambiguity Involve Domain-general and Domain-specific Emotion Processing Systems Maital Neta1, William M. Kelley2, and Paul J. Whalen2 Abstract ■ Extant research has examined the process of decision making under uncertainty, specifically in situations of ambiguity. Comment- jamais, much of this work has been conducted in the context of semantic and low-level visual processing. An open question is whether ambiguity in social signals

Context-dependent Semantic Processing in the Human Brain: Evidence from Idiom Comprehension Joost Rommers1, Ton Dijkstra2, and Marcel Bastiaansen1,2 Abstract ■ Language comprehension involves activating word meanings and integrating them with the sentence context. This study ex- amined whether these routines are carried out even when they are theoretically unnecessary, namely, in the case of opaque idiomatic expressions, for which the literal word meanings are unrelated

Amygdala Sensitivity to Race Is Not Present in Childhood but Emerges over Adolescence Eva H. Telzer1, Kathryn L. Humphreys2, Mor Shapiro2, and Nim Tottenham2 Abstract ■ Neuroimaging research in adults has consistently found that differential perception of race is associated with in- creased amygdala activity. We hypothesized that such neural biases unlikely reflect innate processes but instead emerge over development. In the current study, nous

Moins n’est pas plus: Neural Responses to Missing and Superfluous Accents in Context Diana V. Dimitrova1,2,3, Laurie A. Stowe1, Gisela Redeker1, and John C. J.. Hoeks1 Abstract ■ Prosody, particularly accent, aids comprehension by drawing attention to important elements such as the information that answers a question. A study using ERP registration investigated how the brain deals with the interpretation of prosodic promi- nence. Sentences

Les éléments de style: A Tribute to Suzanne Corkin Alice Cronin-Golomb When Brad Postle invited me to submit a contribution to this Festschrift for Sue Corkin, I had to mull over what to present. I knew there would be many scientific papers but wanted to do something more personal. What I decided might be meaningful to Sue would be a contribution about her role in