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Verhoef T, Marghetis T, Walker E, Coulson S. Brain responses to a lab-evolved artificial language with space-time metaphors. Cognition 2024; 246:105763. [PMID: 38442586 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105763] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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What is the connection between the cultural evolution of a language and the rapid processing response to that language in the brains of individual learners? In an iterated communication study that was conducted previously, participants were asked to communicate temporal concepts such as "tomorrow," "day after," "year," and "past" using vertical movements recorded on a touch screen. Over time, participants developed simple artificial 'languages' that used space metaphorically to communicate in nuanced ways about time. Some conventions appeared rapidly and universally (e.g., using larger vertical movements to convey greater temporal durations). Other conventions required extensive social interaction and exhibited idiosyncratic variation (e.g., using vertical location to convey past or future). Here we investigate whether the brain's response during acquisition of such a language reflects the process by which the language's conventions originally evolved. We recorded participants' EEG as they learned one of these artificial space-time languages. Overall, the brain response to this artificial communication system was language-like, with, for instance, violations to the system's conventions eliciting an N400-like component. Over the course of learning, participants' brain responses developed in ways that paralleled the process by which the language had originally evolved, with early neural sensitivity to violations of a rapidly-evolving universal convention, and slowly developing neural sensitivity to an idiosyncratic convention that required slow social negotiation to emerge. This study opens up exciting avenues of future work to disentangle how neural biases influence learning and transmission in the emergence of structure in language.
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- Tessa Verhoef
- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Gorlaeus Building, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands; Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, Mail Code 0515; 9500, Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA.
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- Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, 5200 North Lake Rd., Merced, CA 95343, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, Mail Code 0515; 9500, Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, Mail Code 0515; 9500, Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA
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Hu X, Meng Z, He Q. Choice overload interferes with early processing and necessitates late compensation: Evidence from electroencephalogram. Eur J Neurosci 2024. [PMID: 38575329 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16322] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024]
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Having a multitude of choices can be advantageous, yet an abundance of options can be detrimental to the decision-making process. Based on existing research, the present study combined electroencephalogram and self-reported methodologies to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of choice overload. Behavioural data suggested that an increase in the number of options led to negative evaluations and avoidance of choice tendencies, even in the absence of time pressure. Event-related potential results indicated that the large choice set interfered with the early visual process, as evidenced by the small P1 amplitude, and failed to attract more attentional resources in the early stage, as evidenced by the small amplitude of P2 and N2. However, the LPC amplitude was increased in the late stage, suggesting greater investment of attentional resources and higher emotional arousal. Multivariate pattern analysis revealed that the difference between small and large choice set began at around 120 ms, and the early and late stages were characterised by opposite activation patterns. This suggested that too many options interfered with early processing and necessitate continued processing at a later stage. In summary, both behavioural and event-related potential (ERP) results confirm the choice overload effect, and it was observed that individuals tend to subjectively exaggerate the choice overload effect.
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- Xinye Hu
- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
- Southwest University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Chongqing, China
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Turniak-Kusy M, Studzian M, Szpakowski P, Kuchta P, Smietanka K, Mattern C, Pulaski L, Bielecki B. Testosterone Inhibits Secretion of the Pro-Inflammatory Chemokine CXCL1 from Astrocytes. Curr Issues Mol Biol 2024; 46:2105-2118. [PMID: 38534751 DOI: 10.3390/cimb46030135] [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: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 02/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Astrocytes play an important role in the regulation of the inflammatory response in the CNS, e.g., in demyelinating diseases. Since the chemokine CXCL1 is known to be secreted by astrocytes and to have a pro-inflammatory effect on immune cells in the CNS, we verified the effect of testosterone on its secretion in vitro (in the astrocytic cell line DI TNC1). Testosterone reduced the increase in CXCL1 production caused by the pro-inflammatory agent lysophosphatidylcholine and restored the basal production level of CXCL1. The androgen receptor (present and functional in the studied cell line) was strongly suggested to mediate this effect-its non-steroid ligand flutamide exerted an agonist-like effect, mimicking the activity of testosterone itself on CXCL1 secretion. This novel mechanism has important implications for the known immunomodulatory effect of testosterone and potentially other androgenic hormones. It provides a potential explanation on the molecular level and shows that astrocytes are important players in inflammatory homeostasis in the CNS and its hormonal regulation. Therefore, it suggests new directions for the development of the therapeutic intervention.
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- Department of Oncobiology and Epigenetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
- Laboratory of Transcriptional Regulation, Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 90-364 Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke, Medical University of Lodz, 90-549 Lodz, Poland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, 90-419 Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke, Medical University of Lodz, 90-549 Lodz, Poland
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- Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA
- M&P Pharma AG, 6376 Emmetten, Switzerland
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- Department of Oncobiology and Epigenetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
- Laboratory of Transcriptional Regulation, Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 90-364 Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Medical University of Lodz, 90-153 Lodz, Poland
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Jiang Q, Lin W, Pan Y, Li D, Wang Q. The cognitive neural mechanism of trait anxiety influences mind wandering: An ERP study. Neurosci Lett 2024; 822:137648. [PMID: 38246407 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2024.137648] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2023] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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Converging evidence from behavioral and neuroscience studies demonstrated that our attention to the external world is influenced by emotion, especially anxiety. However, little is known about how trait anxiety influences neural and behavioral responses during mind wandering. The present study aimed to examine the neural and cognitive time courses of how trait anxiety affects mind wandering. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 20 individuals with high trait anxiety and 20 with low trait anxiety when they performed the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) in which they were asked to respond to frequent ''nontargets'' (digits 0-6, 8-9) but withhold responses to infrequent ''targets'' (the digit 7). We compared the behavioral performance and electroencephalographic waves between the high and low trait anxiety groups during states of "mind wandering" (fail to withhold a response to the target number) and being "on-task" (correctly withhold a response to the target number). Results showed that a larger late positive component (LPC, 400-950 ms) was elicited when participants were "on task" than when they were mind wandering. Additionally, a larger late slow waveform (LSW, 950-1050 ms) was elicited in the high trait anxiety group than in the low trait anxiety group. Moreover, there was a positive correlation between self-reported trait anxiety scores and the LSW amplitudes during mind wandering. It was proposed that the effect of trait anxiety on the cognitive neural mechanism underlying attentional processing was primarily reflected in a later process involving the redistribution of cognitive resources.
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- Qin Jiang
- Research Center of Psychology and Education, School of Marxism, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.
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- Research Center of Psychology and Education, School of Marxism, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; School of Marxism, Yulin Normal University, Yulin 537000, China
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- Research Center of Psychology and Education, School of Marxism, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Research Center of Psychology and Education, School of Marxism, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Troyer M, Kutas M, Batterink L, McRae K. Nuances of knowing: Brain potentials reveal implicit effects of domain knowledge on word processing in the absence of sentence-level knowledge. Psychophysiology 2024; 61:e14422. [PMID: 37638492 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14422] [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: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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In previous work investigating the relationship between domain knowledge (of the fictional world of Harry Potter) and sentence comprehension, domain knowledge had a greater impact on electrical brain potentials to words which completed sentences about fictional "facts" participants reported they did not know compared to facts they did. This suggests that individuals use domain knowledge continuously to activate relevant/related concepts as they process sentences, even with only partial knowledge. As that study relied on subjective reports, it may have resulted in response bias related to an individual's overall domain knowledge. In the present study, we therefore asked participants with varying degrees of domain knowledge to complete sentences describing fictional "facts" as an objective measure of sentence-level knowledge. We then recorded EEG as the same individuals (re-)read the same sentences, including their appropriate final words, and sorted these according to their objective knowledge scores. Replicating and extending Troyer et al., domain knowledge immediately facilitated access to meaning for unknown words; greater domain knowledge was associated with reduced N400 amplitudes for unknown words. These findings constitute novel evidence for graded preactivation of conceptual knowledge (e.g., at the level of semantic features and/or relations) in the absence of lexical prediction. Knowledge also influenced post-N400 memory/integration processes for these same unknown words; greater domain knowledge was associated with enhanced late positive components (LPCs), suggesting that deeper encoding during language processing may be engendered when knowledgeable individuals encounter an apparent gap in their knowledge.
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- Melissa Troyer
- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Department of Psychology, Brain & Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Brain & Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Brain & Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Gao F, Wu C, Fu H, Xu K, Yuan Z. Language Nativeness Modulates Physiological Responses to Moral vs. Immoral Concepts in Chinese-English Bilinguals: Evidence from Event-Related Potential and Psychophysiological Measures. Brain Sci 2023; 13:1543. [PMID: 38002503 PMCID: PMC10670020 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13111543] [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: 08/28/2023] [Revised: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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Morality has been an integral part of social cognition and our daily life, and different languages may exert distinct impacts on human moral judgment. However, it remains unclear how moral concept is encoded in the bilingual brain. This study, therefore, aimed to explore the emotional and cognitive involvement of bilingual morality judgement by using combined event-related potential (ERP) and psychophysiological (including skin, heart, and pulse) measures. In the experiment, thirty-one Chinese-English bilingual participants were asked to make moral judgments in Chinese and English, respectively. Our results revealed increased early frontal N400 and decreased LPC in L1 moral concept encoding as compared to L2, suggesting that L1 was more reliant on automatic processes and emotions yet less on elaboration. In contrast, L2 moral and immoral concepts elicited enhanced LPC, decreased N400, and greater automatic psychophysiological electrocardiograph responses, which might reflect more elaborate processing despite blunted emotional responses and increased anxiety. Additionally, both behavioral and P200 data revealed a reliable immorality bias across languages. Our results were discussed in light of the dual-process framework of moral judgments and the (dis)embodiment of bilingual processing, which may advance our understanding of the interplay between language and morality as well as between emotion and cognition.
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- Fei Gao
- Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;
- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR 999078, China
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- Key Laboratory of Multilingual Education with AI, School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 200083, China;
- Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 200083, China
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR 999078, China;
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- Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;
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- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR 999078, China
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR 999078, China;
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Tian Z, Huang S, Wen S, Zhang Q, Huang K, Gui Y, Hu B, Feng L, Wang Q. Event-related potentials reveal visual episodic memory deficits in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2023; 148:109460. [PMID: 37839245 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2023.109460] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2023] [Revised: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients usually suffer from impaired episodic memory (EM), but its underlying electrophysiologic mechanism and impacted cognitive performance are unclear. We aim to investigate the association between episodic memory reserve and physiological measures of memory workload in TLE patients using Event-related potentials (ERP). METHODS A change detection task with image stimuli assesses visual episodic memory. During the memory encoding and decoding phases, the ERP signals were analyzed from twenty-nine TLE patients (twelve with left TLE patients, seventeen with TLE), and thirty healthy controls. Given that EM is a complex process involving many fundamental cognitive processes, the amplitudes and latencies of EM-related ERP (FN400, late positive potential (LPC), and late posterior negativity (LPN)), and the ERP reflecting the fundamental processes (P100, N100, P200, and P300) were calculated. Then we used a three-by-two factorial design on the ERP metrics for interaction and main effects. The correlation analysis among Wechsler Memory Scales-Chinese Revision (WMS-RC) results, behavioral data, and the ERPs was carried out. RESULTS The TLE patients performed worse in WMS-RC and the memory task. The increased P200 and decreased P300 amplitudes were observed in the TLE patients, and LPN was abnormal in only LTLE patients. For EM-related components, differences were observed in both the LTLE and RTLE patients: the lack of the FN400 effect, the lack of the reversed LPC effect, and the reduced FN400. No significant inter-group difference was detected for the latencies of all the ERPs. Additionally, there were significant correlations among WMS-RC scores, behaviors, and some ERP amplitudes. CONCLUSIONS The impaired EM is linked to the increased P200 and decreased P300 amplitudes. LPN seems to be sensitive to left temporal lobe dysfunction. More importantly, the abnormal old or new effects of the FN400 and LPC, and the reduced FN400 amplitude might be associated with the visual EM deficit in the TLE patients. These findings may assist in the deep understanding of the EM disorder and the evaluation of the side effects of antiepileptic drugs.
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- Ziwei Tian
- Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China; Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging Technology, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China; National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 330000, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China; National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 330000, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China; National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 330000, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China; National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 330000, China
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- Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China; Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging Technology, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China; Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging Technology, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China; National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 330000, China; Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University (Jiangxi Branch), Nanchang, Jiangxi 410008, China.
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- Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China; Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging Technology, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China.
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Dahabiyeh LA, Nimer RM, Rashed M, Wells JD, Fiehn O. Serum-Based Lipid Panels for Diagnosis of Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease. Metabolites 2023; 13:990. [PMID: 37755270 PMCID: PMC10537766 DOI: 10.3390/metabo13090990] [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: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a highly prevalent neurodegenerative movement disorder with an unclear etiology and a lack of definite diagnostic tests and effective treatments. About 95% of PD cases are idiopathic, in which none of the well-known genes underlying familial parkinsonism are mutated. We used untargeted liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to profile the serum lipidome of 50 patients with different stages of idiopathic PD (early, mid, or advanced) and 45 age-matched controls. When comparing the PD patients to the control subjects, 169 lipids were significantly altered in both a univariate analysis and a multivariate partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). Compared to the controls, the patients with PD had higher levels of unsaturated triacylglycerides (e.g., TG O-56:9 and TG 52:3), saturated lysophosphatidylcholines (LPC 17:0, 16:0, and 15:0), and hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (12-HETE), while lower levels of phosphatidylserines (e.g., PS 40:4 and PS 16:0_22:4), sphingomyelins (SM 42:1), and ceramides (e.g., Cer 40:0 and 42:0) were found between the PD patients and the controls. A panel of 10 significantly altered lipids (PS 40:0, Cer 40:0, Cer 42:0, LPC 17:0, LPC 15:0, PC 37:7, PE O-40:8, PC O-42:4, FA 23:0, and SM 42:1) resulted in a strong receiver operating characteristic curve with an AUC = 0.974. This panel may, therefore, be useful for diagnosing PD. In addition, lipid panels may prove useful for distinguishing among the progression stages of PD. Using one-way ANOVA, 155 lipid species were significantly altered among the PD stages. Parkinson's disease progressed from the early to advanced stages with decreasing levels of PC 31:1, PC 38:4, and LPE 22:5. Conversely, LPC-O 20:0, PC O-42:3, FA 19:0, and FA 22:2 showed an increase in their levels with disease progression. Overall, this study shows an intriguing number of robust changes in specific serum lipids that may become useful for diagnosing PD and its progression, once panels have been validated in larger clinical trials and prospective studies.
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- Lina A. Dahabiyeh
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
- West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
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- West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Zhang W, Dong J, Li Y, Zhen A, Yan H. General cognitive processing for orthographic discrepancy engages foveal attention during sentence comprehension. Atten Percept Psychophys 2023; 85:2056-2064. [PMID: 37442894 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-023-02759-5] [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] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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Words are processed in the parafovea and fovea in succession during natural reading, but the classic rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm presents words only in the fovea. Unlike the RSVP paradigm, the RSVP with flanker (RSVP-flanker) paradigm is similar to natural text reading. Previous studies using the RSVP-flanker paradigm have suggested that high-level semantic/syntactic integration engages foveal fixation after parafoveal semantic access. However, it is less clear how general cognitive processing, such as discrepancy monitoring and error correction, unfolds across the parafoveal and foveal visual fields. In the current study, Chinese sentences were presented with the RSVP-flanker paradigm. Critical words were manipulated so that they were expected (EXP), semantically violated (VIO), or orthographically similar (ORT). Because of the nuanced differences between the EXP and ORT conditions, the processing of ORT critical words required more general cognitive processing, such as discrepancy monitoring and error correction. In contrast, the processing of VIO words may require more semantic integration. The ERP results showed more positive foveal late positive component (LPC) in ORT versus VIO. Moreover, there was no parafoveal LPC effect, but a robust foveal LPC effect, in the contrasts of VIO/ORT versus EXP, replicating previous results. Together, the results provide substantial evidence that general cognitive processing for orthographic discrepancy occurs at the foveal perception.
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- Wenjia Zhang
- Key Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Hospital of Xi'an, Xi'an, 710002, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Psychology, St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY, 11439, USA
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- Key Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China.
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Li Z, Li K, Liu Y, Gong M, Shang J, Liu W, Liu Y, Jiang Z. Semantic satiation of emotional words impedes facial expression processing in two stages. Heliyon 2023; 9:e18341. [PMID: 37539095 PMCID: PMC10395535 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18341] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023] Open
Abstract
To explore the mechanism of emotional words semantic satiation effect on facial expression processing, participants were asked to judge the facial expression (happiness or sadness) after an emotional word ((cry) or (smile)) or a neutral word ((Ah), baseline condition) was presented for 20 s. The results revealed that participants were slower in judging valence-congruent facial expressions and reported a more enlarged (Experiment 1) and prolonged (Experiment 2) N170 component than the baseline condition. No significant difference in behavior and N170 appeared between the valence-incongruent and the baseline condition. However, the amplitude of LPC (Late Positive Complex) under both valence-congruent/incongruent conditions was smaller than the baseline condition. It indicates that, in the early stage, the impeding effect of satiated emotional words is specifically constrained to facial expressions with the same emotional valence; in the late stage, such an impeding effect might spread to facial expressions with the opposite valence of the satiated emotional word.
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- Zhao Li
- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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- Tianjin Vocational College of Sports, Tianjin, China
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- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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- School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Humanities, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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Salzmann S, Wakili P, Al-Nawaiseh S, Považay B, Meier C, Burri C. High-Precision Optical Coherence Tomography Navigated Laser Retinopexy for Retinal Breaks. Life (Basel) 2023; 13:life13051145. [PMID: 37240790 DOI: 10.3390/life13051145] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/07/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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The prevalent cause of retinal detachment is a full-thickness retinal break and the ingress of fluid into the subretinal space. To prevent progression of the detachment, laser photocoagulation (LPC) lesions are placed around the break in clinical practice to seal the tissue. Unlike the usual application under indirect ophthalmoscopy, we developed a semi-automatic treatment planning software based on a sequence of optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans to perform navigated LPC treatment. The depth information allows demarcation of the border where the neurosensory retina is still attached to the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), which is critical for prevention of detachment progression. To evaluate the method, artificially provoked retinal breaks were treated in seven ex-vivo porcine eyes. Treatment outcome was assessed by fundus photography and OCT imaging. The automatically applied lesions surrounding each detachment (4.4-39.6 mm2) could be identified as highly scattering coagulation regions in color fundus photography and OCT. Between the planned and applied pattern, a mean offset of 68 µm (SD ± 16.5 µm) and a mean lesion spacing error of 5 µm (SD ± 10 µm) was achieved. The results demonstrate the potential of navigated OCT-guided laser retinopexy to improve overall treatment accuracy, efficiency, and safety.
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- Simon Salzmann
- Institute for Human Centered Engineering (HuCE)-OptoLab, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Quellgasse 21, 2501 Biel, Switzerland
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- Eye Clinic Sulzbach, Knappschaftsklinikum Saar, An der Klinik 10, 66280 Sulzbach, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Muenster, Domagkstrasse 15, 48149 Muenster, Germany
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- Institute for Human Centered Engineering (HuCE)-OptoLab, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Quellgasse 21, 2501 Biel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Human Centered Engineering (HuCE)-OptoLab, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Quellgasse 21, 2501 Biel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Human Centered Engineering (HuCE)-OptoLab, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Quellgasse 21, 2501 Biel, Switzerland
- Biomedical Photonics Group, Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Wang H, Ao L, Gao Y, Liu Y, Zhang X. Empathy for pain in Individuals influenced by moral identity: Evidence from an ERP study. Physiol Behav 2023; 266:114202. [PMID: 37084861 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114202] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 04/23/2023]
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Both morality and empathy are crucial in the construction of human society. The influence of morality on empathy also deserves researchers' attention. This study used event-related potential techniques to control the degree of moral identity of participants through writing tasks and deeply explored the psychological processes and neural mechanisms of moral identity affecting pain empathy. Behavioral results for picture type showed that the response time to the pain pictures was longer than the nonpain pictures, the accuracy of pain pictures was lower than that of nonpain pictures and ratings of pain pictures were rated higher than non-pain picture. Behavioral results for moral identity showed that there were no significant differences in response time, accuracy, and rating. The interaction between picture type and moral identity was not significant. The ERP results showed that people with high moral identity had higher levels of empathy than those with low moral identity, and pain pictures induced smaller N2 amplitudes and larger Late Positive Component (LPC) amplitudes than nonpain pictures. For people with low moral identity, the pain picture amplitudes were not significantly different from the N2 and LPC amplitudes induced by the nonpain pictures. These results suggest that moral identity affects and moderates the early processing of emotional empathy in the N2 representation and the late processing of cognitive empathy in the LPC representation. Individuals with high moral identity are more likely to induce early automated processing of pain to others when stimulated by pain pictures, automatically sharing the negative emotions of others, which is manifested as having more emotional empathy. Individuals with high moral identity exhibit a more refined analytical evaluation of pain pictures and a conscious, top-down control of processing when stimulated by pain pictures, which is manifested as having more cognitive empathy. Whether in the emotional empathy stage or in the cognitive empathy stage, moral identity has an important impact on pain empathy, and higher moral identity is the premise of empathy for the pain of others.
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- He Wang
- School of Public Health, School of Psychology and Mental Health, North China University of Science and Technology, 21 Bohai avenue, Caofeidian district, Tangshan, Hebei province, China.
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- School of Psychology and Mental Health, North China University of Science and Technology, 21 Bohai avenue, Caofeidian district, Tangshan, Hebei province, China.
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- School of Psychology and Mental Health, North China University of Science and Technology, 21 Bohai avenue, Caofeidian district, Tangshan, Hebei province, China.
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- School of Public Health, School of Psychology and Mental Health, North China University of Science and Technology, 21 Bohai avenue, Caofeidian district, Tangshan, Hebei province, China.
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- School of Public Health, School of Psychology and Mental Health, North China University of Science and Technology, 21 Bohai avenue, Caofeidian district, Tangshan, Hebei province, China.
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Zhang Q, Mou C, Yang X, Yang Y, Li L. The effect of contextual arousal on the integration of emotional words during discourse comprehension. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2023; 76:850-861. [PMID: 35465786 DOI: 10.1177/17470218221098838] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This event-related potential (ERP) study examined the effect of contextual arousal on emotional word integration during discourse comprehension. We used two-sentence discourses as experimental materials. The first sentence served as an emotional context and described a high-arousal positive event, a low-arousal positive event, a high-arousal negative event, or a low-arousal negative event. The second sentence contained one negative word as the critical word, which was identical among different conditions. Thus, four conditions were included in the present study: high-arousal inconsistent, low-arousal inconsistent, high-arousal consistent, and low-arousal consistent. The ERP results showed that inconsistent emotional words elicited larger P200 and LPC than consistent words in the high-arousal context. However, only a P200 effect was observed for inconsistent emotional words in the low-arousal context. Our results indicate that a high-arousal context could lead to more elaborated emotional evaluation in the later stage of emotional word integration and suggest an important role of contextual arousal on the processing of emotional words during discourse processing.
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- Qian Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Fortier-Lebel O, Hudon É, Boller B, Frasnelli J. Chemosensation In Anxiety: The Trigeminal System Matters. Chem Senses 2023; 48:7091515. [PMID: 36976248 PMCID: PMC10108648 DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjad010] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 03/29/2023] Open
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The presence of a perceptual bias due to anxiety is well demonstrated in cognitive and sensory task for the visual and auditory modality. Event-related potentials, by their specific measurement of neural processes, have strongly contributed to this evidence. There is still no consensus as to whether such a bias exists in the chemical senses; chemosensory event-related potentials (CSERP) are an excellent tool to clarify the heterogeneous results, especially since the Late Positive Component (LPC) may be an indicator of emotional involvement after chemosensory stimulation. This research examined the association between state and trait anxiety and the amplitude and latency of pure olfactory and mixed olfactory-trigeminal LPC. In this study, 20 healthy participants (11 women) with a mean age of 24.6 years (SD=2.6) completed a validated questionnaire to measure anxiety (STAI), and CSERP were recorded during 40 pure olfactory stimulations (phenyl ethanol) and 40 mixed olfactory-trigeminal stimulations (eucalyptol). LPC latency and amplitude were measured at Cz (electrode located at midline central) for each participant. We observed a significant negative correlation between LPC latencies and the state anxiety scores for the mixed olfactory-trigeminal condition (r(18) = -.513; p = .021), but not for the pure olfactory condition. We did not observe any effect on LPC amplitudes. This study suggests that a higher level of state anxiety is related to a more rapid perceptual electrophysiological response for mixed olfactory-trigeminal stimuli but not for pure odors.
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- Olivier Fortier-Lebel
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Qc, Canada
- Research Centre of the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Qc, Canada
- Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Qc, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Qc, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Qc, Canada
- Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Qc, Canada
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- Research Centre of the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Qc, Canada
- Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Qc, Canada
- Department of Anatomy, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Qc, Canada
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Yang J, Huang L. Comprehension of metaphors in patients with mild cognitive impairment: Evidence from behavioral and ERP data. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2023; 235:103894. [PMID: 36940588 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103894] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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The ability of metaphor comprehension reflects the cognitive status of elders. This study explored the ability of Chinese aMCI patients to access metaphorical meaning based on linguistic models of metaphor processing. ERPs were recorded from 30 aMCI patients and 30 control participants when judging the meaningfulness of literal sentences, conventional metaphors, novel metaphors, and anomalous expressions. The lower accuracy of the aMCI group revealed an impairment in metaphoric comprehension ability, but this difference was not reflected in ERPs data. In all participants, anomalous endings to sentences evoked the most negative N400 amplitude, whereas conventional metaphors evoked the smallest N400 amplitude. The LPC amplitude might be masked by a metaphor rebound effect when processing novel metaphors, which was consistent with the Graded Salience Model that novel metaphors needed further semantic integration. The results suggest that the aMCI patients may suffer an impairment in metaphorical meaning recognition, which the declined working memory may cause.
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- Jingjing Yang
- Tongji Univ, Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Tongji Univ, Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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Özoğlu E, Thomaschke R. Post-interval potentials in temporal judgements. Exp Brain Res 2023; 241:917-26. [PMID: 36806967 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06568-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Research suggests that post-stimulus positive deflections could be associated with timing. We compared offset-locked potentials N1, P2, N1P2, and late positive component (LPC) in temporal generalization and temporal bisection-with visual probe intervals. In both tasks, the LPC amplitude decreased with the duration of the current probe interval. A larger LPC was found after shorter intervals, whereas other ERP amplitudes did not change between tasks or across durations. We also found that the LPC for different responses indicates subjective time. We discussed our findings in relation to theories of human timing.
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Imbir KK, Duda-Goławska J, Wielgopolan A, Sobieszek A, Pastwa M, Zygierewicz J. The role of subjective significance, valence and arousal in the explicit processing of emotion-laden words. PeerJ 2023; 11:e14583. [PMID: 36632142 PMCID: PMC9828281 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Emotional categorisation (deciding whether a word is emotional or not) is a task that employs the explicit analysis of the emotional meaning of words. Therefore, it allows for assessing the role of emotional factors, i.e., valence, arousal, and subjective significance, in emotional word processing. The aim of the current experiment was to investigate the role of subjective significance, a reflective form of activation that is similar to arousal (the automatic form), in the processing of emotional meaning. We applied the orthogonal manipulation of three emotional factors. Thus, we were able to precisely differentiate the effects of each factor and search for interactions between them. We expected valence to shape the late positive complex LPC component, while subjective significance and arousal were expected to shape the P300 and N400 components. We observed the effects of subjective significance throughout the whole span of processing, while the arousal effect was present only in the LPC component. We also observed that amplitudes for N400 and LPC discriminated negative from positive valence. The results showed that all factors included in the analysis should be taken into account while explaining the processing of emotion-laden words; especially interesting is the subjective significance, which was shown to shape processing individually, as well as to come into interaction with valence and arousal.
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Jiang Z, Recio G, Li W, Zhu P, He J, Sommer W. The other-race effect in facial expression processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence from a balanced cross-cultural study in women. Int J Psychophysiol 2023; 183:53-60. [PMID: 36410466 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.11.009] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Although evidence for cultural variants in facial expression decoding is accumulating, the other-race effect in facial expression processing and its neural correlates are still unclear. We investigated this question with a fully balanced design, in which a group of East Asian and a group of European Caucasian women categorized pictures of sad, happy, angry, and neutral facial expressions posed by individuals of their own-race and the other-race. Results revealed a disadvantage in categorizing expressions of anger in other-race faces in both samples, and for sad expressions in the European sample only. Partially consistent, East Asian participants showed longer latency of the N170 component in the event-related potential (ERP) and European Caucasian participants showed larger N170 amplitudes to other-race faces. The late positive complex in the ERP was less distinguishable among other-race facial expressions. Therefore, the present study observed an other-race effect in early and late stages of face processing, reflecting less efficient structural encoding and less elaborate processing for other-race than own-race faces.
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- Zhongqing Jiang
- College of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China.
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- College of Preschool & Primary Education, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China
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- School of Teacher Education, Huzhou University, Huzhou, China
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- College of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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Hsin CH, Chao PC, Lee CY. Speech comprehension in noisy environments: Evidence from the predictability effects on the N400 and LPC. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1105346. [PMID: 36874840 PMCID: PMC9974639 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1105346] [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] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Introduction Speech comprehension involves context-based lexical predictions for efficient semantic integration. This study investigated how noise affects the predictability effect on event-related potentials (ERPs) such as the N400 and late positive component (LPC) in speech comprehension. Methods Twenty-seven listeners were asked to comprehend sentences in clear and noisy conditions (hereinafter referred to as "clear speech" and "noisy speech," respectively) that ended with a high-or low-predictability word during electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. Results The study results regarding clear speech showed the predictability effect on the N400, wherein low-predictability words elicited a larger N400 amplitude than did high-predictability words in the centroparietal and frontocentral regions. Noisy speech showed a reduced and delayed predictability effect on the N400 in the centroparietal regions. Additionally, noisy speech showed a predictability effect on the LPC in the centroparietal regions. Discussion These findings suggest that listeners achieve comprehension outcomes through different neural mechanisms according to listening conditions. Noisy speech may be comprehended with a second-pass process that possibly functions to recover the phonological form of degraded speech through phonetic reanalysis or repair, thus compensating for decreased predictive efficiency.
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- Cheng-Hung Hsin
- Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,Brain and Language Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,Biomedical Acoustic Signal Processing Lab, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Brain and Language Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Brain and Language Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Düzenli-Öztürk S, Hünerli-Gündüz D, Emek-Savaş DD, Olichney J, Yener GG, Ergenç Hİ. Taxonomically-related Word Pairs Evoke both N400 and LPC at Long SOA in Turkish. J Psycholinguist Res 2022; 51:1431-1451. [PMID: 35945467 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-022-09907-2] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Semantic priming in Turkish was examined in 36 right-handed healthy participants in a delayed lexical decision task via taxonomic relations using EEG. Prime-target relations included related- unrelated- and pseudo-words. Taxonomically related words at long stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) were shown to modulate N400 and late positive component (LPC) amplitudes. N400 semantic priming effect in the time window of 300-500 ms was the largest for pseudo-words, intermediate for semantically-unrelated targets, and smallest for semantically-related targets as a reflection of lexical-semantic retrieval. This finding contributes to the ERP literature showing how remarkably universal the N400 brain potential is, with similar effects across languages and orthography. The ERP data also revealed different influences of related, unrelated, and pseudo-word conditions on the amplitude of the LPC. Attention scores and mean LPC amplitudes of related words in parietal region showed a moderate correlation, indicating LPC may be related to "relationship-detection process".
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- Seren Düzenli-Öztürk
- Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Izmir Bakırçay University, 35660, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosciences, Institute of Health Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, 35340, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Neurology, University of California Davis, 95618, Davis, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, Izmir University of Economics, 35330, Izmir, Turkey.
- İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, 35340, Izmir, Turkey.
- Brain Dynamics Multidisciplinary Research Center, Dokuz Eylül University, 35340, Izmir, Turkey.
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- Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Ankara University, 06100, Ankara, Turkey
- Brain Research Center, Ankara University, 06340, Ankara, Turkey
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Deb S, Warule P, Nair A, Sultan H, Dash R, Krajewski J. Detection of Common Cold from Speech Signals using Deep Neural Network. Circuits Syst Signal Process 2022; 42:1707-1722. [PMID: 36212727 PMCID: PMC9529162 DOI: 10.1007/s00034-022-02189-y] [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] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Revised: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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This paper presents a deep learning-based analysis and classification of cold speech observed when a person is diagnosed with the common cold. The common cold is a viral infectious disease that affects the throat and the nose. Since speech is produced by the vocal tract after linear filtering of excitation source information, during a common cold, its attributes are impacted by the throat and the nose. The proposed study attempts to develop a deep learning-based classification model that can accurately predict whether a person has a cold or not based on their speech. The common cold-related information is captured using Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and linear predictive coding (LPC) from the speech signal. The data imbalance is handled using the sampling strategy, SMOTE-Tomek links. Then, utilizing MFCC and LPC features, a deep learning-based model is trained and then used to categorize cold speech. The performance of a deep learning-based method is compared to logistic regression, random forest, and gradient boosted tree classifiers. The proposed model is less complex and uses a smaller feature set while giving comparable results to other state-of-the-art methods. The proposed method gives an UAR of 67.71 % , higher than the benchmark OpenSMILE SVM result of 64 % . The study's success will yield a noninvasive method for cold detection, which can further be extended to detect other speech-affecting pathologies.
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- Suman Deb
- Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, 395007 India
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- Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, 395007 India
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- Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, 395007 India
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- Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, 395007 India
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- Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, 395007 India
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- Rhenish University of Applied Sciences, 50678 Cologne, Germany
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Elmer S, Besson M, Rodríguez-Fornells A. The electrophysiological correlates of word pre-activation during associative word learning. Int J Psychophysiol 2022; 182:12-22. [PMID: 36167179 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.09.007] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Human beings continuously make use of learned associations to generate predictions about future occurrences in the environment. Such memory-related predictive processes provide a scaffold for learning in that mental representations of foreseeable events can be adjusted or strengthened based on a specific outcome. Learning the meaning of novel words through picture-word associations constitutes a prime example of associative learning because pictures preceding words can trigger word prediction through the pre-activation of the related mnemonic representations. In the present electroencephalography (EEG) study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to compare neural indices of word pre-activation between a word learning condition with maximal prediction likelihood and a non-learning control condition with low prediction. Results revealed that prediction-related N400 amplitudes in response to pictures decreased over time at central electrodes as a function of word learning, whereas late positive component (LPC) amplitudes increased. Notably, N400 but not LPC changes were also predictive of word learning performance, suggesting that the N400 component constitutes a sensitive marker of word pre-activation during associative word learning.
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- Stefan Elmer
- Computational Neuroscience of Speech & Hearing, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Université Publique de France, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC, UMR 7291) & Institute for Language and Communication in the Brain (ILCB), Marseille, France.
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097 Barcelona, Spain; Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097 Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ICREA, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.
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Switching between languages, or codeswitching, is a cognitive ability that multilinguals can perform with ease. This study investigates whether codeswitching during sentence reading affects early access to meaning, as indexed by the robust brain response called the N400. We hypothesize that the brain prioritizes the meaning of the word during comprehension with codeswitching costs emerging at a different stage of processing. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while Spanish-English balanced bilinguals (n = 24) read Spanish sentences containing a target noun that could create a semantic violation, codeswitch or both. Self-reported frequency of daily codeswitching was used as a regressor to determine if the cost of reading a switch is modulated by codeswitching experience. A robust N400 to semantic violations was followed by a late positive component (LPC). Codeswitches modulated the left anterior negativity (LAN) and LPC, but not the N400, with codeswitched semantic violations resulting in a sub-additive interaction. Codeswitching experience modulated the LPC, but not the N400. The results suggest that early access to semantic memory during comprehension happens independent of the language in which the words are presented. Codeswitching affects a separate stage of comprehension with switching experience modulating the brain's response to experiencing a language switch.
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- Angélique M. Blackburn
- Department of Psychology & Communication, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
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Deng X, Liang X, Zhan X, Rosenfeld JP, Olson J, Yan G, Xue C, Lu Y. A novel and effective item-source complex trial protocol: Discrimination of guilty from both knowledgeable and unknowledgeable innocent subjects. Psychophysiology 2022; 59:e14033. [PMID: 35230702 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14033] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Revised: 02/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Innocent subjects who are knowledgeable of crime-related information will often be misclassified as "guilty" in P300-based complex trial protocol (CTP). Therefore, it is necessary to develop a more rigorous CTP that can effectively discriminate the guilty from both the knowledgeable and the unknowledgeable innocents. Sometimes the guilty and the knowledgeable innocents possess the same item memories but different source memories. The present study designed a novel item-source complex trial protocol based on the differences of source memory among the three kinds of individuals. Either the crime-related probe (e.g., the stolen ring) or one of the crime-unrelated stimuli (e.g., watch, earring, bracelet, or bangle) (item memory) was presented in the first part of each trail, and either a stealing-source word (e.g., stole) or other-source word (e.g., fetched) (source memory) was presented in the second part of each trail. The results showed that: (1) the P300 evoked by item memory could effectively discriminated the guilty from the unknowledgeable innocent (AUC = 0.76) but failed to effectively discriminate the guilty from the knowledgeable innocent (AUC = 0.60); (2) the late positive component evoked by source memory could effectively discriminated the guilty from both the knowledgeable innocent (AUC = 0.94) and the unknowledgeable innocent (AUC = 0.84) in one test.
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- Xiaohong Deng
- Department of Psychology, Normal College, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Normal College, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Normal College, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Normal College, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Normal College, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychology, Normal College, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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Xie Y, Chen X, Li Y, Chen S, Liu S, Yu Z, Wang W. Transforming growth factor-β1 protects against LPC-induced cognitive deficit by attenuating pyroptosis of microglia via NF-κB/ERK1/2 pathways. J Neuroinflammation 2022; 19:194. [PMID: 35902863 PMCID: PMC9336072 DOI: 10.1186/s12974-022-02557-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Demyelinating diseases in central nervous system (CNS) are a group of diseases characterized by myelin damage or myelin loss. Transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-β1) is widely recognized as an anti-inflammatory cytokine, which can be produced by both glial and neuronal cells in CNS. However, the effects of TGF-β1 on demyelinating diseases and its underlying mechanisms have not been well investigated. Methods A demyelinating mouse model using two-point injection of lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) to the corpus callosum in vivo was established. Exogenous TGF-β1 was delivered to the lesion via brain stereotactic injection. LFB staining, immunofluorescence, and Western blot were applied to examine the severity of demyelination and pyroptosis process in microglia. Morris water maze test was used to assess the cognitive abilities of experimental mice. Furthermore, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was applied to induce pyroptosis in primary cultured microglia in vitro, to explore potential molecular mechanism. Results The degree of demyelination in LPC-modeling mice was found improved with supplement of TGF-β1. Besides, TGF-β1 treatment evidently ameliorated the activated proinflammatory pyroptosis of microglia, with downregulated levels of the key pyroptosis effector Gasdermin D (GSDMD), inflammasomes, and cleaved-IL-1β, which effectively attenuated neuroinflammation in vivo. Evaluated by behavioral tests, the cognitive deficit in LPC-modeling mice was found mitigated with application of TGF-β1. Mechanistically, TGF-β1 could reverse pyroptosis-like morphology in LPS-stimulated primary cultured microglia observed by scanning electron microscopy, as well as decrease the protein levels of cleaved-GSDMD, inflammasomes, and cleaved-IL-1β. Activation of ERK1/2 and NF-κB pathways largely abolished the protective effects of TGF-β1, which indicated that TGF-β1 alleviated the pyroptosis possibly via regulating NF-κB/ERK1/2 signal pathways. Conclusions Our studies demonstrated TGF-β1 notably relieved the demyelinating injury and cognitive disorder in LPC-modeling mice, by attenuating the inflammatory pyroptosis of microglia via ERK1/2 and NF-κB pathways. Targeting TGF-β1 activity might serve as a promising therapeutic strategy in demyelinating diseases. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12974-022-02557-0.
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- Yi Xie
- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medicine College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China.
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Mech EN, Kandhadai P, Federmeier KD. The last course of coarse coding: Hemispheric similarities in associative and categorical semantic processing. Brain Lang 2022; 229:105123. [PMID: 35461030 PMCID: PMC9214668 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105123] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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To test theories that posit differences in how semantic information is represented in the cerebral hemispheres, we assessed semantic priming for associatively and categorically related prime-target pairs that were graded in relatedness strength. Visual half-field presentation was used to bias processing to the right or left hemisphere, and event-related potential (ERP) and behavioral responses were measured while participants completed a semantic relatedness judgement task. Contrary to theories positing representational differences across the cerebral hemispheres, in two experiments using (1) centralized prime presentation and lateralized targets and (2) lateralized primes and targets, we found similar priming patterns across the two hemispheres at the level of semantic access (N400), on later measures of explicit processing (late positive complex; LPC), and in behavioral response speeds and accuracy. We argue that hemispheric differences, when they arise, are more likely due to differences in task demands than in how the hemispheres fundamentally represent semantic information.
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- Emily N Mech
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States.
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- Department of Computing Studies and Information Systems, Douglas College, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
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Donahoo SA, Pfeifer V, Lai VT. Cursed Concepts: New insights on combinatorial processing from ERP correlates of swearing in context. Brain Lang 2022; 226:105079. [PMID: 35032708 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105079] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Revised: 01/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Expressives (damn) convey speaker attitude and when used in context (Tom lost the damn dog) can be flexibly applied locally to the noun (dog) or globally to the whole sentence (the situation). We used ERPs to explore brain responses to expressives in sentences. Participants read expressive, descriptive, and pseudoword adjectives followed by nouns in sentences (The damn/black/flerg dog peed on the couch). At the adjective late-positivity-component (LPC), expressives and descriptives showed no difference, suggesting reduced social threat and that readers employ a 'wait-and-see' strategy to interpret expressives. Nouns preceded by expressives elicited a larger frontal P200, as well as reduced N400 and LPC than nouns preceded by descriptives. We associated the frontal P200 with emotional salience, the frontal N400 with mental imagery, and the LPC with cognitive load for combinatorics. We suggest that expressive adjectives are not bound to conceptual integration and conclude that parsers wait-and-see what is being damned.
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- Stanley A Donahoo
- Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, USA; Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA; Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA; Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, USA.
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Liu Y, Zhuo S, Zhou Y, Ma L, Sun Z, Wu X, Wang XW, Gao B, Yang Y. Yap-Sox9 signaling determines hepatocyte plasticity and lineage-specific hepatocarcinogenesis. J Hepatol 2022; 76:652-664. [PMID: 34793870 PMCID: PMC8858854 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Revised: 10/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Primary liver tumors comprise distinct subtypes. A subset of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) can arise from cell fate reprogramming of mature hepatocytes in mouse models. However, the underpinning of cell fate plasticity during hepatocarcinogenesis is still poorly understood, hampering therapeutic development for primary liver cancer. As YAP activation induces liver tumor formation and cell fate plasticity, we investigated the role of Sox9, a transcription factor downstream of Yap activation that is expressed in biliary epithelial cells (BECs), in Yap-induced cell fate plasticity during hepatocarcinogenesis. METHODS To evaluate the function of Sox9 in YAP-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in vivo, we used several genetic mouse models of inducible hepatocyte-specific YAP activation with simultaneous Sox9 removal. Cell fate reprogramming was determined by lineage tracing and immunohistochemistry. The molecular mechanism underlying Yap and Sox9 function in hepatocyte plasticity was investigated by transcription and transcriptomic analyses of mouse and human liver tumors. RESULTS Sox9, a marker of liver progenitor cells (LPCs) and BECs, is differentially required in YAP-induced stepwise hepatocyte programming. While Sox9 has a limited role in hepatocyte dedifferentiation to LPCs, it is required for BEC differentiation from LPCs. YAP activation in Sox9-deficient hepatocytes resulted in more aggressive HCC with enhanced Yap activity at the expense of iCCA-like tumors. Furthermore, we showed that 20% of primary human liver tumors were associated with a YAP activation signature, and tumor plasticity is highly correlated with YAP activation and SOX9 expression. CONCLUSION Our data demonstrated that Yap-Sox9 signaling determines hepatocyte plasticity and tumor heterogeneity in hepatocarcinogenesis in both mouse and human liver tumors. We identified Sox9 as a critical transcription factor required for Yap-induced hepatocyte cell fate reprogramming during hepatocarcinogenesis. LAY SUMMARY Sox9, a marker of liver progenitor cells and bile duct lining cells, is a downstream target of YAP protein activation. Herein, we found that YAP activation in hepatocytes leads to a transition from mature hepatocytes to liver progenitor cells and then to bile duct lining cells. Sox9 is required in the second step during mouse hepatocarcinogenesis. We also found that human YAP and SOX9 may play similar roles in liver cancers.
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- Yuchen Liu
- Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115
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- Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, MD, 21702
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- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, MD, 21702
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- Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Liver Diseases, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; National Institutes of Health, 5625 Fishers Lane, Room 2S-33, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, 188 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115, USA; Program in Gastrointestinal Malignancies, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, 188 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Wyrobnik M, van der Meer E, Klostermann F. Altered event processing in persons with Parkinson's disease. Psychophysiology 2022; 59:e14021. [PMID: 35141901 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) often show particular problems in seemingly simple routines despite relatively preserved cognitive function. We therefore investigated the processing of everyday events on behavioral and neurophysiological levels in a PD and control group. The participants had to indicate via button press whether three sequentially presented sub-events described a previously defined event (e.g., going grocery shopping). Sub-event sequences were either correct or included an event that did not belong to the event (content violation), or events were chronologically wrong (temporal violation). During task execution event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Generally, the PD group showed less accurate performance independently from task conditions, and reaction times to temporal violations were particularly slow compared to the control group. Regarding ERP results, the control group showed a right lateralized N400 effect in response to content violations, which was absent in the PD group indicating altered content event processing. Concerning the reanalysis of content event violations, the expression of late positive components (LPCs) was similar between both groups. Upon temporal violations, both groups also showed a LPC with a tendentially earlier onset in the PD group, resembling positive components indicative of novelty processing. Together, these findings suggest poor event prediction in PD, which may originate from weak event representation or retrieval and possibly relate to prevalent behavioral dysfunctions in everyday life in PD.
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- Michelle Wyrobnik
- Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Neurology, Motor and Cognition Group, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF), Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Neurology, Motor and Cognition Group, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF), Berlin, Germany
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Zora H, Csépe V. Perception of Prosodic Modulations of Linguistic and Paralinguistic Origin: Evidence From Early Auditory Event-Related Potentials. Front Neurosci 2022; 15:797487. [PMID: 35002610 PMCID: PMC8733303 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.797487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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How listeners handle prosodic cues of linguistic and paralinguistic origin is a central question for spoken communication. In the present EEG study, we addressed this question by examining neural responses to variations in pitch accent (linguistic) and affective (paralinguistic) prosody in Swedish words, using a passive auditory oddball paradigm. The results indicated that changes in pitch accent and affective prosody elicited mismatch negativity (MMN) responses at around 200 ms, confirming the brain’s pre-attentive response to any prosodic modulation. The MMN amplitude was, however, statistically larger to the deviation in affective prosody in comparison to the deviation in pitch accent and affective prosody combined, which is in line with previous research indicating not only a larger MMN response to affective prosody in comparison to neutral prosody but also a smaller MMN response to multidimensional deviants than unidimensional ones. The results, further, showed a significant P3a response to the affective prosody change in comparison to the pitch accent change at around 300 ms, in accordance with previous findings showing an enhanced positive response to emotional stimuli. The present findings provide evidence for distinct neural processing of different prosodic cues, and statistically confirm the intrinsic perceptual and motivational salience of paralinguistic information in spoken communication.
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- Hatice Zora
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Brain Imaging Centre, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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Zhang Y, Yang X, Liang L, Chen B. The impact of learning new meaning on the previously learned meaning of L2 ambiguous words: The role of semantic similarity. Psychophysiology 2021; 59:e13992. [PMID: 34951031 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 11/12/2020] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Previous study has found that previously learned meaning affects the learning of new meaning for known second language (L2) words. However, it is not clear whether learning a new meaning also affects the previously learned meaning and whether this effect is modulated by the semantic similarity between them. The current study aimed to explore this issue using event-related potential technique. A word learning task was used, in which Chinese-English bilinguals were required to learn a new meaning that was semantically related or unrelated to the previously learned meaning of familiar L2 words and judge the semantic relatedness between the trained word and a probe word in the same trial. The results showed that both the N400 and late-positive component (LPC) amplitudes for probe words in the unrelated new meaning condition were significantly different from the unlearned condition, which suggests learning new meaning interferes with accessing the previously learned meaning. Moreover, significantly less positive LPC was found in the unrelated new meaning condition relative to the related new meaning condition, showing a mediation of semantic similarity in the perturbation effect. We conclude that learning L2 new meaning has a backward interference effect on accessing the previously learned meaning and this effect is modulated by semantic similarity. These findings provide supporting evidence for the interaction mechanism of learning the multiple meanings of L2 ambiguous words.
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- Yuanyue Zhang
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Bilingual Cognition and Development Lab, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, School of English Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Li F, Hong X, He Z, Wu S, Zhang C. Investigating Heritage Language Processing: Meaning Composition in Chinese Classifier-Noun Phrasal Contexts. Front Psychol 2021; 12:782016. [PMID: 34975671 PMCID: PMC8718634 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.782016] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The aim of the present study was to investigate how Chinese-Malay bilingual speakers with Chinese as heritage language process semantic congruency effects in Chinese and how their brain activities compare to those of monolingual Chinese speakers using electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. To this end, semantic congruencies were manipulated in Chinese classifier-noun phrases, resulting in four conditions: (i) a strongly constraining/high-cloze, plausible (SP) condition, (ii) a weakly constraining/low-cloze, plausible (WP) condition, (iii) a strongly constraining/implausible (SI) condition, and (iv) a weakly constraining/implausible (WI) condition. The analysis of EEG data focused on two event-related potential components, i.e., the N400, which is known for its sensitivity to semantic fit of a target word to its context, and a post-N400 late positive complex (LPC), which is linked to semantic integration after prediction violations and retrospective, evaluative processes. We found similar N400/LPC effects in response to the manipulations of semantic congruency in the mono- and bilingual groups, with a gradient N400 pattern (WI/SI > WP > SP), a larger frontal LPC in response to WP compared to SP, SI, and WI, as well as larger centro-parietal LPCs in response to WP compared to SI and WI, and a larger centro-parietal LPC for SP compared to SI. These results suggest that, in terms of event-related potential (ERP) data, Chinese-Malay early bilingual speakers predict and integrate upcoming semantic information in Chinese classifier-noun phrase to the same extent as monolingual Chinese speakers. However, the global field power (GFP) data showed significant differences between SP and WP in the N400 and LPC time windows in bilinguals, whereas no such effects were observed in monolinguals. This finding was interpreted as showing that bilinguals differ from their monolingual peers in terms of global field power intensity of the brain by processing plausible classifier-noun pairs with different congruency effects.
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- Fei Li
- School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Eid R, Dancygier AN, Jaber G. Mechanical Properties of Low-Performance Concrete ( LPC) and Shear Capacity of Old Unreinforced LPC Squat Walls. Materials (Basel) 2021; 14:ma14237310. [PMID: 34885461 PMCID: PMC8658538 DOI: 10.3390/ma14237310] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Low-performance concrete (LPC) is characterized by its low strength and commonly by the presence of large aggregates. This type of concrete was used for construction of load carrying, commonly unreinforced walls in old buildings. The resistance of these buildings with LPC squat walls (of relatively low height-to-length ratio), to in plane horizontal loads, was experimentally investigated in this study. The low compressive strength of these walls, well below that of standard concrete, requires estimation of the relation between the actual LPC compressive strength and its tensile strength, and identification of their failure mode and corresponding shear capacity when subjected to in plane horizontal loads. In this study, compressive and splitting tensile strengths of authentic LPC specimens were measured, and based on them, a relation between the compressive and tensile strengths is proposed. Then, diagonal compression tests were performed on authentic LPC specimens, as well as specimens made of standard concrete. These tests yielded the expected mode of failure of vertical cracking and their analysis shows that their shear capacity needs to be evaluated based on their tensile strength (rather than the flexural shear capacity of unreinforced concrete beams). Thus, the load-bearing (both horizontal and gravitational) capacity to prevent diagonal tension failure of an unreinforced LPC wall can be evaluated by comparing the LPC tensile strength to the major principal stress caused by the load. Assessment of the tensile strength can be based on the relation between the compressive and tensile strengths proposed in this work.
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- Rami Eid
- Civil Engineering Department, SCE—Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva 8410802, Israel
- Correspondence:
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- Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel; (A.N.D.); (G.J.)
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- Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel; (A.N.D.); (G.J.)
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Wu C, Zhang J, Yuan Z. Can Masked Emotion-Laden Words Prime Emotion-Label Words? An ERP Test on the Mediated Account. Front Psychol 2021; 12:721783. [PMID: 34764910 PMCID: PMC8576488 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.721783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The present event-related potential (ERP) study explored whether masked emotion-laden words could facilitate the processing of both emotion-label words and emotion-laden words in a valence judgment task. The results revealed that emotion-laden words as primes failed to influence target emotion-label word processing, whereas emotion-laden words facilitated target emotion-laden words in the congruent condition. Specifically, decreased late positivity complex (LPC) was elicited by emotion-laden words primed by emotion-laden words of the same valence than those primed by emotion-laden words of different valence. Nevertheless, no difference was observed for emotion-label words as targets. These findings supported the mediated account that claimed emotion-laden words engendered emotion via the mediation of emotion-label words and hypothesized that emotion-laden words could not prime emotion-label words in the masked priming paradigm. Moreover, this study provided additional evidence showing the distinction between emotion-laden words and emotion-label words.
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- Chenggang Wu
- Multilingual Edu-AI Laboratory, School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.,Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau, China.,Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China.,Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China
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Peng M, Xu Z, Huang H. How Does Information Overload Affect Consumers' Online Decision Process? An Event-Related Potentials Study. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:695852. [PMID: 34744601 PMCID: PMC8567038 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.695852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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One of the advantages of e-retailers is their capability to provide a large amount of information to consumers. However, when the amount of information exceeds consumers' information processing capacities, it will lead to worse decision quality and experience, causing the information overload effect. In this study, the event-related potentials (ERPs) were applied to examine the hidden neural mechanism of the impact of information overload on consumers' decision processes. Behavioral data showed that people would spend more time making decisions when faced with information overload. Neurophysiologically, consumers would invest less attentional resources in the high amount of information (HAI) condition than those in the low amount of information (LAI) condition and lead to less positive P2 amplitudes. The HAI condition would increase decision difficulty than would the LAI condition and result in smaller P3 amplitudes. In addition, an increased late positive component (LPC) was observed for the HAI condition in contrast to the LAI condition, indicating that consumers were more inclined to have decision process regret when consumers were overloaded. We further investigated the dynamic information processing when consumers got over information overload by mining the brain's time-varying networks. The results revealed that during the decision process and the neural response stage, the central area controlled other brain regions' activities for the HAI condition, suggesting that people may still consider and compare other important information after the decision process when faced with information overload. In general, this study may provide neural evidence of how information overload affects consumers' decision processes and ultimately damages decision quality.
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- Minjing Peng
- School of Economics and Management, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, China
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Andrew Leynes P. The effect of test query on recognition event-related potentials (ERPs). Brain Cogn 2021; 155:105814. [PMID: 34739915 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105814] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Revised: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The influence of question framing (i.e., [was the item] "old?" or "new?") on recognition memory and event-related potentials (ERPs) was investigated. Words were encoded using a shallow task to create a weak memory trace that was more susceptible to test question framing effects. Participants made yes/no judgments on two, counterbalanced tests. One test focused on old items ("old?"), whereas the other test focused on new items ("new?"). The behavioral evidence suggested that the weak memory traces led to more familiarity-based recognition judgments with a concentrated effect on decision criterion. There were some small ERP changes on the FN400 or LPC consistent with the criterion changes, but the test query did not directly alter these ERP components. Instead, the test query altered a late old/new ERP difference similar to the "right frontal old/new effect" reported in source monitoring ERP studies. When the query was "new?", old items elicited more positive ERPs, whereas there was no old/new difference when the query was "old?". The results suggest that the query framing induces memory biases that occur late in the stream of processing. More generally, the results indicate that decision criterion must be accounted for when interpreting physiological correlates of recognition memory.
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Hui KYL, Wong CHY, Siu AMH, Lee TMC, Chan CCH. Cognitive and Emotional Appraisal of Motivational Interviewing Statements: An Event-Related Potential Study. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:727175. [PMID: 34630059 PMCID: PMC8494474 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.727175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The counseling process involves attention, emotional perception, cognitive appraisal, and decision-making. This study aimed to investigate cognitive appraisal and the associated emotional processes when reading short therapists' statements of motivational interviewing (MI). Thirty participants with work injuries were classified into the pre-contemplation (PC, n = 15) or readiness stage of the change group (RD, n = 15). The participants viewed MI congruent (MI-C), MI incongruent (MI-INC), or control phrases during which their electroencephalograms were captured. The results indicated significant Group × Condition effects in the frontally oriented late positive complex (P600/LPC). The P600/LPC's amplitudes were more positive-going in the PC than in the RD group for the MI congruent statements. Within the PC group, the amplitudes of the N400 were significantly correlated (r = 0.607–0.649) with the participants' level of negative affect. Our findings suggest that the brief contents of MI statements alone can elicit late cognitive and emotional appraisal processes beyond semantic processing.
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- Karen Y L Hui
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR China.,The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, Hong Kong, SAR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.,Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Human Neuroscience, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China
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- Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.,Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Human Neuroscience, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China
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- Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China
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Zhang EH, Lai XX, Li D, Lei VLC, Chen Y, Cao HW. Electrophysiological Correlates of Character Transposition in the Left and Right Visual Fields. Front Psychol 2021; 12:684849. [PMID: 34421735 PMCID: PMC8371268 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.684849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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This study examined the brain activity elicited by the hemispheric asymmetries and morpheme transposition of two-character Chinese words (canonical and transposed word) and pseudowords using event-related potentials (ERPs) with a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task. Electrophysiological results showed facilitation effects for canonical words with centrally presented visual field (CVF) and right visual field (RVF) presentations but not with left visual field (LVF) presentations, as reflected by less negative N400 amplitudes. Moreover, more positive late positive component (LPC) amplitudes were observed for both canonical words and transposed words irrespective of the visual fields. More importantly, transposed words elicited a more negative N400 amplitude and a less positive LPC amplitude compared with the amplitudes elicited by canonical words for CVF and RVF presentations. For LVF presentations, transposed words elicited a less negative N250 amplitude compared with canonical words, and there was no significant difference between canonical words and transposed words in the N400 effect. Taken together, we concluded that character transposition facilitated the mapping of whole-word orthographic representation to semantic information in the LVF, as reflected by the N250 component, and such morpheme transposition influenced whole-word semantic processing in CVF and RVF presentations, as reflected by N400 and LPC components.
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- Er-Hu Zhang
- Research Center for Language, Cognition and Language Application, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Research Center for Language, Cognition and Language Application, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Research Center for Language, Cognition and Language Application, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.,Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, University of Macau, Macau, China
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Zhang Q, Zhang W, Liu J, Yang H, Hu Y, Zhang M, Bai T, Chang F. Lysophosphatidylcholine promotes intercellular adhesion molecule-1 and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells via an orphan G protein receptor 2-mediated signaling pathway. Bioengineered 2021; 12:4520-4535. [PMID: 34346841 PMCID: PMC8806654 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2021.1956671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The oxLDL-based bioactive lipid lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) is a key regulator of physiological processes including endothelial cell adhesion marker expression. This study explored the relationship between LPC and the human umbilical vein endothelial cell expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) with a particular focus on the regulation of the LPC-G2A-ICAM-1/VCAM-1 pathway in this context. We explored the LPC-inducible role of orphan G protein receptor 2 (G2A) in associated regulatory processes by using human kidney epithelial (HEK293) cells that had been transfected with pET-G2A, human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) in which an shRNA was used to knock down G2A, and western blotting and qPCR assays that were used to confirm changes in gene expression. For in vivo studies, a rabbit model of atherosclerosis was established, with serum biochemistry and histological staining approaches being used to assess pathological outcomes in these animals. The treatment of both HEK293 cells and HUVECs with LPC promoted ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 upregulation, while incubation at a pH of 6.8 suppressed such LPC-induced adhesion marker expression. Knocking down G2A by shRNA and inhibiting NF-κB activity yielded opposite outcomes. The application of a Gi protein inhibitor had no impact on LPC-induced ICAM-1/VCAM-1 expression. Atherosclerotic model exhibited high circulating LDL and LPC levels as well as high aortic wall ICAM-1/VCAM-1 expression. Overall, these results suggested that the LPC-G2A-ICAM-1/VCAM-1 pathway may contribute to the atherogenic activity of oxLDL, with NF-κB antagonists representing potentially viable therapeutic tools for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.
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- Qian Zhang
- The Center for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,The Center for New Drug Screening Engineering and Research of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,College of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
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- The Center for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,The Center for New Drug Screening Engineering and Research of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,College of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
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- The Center for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,The Center for New Drug Screening Engineering and Research of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,College of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
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- First Clinical Medical College, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
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- The Center for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,The Center for New Drug Screening Engineering and Research of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,College of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
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- The Center for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,The Center for New Drug Screening Engineering and Research of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.,College of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
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Yacovone A, Moya E, Snedeker J. Unexpected words or unexpected languages? Two ERP effects of code-switching in naturalistic discourse. Cognition 2021; 215:104814. [PMID: 34303181 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 06/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Bilingual speakers often switch between languages in conversation without any advance notice. Psycholinguistic research has found that these language shifts (or code-switches) can be costly for comprehenders in certain situations. The present study explores the nature of these costs by comparing code-switches to other types of unexpected linguistic material. To do this, we used a novel EEG paradigm, the Storytime task, in which we record readings of natural texts, and then experimentally manipulate their properties by splicing in words. In this study, we manipulated the language of our target words (English, Spanish) and their fit with the preceding context (strong-fit, weak-fit). If code-switching incurs a unique cost beyond that incurred by an unexpected word, then we should see an additive pattern in our ERP indices. If an effect is driven by lexical expectation alone, then there should be a non-additive interaction such that all unexpected forms incur a similar cost. We found three effects: a general prediction effect (a non-additive N400), a post-lexical recognition of the switch in languages (an LPC for code-switched words), and a prolonged integration difficulty associated with weak-fitting words regardless of language (a sustained negativity). We interpret these findings as suggesting that the processing difficulties experienced by bilinguals can largely be understood within more general frameworks for understanding language comprehension. Our findings are consistent with the broader literature demonstrating that bilinguals do not have two wholly separate language systems but rather a single language system capable of using two coding systems.
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Zhao H, He Y. The Inhibitory Effect of Lysophosphatidylcholine on Proangiogenesis of Human CD34 + Cells Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:682367. [PMID: 34179086 PMCID: PMC8223510 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.682367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence reveals that lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) is closely related to endothelial dysfunction. The present study aimed to investigate the mechanism of LPC in inhibiting the proangiogenesis and vascular inflammation of human endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) derived from CD34+ cells. The early EPCs were derived from CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells whose purity was identified using flow cytometry analysis. The surface markers (CD34, KDR, CD31; VE-cadherin, vWF, eNOS) of EPCs were examined by flow cytometry analysis and immunofluorescence. RT-qPCR was used to detect the mRNA expression of inflammatory cytokines (CCL2, IL-8, CCL4) and genes associated with angiogenesis (VEGF, ANG-1, ANG-2) in early EPCs after treatment of LPC (10 μg/ml) or phosphatidylcholine (PC, 10 μg/ml, control). The angiogenesis of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) incubated with the supernatants of early EPCs was detected by a tube formation assay. The mRNA and protein levels of key factors on the PKC pathway (phosphorylated PKC, TGF-β1) were measured by RT-qPCR and western blot. The localization of PKC-β1 in EPCs was determined by immunofluorescence staining. We found that LPC suppressed the expression of CCL2, CCL4, ANG-1, ANG-2, promoted IL-8 expression and had no significant effects on VEGF expression in EPCs. EPCs promoted the angiogenesis of HUVECs, which was significantly inhibited by LPC treatment. Moreover, LPC was demonstrated to promote the activation of the PKC signaling pathway in EPCs. In conclusion, LPC inhibits proangiogenesis of human endothelial progenitor cells derived from CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells.
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- Haijun Zhao
- Department of Pain, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Tang X, Wang W, Hong G, Duan C, Zhu S, Tian Y, Han C, Qian W, Lin R, Hou X. Gut microbiota-mediated lysophosphatidylcholine generation promotes colitis in intestinal epithelium-specific Fut2 deficiency. J Biomed Sci 2021; 28:20. [PMID: 33722220 PMCID: PMC7958775 DOI: 10.1186/s12929-021-00711-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Previous study disclosed Fucosyltransferase 2 (Fut2) gene as a IBD risk locus. This study aimed to explore the mechanism of Fut2 in IBD susceptibility and to propose a new strategy for the treatment of IBD. METHODS Intestinal epithelium-specific Fut2 knockout (Fut2△IEC) mice was used. Colitis was induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS). The composition and diversity of gut microbiota were assessed via 16S rRNA analysis and the metabolomic findings was obtained from mice feces via metabolite profiling. The fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) experiment was performed to confirm the association of gut microbiota and LPC. WT mice were treated with Lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) to verify its impact on colitis. RESULTS The expression of Fut2 and α-1,2-fucosylation in colonic tissues were decreased in patients with UC (UC vs. control, P = 0.036) and CD (CD vs. control, P = 0.031). When treated with DSS, in comparison to WT mice, more severe intestinal inflammation and destructive barrier functions in Fut2△IEC mice was noted. Lower gut microbiota diversity was observed in Fut2△IEC mice compared with WT mice (p < 0.001). When exposed to DSS, gut bacterial diversity and composition altered obviously in Fut2△IEC mice and the fecal concentration of LPC was increased. FMT experiment revealed that mice received the fecal microbiota from Fut2△IEC mice exhibited more severe colitis and higher fecal LPC concentration. Correlation analysis showed that the concentration of LPC was positively correlated with four bacteria-Escherichia, Bilophila, Enterorhabdus and Gordonibacter. Furthermore, LPC was proved to promote the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and damage epithelial barrier in vitro and in vivo. CONCLUSION Fut2 and α-1,2-fucosylation in colon were decreased not only in CD but also in UC patients. Gut microbiota in Fut2△IEC mice is altered structurally and functionally, promoting generation of LPC which was proved to promote inflammation and damage epithelial barrier.
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- Xuelian Tang
- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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Kacur J, Puterka B, Pavlovicova J, Oravec M. On the Speech Properties and Feature Extraction Methods in Speech Emotion Recognition. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:s21051888. [PMID: 33800348 PMCID: PMC7962835 DOI: 10.3390/s21051888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Revised: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Many speech emotion recognition systems have been designed using different features and classification methods. Still, there is a lack of knowledge and reasoning regarding the underlying speech characteristics and processing, i.e., how basic characteristics, methods, and settings affect the accuracy, to what extent, etc. This study is to extend physical perspective on speech emotion recognition by analyzing basic speech characteristics and modeling methods, e.g., time characteristics (segmentation, window types, and classification regions—lengths and overlaps), frequency ranges, frequency scales, processing of whole speech (spectrograms), vocal tract (filter banks, linear prediction coefficient (LPC) modeling), and excitation (inverse LPC filtering) signals, magnitude and phase manipulations, cepstral features, etc. In the evaluation phase the state-of-the-art classification method and rigorous statistical tests were applied, namely N-fold cross validation, paired t-test, rank, and Pearson correlations. The results revealed several settings in a 75% accuracy range (seven emotions). The most successful methods were based on vocal tract features using psychoacoustic filter banks covering the 0–8 kHz frequency range. Well scoring are also spectrograms carrying vocal tract and excitation information. It was found that even basic processing like pre-emphasis, segmentation, magnitude modifications, etc., can dramatically affect the results. Most findings are robust by exhibiting strong correlations across tested databases.
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- Juraj Kacur
- Institute of Multimedia Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 2412 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Institute of Robotics and Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 2412 Bratislava, Slovakia; (B.P.); (J.P.)
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- Institute of Robotics and Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 2412 Bratislava, Slovakia; (B.P.); (J.P.)
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- Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 2412 Bratislava, Slovakia;
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Gaál ZA, Nagy B, File D, Czigler I. Older Adults Encode Task-Irrelevant Stimuli, but Can This Side-Effect be Useful to Them? Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:569614. [PMID: 33328927 PMCID: PMC7673423 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.569614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We studied whether, due to deteriorating inhibitory functions, older people are more likely to process irrelevant stimuli; and if so, could they later use this information better than young adults. In the study phase of our experiment, a Posner-type gaze-cued version of a Simon task was performed in which we presented task-irrelevant cues, where faces or patches with either left- or right-looking dots for the pupil of the eye preceded the task to press a button congruent or incongruent with the presentation side of the target stimulus. In the follow-up test phase, participants completed an unexpected facial recognition test. In the study phase not only a decreased P1, but also an increased N170 amplitude of the event-related potentials (ERPs) were found in older, compared to younger adults, and also for faces compared to patches. Even though in the test phase both age-groups could recognize the faces better than statistically by chance, neither the older nor the younger participants could discriminate them effectively. The late positive component (LPC)—the ERP correlates of the old/new effect, being the higher amplitude for the earlier presented stimuli when compared with the unseen stimuli during the recognition test—was not evolved in the older group, while a reversed old/new effect was seen in younger participants: higher amplitude was found in New-Right and Old-Wrong conditions (for faces they did not recognize independent of seeing them before) compared to Old-Right and New-Wrong conditions (for faces they thought they recognized from the study phase). In conclusion, although older adults showed enhanced processing of task-irrelevant stimuli compared to younger adults, as indicated by the N170 amplitude, however, they were not able to utilize this information in a later task, as was suggested by the recognition rate and LPC amplitude results.
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- Zsófia Anna Gaál
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.,Doctoral School of Psychology (Cognitive Science), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.,Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Yang Y, White KRG, Fan X, Xu Q, Chen QW. Differences in Explicit Stereotype Activation among Social Groups Based on the Stereotype Content Model: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence in Chinese Sample. Brain Sci 2020; 10:E1001. [PMID: 33348655 PMCID: PMC7767265 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10121001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The stereotype content model (SCM; Fiske, Cuddy, Glick and Xu, 2002) identifies four basic categories of stereotyped social groups: high warmth-high competence (HW-HC), high warmth-low competence (HW-LC), low warmth-high competence (LW-HC), and low warmth-low competence (LW-LC). However, many of these groups have not been directly examined in stereotype activation research. The purpose of the present research was to extend stereotype activation research to groups that more fully represent those identified under the SCM. Employing explicit sequential priming task, participants responded to prime-target stimulus pairs that were either congruent or incongruent with stereotypes of social groups from all four SCM quadrants in two studies in the current investigation. Study 1 was to determine the behavioral pattern of explicit stereotype activation among four quadrants (the sample included 60 Chinese undergraduate students, 51%-female). Study 2 further employed event-related brain potentials (ERPs) technique to track the time course and electrophysiological underpinnings of explicit stereotype activation (the sample included 22 right-handed Chinese undergraduate students, 76%-female). In Study 1, participants responded more quickly and accurately on stereotype congruent trials than incongruent trials for all social groups except LW-LC groups. This reverse priming effect on LW-LC social groups in RTs was also replicated in Study 2. ERPs findings further showed that incongruent targets elicited larger N400 amplitudes than congruent targets for all four SCM quadrants. Moreover, congruent targets elicited larger P2 than incongruent targets, but only found for the LW-LC social groups. In addition, congruent targets elicited larger amplitudes of late positive component than incongruent targets for the low warmth (LW-LC and LW-HC) groups. Together, these results highlight the unique processing that LW-LC groups receive throughout the cognitive stream, ultimately manifesting in distinctive behavioral responses. Unconscious activation of egalitarian goals, disgust, and distrust accounts are discussed.
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- Yaping Yang
- Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; (Y.Y.); (X.F.); (Q.X.)
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- Department of Psychological Science, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 30144, USA;
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- Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; (Y.Y.); (X.F.); (Q.X.)
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- Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; (Y.Y.); (X.F.); (Q.X.)
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- Lab of Light and Physiopsychological Health, National Center for International Research on Green Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute of Electronic Paper Displays, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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Huang HW, Nascimben M, Wang YY, Fong DY, Tzeng OJL, Huang CM. Which digit is larger? Brain responses to number and size interactions in a numerical Stroop task. Psychophysiology 2020; 58:e13744. [PMID: 33314155 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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When comparing the digits of different physical sizes, the processing of numerical value interacts with the processing of physical size. Given the universal use of Arabic numbers in mathematics and daily life, this study aims to elucidate the cognitive processes involved in the interactions of task-relevant and task-irrelevant features during information processing. We investigated this question by examining event-related potential (ERP) using a modified version of the size congruity comparison, which is a Stroop-like task. Numerical value and physical size were varied independently under task-relevant and task-irrelevant conditions. To better examine how the task-irrelevant features modulated the processing of the task-relevant attributes, a neutral condition was included in both tasks. For the physical task, congruent trials showed a less negative N200 response than neutral trials (indicating a facilitation effect), and incongruent trials elicited a larger N450 and smaller late positive complex (LPC) response than neutral trials (indicating an interference effect). For the numerical task, congruent trials showed a larger LPC response than neutral trials (indicating a facilitation effect). These ERP findings indicate that the sources of the facilitation and interference effects appear in different cognitive processes for each task. We further suggest that language characteristics may be a factor in the superior numerical processing exhibited in this study.
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- Hsu-Wen Huang
- Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Physical Education Office, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
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- College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.,Center for Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-devices (IDS2B), National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.,Center for Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-devices (IDS2B), National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Imbir KK, Duda-Goławska J, Pastwa M, Jankowska M, Modzelewska A, Sobieszek A, Żygierewicz J. Electrophysiological and Behavioral Correlates of Valence, Arousal and Subjective Significance in the Lexical Decision Task. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:567220. [PMID: 33132881 PMCID: PMC7575925 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.567220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The emotional properties of words, such as valence and arousal, influence the way we perceive and process verbal stimuli. Recently, subjective significance was found to be an additional factor describing the activational aspect of emotional reactions, which is vital for the cognitive consequences of emotional stimuli processing. Subjective significance represents the form of mental activation specific to reflective mind processing. The Lexical Decision Task (LDT) is a paradigm allowing the investigation of the involuntary processing of meaning and differentiating this processing from the formal processing of the perceptual features of words. In this study, we wanted to search for the consequences of valence, arousal, and subjective significance for the involuntary processing of verbal stimuli meaning indexed by both behavioral measures (reaction latencies) and electrophysiological measures (Event-Related Potentials: ERPs). We expected subjective significance, as the reflective form of activation, to shorten response latencies in LDT. We also expected subjective significance to modulate the amplitude of the ERP FN400 component, reducing the negative-going deflection of the potential. We expected valence to shape the LPC component amplitude, differentiating between negative and positive valences, since the LPC indexes the meaning processing. Indeed, the results confirmed our expectations and showed that subjective significance is a factor independent from the arousal and valence that shapes the involuntary processing of verbal stimuli, especially the detection of a link between stimulus and meaning indexed by the FN400. Moreover, we found that the LPC amplitude was differentiated by valence level.
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- Kamil K Imbir
- Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Biomedical Physics Division, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Biomedical Physics Division, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Tian C, Li S, He L, Han X, Tang F, Huang R, Lin Z, Deng S, Xu J, Huang H, Zhao H, Li Z. Transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 contributes to the lysophosphatidylcholine-induced oxidative stress and cytotoxicity in OLN-93 oligodendrocyte. Cell Stress Chaperones 2020; 25:955-968. [PMID: 32572784 PMCID: PMC7591684 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-020-01131-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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: 03/20/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1), the non-selective cation channel, was found that can mediate the generation of multiple sclerosis, while the mechanism is still controversial. Lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) is a critical trigger of multiple sclerosis which results from the syndrome of neuronal inflammation and demyelination. In this work, we suggested that TRPA1 can mediate the LPC-induced oxidative stress and cytotoxicity in OLN-93 oligodendrocyte. The expression of TRPA1 in OLN-93 was detected by using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and immunofluorescence. The calcium overload induced by LPC via TRPA1 was detected by calcium imaging. The mechanism of LPC-induced mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS) generation, mitochondria membrane depolarization, nitric oxide (NO) increase, and development of superoxide production via TRPA1 was verified by using confocal imaging. The cell injury elicited by LPC via TRPA1 was confirmed by both CCK-8 and LDH cytotoxicity detection. These results indicate that TRPA1 plays an important role of the LPC-induced oxidative stress and cell damage in OLN-93 oligodendrocyte. Therefore, inhibition of TRPA1 may protect the LPC-induced demyelination.
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- Chao Tian
- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou JYK Biotechnology Company Limited, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou JYK Biotechnology Company Limited, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Guangzhou JYK Biotechnology Company Limited, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
- Guangzhou JYK Biotechnology Company Limited, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
- GZMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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Miller RK, Martin FH. Dynamic versus static indicators of threat: N2 and LPC modulation index attack intent and biological relevance during an affective Flanker task. Int J Psychophysiol 2020; 158:158-171. [PMID: 33075433 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.08.007] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 08/02/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Biological relevance may influence the neural response towards images which depict attack intent. In the present study, images featuring reptiles and firearms were employed as target and flanking stimuli in a modified version of the affective Flanker task. Forty-two participants (21 male) completed the modified Flanker task as EEG was recorded. Congruency effects in reaction times were more consistently observed for arrays with firearm targets than for arrays with reptile targets. Arrays with neutral targets (i.e., water pistols, turtles) evoked more negative mean N2 (250-400 ms) amplitudes than those with attack targets (i.e., attacking snakes, aimed handguns), while arrays with aimed handgun targets elicited more positive mean activity for the late positive component (LPC; 450-650 ms) compared to arrays with water pistol or reptile targets. Congruency effects were also found in N2 activity for arrays with firearm targets and reptile Flankers. In addition, LPC amplitude for incongruent arrays with attack targets and neutral Flankers was reduced compared to congruent attack arrays. These findings suggest that biological relevance influences interference processing (the N2) and intersects with attack intent during the later stages of picture processing (the LPC).
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Scheuble V, Beauducel A. Cognitive processes during deception about attitudes revisited: a replication study. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2020; 15:839-848. [PMID: 32820342 PMCID: PMC7543939 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaa107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Event-related potential (ERP) studies about deception often apply recognition tasks. It remains questionable whether reported ERP patterns and cognitive processes can be generalized to other contexts. As the study by Johnson et al. (2008) fills this gap by investigating deception regarding attitudes, we tried to replicate it. Participants (N = 99) were instructed to lie or tell the truth about their attitudes. We obtained the same results as Johnson et al. (2008): lies were accompanied by enhanced medial frontal negativities (MFN) and suppressed late positive components (LPCs) indicating that lying relied on stronger cognitive control processes and response conflicts than being honest. The amplitudes of pre-response positivities (PRP) were reduced for lies implying that lies about attitudes were accompanied by strategic monitoring. MFN amplitudes increased and LPC amplitudes decreased for lies about positively valued items revealing that lying about positively valued items is cognitively more challenging than lying about negatively valued items. As a new finding, MFN, LPC and PRP components were neither moderated by Machiavellianism nor by changes in the attitude ratings. The results indicate that LPC, MFN and PRP components are reliable indicators of the cognitive processes used during deception and that it is worthwhile to investigate them in further deception contexts.
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- V Scheuble
- Institute of Psychology, University of Bonn, 53111 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Bonn, 53111 Bonn, Germany
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