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Casadio C, Patané I, Candini M, Lui F, Frassinetti F, Benuzzi F. Effects of the perceived temporal distance of events on mental time travel and on its underlying brain circuits. Exp Brain Res 2024; 242:1161-1174. [PMID: 38489024 PMCID: PMC11078804 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-024-06806-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: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024]
Abstract
Mental Time Travel (MTT) allows us to remember past events and imagine future ones. According to previous literature, the Temporal Distance of events affects MTT: our ability to order events worsens for close, compared to far, events. However, those studies established distances a-priori, albeit the way we perceive events' temporal distance may subjectively differ from their objective distance. Thus, in the current study, we aimed to investigate the effects of Perceived Temporal Distance (PTD) on the MTT ability and the brain areas mediating this process. Thirty-three healthy volunteers took part in an fMRI MTT task. Participants were asked to project themselves into the past, present, or future, and to judge a series of events as relative-past or relative-future, in relation to the adopted time location. Outside the scanner, participants provided PTD estimates for each stimulus of the MTT task. Participants' performance and functional activity were analyzed as a function of these estimations. At the behavioural level, PTD predicts the modulation of the performance for relative-past and relative-future. Bilateral angular gyrus, retrosplenial cortex, temporo-parietal region and medial, middle and superior frontal gyri mediate the PTD effect. In addition to these areas, the closer the relative-future events are perceived, the higher the involvement of left parahippocampal and lingual gyri and right cerebellum. Thus, perceived proximity of events activates frontal and posterior parietal areas, which therefore might mediate the processing of PTD in the cognitive spatial representation of time. Future proximity also activates cerebellum and medial temporal areas, known to be involved in imaginative and constructive cognitive functions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Claudia Casadio
- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Campi 287, Modena, 41125, Italy.
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- Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari", University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari", University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Campi 287, Modena, 41125, Italy
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- Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari", University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, Hospital IRCCS, Castel Goffredo, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Campi 287, Modena, 41125, Italy
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Candini M, D’Angelo M, Frassinetti F. Time Interaction With Two Spatial Dimensions: From Left/Right to Near/Far. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 15:796799. [PMID: 35115914 PMCID: PMC8804530 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.796799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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In this study, we explored the time and space relationship according to two different spatial codings, namely, the left/right extension and the reachability of stimulus along a near/far dimension. Four experiments were carried out in which healthy participants performed the time and spatial bisection tasks in near/far space, before and after short or long tool-use training. Stimuli were prebisected horizontal lines of different temporal durations in which the midpoint was manipulated according to the Muller-Lyer illusion. The perceptual illusory effects emerged in spatial but not temporal judgments. We revealed that temporal and spatial representations dynamically change according to the action potentialities of an individual: temporal duration was perceived as shorter and the perceived line’s midpoint was shifted to the left in far than in near space. Crucially, this dissociation disappeared following a long but not short tool-use training. Finally, we observed age-related differences in spatial attention which may be crucial in building the memory temporal standard to categorize durations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michela Candini
- Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Unit of Recovery and Functional Rehabilitation, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Institute of Castel Goffredo, Mantova, Italy
- *Correspondence: Michela Candini,
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Unit of Recovery and Functional Rehabilitation, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Institute of Castel Goffredo, Mantova, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Unit of Recovery and Functional Rehabilitation, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Institute of Castel Goffredo, Mantova, Italy
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Facchin A, Folegatti A, Rossetti Y, Farnè A. The half of the story we did not know about prism adaptation. Cortex 2019; 119:141-157. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Revised: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Prisms for timing better: A review on application of prism adaptation on temporal domain. Cortex 2019; 119:583-593. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Reuter EM, Mattingley JB, Cunnington R, Riek S, Carroll TJ. Pushing attention to one side: Force field adaptation alters neural correlates of orienting and disengagement of spatial attention. Eur J Neurosci 2018; 49:120-136. [PMID: 30408253 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Revised: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sensorimotor adaptation to wedge prisms can alter the balance of attention between left and right space in healthy adults, and improve symptoms of spatial neglect after stroke. Here we asked whether the orienting of spatial attention to visual stimuli is affected by a different form of sensorimotor adaptation that involves physical perturbations of arm movement, rather than distortion of visual feedback. Healthy participants performed a cued discrimination task before and after they made reaching movements to a central target. A velocity-dependent force field pushed the hand aside during each reach, and required participants to apply compensatory forces toward the opposite side. We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to determine whether electroencephalography (EEG) responses reflecting orienting (cue-locked N1) and disengagement (target-locked P1) of spatial attention are affected by adaptation to force fields. After adaptation, the cue-locked N1 was relatively larger for stimuli presented in the hemispace corresponding to the direction of compensatory hand force. P1 amplitudes evoked by invalidly cued targets presented on the opposite side were reduced. This suggests that force field adaptation boosted attentional orienting responses toward the side of hand forces, and impeded attentional disengagement from that side, mimicking previously reported effects of prism adaptation. Thus, remapping between motor commands and intended movement direction is sufficient to bias ERPs, reflecting changes in the orienting of spatial attention in the absence of visuo-spatial distortion or visuo-proprioceptive mismatch. Findings are relevant to theories of how sensorimotor adaptation can modulate attention, and may open new avenues for treatment of spatial neglect.
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- Eva-Maria Reuter
- Centre for Sensorimotor Performance, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.,Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.,School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.,School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Sensorimotor Performance, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Sensorimotor Performance, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Schintu S, Patané I, Caldano M, Salemme R, Reilly KT, Pisella L, Farnè A. The asymmetrical effect of leftward and rightward prisms on intact visuospatial cognition. Cortex 2017; 97:23-31. [PMID: 29078083 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Revised: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
Rightward prismatic adaptation (RPA) can reduce neglect symptoms in patients whereas adaptation to leftward deviating prisms (LPA) can induce neglect-like behavior in healthy subjects. One influential anatomo-functional model of prismatic adaptation (PA) postulates that it inhibits activity of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) contralateral to the prismatic deviation. By hypo-activating the PPC and thus eventually acting on interhemispheric balance, both LPA and RPA could possibly affect visuospatial perception in healthy subjects, however, such behavioral modulation has seldom been reported after RPA. In the light of recent evidence showing that LPA-induced visuospatial shift need time to develop we hypothesized that RPA might induce significant changes in visuospatial cognition on a longer time scale. We thus assessed the Landmark task, as well as sensorimotor aftereffects, several times over 8 h after a single session of either LPA or RPA. In agreement with previous reports, sensorimotor effects were symmetrical and long-lasting, with both LPA and RPA inducing shifts of comparable amplitudes in the direction opposite to the deviation that lasted up to 8 h. Visuospatial cognition assessed by Landmark performance, was also significantly modulated for up to 8 h, but only after LPA. Interestingly, the timing and direction of this modulation differed according to participants' baseline bias. An initial leftward bias led to a rapid, but short-lasting rightward shift, whereas an initial rightward bias led to a slower-developing and longer-lasting leftward shift. These findings shed new light on a so-far relatively overlooked feature of spatial cognition that may interact with the effect of PA: the state of the visuospatial system prior to PA should be taken into account when attempting to understand and modulate visuospatial cognition in healthy and brain-damaged populations. This highlights the need for refining current models of PA's mechanisms of action.
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- Selene Schintu
- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France.
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France; Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France
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