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Radman N, Jost L, Dorood S, Mancini C, Annoni JM. Language distance modulates cognitive control in bilinguals. Sci Rep 2021; 11:24131. [PMID: 34916553 PMCID: PMC8677725 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02973-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Linguistic processes in the bilingual brain are partially shared across languages, and the degree of neural overlap between the languages is influenced by several factors, including the age of acquisition, relative language proficiency, and immersion. There is limited evidence on the role of linguistic distance on the performance of the language control as well as domain-general cognitive control systems. The present study aims at exploring whether being bilingual in close and distant language pairs (CLP and DLP) influences language control and domain-general cognitive processes. We recruited two groups of DLP (Persian-English) and CLP (French-English) bilinguals. Subjects performed language nonswitching and switching picture-naming tasks and a nonlinguistic switching task while EEG data were recorded. Behaviorally, CLP bilinguals showed a lower cognitive cost than DLP bilinguals, reflected in faster reaction times both in language switching (compared to nonswitching) and nonlinguistic switching. ERPs showed differential involvement of cognitive control regions between the CLP and DLP groups during linguistic switching vs. nonswitching at 450 to 515 ms poststimulus presentation. Moreover, there was a difference between CLP and DLP groups from 40 to 150 ms in the nonlinguistic task. Our electrophysiological results confirm a stronger involvement of language control and domain-general cognitive control regions in CLP bilinguals.
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Affiliation(s)
- Narges Radman
- School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) Opposite the ARAJ, Artesh Highway, Aghdassieh, Tehran, 1956836484, Iran.
- Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Neurology Unit, Medicine Section, Laboratory for Cognitive and Neurological Science, Department of Neuroscience and Movement Science, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) Opposite the ARAJ, Artesh Highway, Aghdassieh, Tehran, 1956836484, Iran
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- Neurology Unit, Medicine Section, Laboratory for Cognitive and Neurological Science, Department of Neuroscience and Movement Science, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Neurology Unit, Medicine Section, Laboratory for Cognitive and Neurological Science, Department of Neuroscience and Movement Science, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Peris TS, Salgari G, Perez J, Jurgiel J, Vreeland A, O'Neill J, Chang S, Piacentini J, Loo SK. Shared and unique neural mechanisms underlying pediatric trichotillomania and obsessive compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Res 2021; 298:113653. [PMID: 33621723 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Little is known about the neural underpinnings of pediatric trichotillomania (TTM). We examined error-related negativity (ERN)-amplitude and theta-EEG power differences among youth with TTM, OCD, and healthy controls (HC). METHODS Forty channel EEG was recorded from 63 pediatric participants (22 with TTM, 22 with OCD, and 19 HC) during the Eriksen Flanker Task. EEG data from inhibitory control were used to derive estimates of ERN amplitude and event-related spectral power associated with motor inhibition. RESULTS TTM and HC were similar in brain activity patterns in frontal and central regions and TTM and OCD were similar in the parietal region. Frontal ERN-amplitude was significantly larger in OCD relative to TTM and HC, who did not differ from each other. The TTM group had higher theta power compared to OCD in frontal and central regions, and higher theta than both comparison groups in right motor cortex and superior parietal regions. Within TTM, flanker task performance was correlated with EEG activity in frontal, central, and motor cortices whereas global functioning and impairment were associated with EEG power in bilateral motor and parietal cortices. CONCLUSIONS Findings are discussed in terms of shared and unique neural mechanisms in TTM and OCD and treatment implications.
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- Tara S Peris
- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, United States
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- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
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- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
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- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
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- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
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- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
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- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
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Simonet M, Ruggeri P, Barral J. Effector-Specific Characterization of Brain Dynamics in Manual vs. Oculomotor Go/NoGo Tasks. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:600667. [PMID: 33343320 PMCID: PMC7744377 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.600667] [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: 08/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Motor inhibitory control (IC), the ability to suppress unwanted actions, has been previously shown to rely on domain-general IC processes that are involved in a wide range of IC tasks. Nevertheless, the existence of effector-specific regions and activation patterns that would differentiate manual vs. oculomotor response inhibition remains unknown. In this study, we investigated the brain dynamics supporting these two response effectors with the same IC task paradigm. We examined the behavioral performance and electrophysiological activity in a group of healthy young people (n = 25) with a Go/NoGo task using the index finger for the manual modality and the eyes for the oculomotor modality. By computing topographic analysis of variance, we found significant differences between topographies of scalp recorded potentials of the two response effectors between 250 and 325 ms post-stimulus onset. The source estimations localized this effect within the left precuneus, a part of the superior parietal lobule, showing stronger activity in the oculomotor modality than in the manual modality. Behaviorally, we found a significant positive correlation in response time between the two modalities. Our collective results revealed that while domain-general IC processes would be engaged across different response effectors in the same IC task, effector-specific activation patterns exist. In this case, the stronger activation of the left precuneus likely accounts for the increased demand for visual attentional processes in the oculomotor Go/NoGo task.
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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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- Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Jost LB, Pestalozzi MI, Cazzoli D, Mouthon M, Müri RM, Annoni JM. Effects of Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation Over the Left Dlpfc on Mother Tongue and Second Language Production In Late Bilinguals: A Behavioral and ERP Study. Brain Topogr 2020; 33:504-518. [DOI: 10.1007/s10548-020-00779-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Jost LB, Radman N, Buetler KA, Annoni JM. Behavioral and electrophysiological signatures of word translation processes. Neuropsychologia 2018; 109:245-254. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2017] [Revised: 10/26/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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De Pretto M, Sallard E, Spierer L. State dependency of inhibitory control performance: an electrical neuroimaging study. Eur J Neurosci 2016; 44:1826-32. [PMID: 27116703 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2016] [Revised: 04/19/2016] [Accepted: 04/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Behavioral and brain responses to stimuli not only depend on their physical features but also on the individuals' neurocognitive states before stimuli onsets. While the influence of pre-stimulus fluctuations in brain activity on low-level perceptive processes is well established, the state dependency of high-order executive processes remains unclear. Using a classical inhibitory control Go/NoGo task, we examined whether and how fluctuations in the brain activity during the period preceding the stimuli triggering inhibition influenced inhibitory control performance. Seventeen participants completed the Go/NoGo task while 64-channel electroencephalogram was recorded. We compared the event-related potentials preceding the onset of the NoGo stimuli associated with inhibition failures false alarms (FA) vs. successful inhibition correct rejections (CR) with data-driven statistical analyses of global measures of the topography and strength of the scalp electric field. Distributed electrical source estimations were used to localize the origin of the event-related potentials modulations. We observed differences in the global field power of the event-related potentials (FA > CR) without concomitant topographic modulations over the 40 ms period immediately preceding NoGo stimuli. This result indicates that the same brain networks were engaged in the two conditions, but more strongly before FA than CR. Source estimations revealed that this effect followed from a higher activity before FA than CR within bilateral inferior frontal gyri and the right inferior parietal lobule. These findings suggest that uncontrolled quantitative variations in pre-stimulus activity within attentional and control brain networks influence inhibition performance. The present data thereby demonstrate the state dependency of cognitive processes of up to high-order executive levels.
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- Michael De Pretto
- Neurology Unit, Medicine Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Fribourg, PER 09, Chemin du Musée 5, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Neurology Unit, Medicine Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Fribourg, PER 09, Chemin du Musée 5, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Neurology Unit, Medicine Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Fribourg, PER 09, Chemin du Musée 5, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Complementary roles of cortical oscillations in automatic and controlled processing during rapid serial tasks. Neuroimage 2015; 118:268-81. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2015] [Revised: 05/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Angelini M, Calbi M, Ferrari A, Sbriscia-Fioretti B, Franca M, Gallese V, Umiltà MA. Motor Inhibition during Overt and Covert Actions: An Electrical Neuroimaging Study. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0126800. [PMID: 26000451 PMCID: PMC4441499 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2014] [Accepted: 04/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Given ample evidence for shared cortical structures involved in encoding actions, whether or not subsequently executed, a still unsolved problem is the identification of neural mechanisms of motor inhibition, preventing “covert actions” as motor imagery from being performed, in spite of the activation of the motor system. The principal aims of the present study were the evaluation of: 1) the presence in covert actions as motor imagery of putative motor inhibitory mechanisms; 2) their underlying cerebral sources; 3) their differences or similarities with respect to cerebral networks underpinning the inhibition of overt actions during a Go/NoGo task. For these purposes, we performed a high density EEG study evaluating the cerebral microstates and their related sources elicited during two types of Go/NoGo tasks, requiring the execution or withholding of an overt or a covert imagined action, respectively. Our results show for the first time the engagement during motor imagery of key nodes of a putative inhibitory network (including pre-supplementary motor area and right inferior frontal gyrus) partially overlapping with those activated for the inhibition of an overt action during the overt NoGo condition. At the same time, different patterns of temporal recruitment in these shared neural inhibitory substrates are shown, in accord with the intended overt or covert modality of action performance. The evidence that apparently divergent mechanisms such as controlled inhibition of overt actions and contingent automatic inhibition of covert actions do indeed share partially overlapping neural substrates, further challenges the rigid dichotomy between conscious, explicit, flexible and unconscious, implicit, inflexible forms of motor behavioral control.
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- Monica Angelini
- Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Physiology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Physiology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Physiology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Physiology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Physiology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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Sallard E, Tallet J, Thut G, Deiber MP, Barral J. Post-switching beta synchronization reveals concomitant sensory reafferences and active inhibition processes. Behav Brain Res 2014; 271:365-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.05.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Revised: 05/28/2014] [Accepted: 05/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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