Issue Information

Continuing from Vol. 5, No. 1, the September issue presents further contributions to a special collection on single case studies. We begin with a retrospective examination of single case studies dealing with subjective visual phenomena that lead to unexpected but testable hypotheses about neural processing on the structural and functional level in the early visual pathway. Next is an attempt to identify some of the difficulties involved in linking neuroimaging signals to behavioral responses in single cases, while providing ideas for future research. This is followed by a study demonstrating the utility of a single case in confirming the modulatory effect of a 3‐s window on mismatch negativity, strengthening the case for this window as representing the “subjective present” grounded in temporal segmentation of behavioral and cognitive functions. A final contribution to the collection reexamines an underlying assumption inherent in the focus of the “Donders method” on reaction time differences, namely that cognitive temporal processing is continuous in nature. As regular contributions not part of the special collection, there is an examination of gender and personality factors in vandalism and scrawl‐graffiti among Swedish adolescents, a study of striatal hypoactivation and cognitive slowing in patients with partial remitted and remitted major depression, and a consideration of the utility of acute stress disorder for predicting posttraumatic stress through a longitudinal study of Chinese children exposed to the Lushan earthquake.