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Cui R, Hao X, Huang P, He M, Ma W, Gong D, Yao D. Behavioral state-dependent associations between EEG temporal correlations and depressive symptoms. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2024; 341:111811. [PMID: 38583274 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2024.111811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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Previous studies have shown abnormal long-range temporal correlations in neuronal oscillations among individuals with Major Depressive Disorders, occurring during both resting states and transitions between resting and task states. However, the understanding of this effect in preclinical individuals with depression remains limited. This study investigated the association between temporal correlations of neuronal oscillations and depressive symptoms during resting and task states in preclinical individuals, specifically focusing on male action video gaming experts. Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA), Lifetimes, and Waitingtimes were employed to explore temporal correlations across long-range and short-range scales. The results indicated widespread changes from the resting state to the task state across all frequency bands and temporal scales. Rest-task DFA changes in the alpha band exhibited a negative correlation with depressive scores at most electrodes. Significant positive correlations between DFA values and depressive scores were observed in the alpha band during the resting state but not in the task state. Similar patterns of results emerged concerning maladaptive negative emotion regulation strategies. Additionally, short-range temporal correlations in the alpha band echoed the DFA results. These findings underscore the state-dependent relationships between temporal correlations of neuronal oscillations and depressive symptoms, as well as maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, in preclinical individuals.
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- Ruifang Cui
- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- School of Human Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
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Wang X, Shi S, Bao Y. Parallel processes of temporal control in the supplementary motor area and the frontoparietal circuit. Psych J 2024; 13:355-368. [PMID: 38105556 PMCID: PMC11169752 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Durations in the several seconds' range are cognitively accessible during active timing. Functional neuroimaging studies suggest the engagement of the basal ganglia (BG) and supplementary motor area (SMA). However, their functional relevance and arrangement remain unclear because non-timing cognitive processes temporally coincide with the active timing. To examine the potential contamination by parallel processes, we introduced a sensory control and a motor control to the duration-reproduction task. By comparing their hemodynamic functions, we decomposed the neural activities in multiple brain loci linked to different cognitive processes. Our results show a dissociation of two cortical neural circuits: the SMA for both active timing and motor preparation, followed by a prefrontal-parietal circuit related to duration working memory. We argue that these cortical processes represent duration as the content but at different levels of abstraction, while the subcortical structures, including the BG and thalamus, provide the logistic basis of timing by coordinating the temporal framework across brain structures.
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- Xuanyu Wang
- School of Psychological and Cognitive SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
- Graduate School of Systemic NeurosciencesLudwig‐Maximilians‐Universität MünchenMunichGermany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität MünchenMunichGermany
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental HealthPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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Liu Y, Zhao C, Sander‐Thömmes T, Yang T, Bao Y. Beta oscillation is an indicator for two patterns of sensorimotor synchronization. Psych J 2024; 13:347-354. [PMID: 37905907 PMCID: PMC11169746 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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Previous study indicates that there are two distinct behavioral patterns in the sensory-motor synchronization task with short stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA; 2-3 s) or long SOA (beyond 4 s). However, the underlying neural indicators and mechanisms have not been elucidated. The present study applied magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology to examine the functional role of several oscillations (beta, gamma, and mu) in sensorimotor synchronization with different SOAs to identify a reliable neural indicator. During MEG recording, participants underwent a listening task without motor response, a sound-motor synchronization task, and a motor-only continuation task. These tasks were used to explore whether and how the activity of oscillations changes across different behavioral patterns with different tempos. Results showed that during both the listening and the synchronization task, the beta oscillation changes with the tempo. Moreover, the event-related synchronization of beta oscillations was significantly correlated with motor timing during synchronization. In contrast, mu activity only changes with the tempo in the synchronization task, while the gamma activity remains unchanged. In summary, the current study indicates that beta oscillation could be an indicator of behavioral patterns between fast tempo and slow tempo in sensorimotor synchronization. Also, it is likely to be the potential mechanism of maintaining rhythmic continuous movements with short SOA, which is embedded within the 3 s time window.
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- Yuelin Liu
- School of Psychological and Cognitive SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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- Institute of Medical PsychologyLudwig‐Maximilian‐University MunichMunichGermany
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Division of Cell & Developmental BiologyUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
- Institute of Medical PsychologyLudwig‐Maximilian‐University MunichMunichGermany
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental HealthPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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Zhao C, Mu N, Zhang J, Bao Y. The temporal transition zone: A gradual approach to a subjective set-point within the three-second time window. Psych J 2024; 13:369-375. [PMID: 38679463 PMCID: PMC11169761 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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Even though in physics "time" is considered to be continuous, how the brain and mind deal with time might be different. It has been proposed that in cognition, time windows provide logistic platforms for information processing, such as the low-frequency 3-s time window. The following series of behavioral experiments may shed light on the dynamics within such a time window. Using a duration reproduction paradigm, we first replicated a pattern of reproduced duration observed in a previous single-case study. Specifically, the reproduction increases as the pause between standard duration and reproduction increases, but only within the time window of some 3 s; when the pause goes beyond 4 s, the reproduction reaches a plateau of a subjective set-point. This increasing phase is named the "temporal transition zone." Three more experiments were performed to test the features of the transition zone as a low-frequency time window. It is also observed with different standard durations (2, 3, 4.5 s, in Experiment 2), and even when the frequency of the auditory stimuli was different in standard and reproduction (300 Hz in standard duration and 400 Hz in reproduction, in Experiment 4). The transition zone was observed only with pause durations of 2 to 3 s; when the shortest pause duration was 5 s, the transition zone was no longer observed, and the reproduction was stable at the subjective set-point (in Experiment 3). Taken together, we suggest that the temporal transition zone indicates a pre-semantic logistic platform to organize and process the information flow; in such a time window of some 3 seconds, the identity of an ongoing event is substantiated, building the "subjective present."
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- Chen Zhao
- Institute of Medical PsychologyLudwig Maximilian UniversityMunichGermany
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- Institute of Medical PsychologyLudwig Maximilian UniversityMunichGermany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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- Institute of Medical PsychologyLudwig Maximilian UniversityMunichGermany
- School of Psychological and Cognitive SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental HealthPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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Zhao C, Wong YL, Xu Y, Wang S, Bao Y. Time represented in space: Bar better than ring while waiting. Psych J 2023; 12:824-828. [PMID: 37905932 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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The use of visual representations of time is common in both research and daily life, with progress icons, such as bars and rings, being popular examples. Despite some studies investigating the advantage of different shapes, there has been no consistent result from questionnaires. This study aims to investigate this topic by using an objective temporal reproduction task to compare the potential difference between short and long waiting times, as evidence indicates that the temporal machinery could be different within and beyond 2-3 s. The study also explores the role of the percentage of progress icons. Two groups of participants first experienced a short (3 s) or long (15 s) duration with a dynamic progress icon, which varied by shape (bar vs. ring) and progress percentage (20% vs. 80%). Then they reproduced the duration with a button, seeing a neutral grey square on the screen. The results revealed that the reproduced durations of bars were significantly shorter than those of rings, but only for the long duration condition (15 s). Additionally, a larger progress percentage led to longer reproductions for both 3 s and 15 s. These findings suggest that the spatial configuration is significant when the waiting time is relatively long, supporting the hierarchical model of temporal perception. Overall, this study contributes to both industrial design and our understanding of the cognitive mechanism of temporal perception.
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- Chen Zhao
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Luo Y, He Y, Bao Y. Perifoveal and peripheral attentional modulation on order perception. Psych J 2023; 12:835-837. [PMID: 37905921 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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The present study demonstrates that spatial attention modulates temporal order perception differently in the perifoveal and peripheral regions, with a more pronounced effect in the left peripheral visual field, suggesting a dissociation in attentional systems for event timing at the sub-second level.
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- Yingrui Luo
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Yang H, Bao Y. Three-phase temporal dynamics in random number generation. Psych J 2023; 12:787-792. [PMID: 37681229 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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"Inhibition of return" (IOR) was originally described in the field of spatial attention, but it has also been observed in random number generation tasks. Subjects showed a tendency of "repetition avoidance," which can be considered as equivalent to IOR in another cognitive domain. As temporal factors have been suspected to play an important role in random number generation, we aimed to examine how such factors might influence regularities such as repetition avoidance in random number generation tasks. Participants were instructed to verbally generate a sequence of numbers at a certain pace, that is, with either 0.5, 1.5, 3 or 4 s between each response. Each number in the sequence should have the same probability of appearance and should be independent from the others. However, it was observed that the human-generated sequences differed drastically from computer-simulated pseudo-random sequences. The distribution of the repetition gap, which indicates how many different numbers are reported between two identical numbers in the generated sequences, showed a "three-phase" characteristic: a phase of avoidance of the same number, an oscillatory component for coming back to the same number, and finally an exponential decay of number selection frequencies. This three-phase characteristic was independent of the time interval between responses. These observations indicate an item-based process in random number generation, making a time-based control in this task rather unlikely as has been hypothetically assumed.
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- Haiming Yang
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Chen S, Wang T, Bao Y. Serial dependence in timing at the perceptual level being modulated by working memory. Psych J 2023; 12:774-786. [PMID: 37528541 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 04/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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Recent experiences bias the perception of following stimuli, as has been verified in various kinds of experiments in visual perception. This phenomenon, known as serial dependence, may reflect mechanisms to maintain perceptual stability. In the current study, we examined several key properties of serial dependence in temporal perception. Firstly, we examined the source of the serial dependence effect in temporal perception. We found that perception without motor reproduction is sufficient to induce the sequential effect; motor reproduction caused a stronger effect and is achieved by biasing the perception of the future target duration rather than directly influencing the subsequent movement. Secondly, we ask how working memory influences serial dependence in a temporal reproduction task. By varying the delay time between standard duration and the reproduction, we showed that the strength of serial dependence is enhanced as the delay increased. Those features of serial dependence are consistent with what has been observed in visual perceptual tasks, for example, orientation perception or location perception. The similarities between the visual and the timing tasks may suggest a similar neural coding mechanism of magnitude between the visual stimuli and the duration.
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- Shuai Chen
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
- Helen Wills Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Hinault T, D'Argembeau A, Bowler DM, La Corte V, Desaunay P, Provasi J, Platel H, Tran The J, Charretier L, Giersch A, Droit-Volet S. Time processing in neurological and psychiatric conditions. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023; 154:105430. [PMID: 37871780 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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A central question in understanding cognition and pathology-related cognitive changes is how we process time. However, time processing difficulties across several neurological and psychiatric conditions remain seldom investigated. The aim of this review is to develop a unifying taxonomy of time processing, and a neuropsychological perspective on temporal difficulties. Four main temporal judgments are discussed: duration processing, simultaneity and synchrony, passage of time, and mental time travel. We present an integrated theoretical framework of timing difficulties across psychiatric and neurological conditions based on selected patient populations. This framework provides new mechanistic insights on both (a) the processes involved in each temporal judgement, and (b) temporal difficulties across pathologies. By identifying underlying transdiagnostic time-processing mechanisms, this framework opens fruitful avenues for future research.
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- Thomas Hinault
- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France.
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- Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, F.R.S-FNRS, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Autism Research Group, City, University of London, EC1V 0HB London, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire Mémoire, Cerveau et Cognition (MC2Lab), UR 7536, Université de Paris cité, 92774 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France; Service de Psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, CHU de Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- CHArt laboratory (Human and Artificial Cognition), EPHE-PSL, 75014 Paris, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France
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- Cognitive Neuropsychology and Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia Laboratory, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, University of Strasbourg, 67081 Strasbourg, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, LAPSCO, CNRS, UMR 6024, 60032 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Pöppel E, Bao Y, Giersch A, Ushakov D. Temporal processes, temporal perspectives: Logistics and semantics of human time. Psych J 2023; 12:477-478. [PMID: 37563862 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Ernst Pöppel
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Li Y, Ye B, Bao Y. The same phase creates a unique visual rhythm unifying moving elements in time. Psych J 2023; 12:500-506. [PMID: 36916772 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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Attention can be selectively tuned to particular features at different spatial locations or objects. The deployment of attention can be guided by properties, such as color, orientation, and so forth, as guiding features. What might be such guiding features for visual stimuli under dynamic rhythmic conditions? We asked specifically what might be the parameters that attract attention when perceiving a visual rhythm. We used a visual search paradigm, in which a dynamic search display consisted of vertically "bouncing balls" with regular rhythms. The search target was defined by a unique visual rhythm (i.e., with either a shorter or longer period) among rhythmic distractors sharing an identical period. We modulated amplitudes and phases of the distractor balls systematically. The results showed a crucial factor of the phase, not the amplitude. If the phase is violated, the target suddenly "pops out" as an "oddball," showing an efficient parallel search. The findings indicate in general the essential role of the phase in conjunction with amplitude and period for visual rhythm perception. Furthermore, a higher saliency of moving objects with a higher frequency component has also been disclosed.
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- Yao Li
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Zhang Z, Lin X, Bao Y. Holistic temporal order judgment of tones requires top-down disentanglement. Psych J 2023; 12:491-499. [PMID: 36137943 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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How temporal sequence gets organized is a central topic in cognitive processing. In a high-frequency time window of tens of milliseconds, the temporal order is reconstructed rather than mirroring the sequence of events objectively in physical time. Two separate phases or strategies, a holistic coding phase that groups successively presented events as a gestalt and a disentanglement phase that decodes the temporal order of discrete events from the gestalt representation, may presumably be involved in the perception of temporal order across different modalities. With a temporal order adaptation protocol of pure tones using glide adaptors, the present study demonstrated a dissociation between constant discriminability and shifted subjective simultaneity across different adaptor directions. While discriminability of temporal order was not adapted by glides, revealing a constant coding sensitivity of different asynchronies, the shift of subjective simultaneity indicated the recalibration of a top-down disentanglement of the holistic processing under the influence of glide adaptors. The results suggest a dual-phase holistic processing in temporal order perception, supporting two separate cognitive strategies for event timing on the sub-second level.
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- Zhilin Zhang
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing
- Yuanpei College, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, USA
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing
- Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing
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Wei X, Yan Z, Cai L, Lu M, Yi G, Wang J, Dong Y. Aberrant temporal correlations of ongoing oscillations in disorders of consciousness on multiple time scales. Cogn Neurodyn 2023; 17:633-645. [PMID: 37265651 PMCID: PMC10229524 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-022-09852-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Changes in neural oscillation amplitude across states of consciousness has been widely reported, but little is known about the link between temporal dynamics of these oscillations on different time scales and consciousness levels. To address this question, we analyzed amplitude fluctuation of the oscillations extracted from spontaneous resting-state EEG recorded from the patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) and healthy controls. Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and measures of life-time and waiting-time were employed to characterize the temporal structure of EEG oscillations on long time scales (1-20 s) and short time scales (< 1 s), in groups with different consciousness states: patients in minimally conscious state (MCS), patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) and healthy subjects. Results revealed increased DFA exponents that implies higher long-range temporal correlations (LRTC), especially in the central brain area in alpha and beta bands. On short time scales, declined bursts of oscillations were also observed. All the metrics exhibited lower individual variability in the UWS or MCS group, which may be attributed to the reduced spatial variability of oscillation dynamics. In addition, the temporal dynamics of EEG oscillations showed significant correlations with the behavioral responsiveness of patients. In summary, our findings shows that loss of consciousness is accompanied by alternation of temporal structure in neural oscillations on multiple time scales, and thus may help uncover the mechanism of underlying neuronal correlates of consciousness. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11571-022-09852-9.
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- Xile Wei
- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Information Technology Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, 300222 China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Xincheng Hospital of Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Zhao C, Enriquez P, Izadifar M, Pöppel E, Bao Y, Zabotkina V. Complementarity of mental content and logistic algorithms in a taxonomy of cognitive functions. Psych J 2022; 11:973-979. [DOI: 10.1002/pchj.602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Chen Zhao
- Institute of Medical Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Germany
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Peking University Beijing China
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- Institute of Medical Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Germany
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Peking University Beijing China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health Peking University Beijing China
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- Russian State University of the Humanities Moscow Russia
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Bao Y, Zhang D, Zhao C, Pöppel E, Zabotkina V. An Aesthetic Frame for Three Modes of Knowing. Psych J 2022; 11:636-644. [DOI: 10.1002/pchj.588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yan Bao
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Peking University Beijing China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health Peking University Beijing China
- Institute of Medical Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Munich Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Munich Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Munich Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Peking University Beijing China
- Institute of Medical Psychology Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Munich Germany
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- Russian State University of the Humanities Moscow Russia
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Jauny G, Eustache F, Hinault TT. M/EEG Dynamics Underlying Reserve, Resilience, and Maintenance in Aging: A Review. Front Psychol 2022; 13:861973. [PMID: 35693495 PMCID: PMC9174693 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.861973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Cognitive reserve and resilience refer to the set of processes allowing the preservation of cognitive performance in the presence of structural and functional brain changes. Investigations of these concepts have provided unique insights into the heterogeneity of cognitive and brain changes associated with aging. Previous work mainly relied on methods benefiting from a high spatial precision but a low temporal resolution, and thus the temporal brain dynamics underlying these concepts remains poorly known. Moreover, while spontaneous fluctuations of neural activity have long been considered as noise, recent work highlights its critical contribution to brain functions. In this study, we synthesized the current state of knowledge from magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) studies that investigated the contribution of maintenance of neural synchrony, and variability of brain dynamics, to cognitive changes associated with healthy aging and the progression of neurodegenerative disease (such as Alzheimer's disease). The reviewed findings highlight that compensations could be associated with increased synchrony of higher (>10 Hz) frequency bands. Maintenance of young-like synchrony patterns was also observed in healthy older individuals. Both maintenance and compensation appear to be highly related to preserved structural integrity (brain reserve). However, increased synchrony was also found to be deleterious in some cases and reflects neurodegenerative processes. These results provide major elements on the stability or variability of functional networks as well as maintenance of neural synchrony over time, and their association with individual cognitive changes with aging. These findings could provide new and interesting considerations about cognitive reserve, maintenance, and resilience of brain functions and cognition.
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Université Paris, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, Centre Cyceron, Caen, France
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Izadifar M, Yang T, Paolini M, Formuli A, Bao Y. Composing in the scanner: A functional magnetic resonance imaging single case study on visual and auditory imagery. Psych J 2022; 11:684-690. [PMID: 35166023 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
"Seeing with the mind's eye" and "hearing with the mind's ear" are two common indicators of musical imagery, and they can be referred to as "visual" and "auditory" musical imagery. However, a question remains open, that is, whether visual and auditory imagery of the same musical composition share the same neural mechanisms. Moreover, how can neural mechanisms guarantee the temporal flow of "musical imagery"? To answer these questions, we report here a preliminary single case study using functional magnetic resonance imaging with an eminent composer who imagined one of his compositions in two states of mind as compared to his resting-state activity. In the visual imagery condition, he imagined visually the score of his composition in a continuous way. In the auditory imagery condition, he imagined auditorily the same musical composition with pauses. In spite of the modality and temporal differences, the two types of mental imagery showed similar temporal durations for the same musical composition. However, different patterns of neural activation were observed for visual and auditory imagery with one important exception, that is, a common activation pattern was observed in the left medial temporal gyrus in both visual and auditory imagery. We speculate that the left medial temporal gyrus may play an important role in the creation of apparent temporal continuity in musical imagery and perhaps even in conscious information processing in general.
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- Morteza Izadifar
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Yang T, Li X, Li Y, Pöppel E, Bao Y. Temporal twilight zone and beyond: Timing mechanisms in consciously delayed actions. Psych J 2020; 9:791-803. [PMID: 33249767 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Precise timing is essential for many kinds of human behavior. When a fastest response is not required, movements are initiated at the appropriate time requiring an anticipatory temporal component. Temporal mechanisms for movements with such an anticipatory component are not yet sufficiently understood; in particular, it is not known whether on the operational level for delayed movements distinct time windows are used or whether anticipatory control is characterized by continuous temporal processing. With a modified reaction-time paradigm, we asked participants to act with predefined time delays between 400 and 5000 ms; after each individual trial, a numerical feedback was provided which allowed correction of the response time for each next trial. Visual stimuli (Experiment 1) and auditory stimuli (Experiment 2) were used. In the statistical analyses, piecewise linear models and exponential decay models for the response variability of different delay times were compared. These analyses favored piecewise linear models; a decreasing variability with increasing delay of voluntary controlled actions was observed up to ~1 s, followed by close to constant variability beyond this delay. We suggest that precise temporal control of voluntary delayed movements is reached only after a "temporal twilight zone" of ~1 s, which apparently marks a temporal border between two different timing mechanisms.
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- Taoxi Yang
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Parmenides Center for Art and Science, Pullach, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Parmenides Center for Art and Science, Pullach, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Parmenides Center for Art and Science, Pullach, Germany.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Yu X, Bao Y. The three second time window in poems and language processing in general: Complementarity of discrete timing and temporal continuity. Psych J 2020; 9:429-443. [PMID: 32851816 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The existence of discrete time windows has triggered the search for permanence and continuity for artists (including poets) in multiple cultures throughout history. In this article, we argue that there exists a 3-s window in the temporal structure of poems as well as in the aesthetic appreciation of poetry by reviewing previous literature on the temporal aspects of poems. This 3-s window can also be considered to be a general temporal machinery underlying human behavior, including language production and perception in general. The reafference principle has provided us a unique frame for understanding cognitive processes. However, "time" was absent in the original two-stage reafference principle. Therefore, we propose a three-stage cycling model of language perception, taking into account time and time windows. We also inspect the possible neural implementations of the three stages: the generation, maintenance, and comparison of predictions (as well as the integration of predictions into the representational context). These three stages are embedded in a temporal window of ~3 s and are repeated in a cycling mode, resulting in the representational context being continuously updated. Thus, it is possible that "semantics" could be carried forward across different time windows, being a "glue" linking the discrete time windows and thus achieving the subjective feeling of temporal continuity. Candidates of such "semantic glue" could include semantic and syntactic structures as well as identity and emotion.
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- Xinchi Yu
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Chen S, Cai M, Bao Y. The two- to three-second time window of shot durations in movies. Psych J 2020; 9:516-518. [PMID: 32851815 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Movie shots of singular scenes have a preferential duration of 2 to 3 s regardless of producers, movie types, and cultural environments. This observation suggests that the temporal structure of movies matches a neural mechanism of information processing in the time domain.
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- Shuai Chen
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology, and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Parmenides Center for Art and Science, Pullach, Germany
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Two new studies show that the social lockdown imposed as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has helped unlock more time for sleep. Although daily stress during the lockdown increased, and sleep quality decreased, sleep behaviour was generally healthier.
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- Thomas Kantermann
- University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management (FOM), Stresemannallee 4-6, 41460 Neuss, Germany; SynOpus, Alte Hattinger Strasse 32, 44789 Bochum, Germany.
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Simmank F, Avram M, Fehse K, Sander T, Zaytseva Y, Paolini M, Bao Y, Silveira S. Morality in advertising: An fMRI study on persuasion in communication. Psych J 2020; 9:629-643. [PMID: 32515144 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Advertising slogans serve the function of persuasive communication by presenting catchy phrases. To decide whether a slogan is convincing or not, cognitive reasoning is assumed to be complemented by a more implicit and intuitive route of information processing, presumably similar to evaluating normative judgments in moral statements. We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while Western male subjects judged advertising slogans and moral statements as another decision task with subjective nature. Compared to a neutral control condition that targeted declarative memory and to an aesthetic-related condition, the evaluation processes in both domains engaged the anterior medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), which is associated with decision-making incorporating personal value. Conjoint activations were also observed in the left temporoparietal junction (TPJ) when compared to the aesthetics condition. Results are discussed with reference to domain-independence, a suspected difference to aesthetic-like appreciations, and functional organization in the mPFC and the TPJ.
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- Fabian Simmank
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.,TUM-NIC Neuroimaging Center, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Migliorati D, Zappasodi F, Perrucci MG, Donno B, Northoff G, Romei V, Costantini M. Individual Alpha Frequency Predicts Perceived Visuotactile Simultaneity. J Cogn Neurosci 2020; 32:1-11. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Temporal encoding is a key feature in multisensory processing that leads to the integration versus segregation of perceived events over time. Whether or not two events presented at different offsets are perceived as simultaneous varies widely across the general population. Such tolerance to temporal delays is known as the temporal binding window (TBW). It has been recently suggested that individual oscillatory alpha frequency (IAF) peak may represent the electrophysiological correlate of TBW, with IAF also showing a wide variability in the general population (8–12 Hz). In our work, we directly tested this hypothesis by measuring each individual's TBW during a visuotactile simultaneity judgment task while concurrently recording their electrophysiological activity. We found that the individual's TBW significantly correlated with their left parietal IAF, such that faster IAF accounted for narrower TBW. Furthermore, we found that higher prestimulus alpha power measured over the same left parietal regions accounted for more veridical responses of non-simultaneity, which may be explained either by accuracy in perceptual simultaneity or, alternatively, in line with recent proposals by a shift in response bias from more conservative (high alpha power) to more liberal (low alpha power). We propose that the length of an alpha cycle constrains the temporal resolution within which perceptual processes take place.
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Yang T, Silveira S, Formuli A, Paolini M, Pöppel E, Sander T, Bao Y. Aesthetic Experiences Across Cultures: Neural Correlates When Viewing Traditional Eastern or Western Landscape Paintings. Front Psychol 2019; 10:798. [PMID: 31057452 PMCID: PMC6478896 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Compared with traditional Western landscape paintings, Chinese traditional landscape paintings usually apply a reversed-geometric perspective and concentrate more on contextual information. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we discovered an intracultural bias in the aesthetic appreciation of Western and Eastern traditional landscape paintings in European and Chinese participants. When viewing Western and Eastern landscape paintings in an fMRI scanner, participants showed stronger brain activation to artistic expressions from their own culture. Europeans showed greater activation in visual and sensory-motor brain areas, regions in the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), and hippocampus when viewing Western compared to Eastern landscape paintings. Chinese participants exhibited greater neural activity in the medial and inferior occipital cortex and regions of the superior parietal lobule in response to Eastern compared to Western landscape paintings. On the behavioral level, the aesthetic judgments also differed between Western and Chinese participants when viewing landscape paintings from different cultures; Western participants showed for instance higher valence values when viewing Western landscapes, while Chinese participants did not show this effect when viewing Chinese landscapes. In general, our findings offer differentiated support for a cultural modulation at the behavioral level and in the neural architecture for high-level aesthetic appreciation.
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- Taoxi Yang
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Clinic and Policlinic for Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Clinic and Policlinic for Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Parmenides Center for Art and Science, Pullach, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Research is a very personal matter. On the basis of experiences in different countries with researchers from different cultures over many years, some observations will be described. The conceptual frame of this attempt is to look for anthropological universals and cultural specifics. Much can be learned from spatial representations in the arts. Whereas in the West since Renaissance time the central perspective has become dominant in visual art, in Eastern landscape paintings the "floating view" is typical. The claim that the central perspective corresponds to geometric laws and matches how we see the world is misleading for at least two reasons: It violates mechanisms of size constancy, and the visual world is spatially reduced in pictures to the perifoveal region only. Research on spatial attention has disclosed two different attentional systems being responsible either for near-fovea vision or for the far periphery. This fundamental principle as a global characteristic of visual processing is neglected in Western art. In Eastern art with a floating view geometric laws are violated, and different potential perspectives are integrated within a holistic pattern. The semantics of what shall be expressed becomes important irrespective of physical parameters. The latter may also create the unique phenomenon of becoming subjectively part of the picture confirming personal identity. Cultural specifics like in the arts (what one might expect) can surprisingly also be observed in theoretical considerations about visual processing. Whereas in the tradition of Western science visual percepts are built up with local elements like feature detectors, in an important Chinese theory global topological features are analyzed first. An important task of the brain is to create the identity of a percept on the basis of spatially and temporally distributed neural activities. It is, thus, an important theoretical question how to deal with the challenge to create and maintain the identity of a percept for some time. It is suggested that one should leave behind a monocausal reasoning for such explanations but adopt for analytical strategies the concept of complementarity as a generative principle.
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- Ernst Pöppel
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. .,School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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Li X, Pöppel E, Bao Y. Nonparametric extraction of oscillations in short time series. Psych J 2018; 7:225-226. [PMID: 30028907 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
Oscillations are important for functional homeostasis. However, the oscillatory processes are sometimes masked by noise. A nonparametric method to extract oscillatory components does not assume stability in period or amplitude, it is resistant to linear components and phase insensitive, and it allows statistical inference.
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- Xiang Li
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Zhao C, Zhang D, Bao Y. A time window of 3 s in the aesthetic appreciation of poems. Psych J 2018; 7:51-52. [PMID: 29297978 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Revised: 08/06/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We studied the effect of time windows of a few seconds on the aesthetic appreciation of poems. Both Chinese and German subjects rated traditional Chinese poetic verses more beautiful in a time window of approximately 3 s, irrespective of understanding the poetic content. This observation suggests a common temporal preference for poetry appreciation across a different language background.
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- Chen Zhao
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Bao Y. Temporal segmentation of cognitive processes in the domain of a few seconds. Psych J 2017; 6:330-331. [PMID: 29278314 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yan Bao
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology & Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Schmidt C, Bao Y. Chronobiological research for cognitive science: A multifaceted view. Psych J 2017; 6:249-252. [PMID: 29278312 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Christina Schmidt
- GIGA-CRC in vivo Imaging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.,Psychology and Neurosciences of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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Zhang J, Yang T, Bao Y, Li H, Pöppel E, Silveira S. Sadness and happiness are amplified in solitary listening to music. Cogn Process 2017; 19:133-139. [PMID: 28986700 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-017-0832-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that music is a powerful means to convey affective states, but it remains unclear whether and how social context shape the intensity and quality of emotions perceived in music. Using a within-subject design, we studied this question in two experimental settings, i.e. when subjects were alone versus in company of others without direct social interaction or feedback. Non-vocal musical excerpts of the emotional qualities happiness or sadness were rated on arousal and valence dimensions. We found evidence for an amplification of perceived emotion in the solitary listening condition, i.e. happy music was rated as happier and more arousing when nobody else was around and, in an analogous manner, sad music was perceived as sadder. This difference might be explained by a shift of attention in the presence of others. The observed interaction of perceived emotion and social context did not differ for stimuli of different cultural origin.
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- Jinfan Zhang
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 80336, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 80336, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China. .,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 80336, Germany.
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 80336, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 80336, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 80336, Germany
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Bao Y, Pöppel E, Zaytseva Y. Single case studies as a prime example for exploratory research. Psych J 2017; 6:107-109. [PMID: 28660743 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yan Bao
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Human Science Centre, and Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Human Science Centre, and Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- Human Science Centre, and Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Department of Applied Neurosciences and Brain Imaging, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Bao Y, Yang T, Zhang J, Zhang J, Lin X, Paolini M, Pöppel E, Silveira S. The “third abstraction” of the Chinese artist LaoZhu: Neural and behavioral indicators of aesthetic appreciation. Psych J 2017; 6:110-119. [PMID: 28660742 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Revised: 02/26/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yan Bao
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health; Peking University; Beijing China
- Institute for Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health; Peking University; Beijing China
- Institute for Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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- Institute for Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health; Peking University; Beijing China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health; Peking University; Beijing China
- Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Radiology; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health; Peking University; Beijing China
- Institute for Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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- Institute for Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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van Wassenhove V. Defining moments for conscious time and content. Psych J 2017; 6:168-169. [PMID: 28561997 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2017] [Accepted: 02/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The spatiotemporal scales of natural phenomena define the observational granularity needed for scientific characterization. In cognitive neurosciences, neural oscillations delineate temporal scales that may naturally provide the computational resolution for information processing in the brain. Do neural oscillations define moments for the perception of time?
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- Virginie van Wassenhove
- NeuroSpin, DRF, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Paris XI, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
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Bao Y, von Stosch A, Park M, Pöppel E. Complementarity As Generative Principle: A Thought Pattern for Aesthetic Appreciations and Cognitive Appraisals in General. Front Psychol 2017; 8:727. [PMID: 28536548 PMCID: PMC5422519 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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In experimental aesthetics the relationship between the arts and cognitive neuroscience has gained particular interest in recent years. But has cognitive neuroscience indeed something to offer when studying the arts? Here we present a theoretical frame within which the concept of complementarity as a generative or creative principle is proposed; neurocognitive processes are characterized by the duality of complementary activities like bottom-up and top-down control, or logistical functions like temporal control and content functions like perceptions in the neural machinery. On that basis a thought pattern is suggested for aesthetic appreciations and cognitive appraisals in general. This thought pattern is deeply rooted in the history of philosophy and art theory since antiquity; and complementarity also characterizes neural operations as basis for cognitive processes. We then discuss some challenges one is confronted with in experimental aesthetics; in our opinion, one serious problem is the lack of a taxonomy of functions in psychology and neuroscience which is generally accepted. This deficit makes it next to impossible to develop acceptable models which are similar to what has to be modeled. Another problem is the severe language bias in this field of research as knowledge gained in many languages over the ages remains inaccessible to most scientists. Thus, an inspection of research results or theoretical concepts is necessarily too narrow. In spite of these limitations we provide a selective summary of some results and viewpoints with a focus on visual art and its appreciation. It is described how questions of art and aesthetic appreciations using behavioral methods and in particular brain-imaging techniques are analyzed and evaluated focusing on such issues like the representation of artwork or affective experiences. Finally, we emphasize complementarity as a generative principle on a practical level when artists and scientists work directly together which can lead to new insights and broader perspectives on both sides.
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- Yan Bao
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityBeijing, China.,Human Science Center, Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University of MunichMunich, Germany.,Parmenides Center for Art and SciencePullach, Germany
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- Human Science Center, Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University of MunichMunich, Germany.,Department "Diversity of Forms of Knowledge", Humboldt University of BerlinBerlin, Germany.,Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, Academy of Music Hanns EislerBerlin, Germany
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- Human Science Center, Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University of MunichMunich, Germany.,Parmenides Center for Art and SciencePullach, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityBeijing, China.,Human Science Center, Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University of MunichMunich, Germany.,Parmenides Center for Art and SciencePullach, Germany
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Wang L, Bao Y, Zhang J, Lin X, Yang L, Pöppel E, Zhou B. Scanning the world in three seconds: Mismatch negativity as an indicator of temporal segmentation. Psych J 2017; 5:170-6. [PMID: 27678482 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Revised: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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It has been shown recently that a temporal window of approximately 3 s has a modulatory effect on mismatch negativity (MMN). This special temporal window has been interpreted as representing the "subjective present," and reflecting a temporal segmentation in behavioral and cognitive functions. A more detailed look into the temporal structure of the MMN appeared to be reasonable as group data might shadow the underlying mechanisms because of too-high response variance. In this study, we tested one subject on 11 successive days at the same circadian phase using a passive auditory oddball paradigm with interstimulus intervals (ISIs) ranging from 1 s to 6 s. We observed a U-shape function of MMN showing the largest amplitudes to the oddball stimuli with an ISI of 2 s and 3 s being flanked by smaller response amplitudes for shorter and longer ISIs. This result pattern can be explained with an oscillatory neural mechanism underlying the temporal modulation of MMN. Besides confirming and substantiating temporal segmentation in sensory processing, the present study also demonstrates that a single case study can be a useful and complementary tool in cognitive research.
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- Lingyan Wang
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China. .,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Bao Y, Yang T, Lin X, Fang Y, Wang Y, Pöppel E, Lei Q. Aesthetic Preferences for Eastern and Western Traditional Visual Art: Identity Matters. Front Psychol 2016; 7:1596. [PMID: 27812339 PMCID: PMC5071313 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2016] [Accepted: 09/30/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Western and Chinese artists have different traditions in representing the world in their paintings. While Western artists start since the Renaissance to represent the world with a central perspective and focus on salient objects in a scene, Chinese artists concentrate on context information in their paintings, mainly before the mid-19th century. We investigated whether the different typical representations influence the aesthetic preference for traditional Chinese and Western paintings in the different cultural groups. Traditional Chinese and Western paintings were presented randomly for an aesthetic evaluation to Chinese and Western participants. Both Chinese and Western paintings included two categories: landscapes and people in different scenes. Results showed a significant interaction between the source of the painting and the cultural group. For Chinese and Western paintings, a reversed pattern of aesthetic preference was observed: while Chinese participants gave higher aesthetic scores to traditional Chinese paintings than to Western paintings, Western participants tended to give higher aesthetic scores to traditional Western paintings than to Chinese paintings. We interpret this observation as indicator that personal identity is supported and enriched within cultural belongingness. Another important finding was that landscapes were more preferable than people in a scene across different cultural groups indicating a universal principle of preferences for landscapes. Thus, our results suggest that, on the one hand, the way that artists represent the world in their paintings influences the way that culturally embedded viewers perceive and appreciate paintings, but on the other hand, independent of the cultural background, anthropological universals are disclosed by the preference of landscapes.
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- Yan Bao
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityBeijing, China; Human Science Center, Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversityMunich, Germany; Parmenides Center for Art and SciencePullach, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityBeijing, China; Human Science Center, Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversityMunich, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityBeijing, China; Human Science Center, Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversityMunich, Germany; Parmenides Center for Art and SciencePullach, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA
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Zhou B, Pöppel E, Wang L, Yang T, Zaytseva Y, Bao Y. Seeing without knowing: Operational principles along the early visual pathway. Psych J 2016; 5:145-60. [PMID: 27678480 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- Bin Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health; Peking University; Beijing China
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health; Peking University; Beijing China
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
- Department of National IT System of Mental Health and Brain Monitoring; National Institute of Mental Health; Klecany Czech Republic
- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, 3rd Faculty of Medicine; Charles University; Prague Czech Republic
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health; Peking University; Beijing China
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center; Ludwig-Maximilians-University; Munich Germany
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Wang L, Lin X, Zhou B, Pöppel E, Bao Y. Rubberband Effect in Temporal Control of Mismatch Negativity. Front Psychol 2016; 7:1299. [PMID: 27642285 PMCID: PMC5015478 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Accepted: 08/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a difference event-related potential (ERP) wave reflecting the brain’s automatic reaction to deviant sensory stimuli, and it has been proven to be a useful tool in research on cognitive functions or clinical disorders. In most MMN studies, amplitude, peak latency, or the integral of the responses, in rare cases also the slopes of the responses, have been employed as parameters of the ERP responses for quantitative analyses. However, little is known about correlations between these parameters. To better understand the relations between different ERP parameters, we extracted and correlated several different parameters characterizing the MMN waves. We found an unexpected correlation which gives new insight into the temporal control of MMN: response amplitudes are positively correlated with downside slopes, whereas barely correlated with upside slopes. This result suggests an efficient feedback mechanism for the MMN to return to the baseline within a predefined time window, contradicting an exponential decay function as one might expect. As a metaphor we suggest a rubberband effect for the MMN responses, i.e., the larger the distance of the response from neural equilibrium, the stronger the return force to equilibrium.
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- Lingyan Wang
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education) and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityBeijing, China; Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, HoustonTX, USA
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education) and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University Beijing, China
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- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education) and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityBeijing, China; Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China; Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversityMunich, Germany
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education) and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityBeijing, China; Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversityMunich, Germany
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Chen L, Bao Y, Wittmann M. Editorial: Sub- and Supra-Second Timing: Brain, Learning and Development. Front Psychol 2016; 7:747. [PMID: 27242645 PMCID: PMC4870229 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Lihan Chen
- Department of Psychology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityPeking, China; Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking UniversityBeijing, China
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- Department of Psychology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking UniversityPeking, China; Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking UniversityBeijing, China; Human Science Center, Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University MunichMunich, Germany
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- Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health Freiburg, Germany
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