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Tamayo-Orrego L, Osorio Forero A, Quintero Giraldo LP, Parra Sánchez JH, Varela V, Restrepo F. [Differential effects of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder subtypes in event-related potentials]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 44:77-86. [PMID: 26578329 DOI: 10.1016/j.rcp.2015.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2014] [Revised: 10/22/2014] [Accepted: 02/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND To better understand the neurophysiological substrates in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a study was performed on of event-related potentials (ERPs) in Colombian patients with inattentive and combined ADHD. METHODS A case-control, cross-sectional study was designed. The sample was composed of 180 subjects between 5 and 15 years of age (mean, 9.25±2.6), from local schools in Manizales. The sample was divided equally in ADHD or control groups and the subjects were paired by age and gender. The diagnosis was made using the DSM-IV-TR criteria, the Conners and WISC-III test, a psychiatric interview (MINIKID), and a medical evaluation. ERPs were recorded in a visual and auditory passive oddball paradigm. Latency and amplitude of N100, N200 and P300 components for common and rare stimuli were used for statistical comparisons. RESULTS ADHD subjects show differences in the N200 amplitude and P300 latency in the auditory task. The N200 amplitude was reduced in response to visual stimuli. ADHD subjects with combined symptoms show a delayed P300 in response to auditory stimuli, whereas inattentive subjects exhibited differences in the amplitude of N100 and N200. Combined ADHD patients showed longer N100 latency and smaller N200-P300 amplitude compared to inattentive ADHD subjects. CONCLUSIONS The results show differences in the event-related potentials between combined and inattentive ADHD subjects.
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- Lukas Tamayo-Orrego
- Laboratorio de Neurofisiología, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
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- Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Neurofisiología, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia.
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Verleger R, Asanowicz D, Werner L, Śmigasiewicz K. Biased odds for heads or tails: Outcome-evoked P3 depends on frequencies of guesses. Psychophysiology 2015; 52:1048-58. [PMID: 25882775 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Events that had to be predicted evoke large P3 components of the event-related EEG potential. There is conflicting evidence whether these P3s are moderated by participants' preceding guesses. In the present study, participants made one prediction frequently and the other rarely because one stimulus was presented frequently and the other rarely. Thereby, effects on stimulus-evoked P3s of both guess frequency and stimulus frequency could be tested. Indeed, P3s were not only larger with rare than frequent stimuli but also larger after rare than frequent guesses. This result pattern may have additionally been affected by expectancies for payoff. In any case, the modification of outcome-evoked P3 by what had been guessed may reflect that each of the four guess-stimulus combinations is encoded as a separate event category. In terms of the stimulus-response link hypothesis of P3b, it is suggested that P3s are evoked by these events because internal responses (right or wrong) are associated to each of these event categories and need to be reactivated with rare guess-stimulus combinations.
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- Rolf Verleger
- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.,Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.,Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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Mestry N, Menneer T, Wenger MJ, Benikos N, McCarthy RA, Donnelly N. The role of configurality in the Thatcher illusion: an ERP study. Psychon Bull Rev 2015; 22:445-52. [PMID: 25102929 PMCID: PMC4365276 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0705-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The Thatcher illusion (Thompson in Perception, 9, 483-484, 1980) is often explained as resulting from recognising a distortion of configural information when 'Thatcherised' faces are upright but not when inverted. However, recent behavioural studies suggest that there is an absence of perceptual configurality in upright Thatcherised faces (Donnelly et al. in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 74, 1475-1487, 2012) and both perceptual and decisional sources of configurality in behavioural tasks with Thatcherised stimuli (Mestry, Menneer et al. in Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 456, 2012). To examine sources linked to the behavioural experience of the illusion, we studied inversion and Thatcherisation of faces (comparing across conditions in which no features, the eyes, the mouth, or both features were Thatcherised) on a set of event-related potential (ERP) components. Effects of inversion were found at the N170, P2 and P3b. Effects of eye condition were restricted to the N170 generated in the right hemisphere. Critically, an interaction of orientation and eye Thatcherisation was found for the P3b amplitude. Results from an individual with acquired prosopagnosia who can discriminate Thatcherised from typical faces but cannot categorise them or perceive the illusion (Mestry, Donnelly et al. in Neuropsychologia, 50, 3410-3418, 2012) only differed from typical participants at the P3b component. Findings suggest the P3b links most directly to the experience of the illusion. Overall, the study showed evidence consistent with both perceptual and decisional sources and the need to consider both in relation to configurality.
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- Natalie Mestry
- Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ, UK,
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Gohil K, Stock AK, Beste C. The importance of sensory integration processes for action cascading. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9485. [PMID: 25820681 PMCID: PMC4377632 DOI: 10.1038/srep09485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Dual tasking or action cascading is essential in everyday life and often investigated using tasks presenting stimuli in different sensory modalities. Findings obtained with multimodal tasks are often broadly generalized, but until today, it has remained unclear whether multimodal integration affects performance in action cascading or the underlying neurophysiology. To bridge this gap, we asked healthy young adults to complete a stop-change paradigm which presented different stimuli in either one or two modalities while recording behavioral and neurophysiological data. Bimodal stimulus presentation prolonged response times and affected bottom-up and top-down guided attentional processes as reflected by the P1 and N1, respectively. However, the most important effect was the modulation of response selection processes reflected by the P3 suggesting that a potentially different way of forming task goals operates during action cascading in bimodal vs. unimodal tasks. When two modalities are involved, separate task goals need to be formed while a conjoint task goal may be generated when all stimuli are presented in the same modality. On a systems level, these processes seem to be related to the modulation of activity in fronto-polar regions (BA10) as well as Broca's area (BA44).
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- Krutika Gohil
- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the TU Dresden, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the TU Dresden, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the TU Dresden, Germany
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Fogelson N. Neural correlates of local contextual processing across stimulus modalities and patient populations. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2015; 52:207-20. [PMID: 25795520 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2014] [Revised: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The objective of the current review is to integrate information from a series of studies, employing a paradigm that evaluates local contextual processing using electrophysiological measures. Collectively these studies provide an overview of how utilization of predictive context changes as a function of stimulus modality and across different patient populations, as well as the networks that may be critical for this function. The following aspects of local contextual processing will be discussed and reviewed: (i) the correlates associated with contextual processing that have been identified in healthy adults, (ii) stimulus modality effects, (iii) specific alterations and deficits of local contextual processing in aging and across different neurological and psychiatric patient populations, including patients with prefrontal cortex lesions, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder, (iv) the potential for utilizing the correlates of local context as biomarkers for frontal cognitive dysfunction and (v) the role of frontal networks in the processing of contextual information. Overall findings show that behavioral and neural correlates associated with processing of local context are comparable across stimulus modalities, but show specific alterations in aging and across different neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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- Noa Fogelson
- EEG and Cognition Laboratory, University of A Coruña, Spain; The Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
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O׳Regan L, Farina F, Hussey I, Roche R. Event-related brain potentials reveal correlates of the transformation of stimulus functions through derived relations in healthy humans. Brain Res 2015; 1599:168-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.12.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2014] [Revised: 11/28/2014] [Accepted: 12/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A temporo-spatial analysis of the neural correlates of extrinsic perceptual grouping in vision. Neuropsychologia 2015; 69:118-29. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2014] [Revised: 01/24/2015] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The influence of monetary incentives on context processing in younger and older adults: an event-related potential study. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2015; 15:416-34. [DOI: 10.3758/s13415-015-0335-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The neural processes underlying perceptual decision making in humans: Recent progress and future directions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 109:27-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2014.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2014] [Revised: 07/22/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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MMN and P300 are both modulated by the featured/featureless nature of deviant stimuli. Clin Neurophysiol 2015; 126:1727-34. [PMID: 25549907 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Revised: 10/21/2014] [Accepted: 11/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study was designed to test the effect of the featured/featureless nature of deviant stimuli on mismatch negativity (MMN), P300 (P3a and P3b) and on behavioral discrimination performances. METHODS Ten healthy adults were submitted to stimuli contrasted by the presence or absence of a frequency sweep. Discrimination performances were collected during the neurophysiological sessions. RESULTS MMN, P3a and P3b were much larger for featured deviants than for featureless ones. Behavioral data (d', at ceiling level, and reaction times) were not affected by the featured/featureless nature of the deviant stimulus. CONCLUSION Behavioral results and MMN amplitudes are in accordance with our previous study, using the same design albeit in an ignore condition and with collection of the behavioral data deferred until after the neurophysiological sessions. The present study strengthens previous evidence suggesting that two mechanisms contribute to the MMN evoked by featured deviants: the memory comparison process and the adaptation/fresh-afferent phenomenons. SIGNIFICANCE We here demonstrate that the neurophysiological processes underlying P300 generation are also impacted by the featured/featureless nature of the deviant stimulus and that the dissociation from behavioral data, which are not impacted, is also observed when both types of data are recorded simultaneously.
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de Rover M, Brown SBRE, Band GP, Giltay EJ, van Noorden MS, van der Wee NJA, Nieuwenhuis S. Beta receptor-mediated modulation of the oddball P3 but not error-related ERP components in humans. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2015; 232:3161-72. [PMID: 26138780 PMCID: PMC4534504 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-015-3966-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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RATIONALE The P3 is a ubiquitous component of stimulus-driven neural activity that can be observed in scalp electrophysiological recordings. Multiple lines of evidence suggest an important role for the noradrenergic system in the generation of the P3. However, pharmacological studies of the P3 using noradrenergic manipulations have so far been limited to agents that affect α2-receptor signaling. OBJECTIVES The present study investigated whether β-adrenergic receptors are involved in the generation of the P3 and the error positivity (Pe), a component of the event-related potential that is elicited by errors and that bears many similarities to the P3. METHODS We used a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design in which we examined in human participants (N = 16) the effect of a single dose of propranolol (80 mg) on the amplitudes of the P3 observed in visual and auditory oddball tasks and the Pe observed in a flanker task. RESULTS We found that P3s to auditory stimuli were increased in amplitude following treatment with propranolol. Propranolol also modulated the P3 to visual stimuli, but in a direction dependent on participants' level of trait anxiety: In participants with lower trait anxiety, propranolol resulted in a (non-significant) decrease in P3 amplitudes; in participants with higher trait anxiety, propranolol significantly enhanced P3 amplitude. Propranolol did not modulate the amplitude of the Pe or behavioral measures of conflict/error-related performance adjustments. CONCLUSIONS These results provide the first evidence for involvement of β-adrenergic receptors in P3 generation. We speculate that propranolol affected the P3 through actions at β2-receptors in the locus coeruleus.
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- Mischa de Rover
- Clinical Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden, The Netherlands,
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- Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands ,Cognitive Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands ,Cognitive Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands ,Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands ,Cognitive Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Mathes B, Khalaidovski K, Schmiedt-Fehr C, Basar-Eroglu C. Frontal theta activity is pronounced during illusory perception. Int J Psychophysiol 2014; 94:445-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.08.585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2014] [Revised: 08/14/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Wu L, Gu R, Cai H, Luo YLL, Zhang J. The neural response to maternal stimuli: an ERP study. PLoS One 2014; 9:e111391. [PMID: 25375157 PMCID: PMC4222870 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2013] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Mothers are important to all humans. Research has established that maternal information affects individuals' cognition, emotion, and behavior. We measured event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine attentional and evaluative processing of maternal stimuli while participants completed a Go/No-go Association Task that paired mother or others words with good or bad evaluative words. Behavioral data showed that participants responded faster to mother words paired with good than the mother words paired with bad but showed no difference in response to these others across conditions, reflecting a positive evaluation of mother. ERPs showed larger P200 and N200 in response to mother than in response to others, suggesting that mother attracted more attention than others. In the subsequent time window, mother in the mother + bad condition elicited a later and larger late positive potential (LPP) than it did in the mother + good condition, but this was not true for others, also suggesting a positive evaluation of mother. These results suggest that people differentiate mother from others during initial attentional stage, and evaluative mother positively during later stage.
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- Lili Wu
- Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (HC); (JZ)
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- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (HC); (JZ)
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On the relevance of the NPY2-receptor variation for modes of action cascading processes. Neuroimage 2014; 102 Pt 2:558-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2014] [Revised: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Mott KK, Alperin BR, Holcomb PJ, Daffner KR. Age-related decline in differentiated neural responses to rare target versus frequent standard stimuli. Brain Res 2014; 1587:97-111. [PMID: 25171804 PMCID: PMC4252561 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.08.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Revised: 06/18/2014] [Accepted: 08/19/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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One mechanism hypothesized to contribute to cognitive aging is the failure to recruit specialized neural modules and generate differentiated neural responses to various classes of stimuli. Here, ERPs were used to examine the extent to which target and standard stimulus types were processed differently by well-matched adults ages 19-99. Subjects responded to designated visual target letters under low and high load conditions. Temporospatial PCA was used to parse the P3b component, an index of categorization/memory updating. The P3b amplitude difference between targets and standards decreased substantially as a function of age. Dedifferentiation began in middle age, and continued into old-old age. The reduced differentiation of neural responses was driven by an age-related decline in the size of the P3b to targets and an age-related increase in the P3b to standards. Larger P3b amplitude to standards among older subjects was associated with higher executive capacity and better task performance. In summary, dedifferentiation begins relatively early in adulthood and progresses in a linear fashion throughout the lifespan. The age-related augmentation of the P3b to standards appears to reflect a compensatory mechanism that helps maintain task performance.
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- Katherine K Mott
- Center for Brain/Mind Medicine, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women׳s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Center for Brain/Mind Medicine, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women׳s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
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- Center for Brain/Mind Medicine, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women׳s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Akimoto Y, Nozawa T, Kanno A, Ihara M, Goto T, Ogawa T, Kambara T, Sugiura M, Okumura E, Kawashima R. High-gamma activity in an attention network predicts individual differences in elderly adults' behavioral performance. Neuroimage 2014; 100:290-300. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Revised: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 06/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Modulatory effects of proinflammatory cytokines for action cascading processes - evidence from neurosarcoidosis. Brain Behav Immun 2014; 41:126-33. [PMID: 24846477 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Revised: 05/06/2014] [Accepted: 05/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Neurosarcoidosis is a rare central nervous system manifestation of sarcoidosis. T cell, T-helper cell and macrophage activation via the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) II-mediated pathway causes this disease. Little is known about the possible cognitive disturbances in this disease as most reported instances are case studies. Here, we provide the first in-depth analysis of psychomotor functions in a sample of 30 neurosarcoidosis patients. We investigated action control processes using a paradigm that is able to examine how different tasks are cascaded to achieve the task goal. We integrated electrophysiological (EEG) data with behavioural and neuroimmunological data. Our results show that there was no general cognitive decline in patients with neurosarcoidosis. Patients only presented deficits when two response options have to be prioritized. Patients apply an inefficient processing strategy where they try to processes different response options in parallel. The electrophysiological data show that the deficits are due to dysfunctions at the response selection stage. Behavioural and neurophysiological changes are predictable on the basis of soluble interleukin 2 receptor serum concentrations. The results show that neurosarcoidosis is not associated with nonspecific changes in cognitive functions but does lead to specific alterations in cognitive control that are strongly dependent on immunological parameters.
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COMT Val158Met genotype is associated with fluctuations in working memory performance: converging evidence from behavioural and single-trial P3b measures. Neuroimage 2014; 100:489-97. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Revised: 05/14/2014] [Accepted: 06/02/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Verleger R, Metzner MF, Ouyang G, Śmigasiewicz K, Zhou C. Testing the stimulus-to-response bridging function of the oddball-P3 by delayed response signals and residue iteration decomposition (RIDE). Neuroimage 2014; 100:271-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2014] [Revised: 06/12/2014] [Accepted: 06/15/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Sassenhagen J, Schlesewsky M, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I. The P600-as-P3 hypothesis revisited: single-trial analyses reveal that the late EEG positivity following linguistically deviant material is reaction time aligned. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2014; 137:29-39. [PMID: 25151545 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2013] [Revised: 07/17/2014] [Accepted: 07/27/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The P600, a late positive ERP component following linguistically deviant stimuli, is commonly seen as indexing structural, high-level processes, e.g. of linguistic (re)analysis. It has also been identified with the P3 (P600-as-P3 hypothesis), which is thought to reflect a systemic neuromodulator release facilitating behavioural shifts and is usually response time aligned. We investigated single-trial alignment of the P600 to response, a critical prediction of the P600-as-P3 hypothesis. Participants heard sentences containing morphosyntactic and semantic violations and responded via a button press. The elicited P600 was perfectly response aligned, while an N400 following semantic deviations was stimulus aligned. This is, to our knowledge, the first single-trial analysis of language processing data using within-sentence behavioural responses as temporal covariates. Results support the P600-as-P3 perspective and thus constitute a step towards a neurophysiological grounding of language-related ERPs.
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- Jona Sassenhagen
- Department of Germanic Linguistics, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Germanic Linguistics, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany; School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
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Themanson JR, Rosen PJ. Examining the relationships between self-efficacy, task-relevant attentional control , and task performance: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Br J Psychol 2014; 106:253-71. [PMID: 25220736 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Revised: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Self-efficacy (SE) is a modifiable psychosocial factor related to individuals' beliefs in their capabilities to successfully complete courses of action and has been shown to be positively associated with task performance. The authors hypothesized that one means through which SE is related with improved performance is through enhanced task-relevant attentional control during task execution. To assess this hypothesis, we examined the relationships between SE and behavioural and neural indices of task performance and task-relevant attentional control for 76 young adults during the completion of a flanker task. Results showed that greater SE was associated with greater response accuracy and P3b amplitude across task conditions, and faster RT under more difficult task conditions. Additionally, P3b amplitude was found to mediate the relationship between SE and task performance in the difficult condition. These findings suggest that greater attentional allocation to task-relevant processes, including monitoring stimulus-response relationships and focusing attention on working memory operations, may help explain the association between SE and improved task performance.
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- Jason R Themanson
- Department of Psychology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, USA
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Schapkin SA, Gajewski PD, Freude G. Age Differences in Memory-Based Task Switching With and Without Cues. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL 2014. [DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The study investigated the neuronal mechanisms of age-related changes in mixing costs during memory-based task switching with two levels of working memory (WM) load. Forty-eight healthy younger and 45 healthy older participants performed a memory based (high WM load) and a memory plus cue based (low WM load) switching task while event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were registered. Older adults revealed larger mixing costs in both reaction time (RT) and accuracy at higher WM loads than younger adults. The presence of explicit cues substantially reduced age differences in mixing costs for accuracy but not for RT. Similarly, no age differences regarding local switch costs were found at lower WM load. Surprisingly, larger RT local costs in younger adults than in older adults were found in the memory-based block. The CNV was reduced under high WM load and positively correlated with accuracy mixing costs in older adults. The target-locked occipital N1 and fronto-central P2 were larger in older adults relative to younger adults irrespective of WM load. The P2 latency reflected the pattern of switch costs observed in behavioral data. Moreover, P2 latency positively correlated with RT mixing costs in older adults. Elderly also showed a delayed N2 and a delayed and reduced P3b. The results suggest that age-related differences in mixing costs may be partially due to a less efficient task preparation and task set maintenance (CNV) in elderly. However, elderly attempted to compensate for these deficits by permanent activation of mechanisms relating to stimulus encoding (N1) and task-set retrieval (P2). Finally, the delayed fronto-central N2 as well as the delayed and reduced parietal P3b strongly suggest delays of response selection and working memory updating in elderly due to an increase in selection threshold or in response selection variability constituting the performance decline.
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- Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Berlin, Germany
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Deficient information processing with increasing age has been assigned to reduced efficiency in frontal executive control functions. Dopamine has been assumed to play a central role for this decline. Dopamine, however, is also essential for the maintenance of motivation for a longer period of time and is therefore a core factor for mental fatigue. Combining these two findings, we tested to what degree older adults are more prone to performance loss due to increasing time on task than younger adults. Twelve younger and twelve older participants performed an inhibition of return task for 80 min. Performance declined in the older participants but not in the young. Event-related potentials (ERPs) of the EEG, however, showed distinct changes with time on task primarily for young participants. The dissociation between behavioral and ERP results indicates that changes in ERPs of the young participants could reflect adaptations to the task rather than fatigue. This is evident from very distinct changes of the posterior N1 component in this group. The failing (or rather unspecific) adaptation to the task in older adults might have been a consequence of lacking frontal executive control functions reflected in a massive reduction of the N2 component of the ERP, relative to the young participants.
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- Edmund Wascher
- Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany
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- Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany
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Breska A, Deouell LY. Automatic Bias of Temporal Expectations following Temporally Regular Input Independently of High-level Temporal Expectation. J Cogn Neurosci 2014; 26:1555-71. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Exposure to rhythmic stimulation results in facilitated responses to events that appear in-phase with the rhythm and modulation of anticipatory and target-evoked brain activity, presumably reflecting “exogenous,” unintentional temporal expectations. However, the extent to which this effect is independent from intentional processes is not clear. In two EEG experiments, we isolated the unintentional component of this effect from high-level, intentional factors. Visual targets were presented either in-phase or out-of-phase with regularly flickering colored stimuli. In different blocks, the rhythm could be predictive (i.e., high probability for in-phase target) or not, and the color could be predictive (i.e., validly cue the interval to the target) or not. Exposure to nonpredictive rhythms resulted in faster responses for in-phase targets, even when the color predicted specific out-of-phase target times. Also, the contingent negative variation, an EEG component reflecting temporal anticipation, followed the interval of the nonpredictive rhythm and not that of the predictive color. Thus, rhythmic stimulation unintentionally induced expectations, even when this was detrimental. Intentional usage of predictive rhythms to form expectations resulted in a stronger behavioral effect, and only predictive cues modulated the latency of the target-evoked P3, presumably reflecting stimulus evaluation. These findings establish the existence of unintentional temporal expectations in rhythmic contexts, dissociate them from intentional expectations, and highlight the need to distinguish between the source of expectation (exogenous–endogenous) and the level of voluntary control involved in it (unintentional–intentional).
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Verleger R, Baur N, Metzner MF, Śmigasiewicz K. The hard oddball: Effects of difficult response selection on stimulus-related P3 and on response-related negative potentials. Psychophysiology 2014; 51:1089-100. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2014] [Accepted: 05/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Rolf Verleger
- Department of Neurology; University of Lübeck; Lübeck Germany
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- Department of Neurology; University of Lübeck; Lübeck Germany
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Alperin BR, Mott KK, Rentz DM, Holcomb PJ, Daffner KR. Investigating the age-related "anterior shift" in the scalp distribution of the P3b component using principal component analysis. Psychophysiology 2014; 51:620-33. [PMID: 24660980 PMCID: PMC4630002 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2013] [Accepted: 01/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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An age-related "anterior shift" in the distribution of the P3b is often reported. Temporospatial principal component analysis (PCA) was used to investigate the basis of this observation. ERPs were measured in young and old adults during a visual oddball task. PCA revealed two spatially distinct factors in both age groups, identified as the posterior P3b and anterior P3a. Young subjects generated a smaller P3a than P3b, while old subjects generated a P3a that did not differ in amplitude from their P3b. Rather than having a more anteriorly distributed P3b, old subjects produced a large, temporally overlapping P3a. The pattern of the age-related "anterior shift" in the P3 was similar for target and standard stimuli. The increase in the P3a in elderly adults may not represent a failure to habituate the novelty response, but may reflect greater reliance on executive control operations (P3a) to carry out the categorization/updating process (P3b).
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- Brittany R. Alperin
- Center for Brain/Mind Medicine, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Brain/Mind Medicine, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Brain/Mind Medicine, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Tufts University, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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- Center for Brain/Mind Medicine, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Even though electroencephalography has played a prominent role for lie detection via personally relevant information, the electrophysiological signature of active lying is still elusive. We addressed this signature with two experiments in which participants helped a virtual police officer to locate a knife. Crucially, before this response, they announced whether they would lie or tell the truth about the knife's location. This design allowed us to study the signature of lie-telling in the absence of rare and personally significant oddball stimuli that are typically used for lie detection via electrophysiological markers, especially the P300 component. Our results indicate that active lying attenuated P300 amplitudes as well as N200 amplitudes for such non-oddball stimuli. These results support accounts that stress the high cognitive demand of lie-telling, including the need to suppress the truthful response and to generate a lie.
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- Roland Pfister
- a Department of Psychology III , Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg , Würzburg , Germany
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No differences in dual-task costs between forced- and free-choice tasks. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2014; 79:463-77. [DOI: 10.1007/s00426-014-0580-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2013] [Accepted: 06/02/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Steiner GZ, Barry RJ, Gonsalvez CJ. Nontarget-to-nontarget interval determines the nontarget P300 in an auditory equiprobable Go/NoGo task. Int J Psychophysiol 2014; 92:113-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2014] [Revised: 03/21/2014] [Accepted: 03/23/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Grzybowski SJ, Wyczesany M, Kaiser J. The influence of context on the processing of emotional and neutral adjectives – An ERP study. Biol Psychol 2014; 99:137-49. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2012] [Revised: 11/07/2013] [Accepted: 01/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Whitson LR, Karayanidis F, Fulham R, Provost A, Michie PT, Heathcote A, Hsieh S. Reactive control processes contributing to residual switch cost and mixing cost across the adult lifespan. Front Psychol 2014; 5:383. [PMID: 24817859 PMCID: PMC4012181 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2013] [Accepted: 04/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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In task-switching paradigms, performance is better when repeating the same task than when alternating between tasks (switch cost) and when repeating a task alone rather than intermixed with another task (mixing cost). These costs remain even after extensive practice and when task cues enable advanced preparation (residual costs). Moreover, residual reaction time mixing cost has been consistently shown to increase with age. Residual switch and mixing costs modulate the amplitude of the stimulus-locked P3b. This mixing effect is disproportionately larger in older adults who also prepare more for and respond more cautiously on these “mixed” repeat trials (Karayanidis et al., 2011). In this paper, we analyze stimulus-locked and response-locked P3 and lateralized readiness potentials to identify whether residual switch and mixing cost arise from the need to control interference at the level of stimulus processing or response processing. Residual mixing cost was associated with control of stimulus-level interference, whereas residual switch cost was also associated with a delay in response selection. In older adults, the disproportionate increase in mixing cost was associated with greater interference at the level of decision-response mapping and response programming for repeat trials in mixed-task blocks. These findings suggest that older adults strategically recruit greater proactive and reactive control to overcome increased susceptibility to post-stimulus interference. This interpretation is consistent with recruitment of compensatory strategies to compensate for reduced repetition benefit rather than an overall decline on cognitive flexibility.
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- Lisa R Whitson
- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, The University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, The University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, The University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, The University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, The University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, The University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, Australia ; Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychology and Institute of Allied Health Sciences, National Cheng Kung University Tainan City, Taiwan
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Yildiz A, Quetscher C, Dharmadhikari S, Chmielewski W, Glaubitz B, Schmidt-Wilcke T, Edden R, Dydak U, Beste C. Feeling safe in the plane: neural mechanisms underlying superior action control in airplane pilot trainees--a combined EEG/MRS study. Hum Brain Mapp 2014; 35:5040-5051. [PMID: 24753040 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2013] [Revised: 03/24/2014] [Accepted: 04/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In day-to-day life, we need to apply strategies to cascade different actions for efficient unfolding of behavior. While deficits in action cascading are examined extensively, almost nothing is known about the neuronal mechanisms mediating superior performance above the normal level. To examine this question, we investigate action control in airplane pilot trainees. We use a stop-change paradigm that is able to estimate the efficiency of action cascading on the basis of mathematical constraints. Behavioral and EEG data is analyzed along these constraints and integrated with neurochemical data obtained using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) from the striatal gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) -ergic system. We show that high performance in action cascading, as exemplified in airplane pilot trainees, can be driven by intensified attentional processes, circumventing response selection processes. The results indicate that the efficiency of action cascading and hence the speed of responding as well as attentional gating functions are modulated by striatal GABA and Glutamate + Glutamine concentrations. In superior performance in action cascading similar increases in the concentrations of GABA and Glutamate + Glutamine lead to stronger neurophysiological and behavioral effects as compared to subjects with normal performance in action cascading.
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- Ali Yildiz
- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, TU Dresden, Germany.,Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, TU Dresden, Germany.,Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.,Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, TU Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Klinikum Bergmannsheil, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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- Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, USA
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.,Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, TU Dresden, Germany.,Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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Yildiz A, Wolf OT, Beste C. Stress intensifies demands on response selection during action cascading processes. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2014; 42:178-87. [PMID: 24636514 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2013] [Revised: 01/26/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Stress has been shown to modulate a number of cognitive processes including action control. These functions are important in daily life and are mediated by various cognitive subprocesses. However, it is unknown if stress affects the whole processing cascade, or exerts specific effects on a restricted subset of processes involved in the chaining of actions. We examine the effects of stress on action selection processes in a stop-change paradigm and apply event-related potentials (ERPs) combined with source localization analysis to examine potentially restricted effects of stress on subprocesses mediating action cascading. The results show that attentional selection processes, as well as processes related to allocation of processing resources were not affected by stress. Stress only seems to affect response selection functions during action cascading and leads to slowing of responses when two actions are executed in succession. These changes are related to the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Changes in response selection were predictable on the basis of individual salivary cortisol levels. The results show that stress does not affect the whole processing cascade involved in the cascading of different actions, but seems to exert circumscribed effects on response selection processes which have previously been shown to depend on dopaminergic neural transmission.
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- Ali Yildiz
- Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany; Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, TU Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, TU Dresden, Germany.
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Kornmeier J, Wörner R, Riedel A, Bach M, Tebartz van Elst L. A different view on the checkerboard? Alterations in early and late visually evoked EEG potentials in Asperger observers. PLoS One 2014; 9:e90993. [PMID: 24632708 PMCID: PMC3954585 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2013] [Accepted: 02/06/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Asperger Autism is a lifelong psychiatric condition with highly circumscribed interests and routines, problems in social cognition, verbal and nonverbal communication, and also perceptual abnormalities with sensory hypersensitivity. To objectify both lower-level visual and cognitive alterations we looked for differences in visual event-related potentials (EEG) between Asperger observers and matched controls while they observed simple checkerboard stimuli. METHODS In a balanced oddball paradigm checkerboards of two checksizes (0.6° and 1.2°) were presented with different frequencies. Participants counted the occurrence times of the rare fine or rare coarse checkerboards in different experimental conditions. We focused on early visual ERP differences as a function of checkerboard size and the classical P3b ERP component as an indicator of cognitive processing. RESULTS We found an early (100-200 ms after stimulus onset) occipital ERP effect of checkerboard size (dominant spatial frequency). This effect was weaker in the Asperger than in the control observers. Further a typical parietal/central oddball-P3b occurred at 500 ms with the rare checkerboards. The P3b showed a right-hemispheric lateralization, which was more prominent in Asperger than in control observers. DISCUSSION The difference in the early occipital ERP effect between the two groups may be a physiological marker of differences in the processing of small visual details in Asperger observers compared to normal controls. The stronger lateralization of the P3b in Asperger observers may indicate a stronger involvement of the right-hemispheric network of bottom-up attention. The lateralization of the P3b signal might be a compensatory consequence of the compromised early checksize effect. Higher-level analytical information processing units may need to compensate for difficulties in low-level signal analysis.
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- Juergen Kornmeier
- Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany
- Eye Center, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- PPD Germany GmbH & Co Kg, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Neuropsychiatry, Clinic for Psychiatry & Psychotherapy, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Eye Center, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Neuropsychiatry, Clinic for Psychiatry & Psychotherapy, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Age-differential effects on updating cue information: Evidence from event-related potentials. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2014; 14:1115-31. [DOI: 10.3758/s13415-014-0268-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Stock AK, Heintschel von Heinegg E, Köhling HL, Beste C. Latent Toxoplasma gondii infection leads to improved action control. Brain Behav Immun 2014; 37:103-8. [PMID: 24231154 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2013] [Revised: 11/05/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The parasite Toxoplasma gondii has been found to manipulate the behavior of its secondary hosts to increase its own dissemination which is commonly believed to be to the detriment of the host (manipulation hypothesis). The manipulation correlates with an up-regulation of dopaminergic neurotransmission. In humans, different pathologies have been associated with T. gondii infections but most latently infected humans do not seem to display overt impairments. Since a dopamine plus does not necessarily bear exclusively negative consequences in humans, we investigated potential positive consequences of latent toxoplasmosis (and the presumed boosting of dopaminergic neurotransmission) on human cognition and behavior. For this purpose, we focused on action cascading which has been shown to be modulated by dopamine. Based on behavioral and neurophysiological (EEG) data obtained by means of a stop-change paradigm, we were able to demonstrate that healthy young humans can actually benefit from latent T. gondii infection as regards their performance in this task (as indicated by faster response times and a smaller P3 component). The data shows that a latent infection which is assumed to affect the dopaminergic system can lead to paradoxical improvements of cognitive control processes in humans.
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- Ann-Kathrin Stock
- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Dresden, Schubertstrasse 42, D-01307 Dresden, Germany.
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, Robert-Koch-Haus, Virchowstraße 179, D-45147 Essen, Germany.
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, Robert-Koch-Haus, Virchowstraße 179, D-45147 Essen, Germany.
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Dresden, Schubertstrasse 42, D-01307 Dresden, Germany.
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Śmigasiewicz K, Asanowicz D, Westphal N, Verleger R. Bias for the Left Visual Field in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation: Effects of Additional Salient Cues Suggest a Critical Role of Attention. J Cogn Neurosci 2014; 27:266-79. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Everyday experience suggests that people are equally aware of stimuli in both hemifields. However, when two streams of stimuli are rapidly presented left and right, the second target (T2) is better identified in the left hemifield than in the right hemifield. This left visual field (LVF) advantage may result from differences between hemifields in attracting attention. Therefore, we introduced a visual cue shortly before T2 onset to draw attention to one stream. Thus, to identify T2, attention was correctly positioned with valid cues but had to be redirected to the other stream with invalid ones. If the LVF advantage is caused by differences between hemifields in attracting attention, invalid cues should increase, and valid cues should reduce the LVF advantage as compared with neutral cues. This prediction was confirmed. ERP analysis revealed that cues evoked an early posterior negativity, confirming that attention was attracted by the cue. This negativity was earlier with cues in the LVF, which suggests that responses to salient events are faster in the right hemisphere than in the left hemisphere. Valid cues speeded up, and invalid cues delayed T2-evoked N2pc; in addition, valid cues enlarged T2-evoked P3. After N2pc, right-side T2 evoked more sustained contralateral negativity than left T2, least long-lasting after valid cues. Difficulties in identifying invalidly cued right T2 were reflected in prematurely ending P3 waveforms. Overall, these data provide evidence that the LVF advantage is because of different abilities of the hemispheres in shifting attention to relevant events in their contralateral hemifield.
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- 1University of Lübeck, Germany
- 2Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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Bar-Kochva I, Breznitz Z. Reading proficiency and adaptability in orthographic processing: an examination of the effect of type of orthography read on brain activity in regular and dyslexic readers. PLoS One 2014; 9:e86016. [PMID: 24465844 PMCID: PMC3899085 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2013] [Accepted: 12/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Regular readers were found to adjust the routine of reading to the demands of processing imposed by different orthographies. Dyslexic readers may lack such adaptability in reading. This hypothesis was tested among readers of Hebrew, as Hebrew has two forms of script differing in phonological transparency. Event-related potentials were recorded from 24 regular and 24 dyslexic readers while they carried out a lexical decision task in these two forms of script. The two forms of script elicited distinct amplitudes and latencies at ∼165 ms after target onset, and these effects were larger in regular than in dyslexic readers. These early effects appeared not to be merely a result of the visual difference between the two forms of script (the presence of diacritics). The next effect of form of script was obtained on amplitudes elicited at latencies associated with orthographic-lexical processing and the categorization of stimuli, and these appeared earlier in regular readers (∼340 ms) than in dyslexic readers (∼400 ms). The behavioral measures showed inferior reading skills of dyslexic readers compared to regular readers in reading of both forms of script. Taken together, the results suggest that although dyslexic readers are not indifferent to the type of orthography read, they fail to adjust the routine of reading to the demands of processing imposed by both a transparent and an opaque orthography.
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- Irit Bar-Kochva
- Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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- Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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Shou G, Ding L. Neural markers for immediate performance accuracy in a Stroop color-word matching task: an event-related potentials analysis. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2014; 2014:6222-6225. [PMID: 25571418 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2014.6945050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The present study examined the neural markers measured in event-related potentials (ERPs) for immediate performance accuracy during a cognitive task with less conflict, i.e., a Stroop color-word matching task, in which participants were required to judge the congruency of two feature dimensions of a stimulus. In an effort to make ERP components more specific to distinct underlying neural substrates, recorded EEG signals were firstly dissolved into multiple independent components (ICs) using independent component analysis (ICA). Thereafter, individual ICs with prominent sensory- or cognitive-related ERP components were selected to separately reconstruct scalp EEG signals at representative channels, from which ERP waveforms were built, respectively. Statistical comparisons on amplitudes of stimulus-locked ERP components, i.e., prefrontal P2 and N2, parietal P3, bilateral occipital P1 and N1, revealed significant reduced P3 amplitude in error trials than in correct trials. In addition, significant evident ERN was also observed in error trials but not in correct trials. Considering the temporal locus of semantic conflict in the present task, we concluded that reduced P3 amplitude in error trials reflect impaired resolving process of semantic conflict, which further lead to a performance error in the Stroop color-word matching task.
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Mapping the Time Course of Other-Race Face Classification Advantage: A Cross-Race ERP Study. Brain Topogr 2013; 27:663-71. [DOI: 10.1007/s10548-013-0348-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2013] [Accepted: 12/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Fleischhauer M, Strobel A, Diers K, Enge S. Electrophysiological evidence for early perceptual facilitation and efficient categorization of self-related stimuli during an Implicit Association Test measuring neuroticism. Psychophysiology 2013; 51:142-51. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2013] [Accepted: 09/21/2013] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Department of Psychology; Technische Universitaet Dresden; Dresden Germany
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- Department of Psychology; Technische Universitaet Dresden; Dresden Germany
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- Department of Psychology; Technische Universitaet Dresden; Dresden Germany
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Kishore K, Ray K, Anand J, Thakur L, Kumar S, Panjwani U. Tyrosine ameliorates heat induced delay in event related potential P300 and contingent negative variation. Brain Cogn 2013; 83:324-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2013] [Revised: 09/07/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Bashore TR, Wylie SA, Ridderinkhof KR, Martinerie JM. Response-specific slowing in older age revealed through differential stimulus and response effects on P300 latency and reaction time. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT, AND COGNITION. SECTION B, AGING, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION 2013; 21:633-73. [PMID: 24191773 PMCID: PMC4524675 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2013.850058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Older age produces numerous changes in cognitive processes, including slowing in the rate of mental processing speed. There has been controversy over the past three decades about whether this slowing is generalized or process-specific. A growing literature indicates that it is process-specific and suggests it is most dramatic at the interface where a stimulus input is translated into a response output. We tested this hypothesis using a task in which young and older adult males made either compatible or incompatible responses to the word LEFT or RIGHT shown briefly and variously located in a 4 row × 6 column matrix surrounded by # signs or by letters chosen randomly from the sets A-G or A-Z. Processing speed was measured using P300 latency and reaction time. Experimental effects on these two measures provided support for the hypothesis in revealing that stimulus identification processes were preserved, whereas processes related to translating a stimulus input into a designated response output and then selecting that response were compromised in the elderly.
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- Theodore R. Bashore
- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Centre de Recherche de l’Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France
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Verleger R, Schroll H, Hamker FH. The unstable bridge from stimulus processing to correct responding in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2013; 51:2512-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2012] [Revised: 07/19/2013] [Accepted: 09/05/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Akyürek EG, Schubö A. The electrophysiological locus of the redundant target effect on visual discrimination in a dual singleton search task. Brain Res 2013; 1537:180-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2013] [Revised: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 09/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Elkan G Akyürek
- Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany; University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Beste C, Saft C. Action selection in a possible model of striatal medium spiny neuron dysfunction: behavioral and EEG data in a patient with benign hereditary chorea. Brain Struct Funct 2013; 220:221-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0649-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Fogelson N, Peled A, Marmor S, Fernandez-del-Olmo M, Klein E. Local contextual processing in major depressive disorder. Clin Neurophysiol 2013; 125:476-83. [PMID: 24076133 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2013] [Revised: 09/01/2013] [Accepted: 09/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The study investigated local contextual processing in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). This was defined as the ability to utilize predictive contextual information to facilitate detection of predictable versus random targets. METHOD We recorded EEG in 15 MDD patients and 14 age-matched controls. Recording blocks consisted of targets preceded by randomized sequences of standards and by sequences of standards that included a predictive sequence signaling the occurrence of a subsequent target event. RESULTS Both MDD patients and age-matched controls demonstrated a significant reaction time (RT) and P3b latency differences between predicted and random targets. However, patients demonstrated a specific prolongation of these measures during processing of predicted targets, as well as an attenuation of P3b amplitudes for the predictive sequence. In addition, patients target N1 amplitudes were attenuated compared with controls. CONCLUSION MDD patients were able to utilize predictive context in order to facilitate processing of deterministic targets, however, this ability was limited compared to controls, as demonstrated by context-dependent P3b deficits. SIGNIFICANCE These findings suggest that patients with major depression have altered processing of local contextual processing.
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- Noa Fogelson
- Department of Psychology, University of A Coruña, La Coruña, Spain.
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- Institute for Psychiatric Studies, Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel; B Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rambam Medical Center, Technion, Haifa, Israel; B Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rambam Medical Center, Technion, Haifa, Israel; B Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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Czigler I, Intraub H, Stefanics G. Prediction beyond the borders: ERP indices of boundary extension-related error. PLoS One 2013; 8:e74245. [PMID: 24069286 PMCID: PMC3771887 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 07/31/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Boundary extension (BE) is a rapidly occurring memory error in which participants incorrectly remember having seen beyond the boundaries of a view. However, behavioral data has provided no insight into how quickly after the onset of a test picture the effect is detected. To determine the time course of BE from neural responses we conducted a BE experiment while recording EEG. We exploited a diagnostic response asymmetry to mismatched views (a closer and wider view of the same scene) in which the same pair of views is rated as more similar when the closer item is shown first than vice versa. On each trial, a closer or wider view was presented for 250 ms followed by a 250-ms mask and either the identical view or a mismatched view. Boundary ratings replicated the typical asymmetry. We found a similar asymmetry in ERP responses in the 265-285 ms interval where the second member of the close-then-wide pairs evoked less negative responses at left parieto-temporal sites compared to the wide-then-close condition. We also found diagnostic ERP effects in the 500-560 ms range, where ERPs to wide-then-close pairs were more positive at centro-parietal sites than in the other three conditions, which is thought to be related to participants' confidence in their perceptual decision. The ERP effect in the 265-285 ms range suggests the falsely remembered region beyond the view-boundaries of S1 is rapidly available and impacts assessment of the test picture within the first 265 ms of viewing, suggesting that extrapolated scene structure may be computed rapidly enough to play a role in the integration of successive views during visual scanning.
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- István Czigler
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Center for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
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- Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU), Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Schiff S, D'Avanzo C, Cona G, Goljahani A, Montagnese S, Volpato C, Gatta A, Sparacino G, Amodio P, Bisiacchi P. Insight into the relationship between brain/behavioral speed and variability in patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy. Clin Neurophysiol 2013; 125:287-97. [PMID: 24035204 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2012] [Revised: 07/08/2013] [Accepted: 08/08/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Intra-individual variability (IIV) of response reaction times (RTs) and psychomotor slowing were proposed as markers of brain dysfunction in patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE), a subclinical disorder of the central nervous system frequently detectable in patients with liver cirrhosis. However, behavioral measures alone do not enable investigations into the neural correlates of these phenomena. The aim of this study was to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of psychomotor slowing and increased IIV of RTs in patients with MHE. METHODS Event-related potentials (ERPs), evoked by a stimulus-response (S-R) conflict task, were recorded from a sample of patients with liver cirrhosis, with and without MHE, and a group of healthy controls. A recently presented Bayesian approach was used to estimate single-trial P300 parameters. RESULTS Patients with MHE, with both psychomotor slowing and higher IIV of RTs, showed higher P300 latency jittering and lower single-trial P300 amplitude compared to healthy controls. In healthy controls, distribution analysis revealed that single-trial P300 latency increased and amplitude decreased as RTs became longer; however, in patients with MHE the linkage between P300 and RTs was weaker or even absent. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that in patients with MHE, the loss of the relationship between P300 parameters and RTs is related to both higher IIV of RTs and psychomotor slowing. SIGNIFICANCE This study highlights the utility of investigating the relationship between single-trial ERPs parameters along with RT distributions to explore brain functioning in normal or pathological conditions.
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- S Schiff
- Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy; C.I.R.M.A.ME.C., University of Padua, Italy; IRCCS San Camillo, Lido di Venice, Italy.
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy; C.I.R.M.A.ME.C., University of Padua, Italy
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- IRCCS San Camillo, Lido di Venice, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy; C.I.R.M.A.ME.C., University of Padua, Italy
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- C.I.R.M.A.ME.C., University of Padua, Italy; Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy; C.I.R.M.A.ME.C., University of Padua, Italy
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- C.I.R.M.A.ME.C., University of Padua, Italy; Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
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Can working memory predict target-to-target interval effects in the P300? Int J Psychophysiol 2013; 89:399-408. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2013] [Revised: 07/13/2013] [Accepted: 07/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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