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Overhoff H, Ko YH, Fink GR, Stahl J, Weiss PH, Bode S, Niessen E. The relationship between response dynamics and the formation of confidence varies across the lifespan. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:969074. [PMID: 36589534 PMCID: PMC9799236 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.969074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Accurate metacognitive judgments, such as forming a confidence judgment, are crucial for goal-directed behavior but decline with older age. Besides changes in the sensory processing of stimulus features, there might also be changes in the motoric aspects of giving responses that account for age-related changes in confidence. In order to assess the association between confidence and response parameters across the adult lifespan, we measured response times and peak forces in a four-choice flanker task with subsequent confidence judgments. In 65 healthy adults from 20 to 76 years of age, we showed divergent associations of each measure with confidence, depending on decision accuracy. Participants indicated higher confidence after faster responses in correct but not incorrect trials. They also indicated higher confidence after less forceful responses in errors but not in correct trials. Notably, these associations were age-dependent as the relationship between confidence and response time was more pronounced in older participants, while the relationship between confidence and response force decayed with age. Our results add to the notion that confidence is related to response parameters and demonstrate noteworthy changes in the observed associations across the adult lifespan. These changes potentially constitute an expression of general age-related deficits in performance monitoring or, alternatively, index a failing mechanism in the computation of confidence in older adults.
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- Helen Overhoff
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Centre Jülich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Jülich, Germany,Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia,Department of Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany,*Correspondence: Helen Overhoff,
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Centre Jülich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Jülich, Germany,Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia,Department of Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Centre Jülich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Jülich, Germany,Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Research Centre Jülich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Jülich, Germany,Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Temporal Deployment of Attention by Mental Training: an fMRI Study. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2021; 20:669-683. [PMID: 32458391 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-020-00795-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In this study, we employed a visuo-motor imagery task of alertness as a mental training to examine temporal processing of motor responses within healthy young adults. Participants were divided into two groups (group 1; n = 20 who performed the mental training before the real physical task and a control group who performed the physical task without mental training). We vary the time interval between the imperative stimulus and the preceding one (fore-period) in which temporal preparation and arousal increase briefly. Our behavioural results provide clear evidence that mental training reinforces both temporal preparation and arousal, by shortening reaction time (RT), especially for the shortest fore-periods (FP) within exogenous "FP 250 ms" (p = 0.008) and endogenous alertness "FP 650 ms" (p = 0.001). We investigated how the brain controls such small temporal changes. We focus our neural hypothesis on three brain regions: anterior insula, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex and three putative circuits: one top-down (from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to anterior cingulate cortex) and two bottom-up (from anterior insula to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex). In fMRI, effective connectivity is strengthened during exogenous alertness between anterior insula and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (p = 0.001), between anterior insula and cingulate cortex (p = 0.01), and during endogenous alertness between dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex (p = 0.05). We suggest that attentional reinforcement induced by an intensive and short session of mental training induces a temporal deployment of attention and allow optimizing the time pressure by maintaining a high state of arousal and ameliorating temporal preparation.
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Nguyen AT, Jacobs LA, Tresilian JR, Lipp OV, Marinovic W. Preparatory suppression and facilitation of voluntary and involuntary responses to loud acoustic stimuli in an anticipatory timing task. Psychophysiology 2020; 58:e13730. [PMID: 33244760 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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In this study, we sought to characterize the effects of intense sensory stimulation on voluntary and involuntary behaviors at different stages of preparation for an anticipated action. We presented unexpected loud acoustic stimuli (LAS) at-rest and at three critical times during active movement preparation (-1,192, -392, and 0 ms relative to expected voluntary movement onset) to probe the state of the nervous system, and measured their effect on voluntary and involuntary motor actions (finger-press and eye-blink startle reflex, respectively). Voluntary responses were facilitated by LAS presented during active preparation, leading to earlier and more forceful responses compared to control and LAS at-rest. Notably, voluntary responses were significantly facilitated on trials where the LAS was presented early during preparation (-1,192 ms). Eye-blink reflexes to the LAS at -392 ms were significantly reduced and delayed compared to blinks elicited at other time-points, indicating suppression of sub-cortical excitability. However, voluntary responses on these trials were still facilitated by the LAS. The results provide insight into the mechanisms involved in preparing anticipatory actions. Induced activation can persist in the nervous system and can modulate subsequent actions for a longer time-period than previously thought, highlighting that movement preparation is a continuously evolving process that is susceptible to external influence throughout the preparation period. Suppression of sub-cortical excitability shortly before movement onset is consistent with previous work showing corticospinal suppression which may be a necessary step before the execution of any voluntary response.
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- An T Nguyen
- School of Psychology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Psychology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Psychology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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He M, Heindel WC, Nassar MR, Siefert EM, Festa EK. Age-related changes in the functional integrity of the phasic alerting system: a pupillometric investigation. Neurobiol Aging 2020; 91:136-147. [PMID: 32224065 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2018] [Revised: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Enhanced processing following a warning cue is thought to be mediated by a phasic alerting response involving the locus coeruleus-noradrenergic (LC-NA) system. We examined the effect of aging on phasic alerting using pupil dilation as a marker of LC-NA activity in conjunction with a novel assessment of task-evoked pupil dilation. While both young and older adults displayed behavioral and pupillary alerting effects, reflected in decreased RT and increased pupillary response under high (tone) versus low (no tone) alerting conditions, older adults displayed a weaker pupillary response that benefited more from the alerting tone. The strong association between dilation and speed displayed by older adults in both alerting conditions was reduced in young adults in the high alerting condition, suggesting that in young (but not older) adults the tone conferred relatively little behavioral benefit beyond that provided by the alerting effect elicited by the target. These findings suggest a functioning but deficient LC-NA alerting system in older adults, and help reconcile previous results concerning the effects of aging on phasic alerting.
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- Mingjian He
- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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Phasic alertness reverses the beneficial effects of accessory stimuli on choice reaction. Atten Percept Psychophys 2019; 82:1196-1204. [DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01825-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Watanabe T, Saito K, Ishida K, Tanabe S, Nojima I. Auditory stimulus has a larger effect on anticipatory postural adjustments in older than young adults during choice step reaction. Eur J Appl Physiol 2017; 117:2409-2423. [PMID: 29027033 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-017-3727-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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PURPOSE The study aim was to compare the influence of an auditory stimulus (AS) on anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) between young and older adults during a choice step reaction. METHODS Sixteen young and 19 older adults stepped forward in response to a visual imperative stimulus of an arrow. We used a choice reaction time (CRT) task and a Simon task which consisted of congruent and incongruent conditions. The direction of the presented arrow and its spatial location matched in the congruent condition while they did not in the incongruent condition. The AS was presented randomly and simultaneously with the visual stimulus. Incorrect weight shifts before lifting off the foot, termed APA errors, stepping errors, temporal parameters, and APA amplitudes were analyzed. RESULTS The APA error rate was higher in trials with than without AS in all task conditions for the older group, while this increase occurred only in the incongruent condition for the young group. The stepping error rate was also increased in the presence of AS in the incongruent condition for the older group. Reaction times were faster with AS in both groups. The APA amplitude of erroneous APA trials became larger with AS in the incongruent condition for both groups, and this effect appeared greater for the older group. CONCLUSIONS The effect of AS on APAs is larger in the elderly during a choice step reaction. In the presence of incongruent visual information, this effect becomes even greater, potentially inducing not only APA errors but also stepping errors.
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- Tatsunori Watanabe
- Department of Physical Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-20 Daiko-Minami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 461-8673, Japan
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-20 Daiko-Minami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 461-8673, Japan
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-20 Daiko-Minami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 461-8673, Japan
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- Faculty of Rehabilitation, Fujita Health University School of Health Sciences, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-20 Daiko-Minami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 461-8673, Japan.
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Exteroceptive stimuli override interoceptive state in reaction time control. Psychophysiology 2017; 54:1940-1950. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Revised: 06/13/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Plewan T, Rinkenauer G. Fast and Forceful: Modulation of Response Activation Induced by Shifts of Perceived Depth in Virtual 3D Space. Front Psychol 2016; 7:1939. [PMID: 28018273 PMCID: PMC5156733 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Reaction time (RT) can strongly be influenced by a number of stimulus properties. For instance, there was converging evidence that perceived size rather than physical (i.e., retinal) size constitutes a major determinant of RT. However, this view has recently been challenged since within a virtual three-dimensional (3D) environment retinal size modulation failed to influence RT. In order to further investigate this issue in the present experiments response force (RF) was recorded as a supplemental measure of response activation in simple reaction tasks. In two separate experiments participants' task was to react as fast as possible to the occurrence of a target located close to the observer or farther away while the offset between target locations was increased from Experiment 1 to Experiment 2. At the same time perceived target size (by varying the retinal size across depth planes) and target type (sphere vs. soccer ball) were modulated. Both experiments revealed faster and more forceful reactions when targets were presented closer to the observers. Perceived size and target type barely affected RT and RF in Experiment 1 but differentially affected both variables in Experiment 2. Thus, the present findings emphasize the usefulness of RF as a supplement to conventional RT measurement. On a behavioral level the results confirm that (at least) within virtual 3D space perceived object size neither strongly influences RT nor RF. Rather the relative position within egocentric (body-centered) space presumably indicates an object's behavioral relevance and consequently constitutes an important modulator of visual processing.
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- Thorsten Plewan
- Department of Ergonomics, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Ergonomics, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) Dortmund, Germany
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Steinweg B, Mast FW. Semantic incongruity influences response caution in audio-visual integration. Exp Brain Res 2016; 235:349-363. [PMID: 27734118 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-016-4796-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 10/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Multisensory stimulus combinations trigger shorter reaction times (RTs) than individual single-modality stimuli. It has been suggested that this inter-sensory facilitation effect is found exclusively for semantically congruent stimuli, because incongruity would prevent multisensory integration. Here we provide evidence that the effect of incongruity is due to a change in response caution rather than prevention of stimulus integration. In two experiments, participants performed two-alternative forced-choice decision tasks in which they categorized auditory stimuli, visual stimuli or audio-visual stimulus pairs. The pairs were either semantically congruent (e.g. ambulance image and horn sound) or incongruent (e.g. ambulance image and bell sound). Shorter RTs and violations of the race model inequality on congruent trials are in accordance with previous studies. However, Bayesian hierarchical drift diffusion analyses contradict former co-activation-based explanations of the effects of congruency. Instead, they show that longer RTs on incongruent compared to congruent trials are most likely the result of an incongruity caution effect-more cautious response behaviour in face of semantically incongruent sensory input. Further, they show that response caution can be adjusted on a trial-by-trial basis depending on incoming information. Finally, stimulus modality influenced non-cognitive components of the response. We suggest that the combined stimulus energy from simultaneously presented stimuli reduces encoding time.
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- Benjamin Steinweg
- Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3012, Bern, Switzerland. .,Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.,Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Tona KD, Murphy PR, Brown SB, Nieuwenhuis S. The accessory stimulus effect is mediated by phasic arousal: A pupillometry study. Psychophysiology 2016; 53:1108-13. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2016] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Klodiana-Daphne Tona
- Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University; Leiden The Netherlands
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- Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University; Leiden The Netherlands
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- Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University; Leiden The Netherlands
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- Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University; Leiden The Netherlands
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DiGirolamo GJ, Patel N, Blaukopf CL. Arousal facilitates involuntary eye movements. Exp Brain Res 2016; 234:1967-1976. [PMID: 26928432 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-016-4599-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2015] [Accepted: 02/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Attention plays a critical role in action selection. However, the role of attention in eye movements is complicated as these movements can be either voluntary or involuntary, with, in some circumstances (antisaccades), these two actions competing with each other for execution. But attending to the location of an impending eye movement is only one facet of attention that may play a role in eye movement selection. In two experiments, we investigated the effect of arousal on voluntary eye movements (antisaccades) and involuntary eye movements (prosaccadic errors) in an antisaccade task. Arousal, as caused by brief loud sounds and indexed by changes in pupil diameter, had a facilitation effect on involuntary eye movements. Involuntary eye movements were both significantly more likely to be executed and significantly faster under arousal conditions (Experiments 1 and 2), and the influence of arousal had a specific time course (Experiment 2). Arousal, one form of attention, can produce significant costs for human movement selection as potent but unplanned actions are benefited more than planned ones.
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- Gregory J DiGirolamo
- Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, USA
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- Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, USA
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Marinovic W, Milford M, Carroll T, Riek S. The facilitation of motor actions by acoustic and electric stimulation. Psychophysiology 2015; 52:1698-710. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Welber Marinovic
- School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Australia
- Centre for Sensorimotor Performance, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Australia
- School of Psychology; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Australia
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- School of Psychology; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Australia
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- School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Australia
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- School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Australia
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Watanabe T, Koyama S, Tanabe S, Nojima I. Accessory stimulus modulates executive function during stepping task. J Neurophysiol 2015; 114:419-26. [PMID: 25925321 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00222.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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When multiple sensory modalities are simultaneously presented, reaction time can be reduced while interference enlarges. The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of task-irrelevant acoustic accessory stimuli simultaneously presented with visual imperative stimuli on executive function during stepping. Executive functions were assessed by analyzing temporal events and errors in the initial weight transfer of the postural responses prior to a step (anticipatory postural adjustment errors). Eleven healthy young adults stepped forward in response to a visual stimulus. We applied a choice reaction time task and the Simon task, which consisted of congruent and incongruent conditions. Accessory stimuli were randomly presented with the visual stimuli. Compared with trials without accessory stimuli, the anticipatory postural adjustment error rates were higher in trials with accessory stimuli in the incongruent condition and the reaction times were shorter in trials with accessory stimuli in all the task conditions. Analyses after division of trials according to whether anticipatory postural adjustment error occurred or not revealed that the reaction times of trials with anticipatory postural adjustment errors were reduced more than those of trials without anticipatory postural adjustment errors in the incongruent condition. These results suggest that accessory stimuli modulate the initial motor programming of stepping by lowering decision threshold and exclusively under spatial incompatibility facilitate automatic response activation. The present findings advance the knowledge of intersensory judgment processes during stepping and may aid in the development of intervention and evaluation tools for individuals at risk of falls.
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- Tatsunori Watanabe
- Department of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Rehabilitation, Kawamura Hospital, Gifu, Japan; and
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- Faculty of Rehabilitation, School of Health Sciences, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan;
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Fernandez-Del-Olmo M, Río-Rodríguez D, Iglesias-Soler E, Acero RM. Startle auditory stimuli enhance the performance of fast dynamic contractions. PLoS One 2014; 9:e87805. [PMID: 24489967 PMCID: PMC3905039 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Accepted: 12/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Fast reaction times and the ability to develop a high rate of force development (RFD) are crucial for sports performance. However, little is known regarding the relationship between these parameters. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of auditory stimuli of different intensities on the performance of a concentric bench-press exercise. Concentric bench-presses were performed by thirteen trained subjects in response to three different conditions: a visual stimulus (VS); a visual stimulus accompanied by a non-startle auditory stimulus (AS); and a visual stimulus accompanied by a startle auditory stimulus (SS). Peak RFD, peak velocity, onset movement, movement duration and electromyography from pectoralis and tricep muscles were recorded. The SS condition induced an increase in the RFD and peak velocity and a reduction in the movement onset and duration, in comparison with the VS and AS condition. The onset activation of the pectoralis and tricep muscles was shorter for the SS than for the VS and AS conditions. These findings point out to specific enhancement effects of loud auditory stimulation on the rate of force development. This is of relevance since startle stimuli could be used to explore neural adaptations to resistance training.
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- Miguel Fernandez-Del-Olmo
- Learning and Human Movement Control Group, INEF Galicia, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
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- Learning and Human Movement Control Group, INEF Galicia, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
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- Learning and Human Movement Control Group, INEF Galicia, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
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- Learning and Human Movement Control Group, INEF Galicia, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
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Soutschek A, Müller HJ, Schubert T. Conflict-Specific Effects of Accessory Stimuli on Cognitive Control in the Stroop Task and the Simon Task. Exp Psychol 2013; 60:140-7. [DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Both the Stroop and the Simon paradigms are often used in research on cognitive control, however, there is evidence that dissociable control processes are involved in these tasks: While conflicts in the Stroop task may be resolved mainly by enhanced task-relevant stimulus processing, conflicts in the Simon task may be resolved rather by suppressing the influence of task-irrelevant information on response selection. In the present study, we show that these control mechanisms interact in different ways with the presentation of accessory stimuli. Accessory stimuli do not affect cognitive control in the Simon task, but they impair the efficiency of cross-trial control processes in the Stroop task. Our findings underline the importance of differentiating between different types of conflicts and mechanisms of cognitive control.
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- Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Armbrecht AS, Gibbons H, Stahl J. Effects of response force parameters on medial-frontal negativity. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54681. [PMID: 23349950 PMCID: PMC3551903 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2012] [Accepted: 12/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The response-related medial-frontal activity (MFN) is often supposed to reflect action-monitoring and error-processing activity. The present force-production task was designed to investigate the effects of two response parameters (i.e., peak response force and time-to-peak, TTP) on the MFN separately. In a 2 × 2 design (high vs. low target force and short vs. long TTP), 22 participants had to produce isometric force pulses to match one of four conditions (e.g., a high target force with a long TTP). Significant main effects of both target force and target TTP were revealed. As previously shown, the MFN amplitude was higher in the high target-force condition than in the low target-force condition. Contrary to the initial expectations, a long TTP had the effect of reducing the MFN amplitude. There was no error-specific effect on the MFN. The force-unit monitoring model (FUMM) is suggested to account for the force- and TTP- specific variations of MFN amplitude, latency and slope.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Acquiring knowledge about the relationship between stimulus conditions, one’s own actions, and the resulting consequences or effects, is one prerequisite for intentional action. Previous studies have shown that such contextualized associations between actions and their effects (S-R-E associations) can be picked up very quickly. The present study examined how such weakly practiced associations might affect overt behavior during the process of initial learning and during subsequent retrieval, and how these two measures are inter-related. We examined incidental (S-)R-E learning in the context of trial-and-error S-R learning and in the context of instruction-based S-R learning. Furthermore, as a control condition, common outcome (CO) learning blocks were included in which all responses produced one common sound effect, hence precluding differential (S-)R-E learning. Post-learning retrieval of R-E associations was tested by re-using previously produced sound effects as novel imperative stimuli combined with actions that were either compatible or incompatible with the previously encountered R-E mapping. The central result was that the size of the compatibility effect could be predicted by the size of relative response slowing during ongoing learning in the preceding acquisition phase, both in trial-and-error learning and in instruction-based learning. Importantly, this correlation was absent for the CO control condition, precluding accounts based on unspecific factors. Instead, the results suggest that differential outcomes are “actively” integrated into action planning and that this takes additional planning time. We speculate that this might be especially true for weakly practiced (S-)R-E associations before an initial goal-directed action mode transitions into a more stimulus-based action mode.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hannes Ruge
- Department of Psychology, Neuroimaging Center and Institute of General Psychology, Biopsychology, and Methods of Psychology, Technische Universitaet Dresden Dresden, Germany
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Weinbach N, Henik A. Temporal orienting and alerting - the same or different? Front Psychol 2012; 3:236. [PMID: 22807920 PMCID: PMC3393878 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2012] [Accepted: 06/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Noam Weinbach
- Department of Psychology and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Lee EY, Valle-Inclán F, Hackley SA. Decomposition of warning effects in Parkinson's disease. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT, AND COGNITION. SECTION B, AGING, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION 2011; 19:433-447. [PMID: 22149180 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2011.630717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Neutral warning signals speed voluntary reactions by reducing temporal uncertainty and by triggering a brief burst of arousal. We attempted to isolate the phasic arousal mechanism in people with Parkinson's disease (PD) using a clock display to minimize temporal uncertainty. In this condition, the speeding of responses in a color-discrimination task by an accessory stimulus was the fully equivalent to the effect in age-matched control subjects. This indicates preserved phasic arousal in PD. Temporal preparation based on warning cues also appeared to be normal. By contrast, in a condition with high temporal uncertainty, the accessory stimulus (an air puff to the foot) impaired accuracy for the patients but not the neurologically normal subjects. The data are consistent with the view that PD disrupts internal but not external control of alertness.
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- Eun-Young Lee
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Illusory double flashes can speed up responses like physical ones: evidence from the sound-induced flash illusion. Exp Brain Res 2011; 214:113-9. [PMID: 21818631 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2811-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2011] [Accepted: 07/21/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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When a single brief flash is accompanied by two auditory beeps, participants often report perceiving two flashes. The present experiment examined whether the perception of illusory redundant flashes can result in faster responses as compared to the perception of a single flash, because previous research has shown such a redundancy gain for physical stimuli. To this end, participants were asked to respond as rapidly as possible to the onset of any flash. Following their response, they additionally indicated whether they perceived a single flash or a double flash. Most importantly, we observed significant shorter reaction times in response to redundant flashes, irrespective of whether they were physically presented or illusorily perceived. Taken together, our results suggest that an illusory percept can affect simple reaction time in much the same manner as the corresponding physical stimulation.
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The effects of alerting signals in action control: activation of S–R associations or inhibition of executive control processes? PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2011; 76:317-28. [DOI: 10.1007/s00426-011-0350-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2011] [Accepted: 05/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Anzak A, Tan H, Pogosyan A, Djamshidian A, Ling H, Lees A, Brown P. Improvements in rate of development and magnitude of force with intense auditory stimuli in patients with Parkinson's disease. Eur J Neurosci 2011; 34:124-32. [PMID: 21645135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07735.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Patients with Parkinson's disease can show brief but dramatic normalization of motor activity in highly arousing situations, a phenomenon often termed paradoxical kinesis. We sought to mimic this in a controlled experimental environment. Nine patients with Parkinson's disease and nine age-matched healthy controls were asked to grip a force dynamometer as quickly and strongly as possible in response to a visual cue. A loud (96 dB) auditory stimulus was delivered at the same time as the visual cue in ~50% of randomly selected trials. In patients with Parkinson's disease, the experiment was conducted after overnight withdrawal of antiparkinsonian drugs and again 1 h after patients had taken their usual morning medication. Patients showed improvements in the peak rate of force development and the magnitude of force developed when loud auditory stimuli accompanied visual cues. Equally, they showed improvements in the times taken to reach the peak rate of force development and their maximal force. The paradoxical facilitatory effect of sound was similar whether patients were off or on their usual antiparkinsonian medication, and could be reproduced in age-matched healthy controls. We conclude that motor improvement induced by loud auditory stimuli in Parkinson's disease is related to a physiological phenomenon which survives both with and after withdrawal of antiparkinsonian medication. The potential independence of the mediating pathways from the dopaminergic system provides impetus for further investigation as it may yield a novel nondopaminergic target for therapeutic manipulation in Parkinson's disease.
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- Anam Anzak
- Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Queen Square, London, UK
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Anzak A, Tan H, Pogosyan A, Brown P. Doing better than your best: loud auditory stimulation yields improvements in maximal voluntary force. Exp Brain Res 2010; 208:237-43. [PMID: 21063690 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2474-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2010] [Accepted: 10/22/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Anam Anzak
- Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 33 Queen Square, London, UK
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Fischer R, Plessow F, Kiesel A. Auditory warning signals affect mechanisms of response selection: evidence from a Simon task. Exp Psychol 2010; 57:89-97. [PMID: 20178922 DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Irrelevant tone (accessory) stimuli facilitate performance in simple and choice reaction time tasks. In the present study, we combined accessory stimulation with a selective attention paradigm in order to investigate its influence on mechanisms of response selection. In the framework of a spatial stimulus-response compatibility task (Simon task), we tested whether accessory stimuli selectively affect bottom up triggered response activation processes (e.g., direct route processing), processing of task-relevant stimulus features (indirect route processing), or both/none. Results suggest a two-component effect of accessory stimuli within this selective attention task. First, accessory stimuli increased the Simon effect due to beneficial direct route processing. Second, accessory stimuli generally decreased reaction times indicating facilitation of indirect route processing.
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SanMiguel I, Linden D, Escera C. Attention capture by novel sounds: Distraction versus facilitation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/09541440902930994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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An inexpensive and accurate method of measuring the force of responses in reaction time research. Behav Res Methods 2009; 41:1254-61. [PMID: 19897834 DOI: 10.3758/brm.41.4.1254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Together with reaction time (RT), the force with which people respond to stimuli can provide important clues about cognitive and affective processes. We discuss some of the issues surrounding the accurate measurement and interpretation of response force, and present a response key by which response force can be measured regularly and unobtrusively in RT research. The advantage of the response key described is that it operates like a standard response key of the type used regularly in classic RT experiments. The construction of the response key is described in detail and its potential assessed by way of an experiment examining response force in a simple reaction task to visual stimuli of increasing brightness and size.
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Jepma M, Wagenmakers EJ, Band GPH, Nieuwenhuis S. The Effects of Accessory Stimuli on Information Processing: Evidence from Electrophysiology and a Diffusion Model Analysis. J Cogn Neurosci 2009; 21:847-64. [PMID: 18702584 DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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People typically respond faster to a stimulus when it is accompanied by a task-irrelevant accessory stimulus presented in another perceptual modality. However, the mechanisms responsible for this accessory-stimulus effect are still poorly understood. We examined the effects of auditory accessory stimulation on the processing of visual stimuli using scalp electrophysiology (Experiment 1) and a diffusion model analysis (Experiment 2). In accordance with previous studies, lateralized readiness potentials indicated that accessory stimuli do not speed motor execution. Surface Laplacians over the motor cortex, however, revealed a bihemispheric increase in motor activation—an effect predicted by nonspecific arousal models. The diffusion model analysis suggested that accessory stimuli do not affect parameters of the decision process, but expedite only the nondecision component of information processing. Consequently, we conclude that accessory stimuli facilitate stimulus encoding. The visual P1 and N1 amplitudes on accessory-stimulus trials were modulated in a way that is consistent with multisensory energy integration, a possible mechanism for this facilitation.
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- Marieke Jepma
- 1Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research, and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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- 1Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research, and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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- 1Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research, and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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Impact of contingency manipulations on accessory stimulus effects. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 69:1117-25. [DOI: 10.3758/bf03193949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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