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Ziri D, Hugueville L, Olivier C, Boulinguez P, Gunasekaran H, Lau B, Welter ML, George N. Inhibitory control of gait initiation in humans: An electroencephalography study. Psychophysiology 2024; 61:e14647. [PMID: 38987662 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Revised: 05/18/2024] [Accepted: 06/26/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
Abstract
Response inhibition is a crucial component of executive control. Although mainly studied in upper limb tasks, it is fully implicated in gait initiation. Here, we assessed the influence of proactive and reactive inhibitory control during gait initiation in healthy adult participants. For this purpose, we measured kinematics and electroencephalography (EEG) activity (event-related potential [ERP] and time-frequency data) during a modified Go/NoGo gait initiation task in 23 healthy adults. The task comprised Go-certain, Go-uncertain, and NoGo conditions. Each trial included preparatory and imperative stimuli. Our results showed that go-uncertainty resulted in delayed reaction time, without any difference for the other parameters of gait initiation. Proactive inhibition, that is, Go uncertain versus Go certain conditions, influenced EEG activity as soon as the preparatory stimulus. Moreover, both proactive and reactive inhibition influenced the amplitude of the ERPs (central P1, occipito-parietal N1, and N2/P3) and theta and alpha/low beta band activities in response to the imperative-Go-uncertain versus Go-certain and NoGo versus Go-uncertain-stimuli. These findings demonstrate that the uncertainty context; induced proactive inhibition, as reflected in delayed gait initiation. Proactive and reactive inhibition elicited extended and overlapping modulations of ERP and time-frequency activities. This study shows the protracted influence of inhibitory control in gait initiation.
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- Deborah Ziri
- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Institut du Cerveau, ICM, Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Centre MEG-EEG, CENIR, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- PANAM Core Facility, CENIR, Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France
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- INSERM, CNRS, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Institut du Cerveau, ICM, Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Centre MEG-EEG, CENIR, Paris, France
- Department of Neurophysiology, Rouen University Hospital and University of Rouen, Rouen, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Institut du Cerveau, ICM, Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Centre MEG-EEG, CENIR, Paris, France
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Khan AU, Irwin Z, Mahavadi A, Roller A, Goodman AM, Guthrie BL, Visscher K, Knight RT, Walker HC, Bentley JN. Low-Frequency Oscillations in Mid-rostral Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Support Response Inhibition. J Neurosci 2024; 44:e0122242024. [PMID: 39197939 PMCID: PMC11450526 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0122-24.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 07/06/2024] [Accepted: 08/21/2024] [Indexed: 09/01/2024] Open
Abstract
Executive control of movement enables inhibiting impulsive responses critical for successful navigation of the environment. Circuits mediating stop commands involve prefrontal and basal ganglia structures with fMRI evidence demonstrating increased activity during response inhibition in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC)-often ascribed to maintaining task attentional demands. Using direct intraoperative cortical recordings in male and female human subjects, we investigated oscillatory dynamics along the rostral-caudal axis of dlPFC during a modified Go/No-go task, probing components of both proactive and reactive motor control. We assessed whether cognitive control is topographically organized along this axis and observed that low-frequency power increased prominently in mid-rostral dlPFC when inhibiting and delaying responses. These findings provide evidence for a key role for mid-rostral dlPFC low-frequency oscillations in sculpting motor control.
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- Anas U Khan
- Departments of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
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- Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294
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- Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
- Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294
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Rosenthal A, Haslacher D, Garbusow M, Pangratz L, Apfel B, Soekadar S, Romanczuk-Seiferth N, Beck A. Neuromodulation and mindfulness as therapeutic treatment in detoxified patients with alcohol use disorder. BMC Psychiatry 2024; 24:635. [PMID: 39334026 PMCID: PMC11438385 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-024-06085-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2024] [Accepted: 09/14/2024] [Indexed: 09/30/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Alcohol use disorder (AUD) poses a significant global health challenge. Traditional management strategies often face high relapse rates, leading to a need for innovative approaches. Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) has emerged as a promising intervention to enhance cognitive control, reduce cue-related craving and improve interoceptive processing. Neuroimaging studies suggest that mindfulness training can modulate brain networks associated with these factors, potentially improving treatment outcomes for AUD. Neuroimaging studies suggest that mindfulness training can modulate brain networks linked to these brain functions, potentially improving treatment outcomes for AUD. However, it is unclear how MBRP links to neurophysiological measures such as frontal midline theta oscillations (FMΘ) and whether the beneficial effects of MBRP can be increased by enhancing FMΘ. Here, we will use two different forms of neuromodulation to target and enhance these oscillations, and evaluate their impact on the effectiveness of MBRP. METHODS This study will employ a four-arm randomized controlled trial to evaluate the synergistic effects of MBRP augmented with transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) or closed-loop amplitude-modulated transcranial alternating current stimulation (CLAM-tACS) on cognitive control, cue reactivity and interoceptive processing in AUD patients. Participants will undergo six weekly group MBRP sessions and daily individual mindfulness practices. Assessments will include an inhibition task, cue-induced craving task, and heartbeat discrimination task, alongside heart rate variability and 32-channel EEG recordings. Participants will be assessed pre and post treatment, with a three-month follow-up to evaluate long-term effects on abstinence and alcohol consumption. DISCUSSION This study will not only elucidate the causal link between FMΘ and efficacy of MBRP, but contribute to a better understanding of how combined psychological and neuromodulation interventions can improve treatment outcomes for AUD, potentially leading to more effective therapeutic strategies. This study also seeks to explore individual differences in response to treatment, which could inform future approaches to AUD management. TRIAL REGISTRATION This study received approval by the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Institutional Review Board (EA1/030/23, 10.11.2023). It was registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06308484).
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- Annika Rosenthal
- Institute for Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychology, HMU Health and Medical University Potsdam, 14471, Potsdam, Germany.
- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, 14197, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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Cui N, Piai V, Zheng XY. Domain-general cognitive control processes in bilingual switching: Evidence from midfrontal theta oscillations. Eur J Neurosci 2024; 60:4813-4829. [PMID: 39039939 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16466] [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: 12/06/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/02/2024] [Indexed: 07/24/2024]
Abstract
Language control in bilingual speakers is thought to be implicated in effectively switching between languages, inhibiting the non-intended language, and continuously monitoring what to say and what has been said. It has been a matter of controversy concerning whether language control operates in a comparable manner to cognitive control processes in non-linguistic domains (domain-general) or if it is exclusive to language processing (domain-specific). As midfrontal theta oscillations have been considered as an index of cognitive control, examining whether a midfrontal theta effect is evident in tasks requiring bilingual control could bring new insights to the ongoing debate. To this end, we reanalysed the EEG data from two previous bilingual production studies where Dutch-English bilinguals named pictures based on colour cues. Specifically, we focused on three fundamental control processes in bilingual production: switching between languages, inhibition of the nontarget language, and monitoring of speech errors. Theta power increase was observed in switch trials compared to repeat trials, with a midfrontal scalp distribution. However, no theta power difference was observed in switch trials following a shorter sequence of same-language trials compared to a longer sequence, suggesting a missing modulation of inhibitory control. Similarly, increased midfrontal theta power was observed when participants failed to switch to the intended language compared to correct responses. Altogether, these findings tentatively support the involvement of domain-general cognitive control mechanisms in bilingual switching.
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- Ningjing Cui
- Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute of Cognitive Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Donders Centre for Medical Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Shende SA, Jones SE, Mudar RA. Alpha and theta oscillations on a visual strategic processing task in age-related hearing loss. Front Neurosci 2024; 18:1382613. [PMID: 39086839 PMCID: PMC11289776 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1382613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Introduction Emerging evidence suggests changes in several cognitive control processes in individuals with age-related hearing loss (ARHL). However, value-directed strategic processing, which involves selectively processing salient information based on high value, has been relatively unexplored in ARHL. Our previous work has shown behavioral changes in strategic processing in individuals with ARHL. The current study examined event-related alpha and theta oscillations linked to a visual, value-directed strategic processing task in 19 individuals with mild untreated ARHL and 17 normal hearing controls of comparable age and education. Methods Five unique word lists were presented where words were assigned high- or low-value based on the letter case, and electroencephalography (EEG) data was recorded during task performance. Results The main effect of the group was observed in early time periods. Specifically, greater theta synchronization was seen in the ARHL group relative to the control group. Interaction between group and value was observed at later time points, with greater theta synchronization for high- versus low-value information in those with ARHL. Discussion Our findings provide evidence for oscillatory changes tied to a visual task of value-directed strategic processing in individuals with mild untreated ARHL. This points towards modality-independent neurophysiological changes in cognitive control in individuals with mild degrees of ARHL and adds to the rapidly growing literature on the cognitive consequences of ARHL.
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- Shraddha A. Shende
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, United States
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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Hervault M, Wessel JR. Common and unique neurophysiological signatures for the stopping and revising of actions reveal the temporal dynamics of inhibitory control. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.18.597172. [PMID: 38948849 PMCID: PMC11212930 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.18.597172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
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Inhibitory control is a crucial cognitive-control ability for behavioral flexibility that has been extensively investigated through action-stopping tasks. Multiple neurophysiological features have been proposed to represent 'signatures' of inhibitory control during action-stopping, though the processes signified by these signatures are still controversially discussed. The present study aimed to disentangle these processes by comparing simple stopping situations with those in which additional action revisions were needed. Three experiments in female and male humans were performed to characterize the neurophysiological dynamics involved in action-stopping and - changing, with hypotheses derived from recently developed two-stage 'pause-then-cancel' models of inhibitory control. Both stopping and revising an action triggered an early broad 'pause'-process, marked by frontal EEG β-bursts and non-selective suppression of corticospinal excitability. However, partial-EMG responses showed that motor activity was only partially inhibited by this 'pause', and that this activity can be further modulated during action-revision. In line with two-stage models of inhibitory control, subsequent frontocentral EEG activity after this initial 'pause' selectively scaled depending on the required action revisions, with more activity observed for more complex revisions. This demonstrates the presence of a selective, effector-specific 'retune' phase as the second process involved in action-stopping and -revision. Together, these findings show that inhibitory control is implemented over an extended period of time and in at least two phases. We are further able to align the most commonly proposed neurophysiological signatures to these phases and show that they are differentially modulated by the complexity of action-revision.
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- Mario Hervault
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Cognitive Control Collaborative, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Cognitive Control Collaborative, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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Thunberg C, Wiker T, Bundt C, Huster RJ. On the (un)reliability of common behavioral and electrophysiological measures from the stop signal task: Measures of inhibition lack stability over time. Cortex 2024; 175:81-105. [PMID: 38508968 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.02.008] [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: 09/22/2023] [Revised: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
Abstract
Response inhibition, the intentional stopping of planned or initiated actions, is often considered a key facet of control, impulsivity, and self-regulation. The stop signal task is argued to be the purest inhibition task we have, and it is thus central to much work investigating the role of inhibition in areas like development and psychopathology. Most of this work quantifies stopping behavior by calculating the stop signal reaction time as a measure of individual stopping latency. Individual difference studies aiming to investigate why and how stopping latencies differ between people often do this under the assumption that the stop signal reaction time indexes a stable, dispositional trait. However, empirical support for this assumption is lacking, as common measures of inhibition and control tend to show low test-retest reliability and thus appear unstable over time. The reasons for this could be methodological, where low stability is driven by measurement noise, or substantive, where low stability is driven by a larger influence of state-like and situational factors. To investigate this, we characterized the split-half and test-retest reliability of a range of common behavioral and electrophysiological measures derived from the stop signal task. Across three independent studies, different measurement modalities, and a systematic review of the literature, we found a pattern of low temporal stability for inhibition measures and higher stability for measures of manifest behavior and non-inhibitory processing. This pattern could not be explained by measurement noise and low internal consistency. Consequently, response inhibition appears to have mostly state-like and situational determinants, and there is little support for the validity of conceptualizing common inhibition measures as reflecting stable traits.
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- Christina Thunberg
- Multimodal Imaging and Cognitive Control Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience Cluster, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Research Center for Developmental Processes and Gradients in Mental Health, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Multimodal Imaging and Cognitive Control Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience Cluster, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Multimodal Imaging and Cognitive Control Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience Cluster, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Gao Z, Duberg K, Warren SL, Zheng L, Hinshaw SP, Menon V, Cai W. Reduced temporal and spatial stability of neural activity patterns predict cognitive control deficits in children with ADHD. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.29.596493. [PMID: 38854066 PMCID: PMC11160739 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.29.596493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
Abstract
This study explores the neural underpinnings of cognitive control deficits in ADHD, focusing on overlooked aspects of trial-level variability of neural coding. We employed a novel computational approach to neural decoding on a single-trial basis alongside a cued stop-signal task which allowed us to distinctly probe both proactive and reactive cognitive control. Typically developing (TD) children exhibited stable neural response patterns for efficient proactive and reactive dual control mechanisms. However, neural coding was compromised in children with ADHD. Children with ADHD showed increased temporal variability and diminished spatial stability in neural responses in salience and frontal-parietal network regions, indicating disrupted neural coding during both proactive and reactive control. Moreover, this variability correlated with fluctuating task performance and with more severe symptoms of ADHD. These findings underscore the significance of modeling single-trial variability and representational similarity in understanding distinct components of cognitive control in ADHD, highlighting new perspectives on neurocognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders.
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- Zhiyao Gao
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, Stanford, CA, USA
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Zhang F, Li Y, Liu L, Liu Y, Wang P, Biswal BB. Corticostriatal causality analysis in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2024; 78:291-299. [PMID: 38444215 PMCID: PMC11469573 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 12/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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AIM The effective connectivity between the striatum and cerebral cortex has not been fully investigated in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Our objective was to explore the interaction effects between diagnosis and age on disrupted corticostriatal effective connectivity and to represent the modulation function of altered connectivity pathways in children and adolescents with ADHD. METHODS We performed Granger causality analysis on 300 participants from a publicly available Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder-200 dataset. By computing the correlation coefficients between causal connections between striatal subregions and other cortical regions, we estimated the striatal inflow and outflow connection to represent intermodulation mechanisms in corticostriatal pathways. RESULTS Interactions between diagnosis and age were detected in the superior occipital gyrus within the visual network, medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate gyrus, and inferior parietal lobule within the default mode network, which is positively correlated with hyperactivity/impulsivity severity in ADHD. Main effect of diagnosis exhibited a general higher cortico-striatal causal connectivity involving default mode network, frontoparietal network and somatomotor network in ADHD compared with comparisons. Results from high-order effective connectivity exhibited a disrupted information pathway involving the default mode-striatum-somatomotor-striatum-frontoparietal networks in ADHD. CONCLUSION The interactions detected in the visual-striatum-default mode networks pathway appears to be related to the potential distraction caused by long-term abnormal information input from the retina in ADHD. Higher causal connectivity and weakened intermodulation may indicate the pathophysiological process that distractions lead to the impairment of motion planning function and the inhibition/control of this unplanned motion signals in ADHD.
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- Fanyu Zhang
- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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Yıldırım E, Aktürk T, Hanoğlu L, Yener G, Babiloni C, Güntekin B. Lower oddball event-related EEG delta and theta responses in patients with dementia due to Parkinson's and Lewy body than Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging 2024; 137:78-93. [PMID: 38452574 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.02.004] [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: 02/17/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 02/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
Abstract
Oddball task-related EEG delta and theta responses are associated with frontal executive functions, which are significantly impaired in patients with dementia due to Parkinson's disease (PDD) and Lewy bodies (DLB). The present study investigated the oddball task-related EEG delta and theta responses in patients with PDD, DLB, and Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD). During visual and auditory oddball paradigms, EEG activity was recorded in 20 ADD, 17 DLB, 20 PDD, and 20 healthy (HC) older adults. Event-related EEG power spectrum and phase-locking analysis were performed at the delta (1-4 Hz) and theta (4-7 Hz) frequency bands for target and nontarget stimuli. Compared to the HC persons, dementia groups showed lower frontal and central delta and theta power and phase-locking associated with task performance and neuropsychological test scores. Notably, this effect was more significant in the PDD and DLB than in the ADD. In conclusion, oddball task-related frontal and central EEG delta and theta responses may reflect frontal supramodal executive dysfunctions in PDD and DLB patients.
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- Ebru Yıldırım
- Istanbul Medipol University, Vocational School, Program of Electroneurophysiology, Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Neuroscience Research Center, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul Medipol University, Vocational School, Program of Electroneurophysiology, Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Neuroscience Research Center, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul Medipol University, Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Neuroscience Research Center, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab, Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey; Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Izmir, Turkey; Dokuz Eylül University, Brain Dynamics Multidisciplinary Research Center, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology "Vittorio Erspamer," Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Hospital San Raffaele Cassino, Cassino (FR), Italy
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- Istanbul Medipol University, Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Neuroscience Research Center, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab, Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, School of Medicine, Department of Biophysics, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Zając-Lamparska L, Zabielska-Mendyk E, Zapała D, Augustynowicz P. Compensatory brain activity pattern is not present in older adults during the n-back task performance-Findings based on EEG frequency analysis. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1371035. [PMID: 38666231 PMCID: PMC11043891 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1371035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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Introduction Cognitive ability is one of the most important enablers for successful aging. At the same time, cognitive decline is a well-documented phenomenon accompanying the aging process. Nevertheless, it is acknowledged that aging can also be related to positive processes that allow one to compensate for the decline. These processes include the compensatory brain activity of older adults primarily investigated using fMRI and PET. To strengthen the cognitive interpretation of compensatory brain activity in older adults, we searched for its indicators in brain activity measured by EEG. Methods The study sample comprised 110 volunteers, including 50 older adults (60-75 years old) and 60 young adults (20-35 years old) who performed 1-back, 2-back, and 3-back tasks while recording the EEG signal. The study analyzed (1) the level of cognitive performance, including sensitivity index, the percentage of correct answers to the target, and the percentage of false alarm errors; (2) theta and alpha power for electrodes located in the frontal-midline (Fz, AF3, AF4, F3, F4, FC1, and FC2) and the centro-parietal (CP1, CP2, P3, P4, and Pz) areas. Results Cognitive performance was worse in older adults than in young adults, which manifested in a significantly lower sensitivity index and a significantly higher false alarm error rate at all levels of the n-back task difficulty. Simultaneously, performance worsened with increasing task difficulty regardless of age. Significantly lower theta power in the older participants was observed at all difficulty levels, even at the lowest one, where compensatory activity was expected. At the same time, at this difficulty level, cognitive performance was worse in older adults than in young adults, which could reduce the chances of observing compensatory brain activity. The significant decrease in theta power observed in both age groups with rising task difficulty can reflect a declining capacity for efficient cognitive functioning under increasing demands rather than adapting to this increase. Moreover, in young adults, alpha power decreased to some extent with increasing cognitive demand, reflecting adaptation to them, while in older adults, no analogous pattern was observed. Discussion In conclusion, based on the results of the current study, the presence of compensatory activity in older adults cannot be inferred.
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- Ludmiła Zając-Lamparska
- Department of General and Human Development Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Johari K, Berger JI. Theta oscillations within right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex contribute differently to speech versus limb inhibition. J Neurosci Res 2024; 102:e25298. [PMID: 38361410 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.25298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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Evidence suggests that speech and limb movement inhibition are subserved by common neural mechanisms, particularly within the right prefrontal cortex. In a recent study, we found that cathodal stimulation of right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) differentially modulated P3 event-related potentials for speech versus limb inhibition. In the present study, we further analyzed these data to examine the effects of cathodal high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) over rDLPFC on frontal theta - an oscillatory marker of cognitive control - in response to speech and limb inhibition, during a Go/No-Go task in 21 neurotypical adults. Electroencephalography data demonstrated that both speech and limb No-Go elicited prominent theta activity over right prefrontal electrodes, with stronger activity for speech compared to limb. Moreover, we found that cathodal stimulation significantly increased theta power over right prefrontal electrodes for speech versus limb No-Go. Source analysis revealed that cathodal, but not sham, stimulation increased theta activity within rDLPFC and bilateral premotor cortex for speech No-Go compared to limb movement inhibition. These findings complement our previous report and suggest (1) right prefrontal theta activity is an amodal oscillatory mechanism supporting speech and limb inhibition, (2) larger theta activity in prefrontal electrodes for speech versus limb following cathodal stimulation may reflect allocation of additional neural resources for a more complex motor task, such as speech compared to limb movement. These findings have translational implications for conditions such as Parkinson's disease, wherein both speech and limb movement are impaired.
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- Karim Johari
- Human Neurophysiology and Neuromodulation Lab, 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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Asanowicz D, Panek B, Kotlewska I, van der Lubbe R. On the Relevance of Posterior and Midfrontal Theta Activity for Visuospatial Attention. J Cogn Neurosci 2023; 35:1972-2001. [PMID: 37788304 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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The aim of this study was to examine whether oscillatory activity in the theta-band is relevant for selective visuospatial attention when there is a need for the suppression of interfering and distracting information. A variant of the Eriksen flanker task was employed with bilateral arrays: one array consisting of a target and congruent or incongruent flankers and the second array consisting of neutral distractors. The bilateral arrays were preceded either by a 100% valid spatial cue or by a neutral cue. In the cue-target interval, a major burst in medial frontal theta power was observed, which was largest in the spatial cue condition. In the latter condition, additionally a posterior theta increase was observed that was larger over sites ipsilateral to the forthcoming target array. Functional connectivity analyses revealed that this pretarget posterior theta was related to the midfrontal theta. No such effects were observed in the neutral cue condition. After onset of the bilateral arrays, a major burst in posterior theta activity was observed in both cue conditions, which again was larger above sites ipsilateral to the target array. Furthermore, this posterior theta was in all cases related to the midfrontal theta. Taken together, the findings suggest that a fronto-posterior theta network plays an important role in the suppression of irrelevant and conflicting visual information. The results also suggest that the reciprocal relation between visuospatial attention and executive response control may be closer than commonly thought.
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- Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
- Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
- University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Gholamipourbarogh N, Vahid A, Mückschel M, Beste C. Deep learning on independent spatial EEG activity patterns delineates time windows relevant for response inhibition. Psychophysiology 2023; 60:e14328. [PMID: 37171032 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14328] [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: 08/02/2022] [Revised: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Inhibitory control processes are an important aspect of executive functions and goal-directed behavior. However, the mostly correlative nature of neurophysiological studies was not able to provide insights which aspects of neural dynamics can best predict whether an individual is confronted with a situation requiring the inhibition of a response. This is particularly the case when considering the complex spatio-temporal nature of neural processes captured by EEG data. In the current study, we ask whether independent spatial activity profiles in the EEG data are useful to predict whether an individual is confronted with a situation requiring response inhibition. We combine independent component analysis (ICA) with explainable artificial intelligence approaches (EEG-based deep learning) using data from a Go/Nogo task (N = 255 participants). We show that there are four dissociable spatial activity profiles important to classify Go and Nogo trials as revealed by deep learning. Of note, for all of these four independent activity profiles, neural activity in the time period between 300 and 550 ms after stimulus presentation was most informative. Source localization analyses further revealed regions in the pre-central gyrus (BA6), the middle frontal gyrus (BA10), the inferior frontal gyrus (BA46), and the insular cortex (BA13) were associated with the isolated spatial activity profiles. The data suggest concomitant processes being reflected in the identified time window. This has implications for the ongoing debate on the functional significance of event-related potential correlates of inhibitory control.
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- Negin Gholamipourbarogh
- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, University Neuropsychology Center, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, University Neuropsychology Center, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, University Neuropsychology Center, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Zhao H, Ge M, Turel O, Bechara A, He Q. Brain modular connectivity interactions can predict proactive inhibition in smokers when facing smoking cues. Addict Biol 2023; 28:e13284. [PMID: 37252878 DOI: 10.1111/adb.13284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 02/25/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Proactive inhibition is a critical ability for smokers who seek to moderate or quit smoking. It allows them to pre-emptively refrain from seeking and using nicotine products, especially when facing salient smoking cues in daily life. Nevertheless, there is limited knowledge on the impact of salient cues on behavioural and neural aspects of proactive inhibition, especially in smokers with nicotine withdrawal. Here, we seek to bridge this gap. To this end, we recruited 26 smokers to complete a stop-signal anticipant task (SSAT) in two separate sessions: once in the neutral cue condition and once in the smoking cue condition. We used graph-based modularity analysis to identify the modular structures of proactive inhibition-related network during the SSAT and further investigated how the interactions within and between these modules could be modulated by different proactive inhibition demands and salient smoking cues. Findings pointed to three stable brain modules involved in the dynamical processes of proactive inhibition: the sensorimotor network (SMN), cognitive control network (CCN) and default-mode network (DMN). With the increase in demands, functional connectivity increased within the SMN, CCN and between SMN-CCN and decreased within the DMN and between SMN-DMN and CCN-DMN. Salient smoking cues disturbed the effective dynamic interactions of brain modules. The profiles for those functional interactions successfully predicted the behavioural performance of proactive inhibition in abstinent smokers. These findings advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms of proactive inhibition from a large-scale network perspective. They can shed light on developing specific interventions for abstinent smokers.
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- Haichao Zhao
- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Computing Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Psychology, and Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, and Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Southwest University Branch, Chongqing, China
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Mirajkar S, Waring JD. Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition. Cogn Emot 2023; 37:777-794. [PMID: 37165853 PMCID: PMC10330716 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2208860] [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: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Intra-individual variability (IIV) refers to within-person variability in behavioural task responses. Several factors can influence IIV, including aging and cognitive demands. The present study investigated effects of aging on IIV of response times during executive functioning tasks. Known age-related differences in cognitive control and emotion processing motivated evaluating how varying the design of emotional response inhibition tasks would influence IIV in older and younger adults. We also tested whether IIV predicted inhibitory control across task designs and age groups. Older and younger adults (N = 237) completed one of three versions of a stop-signal task, which all displayed happy, fearful, or neutral faces in Stop trials. An independent group of older and younger adults (N = 80) completed a go/no-go task also employing happy, fearful and neutral faces. Results showed older adults had more consistent responses (lower IIV) than younger adults in the stop-signal task, but not the go/no-go task. Lower IIV predicted more efficient emotional response inhibition for fear faces in the stop-signal task, but only when attention to emotion was task-relevant. Collectively, this study clarifies effects of aging and task design on IIV and illustrates how task design impacts the relationship between IIV and emotional response inhibition in younger and older adults.
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- Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO, USA
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Muralidharan V, Aron AR, Cohen MX, Schmidt R. Two modes of midfrontal theta suggest a role in conflict and error processing. Neuroimage 2023; 273:120107. [PMID: 37059155 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2023] Open
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Midfrontal theta increases during scenarios when conflicts are successfully resolved. Often considered a generic signal of cognitive control, its temporal nature has hardly been investigated. Using advanced spatiotemporal techniques, we uncover that midfrontal theta occurs as a transient oscillation or "event" at single trials with their timing reflecting computationally distinct modes. Single-trial analyses of electrophysiological data from participants performing the Flanker (N = 24) and Simon task (N = 15) were used to probe the relationship between theta and metrics of stimulus-response conflict. We specifically investigated "partial errors", in which a small burst of muscle activity in the incorrect response effector occurred, quickly followed by a correction. We found that transient theta events in single trials could be categorized into two distinct theta modes based on their relative timing to different task events. Theta events from the first mode occurred briefly after the task stimulus and might reflect conflict-related processing of the stimulus. In contrast, theta events from the second mode were more likely to occur around the time partial errors were committed, suggesting they were elicited by a potential upcoming error. Importantly, in trials in which a full error was committed, this "error-related theta" occurred too late with respect to the onset of the erroneous muscle response, supporting the role of theta also in error correction. We conclude that different modes of transient midfrontal theta can be adopted in single trials not only to process stimulus-response conflict, but also to correct erroneous responses.
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- Vignesh Muralidharan
- Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA; Center for Brain Sciences and Applications, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India.
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- Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands, and Donders Centre for Neuroscience
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- Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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Gholamipourbarogh N, Prochnow A, Frings C, Münchau A, Mückschel M, Beste C. Perception-action integration during inhibitory control is reflected in a concomitant multi-region processing of specific codes in the neurophysiological signal. Psychophysiology 2023; 60:e14178. [PMID: 36083256 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The integration of perception and action has long been studied in psychological science using overarching cognitive frameworks. Despite these being very successful in explaining perception-action integration, little is known about its neurophysiological and especially the functional neuroanatomical foundations. It is unknown whether distinct brain structures are simultaneously involved in the processing of perception-action integration codes and also to what extent demands on perception-action integration modulate activities in these structures. We investigate these questions in an EEG study integrating temporal and ICA-based EEG signal decomposition with source localization. For this purpose, we used data from 32 healthy participants who performed a 'TEC Go/Nogo' task. We show that the EEG signal can be decomposed into components carrying different informational aspects or processing codes relevant for perception-action integration. Importantly, these specific codes are processed independently in different brain structures, and their specific roles during the processing of perception-action integration differ. Some regions (i.e., the anterior cingulate and insular cortex) take a 'default role' because these are not modulated in their activity by demands or the complexity of event file coding processes. In contrast, regions in the motor cortex, middle frontal, temporal, and superior parietal cortices were not activated by 'default' but revealed modulations depending on the complexity of perception-action integration (i.e., whether an event file has to be reconfigured). Perception-action integration thus reflects a multi-region processing of specific fractions of information in the neurophysiological signal. This needs to be taken into account when further developing a cognitive science framework detailing perception-action integration.
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- Negin Gholamipourbarogh
- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,University Neuropsychology Center, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,University Neuropsychology Center, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Motor Science, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,University Neuropsychology Center, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,University Neuropsychology Center, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Andrews CM, Menkes MW, Suzuki T, Lasagna CA, Chun J, O'Donnell L, Grove T, McInnis MG, Deldin PJ, Tso IF. Reduced theta-band neural oscillatory activity during affective cognitive control in bipolar I disorder. J Psychiatr Res 2023; 158:27-35. [PMID: 36549197 PMCID: PMC9898182 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Individuals with bipolar I disorder (BD) have difficulty inhibiting context-inappropriate responses. However, neural mechanisms of impaired cognitive control over impulsive behaviors, especially in response to emotion, are unclear. Theta-band neural oscillatory activity over midfrontal areas is thought to reflect cognitive control. The current study examined behavioral performance and theta-band activity during inhibition to affective stimuli in BD, relative to healthy control participants (HC). Sixty-seven participants with BD and 48 HC completed a Go/No-Go task with emotional face stimuli during electroencephalography (EEG) recording. Behavior was measured with reaction time, discriminability (d') and response bias (β). Time-frequency decomposition of EEG data was used to extract event-related theta-band (4-7 Hz) neural oscillatory power and inter-trial phase consistency (ITPC) over midline fronto-central areas. Behavior and theta-band activity were compared between groups, while covarying for age. Participants with BD exhibited slower response execution times on correct Go trials and reduced behavioral discrimination of emotional versus neutral faces, compared to HC. Theta-band power and ITPC were reduced in BD relative to HC. Theta-band power was higher on No-Go trials than Go trials. The magnitude of differences in theta-band activity between Go/No-Go trial types did not differ between groups. Increased theta-band power was associated with faster response execution times, greater discrimination of differing facial expressions, and stronger tendency to respond both across the full sample and within the BD group. Attenuated midline fronto-central theta-band activity may contribute to reduced cognitive control and maladaptive behavioral responding to emotional cues in individuals with BD.
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- Carolyn M Andrews
- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
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Spontaneity matters! Network alterations before and after spontaneous and active facial self-touches: An EEG functional connectivity study. Int J Psychophysiol 2023; 184:28-38. [PMID: 36563880 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.12.004] [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: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Despite humans frequently performing spontaneous facial self-touches (sFST), the function of this behavior remains speculative. sFST have been discussed in the context of self-regulation, emotional homeostasis, working memory processes, and attention focus. First evidence indicates that sFST and active facial self-touches (aFST) are neurobiologically different phenomena. The aim of the present analysis was to examine EEG-based connectivity in the course of sFST and aFST to test the hypotheses that sFST affect brain network interactions relevant for other than sensorimotor processes. METHODS To trigger spontaneous FST a previously successful setting was used: 60 healthy participants manually explored two haptic stimuli and held the shapes of the stimuli in memory for a 14 min retention interval. Afterwards the shapes were drawn on a sheet of paper. During the retention interval, artifact-free EEG-data of 97 sFST by 32 participants were recorded. At the end of the experiment, the participants performed aFST with both hands successively. For the EEG-data, connectivity was computed and compared between the phases before and after sFST and aFST and between the respective before-and the after-phases. RESULTS For the before-after comparison, brainwide distributed significant connectivity differences (p < .00079) were observed for sFST, but not for aFST. Additionally, comparing the before- and after-phases of sFST and aFST, respectively, revealed increased similarity between the after-phases than between the before-phases. CONCLUSION The results support the assumption that sFST and aFST are neurobiologically different phenomena. Furthermore, the aligned network properties of the after-phases compared to the before-phases indicate that sFST serve self-regulatory functions that aFST do not serve.
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Asanowicz D, Kotlewska I, Panek B. Neural Underpinnings of Proactive and Preemptive Adjustments of Action Control. J Cogn Neurosci 2022; 34:1590-1615. [PMID: 35802602 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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This study aimed to trace the neural basis of proactive and preemptive adjustments of executive control and their effects on online processing of response conflict. In two EEG experiments, participants performed the flanker task with predictive cueing of conflict. The following questions were addressed: "Does conflict cueing improve performance?" We observed improved behavioral performance in the predictive condition, suggesting that participants proactively utilized the cues to prepare for the upcoming demands. "How is conflict processing affected by predictive cueing?" Conflict-related modulations of midfrontal N2 and theta power were smaller in the predictive than in the neutral condition. This suggests that proactive control suppressed the impact of incongruent flankers so that the conflict was reduced, and so was the involvement of online control. "Is proactive control implemented through preactivation of online control?" Conflict cueing increased midfrontal theta power also before target onset, suggesting preactivation of the control processes beforehand. "Do proactive and reactive control depend on common or unique processes?" Unlike the online control, the proactive control triggered a burst of theta power in the right hemisphere's dorsal and ventral lateral prefrontal cortices, connected with the midfrontal area via theta phase coherence. This indicates that the two control modes involve partially unique but coordinated neural processes. "Is preemptive control implemented through modulations of visual processing?" Predictive cueing modulated both the pretarget preparatory alpha desynchronization and the target selection-related posterior contralateral negativity (N2pc and sustained posterior contralateral negativity), in line with the hypothesis of preemptive tuning of sensory selection aimed at reducing the impact of conflicting stimuli.
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Kaiser J, Iliopoulos P, Steinmassl K, Schütz-Bosbach S. Preparing for Success: Neural Frontal Theta and Posterior Alpha Dynamics during Action Preparation Predict Flexible Resolution of Cognitive Conflicts. J Cogn Neurosci 2022; 34:1070-1089. [PMID: 35286387 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Cognitive conflicts typically arise in situations that call for sudden changes in our behavior. Resolving cognitive conflicts is challenging and prone to errors. Humans can improve their chances to successfully resolve conflicts by mentally preparing for potential behavioral adjustments. Previous studies indicated that neural theta oscillations (4-7 Hz), as well as alpha oscillations (8-14 Hz), are reflective of cognitive control processes during conflict resolution. However, the role or neural oscillations for conflict preparation is still unclear. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to determine which oscillatory changes during conflict preparation predict subsequent resolution success. Participants performed a cued change-signal task, in which an anticipatory cue indicated if the upcoming trial might contain a cognitive conflict or not. Oscillatory activity was assessed via EEG. Cues that indicated that a conflict might arise compared with cues that indicated no conflict led to increases, directly followed by decreases, in theta power, as well as to decreases in alpha power. These cue-induced changes in theta and alpha oscillations occurred widespread across the cortex. Importantly, successful compared with failed conflict trials were characterized by selective increases in frontal theta power, as well as decreases in posterior alpha power during preparation. In addition, higher frontal theta power and lower posterior alpha power during preparation predicted faster conflict resolution. Our study shows that increases in frontal theta power, as well as decreases in posterior alpha power, are markers of optimal preparation for situations that necessitate flexible changes in behavior.
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Qi Y, Liu Y, Yan Z, Hu S, Zhang X, Zhao J, Turel O, He Q. Slow-Wave EEG Activity Correlates with Impaired Inhibitory Control in Internet Addiction Disorder. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:2686. [PMID: 35270377 PMCID: PMC8910405 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19052686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Impaired inhibitory control is a core feature of internet addiction disorder (IAD). It is therefore of interest to determine the neurophysiological markers associated with it. The present study aimed to find such biomarkers with a resting-state electroencephalogram (EEG). We specifically used scores on the Chinese Internet Addiction Scale revised edition (CIAS-R) to divide 46 participants into two groups: the IAD group (>53, n = 23) and control group (<46, n = 23). Both behavioral aspects (Go/NoGo responses and impulsivity) and EEG were measured in the lab. The results suggest that the IAD group presented a decreased slow-wave (1−8 Hz) absolute power across the whole brain. The slow-wave activities in the frontal areas were also correlated with the commission error rate in the Go/NoGo task in the IAD group. These results imply that the frontal slow-wave EEG activity may serve as a neurophysiological marker of IAD, helping to understand the underlying neural mechanisms of inhibitory control deficits in IAD and point to possible interventions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yawei Qi
- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; (Y.Q.); (Y.L.); (Z.Y.); (S.H.); (X.Z.); (J.Z.)
| | - Yuting Liu
- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; (Y.Q.); (Y.L.); (Z.Y.); (S.H.); (X.Z.); (J.Z.)
| | - Ziyou Yan
- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; (Y.Q.); (Y.L.); (Z.Y.); (S.H.); (X.Z.); (J.Z.)
| | - Shiqi Hu
- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; (Y.Q.); (Y.L.); (Z.Y.); (S.H.); (X.Z.); (J.Z.)
| | - Xinhe Zhang
- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; (Y.Q.); (Y.L.); (Z.Y.); (S.H.); (X.Z.); (J.Z.)
| | - Jia Zhao
- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; (Y.Q.); (Y.L.); (Z.Y.); (S.H.); (X.Z.); (J.Z.)
| | - Ofir Turel
- School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia;
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- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; (Y.Q.); (Y.L.); (Z.Y.); (S.H.); (X.Z.); (J.Z.)
- Southwest University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Chongqing 400715, China
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