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Lindner E, Desantis A, Cheng FPH, Gail A. Violation of identity-specific action-effect prediction increases pupil size and attenuates auditory event-related potentials at P2 latencies when action-effects are behaviorally relevant. Neuroimage 2024; 297:120717. [PMID: 38971482 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120717] [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: 02/14/2024] [Revised: 06/20/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/08/2024] Open
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Self-initiated sensory action effects are widely assumed to lead to less intense perception and reduced neural responses compared to externally triggered stimuli (sensory attenuation). However, it is unclear if sensory attenuation occurs in all cases of action-effect prediction. Specifically, when predicted action-effects are relevant to determine follow-up actions attenuation could be detrimental. We quantified auditory event-related potentials (ERP) in electroencephalography (EEG) when human participants created two-sound sequences by pressing two keys on a keyboard associated with different pitch, giving rise to identity-specific action-effect prediction after the first keypress. The first sound corresponded to (congruent) or violated (incongruent) the predicted pitch and was either relevant for the selection of the second keypress to correctly complete the sequence (Relevance) or irrelevant (Control Movement), or there was only one keypress and sound (Baseline). We found a diminished P2-timed ERP component in incongruent compared to congruent trials when the sound was relevant for the subsequent action. This effect of action-effect prediction was due to an ERP reduction for incongruent relevant sounds compared to incongruent irrelevant sounds at P2 latencies and correlated negatively with modulations of pupil dilation. Contrary to our expectation, we did not observe an N1 modulation by congruency in any condition. Attenuation of the N1 component seems absent for predicted identity-specific auditory action effects, while P2-timed ERPs as well as pupil size are sensitive to predictability, at least when action effects are relevant for the selection of the next action. Incongruent relevant stimuli thereby take a special place and seem to be subject to attentional modulations and error processing.
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- Elisabeth Lindner
- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Germany; Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University, Wilhelm-Weber-Str. 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
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- The French Aerospace Lab ONERA, Département Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes, BA 701 13661 Salon Cedex AIR, 13661 Salon-de-Provence, France; Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (UMR 7289), CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine, 27, boulevard Jean Moulin, F-13005 Marseille, France; INCC - Integrative Neuroscience & Cognition Center UMR 8002, CNRS, Université de Paris, 45 Rue des Saint-Pères, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Germany; Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University, Wilhelm-Weber-Str. 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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Maruo Y, Masaki H. Monetary reward enhances response inhibition processes manifested in No-go P3. Int J Psychophysiol 2024; 203:112410. [PMID: 39102986 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112410] [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: 02/12/2024] [Revised: 07/16/2024] [Accepted: 08/01/2024] [Indexed: 08/07/2024]
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This study investigated the impact of motivational valence on No-go P3 and N2 by incorporating monetary rewards based on response outcomes. We also investigated how personality differences in terms of the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and behavioral approach system (BAS) influenced No-go N2 and No-go P3. Twenty-eight participants performed Go/No-go tasks (80 % Go and 20 % No-go) under two conditions. In the reward condition, each correct-rejection trial for the No-go stimulus was rewarded with 10 yen (∼6 cents), whereas in the neutral condition, neither monetary rewards nor punishments were contingent on response outcomes. Individual responsiveness to punishment and rewards was evaluated using the BIS and BAS scales. The error rate was significantly lower in the reward condition than in the neutral condition. P3 amplitude for correct-rejection trials (i.e., preceding erroneous muscular activity on the wrong hand) was larger in the reward condition than in the neutral condition; however, N2 amplitudes did not differ between the two conditions. These results suggest that monetary rewards may enhance motor inhibition control. Individuals with a higher BIS score exhibited a larger No-go N2 for correct-rejection in the neutral condition. We conclude that No-go N2 amplitude is modulated by avoidance motivation.
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- Yuya Maruo
- Department of Physical Education, Tokyo Women's College of Physical Education, Japan; Institute for Sports and Brain Science, Waseda University, Japan
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- Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Japan; Institute for Sports and Brain Science, Waseda University, Japan.
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Weber S, Salomoni SE, St George RJ, Hinder MR. Stopping Speed in Response to Auditory and Visual Stop Signals Depends on Go Signal Modality. J Cogn Neurosci 2024; 36:1395-1411. [PMID: 38683725 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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Past research has found that the speed of the action cancellation process is influenced by the sensory modality of the environmental change that triggers it. However, the effect on selective stopping processes (where participants must cancel only one component of a multicomponent movement) remains unknown, despite these complex movements often being required as we navigate our busy modern world. Thirty healthy adults (mean age = 31.1 years, SD = 10.5) completed five response-selective stop signal tasks featuring different combinations of "go signal" modality (the environmental change baring an imperative to initiate movement; auditory or visual) and "stop signal" modality (the environmental change indicating that action cancellation is required: auditory, visual, or audiovisual). EMG recordings of effector muscles allowed detailed comparison of the characteristics of voluntary action and cancellation between tasks. Behavioral and physiological measures of stopping speed demonstrated that the modality of the go signal influenced how quickly participants cancelled movement in response to the stop signal: Stopping was faster in two cross-modal experimental conditions (auditory go - visual stop; visual go - auditory stop), than in two conditions using the same modality for both signals. A separate condition testing for multisensory facilitation revealed that stopping was fastest when the stop signal consisted of a combined audiovisual stimulus, compared with all other go-stop stimulus combinations. These findings provide novel evidence regarding the role of attentional networks in action cancellation and suggest modality-specific cognitive resources influence the latency of the stopping process.
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Friehs MA, Schmalbrock P, Merz S, Dechant M, Hartwigsen G, Frings C. A touching advantage: cross-modal stop-signals improve reactive response inhibition. Exp Brain Res 2024; 242:599-618. [PMID: 38227008 PMCID: PMC10894768 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06767-7] [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: 09/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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The ability to inhibit an already initiated response is crucial for navigating the environment. However, it is unclear which characteristics make stop-signals more likely to be processed efficiently. In three consecutive studies, we demonstrate that stop-signal modality and location are key factors that influence reactive response inhibition. Study 1 shows that tactile stop-signals lead to better performance compared to visual stop-signals in an otherwise visual choice-reaction task. Results of Study 2 reveal that the location of the stop-signal matters. Specifically, if a visual stop-signal is presented at a different location compared to the visual go-signal, then stopping performance is enhanced. Extending these results, study 3 suggests that tactile stop-signals and location-distinct visual stop-signals retain their performance enhancing effect when visual distractors are presented at the location of the go-signal. In sum, these results confirm that stop-signal modality and location influence reactive response inhibition, even in the face of concurrent distractors. Future research may extend and generalize these findings to other cross-modal setups.
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- Maximilian A Friehs
- Psychology of Conflict, Risk and Safety, Department of Technology, Human and Institutional Behaviour, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
- School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- Lise-Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of General Psychology and Methodology, Trier University, Trier, Germany
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- Department of General Psychology and Methodology, Trier University, Trier, Germany
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- UCLIC, University College London, London, UK
- ZEISS Vision Science Lab, Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Turnstrasse 27, 73430, Aalen, Germany
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- Lise-Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of General Psychology and Methodology, Trier University, Trier, Germany
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Johari K, Berger JI. High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation over right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex differentially modulates inhibitory mechanisms for speech vs. limb movement. Psychophysiology 2023; 60:e14289. [PMID: 36883294 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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Evidence suggests that planning and execution of speech and limb movement are subserved by common neural substrates. However, less is known about whether they are supported by a common inhibitory mechanism. P3 event-related potentials (ERPs) is a neural signature of motor inhibition, which are found to be generated by several brain regions including the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC). However, the relative contribution of rDLPFC to the P3 response associated with speech versus limb inhibition remains elusive. We investigated the contribution of rDLPFC to the P3 underlying speech versus limb movement inhibition. Twenty-one neurotypical adults received both cathodal and sham high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) over rDLPFC. ERPs were subsequently recorded while subjects were performing speech and limb Go/No-Go tasks. Cathodal HD-tDCS decreased accuracy for speech versus limb No-Go. Both speech and limb No-Go elicited a similar topographical distribution of P3, with significantly larger amplitudes for speech versus limb at a frontocentral location following cathodal HD-tDCS. Moreover, results showed stronger activation in cingulate cortex and rDLPFC for speech versus limb No-Go following cathodal HD-tDCS. These results indicate (1) P3 is an ERP marker of amodal inhibitory mechanisms that support both speech and limb inhibition, (2) larger P3 for speech versus limb No-Go following cathodal HD-tDCS may reflect the recruitment of additional neural resources-particularly within rDLPFC and cingulate cortex-as compensatory mechanisms to counteract the temporary stimulation-induced decline in speech inhibitory process. These findings have translational implications for neurological conditions that concurrently affect speech and limb movement.
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- Karim Johari
- Human Neurophysiology and Neuromodulation Laboratory, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Human Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Zhang X, Jia H, Wang E. Negative inhibition is poor in sub-threshold depression individuals: Evidence from ERP and a Go/No-go task. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2023; 331:111638. [PMID: 37031674 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2023.111638] [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: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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In this study, Go/No-go task combined with ERP technology were used to explore the characteristics of negative emotion inhibition in SD and healthy individuals and whether there are differences between negative emotion inhibition and neutral emotion inhibition in SD. The results showed that SD showed the same poor negative inhibition as depressive patients in behavior, but there was no significant difference between SD and CG in ERPs. Overall, compared with neutral emotional information, negative emotional information would reduce attention control in conflict processing, lead to faster conflict processing, attract attention, occupy more cognitive resources, and be more difficult to inhibit. It is concluded that the negative attention bias of SD individuals is only reflected in the bottom-up stimulation processing, but has not developed into the top-down cognitive control, which also suggests that the corresponding intervention measures at the early stage of depression may have better effects.
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- Xin Zhang
- Institute of Behavioral Psychology, Henan University, China
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- Institute of Behavioral Psychology, Henan University, China
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- Institute of Behavioral Psychology, Henan University, China.
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Jia LX, Zheng Q, Cui JF, Shi HS, Ye JY, Yang TX, Wang Y, Chan RCK. Proactive and reactive response inhibition of individuals with high schizotypy viewing different facial expressions: An ERP study using an emotional stop-signal task. Brain Res 2023; 1799:148191. [PMID: 36463955 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148191] [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: 02/03/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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The present study aimed to examine whether impairments in reactive (outright stopping) and proactive (preparation for stopping) response inhibition are affected by negative emotions in individuals with high schizotypy, a subclinical group at risk for schizophrenia, as well as the neural mechanisms underlying these processes. Twenty-seven participants with high schizotypy and 28 matched low-schizotypy individuals completed an emotional stop-signal task in which they responded to facial emotions (neutral or angry) or inhibited their responses (when the frame of the picture turned red). Electroencephalogram (EEG) data were also recorded during the task. At the neural level, analysis of go trials revealed that viewing angry faces impaired proactive inhibition. In addition, the high-schizotypy group exhibited a greater P3 amplitude in go trials in the neutral condition than the low-schizotypy group; however, no group difference was found in the angry condition. For stop trials (reactive inhibition), a smaller P3 amplitude was found in the angry condition than in the neutral condition. Moreover, high-schizotypy individuals showed smaller P3 amplitudes than low-schizotypy individuals. The current findings suggest that, at the neural level, viewing negative emotions impaired both proactive and reactive response inhibition. Individuals with high schizotypy exhibited impairments in proactive response inhibition in the neutral condition but not in the angry condition; they exhibited impaired reactive response inhibition in both emotion conditions. The present findings deepen our understanding of emotional response inhibition in individuals on the schizophrenia spectrum.
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- Lu-Xia Jia
- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Research Center for Information and Statistics, National Institute of Education Sciences, Beijing, China
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- North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Yu F, Huang Y, Chen T, Wang X, Guo Y, Fang Y, He K, Zhu C, Wang K, Zhang L. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation promotes response inhibition in patients with major depression during the stop-signal task. J Psychiatr Res 2022; 151:427-438. [PMID: 35597226 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Response inhibition (RI) deficit is an aspect of cognitive impairment in depressed individuals, but currently no effective treatment has been established. This study aimed to explore the effect of individualized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC)-nucleus accumbens (NAcc) network on RI in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS Fourty-four patients diagnosed with MDD were randomized to receive 15 once-daily sessions of active (10 Hz, 100% of resting motor threshold) or sham rTMS within a double-blind, sham-controlled trial. We measured the efficacy of rTMS by the improvements in behavioral and neurological manifestations during the stop-signal task. The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale-17 items (HAMD-17) was used to assess depressive symptoms. We analyzed the differences in RI performance between MDD patients and 30 healthy controls (HCs) at baseline and assessed whether MDD patients who completed rTMS treatment had comparable RI ability to HCs. RESULTS At baseline, the depressed patients showed longer stop-signal response time (SSRT), smaller P3 amplitudes, and weaker theta-band power in successful stop trials (SSTs) than HCs. The active group exhibited RI ability comparable to that of HCs after rTMS treatment, but the improvements were not significant in the sham group. The active group showed significant remission in depression symptoms post-treatment compared to the sham group, and the changes in P3 amplitudes and theta-band power during SSTs were negatively correlated with the decrease of HAMD-17 scores. CONCLUSION The depressed patients have impaired RI and treatment with the individualized rTMS protocol may be an effective approach.
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- Fengqiong Yu
- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
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- School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
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Acute Sleep Deprivation Impairs Motor Inhibition in Table Tennis Athletes: An ERP Study. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12060746. [PMID: 35741631 PMCID: PMC9221109 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12060746] [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: 04/20/2022] [Revised: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Excellent response inhibition is the basis for outstanding competitive athletic performance, and sleep may be an important factor affecting athletes’ response inhibition. This study investigates the effect of sleep deprivation on athletes’ response inhibition, and its differentiating effect on non-athlete controls’ performance, with the aim of helping athletes effectively improve their response inhibition ability through sleep pattern manipulation. Behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data were collected from 36 participants (16 table tennis athletes and 20 general college students) after 36 h of sleep deprivation using ERP techniques and a stop-signal task. Sleep deprivation’s different effects on response inhibition in the two groups were explored through repeated-measures ANOVA. Behavioral data showed that in a baseline state, stop-signal response time was significantly faster in table tennis athletes than in non-athlete controls, and appeared significantly longer after sleep deprivation in both groups. ERP results showed that at baseline state, N2, ERN, and P3 amplitudes were lower in table tennis athletes than in non-athlete controls, and corresponding significant decreases were observed in non-athlete controls after 36 h of sleep deprivation. Table tennis athletes showed a decrease in P3 amplitude and no significant difference in N2 and ERN amplitudes, after 36 h of sleep deprivation compared to the baseline state. Compared to non-athlete controls, table tennis athletes had better response inhibition, and the adverse effects of sleep deprivation on response inhibition occurred mainly in the later top-down motor inhibition process rather than in earlier automated conflict detection and monitoring.
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Simonet M, Ruggeri P, Sallard E, Barral J. The field of expertise modulates the time course of neural processes associated with inhibitory control in a sport decision-making task. Sci Rep 2022; 12:7657. [PMID: 35538089 PMCID: PMC9090811 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11580-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Inhibitory control (IC), the ability to suppress inappropriate actions, can be improved by regularly facing complex and dynamic situations requiring flexible behaviors, such as in the context of intensive sport practice. However, researchers have not clearly determined whether and how this improvement in IC transfers to ecological and nonecological computer-based tasks. We explored the spatiotemporal dynamics of changes in the brain activity of three groups of athletes performing sport-nonspecific and sport-specific Go/NoGo tasks with video footages of table tennis situations to address this question. We compared table tennis players (n = 20), basketball players (n = 20) and endurance athletes (n = 17) to identify how years of practicing a sport in an unpredictable versus predictable environment shape the IC brain networks and increase the transfer effects to untrained tasks. Overall, the table tennis group responded faster than the two other groups in both Go/NoGo tasks. The electrical neuroimaging analyses performed in the sport-specific Go/NoGo task revealed that this faster response time was supported by an early engagement of brain structures related to decision-making processes in a time window where inhibition processes typically occur. Our collective findings have relevant applied perspectives, as they highlight the importance of designing more ecological domain-related tasks to effectively capture the complex decision-making processes acquired in real-life situations. Finally, the limited effects from sport practice to laboratory-based tasks found in this study question the utility of cognitive training intervention, whose effects would remain specific to the practice environment.
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- Marie Simonet
- Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Brain Electrophysiology Attention Movement Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Brain Electrophysiology Attention Movement Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Hervault M, Zanone PG, Buisson JC, Huys R. Hold your horses: Differences in EEG correlates of inhibition in cancelling and stopping an action. Neuropsychologia 2022; 172:108255. [PMID: 35513065 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108255] [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: 10/11/2021] [Revised: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Behavioral adaptation to changing contextual contingencies often requires the rapid inhibition of planned or ongoing actions. Inhibitory control has been mostly studied using the stop-signal paradigm, which conceptualizes action inhibition as the outcome of a race between independent GO and STOP processes. Inhibition is predominantly considered to be independent of action type, yet it is questionable whether this conceptualization can apply to stopping an ongoing action. To test the claimed generality of action inhibition, we investigated behavioral stop-signal reaction time (SSRT) and scalp electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in two inhibition contexts: Using variants of the stop-signal task, we asked participants to cancel a prepared-discrete action or to stop an ongoing-rhythmic action in reaction to a STOP signal. The behavioral analysis revealed that the discrete and rhythmic SSRTs were not correlated. The EEG analysis showed that the STOP signal evoked frontocentral activity in the time and frequency domains (Delta/Theta range) in a task-specific manner: The P3 onset latency was the best correlate of discrete SSRT whereas N2/P3 peak-to-peak amplitude was the best correlate of rhythmic SSRT. These findings do not support a conceptualization of inhibition as action-independent but rather suggest that the differential engagement of both components of the N2/P3-complex as a function of action type pertains to functionally independent inhibition subprocesses.
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- Mario Hervault
- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, UMR 5549 CNRS, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, France.
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- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, UMR 5549 CNRS, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, UMR 5505 CNRS, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, France
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- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, UMR 5549 CNRS, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, France
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Alatorre-Cruz GC, Downs H, Hagood D, Sorensen ST, Williams DK, Larson-Prior LJ. Effect of Obesity on Arithmetic Processing in Preteens With High and Low Math Skills: An Event-Related Potentials Study. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:760234. [PMID: 35360282 PMCID: PMC8960456 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.760234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Preadolescence is an important period for the consolidation of certain arithmetic facts, and the development of problem-solving strategies. Obese subjects seem to have poorer academic performance in math than their normal-weight peers, suggesting a negative effect of obesity on math skills in critical developmental periods. To test this hypothesis, event-related potentials (ERPs) were collected during a delayed-verification math task using simple addition and subtraction problems in obese [above 95th body mass index (BMI) percentile] and non-obese (between 5th and 90th BMI percentile) preteens with different levels of math skill; thirty-one with low math skills (14 obese, mean BMI = 26.40, 9.79 years old; 17 non-obese, BMI = 17.45, 9.76 years old) and thirty-one with high math skills (15 obese, BMI = 26.90, 9.60 years old; 16 non-obese, BMI = 17.13, 9.63 years old). No significant differences between weight groups were observed in task accuracy regardless of their mathematical skill level. For ERPs, electrophysiological differences were found only in the subtraction condition; participants with obesity showed an electrophysiologic pattern associated with a reduced ability to allocate attention resources regardless of their math skill level, these differences were characterized by longer P300 latency than their normal-weight peers. Moreover, the participants with obesity with high math skills displayed hypoactivity in left superior parietal lobule compared with their normal-weight peers. Additionally, obese preteens with low math skills displayed smaller arithmetic N400 amplitude than non-obese participants, reflecting difficulties in retrieving visual, semantic, and lexical information about numbers. We conclude that participants with obesity are less able than their normal-weight peers to deploy their attention regardless of their behavioral performance, which seems to have a greater effect on obese participants with low math skills because they also show problems in the retrieval of solutions from working memory, resulting in a delay in the development of mathematical skills.
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- Graciela C. Alatorre-Cruz
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States
- Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, United States
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- Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, United States
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- Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States
- Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, United States
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- Vice Chair for Education, Department of Biostatistics, Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, United States
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- Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, United States
- Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, and Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States
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Hadas I, Hadar A, Lazarovits A, Daskalakis ZJ, Zangen A. Right prefrontal activation predicts ADHD and its severity: A TMS-EEG study in young adults. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2021; 111:110340. [PMID: 33957168 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2021.110340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 04/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Here we bring a neurophysiological diagnostic tool, based on pathophysiologically-relevant brain region, that is critical for reducing the variability between clinicians, and necessary for quantitative measures of ADHD severity. METHODS 54 healthy and 57 ADHD adults participated in the study. Electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded when combined with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the right prefrontal cortex and also recorded during the Stop Signal task. RESULTS TMS evoked potentials (TEPs) and the event related potential (ERP) components in the Stop Signal task were found to be significantly reduced in ADHD relative to the matched healthy controls. Stop signal reaction time (SSRT) and stopping accuracy was found to correlate with the ERP signal, and ADHD severity correlated with the TEP signal. Cortical activity (early TEP and Stop Signal ERP) diagnostic model yielded accuracy of 72%. CONCLUSION TEPs and ERPs reveal that right PFC excitability was associated with ADHD severity, and with behavioral impulsivity - as a hallmark of ADHD pathology. This electrophysiological biomarker supports the potential of objective diagnosis for ADHD. SIGNIFICANCE Such tools would allow better assessment of treatment efficacy and prognosis, may advance understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease and better the public's attitudes and stigma towards ADHD. TRIAL REGISTRATION Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of the HLPFC Coil Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation System in Treating Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adults, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01737476, ClinicalTrials.govnumberNCT01737476.
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- Itay Hadas
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0603, USA; Life Science Department and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
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- Shalvata Mental Health Center, Hod-Hasharon, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Life Science Department and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0603, USA
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- Life Science Department and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Megías M, Ortells JJ, Carmona I, Noguera C, Kiefer M. Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Modulate Electrophysiological Correlates of Semantic Negative Priming From Single Words. Front Behav Neurosci 2021; 15:765290. [PMID: 34867229 PMCID: PMC8637919 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.765290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
In the present study, event-related potentials (ERPs) were registered during a semantic negative priming (NP) task in participants with higher and lower working memory capacity (WMC). On each trial participants had to actively ignore a briefly presented single prime word, which was followed either immediately or after a delay by a mask. Thereafter, either a semantically related or an unrelated target word was presented, to which participants made a semantic categorization judgment. The ignored prime produced a behavioral semantic NP in delayed (but not in immediate) masking trials, and only for participants with a higher-WMC. Both masking type and WMC also modulated ERP priming effects. When the ignored prime was immediately followed by a mask (which impeded its conscious identification) a reliable N400 modulation was found irrespective of participants' WMC. However, when the mask onset following the prime was delayed (thus allowing its conscious identification), an attenuation of a late positive ERP (LPC) was observed in related compared to unrelated trials, but only in the higher-WMC group showing reliable behavioral NP. The present findings demonstrate for the first time that individual differences in WMC modulate both behavioral measures and electrophysiological correlates of semantic NP.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.,CEINSA, Health Research Center, University of Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.,CEINSA, Health Research Center, University of Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.,CEINSA, Health Research Center, University of Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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Hervault M, Zanone PG, Buisson JC, Huys R. Multiple Brain Sources Are Differentially Engaged in the Inhibition of Distinct Action Types. J Cogn Neurosci 2021; 34:258-272. [PMID: 34813646 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Most studies contributing to identify the brain network for inhibitory control have investigated the cancelation of prepared-discrete actions, thus focusing on an isolated and short-lived chunk of human behavior. Aborting ongoing-continuous actions is an equally crucial ability but remains little explored. Although discrete and ongoing-continuous rhythmic actions are associated with partially overlapping yet largely distinct brain activations, it is unknown whether the inhibitory network operates similarly in both situations. Thus, distinguishing between action types constitutes a powerful means to investigate whether inhibition is a generic function. We, therefore, used independent component analysis (ICA) of EEG data and show that canceling a discrete action and aborting a rhythmic action rely on independent brain components. The ICA showed that a delta/theta power increase generically indexed inhibitory activity, whereas N2 and P3 ERP waves did so in an action-specific fashion. The action-specific components were generated by partially distinct brain sources, which indicates that the inhibitory network is engaged differently when canceling a prepared-discrete action versus aborting an ongoing-continuous action. In particular, increased activity was estimated in precentral gyri and posterior parts of the cingulate cortex for action canceling, whereas an enhanced activity was found in more frontal gyri and anterior parts of the cingulate cortex for action aborting. Overall, the present findings support the idea that inhibitory control is differentially implemented according to the type of action to revise.
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Martinez-Horta S, Ivanir E, Perrinjaquet-Moccetti T, Keuter MH, Kulisevsky J. Effects of a Green Oat Herb Extract on Cognitive Performance and Neurophysiological Activity: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:748188. [PMID: 34658781 PMCID: PMC8517335 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.748188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Green oat extracts have been used for centuries in traditional medicine in view of their supposed beneficial effects on cognition and mood. Recently, a specific green oat formulation (Neuravena®) showed to have significant bioactive compounds potentially associated with the enhancement of processing speed, working memory and attention. The main aim of the current study was to compare the potential effect of acute administration of 800 mg of Neuravena® with placebo on a set of neurophysiological correlates of processing speed, attention, performance-monitoring and inhibitory control. Twenty healthy participants were randomized to receive either Neuravena® or placebo. Electroencephalographic (EEG) signal acquisition was obtained while participants carried out the modified Eriksen flanker and oddball tasks. Both groups were compared on measures of behavioral task performance, and a set of event-related potentials (ERPs) components related to performance monitoring (the error-related negativity; ERN and the N2), target detection, and attention (P3a/P3b). Following active-intervention N2, ERN, and P3a/P3b were significantly reduced and performance was faster, with no loss of accuracy. Conversely, no neurophysiological differences were found in the placebo group before and after treatment and performance worsened significantly in terms of reaction time and accuracy. Acute administration of 800 mg of Neuravena® appears to enhance the optimization of neural resources and positively influences cognitive performance in tasks associated with executive functions, processing speed and attention. Moreover, Neuravena® prevents the deleterious effects of tiredness during task performance.
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- Saul Martinez-Horta
- Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.,Biomedical Research Institute (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación en Red-Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.,Biomedical Research Institute (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación en Red-Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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Mayeli A, Al Zoubi O, Henry K, Wong CK, White EJ, Luo Q, Zotev V, Refai H, Bodurka J. Automated pipeline for EEG artifact reduction (APPEAR) recorded during fMRI. J Neural Eng 2021; 18:10.1088/1741-2552/ac1037. [PMID: 34192674 PMCID: PMC10696919 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac1037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
Objective.Simultaneous electroencephalography-functional magnetic resonance imaging (EEG-fMRI) recordings offer a high spatiotemporal resolution approach to study human brain and understand the underlying mechanisms mediating cognitive and behavioral processes. However, the high susceptibility of EEG to MRI-induced artifacts hinders a broad adaptation of this approach. More specifically, EEG data collected during fMRI acquisition are contaminated with MRI gradients and ballistocardiogram artifacts, in addition to artifacts of physiological origin. There have been several attempts for reducing these artifacts with manual and time-consuming pre-processing, which may result in biasing EEG data due to variations in selecting steps order, parameters, and classification of artifactual independent components. Thus, there is a strong urge to develop a fully automatic and comprehensive pipeline for reducing all major EEG artifacts. In this work, we introduced an open-access toolbox with a fully automatic pipeline for reducing artifacts from EEG data collected simultaneously with fMRI (refer to APPEAR).Approach.The pipeline integrates average template subtraction and independent component analysis to suppress both MRI-related and physiological artifacts. To validate our results, we tested APPEAR on EEG data recorded from healthy control subjects during resting-state (n= 48) and task-based (i.e. event-related-potentials (ERPs);n= 8) paradigms. The chosen gold standard is an expert manual review of the EEG database.Main results.We compared manually and automated corrected EEG data during resting-state using frequency analysis and continuous wavelet transformation and found no significant differences between the two corrections. A comparison between ERP data recorded during a so-called stop-signal task (e.g. amplitude measures and signal-to-noise ratio) also showed no differences between the manually and fully automatic fMRI-EEG-corrected data.Significance.APPEAR offers the first comprehensive open-source toolbox that can speed up advancement of EEG analysis and enhance replication by avoiding experimenters' preferences while allowing for processing large EEG-fMRI cohorts composed of hundreds of subjects with manageable researcher time and effort.
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- Ahmad Mayeli
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States of America
- The Tulsa 1000 Investigators include the following contributors: Robin Aupperle, Ph.D., Jerzy Bodurka, Ph.D., Justin Feinstein, Ph.D., Sahib S Khalsa, M.D., Ph.D., Rayus Kuplicki, Ph.D., Martin P Paulus, M.D., Jonathan Savitz, Ph.D., Jennifer Stewart, Ph.D., Teresa A Victor, Ph.D
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Ikarashi K, Sato D, Fujimoto T, Edama M, Baba Y, Yamashiro K. Response Inhibitory Control Varies with Different Sensory Modalities. Cereb Cortex 2021; 32:275-285. [PMID: 34223874 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Response inhibition plays an essential role in preventing anticipated and unpredictable events in our daily lives. It is divided into proactive inhibition, where subjects postpone responses to an upcoming signal, and reactive inhibition, where subjects stop an impending movement based on the presentation of a signal. Different types of sensory input are involved in both inhibitions; however, differences in proactive and reactive inhibition with differences in sensory modalities remain unclear. This study compared proactive and reactive inhibitions induced by visual, auditory, and somatosensory signals using the choice reaction task (CRT) and stop-signal task (SST). The experiments showed that proactive inhibitions were significantly higher in the auditory and somatosensory modalities than in the visual modality, whereas reactive inhibitions were not. Examining the proactive inhibition-associated neural processing, the auditory and somatosensory modalities showed significant decreases in P3 amplitudes in Go signal-locked event-related potentials (ERPs) in SST relative to those in CRT; this might reflect a decreasing attentional resource on response execution in SST in both modalities. In contrast, we did not find significant differences in the reactive inhibition-associated ERPs. These results suggest that proactive inhibition varies with different sensory modalities, whereas reactive inhibition does not.
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- Koyuki Ikarashi
- Major in Health and Welfare, Graduate School of Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan.,Institute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan
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- Institute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan.,Department of Health and Sports, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan
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- Institute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan.,Department of Health and Sports, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan
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- Institute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan.,Department of Physical Therapy, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan
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- Department of Health and Sports, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan
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- Institute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan.,Department of Health and Sports, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata City, Niigata 950-3198, Japan
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Sperl L, Ambrus GG, Kaufmann JM, Schweinberger SR, Cañal-Bruland R. Electrophysiological correlates underlying interference control in motor tasks. Biol Psychol 2021; 163:108138. [PMID: 34171403 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Revised: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Changing pre-existing, automatized motor skills often requires interference control. Prepotent response inhibition - one subdimension of inhibition - has been theorized to be particularly associated with successful interference control in motor skills. Recent evidence suggests that different inhibition subdimensions elicit distinct ERP patterns (with larger P3 components for response inhibition). Therefore, we examined whether a similar ERP pattern would arise in a task demanding participants to overcome interference emerging from strong motor automatisms. This was realized within a typing paradigm involving a letter switch manipulation which is able to produce strong, immediate interference effects. Most importantly, stimulus-locked ERP analyses revealed an enhanced P3 component at frontal, central and most pronouncedly parietal sites for interference trials, in line with previous reported patterns for response inhibition. Together, different analyses provide first insights into the electrophysiological correlates of motor skill change, corroborating the pivotal role of response inhibition for successful interference control.
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- L Sperl
- Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport, Institute of Sports Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; Department of General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.
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- Department of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
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- Department of General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
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- Department of General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
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- Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport, Institute of Sports Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
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Strelnikov K, Hervault M, Laurent L, Barone P. When two is worse than one: The deleterious impact of multisensory stimulation on response inhibition. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0251739. [PMID: 34014959 PMCID: PMC8136741 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Multisensory facilitation is known to improve the perceptual performances and reaction times of participants in a wide range of tasks, from detection and discrimination to memorization. We asked whether a multimodal signal can similarly improve action inhibition using the stop-signal paradigm. Indeed, consistent with a crossmodal redundant signal effect that relies on multisensory neuronal integration, the threshold for initiating behavioral responses is known for being reached faster with multisensory stimuli. To evaluate whether this phenomenon also occurs for inhibition, we compared stop signals in unimodal (human faces or voices) versus audiovisual modalities in natural or degraded conditions. In contrast to the expected multisensory facilitation, we observed poorer inhibition efficiency in the audiovisual modality compared with the visual and auditory modalities. This result was corroborated by both response probabilities and stop-signal reaction times. The visual modality (faces) was the most effective. This is the first demonstration of an audiovisual impairment in the domain of perception and action. It suggests that when individuals are engaged in a high-level decisional conflict, bimodal stimulation is not processed as a simple multisensory object improving the performance but is perceived as concurrent visual and auditory information. This absence of unity increases task demand and thus impairs the ability to revise the response.
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- Kuzma Strelnikov
- Brain & Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse 3 –CNRS, Toulouse, France
- Purpan University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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- Brain & Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse 3 –CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Brain & Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse 3 –CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Brain & Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse 3 –CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Online Movement Correction in Response to the Unexpectedly Perturbed Initial or Final Action Goals: An ERP and sLORETA Study. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11050641. [PMID: 34063437 PMCID: PMC8156469 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11050641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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In this experiment, we explored how unexpected perturbations in the initial (grip posture) and the final action goals (target position) influence movement execution and the neural mechanisms underlying the movement corrections. Participants were instructed to grasp a handle and rotate it to a target position according to a given visual cue. After participants started their movements, a secondary cue was triggered, which indicated whether the initial or final goals had changed (or not) while the electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. The results showed that the perturbed initial goals significantly slowed down the reaching action, compared to the perturbed final goals. In the event-related potentials (ERPs), a larger anterior P3 and a larger central-distributed late positivity (600–700 ms) time-locked to the perturbations were found for the initial than for the final goal perturbations. Source analyses found stronger left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) activations for the perturbed initial goals than for the perturbed final goals in the P3 time window. These findings suggest that perturbations in the initial goals have stronger interferences with the execution of grasp-to-rotate movements than perturbations in the final goals. The interferences seem to be derived from both inappropriate action inhibitions and new action implementations during the movement correction.
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Wei X, Ni X, Zhao S, Chi A. Influence of Exposure at Different Altitudes on the Executive Function of Plateau Soldiers-Evidence From ERPs and Neural Oscillations. Front Physiol 2021; 12:632058. [PMID: 33935798 PMCID: PMC8085325 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.632058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
This study investigates the changes in soldiers' brain executive function at different altitude environments and their relationship with blood oxygen saturation. Stratified sampling was conducted in different altitude 133 active-duty soldiers who were stationed in Weinan (347 m, n = 34), Nyingchi (2,950 m, n = 32), Lhasa (3,860 m, n = 33), and Nagqu (4,890 m, n = 34) for 2 years. The Go/NoGo paradigm with event-related potentials (ERPs) and event-related oscillations (EROs) was used to explore the time and neural oscillation courses of response inhibition. Behavioral results revealed that at the 4,890-m altitude area, the soldiers had the highest false alarm rate, the longest reaction time, and the slowest information transmission rate. The electrophysiological results revealed that NoGo-N2 and N2d decreased with increasing altitude, with significant changes at 3,860 m; the amplitudes of NoGo-P3 and P3d in plateau groups were significantly more negative than the plain and changed significantly at 2,950 m. The results of correlation analysis showed that NoGo-P3 was negatively correlated with altitude (r = −0.358, p = 0.000), positively correlated with SpO2 (r = 0.197, p = 0.041) and information translation rate (ITR) (r = 0.202, p = 0.036). P3d was negatively correlated with altitude (r = −0.276, p = 0.004) and positively correlated with ITR (r = 0.228, p = 0.018). N2d was negatively correlated with ITR (r = 0.204, p = 0.034). The power spectrum analysis of NoGo-N2 and NoGo-P3 showed that the power of δ and θ bands at the plateau area was significantly lower than the plain area and showed a significant step-by-step decrease; the α-band power increases significantly only in the area of 4,890 m. The effect of chronic hypoxia exposure at different altitudes of the plateau on the response inhibition of soldiers was manifested: 3,860 m was the altitude at which the brain response inhibition function decreased during the conflict monitoring stage, and 2,950 m was the altitude at which it dropped during the response inhibition stage. In addition, the soldier's brain's executive function was closely related to SpO2, and a reduction in SpO2 may lead to a decline in response inhibition.
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- Xin Wei
- Institute of Social Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Institute of Social Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- School of Sports, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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Alatorre-Cruz GC, Downs H, Hagood D, Sorensen ST, Williams DK, Larson-Prior L. Effect of obesity on inhibitory control in preadolescents during stop-signal task. An event-related potentials study. Int J Psychophysiol 2021; 165:56-67. [PMID: 33872629 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 03/31/2021] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Preadolescence is a period in which structural and functional changes occur in brain network reorganization that relate to the development of executive control functions, particularly in the areas of attention and cognitive inhibition. Obesity has been associated with a deficit in executive functions and behavioral and electrophysiological differences using the go/no-go task (proactive inhibition), but no study has assessed brain-electrical activity using the stop-signal task (reactive inhibition) in this population. Therefore, we hypothesized that obese preadolescents would show less efficiency in reactive inhibition than their same-age non-obese peers. To test this hypothesis, event-related potentials (ERPs) were collected during a stop-signal task and compared between 27 obese preadolescents (mean BMI = 25.9; 9.65 years old) and 29 normal-weight preadolescents (mean BMI = 17.5; 9.60 years old). No significant differences between groups were observed in behavioral responses. As for ERPs, the obese group had an electrophysiological pattern associated with less efficient conflict monitoring during the "no-go" condition (i.e., less modulation of N200 latency based on the experimental condition), differences in attentional allocation in the "go" condition (less modulation of P300a latency based on experimental condition), and difficulties in rule retrieval from working memory associated with the trial-type in both experimental conditions (smaller P300b amplitude). We conclude that obese preadolescents displayed less ability to modulate conflict-monitoring in the "no-go" condition and attention allocation in the "go" condition, evidencing differences between groups in the development of attention and inhibitory control.
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- Graciela C Alatorre-Cruz
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States of America; Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, 15 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States of America.
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- Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, 15 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States of America.
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- Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, 15 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States of America.
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States of America; Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, 15 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States of America.
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- Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, 15 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States of America; Department of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States of America.
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- Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, 15 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States of America; Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock, AR, United States of America.
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Jia LX, Qin XJ, Cui JF, Zheng Q, Yang TX, Wang Y, Chan RCK. An ERP study on proactive and reactive response inhibition in individuals with schizotypy. Sci Rep 2021; 11:8394. [PMID: 33863942 PMCID: PMC8052443 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87735-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Schizotypy, a subclinical group at risk for schizophrenia, has been found to show impairments in response inhibition. However, it remains unclear whether this impairment is accompanied by outright stopping (reactive inhibition) or preparation for stopping (proactive inhibition). We recruited 20 schizotypy and 24 non-schizotypy individuals to perform a modified stop-signal task with electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded. This task consists of three conditions based on the probability of stop signal: 0% (no stop trials, only go trials), 17% (17% stop trials), and 33% (33% stop trials), the conditions were indicated by the colour of go stimuli. For proactive inhibition (go trials), individuals with schizotypy exhibited significantly lesser increase in go response time (RT) as the stop signal probability increasing compared to non-schizotypy individuals. Individuals with schizotypy also exhibited significantly increased N1 amplitude on all levels of stop signal probability and increased P3 amplitude in the 17% stop condition compared with non-schizotypy individuals. For reactive inhibition (stop trials), individuals with schizotypy exhibited significantly longer stop signal reaction time (SSRT) in both 17% and 33% stop conditions and smaller N2 amplitude on stop trials in the 17% stop condition than non-schizotypy individuals. These findings suggest that individuals with schizotypy were impaired in both proactive and reactive response inhibition at behavioural and neural levels.
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- Lu-Xia Jia
- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Research Center for Information and Statistics, National Institute of Education Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China. .,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Meachon EJ, Meyer M, Wilmut K, Zemp M, Alpers GW. Evoked Potentials Differentiate Developmental Coordination Disorder From Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in a Stop-Signal Task: A Pilot Study. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:629479. [PMID: 33776670 PMCID: PMC7990764 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.629479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Developmental Coordination Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder are unique neurodevelopmental disorders with overlaps in executive functions and motor control. The conditions co-occur in up to 50% of cases, raising questions of the pathological mechanisms of DCD versus ADHD. Few studies have examined these overlaps in adults with DCD and/or ADHD. Therefore, to provide insights about executive functions and motor control between adults with DCD, ADHD, both conditions (DCD + ADHD), or typically developed controls, this study used a stop-signal task and parallel EEG measurement. We assessed executive performance via go accuracy and go reaction time, as well as motor response inhibition via stop-signal reaction time. This was complemented with analysis of event-related potentials (ERPs). Based on existing investigations of adults with DCD or ADHD, we expected (1) groups would not differ in behavioral performance on stop and go trials, but (2) differences in ERPs, particularly in components N200 (index of cognitive control) and P300 (index of attention and inhibition) would be evident. The sample included N = 50 adults with DCD (n = 12), ADHD (n = 9), DCD + ADHD (n = 7), and control participants (n = 22). We replicated that there were no between-group differences for behavioral-level executive performance and motor response inhibition. However, on a physiological level, ERP components N200 and P300 differed between groups, particularly during successful response inhibition. These ERPs reflect potential endophenotypic differences not evident in overt behavior of participants with ADHD and/or DCD. This suggests a disorder specific employment of inhibition or general executive functions in groups of adults with DCD, DCD + ADHD, ADHD, or control participants.
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- Emily J Meachon
- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.,Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.,Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
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Nguyen TV, Hsu CY, Jaiswal S, Muggleton NG, Liang WK, Juan CH. To Go or Not to Go: Degrees of Dynamic Inhibitory Control Revealed by the Function of Grip Force and Early Electrophysiological Indices. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:614978. [PMID: 33584231 PMCID: PMC7876446 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.614978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A critical issue in executive control is how the nervous system exerts flexibility to inhibit a prepotent response and adapt to sudden changes in the environment. In this study, force measurement was used to capture “partial” unsuccessful trials that are highly relevant in extending the current understanding of motor inhibition processing. Moreover, a modified version of the stop-signal task was used to control and eliminate potential attentional capture effects from the motor inhibition index. The results illustrate that the non-canceled force and force rate increased as a function of stop-signal delay (SSD), offering new objective indices for gauging the dynamic inhibitory process. Motor response (time and force) was a function of delay in the presentation of novel/infrequent stimuli. A larger lateralized readiness potential (LRP) amplitude in go and novel stimuli indicated an influence of the novel stimuli on central motor processing. Moreover, an early N1 component reflects an index of motor inhibition in addition to the N2 component reported in previous studies. Source analysis revealed that the activation of N2 originated from inhibitory control associated areas: the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG), pre-motor cortex, and primary motor cortex. Regarding partial responses, LRP and error-related negativity (ERNs) were associated with error correction processes, whereas the N2 component may indicate the functional overlap between inhibition and error correction. In sum, the present study has developed reliable and objective indices of motor inhibition by introducing force, force-rate and electrophysiological measures, further elucidating our understandings of dynamic motor inhibition and error correction.
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- Trung Van Nguyen
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan.,Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Center, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan.,Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan.,Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Center, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan.,Department of Psychology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Krokhine SN, Ewers NP, Mangold KI, Boshra R, Lin CYA, Connolly JF. N2b Reflects the Cognitive Changes in Executive Functioning After Concussion: A Scoping Review. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 14:601370. [PMID: 33424568 PMCID: PMC7793768 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.601370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objectives: The N2b is an event-related potential (ERP) component thought to index higher-order executive function. While the impact of concussion on executive functioning is frequently discussed in the literature, limited research has been done on the role of N2b in evaluating executive functioning in patients with concussion. The aims of this review are to consolidate an understanding of the cognitive functions reflected by the N2b and to account for discrepancies in literature findings regarding the N2b and concussion. Methods: A scoping review was conducted on studies that used the N2b to measure cognitive functioning in healthy control populations, as well as in people with concussions. Results: Sixty-six articles that met inclusion criteria demonstrated that the N2b effectively represents stimulus-response conflict management, response selection, and response inhibition. However, the 19 included articles investigating head injury (using terms such as concussion, mild head injury, and mild traumatic brain injury) found widely varied results: some studies found the amplitude of the N2b to be increased in the concussion group, while others found it to be decreased or unchanged. Conclusion: Based on the available evidence, differences in the amplitude of the N2b have been linked to response selection, conflict, and inhibition deficits in concussion. However, due to large variations in methodology across studies, findings about the directionality of this effect remain inconclusive. The results of this review suggest that future research should be conducted with greater standardization and consistency.
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- Sophie N Krokhine
- Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics (ARiEAL) Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics (ARiEAL) Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.,Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics (ARiEAL) Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.,Neuroscience Graduate Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics (ARiEAL) Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.,School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics (ARiEAL) Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics (ARiEAL) Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.,Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.,School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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Huster RJ, Messel MS, Thunberg C, Raud L. The P300 as marker of inhibitory control – Fact or fiction? Cortex 2020; 132:334-348. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.05.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2019] [Revised: 12/31/2019] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Skippen P, Fulham WR, Michie PT, Matzke D, Heathcote A, Karayanidis F. Reconsidering electrophysiological markers of response inhibition in light of trigger failures in the stop‐signal task. Psychophysiology 2020; 57:e13619. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Revised: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- P. Skippen
- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory School of Psychology University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
- Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
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- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory School of Psychology University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
- Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
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- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory School of Psychology University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
- Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
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- Psychological Methods Department of Psychology University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands
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- School of Psychology University of Tasmania Hobart TAS Australia
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- Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory School of Psychology University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
- Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
- Priority Research Centre for Stroke and Brain Injury University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
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Beppi C, Violante IR, Hampshire A, Grossman N, Sandrone S. Patterns of Focal- and Large-Scale Synchronization in Cognitive Control and Inhibition: A Review. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:196. [PMID: 32670035 PMCID: PMC7330107 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Neural synchronization patterns are involved in several complex cognitive functions and constitute a growing trend in neuroscience research. While synchrony patterns in working memory have been extensively discussed, a complete understanding of their role in cognitive control and inhibition is still elusive. Here, we provide an up-to-date review on synchronization patterns underlying behavioral inhibition, extrapolating common grounds, and dissociating features with other inhibitory functions. Moreover, we suggest a schematic conceptual framework and highlight existing gaps in the literature, current methodological challenges, and compelling research questions for future studies.
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- Carolina Beppi
- Neuroscience Center Zürich (ZNZ), University of Zürich (UZH) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory (C3NL), Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
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- Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory (C3NL), Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory (C3NL), Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Dykstra T, Waller DA, Hazeltine E, Wessel JR. Leveling the Field for a Fairer Race between Going and Stopping: Neural Evidence for the Race Model of Motor Inhibition from a New Version of the Stop Signal Task. J Cogn Neurosci 2020; 32:590-602. [PMID: 31742470 PMCID: PMC7667712 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The stop signal task (SST) is the gold standard experimental model of inhibitory control. However, neither SST condition-contrast (stop vs. go, successful vs. failed stop) purely operationalizes inhibition. Because stop trials include a second, infrequent signal, the stop versus go contrast confounds inhibition with attentional and stimulus processing demands. While this confound is controlled for in the successful versus failed stop contrast, the go process is systematically faster on failed stop trials, contaminating the contrast with a different noninhibitory confound. Here, we present an SST variant to address both confounds and evaluate putative neural indices of inhibition with these influences removed. In our variant, stop signals occurred on every trial, equating the noninhibitory demands of the stop versus go contrast. To entice participants to respond despite the impending stop signals, responses produced before stop signals were rewarded. This also reversed the go process bias that typically affects the successful versus failed stop contrast. We recorded scalp electroencephalography in this new version of the task (as well as a standard version of the SST with infrequent stop signal) and found that, even under these conditions, the properties of the frontocentral stop signal P3 ERP remained consistent with the race model. Specifically, in both tasks, the amplitude of the P3 was increased on stop versus go trials. Moreover, the onset of this P3 occurred earlier for successful compared with failed stop trials in both tasks, consistent with the proposal of the race model that an earlier start of the inhibition process will increase stopping success. Therefore, the frontocentral stop signal P3 represents a neural process whose properties are in line with the predictions of the race model of motor inhibition, even when the SST's confounds are controlled.
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- University of Iowa
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
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Nigbur R, Ullsperger M. Funny kittens: Positive mood induced via short video-clips affects error processing but not conflict control. Int J Psychophysiol 2019; 147:147-155. [PMID: 31760106 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Revised: 11/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The interplay of performance monitoring functions and affective variables labeled as moods or emotions has been investigated within different theoretical frameworks including conflict adaptation and reinforcement learning. However, results regarding the electrophysiological underpinnings of performance monitoring such as the error-related negativity (ERN), the N200 or the error positivity (Pe) remain largely inconsistent. While some studies report ERN enhancements after positive mood induction, others find reductions due to positive affect. An additional source of complexity regards the manifold induction methods across studies. Here, we investigated whether performance-independent, blocked mood inductions via mini-clips alter electrophysiological markers of performance monitoring. Positive clips consisted of a pre-rated collection of human and animal funny/fail videos, while neutral clips showed natural scenes of humans and animals or sport events. The main task was a modified flanker paradigm. The effectivity of mood induction was confirmed via recorded skin conductance response (SCR), facial-muscle electromyogram (EMG) and intermittent subjective mood questionnaires. Regarding interference control neither reaction times nor error rates were influenced by mood induction, similarly no mood effects of the N2 component were observed. In contrast, we found enhanced ERN as well as Pe amplitudes in the positive compared to the neutral condition. Additional to post error slowing we found increased interference effects after errors in positive blocks on the behavioral level. The results suggest a specific receptiveness of evaluative control components to positive affect that will be discussed regarding their possible neuronal underpinnings.
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- R Nigbur
- Otto von Guericke University, Institute of Psychology, Department of Neuropsychology, Magdeburg, Germany.
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- Otto von Guericke University, Institute of Psychology, Department of Neuropsychology, Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany
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Yu F, Chen X, Zhang L, Bai T, Gao Y, Dong Y, Luo Y, Zhu C, Wang K. Shared Response Inhibition Deficits but Distinct Error Processing Capacities Between Schizophrenia and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients Revealed by Event-Related Potentials and Oscillations During a Stop Signal Task. Front Psychiatry 2019; 10:853. [PMID: 31798483 PMCID: PMC6878724 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Background: Schizophrenia (SCH) patients are at high risk for obsessive-compulsive syndrome, which can lead to difficulty in differential diagnosis between SCH and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It would be of great clinical value to identify objective markers for these diseases based on behavioral or neurological manifestations. Deficient response inhibition has been reported in both SCH and OCD; however, it is unclear if common or distinct neural abnormalities underlie this impairment. Methods: To address this question, we compared Stop signal task performance and associated event-related potentials (ERPs) and event-related oscillation (ERO) among 24 SCH patients, 25 OCD patients, and 27 healthy controls (HCs). Results: In successful Stop trials, both SCH and OCD patients showed prolonged Stop signal response time, reduced ERP-P3 component amplitude, and weaker theta-band synchronization compared to HCs, while there were no significant differences between patient groups. In unsuccessful Stop trials, however, SCH patients demonstrated significantly lower P3 amplitudes and weaker theta-band activity than OCD patients. In addition, Stop accuracy rate in SCH patients was negatively correlated with Positive subscale score of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale. Conclusions: These results provide evidence that impaired response inhibition in SCH and OCD arises from common underlying neural processing abnormalities. However, the lower P3 amplitude and weaker theta-band activity in SCH patients in unsuccessful Stop trials suggest distinct neural activity patterns related to error processing. These differences in ERPs and ERO may provide clues to unique neurological abnormalities in SCH and provide objective measures for differential diagnosis.
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- Fengqiong Yu
- Department of Medical Psychology, Chaohu Clinical Medical College, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorder and Mental Health, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorder and Mental Health, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
- Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Medical Psychology, Chaohu Clinical Medical College, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorder and Mental Health, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorder and Mental Health, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
- Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorder and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, China
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- College of Psychology and Sociology of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Medical Psychology, Chaohu Clinical Medical College, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorder and Mental Health, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorder and Mental Health, Hefei, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
- Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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Fiterman O, Raz S. Cognitive, neural and endocrine functioning during late pregnancy: An Event-Related Potentials study. Horm Behav 2019; 116:104575. [PMID: 31442429 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2018] [Revised: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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This study investigated cognitive, neural and endocrine function during late pregnancy. One of the first to examine brain ERPs in pregnant women, the study is unique in its focus on response inhibition function. In the study, cognitive function was evaluated by a digit-symbol coding test, an arithmetic ability test, and a visual stop-signal task which places enhanced demands on impulse control and response inhibition, considered a hallmark of executive function. Brain activity was measured by scalp-recorded Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) during the stop-signal task. HPA axis reactivity was assessed by measuring salivary cortisol levels before and after experimental sessions. Test performance, ERPs and cortisol reactivity were compared across groups of 23 women in their third trimester of pregnancy and 22 non-pregnant controls. Pregnant women scored lower than the control group on the digit-symbol coding test. On the stop-signal task, both groups had similar error rates, but pregnant women had longer response times to Go trials. On the Stop condition of the task in which a response must be inhibited, pregnant women demonstrated significantly better performance. At the electrophysiological level, in response to Go stimuli pregnant women exhibited greater amplitude of P2 than controls. In response to Stop-signals, pregnant women had lesser amplitudes of P1 and N2 and greater amplitude of P3. Cortisol reactivity to the test session was significantly more pronounced in non-pregnant women with significant correlations found between cortisol reactivity and behavioral responses. The results suggest that response patterns of women in late pregnancy are less impulsive and more cautious and controlled.
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- Ora Fiterman
- Department of Behavioral Sciences, The Center for Psychobiological Research, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel
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- Department of Behavioral Sciences, The Center for Psychobiological Research, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel; Department of Psychology, Tel Hai College, Israel.
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Chen J, Li Y, Zhang G, Jin X, Lu Y, Zhou C. Enhanced inhibitory control during re-engagement processing in badminton athletes: An event-related potential study. JOURNAL OF SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCE 2019; 8:585-594. [PMID: 31720072 PMCID: PMC6834996 DOI: 10.1016/j.jshs.2019.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2018] [Revised: 10/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/29/2018] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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PURPOSE The purpose of present study was to investigate the impact of sport experience on response inhibition and response re-engagement in expert badminton athletes during the stop-signal task and change-signal task. METHODS A total of 19 badminton athletes and 20 nonathletes performed both the stop-signal task and change-signal task. Reaction times (RTs) and event-related potentials were recorded and analyzed. RESULTS Behavioral results indicated that badminton athletes responded faster than nonathletes to go stimuli and to change signals, with faster change RTs and change-signal RTs, which take into consideration the variable stimulus onset time mean. During successful change trials in the change-signal task, the amplitudes of the event-related potential components N2 and P3 were smaller for badminton athletes than for nonathletes. Moreover, change-signal RTs and N2 amplitudes as well as change RTs and P3 amplitudes were significantly correlated in badminton athletes. A significant correlation was also found between the amplitude of the event-related potential component N1 and response accuracy to change signals in badminton athletes. CONCLUSION Moderation of brain cortical activity in badminton athletes was more associated with their ability to rapidly inhibit a planned movement and re-engage with a new movement compared with nonathletes. The superior inhibitory control and more efficient neural mechanisms in badminton athletes compared with nonathletes might be a result of badminton athletes' professional training experience.
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- Jiacheng Chen
- School of Kinesiology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Sports Department, Jinan University, Zhuhai Campus, Zhuhai 519000, China
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- Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40100, Finland
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- School of Kinesiology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China
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- School of Kinesiology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China
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- School of Kinesiology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China
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Van Voorhis AC, Kent JS, Kang SS, Goghari VM, MacDonald AW, Sponheim SR. Abnormal neural functions associated with motor inhibition deficits in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 40:5397-5411. [PMID: 31471938 PMCID: PMC6864893 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24780] [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: 05/19/2019] [Revised: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Deficits in response inhibition have been observed in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; however, the neural origins of the abnormalities and their relevance to genetic liability for psychosis are unknown. We used a stop‐signal task to examine motor inhibition and associated neural processes in schizophrenia patients (n = 57), bipolar disorder patients (n = 21), first‐degree biological relatives of patients with schizophrenia (n = 34), and healthy controls (n = 56). Schizophrenia patients demonstrated motor control deficits reflected in longer stop‐signal reaction times and elongated reaction times. With the possibility of needing to inhibit a button press, both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients showed diminished reductions of the P300 brain response and only the healthy controls demonstrated adjustments in response execution time, as measured by response‐locked lateralized readiness potentials. Schizotypal traits in the biological relatives were associated with less P300 modulation consistent with the motor‐related anomalies being associated with subtle schizophrenia‐spectrum symptomatology in family members. The two patient groups had elongated response selection processes as manifest in the delayed onset of the stimulus‐locked lateralized readiness potential. The bipolar disorder group was unique in showing significantly diminished neural responses to the stop‐signal to inhibit a response. Antipsychotic medication dosage was related to worse motor inhibition, thus motor inhibition deficits in schizophrenia may be partially explained by the effect of pharmacological agents. Failed modulation of brain processes in relation to response inhibition probability and the lengthening of motor response selection appear to be transdiagnostic abnormalities spanning schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto-Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Cheng CH, Tsai HY, Cheng HN. The effect of age on N2 and P3 components: A meta-analysis of Go/Nogo tasks. Brain Cogn 2019; 135:103574. [PMID: 31200173 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2019.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Revised: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Suppressing the neural activities to non-target stimuli becomes problematic with advancing age. Go/Nogo tasks, in which subjects are instructed to respond to a certain type of stimuli (Go) and withhold responses to other types of predefined stimuli (Nogo), have been extensively employed to study the age-related alterations of cognitive inhibition. However, it remains inconclusive whether the N2 and P3 electrophysiological responses to successful inhibition to Nogo stimuli are affected by aging processes. Thus, we performed a meta-analysis of Go/Nogo studies to investigate the age effect on Nogo-N2 and Nogo-P3 activities as well as behavioral performance of commission errors. The potential moderators regarding different probabilities of Nogo trials and levels of task difficulty on the effect sizes were also assessed. There were no significant age-related differences in commission errors. However, compared to the younger group, the elderly demonstrated reduced Nogo-N2 amplitudes, particularly in the condition where Nogo probability was less than 50%. Furthermore, age-related reduction of Nogo-P3 amplitudes and prolongation of Nogo-P3 latencies were observed in the condition where Nogo probability was less than 50%. In conclusion, our data suggest that despite similar behavioral performance in the younger and older adults, neural processing of response inhibition becomes inefficient with advancing age.
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- Chia-Hsiung Cheng
- Department of Occupational Therapy and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Neural Dynamics (BIND Lab), Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
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- Department of Occupational Therapy and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Neural Dynamics (BIND Lab), Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Occupational Therapy and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Neural Dynamics (BIND Lab), Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Raz S, Koren A, Levin C. Attention, response inhibition and brain event-related potential alterations in adults with beta-thalassaemia major. Br J Haematol 2019; 186:580-591. [PMID: 31111483 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.15957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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We investigated neural correlates of cognitive function in adults with beta thalassaemia major (β-TM) compared to healthy controls using scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs). Event-related potential studies in the field of β-TM are scarce and mostly limited to children. A stop-signal task was used to evaluate indices of attention and response inhibition function, considered to be the hallmark of executive control. Correlations between task performance, ERPs and haemoglobin were also examined. Results showed impaired cognitive performance in β-TM patients, as indicated by longer response times than controls. Haemoglobin was negatively correlated with response times to Go stimuli. Electrophysiological results indicated significant β-TM-related alterations in neuronal activity, reflected in greater peak amplitudes of several task-related ERP components. A possible interpretation of these ERP results is that β-TM patients need to recruit additional brain resources when dealing with cognitive challenge. Significant correlations were found between levels of haemoglobin and amplitude of all ERP components; the lower the haemoglobin, the more pronounced the ERPs amplitude. The present study represents a novel investigation of cognitive function and related brain dynamics in β-TM in adult. Integrating neuropsychological assessment and interventions into traditional disease management, may be imperative in achieving a better quality of life for these patients.
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- Sivan Raz
- Department of Behavioral Sciences, The Centre for Psychobiological Research, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Yezreel Valley.,Department of Psychology, Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilee
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- Paediatric Haematology Unit, Emek Medical Centre, Afula.,The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Paediatric Haematology Unit, Emek Medical Centre, Afula.,The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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Zhao D, Lin H, Xie S, Liu Z. Emotional arousal elicited by irrelevant stimuli affects event-related potentials (ERPs) during response inhibition. Physiol Behav 2019; 206:134-142. [PMID: 30954488 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 04/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies using the Go/Nogo task have indicated that response inhibition is influenced by the arousal elicited by emotional stimuli, when those stimuli are relevant to response selection of Go and Nogo trials. Due to stimulus and task design issues, however, it is uncertain whether response inhibition is affected by emotional valence or arousal, when emotional stimuli are irrelevant to response selection. Therefore, the present study aimed to re-investigate this issue by circumventing limitations of previous research. To address this issue, thirty-one young adults (16 females and 15 males) were required to make motor responses to frequently-presented faces of one sex (Go trials) and to inhibit responses to less-frequently presented faces of the opposite sex (Nogo trials). Crucially, the faces were superimposed onto positive, negative and neutral pictures. The pictures were presented in a randomized order. The arousal values between positive and negative pictures were highly matched. Results showed that Nogo faces elicited smaller N2 but larger P3a amplitudes, when the faces were associated with positive and negative pictures as compared to neutral pictures. These findings suggest that response inhibition is influenced by emotional arousal, when emotional stimuli are irrelevant to response selection. Additionally, for Go faces, results showed smaller N2 but larger P3a amplitudes within negative pictures as compared to neutral and positive pictures, suggesting a role of emotional valence elicited by irrelevant stimuli on response execution.
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- Dongmei Zhao
- Institute of Applied Psychology, Guangdong University of Finance, 510521 Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Applied Psychology, Guangdong University of Finance, 510521 Guangzhou, China.
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- Center for the Study of Applied Psychology, Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science of Guangdong Province, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China; Division Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition, Department of Education and Psychology, Free University Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for the Study of Applied Psychology, Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science of Guangdong Province, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, China.
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Zheng Y, Mei S, Yi W, Li Q, Liu X. Abnormal performance monitoring but intact response inhibition in sensation seeking. Psychophysiology 2019; 56:e13373. [PMID: 30932201 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Revised: 03/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The sensation-seeking trait is a potential endophenotype for various addictive behaviors. Using a nonclinical sample, the current ERP study examined the effects of sensation seeking on performance monitoring and response inhibition. Twenty high sensation seekers and 21 low sensation seekers were selected from a large sample based on their sensation-seeking score and performed a stop-signal task while their EEG was recorded. High relative to low sensation seekers displayed similar response inhibition in terms of performance measure and stop-P3 amplitudes. Compared to low sensation seekers, however, high sensation seekers exhibited a reduced stop-N2 for unsuccessful, but not successful, inhibition. Moreover, an enhanced go-N2 in response to go signals was observed for high versus low sensation seekers, irrespective of whether the go signals were followed by a stop signal or not. Together, our findings suggest that sensation seeking in nonclinical populations is related to individual variability in performance monitoring rather than response inhibition, which provides important implications for the prevention and intervention of addictive behaviors that are driven by trait sensation seeking.
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- Ya Zheng
- Department of Psychology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Department of Psychology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Department of Psychology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT, Bonilla FM, González-Villar AJ. Effect of the stop-signal modality on brain electrical activity associated with suppression of ongoing actions. Biol Psychol 2019; 143:85-92. [PMID: 30807785 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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To clarify how the modality of stop signals affects the ability to suppress ongoing actions, we compared behavioural indices and event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded in healthy volunteers performing visual and auditory stop-signal tasks. Auditory stop signals were associated with faster reaction times and shorter stop-N2 and stop-P3 latencies. Given that the tasks did not differ in attentional/arousal processes (go-P3 or stop-P3 amplitudes) or motor preparation (LRP amplitude, onset or latency), our results suggest that stop signal modality mainly affects bottom-up sensory processes (faster auditory processing). The ERP waveform obtained by subtracting successfully stopped from unsuccessfully stopped trials showed similar amplitude and topography in both tasks, indicating that the strength of top-down processes related to inhibition was independent of modality. The findings contribute further knowledge about the variables associated with efficient inhibition and have practical implications for the design of settings or interventions to improve reactive inhibition.
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad El Bosque, Colombia
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- Psychophysiology Lab, Faculty of Psychology, Universdad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Psychological Neuroscience Lab, Research Center in Psychology, School of Psychology, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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How can no change in an auditory stimulus generate an N2b-P3a? Brain Cogn 2018; 129:9-15. [PMID: 30579632 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2018.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2017] [Revised: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 12/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of an endogenously-evoked no-go N2b. Previous literature focused on the N2b being evoked by exogenous auditory stimuli. In this study, no-go stimuli were the absence of a gap in a 1000-ms noise burst (i.e., no-gap trials). ERPs were measured from 35 participants while performing a gap-detection task and passively listening to the same stimuli. Participants were asked to press a button when they heard a gap in the noise burst (go trials) and to withhold their button press when they did not perceive a gap in the noise burst (no-go trials). The current study's gap-detection task had predictable timing (gaps always occurred at 500 ms after noise burst onset) and high probability of gaps occurring (10:1); therefore, participants built up an expectancy that gaps would occur on most trials at 500 ms. For no-gap trials, this meant that a participant's expectancy was violated and thus a N2b-P3a response was generated. We found that all participants had N2b-P3a responses to no-gap trials. Overall, this study demonstrated that the no-go N2b-P3a response can be evoked by an endogenous signal in the form of the omission of an expected gap in noise.
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Motor Preparation of Step Initiation: Error-related Cortical Oscillations. Neuroscience 2018; 393:12-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.09.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Revised: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Zhao W, Gao D, Yue F, Wang Y, Mao D, Chen X, Lei X. Response Inhibition Deficits in Insomnia Disorder: An Event-Related Potential Study With the Stop-Signal Task. Front Neurol 2018; 9:610. [PMID: 30131753 PMCID: PMC6090996 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background: Response inhibition is a hallmark of executive function, which was detected impaired in various psychiatric disorders. However, whether insomnia disorder (ID) impairs response inhibition has caused great controversy. Methods: Using the auditory stop-signal paradigm coupled with event-related potentials (ERPs), we carried out this study to examine whether individuals with ID presented response inhibition deficits and further investigated the neural mechanism correlated to these deficits. Twelve individuals with ID and 13 matched good sleepers (GSs) had participated in this study, and then they performed an auditory stop-signal task (SST) in the laboratory setting with high density EEG recordings. Results: The behavioral results revealed that compared to GSs, patients with ID presented significantly longer stop-signal reaction time (SSRT), suggesting the impairment of motor inhibition among insomniacs. Their reaction time in go trials, however, showed no significant between-group difference. Considering the electrophysiological correlate underlying the longer SSRT, we found reduced P3 amplitude in patients with insomnia in the successful stop trials, which might reflect their poor efficiency of response inhibition. Finally, when we performed exploratory analyses in the failed stop and go trials, patients with ID presented reduced Pe and N1 amplitude in the failed sop trials and go trials respectively. Discussion: Taken together, these findings indicate that individuals with ID would present response inhibition deficits. Moreover, the electrophysiological correlate underlying these deficits mainly revolves around the successful stop P3 component. The present study is the first to investigate the electrophysiological correlate underlying the impaired response inhibition among insomniacs.
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- Wenrui Zhao
- Sleep and Neuroimaging Center, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality of Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Sleep Psychology Center, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Sleep Psychology Center, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Sleep Psychology Center, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Sleep Psychology Center, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Sleep and Neuroimaging Center, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality of Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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- Sleep and Neuroimaging Center, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality of Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China
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Zhu J, Li J, Li X, Rao J, Hao Y, Ding Z, Wang G. Neural Basis of the Emotional Conflict Processing in Major Depression: ERPs and Source Localization Analysis on the N450 and P300 Components. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:214. [PMID: 29896094 PMCID: PMC5986884 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objects: Effective psychological function requires that cognition is not affected by task-irrelevant emotional stimuli in emotional conflict. Depression is mainly characterized as an emotional disorder. The object of this study is to reveal the behavioral and electrophysiological signature of emotional conflict processing in major depressive disorder (MDD) using event-related potentials (ERPs) and standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) analysis. Method: We used a face–word Stroop task involving emotional faces while recording EEG (electroencephalography) in 20 patients with MDD and 20 healthy controls (HCs). And then ERPs were extracted and the corresponding brain sources were reconstructed using sLORETA. Results: Behaviorally, subjects with MDDs manifested significantly increased Stroop effect when examining the RT difference between happy incongruent trials and happy congruent trials, compared with HC subjects. ERP results exhibited that MDDs were characterized by the attenuated difference between P300 amplitude to sad congruent stimuli and sad incongruent stimuli, as electrophysiological evidence of impaired conflict processing in subjects with MDD. The sLORETA results showed that MDD patients had a higher current density in rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rostral ACC) within N450 time window in response to happy incongruent trials than happy congruent stimuli. Moreover, HC subjects had stronger activity in right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) region in response to incongruent stimuli than congruent stimuli, revealing successful inhibition of emotional distraction in HCs, which was absent in MDDs. Conclusion: Our results indicated that rostral ACC was implicated in the processing of negative emotional distraction in MDDs, as well as impaired inhibition of task-irrelevant emotional stimuli, relative to HCs. This work furnishes novel behavioral and neurophysiological evidence that are closely related to emotional conflict among MDD patients.
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- Jing Zhu
- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- The Third People's Hospital of Tianshui City, Tianshui, China
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- The Third People's Hospital of Tianshui City, Tianshui, China
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Chikara RK, Chang EC, Lu YC, Lin DS, Lin CT, Ko LW. Monetary Reward and Punishment to Response Inhibition Modulate Activation and Synchronization Within the Inhibitory Brain Network. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:27. [PMID: 29545745 PMCID: PMC5837970 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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A reward or punishment can modulate motivation and emotions, which in turn affect cognitive processing. The present simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging-electroencephalography study examines neural mechanisms of response inhibition under the influence of a monetary reward or punishment by implementing a modified stop-signal task in a virtual battlefield scenario. The participants were instructed to play as snipers who open fire at a terrorist target but withhold shooting in the presence of a hostage. The participants performed the task under three different feedback conditions in counterbalanced order: a reward condition where each successfully withheld response added a bonus (i.e., positive feedback) to the startup credit, a punishment condition where each failure in stopping deduced a penalty (i.e., negative feedback), and a no-feedback condition where response outcome had no consequences and served as a control setting. Behaviorally both reward and punishment conditions led to significantly down-regulated inhibitory function in terms of the critical stop-signal delay. As for the neuroimaging results, increased activities were found for the no-feedback condition in regions previously reported to be associated with response inhibition, including the right inferior frontal gyrus and the pre-supplementary motor area. Moreover, higher activation of the lingual gyrus, posterior cingulate gyrus (PCG) and inferior parietal lobule were found in the reward condition, while stronger activation of the precuneus gyrus was found in the punishment condition. The positive feedback was also associated with stronger changes of delta, theta, and alpha synchronization in the PCG than were the negative or no-feedback conditions. These findings depicted the intertwining relationship between response inhibition and motivation networks.
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- Rupesh K Chikara
- Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.,Brain Research Center, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Brain Research Center, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.,Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.,Brain Research Center, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.,Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Electrophysiological indicators of inhibitory control deficits in depression. Biol Psychol 2017; 130:1-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Accepted: 10/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Winther GN, Niedeggen M. Adaptability and specificity of inhibition processes in distractor-induced blindness. Psychophysiology 2017; 54:1882-1898. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2017] [Revised: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 07/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Gesche N. Winther
- Department of Education and Psychology; Freie Universität Berlin; Berlin Germany
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- Department of Education and Psychology; Freie Universität Berlin; Berlin Germany
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Hong X, Wang Y, Sun J, Li C, Tong S. Segregating Top-Down Selective Attention from Response Inhibition in a Spatial Cueing Go/NoGo Task: An ERP and Source Localization Study. Sci Rep 2017; 7:9662. [PMID: 28851891 PMCID: PMC5575050 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08807-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Successfully inhibiting a prepotent response tendency requires the attentional detection of signals which cue response cancellation. Although neuroimaging studies have identified important roles of stimulus-driven processing in the attentional detection, the effects of top-down control were scarcely investigated. In this study, scalp EEG was recorded from thirty-two participants during a modified Go/NoGo task, in which a spatial-cueing approach was implemented to manipulate top-down selective attention. We observed classical event-related potential components, including N2 and P3, in the attended condition of response inhibition. While in the ignored condition of response inhibition, a smaller P3 was observed and N2 was absent. The correlation between P3 and CNV during the foreperiod suggested an inhibitory role of P3 in both conditions. Furthermore, source analysis suggested that P3 generation was mainly localized to the midcingulate cortex, and the attended condition showed increased activation relative to the ignored condition in several regions, including inferior frontal gyrus, middle frontal gyrus, precentral gyrus, insula and uncus, suggesting that these regions were involved in top-down attentional control rather than inhibitory processing. Taken together, by segregating electrophysiological correlates of top-down selective attention from those of response inhibition, our findings provide new insights in understanding the neural mechanisms of response inhibition.
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- Xiangfei Hong
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- Shanghai Med-X Engineering Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
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Schevernels H, van Bochove ME, De Taeye L, Bombeke K, Vonck K, Van Roost D, De Herdt V, Santens P, Raedt R, Boehler CN. The effect of vagus nerve stimulation on response inhibition. Epilepsy Behav 2016; 64:171-179. [PMID: 27743550 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2016.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2015] [Revised: 08/27/2016] [Accepted: 09/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
In the current study, we explored whether vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in patients with epilepsy, which is believed to increase norepinephrine (NE) levels via activation of the locus coeruleus, would positively affect response inhibition. Moreover, we tried to identify the dynamics of the underlying neural processes by investigating event-related potentials (ERPs) and pupil size. Patients performed a stop-signal task once when stimulation was switched on and once when it was switched off. We found a correlational pattern suggesting that patients who clinically benefit more from VNS treatment also show a larger behavioral advantage, in terms of faster response inhibition, when the vagus nerve is being stimulated. Event-related potential (ERP) results suggested more pronounced reactive inhibition when stimulation was switched on, independent of the individual amount of seizure reduction. Transient go-locked pupil size was increased from go trials to successful stop trials to unsuccessful stop trials but without displaying a clear VNS effect, which however, might relate to limited sensitivity. We conclude that VNS likely has a positive effect on response inhibition, at least in patients with epilepsy that benefit clinically from the treatment, presumably relating to enhancements of response-inhibition mechanisms and, therefore, identify enhanced response inhibition as a possible cognitive benefit of VNS.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hanne Schevernels
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
| | - Marlies E van Bochove
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Neurophysiology, Neurobiology and Neuropsychology (LCEN3), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Kristl Vonck
- Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Neurophysiology, Neurobiology and Neuropsychology (LCEN3), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Veerle De Herdt
- Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Neurophysiology, Neurobiology and Neuropsychology (LCEN3), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Patrick Santens
- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Gent, Belgium
| | - Robrecht Raedt
- Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Neurophysiology, Neurobiology and Neuropsychology (LCEN3), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - C Nico Boehler
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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