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Liu D, Hao L, Han L, Zhou Y, Qin S, Niki K, Shen W, Shi B, Luo J. The optimal balance of controlled and spontaneous processing in insight problem solving: fMRI evidence from Chinese idiom guessing. Psychophysiology 2023:e14240. [PMID: 36651323 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14240] [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: 04/15/2022] [Revised: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
Cognitive control is a key factor in insight generation. However, the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the generation of insight for different cognitive control remain poorly understood. This study developed a parametric fMRI design, wherein hints for solving Chinese idiom riddles were gradually provided in a stepwise manner (from the first hint, H1, to the final hint, H4). By classifying the step-specific items solved in different hint-uncovering steps/conditions, we could identify insightful responses for different levels of spontaneous or controlled processing. At the behavioral level, the number of insightful problem solving trials reached the maximum at a intermediate level of the cognitively controlled processing and the spontaneously idea generating in H3, while the bilateral insular cortex and thalamus showed the robust engagement, implying the function of these regions in making the optimal balance between external hint processing and internal generated ideas. In addition, we identified brain areas, including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), angular gyrus (AG), dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), and precuneus (PreC), whose activities were parametrically increased with the levels of controlled (from H1 to H4) insightful processing which were increasingly produced by the sequentially revealed hints. Further representational similarity analysis (RSA) found that spontaneous processing in insight featured greater within-condition representational variabilities in widely distributed regions in the executive, salience, and default networks. Altogether, the present study provided new evidence for the relationship between the process of cognitive control and that of spontaneous idea generation in insight problem solving and demystified the function of the insula and thalamus as an interactive interface for the optimal balance of these two processes.
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- Di Liu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition & School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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- College of Teacher Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.,State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Psychology at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition & School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Psychology at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Human Informatics Research Institute, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan.,Keio University Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Public Administration and Institute of Applied Psychology, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition & School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.,College of Teacher Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition & School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, China
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Ghandour K, Inokuchi K. Memory reactivations during sleep. Neurosci Res 2022; 189:60-65. [PMID: 36581176 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2022.12.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Neuronal activities that occur during awake periods are often reactivated again during sleep, to consolidate recently encoded memories, a process known as consolidation. In recent years, advanced tools, specially optical techniques and in-vivo live Ca2+ imaging, have revealed a deeper understanding to the offline periods' neuronal activities and their correspondence to later awake behavioral outputs. Recently, there is a growing consensus that sleep is more of an active process. Sleep has been associated with various functions, memory updating, future imaginations of possible familiar scenarios, decision making and planning by replaying past memories. Also, boosting insightful thoughts, creative thinking and problem solving by forming new associations and connections that were not present in awake states. Sleep activities have been directly associated with many "EUREKA" or "AHA" moments. Here, we describe recent views on memory reactivations during sleep and their implications on learning and memory.
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- Khaled Ghandour
- Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan; Research Center for Idling Brain Science, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt
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- Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan; Research Center for Idling Brain Science, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.
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Zhang Z, Liu L, Li Y, Tan T, Niki K, Luo J. The function of medial temporal lobe and posterior middle temporal gyrus in forming creative associations. Hippocampus 2020; 30:1257-1267. [DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Ze Zhang
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University Beijing China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University Beijing China
- Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University Beijing China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University Beijing China
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- Human Informatics Research Institute, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Tsukuba Japan
- Keio University Graduate School of Human Relations Keio University Tokyo Japan
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University Beijing China
- Department of Psychology Shaoxing University Shaoxing China
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TONG D, LI W, LU P, YANG W, YANG D, ZHANG Q, QIU J. The neural basis of scientific innovation problem finding. ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA SINICA 2020. [DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1041.2020.01253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Early stimulation of the left posterior parietal cortex promotes representation change in problem solving. Sci Rep 2019; 9:16523. [PMID: 31712574 PMCID: PMC6848477 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52668-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
When you suddenly understand how to solve a problem through an original and efficient strategy, you experience the so-called “Eureka” effect. The appearance of insight usually occurs after setting the problem aside for a brief period of time (i.e. incubation), thereby promoting unconscious and novel associations on problem-related representations leading to a new and efficient solving strategy. The left posterior parietal cortex (lPPC) has been showed to support insight in problem solving, when this region is activated during the initial representations of the task. The PPC is further activated during the next incubation period when the mind starts to wander. The aim of this study was to investigate whether stimulating the lPPC, either during the initial training on the problem or the incubation period, might enhance representation change in problem solving. To address this question, participants performed the Number Reduction Task (NRT, convergent problem-solving), while excitatory or sham (placebo) transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was applied over the lPPC. The stimulation was delivered either during the initial problem representation or during the subsequent incubation period. Impressively, almost all participants (94%) with excitatory tDCS during the initial training gained representational change in problem solving, compared to only 39% in the incubation period and 33% in the sham groups. We conclude that the lPPC plays a role during the initial problem representation, which may be considerably strengthened by means of short brain stimulation.
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Daprati E, Sirigu A, Desmurget M, Nico D. Superstitious beliefs and the associative mind. Conscious Cogn 2019; 75:102822. [DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Structural connectivity prior to whole-body sensorimotor skill learning associates with changes in resting state functional connectivity. Neuroimage 2019; 197:191-199. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Revised: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Fonken YM, Kam JWY, Knight RT. A differential role for human hippocampus in novelty and contextual processing: Implications for P300. Psychophysiology 2019; 57:e13400. [PMID: 31206732 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The role of the hippocampus in P300 has long been debated. Here, we present a theoretical framework that elucidates hippocampal contributions to scalp P300 based on intracranial and lesion research combined with emerging evidence on the role of the hippocampus in rapid statistical learning, memory, and novelty processing. The P300 has been divided in two subcomponents: a fronto-central P3a related to novelty and distractor processing, and a parietal P3b related to target detection. Interest in a role for hippocampus in scalp P300 was sparked by P3-like ERPs measured intracranially in human hippocampus. Subsequent medial temporal lobe lesion studies show intact scalp P3b, indicating that the hippocampus is not critical for P3b. This contrasts with the scalp P3a, which was significantly diminished in human patients with lesions in the posterior hippocampus. This suggests a differential role for hippocampus in P3a and P3b. Our framework purports that the hippocampus plays a central role in distractor processing that leads to P3a generation in cortical regions. We also propose that the hippocampus is involved at the end of the cognitive episode for both P3a and P3b implementing contextual updating. P3-like ERPs measured in hippocampus may reflect input signals from cortical regions implementing updates based on the outcome of cognitive processes underlying scalp P3, enabling a model update of the environment facilitated by the hippocampus. Overall, this framework proposes an active role for the hippocampus in novelty processing leading up to P3a generation, followed by contextual updating of the outcome of both scalp P3a and P3b.
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- Yvonne M Fonken
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.,Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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Tracking the neurodynamics of insight: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Biol Psychol 2018; 138:189-198. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2018] [Revised: 08/09/2018] [Accepted: 08/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Craig M, Ottaway G, Dewar M. Rest on it: Awake quiescence facilitates insight. Cortex 2018; 109:205-214. [PMID: 30388441 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Revised: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Many scientific discoveries have been explained by a sudden gaining of insight with regards to an ongoing problem. Insight is characterised by a mental restructuring of acquired information, from which new explicit knowledge can be drawn, leading to qualitative changes in behaviour. Extended sleep facilitates the gaining of insight, possibly because it is conducive to the stabilisation and restructuring of new memory representations via consolidation. Research shows that a brief period of awake quiescence (quiet resting), too, can support consolidation: people remember more new memories if they quietly rest for several minutes after encoding than if they engage in a task involving ongoing sensory input after encoding. However, it remains unknown whether awake quiescence inspires insight. Using a number-based problem-solving task (the Number Reduction Task - 'NRT'), we reveal that, like sleep, awake quiescence facilitates the rapid gaining of insight: young adults were more than twice as likely to demonstrate new explicit knowledge of a hidden solution to the NRT if initial exposure to this task was followed by 10 min of awake quiescence than an unrelated perceptual task. These findings indicate that, at least for the NRT, the development of insight is not restricted to sleep but can be achieved via a brief period of awake quiescence. Thus, contrary to conventional wisdom and theories, when faced with a novel problem we may not always need to 'sleep on it' to find a novel solution, simply 'resting on it' may be enough.
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- Michael Craig
- Memory Lab, Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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- Memory Lab, Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Memory Lab, Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Fogel SM, Ray LB, Sergeeva V, De Koninck J, Owen AM. A Novel Approach to Dream Content Analysis Reveals Links Between Learning-Related Dream Incorporation and Cognitive Abilities. Front Psychol 2018; 9:1398. [PMID: 30127760 PMCID: PMC6088287 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Can dreams reveal insight into our cognitive abilities and aptitudes (i.e., "human intelligence")? The relationship between dream production and trait-like cognitive abilities is the foundation of several long-standing theories on the neurocognitive and cognitive-psychological basis of dreaming. However, direct experimental evidence is sparse and remains contentious. On the other hand, recent research has provided compelling evidence demonstrating a link between dream content and new learning, suggesting that dreams reflect memory processing during sleep. It remains to be investigated whether the extent of learning-related dream incorporation (i.e., the semantic similarity between waking experiences and dream content) is related to inter-individual differences in cognitive abilities. The relationship between pre-post sleep memory performance improvements and learning-related dream incorporation was investigated (N = 24) to determine if this relationship could be explained by inter-individual differences in intellectual abilities (e.g., reasoning, short term memory (STM), and verbal abilities). The extent of dream incorporation using a novel and objective method of dream content analysis, employed a computational linguistic approach to measure the semantic relatedness between verbal reports describing the experience on a spatial (e.g., maze navigation) or a motor memory task (e.g., tennis simulator) with subsequent hypnagogic reverie dream reports and waking "daydream" reports, obtained during a daytime nap opportunity. Consistent with previous studies, the extent to which something new was learned was related (r = 0.47) to how richly these novel experiences were incorporated into the content of dreams. This was significant for early (the first 4 dream reports) but not late dreams (the last 4 dream reports). Notably, here, we show for the first time that the extent of this incorporation for early dreams was related (r = 0.41) to inter-individual differences in reasoning abilities. On the other hand, late dream incorporation was related (r = 0.46) to inter-individual differences in verbal abilities. There was no relationship between performance improvements and intellectual abilities, and thus, inter-individual differences in cognitive abilities did not mediate the relationship between performance improvements and dream incorporation; suggesting a direct relationship between reasoning abilities and dream incorporation. This study provides the first evidence that learning-related dream production is related to inter-individual differences in cognitive abilities.
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- Stuart M. Fogel
- The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada
- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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- The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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Shen W, Yuan Y, Tang C, Shi C, Liu C, Luo J, Zhang X. In Search of Somatic Precursors of Spontaneous Insight. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Abstract. A considerable number of behavioral and neuroscientific studies on insight problem solving have revealed behavioral and neural correlates of the dynamic insight process; however, somatic correlates, particularly somatic precursors of creative insight, remain undetermined. To characterize the somatic precursor of spontaneous insight, 22 healthy volunteers were recruited to solve the compound remote associate (CRA) task in which a problem can be solved by either an insight or an analytic strategy. The participants’ peripheral nervous activities, particularly electrodermal and cardiovascular responses, were continuously monitored and separately measured. The results revealed a greater skin conductance magnitude for insight trials than for non-insight trials in the 4-s time span prior to problem solutions and two marginally significant correlations between pre-solution heart rate variability (HRV) and the solution time of insight trials. Our findings provide the first direct evidence that spontaneous insight in problem solving is a somatically peculiar process that is distinct from the stepwise process of analytic problem solving and can be represented by a special somatic precursor, which is a stronger pre-solution electrodermal activity and a correlation between problem solution time and certain HRV indicators such as the root mean square successive difference (RMSSD).
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- Wangbing Shen
- School of Public Administration and Institute of Applied Psychology, Hohai University, Nanjing, PR China
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- School of Rehabilitation Science, Nanjing Normal University of Special Education, Nanjing, PR China
- School of Psychology and Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, PR China
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- School of Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- School of Public Administration and Institute of Applied Psychology, Hohai University, Nanjing, PR China
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- School of Psychology and Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PR China
- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- School of Psychology and Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, PR China
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Yordanova J, Kolev V, Bruns E, Kirov R, Verleger R. Sleep Spindles in the Right Hemisphere Support Awareness of Regularities and Reflect Pre-Sleep Activations. Sleep 2018; 40:4104557. [PMID: 28958008 PMCID: PMC5806558 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsx151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Study Objectives The present study explored the sleep mechanisms which may support awareness of hidden regularities. Methods Before sleep, 53 participants learned implicitly a lateralized variant of the serial response-time task in order to localize sensorimotor encoding either in the left or right hemisphere and induce implicit regularity representations. Electroencephalographic (EEG) activity was recorded at multiple electrodes during both task performance and sleep, searching for lateralized traces of the preceding activity during learning. Sleep EEG analysis focused on region-specific slow (9-12 Hz) and fast (13-16 Hz) sleep spindles during nonrapid eye movement sleep. Results Fast spindle activity at those motor regions that were activated during learning increased with the amount of postsleep awareness. Independently of side of learning, spindle activity at right frontal and fronto-central regions was involved: there, fast spindles increased with the transformation of sequence knowledge from implicit before sleep to explicit after sleep, and slow spindles correlated with individual abilities of gaining awareness. These local modulations of sleep spindles corresponded to regions with greater presleep activation in participants with postsleep explicit knowledge. Conclusions Sleep spindle mechanisms are related to explicit awareness (1) by tracing the activation of motor cortical and right-hemisphere regions which had stronger involvement already during learning and (2) by recruitment of individually consolidated processing modules in the right hemisphere. The integration of different sleep spindle mechanisms with functional states during wake collectively supports the gain of awareness of previously experienced regularities, with a special role for the right hemisphere.
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- Juliana Yordanova
- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.,Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.,Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.,Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany
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Processing of implicit versus explicit predictive contextual information in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2018; 109:39-51. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Revised: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Yordanova J, Kirov R, Verleger R, Kolev V. Dynamic coupling between slow waves and sleep spindles during slow wave sleep in humans is modulated by functional pre-sleep activation. Sci Rep 2017; 7:14496. [PMID: 29101344 PMCID: PMC5670140 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15195-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Co-existent sleep spindles and slow waves have been viewed as a mechanism for offline information processing. Here we explored if the temporal synchronization between slow waves and spindle activity during slow wave sleep (SWS) in humans was modulated by preceding functional activations during pre-sleep learning. We activated differentially the left and right hemisphere before sleep by using a lateralized variant of serial response time task (SRTT) and verified these inter-hemispheric differences by analysing alpha and beta electroencephalographic (EEG) activities during learning. The stability and timing of coupling between positive and negative phases of slow waves and sleep spindle activity during SWS were quantified. Spindle activity was temporally synchronized with both positive (up-state) and negative (down-state) slow half waves. Synchronization of only the fast spindle activity was laterally asymmetric after learning, corresponding to hemisphere-specific activations before sleep. However, the down state was associated with decoupling, whereas the up-state was associated with increased coupling of fast spindle activity over the pre-activated hemisphere. These observations provide original evidence that (1) the temporal grouping of fast spindles by slow waves is a dynamic property of human SWS modulated by functional pre-sleep activation patterns, and (2) fast spindles synchronized by slow waves are functionally distinct.
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- Juliana Yordanova
- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
- Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Shen W, Yuan Y, Liu C, Luo J. The roles of the temporal lobe in creative insight: an integrated review. THINKING & REASONING 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2017.1308885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Wangbing Shen
- School of Public Administration and Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
- School of Psychology and Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Rehabilitation Science, Nanjing Normal University of Special Education, Nanjing, China
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- School of Psychology and Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Sterpenich V, Ceravolo L, Schwartz S. Sleep deprivation disrupts the contribution of the hippocampus to the formation of novel lexical associations. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2017; 167:61-71. [PMID: 28173964 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2016.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2016] [Revised: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/20/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Sleep is involved in the mechanisms underlying memory consolidation and brain plasticity. Consolidation refers to a process through which labile memories are reorganized into more stable ones. An intriguing but often neglected question concerns how pre-existing knowledge is modified when new information enters memory, and whether sleep can influence this process. We investigated how nonword learning may modify the neural representations of closely-related existing words. We also tested whether sleep contributes to any such effect by comparing a group of participants who slept during the night following a first encoding session to a sleep deprived group. Thirty participants were first intensively trained at writing nonwords on Day 1 (remote nonwords) and Day 4 (recent nonwords), following which they underwent functional MRI. This session consisted of a word lexical decision task including words orthographically-close to the trained nonwords, followed by an incidental memory task on the nonwords. Participants who slept detected real words related to remote nonwords faster than those related to recent nonwords, and showed better explicit memory for the remote nonwords. Although the full interaction comparing both groups for these effects was not significant, we found that participants from the sleep-deprivation group did not display such differences between remote and recent conditions. Imaging results revealed that the functional interplay between hippocampus and frontal regions critically mediated these behavioral effects. This study demonstrates that sleep may not only strengthen memory for recently learned items but also promotes a constant reorganization of existing networks of word representations, allowing facilitated access to orthographically-close words.
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- Virginie Sterpenich
- Neurology and Imaging of Cognition Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Neurology and Imaging of Cognition Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
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Debarnot U, Rossi M, Faraguna U, Schwartz S, Sebastiani L. Sleep does not facilitate insight in older adults. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2017; 140:106-113. [PMID: 28219752 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Revised: 02/04/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Sleep has been shown to foster the process of insight generation in young adults during problem solving activities. Aging is characterized by substantial changes in sleep architecture altering memory consolidation. Whether sleep might promote the occurrence of insight in older adults as well has not yet been tested experimentally. To address this issue, we tested healthy young and old volunteers on an insight problem solving task, involving both explicit and implicit features, before and after a night of sleep or a comparable wakefulness period. Data showed that insight emerged significantly less frequently after a night of sleep in older adults compared to young. Moreover, there was no difference in the magnitude of insight occurrence following sleep and daytime -consolidation in aged participants. We further found that acquisition of implicit knowledge in the task before sleep potentiated the gain of insight in young participants, but this effect was not observed in aged participants. Overall, present findings demonstrate that a period of sleep does not significantly promote insight in problem solving in older adults.
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- Ursula Debarnot
- Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Inter-University Laboratory of Human Movement Science-EA 7424, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France.
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- Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale e delle Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy; School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale e delle Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy; Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale e delle Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy
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Shen W, Yuan Y, Liu C, Zhang X, Luo J, Gong Z. Is creative insight task-specific? A coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on insightful problem solving. Int J Psychophysiol 2016; 110:81-90. [PMID: 27720998 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2016] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 10/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The question of whether creative insight varies across problem types has recently come to the forefront of studies of creative cognition. In the present study, to address the nature of creative insight, the coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation (ALE) technique was utilized to individually conduct three quantitative meta-analyses of neuroimaging experiments that used the compound remote associate (CRA) task, the prototype heuristic (PH) task and the Chinese character chunk decomposition (CCD) task. These tasks were chosen because they are frequently used to uncover the neurocognitive correlates of insight. Our results demonstrated that creative insight reliably activates largely non-overlapping brain regions across task types, with the exception of some shared regions: the CRA task mainly relied on the right parahippocampal gyrus, the superior frontal gyrus and the inferior frontal gyrus; the PH task primarily depended on the right middle occipital gyrus (MOG), the bilateral superior parietal lobule/precuneus, the left inferior parietal lobule, the left lingual gyrus and the left middle frontal gyrus; and the CCD task activated a broad cerebral network consisting of most dorsolateral and medial prefrontal regions, frontoparietal regions and the right MOG. These results provide the first neural evidence of the task dependence of creative insight. The implications of these findings for resolving conflict surrounding the different theories of creative cognition and for defining insight as a set of heterogeneous processes are discussed.
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- Wangbing Shen
- School of Public Administration and Institute of Applied Psychology, Hohai University, China
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- School of Rehabilitation Science, Nanjing Normal University of Special Education, China; School of Psychology and Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, China.
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- School of Psychology and Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, China.
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- School of Psychology and Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, Capital Normal University, China; Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
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- School of Psychology and Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanjing Normal University, China
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Sun J, Chen Q, Zhang Q, Li Y, Li H, Wei D, Yang W, Qiu J. Training your brain to be more creative: brain functional and structural changes induced by divergent thinking training. Hum Brain Mapp 2016; 37:3375-87. [PMID: 27159407 PMCID: PMC6867508 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2015] [Revised: 04/19/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Creativity is commonly defined as the ability to produce something both novel and useful. Stimulating creativity has great significance for both individual success and social improvement. Although increasing creative capacity has been confirmed to be possible and effective at the behavioral level, few longitudinal studies have examined the extent to which the brain function and structure underlying creativity are plastic. A cognitive stimulation (20 sessions) method was used in the present study to train subjects and to explore the neuroplasticity induced by training. The behavioral results revealed that both the originality and the fluency of divergent thinking were significantly improved by training. Furthermore, functional changes induced by training were observed in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and posterior brain regions. Moreover, the gray matter volume (GMV) was significantly increased in the dACC after divergent thinking training. These results suggest that the enhancement of creativity may rely not only on the posterior brain regions that are related to the fundamental cognitive processes of creativity (e.g., semantic processing, generating novel associations), but also on areas that are involved in top-down cognitive control, such as the dACC and DLPFC. Hum Brain Mapp 37:3375-3387, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Jiangzhou Sun
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU)Ministry of EducationChongqing400715China
- Faculty of PsychologySouthwest UniversityChongqing400715China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU)Ministry of EducationChongqing400715China
- Faculty of PsychologySouthwest UniversityChongqing400715China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU)Ministry of EducationChongqing400715China
- Faculty of PsychologySouthwest UniversityChongqing400715China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU)Ministry of EducationChongqing400715China
- Faculty of PsychologySouthwest UniversityChongqing400715China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU)Ministry of EducationChongqing400715China
- Faculty of PsychologySouthwest UniversityChongqing400715China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU)Ministry of EducationChongqing400715China
- Faculty of PsychologySouthwest UniversityChongqing400715China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU)Ministry of EducationChongqing400715China
- Faculty of PsychologySouthwest UniversityChongqing400715China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU)Ministry of EducationChongqing400715China
- Faculty of PsychologySouthwest UniversityChongqing400715China
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Temporal and kinematic consistency predict sequence awareness. Exp Brain Res 2016; 234:3025-36. [PMID: 27324192 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-016-4704-7] [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: 04/18/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Many human motor skills can be represented as a hierarchical series of movement patterns. Awareness of underlying patterns can improve performance and decrease cognitive load. Subjects (n = 30) tapped a finger sequence with changing stimulus-to-response mapping and a common movement sequence. Thirteen subjects (43 %) became aware that they were tapping a familiar movement sequence during the experiment. Subjects who became aware of the underlying motor pattern tapped with greater kinematic and temporal consistency from task onset, but consistency was not sufficient for awareness. We found no effect of age, musical experience, tapping evenness, or inter-key-interval on awareness of the pattern in the motor response. We propose that temporal or kinematic consistency reinforces a pattern representation, but cognitive engagement with the contents of the sequence is necessary to bring the pattern to conscious awareness. These findings predict benefit for movement strategies that limit temporal and kinematic variability during motor learning.
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de Borst AW, Valente G, Jääskeläinen IP, Tikka P. Brain-based decoding of mentally imagined film clips and sounds reveals experience-based information patterns in film professionals. Neuroimage 2016; 129:428-438. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Revised: 12/11/2015] [Accepted: 01/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Yordanova J, Kirov R, Kolev V. Increased Performance Variability as a Marker of Implicit/Explicit Interactions in Knowledge Awareness. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1957. [PMID: 26779047 PMCID: PMC4688353 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Only some, but not all, individuals who practice tasks with dual structure, overt and covert, are able to comprehend consciously a hidden regularity. The formation of implicit representations of regularity has been proposed to be critical for subsequent awareness. However, explicit knowledge also has been predicted by the activation of executive control systems during task encoding. The present study analyzed performance patterns in participants who could comprehend task regularity and those who could not at delayed recall. Specifically, the role of practice-based knowledge of sequence for individual awareness was focused on. A lateralized variant of the visual serial response time task (SRTT) comprising structured and random blocks was practiced in implicit conditions by 109 participants before and after 10-h retention, with explicit knowledge about covert sequence tested thereafter. Sequence learning was quantified using the normalized difference between response speed in regular and subsequent random blocks. Patterns of performance dynamics were evaluated using response speed, response variability, and error rate. Major results demonstrate that (1) All participants who became aware of the sequence (solvers), gained practice-based sequence knowledge at learning or after retention, (2) Such knowledge also was accumulated during learning by participants who remained fully unaware about covert task structure, (3) Only in explicit solvers, however, was sequence-specific learning accompanied by a prominent increase in performance variability. (4) Specific features and dynamics of performance patterns distinguished different cognitive modes of SRTT processing, each of which supported subsequent knowledge awareness. It is concluded that a behavioral precursor of sequence awareness is the combination of speeded sequence processing and increased performance variability, pointing to an interaction between implicit and explicit processing systems. These results may contribute to refine the evaluation of online and offline learning of tasks with dual structure, and to extend understanding of increased behavioral variability in both normal and pathological conditions.
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- Juliana Yordanova
- Cognitive Psychophysiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Cognitive Psychophysiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Cognitive Psychophysiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia, Bulgaria
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Kirov R, Kolev V, Verleger R, Yordanova J. Labile sleep promotes awareness of abstract knowledge in a serial reaction time task. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1354. [PMID: 26441730 PMCID: PMC4561346 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sleep has been identified as a critical brain state enhancing the probability of gaining insight into covert task regularities. Both non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep have been implicated with offline re-activation and reorganization of memories supporting explicit knowledge generation. According to two-stage models of sleep function, offline processing of information during sleep is sequential requiring multiple cycles of NREM and REM sleep stages. However, the role of overnight dynamic sleep macrostructure for insightfulness has not been studied so far. In the present study, we test the hypothesis that the frequency of interactions between NREM and REM sleep stages might be critical for awareness after sleep. For that aim, the rate of sleep stage transitions was evaluated in 53 participants who learned implicitly a serial reaction time task (SRTT) in which a determined sequence was inserted. The amount of explicit knowledge about the sequence was established by verbal recall after a night of sleep following SRTT learning. Polysomnography was recorded in this night and in a control night before and was analyzed to compare the rate of sleep-stage transitions between participants who did or did not gain awareness of task regularity after sleep. Indeed, individual ability of explicit knowledge generation was strongly associated with increased rate of transitions between NREM and REM sleep stages and between light sleep stages and slow wave sleep. However, the rate of NREM-REM transitions specifically predicted the amount of explicit knowledge after sleep in a trait-dependent way. These results demonstrate that enhanced lability of sleep goes along with individual ability of knowledge awareness. Observations suggest that facilitated dynamic interactions between sleep stages, particularly between NREM and REM sleep stages play a role for offline processing which promotes rule extraction and awareness.
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- Roumen Kirov
- Cognitive Psychophysiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesSofia, Bulgaria
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- Cognitive Psychophysiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesSofia, Bulgaria
- Department of Neurology, University of LübeckLübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of LübeckLübeck, Germany
- Institute of Psychology II, University of LübeckLübeck, Germany
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- Cognitive Psychophysiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesSofia, Bulgaria
- Department of Neurology, University of LübeckLübeck, Germany
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Verleger R, Seitz A, Yordanova J, Kolev V. Is insight a godsend? Explicit knowledge in the serial response-time task has precursors in EEG potentials already at task onset. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2015; 125:24-35. [PMID: 26226325 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2015] [Revised: 07/17/2015] [Accepted: 07/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Whether, and how, explicit knowledge about some regularity arises from implicit sensorimotor learning by practice has been a matter of long-standing debate. Previously, we had found in the number reduction task that participants who will acquire explicit knowledge differ from other participants in their event-related potentials (ERPs) already at task onset. In the present study, we investigated such ERP precursors and correlates both of explicit and of sensorimotor knowledge (response speeding) about the regular sequence in a large sample of participants (n≈100) in the serial response time task. Already when perceiving random sequences at task onset, those participants had largest P3 amplitudes who would later gain explicit knowledge but whose responses were not speeded. Later in the task, sensorimotor knowledge was reflected in increased fronto-central negativity in irregular blocks, overlapping the early part of P3, and participants with later explicit knowledge generally had increased P3 amplitudes. These results support the notion that explicit knowledge about covert regularities is acquired in two ways: on the one hand by a particular subgroup of participants possibly independently of sequence-specific response speeding, and on the other hand by transforming such sensorimotor to explicit knowledge through practice.
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- Rolf Verleger
- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Germany.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Germany; Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, University of Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Edwards CL, Malinowski JE, McGee SL, Bennett PD, Ruby PM, Blagrove MT. Comparing personal insight gains due to consideration of a recent dream and consideration of a recent event using the Ullman and Schredl dream group methods. Front Psychol 2015; 6:831. [PMID: 26150797 PMCID: PMC4471350 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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There have been reports and claims in the psychotherapeutic literature that the consideration of recent dreams can result in personal realizations and insight. There is theoretical support for these claims from work on rapid eye movement (REM) sleep having a function of the consolidation of emotional memories and the creative formation of connections between new and older memories. To investigate these claims, 11 participants (10 females, one male) reported and considered a recent home dream in a dream discussion group that following the “Appreciating dreams” method of Montague Ullman. The group ran 11 times, each participant attending and participating once. A further nine participants (seven females, two males) reported and considered a recent home dream in a group that followed the “Listening to the dreamer” method of Michael Schredl. The two studies each had a control condition where the participant also reported a recent event, the consideration of which followed the same technique as was followed for the dream report. Outcomes of the discussions were assessed by the participants on the Gains from Dream Interpretation (GDI) scale, and on its counterpart, the Gains from Event Interpretation scale. High ratings on the GDI experiential-insight subscale were reported for both methods, when applied to dreams, and for the Ullman method Exploration-Insight ratings for the dream condition were significantly higher than for the control event condition. In the Ullman method, self-assessment of personal insight due to consideration of dream content was also significantly higher than for the event consideration condition. The findings support the view that benefits can be obtained from the consideration of dream content, in terms of identifying the waking life sources of dream content, and because personal insight may also occur. To investigate the mechanisms for the findings, the studies should be repeated with REM and non-REM dream reports, hypothesizing greater insight from the former.
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- Christopher L Edwards
- Sleep Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Swansea University , Swansea, UK ; Department of Psychology, Swansea University , Swansea, UK
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- Sleep Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Swansea University , Swansea, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Swansea University , Swansea, UK
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- Sleep Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Swansea University , Swansea, UK ; Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre , INSERM U1028, Lyon, France
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- Sleep Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Swansea University , Swansea, UK ; Department of Psychology, Swansea University , Swansea, UK
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Binder S, Rawohl J, Born J, Marshall L. Transcranial slow oscillation stimulation during NREM sleep enhances acquisition of the radial maze task and modulates cortical network activity in rats. Front Behav Neurosci 2014; 7:220. [PMID: 24409131 PMCID: PMC3884143 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2013] [Accepted: 12/20/2013] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Slow wave sleep, hallmarked by the occurrence of slow oscillations (SO), plays an important role for the consolidation of hippocampus-dependent memories. Transcranial stimulation by weak electric currents oscillating at the endogenous SO frequency (SO-tDCS) during post-learning sleep was previously shown by us to boost SO activity and improve the consolidation of hippocampus-dependent memory in human subjects. Here, we aimed at replicating and extending these results to a rodent model. Rats were trained for 12 days at the beginning of their inactive phase in the reference memory version of the radial arm maze. In a between subjects design, animals received SO-tDCS over prefrontal cortex (PFC) or sham stimulation within a time frame of 1 h during subsequent non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Applied over multiple daily sessions SO-tDCS impacted cortical network activity as measured by EEG and behavior: at the EEG level, SO-tDCS enhanced post-stimulation upper delta (2–4 Hz) activity whereby the first stimulations of each day were preferentially affected. Furthermore, commencing on day 8, SO-tDCS acutely decreased theta activity indicating long-term effects on cortical networks. Behaviorally, working memory for baited maze arms was enhanced up to day 4, indicating enhanced consolidation of task-inherent rules, while reference memory errors did not differ between groups. Taken together, we could show here for the first time an effect of SO-tDCS during NREM sleep on cognitive functions and on cortical activity in a rodent model.
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- Sonja Binder
- Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lübeck Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lübeck Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lübeck Lübeck, Germany ; Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lübeck Lübeck, Germany ; Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Lübeck Lübeck, Germany
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Insights into sleep's role for insight: Studies with the number reduction task. Adv Cogn Psychol 2013; 9:160-72. [PMID: 24605175 PMCID: PMC3902672 DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0143-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2013] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
In recent years, vibrant research has developed on “consolidation” during sleep:
To what extent are newly experienced impressions reprocessed or even
restructured during sleep? We used the number reduction task (NRT) to study if
and how sleep does not only reiterate new experiences but may even lead to new
insights. In the NRT, covert regularities may speed responses. This implicit
acquisition of regularities may become explicitly conscious at some point,
leading to a qualitative change in behavior which reflects this insight. By
applying the NRT at two consecutive sessions separated by an interval, we
investigated the role of sleep in this interval for attaining insight at the
second session. In the first study, a night of sleep was shown to triple the
number of participants attaining insight above the base rate of about 20%. In
the second study, this hard core of 20% discoverers differed from other
participants in their task-related EEG potentials from the very beginning
already. In the third study, the additional role of sleep was specified as an
effect of the deep-sleep phase of slow-wave sleep on participants who had
implicitly acquired the covert regularity before sleep. It was in these
participants that a specific increase of EEG during slow-wave sleep in the 10-12
Hz band was obtained. These results support the view that neuronal memory
reprocessing during slow-wave sleep restructures task-related representations in
the brain, and that such restructuring promotes the gain of explicit
knowledge.
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Edwards CL, Ruby PM, Malinowski JE, Bennett PD, Blagrove MT. Dreaming and insight. Front Psychol 2013; 4:979. [PMID: 24550849 PMCID: PMC3872037 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2013] [Accepted: 12/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This paper addresses claims that dreams can be a source of personal insight. Whereas there has been anecdotal backing for such claims, there is now tangential support from findings of the facilitative effect of sleep on cognitive insight, and of REM sleep in particular on emotional memory consolidation. Furthermore, the presence in dreams of metaphorical representations of waking life indicates the possibility of novel insight as an emergent feature of such metaphorical mappings. In order to assess whether personal insight can occur as a result of the consideration of dream content, 11 dream group discussion sessions were conducted which followed the Ullman Dream Appreciation technique, one session for each of 11 participants (10 females, 1 male; mean age = 19.2 years). Self-ratings of deepened self-perception and personal gains from participation in the group sessions showed that the Ullman technique is an effective procedure for establishing connections between dream content and recent waking life experiences, although wake life sources were found for only 14% of dream report text. The mean Exploration-Insight score on the Gains from Dream Interpretation questionnaire was very high and comparable to outcomes from the well-established Hill (1996) therapist-led dream interpretation method. This score was associated between-subjects with pre-group positive Attitude Toward Dreams (ATD). The need to distinguish “aha” experiences as a result of discovering a waking life source for part of a dream, from “aha” experiences of personal insight as a result of considering dream content, is discussed. Difficulties are described in designing a control condition to which the dream report condition can be compared.
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- Department of Psychology, Swansea University Swansea, UK ; Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, INSERM U1028 Lyon, France
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- Department of Psychology, Swansea University Swansea, UK
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Albouy G, King BR, Maquet P, Doyon J. Hippocampus and striatum: Dynamics and interaction during acquisition and sleep-related motor sequence memory consolidation. Hippocampus 2013; 23:985-1004. [DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Geneviève Albouy
- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, C.R.I.U.G.M.; Montreal Quebec Canada
- Department of Psychology; University of Montreal; Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, C.R.I.U.G.M.; Montreal Quebec Canada
- Department of Psychology; University of Montreal; Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège; Liège Belgium
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- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, C.R.I.U.G.M.; Montreal Quebec Canada
- Department of Psychology; University of Montreal; Montreal Quebec Canada
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Dandan T, Haixue Z, Wenfu L, Wenjing Y, Jiang Q, Qinglin Z. Brain activity in using heuristic prototype to solve insightful problems. Behav Brain Res 2013; 253:139-44. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2013] [Revised: 07/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Fogelson N, Fernandez-Del-Olmo M. Implicit versus explicit local contextual processing. PLoS One 2013; 8:e65914. [PMID: 23785458 PMCID: PMC3681826 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2012] [Accepted: 04/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We investigated the effects of implicit local contextual processing using behavioral and electrophysiological measures. EEG recording blocks consisted of targets preceded by either randomized sequences of standards or by sequences including a predictive sequence signaling the occurrence of a target event. Subjects performed two sessions: in the first the regularity of the predictive sequence was implicit, while in the second this regularity was made explicit. Subjects pressed a button in response to targets. Both the implicit and explicit sessions showed shorter reaction times and peak P3b latencies for predicted versus random targets, although to a greater extent in the explicit session. In both sessions the middle and last most-informative stimuli of the three-standard predictive sequence induced a significant larger P3b compared with randomized standards. The findings show that local contextual information is processed implicitly, but that this modulation was significantly greater when subjects were explicitly instructed to attend to target-predictive contextual information. The findings suggest that top-down attentional networks have a role in modulating the extent to which contextual information is utilized.
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- Noa Fogelson
- Department of Psychology, University of A Coruña, La Coruña, Spain.
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Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of "sleep and memory" research by providing a historical perspective on concepts and a discussion of more recent key findings. Whereas initial theories posed a passive role for sleep enhancing memories by protecting them from interfering stimuli, current theories highlight an active role for sleep in which memories undergo a process of system consolidation during sleep. Whereas older research concentrated on the role of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, recent work has revealed the importance of slow-wave sleep (SWS) for memory consolidation and also enlightened some of the underlying electrophysiological, neurochemical, and genetic mechanisms, as well as developmental aspects in these processes. Specifically, newer findings characterize sleep as a brain state optimizing memory consolidation, in opposition to the waking brain being optimized for encoding of memories. Consolidation originates from reactivation of recently encoded neuronal memory representations, which occur during SWS and transform respective representations for integration into long-term memory. Ensuing REM sleep may stabilize transformed memories. While elaborated with respect to hippocampus-dependent memories, the concept of an active redistribution of memory representations from networks serving as temporary store into long-term stores might hold also for non-hippocampus-dependent memory, and even for nonneuronal, i.e., immunological memories, giving rise to the idea that the offline consolidation of memory during sleep represents a principle of long-term memory formation established in quite different physiological systems.
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- Björn Rasch
- Division of Biopsychology, Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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The sleeping child outplays the adult's capacity to convert implicit into explicit knowledge. Nat Neurosci 2013; 16:391-3. [PMID: 23434910 DOI: 10.1038/nn.3343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2012] [Accepted: 01/24/2013] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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When sleep followed implicit training on a motor sequence, children showed greater gains in explicit sequence knowledge after sleep than adults. This greater explicit knowledge in children was linked to their higher sleep slow-wave activity and to stronger hippocampal activation at explicit knowledge retrieval. Our data indicate the superiority of children in extracting invariant features from complex environments, possibly as a result of enhanced reprocessing of hippocampal memory representations during slow-wave sleep.
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Shen W, Luo J, Liu C, Yuan Y. New advances in the neural correlates of insight: A decade in review of the insightful brain. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5565-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Albouy G, Vandewalle G, Sterpenich V, Rauchs G, Desseilles M, Balteau E, Degueldre C, Phillips C, Luxen A, Maquet P. Sleep stabilizes visuomotor adaptation memory: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. J Sleep Res 2012; 22:144-54. [PMID: 23121320 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2012.01059.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2012] [Accepted: 08/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The beneficial effect of sleep on motor memory consolidation is well known for motor sequence memory, but remains unsettled for visuomotor adaptation in humans. The aim of this study was to characterize more clearly the influence of sleep on consolidation of visuomotor adaptation using a between-subjects functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) design contrasting sleep to total sleep deprivation. Our behavioural results, based on seven different parameters, show that sleep stabilizes performance whereas sleep deprivation deteriorates it. During training, while a set of cerebellar, striatal and cortical areas is activated in proportion to performance improvement, the recruitment of the hippocampus and frontal cortex protects motor memory against the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation. During retest after sleep loss a cerebello-cortical network, usually involved in the earliest stage of learning, was recruited to perform the task. In contrast, no changes in cerebral activity were observed after sleep, suggesting that it may only support the stabilization of the visuomotor adaptation memory trace.
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Durrant SJ, Cairney SA, Lewis PA. Overnight consolidation aids the transfer of statistical knowledge from the medial temporal lobe to the striatum. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 23:2467-78. [PMID: 22879350 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Sleep is important for abstraction of the underlying principles (or gist) which bind together conceptually related stimuli, but little is known about the neural correlates of this process. Here, we investigate this issue using overnight sleep monitoring and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants were exposed to a statistically structured sequence of auditory tones then tested immediately for recognition of short sequences which conformed to the learned statistical pattern. Subsequently, after consolidation over either 30 min or 24h, they performed a delayed test session in which brain activity was monitored with fMRI. Behaviorally, there was greater improvement across 24h than across 30 min, and this was predicted by the amount of slow wave sleep (SWS) obtained. Functionally, we observed weaker parahippocampal responses and stronger striatal responses after sleep. Like the behavioral result, these differences in functional response were predicted by the amount of SWS obtained. Furthermore, connectivity between striatum and parahippocampus was weaker after sleep, whereas connectivity between putamen and planum temporale was stronger. Taken together, these findings suggest that abstraction is associated with a gradual shift from the hippocampal to the striatal memory system and that this may be mediated by SWS.
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- Simon J Durrant
- School of Psychology, Bridge House, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK and
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Sleep-dependent memory consolidation – What can be learnt from children? Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2012; 36:1718-28. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2011] [Revised: 02/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ruby PM. Experimental research on dreaming: state of the art and neuropsychoanalytic perspectives. Front Psychol 2011; 2:286. [PMID: 22121353 PMCID: PMC3220269 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2011] [Accepted: 10/10/2011] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Dreaming is still a mystery of human cognition, although it has been studied experimentally for more than a century. Experimental psychology first investigated dream content and frequency. The neuroscientific approach to dreaming arose at the end of the 1950s and soon proposed a physiological substrate of dreaming: rapid eye movement sleep. Fifty years later, this hypothesis was challenged because it could not explain all of the characteristics of dream reports. Therefore, the neurophysiological correlates of dreaming are still unclear, and many questions remain unresolved. Do the representations that constitute the dream emerge randomly from the brain, or do they surface according to certain parameters? Is the organization of the dream's representations chaotic or is it determined by rules? Does dreaming have a meaning? What is/are the function(s) of dreaming? Psychoanalysis provides hypotheses to address these questions. Until now, these hypotheses have received minimal attention in cognitive neuroscience, but the recent development of neuropsychoanalysis brings new hopes of interaction between the two fields. Considering the psychoanalytical perspective in cognitive neuroscience would provide new directions and leads for dream research and would help to achieve a comprehensive understanding of dreaming. Notably, several subjective issues at the core of the psychoanalytic approach, such as the concept of personal meaning, the concept of unconscious episodic memory and the subject's history, are not addressed or considered in cognitive neuroscience. This paper argues that the focus on singularity and personal meaning in psychoanalysis is needed to successfully address these issues in cognitive neuroscience and to progress in the understanding of dreaming and the psyche.
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- Perrine M. Ruby
- INSERM U1028, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition TeamLyon, France
- CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition TeamLyon, France
- University Lyon 1Lyon, France
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We investigated human hippocampal functional connectivity in wakefulness and throughout non-rapid eye movement sleep. Young healthy subjects underwent simultaneous EEG and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measurements at 1.5 T under resting conditions in the descent to deep sleep. Continuous 5 min epochs representing a unique sleep stage (i.e., wakefulness, sleep stages 1 and 2, or slow-wave sleep) were extracted. fMRI time series of subregions of the hippocampal formation (HF) (cornu ammonis, dentate gyrus, and subiculum) were extracted based on cytoarchitectonical probability maps. We observed sleep stage-dependent changes in HF functional coupling. The HF was integrated to variable strength in the default mode network (DMN) in wakefulness and light sleep stages but not in slow-wave sleep. The strongest functional connectivity between the HF and neocortex was observed in sleep stage 2 (compared with both slow-wave sleep and wakefulness). We observed a strong interaction of sleep spindle occurrence and HF functional connectivity in sleep stage 2, with increased HF/neocortical connectivity during spindles. Moreover, the cornu ammonis exhibited strongest functional connectivity with the DMN during wakefulness, while the subiculum dominated hippocampal functional connectivity to frontal brain regions during sleep stage 2. Increased connectivity between HF and neocortical regions in sleep stage 2 suggests an increased capacity for possible global information transfer, while connectivity in slow-wave sleep is reflecting a functional system optimal for segregated information reprocessing. Our data may be relevant to differentiating sleep stage-specific contributions to neural plasticity as proposed in sleep-dependent memory consolidation.
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