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Nogueira MG, Silvestrin M, Barreto CSF, Sato JR, Mesquita RC, Biazoli C, Baptista AF. Differences in brain activity between fast and slow responses on psychomotor vigilance task: an fNIRS study. Brain Imaging Behav 2022; 16:1563-1574. [PMID: 35091973 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-021-00611-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Attention is a basic human function underlying every other cognitive process. It is demonstrated in the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging literature that frontoparietal networks are involved with attentive performance while default mode networks are involved with inattentive performance. Yet, it is still not clear whether similar results would be found with functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. The goal of our study was to investigate differences in hemodynamic activity measured by functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy between fast and slow responses on a simple sustained attention task both before and after stimulus onset. Thirty healthy adults took part in the study. Our results have shown differences between fast and slow responses only on channels over medial frontal cortex and inferior parietal cortex (p < 0,05). These differences were observed both before and after stimulus presentation. It is discussed that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy is a good tool to investigate the frontoparietal network and its relationship with performance in attention tasks; it could be used to further investigate other approaches on attention, such as the dual network model of cognitive control and brain states views based on complex systems analysis; and finally, it could be used to investigate attention in naturalistic settings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mateus G Nogueira
- Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC -SP, Avenida dos Estados, 5001, Bloco B, Sala 803, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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- Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC -SP, Avenida dos Estados, 5001, Bloco B, Sala 803, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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- Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC -SP, Avenida dos Estados, 5001, Bloco B, Sala 803, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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- Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC -SP, Avenida dos Estados, 5001, Bloco B, Sala 803, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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- Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC -SP, Avenida dos Estados, 5001, Bloco B, Sala 803, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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- Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC -SP, Avenida dos Estados, 5001, Bloco B, Sala 803, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.
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Thomas RM, De Sanctis T, Gazzola V, Keysers C. Where and how our brain represents the temporal structure of observed action. Neuroimage 2018; 183:677-697. [PMID: 30165253 PMCID: PMC6215330 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Reacting faster to the behaviour of others provides evolutionary advantages. Reacting to unpredictable events takes hundreds of milliseconds. Understanding where and how the brain represents what actions are likely to follow one another is, therefore, important. Everyday actions occur in predictable sequences, yet neuroscientists focus on how brains respond to unexpected, individual motor acts. Using fMRI, we show the brain encodes sequence-related information in the motor system. Using EEG, we show visual responses are faster and smaller for predictable sequences. We hope this paradigm encourages the field to shift its focus from single acts to motor sequences. It sheds light on how we adapt to the actions of others and suggests that the motor system may implement perceptual predictive coding.
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- R M Thomas
- The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, An Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, An Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam, the Netherlands; PharmAccess Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, An Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Brain & Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, An Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Brain & Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Achaibou A, Loth E, Bishop SJ. Distinct frontal and amygdala correlates of change detection for facial identity and expression. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016; 11:225-33. [PMID: 26245835 PMCID: PMC4733333 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsv104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2015] [Revised: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recruitment of 'top-down' frontal attentional mechanisms is held to support detection of changes in task-relevant stimuli. Fluctuations in intrinsic frontal activity have been shown to impact task performance more generally. Meanwhile, the amygdala has been implicated in 'bottom-up' attentional capture by threat. Here, 22 adult human participants took part in a functional magnetic resonance change detection study aimed at investigating the correlates of successful (vs failed) detection of changes in facial identity vs expression. For identity changes, we expected prefrontal recruitment to differentiate 'hit' from 'miss' trials, in line with previous reports. Meanwhile, we postulated that a different mechanism would support detection of emotionally salient changes. Specifically, elevated amygdala activation was predicted to be associated with successful detection of threat-related changes in expression, over-riding the influence of fluctuations in top-down attention. Our findings revealed that fusiform activity tracked change detection across conditions. Ventrolateral prefrontal cortical activity was uniquely linked to detection of changes in identity not expression, and amygdala activity to detection of changes from neutral to fearful expressions. These results are consistent with distinct mechanisms supporting detection of changes in face identity vs expression, the former potentially reflecting top-down attention, the latter bottom-up attentional capture by stimulus emotional salience.
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- Amal Achaibou
- Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, USA and
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- Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK
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- Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, USA and
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Kottlow M, Schlaepfer A, Baenninger A, Michels L, Brandeis D, Koenig T. Pre-stimulus BOLD-network activation modulates EEG spectral activity during working memory retention. Front Behav Neurosci 2015; 9:111. [PMID: 25999828 PMCID: PMC4422031 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2015] [Accepted: 04/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Working memory (WM) processes depend on our momentary mental state and therefore exhibit considerable fluctuations. Here, we investigate the interplay of task-preparatory and task-related brain activity as represented by pre-stimulus BOLD-fluctuations and spectral EEG from the retention periods of a visual WM task. Visual WM is used to maintain sensory information in the brain enabling the performance of cognitive operations and is associated with mental health. We tested 22 subjects simultaneously with EEG and fMRI while performing a visuo-verbal Sternberg task with two different loads, allowing for the temporal separation of preparation, encoding, retention and retrieval periods. Four temporally coherent networks (TCNs)—the default mode network (DMN), the dorsal attention, the right and the left WM network—were extracted from the continuous BOLD data by means of a group ICA. Subsequently, the modulatory effect of these networks' pre-stimulus activation upon retention-related EEG activity in the theta, alpha, and beta frequencies was analyzed. The obtained results are informative in the context of state-dependent information processing. We were able to replicate two well-known load-dependent effects: the frontal-midline theta increase during the task and the decrease of pre-stimulus DMN activity. As our main finding, these two measures seem to depend on each other as the significant negative correlations at frontal-midline channels suggested. Thus, suppressed pre-stimulus DMN levels facilitated later task related frontal midline theta increases. In general, based on previous findings that neuronal coupling in different frequency bands may underlie distinct functions in WM retention, our results suggest that processes reflected by spectral oscillations during retention seem not only to be “online” synchronized with activity in different attention-related networks but are also modulated by activity in these networks during preparation intervals.
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- Mara Kottlow
- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Bern Psychiatric Services (UPS) Bern, Switzerland ; Chronobiology and Sleep Research, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland ; Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Bern Psychiatric Services (UPS) Bern, Switzerland ; Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim/Heidelberg University Mannheim, Germany ; Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland ; Neuroscience Center Zurich, University and ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Bern Psychiatric Services (UPS) Bern, Switzerland ; Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern Bern, Switzerland
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