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Wards Y, Ehrhardt SE, Garner KG, Mattingley JB, Filmer HL, Dux PE. Stimulating prefrontal cortex facilitates training transfer by increasing representational overlap. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae209. [PMID: 38771242 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024] Open
Abstract
A recent hypothesis characterizes difficulties in multitasking as being the price humans pay for our ability to generalize learning across tasks. The mitigation of these costs through training has been associated with reduced overlap of constituent task representations within frontal, parietal, and subcortical regions. Transcranial direct current stimulation, which can modulate functional brain activity, has shown promise in generalizing performance gains when combined with multitasking training. However, the relationship between combined transcranial direct current stimulation and training protocols with task-associated representational overlap in the brain remains unexplored. Here, we paired prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation with multitasking training in 178 individuals and collected functional magnetic resonance imaging data pre- and post-training. We found that 1 mA transcranial direct current stimulation applied to the prefrontal cortex paired with multitasking training enhanced training transfer to spatial attention, as assessed via a visual search task. Using machine learning to assess the overlap of neural activity related to the training task in task-relevant brain regions, we found that visual search gains were predicted by changes in classification accuracy in frontal, parietal, and cerebellar regions for participants that received left prefrontal cortex stimulation. These findings demonstrate that prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation may interact with training-related changes to task representations, facilitating the generalization of learning.
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- Yohan Wards
- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Building 79, Upland Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Mathews Building, Gate 11, Botany Street, Randwick, New South Wales 2052, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Hills Building, Edgbaston Park Rd, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Building 79, Upland Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Hills Building, Edgbaston Park Rd, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Renton AI, Dao TT, Johnstone T, Civier O, Sullivan RP, White DJ, Lyons P, Slade BM, Abbott DF, Amos TJ, Bollmann S, Botting A, Campbell MEJ, Chang J, Close TG, Dörig M, Eckstein K, Egan GF, Evas S, Flandin G, Garner KG, Garrido MI, Ghosh SS, Grignard M, Halchenko YO, Hannan AJ, Heinsfeld AS, Huber L, Hughes ME, Kaczmarzyk JR, Kasper L, Kuhlmann L, Lou K, Mantilla-Ramos YJ, Mattingley JB, Meier ML, Morris J, Narayanan A, Pestilli F, Puce A, Ribeiro FL, Rogasch NC, Rorden C, Schira MM, Shaw TB, Sowman PF, Spitz G, Stewart AW, Ye X, Zhu JD, Narayanan A, Bollmann S. Neurodesk: an accessible, flexible and portable data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging. Nat Methods 2024; 21:804-808. [PMID: 38191935 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02145-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
Abstract
Neuroimaging research requires purpose-built analysis software, which is challenging to install and may produce different results across computing environments. The community-oriented, open-source Neurodesk platform ( https://www.neurodesk.org/ ) harnesses a comprehensive and growing suite of neuroimaging software containers. Neurodesk includes a browser-accessible virtual desktop, command-line interface and computational notebook compatibility, allowing for accessible, flexible, portable and fully reproducible neuroimaging analysis on personal workstations, high-performance computers and the cloud.
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- Angela I Renton
- The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
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- The University of Sydney, School of Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- Hunter Medical Research Institute Imaging Centre, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- The University of Sydney, School of Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Integrative Spinal Research, Department of Chiropractic Medicine, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Human Health, Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- The University of Queensland, School of Psychology, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, he University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- GIGA CRC In-Vivo Imaging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Center for Open Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Perceptual Systems, Institute for Neuroscience, Center For Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA
- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, NY, USA
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- BRAIN-TO Lab, Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Grupo Neuropsicología y Conducta (GRUNECO), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- The University of Queensland, School of Psychology, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Integrative Spinal Research, Department of Chiropractic Medicine, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Perceptual Systems, Institute for Neuroscience, Center For Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Discipline of Psychiatry, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology, Lifelong Health Theme, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- McCausland Center for Brain Imaging, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- The University of Queensland, Centre for Advanced Imaging, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Neurology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Macquarie University, School of Psychological Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- ARC Training Centre for Innovation in Biomedical Imaging Technology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Macquarie University, School of Psychological Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, Centre for Advanced Imaging, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- The University of Queensland, Centre for Advanced Imaging, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- ARC Training Centre for Innovation in Biomedical Imaging Technology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Queensland Digital Health Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Garner KG, Leow LA, Uchida A, Nolan C, Jensen O, Garrido MI, Dux PE. Assessing the influence of dopamine and mindfulness on the formation of routines in visual search. Psychophysiology 2024:e14571. [PMID: 38679809 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Revised: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
Abstract
Given experience in cluttered but stable visual environments, our eye-movements form stereotyped routines that sample task-relevant locations, while not mixing-up routines between similar task-settings. Both dopamine signaling and mindfulness have been posited as factors that influence the formation of such routines, yet quantification of their impact remains to be tested in healthy humans. Over two sessions, participants searched through grids of doors to find hidden targets, using a gaze-contingent display. Within each session, door scenes appeared in either one of two colors, with each color signaling a differing set of likely target locations. We derived measures for how well target locations were learned (target-accuracy), how routine were sets of eye-movements (stereotypy), and the extent of interference between the two scenes (setting-accuracy). Participants completed two sessions, where they were administered either levodopa (dopamine precursor) or placebo (vitamin C), under double-blind counterbalanced conditions. Dopamine and trait mindfulness (assessed by questionnaire) interacted to influence both target-accuracy and stereotypy. Increasing dopamine improved accuracy and reduced stereotypy for high mindfulness scorers, but induced the opposite pattern for low mindfulness scorers. Dopamine also disrupted setting-accuracy invariant to mindfulness. Our findings show that mindfulness modulates the impact of dopamine on the target-accuracy and stereotypy of eye-movement routines, whereas increasing dopamine promotes interference between task-settings, regardless of mindfulness. These findings provide a link between non-human and human models regarding the influence of dopamine on the formation of task-relevant eye-movement routines and provide novel insights into behavior-trait factors that modulate the use of experience when building adaptive repertoires.
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- Kelly G Garner
- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences and Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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Wards Y, Ehrhardt SE, Filmer HL, Mattingley JB, Garner KG, Dux PE. Neural substrates of individual differences in learning generalization via combined brain stimulation and multitasking training. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:11679-11694. [PMID: 37930735 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023] Open
Abstract
A pervasive limitation in cognition is reflected by the performance costs we experience when attempting to undertake two tasks simultaneously. While training can overcome these multitasking costs, the more elusive objective of training interventions is to induce persistent gains that transfer across tasks. Combined brain stimulation and cognitive training protocols have been employed to improve a range of psychological processes and facilitate such transfer, with consistent gains demonstrated in multitasking and decision-making. Neural activity in frontal, parietal, and subcortical regions has been implicated in multitasking training gains, but how the brain supports training transfer is poorly understood. To investigate this, we combined transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex and multitasking training, with functional magnetic resonance imaging in 178 participants. We observed transfer to a visual search task, following 1 mA left or right prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation and multitasking training. These gains persisted for 1-month post-training. Notably, improvements in visual search performance for the right hemisphere stimulation group were associated with activity changes in the right hemisphere dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, intraparietal sulcus, and cerebellum. Thus, functional dynamics in these task-general regions determine how individuals respond to paired stimulation and training, resulting in enhanced performance on an untrained task.
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- Yohan Wards
- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Building 79, Upland Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, MaRS Centre, West tower, 661 University Ave., Suite 505, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1M1, Canada
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Building 79, Upland Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Mathews Building, Gate 11, Botany Street, Randwick, New South Wales 2052, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Hills Building, Edgbaston Park Rd, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, Campbell Road, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Renton AI, Dao TT, Johnstone T, Civier O, Sullivan RP, White DJ, Lyons P, Slade BM, Abbott DF, Amos TJ, Bollmann S, Botting A, Campbell MEJ, Chang J, Close TG, Eckstein K, Egan GF, Evas S, Flandin G, Garner KG, Garrido MI, Ghosh SS, Grignard M, Hannan AJ, Huber R, Kaczmarzyk JR, Kasper L, Kuhlmann L, Lou K, Mantilla-Ramos YJ, Mattingley JB, Morris J, Narayanan A, Pestilli F, Puce A, Ribeiro FL, Rogasch NC, Rorden C, Schira M, Shaw TB, Sowman PF, Spitz G, Stewart A, Ye X, Zhu JD, Hughes ME, Narayanan A, Bollmann S. Neurodesk: An accessible, flexible, and portable data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging. Res Sq 2023:rs.3.rs-2649734. [PMID: 36993557 PMCID: PMC10055538 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2649734/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Neuroimaging data analysis often requires purpose-built software, which can be challenging to install and may produce different results across computing environments. Beyond being a roadblock to neuroscientists, these issues of accessibility and portability can hamper the reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis pipelines. Here, we introduce the Neurodesk platform, which harnesses software containers to support a comprehensive and growing suite of neuroimaging software (https://www.neurodesk.org/). Neurodesk includes a browser-accessible virtual desktop environment and a command line interface, mediating access to containerized neuroimaging software libraries on various computing platforms, including personal and high-performance computers, cloud computing and Jupyter Notebooks. This community-oriented, open-source platform enables a paradigm shift for neuroimaging data analysis, allowing for accessible, flexible, fully reproducible, and portable data analysis pipelines.
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- Angela I. Renton
- The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, St Lucia 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
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- The University of Sydney, School of Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Australia
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- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia
- Hunter Medical Research Institute Imaging Centre, Newcastle, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- The University of Sydney, School of Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
- Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5000, Australia
- Human Health, Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO, Adelaide, 5000, Australia
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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- The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, St Lucia 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland, School of Psychology, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
- Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- GIGA CRC In-Vivo Imaging, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core Facility (FMRIF), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), USA
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- Medical Scientist Training Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America
- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, United States of America
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- Techna Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, St Lucia 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland, School of Psychology, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Perceptual Systems, Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Center on Aging and Population Sciences, Center for Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin, 108 E Dean Keeton St, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- Discipline of Psychiatry, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Australia
- Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology, Lifelong Health Theme, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, SA, Australia
- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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- McCausland Center for Brain Imaging, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, 29208, USA
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- School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland, Centre for Advanced Imaging, St Lucia 4072, Australia
- Department of Neurology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- Macquarie University, School of Psychological Sciences, North Ryde 2112, Australia
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- Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia
- Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, 3168, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- Macquarie University, School of Psychological Sciences, North Ryde 2112, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, Centre for Advanced Imaging, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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Levitis E, van Praag CDG, Gau R, Heunis S, DuPre E, Kiar G, Bottenhorn KL, Glatard T, Nikolaidis A, Whitaker KJ, Mancini M, Niso G, Afyouni S, Alonso-Ortiz E, Appelhoff S, Arnatkeviciute A, Atay SM, Auer T, Baracchini G, Bayer JMM, Beauvais MJS, Bijsterbosch JD, Bilgin IP, Bollmann S, Bollmann S, Botvinik-Nezer R, Bright MG, Calhoun VD, Chen X, Chopra S, Chuan-Peng H, Close TG, Cookson SL, Craddock RC, De La Vega A, De Leener B, Demeter DV, Di Maio P, Dickie EW, Eickhoff SB, Esteban O, Finc K, Frigo M, Ganesan S, Ganz M, Garner KG, Garza-Villarreal EA, Gonzalez-Escamilla G, Goswami R, Griffiths JD, Grootswagers T, Guay S, Guest O, Handwerker DA, Herholz P, Heuer K, Huijser DC, Iacovella V, Joseph MJE, Karakuzu A, Keator DB, Kobeleva X, Kumar M, Laird AR, Larson-Prior LJ, Lautarescu A, Lazari A, Legarreta JH, Li XY, Lv J, Mansour L S, Meunier D, Moraczewski D, Nandi T, Nastase SA, Nau M, Noble S, Norgaard M, Obungoloch J, Oostenveld R, Orchard ER, Pinho AL, Poldrack RA, Qiu A, Raamana PR, Rokem A, Rutherford S, Sharan M, Shaw TB, Syeda WT, Testerman MM, Toro R, Valk SL, Van Den Bossche S, Varoquaux G, Váša F, Veldsman M, Vohryzek J, Wagner AS, Walsh RJ, White T, Wong FT, Xie X, Yan CG, Yang YF, Yee Y, Zanitti GE, Van Gulick AE, Duff E, Maumet C. Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences-An OHBM-Open Science perspective. Gigascience 2021; 10:6355274. [PMID: 34414422 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giab051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
As the global health crisis unfolded, many academic conferences moved online in 2020. This move has been hailed as a positive step towards inclusivity in its attenuation of economic, physical, and legal barriers and effectively enabled many individuals from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented to join and participate. A number of studies have outlined how moving online made it possible to gather a more global community and has increased opportunities for individuals with various constraints, e.g., caregiving responsibilities. Yet, the mere existence of online conferences is no guarantee that everyone can attend and participate meaningfully. In fact, many elements of an online conference are still significant barriers to truly diverse participation: the tools used can be inaccessible for some individuals; the scheduling choices can favour some geographical locations; the set-up of the conference can provide more visibility to well-established researchers and reduce opportunities for early-career researchers. While acknowledging the benefits of an online setting, especially for individuals who have traditionally been underrepresented or excluded, we recognize that fostering social justice requires inclusivity to actively be centered in every aspect of online conference design. Here, we draw from the literature and from our own experiences to identify practices that purposefully encourage a diverse community to attend, participate in, and lead online conferences. Reflecting on how to design more inclusive online events is especially important as multiple scientific organizations have announced that they will continue offering an online version of their event when in-person conferences can resume.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth Levitis
- Section on Developmental Neurogenomics, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.,Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK
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- Institute of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve 1348, Belgium
| | - Stephan Heunis
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612 AP, The Netherlands
| | - Elizabeth DuPre
- NeuroDataScience - ORIGAMI laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
| | - Gregory Kiar
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.,Center for the Developing Brain, The Child Mind Institute, New York City, NY 10022, USA
| | | | - Tristan Glatard
- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
| | - Aki Nikolaidis
- Center for the Developing Brain, The Child Mind Institute, New York City, NY 10022, USA
| | | | - Matteo Mancini
- Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RR, UK.,Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ, UK.,NeuroPoly Lab, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada
| | - Guiomar Niso
- Departement of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.,ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and CIBER-BBN, 28040 Madrid, Spain
| | - Soroosh Afyouni
- Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK.,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EB, Cambridge, UK
| | - Eva Alonso-Ortiz
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada
| | - Stefan Appelhoff
- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
| | - Aurina Arnatkeviciute
- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Victoria, VIC, Clayton 3168, Australia
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- Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
| | - Tibor Auer
- School of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
| | - Giulia Baracchini
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.,Montréal Neurological Institute, Montréal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
| | - Johanna M M Bayer
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia.,Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, VIC, 3052, Royal Park, Melbourne, Australia
| | | | - Janine D Bijsterbosch
- Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 63110, USA
| | - Isil P Bilgin
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cybernetics, The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK
| | - Saskia Bollmann
- Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
| | - Steffen Bollmann
- School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.,ARC Training Centre for Innovation in Biomedical Imaging Technology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
| | - Rotem Botvinik-Nezer
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
| | - Molly G Bright
- Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.,Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
| | - Vince D Calhoun
- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
| | - Xiao Chen
- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, 100101, Beijing, China.,Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China.,International Big-Data Center for Depression Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Beijing, China
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- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Victoria, VIC, Clayton 3168, Australia
| | - Hu Chuan-Peng
- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210024, China
| | - Thomas G Close
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.,National Imaging Facility, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
| | - Savannah L Cookson
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
| | - R Cameron Craddock
- Department of Diagnostic Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX 78712, USA
| | - Alejandro De La Vega
- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
| | - Benjamin De Leener
- Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.,Research Centre, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
| | - Damion V Demeter
- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
| | - Paola Di Maio
- Center for Systems, Knowledge Representation and Neuroscience, Edinburgh and Taipei, UK and Taiwan.,Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE)
| | - Erin W Dickie
- Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany.,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1003, Switzerland
| | - Karolina Finc
- Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń 87-100, Poland
| | - Matteo Frigo
- Athena Project Team, Université Côte D'Azur, Inria, 06103 Nice, France
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Neurobiology Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark.,Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.,School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.,School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Imagenología por Resonancia Magnética, Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus Juriquilla, Querétaro, Qro 76230, Mexico
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- Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Rhine Main Neuroscience Network (rmn2), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55131, Germany
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- Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland.,Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
| | - John D Griffiths
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada.,Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada
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- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney 2751, NSW, Australia
| | - Samuel Guay
- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada
| | - Olivia Guest
- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6525 EN, Netherlands
| | - Daniel A Handwerker
- Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-9663, USA
| | - Peer Herholz
- NeuroDataScience - ORIGAMI laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
| | - Katja Heuer
- Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), INSERM U1284, Université de Paris, 75004 Paris, France.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3062, the Netherlands.,Developmental and Educational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden 2333, the Netherlands
| | - Vittorio Iacovella
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto 38068, Italy
| | - Michael J E Joseph
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
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- NeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3T 1N8, Canada.,Montréal Heart Institute, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, H1T 1C8, Canada
| | - David B Keator
- Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
| | - Xenia Kobeleva
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany.,Clinical Research, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, 53127 Bonn, Germany
| | - Manoj Kumar
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
| | - Angela R Laird
- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
| | - Linda J Larson-Prior
- Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.,Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, USA.,Department of Neurology, Pediatrics, Neuroscience & Developmental Sciences, Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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- Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health, Centre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK.,Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
| | - Alberto Lazari
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
| | - Jon Haitz Legarreta
- Department of Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing101408, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China.,CFIN and PET Center, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- School of Biomedical Engineering & Brain and Mind Center, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
| | - Sina Mansour L
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
| | - David Meunier
- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, INT, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, 13005 Marseille, France
| | | | - Tulika Nandi
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
| | - Samuel A Nastase
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
| | - Matthias Nau
- Section on Learning and Plasticity, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-9663, USA.,Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Stephanie Noble
- Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
| | - Martin Norgaard
- Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305Ci, USA.,Neurobiology Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
| | - Johnes Obungoloch
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara City, Uganda
| | - Robert Oostenveld
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6500 GL, The Netherlands.,NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
| | - Edwina R Orchard
- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Victoria, VIC, Clayton 3168, Australia
| | - Ana Luísa Pinho
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, 91120 Palaiseau, France
| | | | - Anqi Qiu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The N.1 Institute for Health, Smart Systems Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
| | | | - Ariel Rokem
- Department of Psychology & eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
| | - Saige Rutherford
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen 6525 EN, The Netherlands.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | | | - Thomas B Shaw
- Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
| | - Warda T Syeda
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
| | | | - Roberto Toro
- Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), INSERM U1284, Université de Paris, 75004 Paris, France.,Neuroscience Department, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
| | - Sofie L Valk
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany.,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich 52425, Germany.,Otto Hahn Group Cognitive Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 04303, Germany
| | - Sofie Van Den Bossche
- Department of Data Analysis, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
| | - Gaël Varoquaux
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, 91120 Palaiseau, France.,Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
| | - František Váša
- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London SE5 8AF, London, UK
| | - Michele Veldsman
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6GG, Oxford, UK
| | - Jakub Vohryzek
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK.,Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark
| | - Adina S Wagner
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich 52425, Germany
| | - Reubs J Walsh
- Department of Clinical, Neuro-, and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam,1081BT, The Netherlands.,Center for Applied Transgender Studies , Chicago, USA
| | - Tonya White
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, 3000CB, The Netherlands.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3000CB, The Netherlands
| | - Fu-Te Wong
- Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
| | - Xihe Xie
- Department of Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Graduate School, New York City, NY 10065, USA
| | - Chao-Gan Yan
- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, 100101, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China.,International Big-Data Center for Depression Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
| | - Yu-Fang Yang
- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97074, Germany
| | - Yohan Yee
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada.,Mouse Imaging Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, M5T 3H7, Canada
| | | | - Ana E Van Gulick
- Figshare, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.,University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
| | - Eugene Duff
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.,Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
| | - Camille Maumet
- Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inserm, IRISA UMR 6074, Empenn ERL U 1228, 35042 Rennes, France
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Gau R, Noble S, Heuer K, Bottenhorn KL, Bilgin IP, Yang YF, Huntenburg JM, Bayer JMM, Bethlehem RAI, Rhoads SA, Vogelbacher C, Borghesani V, Levitis E, Wang HT, Van Den Bossche S, Kobeleva X, Legarreta JH, Guay S, Atay SM, Varoquaux GP, Huijser DC, Sandström MS, Herholz P, Nastase SA, Badhwar A, Dumas G, Schwab S, Moia S, Dayan M, Bassil Y, Brooks PP, Mancini M, Shine JM, O'Connor D, Xie X, Poggiali D, Friedrich P, Heinsfeld AS, Riedl L, Toro R, Caballero-Gaudes C, Eklund A, Garner KG, Nolan CR, Demeter DV, Barrios FA, Merchant JS, McDevitt EA, Oostenveld R, Craddock RC, Rokem A, Doyle A, Ghosh SS, Nikolaidis A, Stanley OW, Uruñuela E. Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience. Neuron 2021; 109:1769-1775. [PMID: 33932337 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Brainhack is an innovative meeting format that promotes scientific collaboration and education in an open, inclusive environment. This NeuroView describes the myriad benefits for participants and the research community and how Brainhacks complement conventional formats to augment scientific progress.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rémi Gau
- Institute of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium.
| | - Stephanie Noble
- Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA
| | - Katja Heuer
- Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Université of Paris, Paris, France; Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
| | | | - Isil P Bilgin
- Biomedical Engineering, Cybernetics, University of Reading, Reading, UK; Allied Health Professions Institute, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
| | - Yu-Fang Yang
- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
| | | | - Johanna M M Bayer
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, Australia
| | - Richard A I Bethlehem
- Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Shawn A Rhoads
- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
| | - Christoph Vogelbacher
- Laboratory for Multimodal Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
| | - Valentina Borghesani
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
| | - Elizabeth Levitis
- Section on Developmental Neurogenomics, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK
| | - Hao-Ting Wang
- Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Sussex Neuroscience, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
| | - Sofie Van Den Bossche
- Department of Data Analysis, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Xenia Kobeleva
- Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
| | | | - Samuel Guay
- Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
| | - Selim Melvin Atay
- Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
| | - Gael P Varoquaux
- Parietal, INRIA, Saclay, France; Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
| | - Dorien C Huijser
- Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Developmental and Educational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | | | - Peer Herholz
- NeuroDataScience - ORIGAMI laboratory, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences McGill University Montréal, QC Canada
| | - Samuel A Nastase
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
| | - AmanPreet Badhwar
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Multiomics Investigation of Neurodegenerative Diseases (MIND) Lab, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Département de Pharmacologie et Physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Mila, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
| | - Simon Schwab
- Department of Biostatistics & Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
| | - Stefano Moia
- Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain; University of the Basque Country (EHU UPV), San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain
| | - Michael Dayan
- Human Neuroscience Platform, Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Yasmine Bassil
- Graduate Division of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Paula P Brooks
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
| | - Matteo Mancini
- Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; NeuroPoly Lab, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
| | - David O'Connor
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
| | - Xihe Xie
- Department of Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, NY, USA
| | - Davide Poggiali
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - Patrick Friedrich
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
| | - Anibal S Heinsfeld
- Computational Neuroimaging Lab, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
| | - Lydia Riedl
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany
| | - Roberto Toro
- Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Université of Paris, Paris, France; Neuroscience Department, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia; School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- Psychology Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
| | - Fernando A Barrios
- Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, Mexico
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- Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA
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- Psychology and eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York City, NY, USA
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- Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain; University of the Basque Country (EHU UPV), San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain
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Practice or training on a particular task often yields gains for the trained task; however, the extent to which these benefits generalize to other stimuli/tasks is contentious. It has been suggested that behavioral decision-making/response selection training may enhance temporal visual attention, as measured using the attentional blink (AB) paradigm. Here, we show that AB can indeed be reduced through response selection training, which requires repeatedly performing a speeded decision-making task. Training gains garnered by this approach transferred to distinct AB measures, but not to unrelated measures of visual search and multitasking ability. Moreover, these changes were still evident 2 weeks after training completion. Crucially, training on 2 active control tasks-visual search and motion discrimination-did not elicit similar gains. Such malleability of temporal visual attention via response selection training offers tantalizing prospects for future cognitive enhancement endeavors. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland
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Although humans show a remarkable ability to make rapid and accurate decisions in novel situations, it is surprisingly difficult to observe transferable benefits when training decision-making performance. The current study investigated whether 2 properties of decision-making-amodal processing and encoding of abstract relationships-could be leveraged to produce transferable training gains, compared with the performance of an active-control group. Experiment 1 showed that training responses to visually presented stimuli (letters) did not transfer to benefit performance for the same stimuli presented in the auditory modality. Therefore, training exercises the integration of modality-specific information, not a supramodal category. However, Experiment 2 showed that when stimuli share an abstract rule, training transfers to new materials that conform to the same modality and rule, and to analogous rules in a new modality. Therefore, transfer of training benefits requires an abstract code that can be generalized to new stimulus sets. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- K G Garner
- The School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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- The School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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- The School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Garner KG, Matthews N, Remington RW, Dux PE. Transferability of Training Benefits Differs across Neural Events: Evidence from ERPs. J Cogn Neurosci 2015; 27:2079-94. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Humans can show striking capacity limitations in sensorimotor processing. Fortunately, these limitations can be attenuated with training. However, less fortunately, training benefits often remain limited to trained tasks. Recent behavioral observations suggest that the extent to which training transfers may depend on the specific stage of information processing that is being executed. Training benefits for a task that taps the consolidation of sensory information (sensory encoding) transfer to new stimulus–response mappings, whereas benefits for selecting an appropriate action (decision-making/response selection) remain specific to the trained mappings. Therefore, training may have dissociable influences on the neural events underlying subsequent sensorimotor processing stages. Here, we used EEG to investigate this possibility. In a pretraining baseline session, participants completed two four-alternative-choice response time tasks, presented both as a single task and as part of a dual task (with another task). The training group completed a further 3,000 training trials on one of the four-alternative-choice tasks. Hence, one task became trained, whereas the other remained untrained. At test, a negative-going component that is sensitive to sensory-encoding demands (N2) showed increased amplitudes and reduced latencies for trained and untrained mappings relative to a no-train control group. In contrast, the onset of the stimulus-locked lateralized readiness potential, a component that reflects the activation of motor plans, was reduced only for tasks that employed trained stimulus–response mappings, relative to untrained stimulus–response mappings and controls. Collectively, these results show that training benefits are dissociable for the brain events that reflect distinct sensorimotor processing stages.
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Garner KG, Dux PE, Wagner J, Cummins TDR, Chambers CD, Bellgrove MA. Attentional asymmetries in a visual orienting task are related to temperament. Cogn Emot 2012; 26:1508-15. [PMID: 22650182 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2012.666205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Spatial asymmetries are an intriguing feature of directed attention. Recent observations indicate an influence of temperament upon the direction of these asymmetries. It is unknown whether this influence generalises to visual orienting behaviour. The aim of the current study was therefore to explore the relationship between temperament and measures of spatial orienting as a function of target hemifield. An exogenous cueing task was administered to 92 healthy participants. Temperament was assessed using Carver and White's (1994) Behavioural Inhibition System and Behavioural Activation System (BIS/BAS) scales. Individuals with high sensitivity to punishment and low sensitivity to reward showed a leftward asymmetry of directed attention when there was no informative spatial cue provided. This asymmetry was not present when targets were preceded by spatial cues that were either valid or invalid. The findings support the notion that individual variations in temperament influence spatial asymmetries in visual orienting, but only when lateral targets are preceded by a non-directional (neutral) cue. The results are discussed in terms of hemispheric asymmetries and dopamine activity.
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- Kelly G Garner
- School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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de Backer MWA, Brans MAD, van Rozen AJ, van der Zwaal EM, Luijendijk MCM, Garner KG, de Krom M, van Beekum O, la Fleur SE, Adan RAH. Suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 knockdown in the mediobasal hypothalamus: counterintuitive effects on energy balance. J Mol Endocrinol 2010; 45:341-53. [PMID: 20819948 DOI: 10.1677/jme-10-0057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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An increase in brain suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3) has been implicated in the development of both leptin and insulin resistance. Socs3 mRNA is localized throughout the brain, and it remains unclear which brain areas are involved in the effect of SOCS3 levels on energy balance. We investigated the role of SOCS3 expressed in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) in the development of diet-induced obesity in adult rats. Socs3 mRNA was down-regulated by local injection of adeno-associated viral vectors expressing a short hairpin directed against Socs3, after which we determined the response to high-fat high-sucrose choice diet. In contrast to neuronal Socs3 knockout mice, rats with SOCS3 knockdown limited to the MBH showed increased body weight gain, larger amounts of white adipose tissue, and higher leptin concentrations at the end of the experiment. These effects were partly due to the decrease in locomotor activity, as 24 h food intake was comparable with controls. In addition, rats with Socs3 knockdown in the MBH showed alterations in their meal patterns: average meal size in the light period was increased and was accompanied by a compensatory decrease in meal frequency in the dark phase. In addition, neuropeptide Y (Npy) mRNA levels were significantly increased in the arcuate nucleus of Socs3 knockdown rats. Since leptin is known to stimulate Npy transcription in the absence of Socs3, these data suggest that knockdown of Socs3 mRNA limited to the MBH increases Npy mRNA levels, which subsequently decreases locomotor activity and alters feeding patterns.
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- M W A de Backer
- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Utrecht University Medical Centre Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, Stratenum 5.203, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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