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Hsieh S, Yu YT, Chen EH, Yang CT, Wang CH. ERP correlates of a flanker task with varying levels of analytic-holistic cognitive style. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.109673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Interactive Improvements of Visual and Auditory Function for Enhancing Performance in Youth Soccer Players. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2019; 16:ijerph16244909. [PMID: 31817313 PMCID: PMC6949993 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16244909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2019] [Revised: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We analyzed the effects of a regular training program on the health- and skill-related physical fitness (PF) of talented soccer players aged < 12 years; visual reaction time (VRT) and auditory reaction time (ART) were also assessed. In this single-group interventional study, 78 talented male youth soccer players (mean age, 9.54 years) were critically selected by the Korean Educational Development Institute and underwent a 22-week training program consisting of 16 weeks of PF and basic skill training (90 min/week) and 6 weeks of intensive training (3, 150-min sessions/week). We assessed the pre- and post-training body composition, cardiovascular endurance, muscle strength and endurance, and flexibility. We also measured power, agility, coordination and speed, passing ability, VRT, and ART. All variables improved after training. Post-training VRT correlated with ART, muscle mass, power, cardiovascular endurance, 10-m dribble time, 10-m ball touch count, and 10-m successful pass count. ART only correlated with muscle mass. ART and 10-m ball-touch count influenced VRT, and VRT influenced ART. In conclusion, the training program enhanced the PF and visual- and auditory-related reactions in talented youth soccer players. This study suggests the importance of the assessed relationships, indicating that a training program that improves these parameters enhances the players’ performance.
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Chandregowda A, Arbel Y, Donchin E. Seeking neurophysiological manifestations of speech production: An ERP study. Int J Psychophysiol 2019; 147:137-146. [PMID: 31756406 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The aim of this study was to examine the neurophysiological correlates of speech production by elucidating pertinent ERP components. Such examination can pave way for investigations on typical and atypical speech neuromotor control. Participants completed a speech task by saying a specific word (speaking condition) or withholding the verbal response (non-speaking condition) based on the color of a frame placed around a fixation cross that were displayed on a computer screen. They also completed a simple hand motor task by pressing a button with the right or left index finger based on the color of a frame. The hand motor task was administered to verify that neural activity specific to motor preparation was detectable. Two ERP components emerged from the multichannel principal component analysis (PCA) as distinguishing between the speaking and no speaking conditions: a posterior negative component, and a left lateralized positive component. The morphology of the posterior negative component, as well as the correlation between its magnitude and mean response time suggest that this component is closely associated with speech motor control. The left-lateralized component was interpreted as reflecting a process possibly mediated by the speech dominant left hemisphere.
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- Adithya Chandregowda
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida, United States of America; Department of Neurology (Speech Pathology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America.
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, United States of America
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Zhou F, Qin C. Acute Moderate-Intensity Exercise Generally Enhances Attentional Resources Related to Perceptual Processing. Front Psychol 2019; 10:2547. [PMID: 31781010 PMCID: PMC6856792 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The present study aimed to investigate whether acute moderate-intensity exercise led to a selective effect on executive function tasks or general effect on cognitive tasks that involve executive function and basic information processing in young adults. Besides, we also aimed to examine acute exercise's effect on multiple ERP components (e.g., P2, N2, P3b, and N450) to expand previous research. Seventy-two young adults were randomly assigned to the exercise or control groups. The Stroop task was administrated before and after treatments (exercise or reading), and the P2, N2, P3b, and N450 components of the Event-Related Potential (ERP) waveform were recorded and analyzed. Larger P2 amplitudes on both congruent and incongruent tasks were observed following acute exercise. Acute exercise did not influence accuracy or response time, and no effects on N2, P3b, and N450 components were found. These findings suggest that acute moderate-intensity exercise may have a generally beneficial effect on mobilization of attentional resources related to perceptual processing and exercise-related physiological arousal.
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- Fangyuan Zhou
- College of Physical Education, Institute of School Sports Development, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- College of Physical Education, Institute of School Sports Development, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Kóbor A, Horváth K, Kardos Z, Takács Á, Janacsek K, Csépe V, Nemeth D. Tracking the implicit acquisition of nonadjacent transitional probabilities by ERPs. Mem Cognit 2019; 47:1546-1566. [PMID: 31236822 PMCID: PMC6823303 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-019-00949-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The implicit acquisition of complex probabilistic regularities has been found to be crucial in numerous automatized cognitive abilities, including language processing and associative learning. However, it has not been completely elucidated how the implicit extraction of second-order nonadjacent transitional probabilities is reflected by neurophysiological processes. Therefore, this study investigated the sensitivity of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to these probabilistic regularities embedded in a sequence of visual stimuli without providing explicit information on the structure of the stimulus stream. Healthy young adults (N = 32) performed a four-choice RT task that included a sequential regularity between nonadjacent trials yielding a complex transitional probability structure. ERPs were measured relative to both stimulus and response onset. RTs indicated the rapid acquisition of the sequential regularity and the transitional probabilities. The acquisition process was also tracked by the stimulus-locked and response-locked P3 component: The P3 peak was larger for the sequence than for the random stimuli, while the late P3 was larger for less probable than for more probable short-range relations among the random stimuli. According to the RT and P3 effects, sensitivity to the sequential regularity is assumed to be supported by the initial sensitivity to the transitional probabilities. These results suggest that stimulus-response contingencies on the probabilistic regularities of the ongoing stimulus context are implicitly mapped and constantly revised. Overall, this study (1) highlights the role of predictive processes during implicit memory formation, and (2) delineates a potential to gain further insight into the dynamics of implicit acquisition processes.
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- Andrea Kóbor
- Brain Imaging Centre, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Budapest, H–1117 Hungary
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- Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, Budapest, H–1064 Hungary
- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, Budapest, H–1064 Hungary
- Brain, Memory and Language Research Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Budapest, H–1117 Hungary
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- Brain Imaging Centre, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Budapest, H–1117 Hungary
- Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Egry József utca 1, Budapest, H-1111 Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, Budapest, H–1064 Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, Budapest, H–1064 Hungary
- Brain, Memory and Language Research Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Budapest, H–1117 Hungary
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- Brain Imaging Centre, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Budapest, H–1117 Hungary
- Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Egry József utca 1, Budapest, H-1111 Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, Budapest, H–1064 Hungary
- Brain, Memory and Language Research Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Budapest, H–1117 Hungary
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, CNRS, Université de Lyon, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier–Bâtiment 462–Neurocampus 95 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron, Lyon France
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Trongnetrpunya A, Rapp P, Wang C, Darmon D, Costanzo ME, Nathan DE, Roy MJ, Cellucci CJ, Keyser D. Single-Trial Mechanisms Underlying Changes in Averaged P300 ERP Amplitude and Latency in Military Service Members After Combat Deployment. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:377. [PMID: 31708761 PMCID: PMC6824216 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Attenuation in P300 amplitude has been characterized in a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders such as dementia, schizophrenia, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, it is unclear whether the attenuation observed in the averaged event-related potential (ERP) is due to the reduction of neural resources available for cognitive processing, the decreased consistency of cognitive resource allocation, or the increased instability of cognitive processing speed. In this study, we investigated this problem by estimating single-trial P300 amplitude and latency using a modified Woody filter and examined the relation between amplitudes and latencies from the single-trial level to the averaged ERP level. ERPs were recorded from 30 military service members returning from combat deployment at two time points separated by 6 or 12 months. A conventional visual oddball task was used to elicit P300. We observed that the extent of changes in the within-subject average P300 amplitude over time was significantly correlated with the amount of change in three single-trial measures: (1) the latency variance of the single-trial P300 (r = -0.440, p = 0.0102); (2) the percentage of P300-absent trials (r = -0.488, p = 0.005); and (3) the consistent variation of the single-trial amplitude (r = 0.571, p = 0.0022). These findings suggest that there are multiple underlying mechanisms on the single-trial level that contribute to the changes in amplitudes seen at the averaged ERP level. The changes between the first and second assessments were quantified with the intraclass correlation coefficient, the standard error of measurement and the minimal detectable difference. The unique population, the small sample size and the large fraction of participants lost to follow up precludes generalizations of these measures of change to other populations.
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- Amy Trongnetrpunya
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States,*Correspondence: Paul Rapp
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- Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Mathematics, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States,Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Sassenhagen J, Fiebach CJ. Finding the P3 in the P600: Decoding shared neural mechanisms of responses to syntactic violations and oddball targets. Neuroimage 2019; 200:425-436. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.06.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Revised: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Revisiting the relationship between the P3b and working memory updating. Biol Psychol 2019; 148:107769. [PMID: 31525391 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2018] [Revised: 08/04/2019] [Accepted: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The P3b is an extensively studied neurophysiological phenomenon that is predominantly explained in the cognitive neuroscience literature as reflecting context updating, presumably in working memory (WM). Despite the prevalence and influence of the context updating hypothesis, direct empirical support for the role of WM updating in eliciting the P3b is still missing. The present study was designed to address the empirical gap in understanding the functional role of P3b in general, and specifically in relation to WM updating. A mass-univariate approach was used to test the unique contribution of WM updating, categorization, and stimulus probability to the P3b. The results indicated that the P3b is only modulated by the categorization process, a finding that challenges the WM updating hypothesis. Taken together these results, we suggest that the P3b reflects a WM guided target identification mechanism, which operates as part of a goal-directed learning strategy.
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Jacquemin L, Mertens G, Schlee W, Van de Heyning P, Gilles A. Literature overview on P3 measurement as an objective measure of auditory performance in post-lingually deaf adults with a cochlear implant. Int J Audiol 2019; 58:816-823. [PMID: 31441664 DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2019.1654622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Objective: Cochlear implantation results in restoration of hearing, potential cortical reorganisation and the reallocation of attentional resources to the auditory system. Hence, the distorted cortical activity of patients with profound sensorineural hearing loss may be partially reversed. The measurement of auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) forms a promising electrophysiological evaluation of the central auditory nervous system. In particular, the P3 component is hypothesised to be a differential indicator of subjective auditory discrimination. This overview discusses the association between the cortical P3 component and the performance on auditory tests in post-lingually deaf adults using a CI. Moreover, the current article proposes important guidelines on eliciting, recording and analysing ERPs in CI users.Design: The literature search was conducted in PubMed.Study sample: Articles were included if they focussed on the relationship between P3 and auditory performance of an adult CI population.Results: The higher-order processing of speech in quiet and in noise of adult CI users is correlated with the ERP components, including the P3, shedding light on neurophysiological foundations for auditory performance differences.Conclusions: There is a need for replicating studies with larger sample sizes to fully comprehend the relationship between P3 and the auditory performance of CI users.
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- Laure Jacquemin
- University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.,Department of Translational Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.,Department of Translational Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Regensburg, Germany
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- University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.,Department of Translational Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.,Department of Translational Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein, Wilrijk, Belgium.,Department of Education, Health & Social Work, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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Walentowska W, Severo MC, Moors A, Pourtois G. When the outcome is different than expected: Subjective expectancy shapes reward prediction error at the FRN level. Psychophysiology 2019; 56:e13456. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2019] [Revised: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Wioleta Walentowska
- Psychophysiology Laboratory, Institute of Psychology Jagiellonian University Krakow Poland
- Cognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory Ghent University Ghent Belgium
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- Cognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory Ghent University Ghent Belgium
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- Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology KU Leuven Leuven Belgium
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- Cognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory Ghent University Ghent Belgium
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Frischkorn GT, Schubert AL, Hagemann D. Processing speed, working memory, and executive functions: Independent or inter-related predictors of general intelligence. INTELLIGENCE 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2019.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Asanowicz D, Wołoszyn K, Panek B, Wronka E. On the locus of the effect of alerting on response conflict: An event-related EEG study with a speed-accuracy tradeoff manipulation. Biol Psychol 2019; 145:62-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Revised: 03/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Solon AJ, Lawhern VJ, Touryan J, McDaniel JR, Ries AJ, Gordon SM. Decoding P300 Variability Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:201. [PMID: 31258469 PMCID: PMC6587927 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2019] [Accepted: 05/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have previously been shown to be useful tools for signal decoding and analysis in a variety of complex domains, such as image processing and speech recognition. By learning from large amounts of data, the representations encoded by these deep networks are often invariant to moderate changes in the underlying feature spaces. Recently, we proposed a CNN architecture that could be applied to electroencephalogram (EEG) decoding and analysis. In this article, we train our CNN model using data from prior experiments in order to later decode the P300 evoked response from an unseen, hold-out experiment. We analyze the CNN output as a function of the underlying variability in the P300 response and demonstrate that the CNN output is sensitive to the experiment-induced changes in the neural response. We then assess the utility of our approach as a means of improving the overall signal-to-noise ratio in the EEG record. Finally, we show an example of how CNN-based decoding can be applied to the analysis of complex data.
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- Amelia J Solon
- Human Research and Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States.,DCS Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States
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- Human Research and Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States
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- Human Research and Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States
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- Human Research and Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States.,DCS Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States
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- Human Research and Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States
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- Human Research and Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States.,DCS Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States
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Tanaka H, Miyakoshi M. Cross-correlation task-related component analysis (xTRCA) for enhancing evoked and induced responses of event-related potentials. Neuroimage 2019; 197:177-190. [PMID: 31034968 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2018] [Revised: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/17/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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We propose an analysis method that extracts trial-reproducible (i.e., recurring) event-related spatiotemporal EEG patterns by optimizing a spatial filter as well as trial timings of task-related components in the time domain simultaneously in a unified manner. Event-related responses are broadly categorized into evoked and induced responses, but those are analyzed commonly in the time and the time-frequency domain, respectively. To facilitate a comparison of evoked and induced responses, a unified method for analyzing both evoked and induced responses is desired. Here we propose a method of cross-correlation task-related component analysis (xTRCA) as an extension of our previous method. xTRCA constructs a linear spatial filter and then optimizes trial timings of single trials based on trial reproducibility as an objective function. The spatial filter enhances event-related responses, and the temporal optimization compensates trial-by-trial latencies that are inherent to ERPs. We first applied xTRCA to synthetic data of induced responses whose phases varied from trial to trial, and found that xTRCA could realign the induced responses by compensating the phase differences. We then demonstrated with mismatch negativity data that xTRCA enhanced the event-related-potential waveform observed at a single channel. Finally, a classification accuracy was improved when trial timings were optimized by xTRCA, suggesting a practical application of the method for a brain computer interface. We conclude that xTRCA provides a unified framework to analyze and enhance event-related evoked and induced responses in the time domain by objectively maximizing trial reproducibility.
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- Hirokazu Tanaka
- School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1211, Japan.
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- Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute of Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive # 0559, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0559, USA
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Erb CD, Cavanagh JF. Layers of latent effects in cognitive control: An EEG investigation. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2019; 195:1-11. [PMID: 30831386 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2018] [Revised: 01/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/14/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Recent research demonstrates that two components of reaching behavior - initiation time (the time elapsed from stimulus presentation to movement initiation) and reach curvature (the degree to which a reach movement deviates from a direct path to the selected response) - exhibit distinct cross-trial dynamics in cognitive control tasks, indicating that these components of behavior reflect two dissociable processes underlying cognitive control: a threshold adjustment process involving the inhibition of motor output and a controlled selection process involving the recruitment of top-down resources to support goal-relevant behavior. The current study investigates the extent to which the cross-trial dynamics previously observed in reaching behavior in the Eriksen flanker task are reflected in event-related potentials during standard button-press responses. Candidate EEG measures of the threshold adjustment process (N2 and Pre-LRP amplitudes) failed to reveal the cross-trial dynamics previously observed in initiation times. Slow wave amplitudes exhibited a close correspondence to the cross-trial dynamics observed in reach curvatures, indicating that the measure is sensitive to some functions of the controlled selection process. Further, LRP slopes presented a close correspondence to the cross-trial dynamics observed in response times, indicating that this measure reflects the combined output of the threshold adjustment process and controlled selection process. The implications of these findings for future research examining the links among behavioral and neural dynamics are discussed.
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Early cognitive processes in OCD: An ERP study. J Affect Disord 2019; 246:429-436. [PMID: 30599365 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.12.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 12/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by persistent, intrusive, and distressing obsessions and/or compulsions and is associated with marked impairments in quality of life. The goal of the present study was to examine initial stages of information processing, specifically, perceptual and attention orientation phases that precede response preparation in OCD. METHODS The P3 event-related potential (ERP) component was used as a measure of early cognitive processes of visual stimulus perception. ERPs were recorded while 38 participants diagnosed with OCD and 38 healthy controls performed a passive visual oddball task with neutral and angry schematic faces. RESULTS OCD participants demonstrated significantly enhanced P3 amplitude over bilateral parietal areas in response to neutral stimuli that activate basic primary perceptual processes. Emotional valence reduced this effect such that OCD patients did not differ from healthy controls in P3 amplitude under the angry stimuli condition. LIMITATIONS Patients in this study were noncomorbid and unmedicated partially limiting the generalizability of the results. CONCLUSIONS Our hypothesis of altered early perceptual processes in OCD was supported. These alterations, specific to OCD and not anxiety and depression symptoms, may represent distracted primary cognitive processes in OCD, possibly serving as a basic source for compulsion initiation.
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Steinberg F, Doppelmayr M. Neurocognitive Markers During Prolonged Breath-Holding in Freedivers: An Event-Related EEG Study. Front Physiol 2019; 10:69. [PMID: 30792665 PMCID: PMC6374628 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Since little is known concerning the psychological, cognitive, and neurophysiological factors that are involved in and important for phases of prolonged breath-holding (pBH) in freedivers, the present study uses electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate event-related neurocognitive markers during pBH of experienced freedivers that regularly train pBH. The purpose was to determine whether the well-known neurophysiological modulations elicited by hypoxic and hypercapnic conditions can also be detected during pBH induced hypoxic hypercapnia. Ten experienced free-divers (all male, aged 35.10 ± 7.89 years) were asked to hold their breath twice for 4 min per instance. During the first pBH, a checker board reversal task was presented and in the second four-min pBH phase a classical visual oddball paradigm was performed. A visual evoked potential (VEP) as an index of early visual processing (i.e., latencies and amplitudes of N75, P100, and N145) and the latency and amplitude of a P300 component (visual oddball paradigm) as an index of cognitive processing were investigated. In a counter-balanced cross-over design, all tasks were once performed during normal breathing (B), and once during pBH. All components were then compared between an early pBH (0–2 min) and a later pBH stage (2–4 min) and with the same time phases without pBH (i.e., during normal breathing). Statistical analyses using analyses of variance (ANOVA) revealed that comparisons between B and pBH yielded no significant changes either in the amplitude and latency of the VEP or in the P300. This indicates that neurocognitive markers, whether in an early visual processing stream or at a later cognitive processing stage, were not affected by pBH in experienced free-divers.
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- Fabian Steinberg
- Department of Sport Psychology, Institute of Sport Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Sport Psychology, Institute of Sport Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Kapanci T, Merks S, Rammsayer TH, Troche SJ. On the Relationship between P3 Latency and Mental Ability as a Function of Increasing Demands in a Selective Attention Task. Brain Sci 2019; 9:brainsci9020028. [PMID: 30700060 PMCID: PMC6406371 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci9020028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2018] [Revised: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The mental speed approach to individual differences in mental ability (MA) is based on the assumption of higher speed of information processing in individuals with higher than those with lower MA. Empirical support of this assumption has been inconsistent when speed was measured by means of the P3 latency in the event-related potential (ERP). The present study investigated the association between MA and P3 latency as a function of task demands on selective attention. For this purpose, 20 men and 90 women performed on a standard continuous performance test (CPT1 condition) as well as on two further task conditions with lower (CPT0) and higher demands (CPT2) on selective attention. MA and P3 latency negatively correlated in the standard CPT, and this negative relationship even increased systematically from the CPT1 to the CPT2 condition but was absent in the CPT0 condition. The present results indicate that task demands on selective attention are decisive to observe the expected shorter P3 latency in individuals with higher compared to those with lower MA.
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- Tugba Kapanci
- Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58448 Witten, Germany.
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- Institute Human in Complex Systems, School for Applied Psychology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, 4600 Olten, Switzerland.
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- Institute for Psychology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
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Zheng H, Rosenfeld JP, Deng X, Lu Y, Xue C, Wang Y, Zhang E, Yan G, Ouyang D. Visual presentation modality's superiority in the detection of concealed information: A comparison of the efficiencies of the P300-based Complex Trial Protocol in visual versus auditory modalities. Int J Psychophysiol 2019; 137:32-40. [PMID: 30664886 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Revised: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Some studies have shown a superiority of visual vs. auditory item presentation in the Complex Trial Protocol (CTP), which is a countermeasure-resistant version of the P300-based Concealed Information Test (CIT). But those studies used elaborately- rehearsed autobiographical information as stimuli, instead of incidentally-acquired crime-related information. Thus, the relative superiority of the visual as opposed to the auditory modality in detecting episodic crime-related information is still unknown. The present study also improved on the usual mock crime scenario by adding a mock disposal task between a mock theft and administration of a CTP test to increase stimulus saliency. In this CTP, the probe and the irrelevant items were presented visually or acoustically on alternating trials, while target and non-target stimuli were simultaneously presented in visual and auditory modalities. The results showed that the P300 amplitude differences of probe minus irrelevant items presented in the visual modality were significantly larger compared to the auditory modality, and the detection rate of the guilty participants was also significantly higher for the visual (14/16) versus auditory modality (5/16). These results suggest a superiority of visual vs. auditory presentation when a CTP is used to detect crime-related information in a mock crime scenario.
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- Huihui Zheng
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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Pawlowski GM, Ghosh-Hajra S, Fickling SD, Liu CC, Song X, Robinovitch S, Doesburg SM, D'Arcy RCN. Brain Vital Signs: Expanding From the Auditory to Visual Modality. Front Neurosci 2019; 12:968. [PMID: 30713487 PMCID: PMC6346702 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The critical need for rapid objective, physiological evaluation of brain function at point-of-care has led to the emergence of brain vital signs-a framework encompassing a portable electroencephalography (EEG) and an automated, quick test protocol. This framework enables access to well-established event-related potential (ERP) markers, which are specific to sensory, attention, and cognitive functions in both healthy and patient populations. However, all our applications to-date have used auditory stimulation, which have highlighted application challenges in persons with hearing impairments (e.g., aging, seniors, dementia). Consequently, it has become important to translate brain vital signs into a visual sensory modality. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to: 1) demonstrate the feasibility of visual brain vital signs; and 2) compare and normalize results from visual and auditory brain vital signs. Data were collected from 34 healthy adults (33 ± 13 years) using a 64-channel EEG system. Visual and auditory sequences were kept as comparable as possible to elicit the N100, P300, and N400 responses. Visual brain vital signs were elicited successfully for all three responses across the group (N100: F = 29.8380, p < 0.001; P300: F = 138.8442, p < 0.0001; N400: F = 6.8476, p = 0.01). Initial auditory-visual comparisons across the three components showed attention processing (P300) was found to be the most transferrable across modalities, with no group-level differences and correlated peak amplitudes (rho = 0.7, p = 0.0001) across individuals. Auditory P300 latencies were shorter than visual (p < 0.0001) but normalization and correlation (r = 0.5, p = 0.0033) implied a potential systematic difference across modalities. Reduced auditory N400 amplitudes compared to visual (p = 0.0061) paired with normalization and correlation across individuals (r = 0.6, p = 0.0012), also revealed potential systematic modality differences between reading and listening language comprehension. This study provides an initial understanding of the relationship between the visual and auditory sequences, while importantly establishing a visual sequence within the brain vital signs framework. With both auditory and visual stimulation capabilities available, it is possible to broaden applications across the lifespan.
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- Gabriela M Pawlowski
- NeuroTech Laboratory, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- NeuroTech Laboratory, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Health Sciences and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- NeuroTech Laboratory, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Health Sciences and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- NeuroTech Laboratory, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Health Sciences and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- NeuroTech Laboratory, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Health Sciences and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- NeuroTech Laboratory, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Health Sciences and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health, Surrey, BC, Canada
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Drew T, Williams LH, Jones CM, Luria R. Neural Processing of Repeated Search Targets Depends Upon the Stimuli: Real World Stimuli Engage Semantic Processing and Recognition Memory. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:460. [PMID: 30519166 PMCID: PMC6251473 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Accepted: 10/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Recent evidence has suggested that visual working memory (VWM) plays an important role in representing the target prior to initiating a visual search. The more familiar we are with the search target, the more refined the representation of the target (or "target template") becomes. This sharpening of the target template is thought to underlie the reduced response time (RT) and increased accuracy associated with repeatedly searching for the same target. Perhaps target representations transition from limited-capacity VWM to Long-Term Memory (LTM) as targets repeat. In prior work, amplitude of an event-related potential (ERP) component associated with VWM representation decreased with target repetition, broadly supporting this notion. However, previous research has focused on artificial stimuli (Landolt Cs) that are far removed from search targets in the real world. The current study extends this work by directly comparing target representations for artificial stimuli and common object images. We found VWM representation follows the same pattern for real and artificial stimuli. However, the initial selection of the real world objects follows a much different pattern than more typical artificial stimuli. Further, the morphology of nonlateralized waveforms was substantially different for the two stimulus categories. This suggests that the two types of stimuli were processed in fundamentally different ways. We conclude that object type strongly influences how we deploy attentional and mnemonic resources prior to search. Early attentional selection of familiar objects may facilitate additional LTM processes that lead to behavioral benefits not seen with more simplistic stimuli.
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- Trafton Drew
- Psychology Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- Psychology Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- Sagol School of Neuroscience and the School of Psychological Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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Draschkow D, Heikel E, Võ MLH, Fiebach CJ, Sassenhagen J. No evidence from MVPA for different processes underlying the N300 and N400 incongruity effects in object-scene processing. Neuropsychologia 2018; 120:9-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Revised: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The oddball effect on P3 disappears when feature relevance or feature-response mappings are unknown. Exp Brain Res 2018; 236:2781-2796. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-018-5334-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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De Pascalis V, Sommer K, Scacchia P. Extraversion and behavioural approach system in stimulus analysis and motor response initiation. Biol Psychol 2018; 137:91-106. [PMID: 30012464 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Revised: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In this study, we attempt to validate previous findings on extraversion-related differences in speed of sensorimotor processing and to extend them into Behavioural Approach System (BAS) subtraits within the framework of the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (rRST) of personality. Here, we assessed psychological traits of extraversion (E), four BAS facets (Goal-Drive Persistence, BAS-GDP; Reward Interest, BAS-RI; Reward Reactivity, BAS-RR; Impulsivity, BAS-I), Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS), and Fight-Flight-Freeze System (FFFS) in 51 volunteers (28 women). Stimulus-locked lateralized readiness potential (S-LRP), response-locked LRP (R-LRP), stimulus-locked and response-locked forearm electromyogram (S-EMG and R-EMG), and P3 components of the event-related potentials (ERPs), were recorded during the performance of a two-choice Go/NoGo visual letter-digit discrimination task varying in task difficulty. High extraverts, relative to introverts and individuals high relative to low on BAS-RI, were more likely to exhibit shorter S-LRP latencies and stimulus- and response-locked EMG latencies. Additionally, high BAS-I had a shorter R-RLP latency than low BAS-I participants for the difficult task. High FFFS levels were associated with longer S-LRP and S-EMG latencies, while high BIS levels had larger response accuracy. Extraverts, relative to introverts, along with those high relative to low on BAS-RR and BAS-I, exhibited smaller P3 amplitudes. The faster cortical premotor initiation, found in individuals high on extraversion, BAS-RI and low on FFFS, may account for their faster peripheral motor response initiation and execution. Smaller P3 amplitudes in extraverts and individuals high on BAS-RR and BAS-I may indicate reduced perceptual processing capacity in these individuals.
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- Department of Psychology, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Landes I, Bakos S, Kohls G, Bartling J, Schulte-Körne G, Greimel E. Altered neural processing of reward and punishment in adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder. J Affect Disord 2018; 232:23-33. [PMID: 29475180 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2016] [Revised: 01/02/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Altered reward and punishment function has been suggested as an important vulnerability factor for the development of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Prior ERP studies found evidence for neurophysiological dysfunctions in reinforcement processes in adults with MDD. To date, only few ERP studies have examined the neural underpinnings of reinforcement processing in adolescents diagnosed with MDD. The present event-related potential (ERP) study aimed to investigate neurophysiological mechanisms of anticipation and consumption of reward and punishment in adolescents with MDD in one comprehensive paradigm. METHOD During ERP recording, 25 adolescents with MDD and 29 healthy controls (12-17 years) completed a Monetary Incentive Delay Task comprising both a monetary reward and a monetary punishment condition. During anticipation, the cue-P3 signaling attentional allocation was recorded. During consumption, the feedback-P3 and Reward Positivity (RewP) were recorded to capture attentional allocation and outcome evaluation, respectively. RESULTS Compared to controls, adolescents with MDD showed prolonged cue-P3 latencies to reward cues. Furthermore, unlike controls, adolescents with MDD displayed shorter feedback-P3 latencies in the reward versus punishment condition. RewPs did not differ between groups. LIMITATIONS It remains unanswered whether the observed alterations in adolescent MDD represent a state or trait. CONCLUSIONS Delayed neural processing of reward cues corresponds to the clinical presentation of adolescent MDD with reduced motivational tendencies to obtain rewards. Relatively shorter feedback-P3 latencies in the reward versus punishment condition could indicate a high salience of performance-contingent reward. Frequent exposure of negatively biased adolescents with MDD to performance-contingent rewards might constitute a promising intervention approach.
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- I Landes
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany.
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Bachman MD, Bernat EM. Independent contributions of theta and delta time-frequency activity to the visual oddball P3b. Int J Psychophysiol 2018; 128:70-80. [PMID: 29574233 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Revised: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A growing body of work suggests that the P300 (P3) event-related potential (ERP) component is better understood as a mixture of task-relevant processes (Polich, 2007). This converges with earlier time-frequency work suggesting that the P3b is primarily composed of centroparietal delta (0.5-3 Hz) and frontocentral theta (3-7 Hz) activity. Within this study (N = 229), we hope to re-affirm these prior ideas and expand upon them in several crucial ways, reassessing how delta and theta contribute to the visual oddball P3b through the lens of several recent decades of additional P3b research. We provide a comprehensive assessment of how theta and delta time-frequency activity contribute to several common variants of the time-domain P3b, specifically measuring the target and non-target P3b, as well as differences between targets and non-targets, target-to-target interval (TTI), and target habituation. Results replicate and extend earlier work indicating that delta and theta account for a majority of variance in both the target and non-target P3b as well as their respective amplitude differences. They also newly indicate that theta and delta activity can have unique contributions to TTI differences and target habituation effects. Results in target habituation particularly demonstrate how time-frequency analyses can disentangle nuanced changes in P3b activity, shedding new light on these complicated phenomena. Findings suggest that delta and theta measures index separable processes occurring during the P3b, and provide additional support for the idea that they index theoretical frontocentral and centroparietal P3 subcomponents.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
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Mannarelli D, Pauletti C, Accinni T, Carlone L, Frascarelli M, Lattanzi GM, Currà A, Fattapposta F. Attentional functioning in individuals with 22q11 deletion syndrome: insight from ERPs. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2018. [PMID: 29520614 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-018-1873-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The 22q11 deletion syndrome (22q11DS), or DiGeorge syndrome (DG), is one of the most common genetic deletion syndromes. DG also carries a high risk for psychiatric disorders, with learning disabilities frequently being reported. Impairments in specific cognitive domains, such as executive functioning and attention, have also been described. The aim of this study was to investigate attentional functioning in a group of subjects with DG using ERPs, and in particular the P300 and CNV components. We studied ten patients with DG and ten healthy subjects that performed a P300 Novelty task and a CNV motor task. P3b amplitude was significantly lower in patients than in controls, while P3b latency was comparable in patients and controls. The P3a parameters were similar in both groups. All CNV amplitudes were significantly lower in DG patients than in controls. DG patients displayed slower reaction times in the CNV motor task than healthy subjects. These results point to a cognitive dysfunction related above all to executive attentional processing in DG patients. In particular, a specific difficulty emerged in selective attention and in the ability to orient and to sustain the anticipatory attention required for an executive motor response.
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- Daniela Mannarelli
- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, A. Fiorini Hospital, Terracina, Sapienza University of Rome, Polo Pontino, Latina, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Raine LB, Kao SC, Pindus D, Westfall DR, Shigeta TT, Logan N, Cadenas-Sanchez C, Li J, Drollette ES, Pontifex MB, Khan NA, Kramer AF, Hillman CH. A Large-Scale Reanalysis of Childhood Fitness and Inhibitory Control. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s41465-018-0070-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Fortier-Gauthier U, Jolicœur P. Electrophysiological evidence of low salience distractor interference during visual search. Psychophysiology 2018; 55:e13068. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2017] [Revised: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ulysse Fortier-Gauthier
- Experimental Cognitive Science Laboratory, Département de Psychologie; Université de Montréal; Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Experimental Cognitive Science Laboratory, Département de Psychologie; Université de Montréal; Montreal Quebec Canada
- Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition, Université de Montréal; Montreal Quebec Canada
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Guth T, Ketcham CJ, Hall EE. Influence of Concussion History and Genetics on Event-Related Potentials in Athletes: Potential Use in Concussion Management. Sports (Basel) 2018; 6:E5. [PMID: 29910309 PMCID: PMC5969191 DOI: 10.3390/sports6010005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2017] [Revised: 01/14/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Sports-related concussions are an increasing public health issue with much concern about the possible long-term decrements in cognitive function and quality of life that may occur in athletes. The measurement of cognitive function is a common component of concussion management protocols due to cognitive impairments that occur after sustaining a concussion; however, the tools that are often used may not be sensitive enough to expose long term problems with cognitive function. The current paper is a brief review, which suggests that measuring cognitive processing through the use of event related potentials (ERPs) may provide a more sensitive assessment of cognitive function, as shown through recent research showing concussion history to influence ERPs components. The potential influence of genetics on cognitive function and ERPs components will also be discussed in relation to future concussion management.
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- Taylor Guth
- College of Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
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- Department of Exercise Science, Elon University, 2525 Campus Box, Elon, NC 27244, USA.
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- Department of Exercise Science, Elon University, 2525 Campus Box, Elon, NC 27244, USA.
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Holečková I, Kletečka J, Štěpánek D, Žídek S, Bludovský D, Pouska J, Mautner P, Přibáň V. Cognitive impairment measured by event-related potentials during early and late postoperative period following intravenous or inhalation anaesthesia. Clin Neurophysiol 2018; 129:246-253. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2017.10.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2016] [Revised: 10/03/2017] [Accepted: 10/07/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Non-singleton colors are not attended faster than categories, but they are encoded faster: A combined approach of behavior, modeling and ERPs. Vision Res 2017; 140:106-119. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2017.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Revised: 06/05/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cognitive processing of orientation discrimination in anisometropic amblyopia. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0186221. [PMID: 29023501 PMCID: PMC5638445 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2016] [Accepted: 09/27/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Cognition is very important in our daily life. However, amblyopia has abnormal visual cognition. Physiological changes of the brain during processes of cognition could be reflected with ERPs. So the purpose of this study was to investigate the speed and the capacity of resource allocation in visual cognitive processing in orientation discrimination task during monocular and binocular viewing conditions of amblyopia and normal control as well as the corresponding eyes of the two groups with ERPs. We also sought to investigate whether the speed and the capacity of resource allocation in visual cognitive processing vary with target stimuli at different spatial frequencies (3, 6 and 9 cpd) in amblyopia and normal control as well as between the corresponding eyes of the two groups. Fifteen mild to moderate anisometropic amblyopes and ten normal controls were recruited. Three-stimulus oddball paradigms of three different spatial frequency orientation discrimination tasks were used in monocular and binocular conditions in amblyopes and normal controls to elicit event-related potentials (ERPs). Accuracy (ACC), reaction time (RT), the latency of novelty P300 and P3b, and the amplitude of novelty P300 and P3b were measured. Results showed that RT was longer in the amblyopic eye than in both eyes of amblyopia and non-dominant eye in control. Novelty P300 amplitude was largest in the amblyopic eye, followed by the fellow eye, and smallest in both eyes of amblyopia. Novelty P300 amplitude was larger in the amblyopic eye than non-dominant eye and was larger in fellow eye than dominant eye. P3b latency was longer in the amblyopic eye than in the fellow eye, both eyes of amblyopia and non-dominant eye of control. P3b latency was not associated with RT in amblyopia. Neural responses of the amblyopic eye are abnormal at the middle and late stages of cognitive processing, indicating that the amblyopic eye needs to spend more time or integrate more resources to process the same visual task. Fellow eye and both eyes in amblyopia are slightly different from the dominant eye and both eyes in normal control at the middle and late stages of cognitive processing. Meanwhile, abnormal extents of amblyopic eye do not vary with three different spatial frequencies used in our study.
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Temporal and spectral dynamics underlying cognitive control modulated by task-irrelevant stimulus-response learning. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2017; 17:158-173. [PMID: 27752940 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-016-0469-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Behavioral and recent neuroimaging findings have shown reversal of interference effects due to manipulating proportion congruency (PC), which suggests that task-irrelevant stimulus-response (S-R) associations are strengthened and applied to predict responses. However, it is unclear how the strengthened S-R associations are represented and applied in the brain. We investigated with a between-subjects PC paradigm of the Hedge and Marsh task using electroencephalography (EEG). The behavioral results showed the reversal of the conflict effects, suggesting that task-irrelevant S-R associations were strengthened and used to prepare responses. The EEG results revealed the PC-related reversal of the conflict effects in the frontocentral N2 and parietal P3b amplitudes. Time-frequency analyses showed more pronounced PC-related reversal of the conflict effects in theta band (4-8 Hz) activity in frontocentral sites. These results suggest that the strengthened S-R associations due to PC manipulation modulated cognitive control. Importantly, the amplitude of lateralized readiness potential was higher in the high-PC condition than in the low-PC condition, suggesting that the strengthened short-term-memory spatial S-R associations that modulated cognitive control were applied similarly to long-term-memory spatial S-R associations.
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Beck AK, Lütjens G, Schwabe K, Dengler R, Krauss JK, Sandmann P. Thalamic and basal ganglia regions are involved in attentional processing of behaviorally significant events: evidence from simultaneous depth and scalp EEG. Brain Struct Funct 2017; 223:461-474. [PMID: 28871419 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-017-1506-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Extensive descriptions exist on cortical responses to change in the acoustic environment. However, the involvement of subcortical regions is not well understood. Here we present simultaneous recordings of cortical and subcortical event-related potentials (ERPs) to different pure tones in patients undergoing surgery for deep brain stimulation (DBS). These patients had externalized electrodes in the subthalamic nucleus (STN), the ventrolateral posterior thalamus (VLp) or the globus pallidus internus (GPi). Subcortical and cortical ERPs were analyzed upon presentation of one frequent non-target stimulus and two infrequent stimuli, either being a target or a distractor stimulus. The results revealed that amplitudes of scalp-recorded P3 and subcortical late attention-modulated responses (AMR) were largest upon presentation of target stimuli compared with distractor stimuli. This suggests that thalamic and basal ganglia regions are sensitive to behaviorally relevant auditory events. Comparison of the subcortical structures showed that responses in VLp have shorter latency than in GPi and STN. Further, the subcortical responses in VLp and STN emerged significantly prior to the cortical P3 response. Our findings point to higher-order cognitive functions already at a subcortical level. Auditory events are categorized as behaviorally relevant in subcortical loops involving basal ganglia and thalamic regions. This label is then distributed to cortical regions by ascending projections.
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- Anne-Kathrin Beck
- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Medical University Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany. .,Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all", Hannover, Germany.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Medical University Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Medical University Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all", Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all", Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Medical University Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all", Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.,Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all", Hannover, Germany
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Kałamała P, Szewczyk J, Senderecka M, Wodniecka Z. Flanker task with equiprobable congruent and incongruent conditions does not elicit the conflict N2. Psychophysiology 2017; 55. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Revised: 06/13/2017] [Accepted: 07/16/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków Poland
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków Poland
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Zhao S, Wang Y, Jia L, Feng C, Liao Y, Feng W. Pre-coincidence brain activity predicts the perceptual outcome of streaming/bouncing motion display. Sci Rep 2017; 7:8832. [PMID: 28821774 PMCID: PMC5562831 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08801-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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When two identical visual discs move toward each other on a two-dimensional visual display, they can be perceived as either "streaming through" or "bouncing off" each other after their coincidence. Previous studies have observed a strong bias toward the streaming percept. Additionally, the incidence of the bouncing percept in this ambiguous display could be increased by various factors, such as a brief sound at the moment of coincidence and a momentary pause of the two discs. The streaming/bouncing bistable motion phenomenon has been studied intensively since its discovery. However, little is known regarding the neural basis underling the perceptual ambiguity in the classic version of the streaming/bouncing motion display. The present study investigated the neural basis of the perception disambiguating underling the processing of the streaming/bouncing bistable motion display using event-related potential (ERP) recordings. Surprisingly, the amplitude of frontal central P2 (220-260 ms) that was elicited by the moving discs ~200 ms before the coincidence of the two discs was observed to be predictive of subsequent streaming or bouncing percept. A larger P2 amplitude was observed for streaming percept than the bouncing percept. These findings suggest that the streaming/bouncing bistable perception may have been disambiguated unconsciously ~200 ms before the coincidence of the two discs.
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- Song Zhao
- Department of Psychology, School of Education, SooChow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- Department of Psychology, School of Education, SooChow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- Department of Education, School of Humanities, Jiang Nan University, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- Department of Psychology, School of Education, SooChow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- Department of Psychology, School of Education, SooChow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China.
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- Department of Psychology, School of Education, SooChow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China.
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Kropotov JD, Ponomarev VA, Pronina M, Jäncke L. Functional indexes of reactive cognitive control: ERPs in cued go/no-go tasks. Psychophysiology 2017; 54:1899-1915. [PMID: 28771747 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2016] [Revised: 05/21/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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We aimed to determine the functional meaning of latent (hidden) components decomposed from ERPs, in the context of a go/no-go paradigm. To accomplish this, we used a new group blind source separation method, based on joint diagonalization of covariance matrices of ERPs. Four variants of a frequently used go/no-go paradigm were designed, in which operations of reactive cognitive control, such as conflict detection and action inhibition, were independently manipulated. The results showed that a latent component, generated in the anterior cingulate cortex, induced N2/P3 fluctuation only in conditions in which the prepotent model was violated, and thus can be associated with conflict detection operations. In contrast, the two latent components generated in the vicinity of the central sulcus induced P3-like fluctuations in conditions in which the prepared action was suppressed, and thus can be associated with action inhibition operations. The advantages and limitations of the new blind source separation method in relation to ERP research are also discussed.
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- Juri D Kropotov
- N. P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.,Department of Neuropsychology, Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Krakow University, Krakow, Poland
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- N. P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- N. P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Psychology, Division of Neuropsychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,International Normal Aging and Plasticity Research Centre (INAPIC), Zurich, Switzerland.,University Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging," University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Koerner TK, Zhang Y, Nelson PB, Wang B, Zou H. Neural indices of phonemic discrimination and sentence-level speech intelligibility in quiet and noise: A P3 study. Hear Res 2017; 350:58-67. [DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Revised: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 04/16/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Sauvé G, Morand-Beaulieu S, O'Connor KP, Blanchet PJ, Lavoie ME. P300 Source Localization Contrasts in Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors and Tic Disorders. Brain Sci 2017; 7:E76. [PMID: 28671557 PMCID: PMC5532589 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci7070076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2017] [Revised: 06/25/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Tic disorders (TD) and body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRB) have similar phenotypes that can be challenging to distinguish in clinical settings. Both disorders show high rates of comorbid psychiatric conditions, dysfunctional basal ganglia activity, atypical cortical functioning in the prefrontal and motor cortical regions, and cognitive deficits. Clinicians frequently confound the two disorders and it is important to find reliable objective methods to discriminate TD and BFRB. Neuropsychological tests and event-related potential (ERP) studies have yielded inconsistent results regarding a possible context updating deficit in TD and BFRB patients. However, most previous studies did not control for the presence of comorbid psychiatric condition and medication status, which might have confounded the findings reported to date. Hence, we aimed to investigate the psychophysiology of working memory using ERP in carefully screened TD and BFRB patients excluding those with psychiatric comorbidity and those taking psychoactive medication. The current study compared 12 TD patients, 12 BRFB patients, and 15 healthy control participants using a motor oddball task (button press). The P300 component was analyzed as an index of working memory functioning. Results showed that BFRB patients had decreased P300 oddball effect amplitudes over the right hemisphere compared to the TD and control groups. Clinical groups presented different scalp distributions compared to controls, which could represent a potential endophenotype candidate of BFRB and TD.
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- Geneviève Sauvé
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1A1, Canada.
- Cognitive and Social Psychophysiology Lab, Centre de Recherche de L'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, 7331 Hochelaga Street, Montréal, QC H1N 3V2, Canada.
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- Cognitive and Social Psychophysiology Lab, Centre de Recherche de L'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, 7331 Hochelaga Street, Montréal, QC H1N 3V2, Canada.
- Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
- Centre D'études sur les Troubles Obsessionnels-Compulsifs et les Tics, Centre de Recherche de L'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, 7331 Hochelaga Street, Montréal, QC H1N 3V2, Canada.
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- Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
- Centre D'études sur les Troubles Obsessionnels-Compulsifs et les Tics, Centre de Recherche de L'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, 7331 Hochelaga Street, Montréal, QC H1N 3V2, Canada.
- Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
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- Cognitive and Social Psychophysiology Lab, Centre de Recherche de L'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, 7331 Hochelaga Street, Montréal, QC H1N 3V2, Canada.
- Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
- Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
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Bader M, Schröger E, Grimm S. How regularity representations of short sound patterns that are based on relative or absolute pitch information establish over time: An EEG study. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0176981. [PMID: 28472146 PMCID: PMC5417614 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The recognition of sound patterns in speech or music (e.g., a melody that is played in different keys) requires knowledge about pitch relations between successive sounds. We investigated the formation of regularity representations for sound patterns in an event-related potential (ERP) study. A pattern, which consisted of six concatenated 50 ms tone segments differing in fundamental frequency, was presented 1, 2, 3, 6, or 12 times and then replaced by another pattern by randomly changing the pitch of the tonal segments (roving standard paradigm). In an absolute repetition condition, patterns were repeated identically, whereas in a transposed condition, only the pitch relations of the tonal segments of the patterns were repeated, while the entire patterns were shifted up or down in pitch. During ERP measurement participants were not informed about the pattern repetition rule, but were instructed to discriminate rarely occurring targets of lower or higher sound intensity. EPRs for pattern changes (mismatch negativity, MMN; and P3a) and for pattern repetitions (repetition positivity, RP) revealed that the auditory system is able to rapidly extract regularities from unfamiliar complex sound patterns even when absolute pitch varies. Yet, enhanced RP and P3a amplitudes, and improved behavioral performance measured in a post-hoc test, in the absolute as compared with the transposed condition suggest that it is more difficult to encode patterns without absolute pitch information. This is explained by dissociable processing of standards and deviants as well as a back propagation mechanism to early sensory processing stages, which is effective after less repetitions of a standard stimulus for absolute pitch.
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- Maria Bader
- Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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Event-related brain potential indices of cognitive function and brain resource reallocation during working memory in patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Clin Neurophysiol 2017; 128:604-621. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2016.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 11/13/2016] [Accepted: 12/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Exploiting the intra-subject latency variability from single-trial event-related potentials in the P3 time range: A review and comparative evaluation of methods. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 75:1-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2016] [Revised: 01/13/2017] [Accepted: 01/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Cheung CHM, McLoughlin G, Brandeis D, Banaschewski T, Asherson P, Kuntsi J. Neurophysiological Correlates of Attentional Fluctuation in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Brain Topogr 2017; 30:320-332. [PMID: 28289850 PMCID: PMC5408051 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-017-0554-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cognitive performance in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterised, in part, by frequent fluctuations in response speed, resulting in high reaction time variability (RTV). RTV captures a large proportion of the genetic risk in ADHD but, importantly, is malleable, improving significantly in a fast-paced, rewarded task condition. Using the temporal precision offered by event-related potentials (ERPs), we aimed to examine the neurophysiological measures of attention allocation (P3 amplitudes) and preparation (contingent negative variation, CNV), and their associations with the fluctuating RT performance and its improvement in ADHD. 93 participants with ADHD and 174 controls completed the baseline and fast-incentive conditions of a four-choice reaction time task, while EEG was simultaneously recorded. Compared to controls, individuals with ADHD showed both increased RTV and reduced P3 amplitudes during performance on the RT task. In the participants with ADHD, attenuated P3 amplitudes were significantly associated with high RTV, and the increase in P3 amplitudes from a slow baseline to a fast-paced, rewarded condition was significantly associated with the RTV decrease. Yet, the individuals with ADHD did not show the same increase in CNV from baseline to fast-incentive condition as observed in controls. ADHD is associated both with a neurophysiological impairment of attention allocation (P3 amplitudes) and an inability to adjust the preparatory state (CNV) in a changed context. Our findings suggest that both neurophysiological and cognitive performance measures of attention are malleable in ADHD, which are potential targets for non-pharmacological interventions.
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- Celeste H M Cheung
- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
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Schepers IM, Beck AK, Bräuer S, Schwabe K, Abdallat M, Sandmann P, Dengler R, Rieger JW, Krauss JK. Human centromedian-parafascicular complex signals sensory cues for goal-oriented behavior selection. Neuroimage 2017; 152:390-399. [PMID: 28288908 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Revised: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Experimental research has shown that the centromedian-parafascicular complex (CM-Pf) of the intralaminar thalamus is activated in attentional orienting and processing of behaviorally relevant stimuli. These observations resulted in the hypothesis that the CM-Pf plays a pivotal role in goal-oriented behavior selection. We here set out to test this hypothesis with electrophysiological recordings from patients with electrodes implanted in CM-Pf for deep brain stimulation (DBS) treatment of chronic neuropathic pain. Six patients participated in (1) an auditory three-class oddball experiment, which required a button press to target tones, but not to standard and deviant tones and in (2) a multi-speaker experiment with a target word that required attention selection and a target image that required response selection. Subjects showed transient neural responses (8-15Hz) to the target tone and the target word. Two subjects additionally showed transient neural responses (15-25Hz) to the target image. All sensory target stimuli were related to an internal goal and required a behavior selection (attention selection, response selection). In group analyses, neural responses were greater to target tones than deviant and standard tones and to target words than other task-relevant words that did not require attention selection. The transient neural responses occurred after the target stimuli but prior to the overt behavioral response. Our results demonstrate that in human subjects the CM-Pf is involved in signaling sensory inputs related to goal-oriented selection of behavior.
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- Inga M Schepers
- Department of Psychology, Oldenburg University, Germany; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Germany.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Germany; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Oldenburg University, Germany; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Germany; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Oldenburg University, Germany; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Germany; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Germany
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Drisdelle BL, Konishi K, Diarra M, Bohbot VD, Jolicoeur P, West GL. Electrophysiological evidence for enhanced attentional deployment in spatial learners. Exp Brain Res 2017; 235:1387-1395. [PMID: 28229169 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-017-4884-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Visual spatial attention is important during navigation processes that rely on a cognitive map, because spatial relationships between environmental landmarks need to be selected, encoded, and learned. People who navigate using this strategy are spatial learners, and this process relies on the hippocampus. Conversely, response learners memorize a series of actions to navigate, which relies on the caudate nucleus. Response learning, which is more efficient, is thought to involve less demanding cognitive operations, and is related to reduced grey matter in the hippocampus. To test if navigational strategy can impact visual attention performance, we investigated if spatial and response learners showed differences in attentional engagement used during a visual spatial task. We tested 40 response learners and 39 spatial learners, as determined by the 4-on-8 Virtual Maze (4/8 VM), on a target detection task designed to elicit an N2pc component (an index visual spatial attention). Spatial learners produced a larger N2pc amplitude during target detection compared to response learners. This relationship might represent an increase in goal-directed attention towards target stimuli or a more global increase in cognitive function that has been previously observed in spatial learners.
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- Brandi Lee Drisdelle
- Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, 90, avenue Vincent d'Indy, Montreal, QC, H2V 2S9, Canada
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- Douglas Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, 90, avenue Vincent d'Indy, Montreal, QC, H2V 2S9, Canada
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- Douglas Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, 90, avenue Vincent d'Indy, Montreal, QC, H2V 2S9, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, 90, avenue Vincent d'Indy, Montreal, QC, H2V 2S9, Canada.
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González-Villar AJ, Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. Brain electrical activity signatures during performance of the Multisource Interference Task. Psychophysiology 2017; 54:874-881. [PMID: 28220517 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The Multisource Interference Task (MSIT) was developed to test cognitive control in normal and pathological conditions and has become a reliable tool for exploring the integrity of cingulo-frontal-parietal cognitive/attentional networks in fMRI studies. Analysis of EEG recordings made during performance of the MSIT may provide additional information about the temporal dynamics of cognitive control. However, this has not yet been investigated in depth. In this study, we analyzed the ERPs and carried out time-frequency decomposition of EEG recorded during control and interference conditions of the MSIT. The N2 ERP component and midfrontal theta power (both considered neural signatures of conflict processing) were significantly larger in interference than in control trials. Theta also showed higher phase synchronization between midfrontal and right frontolateral scalp locations in the interference condition, supporting the view that this frequency band entrains additional brain resources when a need for greater control arises. In interference trials, we also observed longer P3 latency, larger P3 amplitude, and greater reduction of posterior alpha (modulations related to allocation of attentional resources), in addition to a greater reduction of central beta power (related to motor preparation). In conclusion, the MSIT reliably modulated brain electrical activity related to cognitive control and attention. The EEG indices obtained during the performance of this task may be useful for exploring the functioning of cognitive/attentional networks in healthy and clinical populations.
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- Alberto J González-Villar
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Walsh MM, Gunzelmann G, Anderson JR. Relationship of P3b single-trial latencies and response times in one, two, and three-stimulus oddball tasks. Biol Psychol 2017; 123:47-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/23/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Ergen M, Uslu A, Caglar O, Akca-Kalem S, Cimsit M, Gurvit H. Evaluation of cognitive performance in professional divers by means of event-related potentials and neuropsychology. Clin Neurophysiol 2017; 128:579-588. [PMID: 28231476 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2017.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2016] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We investigated whether professional air diving with no decompression illness causes any long-term changes in cognitive functions. METHODS The all-male participants consisted of 18 healthy control (HC) volunteers and 32 divers. Divers were divided into two subgroups as moderate exposure group, Divers-I (DI) and extensive exposure group, Divers-II (DII). Participants were administered a comprehensive neuropsychological battery and event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while they performed auditory oddball task and visual continuous performance test (CPT). RESULTS P3 waves in oddball and CPT were significantly attenuated and peak latencies were prolonged in both diver groups compared with HC. Amplitude decrements in CPT P3 were graded with respect to level of diving exposure. Neuropsychologically, DII group displayed significantly poorer performance than HC and DI groups in measures of visuo-constructional and visual long-term memory tests. DI group performed better than HC group in some measures of planning ability. CONCLUSIONS Most of the changes in neurophysiological measures and poorer neuropsychological performance were found in DII group, and this might be interpreted as a red flag for the reflection of the slowly progressing deleterious effects of silent bubbles in brain function. SIGNIFICANCE This study reports impairments in certain neuropsychological measures and apparent neurophysiological markers pointing to slow cognitive decline referring to long-term effects of diving.
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- Mehmet Ergen
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Acibadem University, Atasehir 34752, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, 34093 Capa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, 34093 Capa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Neurology, Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, 34093 Capa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, 34093 Capa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Neurology, Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, 34093 Capa, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Mannarelli D, Pauletti C, Mancini P, Fioretti A, Greco A, De Vincentiis M, Fattapposta F. Selective attentional impairment in chronic tinnitus: Evidence from an event-related potentials study. Clin Neurophysiol 2017; 128:411-417. [PMID: 28160746 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2016.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Revised: 12/10/2016] [Accepted: 12/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Tinnitus is an auditory phantom sensation experienced in the absence of a sound source. Cognitive dysfunctions, especially in working memory and attention, are frequently reported to be associated with tinnitus. The aim of this study was to investigate attentional functioning in a group of subjects with chronic tinnitus using ERPs, and in particular the P300 components. METHODS We studied 20 patients with chronic tinnitus and 20 healthy subjects that performed a P300 Novelty task. RESULTS P3a amplitude was significantly lower in tinnitus subjects than in controls. P3a latency was comparable in patients and controls. The P3b parameters were similar in the two groups. N1 latency for all the stimuli was significantly longer in tinnitus subjects than in controls. CONCLUSION These results point to a general slowing in early stimulus perception in tinnitus subjects. Moreover, a specific difficulty emerged in attentional switching to unexpected events during an orienting response, probably owing to a dysfunction in the ventral attention network. SIGNIFICANCE Psychophysiological approach reveals selective attentional impairment and could provide useful data for rehabilitative strategies in chronic tinnitus.
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- Daniela Mannarelli
- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 31, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 31, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 31, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, Italy.
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