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Marmolejo-Ramos F, Barrera-Causil C, Kuang S, Fazlali Z, Wegener D, Kneib T, De Bastiani F, Martinez-Flórez G. Generalised exponential-Gaussian distribution: a method for neural reaction time analysis. Cogn Neurodyn 2023; 17:221-237. [PMID: 36704631 PMCID: PMC9871144 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-022-09813-2] [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: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Reaction times (RTs) are an essential metric used for understanding the link between brain and behaviour. As research is reaffirming the tight coupling between neuronal and behavioural RTs, thorough statistical modelling of RT data is thus essential to enrich current theories and motivate novel findings. A statistical distribution is proposed herein that is able to model the complete RT's distribution, including location, scale and shape: the generalised-exponential-Gaussian (GEG) distribution. The GEG distribution enables shifting the attention from traditional means and standard deviations to the entire RT distribution. The mathematical properties of the GEG distribution are presented and investigated via simulations. Additionally, the GEG distribution is featured via four real-life data sets. Finally, we discuss how the proposed distribution can be used for regression analyses via generalised additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS).
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Affiliation(s)
- Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
- Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5000 Australia
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- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Aplicadas, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano -ITM, Medellín, 050034 Colombia
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- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101 China
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- School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran ,Department of Psychiatry, Division of Integrative Neuroscience, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
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- Brain Research Institute, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS) and Chair of Statistics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Statistics Department, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco Brazil
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- Departamento de Matemáticas y Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, 2300 Colombia ,Programa de Pós-Graduação em Modelagem e Métodos Quantitativos, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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Török B, Nagy DG, Kiss M, Janacsek K, Németh D, Orbán G. Tracking the contribution of inductive bias to individualised internal models. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1010182. [PMID: 35731822 PMCID: PMC9255757 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 07/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Internal models capture the regularities of the environment and are central to understanding how humans adapt to environmental statistics. In general, the correct internal model is unknown to observers, instead they rely on an approximate model that is continually adapted throughout learning. However, experimenters assume an ideal observer model, which captures stimulus structure but ignores the diverging hypotheses that humans form during learning. We combine non-parametric Bayesian methods and probabilistic programming to infer rich and dynamic individualised internal models from response times. We demonstrate that the approach is capable of characterizing the discrepancy between the internal model maintained by individuals and the ideal observer model and to track the evolution of the contribution of the ideal observer model to the internal model throughout training. In particular, in an implicit visuomotor sequence learning task the identified discrepancy revealed an inductive bias that was consistent across individuals but varied in strength and persistence. Instead of mapping stimuli directly to response, humans and other complex organisms are thought to maintain internal models of the environment. These internal models represent parts of the environment that are most relevant for deciding how to act in a given situation and therefore are key to explaining human behaviour. In behavioural experiments it is often assumed that the internal model in the subject’s brain matches the true model that governs the experiment. However this assumption can be violated due to a variety of reasons, such as insufficient training. Furthermore, the deviation of the internal model from the true model is not uniform across individuals, and therefore it summarizes the subjective beliefs of humans. In this paper, we provide a method to reverse engineer the internal model for individual subjects by analysing trial by trial behavioural measurements such as reaction times. We then track and analyse these reverse engineered models over the course of the experiment to see how participants trade off between an early inductive bias towards Markovian dynamics and the model that reflects the evidence that humans accumulate during learning about the actual statistics of the stimuli.
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Affiliation(s)
- Balázs Török
- Department of Computational Sciences, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3., H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
- Brain, Memory and Language Research Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Computational Sciences, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
- Institute of Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3., H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
- Brain, Memory and Language Research Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- Centre for Thinking and Learning, Institute for Lifecourse Development, School of Human Sciences, Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
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- Brain, Memory and Language Research Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Department of Computational Sciences, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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Chase HW, Fournier JC, Aslam H, Stiffler R, Almeida JR, Sahakian BJ, Phillips ML. Haste or Speed? Alterations in the Impact of Incentive Cues on Task Performance in Remitted and Depressed Patients With Bipolar Disorder. Front Psychiatry 2018; 9:396. [PMID: 30233423 PMCID: PMC6129608 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
A variety of evidence suggests that bipolar disorder is associated with disruptions of reward related processes, although the properties, and scope of these changes are not well understood. In the present study, we aimed to address this question by examining performance of patients with bipolar disorder (30 depressed bipolar; 35 euthymic bipolar) on a motivated choice reaction time task. We compared performance with a group of healthy control individuals (n = 44) and a group of patients with unipolar depression (n = 41), who were matched on several demographic variables. The task consists of an "odd-one-out" discrimination, in the presence of a cue signaling the probability of reward on a given trial (10, 50, or 90%) given a sufficiently fast response. All groups showed similar reaction time (RT) performance, and similar shortening of RT following the presentation of a reward predictive cue. However, compared to healthy individuals, the euthymic bipolar group showed a relative increase in commission errors during the high reward compared to low condition. Further correlational analysis revealed that in the healthy control and unipolar depression groups, participants tended either to shorten RTs for the high rather than low reward cue a relatively large amount with an increase in error rate, or to shorten RTs to a lesser extent but without increasing errors to the same degree. By contrast, reward-related speeding and reward-related increase in errors were less well coupled in the bipolar groups, significantly so in the BPD group. These findings suggest that although RT performance on the present task is relatively well matched, there may be a specific failure of individuals with bipolar disorder to calibrate RT speed and accuracy in a strategic way in the presence of reward-related stimuli.
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- Henry W Chase
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Wichmann T, Buchheim A, Menning H, Schenk I, George C, Pokorny D. A Reaction Time Experiment on Adult Attachment: The Development of a Measure for Neurophysiological Settings. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:548. [PMID: 27853426 PMCID: PMC5089988 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
In the last few decades, there has been an increase of experimental research on automatic unconscious processes concerning the evaluation of the self and others. Previous research investigated implicit aspects of romantic attachment using self-report measures as explicit instruments for assessing attachment style. There is a lack of experimental procedures feasible for neurobiological settings. We developed a reaction time (RT) experiment using a narrative attachment measure with an implicit nature and were interested to capture automatic processes, when the individuals' attachment system is activated. We aimed to combine attachment methodology with knowledge from implicit measures by using a decision RT paradigm. This should serve as a means to capture implicit aspects of attachment. This experiment evaluated participants' response to prototypic attachment sentences in association with their own attachment classification, measured with the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP). First the AAP was administered as the standardized interview procedure to 30 healthy participants, which were classified into a secure or insecure group. In the following experimental session, both experimenter and participants were blind with respect to classifications. One hundred twenty eight prototypically secure or insecure sentences related to the eight pictures of the AAP were presented to the participants. Their response and RTs were recorded. Based on the response (accept, reject) a continuous security scale was defined. Both the AAP classification and security scale were related to the RTs. Differentiated study hypotheses were confirmed for insecure sentences, which were accepted faster by participants from the insecure attachment group (or with lower security scale), and rejected faster by participants from secure attachment group (or with higher security scale). The elaborating unconscious processes were more activated by insecure sentences with potential attachment conflicts. The introduced paradigm is able to contribute to an experimental approach in attachment research. The RT analysis with the narrative procedure might be of interest for a broader variety of questions in experimental and neurophysiological settings to capture unconscious processes in association with internal working models of attachment. An electrophysiological model based on preliminary research is proposed for assessing the preconscious neuronal network related to secure or insecure attachment representations.
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- Institute for Psychology, University of InnsbruckInnsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Mills CollegeOakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Ulm UniversityUlm, Germany
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Biscione V, Harris CM. Investigating decision rules with a new experimental design: the EXACT paradigm. Front Behav Neurosci 2015; 9:288. [PMID: 26578916 PMCID: PMC4630306 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00288] [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] [Received: 06/17/2015] [Accepted: 10/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
In the decision-making field, it is important to distinguish between the perceptual process (how information is collected) and the decision rule (the strategy governing decision-making). We propose a new paradigm, called EXogenous ACcumulation Task (EXACT) to disentangle these two components. The paradigm consists of showing a horizontal gauge that represents the probability of receiving a reward at time t and increases with time. The participant is asked to press a button when they want to request a reward. Thus, the perceptual mechanism is hard-coded and does not need to be inferred from the data. Based on this paradigm, we compared four decision rules (Bayes Risk, Reward Rate, Reward/Accuracy, and Modified Reward Rate) and found that participants appeared to behave according to the Modified Reward Rate. We propose a new way of analysing the data by using the accuracy of responses, which can only be inferred in classic RT tasks. Our analysis suggests that several experimental findings such as RT distribution and its relationship with experimental conditions, usually deemed to be the result of a rise-to-threshold process, may be simply explained by the effect of the decision rule employed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Valerio Biscione
- School of Psychology, Plymouth UniversityPlymouth, UK
- Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, Plymouth UniversityPlymouth, UK
- *Correspondence: Valerio Biscione
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- School of Psychology, Plymouth UniversityPlymouth, UK
- Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, Plymouth UniversityPlymouth, UK
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Medina JM, Wong W, Díaz JA, Colonius H. Advances in modern mental chronometry. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:256. [PMID: 25999843 PMCID: PMC4422014 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 04/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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- José M Medina
- Departamento de Óptica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada Granada, Spain
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departamento de Óptica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada Granada, Spain
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- Department für Psychologie, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Oldenburg, Germany
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