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Seidel Malkinson T, Bayle DJ, Kaufmann BC, Liu J, Bourgeois A, Lehongre K, Fernandez-Vidal S, Navarro V, Lambrecq V, Adam C, Margulies DS, Sitt JD, Bartolomeo P. Intracortical recordings reveal vision-to-action cortical gradients driving human exogenous attention. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2586. [PMID: 38531880 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46013-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Exogenous attention, the process that makes external salient stimuli pop-out of a visual scene, is essential for survival. How attention-capturing events modulate human brain processing remains unclear. Here we show how the psychological construct of exogenous attention gradually emerges over large-scale gradients in the human cortex, by analyzing activity from 1,403 intracortical contacts implanted in 28 individuals, while they performed an exogenous attention task. The timing, location and task-relevance of attentional events defined a spatiotemporal gradient of three neural clusters, which mapped onto cortical gradients and presented a hierarchy of timescales. Visual attributes modulated neural activity at one end of the gradient, while at the other end it reflected the upcoming response timing, with attentional effects occurring at the intersection of visual and response signals. These findings challenge multi-step models of attention, and suggest that frontoparietal networks, which process sequential stimuli as separate events sharing the same location, drive exogenous attention phenomena such as inhibition of return.
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- Tal Seidel Malkinson
- Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France.
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IMoPA, F-54000, Nancy, France.
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- Licae Lab, Université Paris Ouest-La Défense, 92000, Nanterre, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
- Dassault Systèmes, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neurorehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1206, Geneva, Switzerland
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- CENIR - Centre de Neuro-Imagerie de Recherche, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
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- CENIR - Centre de Neuro-Imagerie de Recherche, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
- AP-HP, Epilepsy and EEG Units, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 75013, Paris, France
- Reference center of rare epilepsies, EpiCare, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
- AP-HP, Epilepsy and EEG Units, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 75013, Paris, France
- Reference center of rare epilepsies, EpiCare, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
- AP-HP, Epilepsy and EEG Units, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 75013, Paris, France
- Reference center of rare epilepsies, EpiCare, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire INCC, équipe Perception, Action, Cognition, Université de Paris, 75005, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
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Taran N, Farah R, Gashri C, Gitman E, Rosch K, Schlaggar BL, Horowitz-Kraus T. Executive functions-based reading training engages the cingulo-opercular and dorsal attention networks. Netw Neurosci 2023; 7:1452-1482. [PMID: 38144685 PMCID: PMC10727775 DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/26/2023] Open
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a computerized executive functions (EFs)-based reading intervention on neural circuits supporting EFs and visual attention. Seed-to-voxel functional connectivity analysis was conducted focusing on large-scale attention system brain networks, during an fMRI reading fluency task. Participants were 8- to 12-year-old English-speaking children with dyslexia (n = 43) and typical readers (n = 36) trained on an EFs-based reading training (n = 40) versus math training (n = 39). Training duration was 8 weeks. After the EFs-based reading intervention, children with dyslexia improved their scores in reading rate and visual attention (compared to math intervention). Neurobiologically, children with dyslexia displayed an increase in functional connectivity strength after the intervention between the cingulo-opercular network and occipital and precentral regions. Noteworthy, the functional connectivity indices between these brain regions showed a positive correlation with speed of processing and visual attention scores in both pretest and posttest. The results suggest that reading improvement following an EFs-based reading intervention involves neuroplastic connectivity changes in brain areas related to EFs and primary visual processing in children with dyslexia. Our results highlight the need for training underlying cognitive abilities supporting reading, such as EFs and visual attention, in order to enhance reading abilities in dyslexia.
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- Nikolay Taran
- Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Campos B, Choi H, DeMarco AT, Seydell-Greenwald A, Hussain SJ, Joy MT, Turkeltaub PE, Zeiger W. Rethinking Remapping: Circuit Mechanisms of Recovery after Stroke. J Neurosci 2023; 43:7489-7500. [PMID: 37940595 PMCID: PMC10634578 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1425-23.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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Stroke is one of the most common causes of disability, and there are few treatments that can improve recovery after stroke. Therapeutic development has been hindered because of a lack of understanding of precisely how neural circuits are affected by stroke, and how these circuits change to mediate recovery. Indeed, some of the hypotheses for how the CNS changes to mediate recovery, including remapping, redundancy, and diaschisis, date to more than a century ago. Recent technological advances have enabled the interrogation of neural circuits with ever greater temporal and spatial resolution. These techniques are increasingly being applied across animal models of stroke and to human stroke survivors, and are shedding light on the molecular, structural, and functional changes that neural circuits undergo after stroke. Here we review these studies and highlight important mechanisms that underlie impairment and recovery after stroke. We begin by summarizing knowledge about changes in neural activity that occur in the peri-infarct cortex, specifically considering evidence for the functional remapping hypothesis of recovery. Next, we describe the importance of neural population dynamics, disruptions in these dynamics after stroke, and how allocation of neurons into spared circuits can restore functionality. On a more global scale, we then discuss how effects on long-range pathways, including interhemispheric interactions and corticospinal tract transmission, contribute to post-stroke impairments. Finally, we look forward and consider how a deeper understanding of neural circuit mechanisms of recovery may lead to novel treatments to reduce disability and improve recovery after stroke.
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- Baruc Campos
- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Department of Neurology, Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158
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- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
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- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
- MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC 20010
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- Movement and Cognitive Rehabilitation Science Program, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609
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- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
- MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC 20010
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095
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Wang T, de Graaf T, Tanner L, Schuhmann T, Duecker F, Sack AT. Hemispheric Asymmetry in TMS-Induced Effects on Spatial Attention: A Meta-Analysis. Neuropsychol Rev 2023:10.1007/s11065-023-09614-2. [PMID: 37736863 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-023-09614-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023]
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Hemispheric asymmetry is a fundamental principle in the functional architecture of the brain. It plays an important role in attention research where right hemisphere dominance is core to many attention theories. Lesion studies seem to confirm such hemispheric dominance with patients being more likely to develop left hemineglect after right hemispheric stroke than vice versa. However, the underlying concept of hemispheric dominance is still not entirely clear. Brain stimulation studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) might be able to illuminate this concept. To examine the putative hemispheric asymmetry in spatial attention, we conducted a meta-analysis of studies applying inhibitory TMS protocols to the left or right posterior parietal cortices (PPC), assessing effects on attention biases with the landmark and line bisection task. A total of 18 studies including 222 participants from 1994 to February 2022 were identified. The analysis revealed a significant shift of the perceived midpoint towards the ipsilateral hemifield after right PPC suppression (Cohen's d = 0.52), but no significant effect after left PPC suppression (Cohen's d = 0.26), suggesting a hemispheric asymmetry even though the subgroup difference does not reach significance (p = .06). A complementary Bayesian meta-analysis revealed a high probability of at least a medium effect size after right PPC disruption versus a low probability after left PPC disruption. This is the first quantitative meta-analysis supporting right hemisphere-specific TMS-induced spatial attention deficits, mimicking hemineglect in healthy participants. We discuss the result in the light of prominent attention theories, ultimately concluding how difficult it remains to differentiate between these theories based on attentional bias scores alone.
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- Ting Wang
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
- Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Brain+Nerve Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Schintu S, Kravitz DJ, Silson EH, Cunningham CA, Wassermann EM, Shomstein S. Dynamic changes in spatial representation within the posterior parietal cortex in response to visuomotor adaptation. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:3651-3663. [PMID: 35989306 PMCID: PMC10068280 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2022] [Revised: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Recent studies used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) population receptive field (pRF) mapping to demonstrate that retinotopic organization extends from the primary visual cortex to ventral and dorsal visual pathways, by quantifying visual field maps, receptive field size, and laterality throughout multiple areas. Visuospatial representation in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is modulated by attentional deployment, raising the question of whether spatial representation in the PPC is dynamic and flexible, and whether this flexibility contributes to visuospatial learning. To answer this question, changes in spatial representation within the PPC and early visual cortex were recorded with pRF mapping before and after prism adaptation (PA)-a well-established visuomotor technique that modulates visuospatial attention according to the direction of the visual displacement. As predicted, results showed that adaptation to left-shifting prisms increases pRF size in left PPC, while leaving space representation in the early visual cortex unchanged. This is the first evidence that PA drives a dynamic reorganization of response profiles in the PPC. These findings show that spatial representations in the PPC not only reflect changes driven by attentional deployment but dynamically change in response to modulation of external factors such as manipulation of the visuospatial input during visuomotor adaptation.
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- S Schintu
- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The George Washington University, 2125 G St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA
- Center for Mind/BrainSciences-CIMeC, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben, 5/B, Rovereto, TN, 38068, Italy
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The George Washington University, 2125 G St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Section on Learning and Plasticity, National Institute of Mental Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
- Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD, UK
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- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
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- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The George Washington University, 2125 G St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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Where and when matter in visual recognition. Atten Percept Psychophys 2023; 85:404-417. [PMID: 36333625 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-022-02607-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Our perceptual system processes only a selected subset of an incoming stream of stimuli due to sensory biases and limitations in spatial and temporal attention and working memory capacity. In this study, we investigated perceptual access to sensory information that was temporally predictable or unpredictable and spread across the visual field. In a visual recognition task, participants were presented with an array of different number of alphabetical stimuli that were followed by a probe with a delay. They had to indicate whether the probe was included in the stimulus-set or not. To test the impact of temporal attention, coloured cues that were displayed before the visual stimuli indicated the presentation onset of the stimulus-set. We found that temporal predictability of stimulus onset yields higher performance. In addition, recognition performance was biased across the visual field with higher performance for stimuli that were presented on the upper and right visual quadrants. Our findings demonstrate that recognition accuracy is enhanced by temporal cues and has an inherently asymmetric shape across the visual field.
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Ouerfelli-Ethier J, Comtois Bona I, Fournet R, Pisella L, Khan AZ. Pre-saccadic attention relies more on suppression than does covert attention. J Vis 2023; 23:1. [PMID: 36595283 PMCID: PMC9819743 DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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During covert and pre-saccadic attentional shifts, it is unclear how facilitation and suppression processes interact for target selection. A recent countermanding task pointed to greater suppression at unattended locations during trials with saccades compared to trials without saccades (i.e., fixation and successful stop trials), whereas target facilitation did not differ. It is unknown whether this finding is restricted to countermanding paradigms that involve inhibitory processes. To test this, we adapted Gaspelin and colleagues (2015)'s attention capture task where, within the same block, one location was primed with frequent line discrimination trials, and all locations were occasionally probed using letters report trials. Participants also performed a baseline condition without priming. We tested 15 participants and examined how performance at non-primed locations was affected by covert versus pre-saccadic attention in blocks of four or six items, as well as by position from the primed location and timing from saccade onset. For both attention conditions, letter report at non-primed locations was worse compared to baseline, demonstrating suppression, and letter report at primed location was better, demonstrating facilitation. In saccades trials, letter report was better at primed locations and worse at non-primed locations compared to fixation trials. The timing of this additional pre-saccadic suppression differed from saccadic suppression. In both attention conditions, suppression was greater when primed and non-primed locations were within the same hemifield or in diagonal opposite quadrants. These results confirmed that attention preceding saccade execution suppressed non-primed locations to a larger extent than covert attention, with the same spatial quadrant effect.
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- Julie Ouerfelli-Ethier
- School of Optometry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.,Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Trajectoires team, University of Lyon I Claude-Bernard, Bron, France.,
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- School of Optometry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.,
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Trajectoires team, University of Lyon I Claude-Bernard, Bron, France.,
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The Effect of Mirror Visual Feedback on Spatial Neglect for Patients after Stroke: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial. Brain Sci 2022; 13:brainsci13010003. [PMID: 36671985 PMCID: PMC9856593 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13010003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Revised: 12/10/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
We investigated the effects of mirror visual feedback (MVF), with reference to using a glass wall or a covered mirror, on the reduction of spatial neglect for patients with stroke. A total of 21 subacute patients with left spatial neglect after right-hemispheric stroke were randomly assigned to 3 groups: MVF, sham 1 (viewing the hemiparetic arm through the transparent glass during bilateral arm movement) and sham 2 (using a covered mirror). The 3-week treatment program for all groups consisted of 12 sessions of movement tasks for the hemiparetic arm graded according to the severity of arm impairments. Blinded assessments were administered at pre/post and a three-week follow-up. The results showed that there was no significant advantage for MVF than sham 1; however, MVF was more beneficial than sham 2, as shown by the line crossing (p = 0.022). Improvement in discriminating the left-gap figures on the left and right side of the page in the Gap Detection Test was greater in MVF than using the covered mirror (p = 0.013; p = 0.010), showing a slight advantage of MVF in alleviating allocentric symptoms. Our study confirms that MVF was superior to using a covered mirror as a method for reducing spatial neglect and in alleviating its allocentric symptoms, but no significant advantage over bilateral arm movement through transparent glass was found. Further research in comparing their therapeutic effects is warranted.
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Tsujimoto K, Nishida D, Tahara M, Liu M, Tsuji T, Mizuno K. Neural correlates of spatial attention bias: Changes in functional connectivity in attention networks associated with tDCS. Neuropsychologia 2022; 177:108417. [PMID: 36356702 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108417] [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: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
The prevailing theory concerning the pathophysiology of unilateral spatial neglect is that it is caused by an interhemispheric imbalance in attention networks. Previous studies have demonstrated that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation or transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) delivered over the right posterior parietal cortex can induce transitory neglect-like deficits in healthy individuals. We examined whether right cathodal and left anodal tDCS delivered over the posterior parietal cortex could produce neglect-like deficits and change the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of attention networks. We found that the reaction time for targets in the left hemifield was significantly prolonged during two different types of visual search tasks, and rsFC of the attention networks was altered by tDCS. Furthermore, the change in the reaction times for the left visual target in the two different tasks significantly correlated with the change in the rsFC of either the right dorsal attention network (DAN) or right ventral attention network (VAN) based on the tasks. These results suggest that tDCS delivered to the posterior parietal cortex bilaterally induced neglect-like deficits by altering the connectivity of the attentional networks through excitability changes in the cortical area under the electrode. The results of this study are consistent with the hypothesis that the cause of neglect is the interhemispheric imbalance of attention networks. This is the first study to demonstrate that local cortical stimulation can induce changes not only in the local brain function but also in the cortical networks in healthy individuals.
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- Kengo Tsujimoto
- Department of Physical Rehabilitation, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Hospital, 4-1-1 Ogawa-Higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan.
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- Department of Physical Rehabilitation, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Hospital, 4-1-1 Ogawa-Higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan; Department of Rehabilitation, Tokai University, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture, 259-1193, Japan
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- Department of Rehabilitation Therapist, Saiseikai Higashikanagawa Rehabilitation Hospital, 1-13-10 Nishikanagawa, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, 221-0822, Japan
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Physical Rehabilitation, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Hospital, 4-1-1 Ogawa-Higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan
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Middag‐van Spanje M, Duecker F, Gallotto S, de Graaf TA, van Heugten C, Sack AT, Schuhmann T. Transcranial magnetic stimulation over posterior parietal cortex modulates alerting and executive control processes in attention. Eur J Neurosci 2022; 56:5853-5868. [PMID: 36161393 PMCID: PMC9828423 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Attention includes three different functional components: generating and maintaining an alert state (alerting), orienting to sensory events (orienting), and resolving conflicts between alternative actions (executive control). Neuroimaging and patient studies suggest that the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is involved in all three attention components. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has repeatedly been applied over the PPC to study its functional role for shifts and maintenance of visuospatial attention. Most TMS-PPC studies used only detection tasks or orienting paradigms to investigate TMS-PPC effects on attention processes, neglecting the alerting and executive control components of attention. The objective of the present study was to investigate the role of PPC in all three functional components of attention: alerting, orienting, and executive control. To this end, we disrupted PPC with TMS (continuous theta-burst stimulation), to modulate subsequent performance on the Lateralized-Attention Network Test, used to assess the three attention components separately. Our results revealed hemifield-specific effects on alerting and executive control functions, but we did not find stimulation effects on orienting performance. While this field of research and associated clinical development have been predominantly focused on orienting performance, our results suggest that parietal cortex and its modulation may affect other aspects of attention as well.
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- Marij Middag‐van Spanje
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and NeuroscienceMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands,InteraktContourNunspeetThe Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and NeuroscienceMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands,Maastricht Brain Imaging CenterMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and NeuroscienceMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and NeuroscienceMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands,Maastricht Brain Imaging CenterMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Psychology and NeuroscienceMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands,Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Brain + Nerve CentreMaastricht University Medical Centre+MaastrichtThe Netherlands,Limburg Brain Injury CenterMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and NeuroscienceMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands,Maastricht Brain Imaging CenterMaastrichtThe Netherlands,Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Brain + Nerve CentreMaastricht University Medical Centre+MaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and NeuroscienceMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands,Maastricht Brain Imaging CenterMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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Schintu S, Gotts SJ, Freedberg M, Shomstein S, Wassermann EM. Effective connectivity underlying neural and behavioral components of prism adaptation. Front Psychol 2022; 13:915260. [PMID: 36118425 PMCID: PMC9479732 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.915260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Prism adaptation (PA) is a form of visuomotor training that produces both sensorimotor and cognitive aftereffects depending on the direction of the visual displacement. Recently, a neural framework explaining both types of PA-induced aftereffects has been proposed, but direct evidence for it is lacking. We employed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), a form of effective connectivity analysis, to establish directionality among connected nodes of the brain network thought to subserve PA. The findings reveal two distinct network branches: (1) a loop involving connections from the parietal cortices to the right parahippocampal gyrus, and (2) a branch linking the lateral premotor cortex to the parahippocampal gyrus via the cerebellum. Like the sensorimotor aftereffects, the first branch exhibited qualitatively different modulations for left versus right PA, and critically, changes in these connections were correlated with the magnitude of the sensorimotor aftereffects. Like the cognitive aftereffects, changes in the second branch were qualitatively similar for left and right PA, with greater change for left PA and a trend correlation with cognitive aftereffects. These results provide direct evidence that PA is supported by two functionally distinct subnetworks, a parietal–temporal network responsible for sensorimotor aftereffects and a fronto-cerebellar network responsible for cognitive aftereffects.
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Affiliation(s)
- Selene Schintu
- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences-CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto, Trentino, Italy
- *Correspondence: Selene Schintu,
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- Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Leow YN, Zhou B, Sullivan HA, Barlowe AR, Wickersham IR, Sur M. Brain-wide mapping of inputs to the mouse lateral posterior (LP/Pulvinar) thalamus-anterior cingulate cortex network. J Comp Neurol 2022; 530:1992-2013. [PMID: 35383929 PMCID: PMC9167239 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Revised: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Abstract
The rodent homolog of the primate pulvinar, the lateral posterior (LP) thalamus, is extensively interconnected with multiple cortical areas. While these cortical interactions can span the entire LP, subdivisions of the LP are characterized by differential connections with specific cortical regions. In particular, the medial LP has reciprocal connections with frontoparietal cortical areas, including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). The ACC plays an integral role in top‐down sensory processing and attentional regulation, likely exerting some of these functions via the LP. However, little is known about how ACC and LP interact, and about the information potentially integrated in this reciprocal network. Here, we address this gap by employing a projection‐specific monosynaptic rabies tracing strategy to delineate brain‐wide inputs to bottom‐up LP→ACC and top‐down ACC→LP neurons. We find that LP→ACC neurons receive inputs from widespread cortical regions, including primary and higher order sensory and motor cortical areas. LP→ACC neurons also receive extensive subcortical inputs, particularly from the intermediate and deep layers of the superior colliculus (SC). Sensory inputs to ACC→LP neurons largely arise from visual cortical areas. In addition, ACC→LP neurons integrate cross‐hemispheric prefrontal cortex inputs as well as inputs from higher order medial cortex. Our brain‐wide anatomical mapping of inputs to the reciprocal LP‐ACC pathways provides a roadmap for understanding how LP and ACC communicate different sources of information to mediate attentional control and visuomotor functions.
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- Yi Ning Leow
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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The prioritisation of motivationally salient stimuli in hemi-spatial neglect may be underpinned by goal-relevance: a meta-analytic review. Cortex 2022; 150:85-107. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Revised: 08/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Kemmerer SK, Sack AT, de Graaf TA, Ten Oever S, De Weerd P, Schuhmann T. Frequency-specific transcranial neuromodulation of alpha power alters visuospatial attention performance. Brain Res 2022; 1782:147834. [PMID: 35176250 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at 10Hz has been shown to modulate spatial attention. However, the frequency-specificity and the oscillatory changes underlying this tACS effect are still largely unclear. Here, we applied high-definition tACS at individual alpha frequency (IAF), two control frequencies (IAF+/-2Hz) and sham to the left posterior parietal cortex and measured its effects on visuospatial attention performance and offline alpha power (using electroencephalography, EEG). We revealed a behavioural and electrophysiological stimulation effect relative to sham for IAF but not control frequency stimulation conditions: there was a leftward lateralization of alpha power for IAF tACS, which differed from sham for the first out of three minutes following tACS. At a high value of this EEG effect (moderation effect), we observed a leftward attention bias relative to sham. This effect was task-specific, i.e. it could be found in an endogenous attention but not in a detection task. Only in the IAF tACS condition, we also found a correlation between the magnitude of the alpha lateralization and the attentional bias effect. Our results support a functional role of alpha oscillations in visuospatial attention and the potential of tACS to modulate it. The frequency-specificity of the effects suggests that an individualization of the stimulation frequency is necessary in heterogeneous target groups with a large variation in IAF.
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- S K Kemmerer
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Brain Imaging Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Brain Imaging Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Brain + Nerve Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Brain Imaging Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Brain Imaging Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Brain Imaging Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Taran N, Farah R, DiFrancesco M, Altaye M, Vannest J, Holland S, Rosch K, Schlaggar BL, Horowitz-Kraus T. The role of visual attention in dyslexia: Behavioral and neurobiological evidence. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 43:1720-1737. [PMID: 34981603 PMCID: PMC8886655 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Revised: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Poor phonological processing has typically been considered the main cause of dyslexia. However, visuo‐attentional processing abnormalities have been described as well. The goal of the present study was to determine the involvement of visual attention during fluent reading in children with dyslexia and typical readers. Here, 75 children (8–12 years old; 36 typical readers, 39 children with dyslexia) completed cognitive and reading assessments. Neuroimaging data were acquired while children performed a fluent reading task with (a) a condition where the text remained on the screen (Still) versus (b) a condition in which the letters were being deleted (Deleted). Cognitive assessment data analysis revealed that visual attention, executive functions, and phonological awareness significantly contributed to reading comprehension in both groups. A seed‐to‐voxel functional connectivity analysis was performed on the fluency functional magnetic resonance imaging task. Typical readers showed greater functional connectivity between the dorsal attention network and the left angular gyrus while performing the Still and Deleted reading tasks versus children with dyslexia. Higher connectivity values were associated with higher reading comprehension. The control group showed increased functional connectivity between the ventral attention network and the fronto‐parietal network during the Deleted text condition (compared with the Still condition). Children with dyslexia did not display this pattern. The results suggest that the synchronized activity of executive, visual attention, and reading‐related networks is a pattern of functional integration which children with dyslexia fail to achieve. The present evidence points toward a critical role of visual attention in dyslexia.
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- Nikolay Taran
- Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.,Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Ferrara K, Seydell-Greenwald A, Chambers CE, Newport EL, Landau B. Developmental changes in neural lateralization for visual-spatial function: Evidence from a line-bisection task. Dev Sci 2021; 25:e13217. [PMID: 34913543 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13217] [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: 05/19/2021] [Revised: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
Studies of hemispheric specialization have traditionally cast the left hemisphere as specialized for language and the right hemisphere for spatial function. Much of the supporting evidence for this separation of function comes from studies of healthy adults and those who have sustained lesions to the right or left hemisphere. However, we know little about the developmental origins of lateralization. Recent evidence suggests that the young brain represents language bilaterally, with 4-6-year-olds activating the left-hemisphere regions known to support language in adults as well as homotopic regions in the right hemisphere. This bilateral pattern changes over development, converging on left-hemispheric activation in late childhood. In the present study, we ask whether this same developmental trajectory is observed in a spatial task that is strongly right-lateralized in adults-the line bisection (or "Landmark") task. We examined fMRI activation among children ages 5-11 years as they were asked to judge which end of a bisected vertical line was longer. We found that young children showed bilateral activation, with activation in the same areas of the right hemisphere as has been shown among adults, as well as in the left hemisphere homotopic regions. By age 10, activation was right-lateralized. This strongly resembles the developmental trajectory for language, moving from bilateral to lateralized activation. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and suggest that understanding the development of lateralization for a range of cognitive functions can play a crucial role in understanding general principles of how and why the brain comes to lateralize certain functions.
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- Katrina Ferrara
- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.,Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.,Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Contò F, Edwards G, Tyler S, Parrott D, Grossman E, Battelli L. Attention network modulation via tRNS correlates with attention gain. eLife 2021; 10:e63782. [PMID: 34826292 PMCID: PMC8626087 DOI: 10.7554/elife.63782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) can enhance vision in the healthy and diseased brain. Yet, the impact of multi-day tRNS on large-scale cortical networks is still unknown. We investigated the impact of tRNS coupled with behavioral training on resting-state functional connectivity and attention. We trained human subjects for 4 consecutive days on two attention tasks, while receiving tRNS over the intraparietal sulci, the middle temporal areas, or Sham stimulation. We measured resting-state functional connectivity of nodes of the dorsal and ventral attention network (DVAN) before and after training. We found a strong behavioral improvement and increased connectivity within the DVAN after parietal stimulation only. Crucially, behavioral improvement positively correlated with connectivity measures. We conclude changes in connectivity are a marker for the enduring effect of tRNS upon behavior. Our results suggest that tRNS has strong potential to augment cognitive capacity in healthy individuals and promote recovery in the neurological population.
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- Federica Contò
- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaRoveretoItaly
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of TrentoRoveretoItaly
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaRoveretoItaly
- Department of Psychology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaRoveretoItaly
- Butte CollegeOrovilleUnited States
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaRoveretoItaly
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of TrentoRoveretoItaly
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, IrvineIrvineUnited States
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaRoveretoItaly
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of TrentoRoveretoItaly
- Department of Psychology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
- Department of Neurology, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel, Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
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Wienke C, Bartsch MV, Vogelgesang L, Reichert C, Hinrichs H, Heinze HJ, Dürschmid S. Mind-wandering Is Accompanied by Both Local Sleep and Enhanced Processes of Spatial Attention Allocation. Cereb Cortex Commun 2021; 2:tgab001. [PMID: 34296151 PMCID: PMC8153027 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgab001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Revised: 12/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Mind-wandering (MW) is a subjective, cognitive phenomenon, in which thoughts move away from the task toward an internal train of thoughts, possibly during phases of neuronal sleep-like activity (local sleep, LS). MW decreases cortical processing of external stimuli and is assumed to decouple attention from the external world. Here, we directly tested how indicators of LS, cortical processing, and attentional selection change in a pop-out visual search task during phases of MW. Participants’ brain activity was recorded using magnetoencephalography, MW was assessed via self-report using randomly interspersed probes. As expected, the performance decreased under MW. Consistent with the occurrence of LS, MW was accompanied by a decrease in high-frequency activity (HFA, 80–150 Hz) and an increase in slow wave activity (SWA, 1–6 Hz). In contrast, visual attentional selection as indexed by the N2pc component was enhanced during MW with the N2pc amplitude being directly linked to participants’ performance. This observation clearly contradicts accounts of attentional decoupling that would predict a decrease in attention-related responses to external stimuli during MW. Together, our results suggest that MW occurs during phases of LS with processes of attentional target selection being upregulated, potentially to compensate for the mental distraction during MW.
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- Christian Wienke
- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestr. 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestr. 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Forschungscampus STIMULATE, Otto-von-Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.,Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestr. 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany.,CBBS - center of behavioral brain sciences, Otto-von-Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany.,Forschungscampus STIMULATE, Otto-von-Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.,Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestr. 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany.,CBBS - center of behavioral brain sciences, Otto-von-Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany.,Forschungscampus STIMULATE, Otto-von-Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.,Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestr. 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany.,CBBS - center of behavioral brain sciences, Otto-von-Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany.,Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestr. 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany
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Raffa G, Quattropani MC, Marzano G, Curcio A, Rizzo V, Sebestyén G, Tamás V, Büki A, Germanò A. Mapping and Preserving the Visuospatial Network by repetitive nTMS and DTI Tractography in Patients With Right Parietal Lobe Tumors. Front Oncol 2021; 11:677172. [PMID: 34249716 PMCID: PMC8268025 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.677172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Introduction The goal of brain tumor surgery is the maximal resection of neoplastic tissue, while preserving the adjacent functional brain tissues. The identification of functional networks involved in complex brain functions, including visuospatial abilities (VSAs), is usually difficult. We report our preliminary experience using a preoperative planning based on the combination of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) and DTI tractography to provide the preoperative 3D reconstruction of the visuospatial (VS) cortico-subcortical network in patients with right parietal lobe tumors. Material and Methods Patients affected by right parietal lobe tumors underwent mapping of both hemispheres using an nTMS-implemented version of the Hooper Visual Organization Test (HVOT) to identify cortical areas involved in the VS network. DTI tractography was used to compute the subcortical component of the network, consisting of the three branches of the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF). The 3D reconstruction of the VS network was used to plan and guide the safest surgical approach to resect the tumor and avoid damage to the network. We retrospectively analyzed the cortical distribution of nTMS-induced errors, and assessed the impact of the planning on surgery by analyzing the extent of tumor resection (EOR) and the occurrence of postoperative VSAs deficits in comparison with a matched historical control group of patients operated without using the nTMS-based preoperative reconstruction of the VS network. Results Twenty patients were enrolled in the study (Group A). The error rate (ER) induced by nTMS was higher in the right vs. the left hemisphere (p=0.02). In the right hemisphere, the ER was higher in the anterior supramarginal gyrus (aSMG) (1.7%), angular gyrus (1.4%) superior parietal lobule (SPL) (1.3%), and dorsal lateral occipital gyrus (dLoG) (1.2%). The reconstruction of the cortico-subcortical VS network was successfully used to plan and guide tumor resection. A gross total resection (GTR) was achieved in 85% of cases. After surgery no new VSAs deficits were observed and a slightly significant improvement of the HVOT score (p=0.02) was documented. The historical control group (Group B) included 20 patients matched for main clinical characteristics with patients in Group A, operated without the support of the nTMS-based planning. A GTR was achieved in 90% of cases, but the postoperative HVOT score resulted to be worsened as compared to the preoperative period (p=0.03). The comparison between groups showed a significantly improved postoperative HVOT score in Group A vs. Group B (p=0.03). Conclusions The nTMS-implemented HVOT is a feasible approach to map cortical areas involved in VSAs. It can be combined with DTI tractography, thus providing a reconstruction of the VS network that could guide neurosurgeons to preserve the VS network during tumor resection, thus reducing the occurrence of postoperative VSAs deficits as compared to standard asleep surgery.
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- Giovanni Raffa
- Division of Neurosurgery, BIOMORF Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Division of Neurosurgery, BIOMORF Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- Division of Neurosurgery, BIOMORF Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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Roe JM, Vidal-Piñeiro D, Sneve MH, Kompus K, Greve DN, Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Westerhausen R. Age-Related Differences in Functional Asymmetry During Memory Retrieval Revisited: No Evidence for Contralateral Overactivation or Compensation. Cereb Cortex 2021; 30:1129-1147. [PMID: 31408102 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Revised: 06/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Brain asymmetry is inherent to cognitive processing and seems to reflect processing efficiency. Lower frontal asymmetry is often observed in older adults during memory retrieval, yet it is unclear whether lower asymmetry implies an age-related increase in contralateral recruitment, whether less asymmetry reflects compensation, is limited to frontal regions, or predicts neurocognitive stability or decline. We assessed age-related differences in asymmetry across the entire cerebral cortex, using functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 89 young and 76 older adults during successful retrieval, and surface-based methods allowing direct homotopic comparison of activity between cortical hemispheres . An extensive left-asymmetric network facilitated retrieval in both young and older adults, whereas diverse frontal and parietal regions exhibited lower asymmetry in older adults. However, lower asymmetry was not associated with age-related increases in contralateral recruitment but primarily reflected either less deactivation in contralateral regions reliably signaling retrieval failure in the young or lower recruitment of the dominant hemisphere-suggesting that functional deficits may drive lower asymmetry in older brains, not compensatory activity. Lower asymmetry predicted neither current memory performance nor the extent of memory change across the preceding ~ 8 years in older adults. Together, these findings are inconsistent with a compensation account for lower asymmetry during retrieval and aging.
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- James M Roe
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, 5009 Bergen, Norway
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
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Rajan A, Meyyappan S, Liu Y, Samuel IBH, Nandi B, Mangun GR, Ding M. The Microstructure of Attentional Control in the Dorsal Attention Network. J Cogn Neurosci 2021; 33:965-983. [PMID: 34428795 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The top-down control of attention involves command signals arising chiefly in the dorsal attention network (DAN) in frontal and parietal cortex and propagating to sensory cortex to enable the selective processing of incoming stimuli based on their behavioral relevance. Consistent with this view, the DAN is active during preparatory (anticipatory) attention for relevant events and objects, which, in vision, may be defined by different stimulus attributes including their spatial location, color, motion, or form. How this network is organized to support different forms of preparatory attention to different stimulus attributes remains unclear. We propose that, within the DAN, there exist functional microstructures (patterns of activity) specific for controlling attention based on the specific information to be attended. To test this, we contrasted preparatory attention to stimulus location (spatial attention) and to stimulus color (feature attention), and used multivoxel pattern analysis to characterize the corresponding patterns of activity within the DAN. We observed different multivoxel patterns of BOLD activation within the DAN for the control of spatial attention (attending left vs. right) and feature attention (attending red vs. green). These patterns of activity for spatial and feature attentional control showed limited overlap with each other within the DAN. Our findings thus support a model in which the DAN has different functional microstructures for distinctive forms of top-down control of visual attention.
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Ciricugno A, Bartlett ML, Gwinn OS, Carragher DJ, Nicholls MER. The effect of cognitive load on horizontal and vertical spatial asymmetries. Laterality 2021; 26:706-724. [PMID: 33906579 DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2021.1920972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Healthy individuals typically show a leftward attentional bias in the allocation of spatial attention along the horizontal plane, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect, which relies on a right hemispheric dominance for visuospatial processing. Also, healthy individuals tend to overestimate the upper hemispace when orienting attention along the vertical plane, a phenomenon that may depend on asymmetric ventral and dorsal visual streams activation. Previous research has demonstrated that when attentional resources are reduced due to increased cognitive load, pseudoneglect is attenuated (or even reversed), due to decreased right-hemispheric activations. Critically, whether and how the reduction of attentional resources under load modulates vertical spatial asymmetries has not been addressed before. We asked participants to perform a line bisection task both with and without the addition of a concurrent auditory working memory task with lines oriented either horizontally or vertically. Results showed that increasing cognitive load reduced the typical leftward/upward bias with no difference between orientations. Our data suggest that the degree of cognitive load affects spatial attention not only in the horizontal but also in the vertical plane. Lastly, the similar effect of load on horizontal and vertical judgements suggests these biases may be related to only partially independent mechanisms.
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- Andrea Ciricugno
- IRCCS C. Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy.,College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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Learmonth G, Papadatou-Pastou M. A Meta-Analysis of Line Bisection and Landmark Task Performance in Older Adults. Neuropsychol Rev 2021; 32:438-457. [PMID: 33890188 PMCID: PMC9090707 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-021-09505-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Young adults exhibit a small asymmetry of visuospatial attention that favours the left side of space relative to the right (pseudoneglect). However, it remains unclear whether this leftward bias is maintained, eliminated or shifted rightward in older age. Here we present two meta-analyses that aimed to identify whether adults aged ≥50 years old display a group-level spatial attention bias, as indexed by the line bisection and the landmark tasks. A total of 69 datasets from 65 studies, involving 1654 participants, were analysed. In the meta-analysis of the line bisection task (n = 63), no bias was identified for studies where the mean age was ≥50, but there was a clear leftward bias in a subset where all individual participants were aged ≥50. There was no moderating effect of the participant’s age or sex, line length, line position, nor the presence of left or right cues. There was a small publication bias in favour of reporting rightward biases. Of note, biases were slightly more leftward in studies where participants had been recruited as part of a stand-alone older group, compared to studies where participants were recruited as controls for a clinical study. Similarly, no spatial bias was observed in the meta-analysis of the landmark task, although the number of studies included was small (n = 6). Overall, these results indicate that over 50s maintain a group-level leftward bias on the line bisection task, but more studies are needed to determine whether this bias can be modulated by stimulus- or state-dependent factors.
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- Gemma Learmonth
- Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
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- School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.,Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Wang T, Peeters R, Mantini D, Gillebert CR. Modulating the interhemispheric activity balance in the intraparietal sulcus using real-time fMRI neurofeedback: Development and proof-of-concept. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2021; 28:102513. [PMID: 33396000 PMCID: PMC7941162 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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The intraparietal sulcus (IPS) plays a key role in the distribution of attention across the visual field. In stroke patients, an imbalance between left and right IPS activity has been related to a spatial bias in visual attention characteristic of hemispatial neglect. In this study, we describe the development and implementation of a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback protocol to noninvasively and volitionally control the interhemispheric IPS activity balance in neurologically healthy participants. Six participants performed three neurofeedback training sessions across three weeks. Half of them trained to voluntarily increase brain activity in left relative to right IPS, while the other half trained to regulate the IPS activity balance in the opposite direction. Before and after the training, we estimated the distribution of attention across the visual field using a whole and partial report task. Over the course of the training, two of the three participants in the left-IPS group increased the activity in the left relative to the right IPS, while the participants in the right-IPS group were not able to regulate the interhemispheric IPS activity balance. We found no evidence for a decrease in resting-state functional connectivity between left and right IPS, and the spatial distribution of attention did not change over the course of the experiment. This study indicates the possibility to voluntarily modulate the interhemispheric IPS activity balance. Further research is warranted to examine the effectiveness of this technique in the rehabilitation of post-stroke hemispatial neglect.
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- Tianlu Wang
- Brain and Cognition, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Radiology Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Research Centre for Motor Control and Neuroplasticity, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Brain Imaging and Neural Dynamics Research Group, IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Venice, Italy
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- Brain and Cognition, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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Gray OJ, McFarquhar M, Montaldi D. A reassessment of the pseudoneglect effect: Attention allocation systems are selectively engaged by semantic and spatial processing. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 2020; 47:223-237. [PMID: 33271044 PMCID: PMC7818672 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Healthy individuals display systematic inaccuracies when allocating attention to perceptual space. Under many conditions, optimized spatial attention processing of the right hemisphere’s frontoparietal attention network directs more attention to the left side of perceptual space than the right. This is the pseudoneglect effect. We present evidence reshaping our fundamental understanding of this neural mechanism. We describe a previously unrecognized, but reliable, attention bias to the right side of perceptual space that is associated with semantic object processing. Using an object bisection task, we revealed a significant rightward bias distinct from the leftward bias elicited by the traditional line bisection task. In Experiment 2, object-like shapes that were not easily recognizable exhibited an attention bias between that of horizontal lines and objects. Our results support our proposal that the rightward attention bias is a product of semantic processing and its lateralization in the left hemisphere. In Experiment 3, our novel object-based adaptation of the landmark task further supported this proposition and revealed temporal dynamics of the effect. This research provides novel and crucial insight into the systems supporting intricate and complex attention allocation and provides impetus for a shift toward studying attention in ways that increasingly reflect our complex environments. This study describes a previously unrecognized but reliable spatial attention bias that is associated with the processing of the semantic meaning of objects. This counters the spatial attention bias well-known as the pseudoneglect effect. Our findings implicate a crucial role for the understudied left frontoparietal cortex in distributing attention, and open new, exciting areas for research. This work also reveals a mechanism that potentially enables our attention to be directed equally to different areas of space in daily life.
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- Oliver J Gray
- Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
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- Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
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- Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
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Russell-Giller S, Wu T, Spagna A, Dhamoon M, Hao Q, Fan J. Impact of unilateral stroke on right hemisphere superiority in executive control. Neuropsychologia 2020; 150:107693. [PMID: 33238172 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In our previous study, we have demonstrated a right hemisphere superiority in executive control of attention, with the right hemisphere being more efficient in dealing with conflict for stimuli presented in the left visual field. However, the unique and synergetic contribution of the two hemispheres to this superiority effect is still elusive. Here, using the lateralized attention network test, we compared the flanker conflict effect for stimuli presented in the left and right visual fields in patients with an ischemic stroke in the right or left hemisphere as the unilateral lesion groups and in patients with a transient ischemic attack without an acute infarction as the control group. In contrast to the transient ischemic attack group, which demonstrated a right hemisphere superiority in conflict processing, there was no evidence for such an effect in both unilateral stroke groups. These results can be explained by our model proposing that there is bilateral hemispheric involvement for conflict processing for information received from the left visual field and unilateral hemispheric involvement for conflict processing for information received from the right visual field, resulting in more efficient processing for the left visual field, i.e., the right hemisphere superiority effect. When there is damage to either hemisphere, the responsibility of conflict processing will largely fall on the intact hemisphere, eliminating the right hemisphere superiority effect.
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- Shira Russell-Giller
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, The City University of New York, Queens, NY, USA; Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA; Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, The City University of New York, Queens, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, The City University of New York, Queens, NY, USA.
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Schintu S, Cunningham CA, Freedberg M, Taylor P, Gotts SJ, Shomstein S, Wassermann EM. Callosal anisotropy predicts attentional network changes after parietal inhibitory stimulation. Neuroimage 2020; 226:117559. [PMID: 33189929 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Hemispatial neglect is thought to result from disruption of interhemispheric equilibrium. Right hemisphere lesions deactivate the right frontoparietal network and hyperactivate the left via release from interhemispheric inhibition. Support for this putative mechanism comes from neuropsychological evidence as well as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies in healthy subjects, in whom right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) inhibition causes neglect-like, rightward, visuospatial bias. Concurrent TMS and fMRI after right PPC TMS show task-dependent changes but may fail to identify effects of stimulation in areas not directly activated by the specific task, complicating interpretations. We used resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) after inhibitory TMS over the right PPC to examine changes in the networks underlying visuospatial attention and used diffusion-weighted imaging to measure the structural properties of relevant white matter pathways. In a crossover experiment in healthy individuals, we delivered continuous theta burst TMS to the right PPC and vertex as control condition. We hypothesized that PPC inhibitory stimulation would result in a rightward visuospatial bias, decrease frontoparietal RSFC, and increase the PPC RSFC with the attentional network in the left hemisphere. We also expected that individual differences in fractional anisotropy (FA) of the frontoparietal network and the callosal pathway between the PPCs would account for variability of the TMS-induced RSFC changes. As hypothesized, TMS over the right PPC caused a rightward shift in line bisection judgment and increased RSFC between the right PPC and the left superior temporal gyrus. This effect was inversely related to FA in the posterior corpus callosum. Local inhibition of the right PPC reshapes connectivity in the attentional network and depends significantly on interhemispheric connections.
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- Selene Schintu
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, USA; Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA
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- Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, USA
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Hoyos PM, Kim NY, Cheng D, Finkelston A, Kastner S. Development of spatial biases in school-aged children. Dev Sci 2020; 24:e13053. [PMID: 33091223 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 10/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In the adult brain, biases in the allocation of spatial attention can be measured using a line bisection task and are directly relatable to neural attention signals in the fronto-parietal attention network. Behavioral studies on the development of spatial biases have yielded a host of inconsistent results, likely due to variance in sample size, definition of experimental groups, and motor confounds introduced by using a paper-and-pencil version of a line bisection task. Here, we used a perceptual, computerized version of this task and examined the development of spatial biases in 459 children from grades 1-8 and 61 college freshmen. We found that children in early elementary grades exerted a significant leftward bias that gradually diminished with advancing grade level. We further show that among children in early elementary school grades, the degree of leftward spatial bias predicted better performance on a rapid automatized naming test, a predictor of reading ability. Significant leftward biases in early elementary school grades may be due to reading experience, thereby reflecting an interaction of the attention network with the evolving reading network.
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- Patricia M Hoyos
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.,Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Mengotti P, Käsbauer AS, Fink GR, Vossel S. Lateralization, functional specialization, and dysfunction of attentional networks. Cortex 2020; 132:206-222. [PMID: 32998061 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2019] [Revised: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The present review covers the latest findings on the lateralization of the dorsal and ventral attention systems, their functional specialization, and their clinical relevance for stroke-induced attentional dysfunction. First, the original assumption of a bilateral dorsal system for top-down attention and a right-lateralized ventral system for stimulus-driven attention is critically reviewed. The evidence for the involvement of the left parietal cortex in attentional functions is discussed and findings on putative pathways linking the dorsal and ventral network are presented. In the second part of the review, we focus on the different attentional subsystems and their lateralization, discussing the differences between spatial, feature- and object-based attention, and motor attention. We also review studies based on predictive coding frameworks of attentional functions. Finally, in the third section, we provide an overview of the consequences of specific disruption within the attention networks after stroke. The role of the interhemispheric (im)balance is discussed, and the results of new promising therapeutic approaches employing brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) or transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are presented.
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- Paola Mengotti
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience & Medicine (INM-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience & Medicine (INM-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience & Medicine (INM-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience & Medicine (INM-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Edwards G, Contò F, Bucci LK, Battelli L. Controlling Brain State Prior to Stimulation of Parietal Cortex Prevents Deterioration of Sustained Attention. Cereb Cortex Commun 2020; 1:tgaa069. [PMID: 34296130 PMCID: PMC8152938 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgaa069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sustained attention is a limited resource which declines during daily tasks. Such decay is exacerbated in clinical and aging populations. Inhibition of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), using low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (LF-rTMS), can lead to an upregulation of functional communication within the attention network. Attributed to functional compensation for the inhibited node, this boost lasts for tens of minutes poststimulation. Despite the neural change, no behavioral correlate has been found in healthy subjects, a necessary direct evidence of functional compensation. To understand the functional significance of neuromodulatory induced fluctuations on attention, we sought to boost the impact of LF-rTMS to impact behavior. We controlled brain state prior to LF-rTMS using high-frequency transcranial random noise stimulation (HF-tRNS), shown to increase and stabilize neuronal excitability. Using fMRI-guided stimulation protocols combining HF-tRNS and LF-rTMS, we tested the poststimulation impact on sustained attention with multiple object tracking (MOT). While attention deteriorated across time in control conditions, HF-tRNS followed by LF-rTMS doubled sustained attention capacity to 94 min. Multimethod stimulation was more effective when targeting right IPS, supporting specialized attention processing in the right hemisphere. Used in cognitive domains dependent on network-wide neural activity, this tool may cause lasting neural compensation useful for clinical rehabilitation.
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- Grace Edwards
- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences – CIMeC, University of Trento, 38122 Trento, Italy
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Garcia JO, Battelli L, Plow E, Cattaneo Z, Vettel J, Grossman ED. Understanding diaschisis models of attention dysfunction with rTMS. Sci Rep 2020; 10:14890. [PMID: 32913263 PMCID: PMC7483730 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71692-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Visual attentive tracking requires a balance of excitation and inhibition across large-scale frontoparietal cortical networks. Using methods borrowed from network science, we characterize the induced changes in network dynamics following low frequency (1 Hz) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as an inhibitory noninvasive brain stimulation protocol delivered over the intraparietal sulcus. When participants engaged in visual tracking, we observed a highly stable network configuration of six distinct communities, each with characteristic properties in node dynamics. Stimulation to parietal cortex had no significant impact on the dynamics of the parietal community, which already exhibited increased flexibility and promiscuity relative to the other communities. The impact of rTMS, however, was apparent distal from the stimulation site in lateral prefrontal cortex. rTMS temporarily induced stronger allegiance within and between nodal motifs (increased recruitment and integration) in dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, which returned to baseline levels within 15 min. These findings illustrate the distributed nature by which inhibitory rTMS perturbs network communities and is preliminary evidence for downstream cortical interactions when using noninvasive brain stimulation for behavioral augmentations.
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- Javier O Garcia
- US CCDC Army Research Laboratory, 459 Mulberry Pt Rd., Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 21005, USA. .,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Bettini 31, 38068, Rovereto, TN, Italy.,Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy.,IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy
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- US CCDC Army Research Laboratory, 459 Mulberry Pt Rd., Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 21005, USA.,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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The reliability of pseudoneglect is task dependent. Neuropsychologia 2020; 148:107618. [PMID: 32891646 PMCID: PMC7718110 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Bisection tasks that require individuals to identify the midpoint of a line are often used to assess the presence of biases to spatial attention in both healthy and patient populations. These tasks have helped to uncover a phenomenon called pseudoneglect, a bias towards the left-side of space in healthy individuals. First identified in the tactile domain, pseudoneglect has been subsequently demonstrated in other sensory modalities such as vision. Despite this, the specific reliability of pseudoneglect within individuals across tasks and time has been investigated very little. In this study, we investigated the reliability of response bias within individuals across four separate testing sessions and during three line bisection tasks: landmark, line bisection and tactile rod bisection. Strong reliability was expected within individuals across task and session. Pseudoneglect was found when response bias was averaged across all tasks, for the entire sample. However, individual data showed biases to both left and right, with some participants showing no clear bias, demonstrating individual differences in bias. Significant, cross-session within-individual reliability was found for the landmark and tactile rod bisection tasks respectively, but no significant reliability was observed for the line bisection task. These results highlight the inconsistent nature of pseudoneglect within individuals, particularly across sensory modality. They also provide strong support for the use of the landmark task as the most reliable measure of pseudoneglect. Reliability of pseudoneglect was assessed across 4 sessions and 3 tasks. The landmark task was the most reliable test for pseudoneglect across sessions. Responses to line bisection and tactile rod were less reliable across sessions. Responses to different bisection tasks in the same individuals were not reliable.
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Management of Cognitive Impairment After Stroke. Curr Treat Options Neurol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11940-020-00627-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Schintu S, Freedberg M, Gotts SJ, Cunningham CA, Alam ZM, Shomstein S, Wassermann EM. Prism Adaptation Modulates Connectivity of the Intraparietal Sulcus with Multiple Brain Networks. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:4747-4758. [PMID: 32313949 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Prism adaptation (PA) alters spatial cognition according to the direction of visual displacement by temporarily modifying sensorimotor mapping. Right-shifting prisms (right PA) improve neglect of left visual field in patients, possibly by decreasing activity in the left hemisphere and increasing it in the right. Left PA shifts attention rightward in healthy individuals by an opposite mechanism. However, functional imaging studies of PA are inconsistent, perhaps because of differing activation tasks. We measured resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) in healthy individuals before and after PA. When contrasted, right versus left PA decreased RSFC in the spatial navigation network defined by the right posterior parietal cortex (PPC), hippocampus, and cerebellum. Within-PA-direction comparisons showed that right PA increased RSFC in subregions of the PPCs and between the PPCs and the right middle frontal gyrus and left PA decreased RSFC between these regions. Both right and left PA decreased RSFC between the PPCs and bilateral temporal areas. In summary, right PA increases connectivity in the right frontoparietal network and left PA produces essentially opposite effects. Furthermore, right, compared with left, PA modulates RSFC in the right hemisphere navigation network.
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- Selene Schintu
- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.,Department of Psychology George Washington University Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Psychology George Washington University Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Transcranial electric stimulation optimizes the balance of visual attention across space. Clin Neurophysiol 2020; 131:912-920. [PMID: 32078920 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.12.415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Revised: 11/28/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) provides a way to modulate spatial attention by enhancing the ratio of neural activity between the left and right hemispheres, with a potential benefit for the rehabilitation of visual neglect. METHODS We tested the effect of bilateral tDCS in healthy individuals performing a visual detection task. This protocol consists in the positioning of the anode and cathode on mirror positions over the left and right parietal areas. The stimulation was repeated over three days to maximize the chance to observe a bias to the hemispace controlateral to the anode. RESULTS Compared to a sham treatment, left anodal - right cathodal stimulation enhanced attention across the full range of space, since the first day with no build-up effect on the next days, and modified the balance of left-right omissions when stimuli appeared at the same time. CONCLUSION Bilateral tDCS improved detection in both visual fields, with no privileged processing of one side, except when concurrent stimuli were presented. The results provide partial support to the hemispheric rivalry hypothesis. SIGNIFICANCE The technique has the potential to boost attention in neglect patients but should be used as an adjuvant rather than as an alternative to functional rehabilitation.
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Saccade accuracy as an indicator of the competition between functional asymmetries in vision. Exp Brain Res 2020; 238:411-425. [PMID: 31932866 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-019-05717-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Hemispheric specialization refers to the fact that cerebral hemispheres are not equivalent and that cognitive processes are lateralized in the brain. Although the potential links between handedness and the left hemisphere specialization for language have been widely studied, little attention has been paid to other motor preferences, such as eye dominance, that also are lateralized in the brain. For example, saccadic accuracy is higher in the hemifield contralateral to the dominant eye compared to the ipsilateral hemifield. Saccade accuracy is, however, also known to be sensitive to other functional asymmetries, such as the lateralization of visuo-spatial attention in the right hemisphere of the brain. Using a global effect paradigm in three different saccade latency ranges, we here propose to use saccade accuracy as an indicator of visual functional asymmetries. We show that for the shortest latencies, saccade accuracy is higher in the left than in the right visual hemifield, which could be due to the lateralization of visuo-spatial attention in the right hemisphere. For the longest latencies, however, saccade accuracy is higher toward the right than the left hemifield, probably due to the lateralization of local and global processing in the left and right hemispheres, respectively. These results could have a major impact on studies designed to measure the degree of lateralization of individuals. We here discuss both the theoretical and clinical contributions of these results.
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Nobre AC, van Ede F. Under the Mind's Hood: What We Have Learned by Watching the Brain at Work. J Neurosci 2020; 40:89-100. [PMID: 31630115 PMCID: PMC6939481 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0742-19.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 07/14/2019] [Accepted: 08/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Imagine you were asked to investigate the workings of an engine, but to do so without ever opening the hood. Now imagine the engine fueled the human mind. This is the challenge faced by cognitive neuroscientists worldwide aiming to understand the neural bases of our psychological functions. Luckily, human ingenuity comes to the rescue. Around the same time as the Society for Neuroscience was being established in the 1960s, the first tools for measuring the human brain at work were becoming available. Noninvasive human brain imaging and neurophysiology have continued developing at a relentless pace ever since. In this 50 year anniversary, we reflect on how these methods have been changing our understanding of how brain supports mind.
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- Anna Christina Nobre
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom, and
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
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- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom, and
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Moeck EK, Thomas NA, Takarangi MKT. Using the landmark task to test the underlying assumptions of unilateral contraction research. Laterality 2019; 25:363-389. [PMID: 31868095 DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2019.1701484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The unilateral contractions procedure (i.e., squeezing a ball with one hand) supposedly enhances a wide variety of cognitive functions, from episodic recall to choking under pressure. The practicality and affordability of this procedure makes it highly appealing. But does it work? We addressed this question by testing whether intermittent and sustained unilateral contractions shifted a well-supported hemispheric asymmetry: visuospatial attention. Based on prior research, contracting the left (or right) hand should lead baseline scores on the landmark task-a visuospatial attention measure-to deviate further left (or right). We meta-analysed the results of our six experiments and showed that the unilateral contractions procedure, particularly with intermittent contractions, does not reliably shift landmark task scores measured during (Experiments 4-6) or after (Experiments 1-3 & 6) performing unilateral contractions. Although we question if and how unilateral contractions activate the contralateral hemisphere, Experiment 6 provided some support for the utility of sustained contractions.
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- Ella K Moeck
- College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.,Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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Schintu S, Chaumillon R, Guillaume A, Salemme R, Reilly KT, Pisella L, Farnè A. Eye dominance modulates visuospatial attention. Neuropsychologia 2019; 141:107314. [PMID: 31870684 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Visuospatial attention has an inherent asymmetry: the leftward bias called pseudoneglect. In typical line bisection tasks, healthy individuals tend to judge the center of a line leftward of the true center, an effect attributed to the right hemisphere dominance in visuospatial attention. Since it has been shown that information perceived by the dominant eye strongly activates the ipsilateral visual cortex, we hypothesized that eye dominance may modulate visuospatial attention bias. Because activation of the left hemisphere induced by left eye dominance should mitigate the right hemisphere dominance in attention, we predicted that right-handed individuals with left dominant eye would show smaller amount of pseudoneglect than right-handed individuals with right dominant eye. We compared the performance at both the perceptual (Landmark) and manual line bisection task of forty right-handed healthy individuals, half of whom had a right dominant eye and the other half a left dominant eye. As predicted, the left eyed dominant group showed smaller, actually not significant pseudoneglect, which was thus greater in the right eye dominant group. The influence of eye dominance on visuospatial attention was present in the Landmark but not the manual line bisection task, in which the amount of visuospatial bias correlated with participants' degree of (right) handedness. This is the first report of the effect of eye dominance on visuospatial attention within a right-handed population. This finding, by showing the influence of eye dominance on visuospatial cognition, not only helps in better defining intact visuospatial cognition mechanism but also encourages further research to pinpoint the neural basis of such interaction.
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- S Schintu
- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Lyon, France; University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Department of Psychology, George Washington University, WA, USA; Behavioral Neurology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LNC UMR 7291, FR 3C FR 3512, Marseille, France
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- Paris Descartes University, Vision Action Cognition Laboratory, EA7326, Institute of Psychology, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Lyon, France; University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Mouvement & Handicap, Neuro-Immersion Platforms, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Lyon, France; University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Lyon, France; University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Lyon, France; University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Mouvement & Handicap, Neuro-Immersion Platforms, Lyon, France; Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy
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Chen J, Lee ACH, O'Neil EB, Abdul-Nabi M, Niemeier M. Mapping the anatomy of perceptual pseudoneglect. A multivariate approach. Neuroimage 2019; 207:116402. [PMID: 31783115 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2019] [Revised: 10/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/24/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Fundamental to the understanding of the functions of spatial cognition and attention is to clarify the underlying neural mechanisms. It is clear that relatively right-dominant activity in ventral and dorsal parieto-frontal cortex is associated with attentional reorienting, certain forms of mental imagery and spatial working memory for higher loads, while lesions mostly to right ventral areas cause spatial neglect with pathological attentional biases to the right side. In contrast, complementary leftward biases in healthy people, called pseudoneglect, have been associated with varying patterns of cortical activity. Notably, this inconsistency may be explained, at least in part, by the fact that pseudoneglect studies have often employed experimental paradigms that do not control sufficiently for cognitive processes unrelated to pseudoneglect. To address this issue, here we administered a carefully designed continuum of pseudoneglect and control tasks in healthy adults while using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Data submitted to partial least square (PLS) imaging analysis yielded a significant latent variable that identified a right-dominant network of brain regions along the intra-occipital and -parietal sulci, frontal eye fields and right ventral cortex in association with perceptual pseudoneglect. Our results shed new light on the interplay of attentional and cognitive systems in pseudoneglect.
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- Jiaqing Chen
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada; Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, 3560 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON, M6A 2E1, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada; Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada.
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Zebhauser PT, Vernet M, Unterburger E, Brem AK. Visuospatial Neglect - a Theory-Informed Overview of Current and Emerging Strategies and a Systematic Review on the Therapeutic Use of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation. Neuropsychol Rev 2019; 29:397-420. [PMID: 31748841 PMCID: PMC6892765 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-019-09417-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2018] [Accepted: 09/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Visuospatial neglect constitutes a supramodal cognitive deficit characterized by reduction or loss of spatial awareness for the contralesional space. It occurs in over 40% of right- and 20% of left-brain-lesioned stroke patients with lesions located mostly in parietal, frontal and subcortical brain areas. Visuospatial neglect is a multifaceted syndrome - symptoms can be divided into sensory, motor and representational neglect - and therefore requires an individually adapted diagnostic and therapeutic approach. Several models try to explain the origins of visuospatial neglect, of which the "interhemispheric rivalry model" is strongly supported by animal and human research. This model proposes that allocation of spatial attention is balanced by transcallosal inhibition and both hemispheres compete to direct attention to the contralateral hemi-space. Accordingly, a brain lesion causes an interhemispheric imbalance, which may be re-installed by activation of lesioned, or deactivation of unlesioned (over-activated) brain areas through noninvasive brain stimulation. Research in larger patient samples is needed to confirm whether noninvasive brain stimulation can improve long-term outcomes and whether these also affect activities of daily living and discharge destination.
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- Paul Theo Zebhauser
- Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstrasse 2-10, 80804, Munich, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Klinikum Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Section on Neurocircuitry, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Neuropsychology, Universitätsklinik Zürich USZ, Frauenklinikstrasse 26, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstrasse 2-10, 80804, Munich, Germany. .,Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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No effect of cold pressor test-induced arousal on attentional benefits and costs in an endogenous spatial orienting paradigm. Neuropsychologia 2019; 135:107250. [PMID: 31682926 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Revised: 09/28/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Previous studies have shown that arousal can influence hemispatial bias, suggesting that changes in arousal affect the neural networks involved in spatial attention control. The goal of the present study was to measure the effects of increased arousal on endogenous attentional orienting. We used a Spatial Orienting Paradigm to quantify attentional benefits and costs as measures of attentional orienting and re-orienting responses and exposed participants (N = 25; Experiment 1) to a bilateral feet Cold Pressor Test (CPT) to manipulate arousal. Increases in subjective distress ratings and blood pressure confirmed the effect of CPT on arousal. Although no overall effects of CPT on reaction times in the Spatial Orienting Paradigm were detected, an exploratory analysis of sex-specific effects revealed a left-lateralised decrease in benefits and increase in costs after CPT exposure in the male subsample (N = 11). To confirm these preliminary results, we repeated the experiment in a larger sample (N = 29, all male), but found no effect of CPT on orienting, with moderate to strong evidence in favour of a model excluding all (interaction) effects of CPT exposure (all BFIncl < 0.3). Instead, our replicated results indicate that voluntary orienting is unaffected by CPT-induced increases of arousal. In the light of previous studies, and keeping in mind the interpretative challenges of null results, we discuss how and why our findings may be specific to endogenous as opposed to exogenous orienting and how arousal could possibly lead to the previously established effects on visuospatial bias without simultaneously affecting orienting and the underlying attention control networks.
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Kim NY, Kastner S. A biased competition theory for the developmental cognitive neuroscience of visuo-spatial attention. Curr Opin Psychol 2019; 29:219-228. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Revised: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 03/28/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Lateralisation of the white matter microstructure associated with the hemispheric spatial attention dominance. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0216032. [PMID: 31026280 PMCID: PMC6485922 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216032] [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: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Objectives Healthy people have a slight leftward bias of spatial attention as measured on the Landmark task. Former studies indicated that lateralisation of brain activation contributes to this attentional bias. In this study we hypothesised that if the spatial bias was consistent over several measurements there would be structural background of it. Methods Reproducibility of the spatial bias of visuo-spatial attention was measured in twenty healthy subject in a Landmark task over three consecutive days. In order to evaluate the correlation between the spatial attentional bias and the white matter microstructure high angular resolution diffusion MRI was acquired for each subjects. The Track Based Spatial Statistics method was used to measure the hemispheric differences of the white matter microstructure. Probabilistic tractography was used to reveal the connection of the identified regions. Results The analysis showed correlation between the behavioural scores and the lateralisation of the white matter microstructure in the parietal white matter (p<0.05, corrected for multiple correlations). Higher FA values on the left are associated to rightward bias. The parietal cluster showed connectivity along the superior longitudinal fascicle on one end to posterior parietal cortex and anteriorly to the putative frontal eye field. From the frontal eye field some of the fibres run towards the nodes of the dorsal attention network to the intraparietal suclus, while some of the fibres travelled toward to ventral attention network to the temporo-parietal junction. Conclusions These results indicate that the structural integrity dorsal fronto-parietal network and the connection between the dorsal and ventral attention networks are responsible for the attentional bias in normal healthy controls.
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Arshad Q, Ortega MC, Goga U, Lobo R, Siddiqui S, Mediratta S, Bednarczuk NF, Kaski D, Bronstein AM. Interhemispheric control of sensory cue integration and self-motion perception. Neuroscience 2019; 408:378-387. [PMID: 31026563 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Spatial orientation necessitates the integration of visual and vestibular sensory cues, in-turn facilitating self-motion perception. However, the neural mechanisms underpinning sensory integration remain unknown. Recently we have illustrated that spatial orientation and vestibular thresholds are influenced by interhemispheric asymmetries associated with the posterior parietal cortices (PPC) that predominantly house the vestibulo-cortical network. Given that sensory integration is a prerequisite to both spatial orientation and motion perception, we hypothesized that sensory integration is similarly subject to interhemispheric influences. Accordingly, we explored the relationship between vestibulo-cortical dominance - assessed using a biomarker, the degree of vestibular-nystagmus suppression following transcranial direct current stimulation over the PPC - with visual dependence measures obtained during performance of a sensory integration task (the rod-and-disk task). We observed that the degree of visual dependence was correlated with vestibulo-cortical dominance. Specifically, individuals with greater right hemispheric vestibulo-cortical dominance had reduced visual dependence. We proceeded to assess the significance of such dominance on behavior by correlating measures of visual dependence with self-motion perception in healthy subjects. We observed that right-handed individuals experienced illusionary self-motion (vection) quicker than left-handers and that the degree of vestibular cortical dominance was correlated with the time taken to experience vection, only during conditions that induced interhemispheric conflict. To conclude, we demonstrate that interhemispheric asymmetries associated with vestibulo-cortical processing in the PPC functionally and mechanistically link sensory integration and self-motion perception, facilitating spatial orientation. Our findings highlight the importance of dynamic interhemispheric competition upon control of vestibular behavior in humans.
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- Qadeer Arshad
- Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK; Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK
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- Department of Neuro-otology, Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, University College London, London, WC1X 8DA, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Charing Cross Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK
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Ro T, Beauchamp M. Ipsilesional perceptual deficits in hemispatial neglect: Case reports. Cortex 2019; 122:277-287. [PMID: 31036260 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Revised: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hemispatial neglect, usually after right hemisphere lesions, is characterized by contralesional deficits in attention and perception. However, little is known about impairments of perceptual processing in the ipsilesional region of visual space (the right visual field for right hemisphere lesions). In two right hemisphere neglect patients, we used a metacontrast masking paradigm to characterize systematic spatial and temporal visual processing deficits in the ipsilesional right visual field. The presence of a visual mask caused the neglect patients to miss targets in ipsilesional space, even when a mask was presented as long as 1.5 sec after the target and in a different spatial position. These prolonged and spatially extended masking effects were not measured in age-matched healthy controls or in two control patients with hemianopsia but without neglect. The results show that perceptual processing is distorted and delayed in a region of the visual field that has been thought to be unaffected - the ipsilesional hemifield in patients with neglect.
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- Tony Ro
- Programs in Psychology, Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Neurosurgery and Core for Advanced MRI, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Chandrakumar D, Keage HAD, Gutteridge D, Dorrian J, Banks S, Loetscher T. Interactions between spatial attention and alertness in healthy adults: A meta-analysis. Cortex 2019; 119:61-73. [PMID: 31075552 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Revised: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Attending to the visuospatial field is paramount for safety. The inability to sufficiently allocate attention in the environment could lead to unfavourable consequences. One's ability to attend quickly to left- and right-sided stimuli can vary depending on the person's level of alertness. A dominant model of this relationship proposes that low alertness is associated with a rightward bias in attention, with increases in alertness shifting attention leftward. The current study sought to synthesise the literature on spatial attention and alertness and identify modulators of this relationship in healthy adults. Nineteen articles meeting inclusion criteria were identified for meta-analysis. A small effect of alertness on spatial bias (d = .302) with no evidence for a systematic publication bias was found. Of the five investigated modulators, namely, the experimental design relative to alertness, direction of alertness manipulation, measurement of alertness, the nature of the spatial task, and handedness, only the latter was identified as a significant modulator of the relationship between alertness and spatial attention. The review's findings tie in with the influential framework by Corbetta and Shulman (2011) and support the idea to increase alertness as a rehabilitation approach to reduce inattention to the left side in neglect patients. Findings also suggest a need for future research to investigate neurological processes that underlie the alertness and spatial attention relationship, and a need to examine the transfer effects of laboratory-based experiments for real-world implications.
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- Dilushi Chandrakumar
- Cognitive Ageing and Impairment Neurosciences Laboratory, University of South Australia, Australia.
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- Cognitive Ageing and Impairment Neurosciences Laboratory, University of South Australia, Australia
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- Cognitive Ageing and Impairment Neurosciences Laboratory, University of South Australia, Australia
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- Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory, University of South Australia, Australia
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- Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory, University of South Australia, Australia
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- Cognitive Ageing and Impairment Neurosciences Laboratory, University of South Australia, Australia
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Engagement of Pulvino-cortical Feedforward and Feedback Pathways in Cognitive Computations. Neuron 2018; 101:321-336.e9. [PMID: 30553546 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2018] [Revised: 09/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Computational modeling of brain mechanisms of cognition has largely focused on the cortex, but recent experiments have shown that higher-order nuclei of the thalamus participate in major cognitive functions and are implicated in psychiatric disorders. Here, we show that a pulvino-cortical circuit model, composed of the pulvinar and two cortical areas, captures several physiological and behavioral observations related to the macaque pulvinar. Effective connections between the two cortical areas are gated by the pulvinar, allowing the pulvinar to shift the operation regime of these areas during attentional processing and working memory and resolve conflict in decision making. Furthermore, cortico-pulvinar projections that engage the thalamic reticular nucleus enable the pulvinar to estimate decision confidence. Finally, feedforward and feedback pulvino-cortical pathways participate in frequency-dependent inter-areal interactions that modify the relative hierarchical positions of cortical areas. Overall, our model suggests that the pulvinar provides crucial contextual modulation to cortical computations associated with cognition.
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Pierce J, Saj A. A critical review of the role of impaired spatial remapping processes in spatial neglect. Clin Neuropsychol 2018; 33:948-970. [DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2018.1503722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jordan Pierce
- Department of Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Beyond time and space: The effect of a lateralized sustained attention task and brain stimulation on spatial and selective attention. Cortex 2018; 107:131-147. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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