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Shdeour O, Tal-Perry N, Glickman M, Yuval-Greenberg S. Exposure to temporal variability promotes subsequent adaptation to new temporal regularities. Cognition 2024; 244:105695. [PMID: 38183867 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024]
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Noise is intuitively thought to interfere with perceptual learning; However, human and machine learning studies suggest that, in certain contexts, variability may reduce overfitting and improve generalizability. Whereas previous studies have examined the effects of variability in learned stimuli or tasks, it is hitherto unknown what are the effects of variability in the temporal environment. Here, we examined this question in two groups of adult participants (N = 40) presented with visual targets at either random or fixed temporal routines and then tested on the same type of targets at a new nearly-fixed temporal routine. Findings reveal that participants of the random group performed better and adapted quicker following a change in the timing routine, relative to participants of the fixed group. Corroborated with eye-tracking and computational modeling, these findings suggest that prior exposure to temporal variability promotes the formation of new temporal expectations and enhances generalizability in a dynamic environment. We conclude that noise plays an important role in promoting perceptual learning in the temporal domain: rather than interfering with the formation of temporal expectations, noise enhances them. This counterintuitive effect is hypothesized to be achieved through eliminating overfitting and promoting generalizability.
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Affiliation(s)
- Orit Shdeour
- School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel; Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
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- School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, UK; Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, UK
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- School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel; Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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Bredun EV, Shcheglova EA. Psychological Features of the Human <I>Tempoworld</I> as Predictors of Solving a Cognitive Task. BULLETIN OF KEMEROVO STATE UNIVERSITY 2022. [DOI: 10.21603/2078-8975-2022-24-4-430-439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The paper reviews such phenomena as time perception, temporal structure of the human world, the so-called tempoworld, and the psychophysiological mechanism of temporal dynamics. The article also covers various ways of assessing the relationship between the characteristic features of solving cognitive tasks and the temporal characteristics and structuraldynamic components of positional strategies of personal cognitive-noetic development. The research results revealed the specificity of the process of solving cognitive tasks in groups of respondents with different typological temporal characteristics. Students who knew their dominant temporal-cognitive features made fewer mistakes when solving cognitive tasks related to spatial perception. The experiment revealed some positional strategies as significant predictors of the process of solving a cognitive task, manifested in the features of the human tempoworld. The speed and accuracy of performing cognitive tasks depended not so much on the specifics of these tasks, but on the temporal characteristics of a person, manifested in the degree of balance of modal assessments of life fulfillment. The list of significant predictors of the solving a cognitive task included such psychological features of the human tempoworld as positional strategies, which were dominated by the value-semantic component and motivational self-determination. The research revealed various features of cognitive involvement in the subjective past, present, and future, as well as the relationship between temporal modality and ready-made action algorithms when solving cognitive tasks.
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Menceloglu M, Suzuki S, Song JH. Revealing the effects of temporal orienting of attention on response conflict using continuous movements. Atten Percept Psychophys 2021; 83:1463-1478. [PMID: 33442827 PMCID: PMC8130537 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02235-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Orienting attention in time enables us to prepare for forthcoming perception and action (e.g., estimating the duration of a yellow traffic light when driving). While temporal orienting can facilitate performance on simple tasks, its influence on complex tasks involving response conflict is unclear. Here, we adapted the flanker paradigm to a choice-reaching task where participants used a computer mouse to reach to the left or right side of the screen, as indicated by the central arrow presented with either the congruent or incongruent flankers. We assessed the effects of temporal orienting by manipulating goal-driven temporal expectation (using probabilistic variations in target timing) and stimulus-driven temporal priming (using sequential repetitions versus switches in target timing). We tested how temporal orienting influenced the dynamics of response conflict resolution. Recent choice-reaching studies have indicated that under response conflict, delayed movement initiation captures the response threshold adjustment process, whereas increased curvature toward the incorrect response captures the degree of coactivation of the response alternatives during the controlled response selection process. Both temporal expectation and priming reduced the initiation latency regardless of response conflict, suggesting that both lowered response thresholds independently of response conflict. Notably, temporal expectation, but not temporal priming, increased the curvature toward the incorrect response on incongruent trials. These results suggest that temporal orienting generally increases motor preparedness, but goal-driven temporal orienting particularly interferes with response conflict resolution, likely through its influence on response thresholds. Overall, our study highlights the interplay between temporal orienting and cognitive control in goal-directed action.
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Affiliation(s)
- Melisa Menceloglu
- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, 190 Thayer St, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.
- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, 190 Thayer St, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
- Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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Kulkarni M, Hannula DE. Temporal Regularity May Not Improve Memory for Item-Specific Detail. Front Psychol 2021; 12:623402. [PMID: 33776845 PMCID: PMC7991072 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.623402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Regularities in event timing allow for the allocation of attention to critical time-points when an event is most likely to occur, leading to improved visual perception. Results from recent studies indicate that similar benefits may extend to memory for scenes and objects. Here, we investigated whether benefits of temporal regularity are evident when detailed, item-specific representations are necessary for successful recognition memory performance. In Experiments 1 and 2, pictures of objects were presented with either predictable or randomized event timing, in separate encoding blocks. In the test phase, old and new objects were presented, intermixed with perceptually similar exemplars of encoded objects. In Experiment 3 we attempted to replicate previously reported memory enhancements for scenes. In contrast to predictions, temporal regularity did not affect response times (RT) or improve recognition memory accuracy in any of our experiments. These results suggest that any effects of temporal expectation on memory are subtle and may be sensitive to minor changes in task parameters. In sum, indirect upregulation of attention through imposed temporal structure may not be sufficient to have downstream effects on memory performance.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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Explicitly versus implicitly driven temporal expectations: No evidence for altered perceptual processing due to top-down modulations. Atten Percept Psychophys 2020; 82:1793-1807. [PMID: 31875312 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01879-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Learning the statistical regularities of environmental events is a powerful tool for enhancing performance. However, it remains unclear whether this often implicit type of behavioral facilitation can be proactively modulated by explicit knowledge about temporal regularities. Only recently, Menceloglu and colleagues (Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79(1), 169-179, 2017) tested for differences between implicit versus explicit statistical learning of temporal regularities by using a within-paradigm manipulation of metacognitive temporal knowledge. The authors reported that temporal expectations were enhanced if participants had explicit knowledge about temporal regularities. Here, we attempted to replicate and extend their results, and to provide a mechanistic framework for any effects by means of computational modelling. Participants performed a letter-discrimination task, with target letters embedded in congruent or incongruent flankers. Temporal predictability was manipulated block-wise, with targets occurring more often after either a short or a long delay period. During the delay a sound was presented in half of the trials. Explicit knowledge about temporal regularities was manipulated by changing instructions: Participants received no information (implicit), information about the most likely cue-target delay (explicit), or received 100% valid cues on each trial (highly explicit). We replicated previous effects of target-flanker congruence and sound presence. However, no evidence was found for an effect of explicit knowledge on temporal expectations using Bayesian statistics. Concordantly, computational modelling suggested that explicit knowledge may only influence non-perceptual processing such as response criteria. Together, our results indicate that explicit metacognitive knowledge does not necessarily alter sensory representations or temporal expectations but rather affects response strategies.
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Abeles D, Amit R, Tal-Perry N, Carrasco M, Yuval-Greenberg S. Oculomotor inhibition precedes temporally expected auditory targets. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3524. [PMID: 32665559 PMCID: PMC7360783 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17158-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Eye movements are inhibited prior to the onset of temporally-predictable visual targets. This oculomotor inhibition effect could be considered a marker for the formation of temporal expectations and the allocation of temporal attention in the visual domain. Here we show that eye movements are also inhibited before predictable auditory targets. In two experiments, we manipulate the period between a cue and an auditory target to be either predictable or unpredictable. The findings show that although there is no perceptual gain from avoiding gaze-shifts in this procedure, saccades and blinks are inhibited prior to predictable relative to unpredictable auditory targets. These findings show that oculomotor inhibition occurs prior to auditory targets. This link between auditory expectation and oculomotor behavior reveals a multimodal perception action coupling, which has a central role in temporal expectations.
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- Dekel Abeles
- School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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- School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. .,Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.
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Menceloglu M, Grabowecky M, Suzuki S. Rhythm Violation Enhances Auditory-Evoked Responses to the Extent of Overriding Sensory Adaptation in Passive Listening. J Cogn Neurosci 2020; 32:1654-1671. [PMID: 32427071 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Sensory systems utilize temporal structure in the environment to build expectations about the timing of forthcoming events. We investigated the effects of rhythm-based temporal expectation on auditory responses measured with EEG recorded from the frontocentral sites implicated in auditory processing. By manipulating temporal expectation and the interonset interval (IOI) of tones, we examined how neural responses adapted to auditory rhythm and reacted to stimuli that violated the rhythm. Participants passively listened to the tones while watching a silent nature video. In Experiment 1 (n = 22), in the long-IOI block, tones were frequently presented (80%) with 1.7-sec IOI and infrequently presented (20%) with 1.2-sec IOI, generating unexpectedly early tones that violated temporal expectation. Conversely, in the short-IOI block, tones were frequently presented with 1.2-sec IOI and infrequently presented with 1.7-sec IOI, generating late tones. We analyzed the tone-evoked N1-P2 amplitude of ERPs and intertrial phase clustering in the theta-alpha band. The results provided evidence of strong delay-dependent adaptation effects (short-term, sensitive to IOI), weak cumulative adaptation effects (long-term, driven by tone repetition over time), and robust temporal-expectation violation effects over and above the adaptation effects. Experiment 2 (n = 22) repeated Experiment 1 with shorter IOIs of 1.2 and 0.7 sec. Overall, we found evidence of strong delay-dependent adaptation effects, weak cumulative adaptation effects (which may most efficiently accumulate at the tone presentation rate of ∼1 Hz), and robust temporal-expectation violation effects that substantially boost auditory responses to the extent of overriding the delay-dependent adaptation effects likely through mechanisms involved in exogenous attention.
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Korolczuk I, Burle B, Coull JT. The costs and benefits of temporal predictability: impaired inhibition of prepotent responses accompanies increased activation of task-relevant responses. Cognition 2018; 179:102-110. [PMID: 29935426 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2018] [Revised: 05/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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While the benefit of temporal predictability on sensorimotor processing is well established, it is still unknown whether this is due to efficient execution of an appropriate response and/or inhibition of an inappropriate one. To answer this question, we examined the effects of temporal predictability in tasks that required selective (Simon task) or global (Stop-signal task) inhibitory control of prepotent responses. We manipulated temporal expectation by presenting cues that either predicted (temporal cues) or not (neutral cues) when the target would appear. In the Simon task, performance was better when target location (left/right) was compatible with the hand of response and performance was improved further still if targets were temporally cued. However, Conditional Accuracy Functions revealed that temporal predictability selectively increased the number of fast, impulsive errors. Temporal cueing had no effect on selective response inhibition, as measured by the dynamics of the interference effect (delta plots) in the Simon task. By contrast, in the Stop-signal task, Stop-signal reaction time, a covert measure of a more global form of response inhibition, was significantly longer in temporally predictive trials. Therefore, when the time of target onset could be predicted in advance, it was harder to stop the impulse to respond to the target. Collectively, our results indicate that temporal cueing compounded the interfering effects of a prepotent response on task performance. We suggest that although temporal predictability enhances activation of task-relevant responses, it impairs inhibition of prepotent responses.
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- Inga Korolczuk
- Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, ul. Lojasiewicza 4, 30-348 Krakow, Poland.
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- Laboratoire des Neurosciences Cognitives UMR 7291, Federation 3C, Aix-Marseille University & CNRS, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille cedex 3, France
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- Laboratoire des Neurosciences Cognitives UMR 7291, Federation 3C, Aix-Marseille University & CNRS, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille cedex 3, France
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