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Markevich M, Rebreikina A, Logvinenko T, Grigorenko EL, Sysoeva O. How does musical rhythm influence grammatical processing at the neurophysiological level? Neuroreport 2024; 35:915-920. [PMID: 39166391 DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000002081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/22/2024]
Abstract
Numerous behavioral studies have demonstrated a rhythmic priming effect (RPE) on grammatical processing using grammaticality judgment tasks (GJT), where participants performed better following regular rhythmic sequences compared to baseline conditions or irregular rhythmic sequences (i.e. auditory rhythmic sequences with violated metrical structure). Only a few studies, however, have explored neurophysiological RPE in grammatical processing. Such neurophysiological investigations have been limited to GJT presented auditorily, have been primarily focused on the French- and German-speaking adult participants, and have rarely used baseline nonpriming conditions. The objective of the present study was to investigate neurophysiological correlates of the RPE in the GJT presented in visual modality. In the current study, we registered a 128-channel electroencephalogram while Russian-speaking adolescents performed a visual GJT, where each sentence was presented word by word in a self-paced manner. Before each experimental block, participants listened to regular rhythmic sequences, irregular rhythmic sequences, or silence. We observed that the late negativity in the event-related potential was larger for the ungrammatical condition compared to the grammatical condition only after the presentation of irregular rhythmic sequences. This effect, referred to as the N600 component in previous research, has been associated with increased cognitive complexity. In conclusion, results suggest that exposure to irregular rhythmic stimulation may lead to increased cognitive demand. This is attributed to the complexity associated with concurrently executing the GJT and managing rhythmic disruption, consequently increasing the strain on working memory resources.
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- Maksim Markevich
- Center for Cognitive Sciences, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sirius, Krasnodar Region, Russia
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- Center for Cognitive Sciences, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sirius, Krasnodar Region, Russia
- Laboratory of Human Higher Nervous Activity, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of RAS, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Center for Cognitive Sciences, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sirius, Krasnodar Region, Russia
- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Center for Cognitive Sciences, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sirius, Krasnodar Region, Russia
- Laboratory of Human Higher Nervous Activity, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of RAS, Moscow, Russia
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Addante RJ, Clise E, Waechter R, Bengson J, Drane DL, Perez-Caban J. A third kind of episodic memory: Context familiarity is a distinct process from item familiarity and recollection. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.07.15.603640. [PMID: 39071285 PMCID: PMC11275934 DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.15.603640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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Episodic memory is accounted for with two processes: 'familiarity' when generally recognizing an item and 'recollection' when retrieving the full contextual details bound with the item. Paradoxically, people sometimes report contextual information as familiar but without recollecting details, which is not easily accounted for by existing theories. We tested a combination of item recognition confidence and source memory, focusing upon 'item-only hits with source unknown' ('item familiarity'), 'low-confidence hits with correct source memory' ('context familiarity'), and 'high-confidence hits with correct source memory' ('recollection'). Results across multiple within-subjects (trial-wise) and between subjects (individual variability) levels indicated these were behaviorally and physiologically distinct. Behaviorally, a crossover interaction was evident in response times, with context familiarity being slower than each condition during item recognition, but faster during source memory. Electrophysiologically, a Condition x Time x Location triple dissociation was evident in event-related potentials (ERPs), which was then independently replicated. Context familiarity exhibited an independent negative central effect from 800-1200 ms, differentiated from positive ERPs for item-familiarity (400 to 600 ms) and recollection (600 to 900 ms). These three conditions thus reflect mutually exclusive, fundamentally different processes of episodic memory. Context familiarity is a third distinct process of episodic memory.
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- Richard J Addante
- Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Psychology, 150 W. University Dr., Melbourne, FL 32905, USA
- Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Melbourne, FL 32905, USA
- Neurocog Analytics, LLC, Palm Bay, FL, 32905
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- Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Psychology, 150 W. University Dr., Melbourne, FL 32905, USA
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- Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF), Saint George University Medical School, Grenada, West Indies
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- Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Psychology, 150 W. University Dr., Melbourne, FL 32905, USA
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Nunez MD, Fernandez K, Srinivasan R, Vandekerckhove J. A tutorial on fitting joint models of M/EEG and behavior to understand cognition. Behav Res Methods 2024; 56:6020-6050. [PMID: 38409458 PMCID: PMC11335833 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02331-x] [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] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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We present motivation and practical steps necessary to find parameter estimates of joint models of behavior and neural electrophysiological data. This tutorial is written for researchers wishing to build joint models of human behavior and scalp and intracranial electroencephalographic (EEG) or magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data, and more specifically those researchers who seek to understand human cognition. Although these techniques could easily be applied to animal models, the focus of this tutorial is on human participants. Joint modeling of M/EEG and behavior requires some knowledge of existing computational and cognitive theories, M/EEG artifact correction, M/EEG analysis techniques, cognitive modeling, and programming for statistical modeling implementation. This paper seeks to give an introduction to these techniques as they apply to estimating parameters from neurocognitive models of M/EEG and human behavior, and to evaluate model results and compare models. Due to our research and knowledge on the subject matter, our examples in this paper will focus on testing specific hypotheses in human decision-making theory. However, most of the motivation and discussion of this paper applies across many modeling procedures and applications. We provide Python (and linked R) code examples in the tutorial and appendix. Readers are encouraged to try the exercises at the end of the document.
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- Michael D Nunez
- Psychological Methods, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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Labusch M, Perea M, Rocabado F, Marcet A, Fernández-López M, Civera T, Vergara-Martínez M. Tracking the brain signature of (mis)spelled logotypes via letter transpositions and replacements. Sci Rep 2024; 14:18538. [PMID: 39122920 PMCID: PMC11316081 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-69525-x] [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: 03/18/2024] [Accepted: 08/06/2024] [Indexed: 08/12/2024] Open
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All leading models of visual word recognition assume a hierarchical process that progressively converts the visual input into abstract letter and word representations. However, the results from recent behavioral studies suggest that the mental representations of words with a highly consistent visual format, such as logotypes, may comprise not only purely abstract information but also perceptual information. This hypothesis would explain why participants often misperceive transposed-letter misspellings with the original base words to a larger degree in logotypes (e.g., SASMUNG, but not SARVUNG, is perceived as SAMSUNG) than in common words. The present experiment examined the electrophysiological signature behind the identification of correctly spelled and misspelled logotypes (via letter transposition or replacement) in an ERP go/no-go semantic categorization experiment. Results showed that N400 amplitudes for transposed-letter misspelled logotypes (SASMUNG) and intact logotypes (SAMSUNG) did not differ significantly across various time windows (until 600 ms), whereas replacement-letter misspelled logotypes (SARVUNG) yielded consistently larger N400 amplitudes. These findings reveal that the mental representations of logotypes are particularly resistant to minor orthographic changes, which has important theoretical and applied (e.g., marketing) implications.
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- Melanie Labusch
- ERI-Lectura, Universitat de València, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
- Department of Education, Universidad Nebrija, 28015, Madrid, Spain.
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- ERI-Lectura, Universitat de València, 46010, Valencia, Spain
- Department of Education, Universidad Nebrija, 28015, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Language and Literature Teaching, Universitat de València, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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- ERI-Lectura, Universitat de València, 46010, Valencia, Spain
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Nie Y, Pan T, He J, Li Y. Impaired social reward processing in individuals with Internet gaming disorder and its relationship with early face perception. Addict Behav 2024; 153:108006. [PMID: 38457987 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108006] [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: 11/01/2023] [Revised: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
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Previous research has found that individuals with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) show different patterns of social function impairments in game-related and real-life social contexts. Impaired social reward processing may be the underlying mechanism according to the Social Motivation Theory. Thus, in this study, event-related potentials were recorded from 24 individuals with IGD and 24 healthy gamers during a social judgement task. We focused on reward positivity (RewP) elicited by game-related and real-life social rewards, and N170 elicited by game avatar faces and real faces. These indicators were used to explore the neurocognitive mechanism of impaired social reward processing in individuals with IGD and its relationship with early face perception. Results showed that (1) the RewP elicited by real-life social reward was considerably reduced in individuals with IGD relative to healthy gamers. (2) The N170 elicited by game avatar faces in individuals with IGD was larger than that elicited by real faces. However, the N170 was not associated with RewP in either group. (3) The score for IGD severity was correlated with the RewP elicited by real-life social reward and the N170 elicited by game avatar face. In conclusion, the present study suggests that the impaired social reward processing in individuals with IGD is mainly manifested in a decreased neural sensitivity to real-life social reward. Meanwhile, the reduced RewP elicited by real-life social reward and the enhanced N170 elicited by game avatar face might serve as potential biomarkers for IGD.
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- Yufeng Nie
- Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Henan University, Jinming Avenue, Kaifeng, Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior of Ministry of Education, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior of Ministry of Education, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior of Ministry of Education, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
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- Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Henan University, Jinming Avenue, Kaifeng, Henan Province, China.
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Boncz Á, Szalárdy O, Velősy PK, Béres L, Baumgartner R, Winkler I, Tóth B. The effects of aging and hearing impairment on listening in noise. iScience 2024; 27:109295. [PMID: 38558934 PMCID: PMC10981015 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109295] [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: 02/24/2023] [Revised: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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The study investigates age-related decline in listening abilities, particularly in noisy environments, where the challenge lies in extracting meaningful information from variable sensory input (figure-ground segregation). The research focuses on peripheral and central factors contributing to this decline using a tone-cloud-based figure detection task. Results based on behavioral measures and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) indicate that, despite delayed perceptual processes and some deterioration in attention and executive functions with aging, the ability to detect sound sources in noise remains relatively intact. However, even mild hearing impairment significantly hampers the segregation of individual sound sources within a complex auditory scene. The severity of the hearing deficit correlates with an increased susceptibility to masking noise. The study underscores the impact of hearing impairment on auditory scene analysis and highlights the need for personalized interventions based on individual abilities.
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- Ádám Boncz
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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Clayson PE. Beyond single paradigms, pipelines, and outcomes: Embracing multiverse analyses in psychophysiology. Int J Psychophysiol 2024; 197:112311. [PMID: 38296000 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112311] [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: 10/01/2023] [Revised: 01/02/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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Psychophysiological research is an inherently complex undertaking due to the nature of the data, and its analysis is characterized by many decision points that shape the final dataset and a study's findings. These decisions create a "multiverse" of possible outcomes, and each decision from study conceptualization to statistical analysis can lead to different results and interpretations. This review describes the concept of multiverse analyses, a methodological approach designed to understand the impact of different decisions on the robustness of a study's findings and interpretation. The emphasis is on transparently showcasing different reasonable approaches for constructing a final dataset and on highlighting the influence of various decision points, from experimental design to data processing and outcome selection. For example, the choice of an experimental task can significantly impact event-related brain potential (ERP) scores or skin conductance responses (SCRs), and different tasks might elicit unique variances in each measure. This review underscores the importance of transparently embracing the flexibility inherent in psychophysiological research and the potential consequences of not understanding the fragility or robustness of experimental findings. By navigating the intricate terrain of the psychophysiological multiverse, this review serves as an introduction, helping researchers to make informed decisions, improve the collective understanding of psychophysiological findings, and push the boundaries of the field.
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- Peter E Clayson
- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
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MacKay CE, Desroches AS, Smith SD. An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Examination of the Neural Responses to Emotional and Movement-Related Images. Cogn Neurosci 2024; 15:1-11. [PMID: 38362596 DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2313597] [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: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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Previous research has suggested that the perception of emotional images may also activate brain regions related to the preparation of motoric plans. However, little research has investigated whether these emotion-movement interactions occur at early or later stages of visual perception. In the current research, event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to examine the time course of the independent - and combined - effects of perceiving emotions and implied movement. Twenty-five participants viewed images from four categories: 1) emotional with implied movement, 2) emotional with no implied movement, 3) neutral with implied movement, and 4) neutral with no implied movement. Both emotional stimuli and movement-related stimuli led to larger N200 (200-300 ms) waveforms. Furthermore, at frontal sites, there was a marginal interaction between emotion and implied movement, such that negative stimuli showed greater N200 amplitudes vs. neutral stimuli, but only for images with implied movement. At posterior sites, a similar effect was observed for images without implied movement. The late positive potential (LPP; 500-1000 ms) was significant for emotion (at frontal sites) and movement (at frontal, central, and posterior sites), as well as for their interaction (at parietal sites), with larger LPPs for negative vs. neutral images with movement only. Together, these results suggest that the perception of emotion and movement interact at later stages of visual perception.
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- Christine E MacKay
- Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Veillette JP, Lopes P, Nusbaum HC. Temporal Dynamics of Brain Activity Predicting Sense of Agency over Muscle Movements. J Neurosci 2023; 43:7842-7852. [PMID: 37722848 PMCID: PMC10648515 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1116-23.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023] Open
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Our muscles are the primary means through which we affect the external world, and the sense of agency (SoA) over the action through those muscles is fundamental to our self-awareness. However, SoA research to date has focused almost exclusively on agency over action outcomes rather than over the musculature itself, as it was believed that SoA over the musculature could not be manipulated directly. Drawing on methods from human-computer interaction and adaptive experimentation, we use human-in-the-loop Bayesian optimization to tune the timing of electrical muscle stimulation so as to robustly elicit a SoA over electrically actuated muscle movements in male and female human subjects. We use time-resolved decoding of subjects' EEG to estimate the time course of neural activity which predicts reported agency on a trial-by-trial basis. Like paradigms which assess SoA over action consequences, we found that the late (post-conscious) neural activity predicts SoA. Unlike typical paradigms, however, we also find patterns of early (sensorimotor) activity with distinct temporal dynamics predicts agency over muscle movements, suggesting that the "neural correlates of agency" may depend on the level of abstraction (i.e., direct sensorimotor feedback versus downstream consequences) most relevant to a given agency judgment. Moreover, fractal analysis of the EEG suggests that SoA-contingent dynamics of neural activity may modulate the sensitivity of the motor system to external input.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The sense of agency, the feeling of "I did that," when directing one's own musculature is a core feature of human experience. We show that we can robustly manipulate the sense of agency over electrically actuated muscle movements, and we investigate the time course of neural activity that predicts the sense of agency over these actuated movements. We find evidence of two distinct neural processes: a transient sequence of patterns that begins in the early sensorineural response to muscle stimulation and a later, sustained signature of agency. These results shed light on the neural mechanisms by which we experience our movements as volitional.
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- John P Veillette
- Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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- Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Hall L, Dawel A, Greenwood LM, Monaghan C, Berryman K, Jack BN. Estimating statistical power for ERP studies using the auditory N1, Tb, and P2 components. Psychophysiology 2023; 60:e14363. [PMID: 37382363 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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The N1, Tb, and P2 components of the event-related potential (ERP) are thought to reflect the sequential processing of auditory stimuli in the human brain. Despite their extensive use in biological, cognitive, and clinical neuroscience, there are no guidelines for how to appropriately power ERP studies using these components. In the present study, we investigated how the number of trials, number of participants, effect magnitude, and study design influenced statistical power. Using Monte Carlo simulations of ERP data from a passive listening task, we determined the probability of finding a statistically significant effect in 58,900 experiments repeated 1,000 times each. We found that as the number of trials, number of participants, and effect magnitude increased, so did statistical power. We also found that increasing the number of trials had a bigger effect on statistical power for within-subject designs than for between-subject designs, and that within-subject designs required a smaller number of trials and participants to provide the same level of statistical power for a given effect magnitude than between-subject designs. These results show that it is important to carefully consider these factors when designing ERP studies, rather than relying on tradition or anecdotal evidence. To improve the robustness and reproducibility of ERP research, we have built an online statistical power calculator (https://bradleynjack.shinyapps.io/ErpPowerCalculator), which we hope will allow researchers to estimate the statistical power of previous studies, as well as help them design appropriately-powered studies in the future.
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- Lachlan Hall
- Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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