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Savoca PW, Glynn LM, Fox MM, Richards MC, Callaghan BL. Interoception in pregnancy: Implications for peripartum depression. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 166:105874. [PMID: 39243875 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2024] [Revised: 08/12/2024] [Accepted: 09/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/09/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Paul W Savoca
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Shen IH, Wang WE, Ni HC, Chen CL. Investigating Working Memory Deficits in School-Age Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An Event-Related Potentials Study During Delayed-Match-to-Sample Task. J Atten Disord 2024:10870547241277521. [PMID: 39291373 DOI: 10.1177/10870547241277521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/19/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the neural mechanisms underlying working memory (WM) deficits in children with ADHD. METHOD WM was compared between thirty-four children with ADHD and thirty-four matched controls using neuropsychological tests, spatial and verbal versions of modified delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) tasks, and the event-related potential technique. RESULTS Children with ADHD demonstrated poor behavioral performance, delayed P3 latencies in high-load spatial modified DMTS tasks during encoding, and delayed P2 and N2 latencies during retrieval in spatial modified DMTS tasks. In high-load verbal modified DMTS tasks during encoding, they showed a smaller P3 amplitude. DISCUSSION Pronounced deficits in the central executive system in children with ADHD were exhibited by neuropsychological tests and the modified DMTS task. Children with ADHD exhibited a slowing of processing speed during encoding. Under high-load conditions, they showed a reduced P3 amplitude during retrieval, suggesting reduced neural resource allocation was available when the central executive of the working memory was heavily loaded.
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- I-Hsuan Shen
- Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Kim M, Kim SP. Distraction impact of concurrent conversation on event-related potential based brain-computer interfaces. J Neural Eng 2024; 21:056004. [PMID: 39178898 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad731e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 08/23/2024] [Indexed: 08/26/2024]
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Objective.This study investigates the impact of conversation on the performance of visual event-related potential (ERP)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), considering distractions in real life environment. The research aims to understand how cognitive distractions from speaking and listening activities affect ERP-BCI performance.Approach.The experiment employs a dual-task paradigm where participants control a smart light using visual ERP-BCIs while simultaneously conducting speaking or listening tasks.Main results.The findings reveal that speaking notably degrades BCI accuracy and the amplitude of ERP components, while increases the latency variability of ERP components and occipital alpha power. In contrast, listening and simple syllable repetition tasks have a lesser impact on these variables. The results suggest that speaking activity significantly distracts visual attentional processes critical for BCI operationSignificance. This study highlights the need to take distractions by daily conversation into account of the design and implementation of ERP-BCIs.
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- Minju Kim
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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Pereira Soares SM, Prystauka Y, DeLuca V, Poch C, Rothman J. Brain correlates of attentional load processing reflect degree of bilingual engagement: Evidence from EEG. Neuroimage 2024; 298:120786. [PMID: 39147289 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2024] [Revised: 07/09/2024] [Accepted: 08/12/2024] [Indexed: 08/17/2024] Open
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The present study uses electroencephalography (EEG) with an N-back task (0-, 1-, and 2-back) to investigate if and how individual bilingual experiences modulate brain activity and cognitive processes. The N-back is an especially appropriate task given recent proposals situating bilingual effects on neurocognition within the broader attentional control system (Bialystok and Craik, 2022). Beyond its working memory component, the N-Back task builds in complexity incrementally, progressively taxing the attentional system. EEG, behavioral and language/social background data were collected from 60 bilinguals. Two cognitive loads were calculated: low (1-back minus 0-back) and high (2-back minus 0-back). Behavioral performance and brain recruitment were modeled as a function of individual differences in bilingual engagement. We predicted task performance as modulated by bilingual engagement would reflect cognitive demands of increased complexity: slower reaction times and lower accuracy, and increase in theta, decrease in alpha and modulated N2/P3 amplitudes. The data show no modulation of the expected behavioral effects by degree of bilingual engagement. However, individual differences analyses reveal significant correlations between non-societal language use in Social contexts and alpha in the low cognitive load condition and age of acquisition of the L2/2L1 with theta in the high cognitive load. These findings lend some initial support to Bialystok and Craik (2022), showing how certain adaptations at the brain level take place in order to deal with the cognitive demands associated with variations in bilingual language experience and increases in attentional load. Furthermore, the present data highlight how these effects can play out differentially depending on cognitive testing/modalities - that is, effects were found at the TFR level but not behaviorally or in the ERPs, showing how the choice of analysis can be deterministic when investigating bilingual effects.
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- Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Language and Culture, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Nebrija Research Center in Cognition, University of Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Language and Culture, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Nebrija Research Center in Cognition, University of Nebrija, Madrid, Spain; Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
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Colucci F, Stefanelli S, Contaldi E, Gozzi A, Marchetti A, Pugliatti M, Laudisi M, Antenucci P, Capone JG, Gragnaniello D, Sensi M. Cognition in Patients with Spinocerebellar Ataxia 1 (SCA1) and 2 (SCA2): A Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Approach. J Clin Med 2024; 13:4880. [PMID: 39201022 PMCID: PMC11355496 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13164880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2024] [Revised: 08/10/2024] [Accepted: 08/16/2024] [Indexed: 09/02/2024] Open
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Background/Objectives: Cognitive impairment in spinocerebellar ataxia patients has been reported since the early-disease stage. We aimed to assess cognitive differences in SCA1 and SCA2 patients. Methods: We performed neuropsychological (NPS) and neurophysiological (auditory event-related potentials, aERPs) assessments in 16 SCA1 and 18 SCA2 consecutive patients. Furthermore, clinical information (age at onset, disease duration, motor disability) was collected. Results: NPS tests yielded scores in the normal range in both groups but with lower scores in the Frontal Assessment Battery (p < 0.05) and Visual Analogue Test for Anosognosia for motor impairment (p < 0.05) in SCA1, and the Trail Making Test (p < 0.01), Raven's progressive matrices (p < 0.01), Stroop (p < 0.05), and emotion attribution tests (p < 0.05) in SCA2. aERPs showed lower N100 amplitude (p < 0.01) and prolonged N200 latency (p < 0.01) in SCA1 compared with SCA2. Clinically, SCA2 had more severe motor disability than SCA1 in the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia Scale. Conclusions: SCA2 showed more significant difficulties in attentional, visuospatial, and emotional function, and greater motor impairment. In contrast, SCA1 showed less cognitive flexibility/phasic ability, probably affected by a more severe degree of dysarthria. The same group revealed less neural activity during nonconscious attentional processing (N100-N200 data), suggesting greater involvement of sensory pathways in discriminating auditory stimuli. NFS did not correlate with NPS findings, implying an independent relationship. However, the specific role of the cerebellum and cerebellar symptoms in NPS test results deserves more focus.
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- Fabiana Colucci
- Clinical Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (A.G.); (A.M.); (M.P.); (M.L.); (P.A.)
- Parkinson and Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria S. Anna, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (S.S.); (J.G.C.); (D.G.); (M.S.)
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- Centro Parkinson e Parkinsonismi, ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, 20122 Milan, Italy;
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- Clinical Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (A.G.); (A.M.); (M.P.); (M.L.); (P.A.)
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- Clinical Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (A.G.); (A.M.); (M.P.); (M.L.); (P.A.)
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- Clinical Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (A.G.); (A.M.); (M.P.); (M.L.); (P.A.)
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- Clinical Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (A.G.); (A.M.); (M.P.); (M.L.); (P.A.)
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- Clinical Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (A.G.); (A.M.); (M.P.); (M.L.); (P.A.)
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- Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria S. Anna, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (S.S.); (J.G.C.); (D.G.); (M.S.)
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- Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria S. Anna, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (S.S.); (J.G.C.); (D.G.); (M.S.)
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- Neurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria S. Anna, 44124 Ferrara, Italy; (S.S.); (J.G.C.); (D.G.); (M.S.)
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Lindner E, Desantis A, Cheng FPH, Gail A. Violation of identity-specific action-effect prediction increases pupil size and attenuates auditory event-related potentials at P2 latencies when action-effects are behaviorally relevant. Neuroimage 2024; 297:120717. [PMID: 38971482 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2024] [Revised: 06/20/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/08/2024] Open
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Self-initiated sensory action effects are widely assumed to lead to less intense perception and reduced neural responses compared to externally triggered stimuli (sensory attenuation). However, it is unclear if sensory attenuation occurs in all cases of action-effect prediction. Specifically, when predicted action-effects are relevant to determine follow-up actions attenuation could be detrimental. We quantified auditory event-related potentials (ERP) in electroencephalography (EEG) when human participants created two-sound sequences by pressing two keys on a keyboard associated with different pitch, giving rise to identity-specific action-effect prediction after the first keypress. The first sound corresponded to (congruent) or violated (incongruent) the predicted pitch and was either relevant for the selection of the second keypress to correctly complete the sequence (Relevance) or irrelevant (Control Movement), or there was only one keypress and sound (Baseline). We found a diminished P2-timed ERP component in incongruent compared to congruent trials when the sound was relevant for the subsequent action. This effect of action-effect prediction was due to an ERP reduction for incongruent relevant sounds compared to incongruent irrelevant sounds at P2 latencies and correlated negatively with modulations of pupil dilation. Contrary to our expectation, we did not observe an N1 modulation by congruency in any condition. Attenuation of the N1 component seems absent for predicted identity-specific auditory action effects, while P2-timed ERPs as well as pupil size are sensitive to predictability, at least when action effects are relevant for the selection of the next action. Incongruent relevant stimuli thereby take a special place and seem to be subject to attentional modulations and error processing.
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- Elisabeth Lindner
- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Germany; Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University, Wilhelm-Weber-Str. 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
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- The French Aerospace Lab ONERA, Département Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes, BA 701 13661 Salon Cedex AIR, 13661 Salon-de-Provence, France; Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (UMR 7289), CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine, 27, boulevard Jean Moulin, F-13005 Marseille, France; INCC - Integrative Neuroscience & Cognition Center UMR 8002, CNRS, Université de Paris, 45 Rue des Saint-Pères, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg 4, 37077, Germany; Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University, Wilhelm-Weber-Str. 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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Yang T, Kurkela JLO, Chen K, Liu Y, Shu H, Cong F, Hämäläinen JA, Astikainen P. Native language advantage in electrical brain responses to speech sound changes in passive and active listening condition. Neuropsychologia 2024; 201:108936. [PMID: 38851314 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/10/2024]
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It is not clear whether the brain can detect changes in native and non-native speech sounds in both unattended and attended conditions, but this information would be important to understand the nature of potential native language advantage in speech perception. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) for changes in duration and in Chinese lexical tone in a repeated vowel /a/ in native speakers of Finnish and Chinese in passive and active listening conditions. ERP amplitudes reflecting deviance detection (mismatch negativity; MMN and N2b) and attentional shifts towards changes in speech sounds (P3a and P3b) were investigated. In the passive listening condition, duration changes elicited increased amplitude in the MMN latency window for both standard and deviant sounds in the Finnish speakers compared to the Chinese speakers, but no group differences were observed for P3a. In passive listening to lexical tones, P3a was increased in amplitude for both standard and deviant stimuli in Chinese speakers compared to Finnish speakers, but the groups did not differ in MMN. In active listening, both tone and duration changes elicited N2b and P3b, but the groups differed only in pattern of results for the deviant type. The results thus suggest an overall increased sensitivity to native speech sounds, especially in passive listening, while the mechanisms of change detection and attentional shifting seem to work well for both native and non-native speech sounds in the attentive mode.
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- Tiantian Yang
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Chockboondee M, Jatupornpoonsub T, Lertsukprasert K, Wongsawat Y. Effects of daily listening to 6 Hz binaural beats over one month: an event-related potentials study. Sci Rep 2024; 14:18059. [PMID: 39103461 PMCID: PMC11300877 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-68628-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2024] [Accepted: 07/25/2024] [Indexed: 08/07/2024] Open
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The aim of the present study was to identify cognitive alterations, as indicated by event-related potentials (ERPs), after one month of daily exposure to theta binaural beats (BBs) for 10 minutes. The recruited healthy subjects (n = 60) were equally divided into experimental and control groups. For a month, the experimental group was required to practice BBs listening daily, while the control group did not. ERPs were assessed at three separate visits over a span of one month, with a two-week interval between each visit. At each visit, ERPs were measured before and after listening. The auditory and visual ERPs significantly increased the auditory and visual P300 amplitudes consistently at each visit. BBs enhanced the auditory N200 amplitude consistently across all visits, but the visual N200 amplitude increased only at the second and third visits. Compared to the healthy controls, daily exposure to BBs for two weeks resulted in increased auditory P300 amplitude. Additionally, four weeks of BBs exposure not only increased auditory P300 amplitude but also reduced P300 latency. These preliminary findings suggest that listening to BBs at 6 Hz for 10 minutes daily may enhance certain aspects of cognitive function. However, further research is needed to confirm these effects and to understand the underlying mechanisms. Identifying the optimal duration and practice of listening to 6 Hz BBs could potentially contribute to cognitive enhancement strategies in healthy individuals.
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- Mondnath Chockboondee
- Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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- Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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- Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
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Wang S, Djebbara Z, Sanches de Oliveira G, Gramann K. Human brain dynamics dissociate early perceptual and late motor-related stages of affordance processing. Eur J Neurosci 2024; 60:4639-4660. [PMID: 39034404 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/21/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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Affordances, the opportunities for action offered by the environment to an agent, are vital for meaningful behaviour and exist in every interaction with the environment. There is an ongoing debate in the field about whether the perception of affordances is an automated process. Some studies suggest that affordance perception is an automated process that is independent from the visual context and bodily interaction with the environment, whereas others argue that it is modulated by the visual and motor context in which affordances are perceived. The present paper aims to resolve this debate by examining affordance automaticity from the perspective of sensorimotor time windows. To investigate the impact of different forms of bodily interactions with an environment, that is, the movement context (physical vs. joystick movement), we replicated a previous study on affordance perception in which participants actively moved through differently wide doors in an immersive 3D virtual environment. In the present study, we displayed the same environment on a 2D screen with participants moving through doors of different widths using the keys on a standard keyboard. We compared components of the event-related potential (ERP) from the continuously recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) that were previously reported to be related to affordance perception of architectural transitions (passable and impassable doors). Comparing early sensory and later motor-related ERPs, our study replicated ERPs reflecting early affordance perception but found differences in later motor-related components. These results indicate a shift from automated perception of affordances during early sensorimotor time windows to movement context dependence of affordance perception at later stages, suggesting that affordance perception is a dynamic and flexible process that changes over sensorimotor stages.
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- Sheng Wang
- Biological Psychology and Neuroergonomics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Biological Psychology and Neuroergonomics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Biological Psychology and Neuroergonomics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Chang CL, Lin TK, Pan CY, Wang TC, Tseng YT, Chien CY, Tsai CL. Distinct effects of long-term Tai Chi Chuan and aerobic exercise interventions on motor and neurocognitive performance in early-stage Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled trial. Eur J Phys Rehabil Med 2024; 60:621-633. [PMID: 38888734 PMCID: PMC11403633 DOI: 10.23736/s1973-9087.24.08166-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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BACKGROUND Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition characterized by movement disorders and probable cognitive impairment. Exercise plays an important role in PD management, and recent studies have reported improvement in motor symptoms and cognitive function following aerobic and Tai Chi Chuan exercise. AIM To explore the different effects of Tai Chi Chuan and aerobic exercise on the clinical motor status and neurocognitive performance of patients with early-stage PD. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial. SETTING Parkinson's Disease Center at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and National Cheng Kung University Hospital. POPULATION Patients with idiopathic PD. METHODS Fifty-six patients with PD were recruited and divided into three groups: aerobic exercise (AE, N.=14), Tai Chi Chuan exercise (TE, N.=16), and control (CG, N.=13). Before and after a 12-week intervention period, we used unified Parkinson's disease rating scale Part III (UPDRS-III) scores and neuropsychological (e.g., accuracy rates [ARs] and reaction times [RTs]) and neurophysiological (e.g., event-related potential [ERP] N2 and P3 latencies and amplitudes) parameters to respectively assess the patients' clinical motor symptoms and neurocognitive performance when performing a working memory (WM) task. RESULTS Compared to baseline, UPDRS-III scores were significantly lower in the AE and TE groups after the intervention period, whereas those for the CG group were higher. In terms of the neurocognitive parameters, when performing the WM task after the intervention period, the AE group exhibited significantly faster RTs and larger ERP P3 amplitudes, the TE group exhibited an improvement only in ERP P3 amplitude, and the CG group exhibited a significantly reduced ERP P3 amplitude. However, neither the TE nor the AE group exhibited improved ARs and ERP N2 performance. CONCLUSIONS The present study supported the distinct effectiveness of Tai Chi Chuan and aerobic exercise for improving motor symptoms and providing neurocognitive benefits in PD patients. CLINICAL REHABILITATION IMPACT These results have important implications regarding the use of these exercise interventions for managing PD, particularly in the early stages.
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- Cheng-Liang Chang
- Institute of Physical Education, Health and Leisure Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (ROC)
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- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ROC)
- Center for Parkinson's Disease, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ROC)
- Center for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ROC)
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- Department of Physical Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ROC)
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- Institute of Physical Education, Health and Leisure Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (ROC)
- General Research Service Center, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan (ROC)
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- Department of Kinesiology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (ROC)
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- Department of Neurology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (ROC)
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- Institute of Physical Education, Health and Leisure Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (ROC) -
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Reinders LJ, Luijten JAM, Frankema SPG, Huygen FJPM, de Vos CC. The Effect of Various Spinal Neurostimulation Paradigms on the Supraspinal Somatosensory Evoked Response: A Systematic Review. Neuromodulation 2024; 27:1008-1019. [PMID: 38752944 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 08/09/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Spinal neurostimulation is a therapy for otherwise intractable chronic pain. Spinal neurostimulation includes stimulation of the spinal cord (SCS), dorsal root ganglion (DRGS), and dorsal root entry zone (DREZS). New paresthesia-free neurostimulation paradigms may rely on different mechanisms of action from those of conventional tonic neurostimulation. The aim of this systematic review is to assess the existing knowledge on the effect of spinal neurostimulation on somatosensory processing in patients with chronic pain. We therefore reviewed the existing literature on the effect of various spinal neurostimulation paradigms on the supraspinal somatosensory evoked response (SER). MATERIALS AND METHODS Multiple scientific data bases were searched for studies that assessed the effect of spinal neurostimulation on the supraspinal SER, evoked by painful or nonpainful peripheral stimuli in patients with chronic pain. We found 205 studies, of which 24 were included. Demographic data, study design, and study outcome were extracted. RESULTS Of the 24 included studies, 23 used electroencephalography to assess the SER; one study used magnetoencephalography. Fifteen studies evaluated tonic SCS; six studies (also) evaluated paresthesia-free paradigms; three studies evaluated the effect of tonic DRGS or DREZS. Sixteen studies used nonpainful stimuli to elicit the SER, 14 observed a decreased SER amplitude. Ten studies used painful stimuli to elicit the SER, yielding mixed results. DISCUSSION The included studies suggest that both paresthesia-based and paresthesia-free spinal neurostimulation paradigms can decrease (part of) the SER elicited by a nonpainful peripheral stimulus. The observed SER amplitude reduction likely is the effect of various spinal and supraspinal mechanisms of spinal neurostimulation that also contribute to pain relief. CONCLUSIONS Spinal neurostimulation modulates the processing of a peripherally applied nonpainful stimulus. For painful stimuli, the results are not conclusive. It is not yet clear whether paresthesia-free neurostimulation affects the SER differently from paresthesia-based neurostimulation.
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- Laurien J Reinders
- Erasmus University Medical Center, Center for Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Erasmus University Medical Center, Center for Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Erasmus University Medical Center, Center for Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Erasmus University Medical Center, Center for Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Erasmus University Medical Center, Center for Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Shi J, Huang H, Nasrallah FA, Li A. High Neural Efficiency in Unconscious Perceptual Processing among Table Tennis Athletes: An Event-Related Potential Study. Brain Sci 2024; 14:756. [PMID: 39199451 PMCID: PMC11352455 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14080756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2024] [Revised: 07/25/2024] [Accepted: 07/26/2024] [Indexed: 09/01/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Neural efficiency refers to the brain's ability to function with reduced resource expenditure while maintaining high performance levels. Previous research has demonstrated that table tennis athletes have greater neural efficiency at the conscious level. However, it is unknown whether they exhibit greater neural efficiency at the unconscious level. Therefore, this study aims to investigate unconscious perceptual processing and neural efficiency in elite table tennis athletes through tasks involving the judgment of spin serves. METHODS Fifty healthy, right-handed individuals participated in this study, including 25 elite table tennis athletes and 25 control participants without professional training experience. To evaluate the unconscious perceptual characteristics of both groups, we used a combination of masked priming paradigm and event-related potential techniques. RESULTS The behavioral results reveal that, compared to the control group, the table tennis athletes displayed reduced reaction times (p < 0.001) and increased priming effects (p < 0.001) under unconscious conditions. The electrophysiological findings indicated that both groups elicited N1, N2, and P2 components. Notably, compared to the control group, the table tennis athletes exhibited significantly lower amplitude responses at the occipital lobe electrodes PO3, POz, PO4, O1, Oz, and O2 (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS These results further support the neural efficiency hypothesis, indicating that prolonged professional training enhances athletes' capacities for specialized unconscious cognitive processing.
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- Jilong Shi
- School of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China;
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- Department of Physical Education, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia;
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- School of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China;
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Li Z, Wang J, Chen Y, Li Q, Yin S, Chen A. Attenuated conflict self-referential information facilitating conflict resolution. NPJ SCIENCE OF LEARNING 2024; 9:47. [PMID: 39030204 PMCID: PMC11271533 DOI: 10.1038/s41539-024-00256-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/21/2024]
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Self-referential information can reduce the congruency effect by acting as a signal to enhance cognitive control. However, it cannot be denied that self-referential information can attract and hold attention. To investigate this issue, the study used a revised Stroop task and recorded behavioral and electrophysiological data from thirty-three participants. We combined event-related potential (ERP) and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to examine the neural correlates of self-referential processing and conflict processing. In the behavioral results, self-referential information reduced the congruency effect. Specifically, self-reference stimuli elicited smaller N2 amplitude than non-self-reference stimuli, indicating that self-referential information was promptly identified and reduced top-down cognitive resource consumption. Self-referential information could be reliably decoded from ERP signals in the early-to-mid stage. Moreover, self-reference conditions exhibited earlier congruency decoding than non-self-reference conditions, facilitating conflict monitoring. In the late stage, under the incongruent condition, self-reference stimuli elicited smaller sustained potential amplitude than non-self-reference stimuli, indicating that cognitive control in the self-reference condition required fewer cognitive resources for conflict resolution. Together, these findings revealed that self-referential information was identified and facilitated conflict monitoring, leading to more effective conflict resolution.
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- Zhifang Li
- School of Psychology, Research Center for Exercise and Brain Science, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China
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- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- School of Psychology, Research Center for Exercise and Brain Science, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China
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- School of Psychology, Research Center for Exercise and Brain Science, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China.
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Simkute D, Dores AR, Barbosa F, Griskova-Bulanova I. Problematic Gaming and Gambling: A Systematic Review of Task-Specific EEG Protocols. J Gambl Stud 2024:10.1007/s10899-024-10332-4. [PMID: 39002089 DOI: 10.1007/s10899-024-10332-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/21/2024] [Indexed: 07/15/2024]
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Even though gaming and gambling bear similar problematic behavioral aspects, there are no recognizable neurophysiological biomarkers or features characterizing and/or distinguishing these conditions. A systematic review of the literature with a focus on methods was performed in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science (Web of Science Core Collection), EBSCOhost Research Databases (APA PsycINFO; APA PsycArticles; OpenDissertations; ERIC) databases. Following search terms were used to search the databases: ERP, "event related potential*", EP, "evoked potential*", SS, "steady state", EEG, electroencephal*; gam*. Data about the participants (total number, gender, age), main aim of the study and information about the experimental setup (experimental task description, stimuli used, ERPs measured (latency windows and placement of the electrodes), process evaluated) was extracted. A total of 24 studies were revised (problematic gaming - 16, pathological gambling - 8). The experimental protocols could be grouped into 3 main target domains (Cue-reactivity, General Information processing and Reward Processes & Risk Assessment). Sample-related limitations (small sample sizes, gender differences, differences between the groups regarding potential confounding variables) and heterogeneity regarding the experimental tasks, implementation and interpretation reviewed. Gambling-related research is highly focused on the investigation of the reward-related processes, whereas gaming-related research is mostly focused on the altered aspects of more general information processing. A vast heterogeneity regarding the ERP experimental paradigms being used and lack of clear guidelines and standardized procedures prevents identification of measures capable to reliably discriminate or characterize the population susceptible to addictive behavior or being able to diagnose and monitor these disorders.
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- Dovile Simkute
- Life Sciences Center, Institute of Biosciences, Vilnius University, Sauletekio Ave. 7, 10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Escola Superior de Saúde, Politécnico Do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Life Sciences Center, Institute of Biosciences, Vilnius University, Sauletekio Ave. 7, 10257, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Schwarz J, Gertzen M, Rabenstein A, Straßburger M, Horstmann A, Pogarell O, Rüther T, Karch S. What Chemsex does to the brain - neural correlates (ERP) regarding decision making, impulsivity and hypersexuality. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2024:10.1007/s00406-024-01856-2. [PMID: 38969754 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-024-01856-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2024] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/07/2024]
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Chemsex describes the use of specific substances (methamphetamine, GHB/GBL, mephedrone, ketamine) which initiate or enhance sexual experiences and is mainly prevalent among men who have sex with men. Many Chemsex users experience somatic complications (for example sexually transmitted diseases) and sometimes adverse sociological, psychological, and neurological symptoms, such as depression, impulse control disorders or hypersexuality. Changes in impulsivity and deficits in executive functions have demonstrated to be associated with addiction and impulse control disorders as well as frontal brain dysfunction and behavioral control deficits. This study aims to explore the effects of neurophysiological correlates of inhibition and decision making in Chemsex users with an EEG paradigm using event-related potentials (N2, P3). 15 Chemsex users and 14 matched control subjects, all of them men who have sex with man, participated in an auditory Go/NoGo/Voluntary Selection EEG paradigm. In addition, clinical data (e.g. regarding depression), demographic information as well as measures of well-being and sexual behavior were collected. The results demonstrated that clinical symptoms, hypersexuality, and sexual risk behavior were more pronounced in Chemsex users compared to non-users. P3 amplitudes did not differ significantly between groups. However, the Chemsex users showed decreased electrophysiological N2 responses in fronto-central brain regions during decision-making, indicating compromised executive function and inhibitory control. The observed impairments may lead to increased risk behavior regarding drug abuse and hypersexuality. Understanding the neurobiological mechanisms can contribute to targeted interventions in order to mitigate the negative consequences of engaging in Chemsex and improve general well-being.
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- Johanna Schwarz
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany
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Chiang HS, Motes M, Afkhami-Rohani B, Adhikari A, LoBue C, Kraut M, Cullum CM, Hart J. Verbal retrieval deficits due to traumatic brain injury are associated with changes in event related potentials during a Go-NoGo task. Clin Neurophysiol 2024; 163:1-13. [PMID: 38663098 PMCID: PMC11216819 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Verbal retrieval (VR) deficits often occur after traumatic brain injury (TBI), but the mechanisms remain unclear. We examined how event-related potentials (ERPs) during a Go-NoGo task were associated with VR deficits. METHODS Sixty veterans with a history of TBI underwent a neuropsychological battery and a Go-NoGo task with concurrent EEG recording. We compared task performance and ERP measures (N2, P3) between those with and those without persistent injury-related VR deficits. We then used generalized linear modeling to examine the relationship between ERP measures and scores on measures of executive function and processing speed. RESULTS Go-NoGo task performance was comparable between the groups. Those with VR deficits had larger N2 amplitude in NoGo than in Go conditions. In participants with VR deficits, larger NoGo N2/P3 amplitude predicted faster processing speed. Furthermore, larger P3 amplitude and shorter P3 latency of the difference wave (NoGo - Go) predicted faster processing speed in those with VR deficits. CONCLUSIONS Despite no difference in Go-NoGo task performance, ERP amplitude and latency measures associated with cognitive control during Go-NoGo distinguished TBI individuals with VR deficits from those without. SIGNIFICANCE This study furthers our understanding of VR deficits in TBI and implicates potential application of ERP measures in monitoring and treating such deficits.
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- Hsueh-Sheng Chiang
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Neurology, USA; The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, USA.
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- The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, USA.
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- The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, USA.
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- The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, USA.
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, USA; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, USA.
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- The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, USA.
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Neurology, USA; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, USA; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, USA.
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Neurology, USA; The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, USA; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, USA.
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Scheutz M, Aeron S, Aygun A, de Ruiter JP, Fantini S, Fernandez C, Haga Z, Nguyen T, Lyu B. Estimating Systemic Cognitive States from a Mixture of Physiological and Brain Signals. Top Cogn Sci 2024; 16:485-526. [PMID: 37389823 DOI: 10.1111/tops.12669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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As human-machine teams are being considered for a variety of mixed-initiative tasks, detecting and being responsive to human cognitive states, in particular systematic cognitive states, is among the most critical capabilities for artificial systems to ensure smooth interactions with humans and high overall team performance. Various human physiological parameters, such as heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, and skin conductance, as well as brain activity inferred from functional near-infrared spectroscopy or electroencephalogram, have been linked to different systemic cognitive states, such as workload, distraction, or mind-wandering among others. Whether these multimodal signals are indeed sufficient to isolate such cognitive states across individuals performing tasks or whether additional contextual information (e.g., about the task state or the task environment) is required for making appropriate inferences remains an important open problem. In this paper, we introduce an experimental and machine learning framework for investigating these questions and focus specifically on using physiological and neurophysiological measurements to learn classifiers associated with systemic cognitive states like cognitive load, distraction, sense of urgency, mind wandering, and interference. Specifically, we describe a multitasking interactive experimental setting used to obtain a comprehensive multimodal data set which provided the foundation for a first evaluation of various standard state-of-the-art machine learning techniques with respect to their effectiveness in inferring systemic cognitive states. While the classification success of these standard methods based on just the physiological and neurophysiological signals across subjects was modest, which is to be expected given the complexity of the classification problem and the possibility that higher accuracy rates might not in general be achievable, the results nevertheless can serve as a baseline for evaluating future efforts to improve classification, especially methods that take contextual aspects such as task and environmental states into account.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
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- Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
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- Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
- Department of Psychology, Tufts University
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- Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
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- Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
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Wang H, Wang Z, Sun Y, Yuan Z, Xu T, Li J. A Cascade xDAWN EEGNet Structure for Unified Visual-Evoked Related Potential Detection. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 2024; 32:2270-2280. [PMID: 38885099 DOI: 10.1109/tnsre.2024.3415474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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Visual-based brain-computer interface (BCI) enables people to communicate with others by spelling words from the brain and helps professionals recognize targets in large numbers of images. P300 signals evoked by different types of stimuli, such as words or images, may vary significantly in terms of both amplitude and latency. A unified approach is required to detect variable P300 signals, which facilitates BCI applications, as well as deepens the understanding of the P300 generation mechanism. In this study, our proposed approach involves a cascade network structure that combines xDAWN and classical EEGNet techniques. This network is designed to classify target and non-target stimuli in both P300 speller and rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigms. The proposed approach is capable of recognizing more symbols with fewer repetitions (up to 5 rounds) compared to other models while possessing a better information transfer rate (ITR) as demonstrated on Dataset II (17.22 bits/min in the second repetition round) of BCI Competition III. Additionally, our approach has the highest unweighted average recall (UAR) performance for both 5 Hz ( 0.8134±0.0259 ) and 20 Hz ( 0.6527±0.0321 ) RSVP. The results show that the cascade network structure has better performance between both the P300 Speller and RSVP paradigms, manifesting that such a cascade structure is robust enough for dealing with P300-related signals (source code is available at https://github.com/embneural/Cascade-xDAWN-EEGNet-for-ERP-Detection).
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Leavitt D, Alanazi FI, Al-Ozzi TM, Cohn M, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Lozano AM, Milosevic L, Hutchison WD. Auditory oddball responses in the human subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra pars reticulata. Neurobiol Dis 2024; 195:106490. [PMID: 38561111 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2024.106490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2024] [Revised: 03/24/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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The auditory oddball is a mainstay in research on attention, novelty, and sensory prediction. How this task engages subcortical structures like the subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra pars reticulata is unclear. We administered an auditory OB task while recording single unit activity (35 units) and local field potentials (57 recordings) from the subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra pars reticulata of 30 patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery. We found tone modulated and oddball modulated units in both regions. Population activity differentiated oddball from standard trials from 200 ms to 1000 ms after the tone in both regions. In the substantia nigra, beta band activity in the local field potential was decreased following oddball tones. The oddball related activity we observe may underlie attention, sensory prediction, or surprise-induced motor suppression.
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- Dallas Leavitt
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; University of Toronto - Max Planck Centre for Neural Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada; Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; University of Toronto - Max Planck Centre for Neural Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada; Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Center for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA), Toronto, Canada; KITE Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
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Badalì C, Wollseiffen P, Schneider S. Shades of gravity - effects of planetary gravity levels on electrocortical activity and neurocognitive performance. Brain Struct Funct 2024; 229:1265-1277. [PMID: 38700553 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-024-02803-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024]
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The plans of international space agencies to return to the Moon and explore deep space, including Mars, highlight the challenges of human adaptation and stress the need for a thorough analysis of the factors that facilitate, limit and modify human performance under extreme environments. This study investigates the influence of partial gravity on behavioural (error rate and reaction time) and neuronal parameters (event-related potentials) through parabolic flights. Brain cortical activity was assessed using EEG from 18 participants who solved a neurocognitive task, consisting of a mental arithmetic task and an auditory oddball paradigm, during Earth (1G), Lunar (0.16G + 0.25G) and Martian gravity (0.38G + 0.5G) for 15 consecutive parabolas. Data shows higher electrocortical activity in Earth gravity compared to Lunar and Martian gravity in the parietal lobe. No differences in participants' performance were found among the gravity levels. Event-related potentials displayed gravity-dependent variations, though limited stimuli recording suggests caution in interpretation. Data suggests a threshold between Earth and Martian gravity within the different gravities responsible for physiological changes, but it seems to vary greatly between individuals. The altered neuronal communication could be explained with a model developed by Kohn and Ritzmann in 2018. The increasing intracranial pressure in weightlessness changes the properties of the cell membrane of neurons and leads to a depolarisation of the resting membrane potential. The findings underscore the individuality of physiological changes in response to gravity alterations, signalling the need for further investigations in future studies.
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- Constance Badalì
- Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, Department of Exercise Neuroscience, German Sport University Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, Cologne, D-50933, Germany.
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- Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, Department of Exercise Neuroscience, German Sport University Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, Cologne, D-50933, Germany
- Centre for Health and Integrative Physiology in Space (CHIPS), German Sport University, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, Department of Exercise Neuroscience, German Sport University Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, Cologne, D-50933, Germany
- Centre for Health and Integrative Physiology in Space (CHIPS), German Sport University, Cologne, Germany
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Kim Y, Lee JH, Park JC, Kwon J, Kim H, Seo J, Min BK. Neuromodulation of inhibitory control using phase-lagged transcranial alternating current stimulation. J Neuroeng Rehabil 2024; 21:93. [PMID: 38816860 PMCID: PMC11138099 DOI: 10.1186/s12984-024-01385-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a prominent non-invasive brain stimulation method for modulating neural oscillations and enhancing human cognitive function. This study aimed to investigate the effects of individualized theta tACS delivered in-phase and out-of-phase between the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC) during inhibitory control performance. METHODS The participants engaged in a Stroop task with phase-lagged theta tACS over individually optimized high-density electrode montages targeting the dACC and lDLPFC. We analyzed task performance, event-related potentials, and prestimulus electroencephalographic theta and alpha power. RESULTS We observed significantly reduced reaction times following out-of-phase tACS, accompanied by reduced frontocentral N1 and N2 amplitudes, enhanced parieto-occipital P1 amplitudes, and pronounced frontocentral late sustained potentials. Out-of-phase stimulation also resulted in significantly higher prestimulus frontocentral theta and alpha activity. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that out-of-phase theta tACS potently modulates top-down inhibitory control, supporting the feasibility of phase-lagged tACS to enhance inhibitory control performance.
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- Yukyung Kim
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea
- BK21 Four Institute of Precision Public Health, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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- Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Korea
- Institute of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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- BK21 Four Institute of Precision Public Health, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea
- Institute of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea.
- BK21 Four Institute of Precision Public Health, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea.
- Institute of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea.
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Nagaraj NK. Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in the Aging Population: Emerging Perspectives in Audiology. Audiol Res 2024; 14:479-492. [PMID: 38920961 PMCID: PMC11200945 DOI: 10.3390/audiolres14030040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2024] [Revised: 05/16/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024] Open
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In this perspective article, the author explores the connections between hearing loss, central auditory processing, and cognitive decline, offering insights into the complex dynamics at play. Drawing upon a range of studies, the relationship between age-related central auditory processing disorders and Alzheimer's disease is discussed, with the aim of enhancing our understanding of these interconnected conditions. Highlighting the evolving significance of audiologists in the dual management of cognitive health and hearing impairments, the author focuses on their role in identifying early signs of cognitive impairment and evaluates various cognitive screening tools used in this context. The discussion extends to adaptations of hearing assessments for older adults, especially those diagnosed with dementia, and highlights the significance of objective auditory electrophysiological tests. These tests are presented as vital in assessing the influence of aging and Alzheimer's disease on auditory processing capabilities and to signal cognitive dysfunction. The article underscores the critical role of audiologists in addressing the challenges faced by the aging population. The perspective calls for further research to improve diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in audiology, and emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary approach in tackling the nexus of hearing loss, auditory processing, and cognitive decline.
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- Naveen K Nagaraj
- Cognitive Hearing Science Lab, Communicative Disorders & Deaf Education, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
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Randau M, Reinholt N, Pernet C, Oranje B, Rasmussen BS, Arnfred S. Robust single-trial event-related potentials differentiate between distress and fear disorders. Psychophysiology 2024; 61:e14500. [PMID: 38073133 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Revised: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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Recent evidence indicates that measures of brain functioning as indexed by event-related potentials (ERPs) on the electroencephalogram align more closely to transdiagnostic measures of psychopathology than to categorical taxonomies. The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a transdiagnostic, dimensional framework aiming to solve issues of comorbidity, symptom heterogeneity, and arbitrary diagnostic boundaries. Based on shared features, the emotional disorders are allocated into subfactors Distress and Fear. Evidence indicates that disorders that are close in the HiTOP hierarchy share etiology, symptom profiles, and treatment outcomes. However, further studies testing the biological underpinnings of the HiTOP are called for. In this study, we assessed differences between Distress and Fear in a range of well-studied ERP components. In total, 50 patients with emotional disorders were divided into two groups (Distress, N = 25; Fear, N = 25) according to HiTOP criteria and compared against 37 healthy comparison (HC) subjects. Addressing issues in traditional ERP preprocessing and analysis methods, we applied robust single-trial analysis as implemented in the EEGLAB toolbox LIMO EEG. Several ERP components were found to differ between the groups. Surprisingly, we found no difference between Fear and HC for any of the ERPs. This suggests that some well-established results from the literature, e.g., increased error-related negativity in OCD, are not a shared neurobiological correlate of the Fear subfactor. Conversely, for Distress, we found reductions compared to Fear and HC in several ERP components across paradigms. Future studies could utilize HiTOP-validated psychopathology measures to more precisely define subfactor groups.
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- Martin Randau
- Research Unit for Psychotherapy & Psychopathology, Mental Health Service West, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Psychiatric Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Neurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS), Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Psychiatric Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Research Unit for Psychotherapy & Psychopathology, Mental Health Service West, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Psychiatric Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Slagelse, Denmark
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Ghosh P, Talwar S, Banerjee A. Unsupervised Characterization of Prediction Error Markers in Unisensory and Multisensory Streams Reveal the Spatiotemporal Hierarchy of Cortical Information Processing. eNeuro 2024; 11:ENEURO.0251-23.2024. [PMID: 38702194 PMCID: PMC11069433 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0251-23.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024] Open
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Elicited upon violation of regularity in stimulus presentation, mismatch negativity (MMN) reflects the brain's ability to perform automatic comparisons between consecutive stimuli and provides an electrophysiological index of sensory error detection whereas P300 is associated with cognitive processes such as updating of the working memory. To date, there has been extensive research on the roles of MMN and P300 individually, because of their potential to be used as clinical markers of consciousness and attention, respectively. Here, we intend to explore with an unsupervised and rigorous source estimation approach, the underlying cortical generators of MMN and P300, in the context of prediction error propagation along the hierarchies of brain information processing in healthy human participants. The existing methods of characterizing the two ERPs involve only approximate estimations of their amplitudes and latencies based on specific sensors of interest. Our objective is twofold: first, we introduce a novel data-driven unsupervised approach to compute latencies and amplitude of ERP components accurately on an individual-subject basis and reconfirm earlier findings. Second, we demonstrate that in multisensory environments, MMN generators seem to reflect a significant overlap of "modality-specific" and "modality-independent" information processing while P300 generators mark a shift toward completely "modality-independent" processing. Advancing earlier understanding that multisensory contexts speed up early sensory processing, our study reveals that temporal facilitation extends to even the later components of prediction error processing, using EEG experiments. Such knowledge can be of value to clinical research for characterizing the key developmental stages of lifespan aging, schizophrenia, and depression.
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- Priyanka Ghosh
- Cognitive Brain Dynamics Lab, National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon 122052, India
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- Cognitive Brain Dynamics Lab, National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon 122052, India
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- Cognitive Brain Dynamics Lab, National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon 122052, India
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Jones KB, Frizzell T, Fickling S, Pawlowski G, Brodie SM, Lakhani B, Venter J, D’Arcy RCN. Brain vital sign monitoring of sleep deprivation detects situational cognitive impairment. Front Hum Neurosci 2024; 18:1358551. [PMID: 38628971 PMCID: PMC11018923 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1358551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
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Objective, rapid evaluation of cognitive function is critical for identifying situational impairment due to sleep deprivation. The present study used brain vital sign monitoring to evaluate acute changes in cognitive function for healthy adults. Thirty (30) participants were scanned using portable electroencephalography before and after either a night of regular sleep or a night of total sleep deprivation. Brain vital signs were extracted from three established event-related potential components: (1) the N100 (Auditory sensation); (2) the P300 (Basic attention); and (3) the N400 (Cognitive processing) for all time points. As predicted, the P300 amplitude was significantly reduced in the sleep deprivation group. The findings indicate that it is possible to detect situational cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation using objective, rapid brain vital sign monitoring.
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- BrainNET, Health and Technology District, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- BrainNET, Health and Technology District, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Neurology Studies, HealthTech Connex, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- BrainNET, Health and Technology District, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Neurology Studies, HealthTech Connex, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Neurology Studies, HealthTech Connex, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Neurology Studies, HealthTech Connex, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Healthcode Ltd, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Neurology Studies, HealthTech Connex, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- BrainNET, Health and Technology District, Surrey, BC, Canada
- Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Wagner-Altendorf TA, Rein M, Skeries VM, Cirkel A, Münte TF, Heldmann M. Tracking the habituation of the event-related EEG potential in automatic change detection using an auditory two-tone oddball paradigm. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae157. [PMID: 38615240 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2024] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/15/2024] Open
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The mismatch negativity and the P3a of the event-related EEG potential reflect the electrocortical response to a deviant stimulus in a series of stimuli. Although both components have been investigated in various paradigms, these paradigms usually incorporate many repetitions of the same deviant, thus leaving open whether both components vary as a function of the deviant's position in a series of deviant stimuli-i.e. whether they are subject to qualitative/quantitative habituation from one instantiation of a deviant to the next. This is so because the detection of mismatch negativity/P3a in the event-related EEG potential requires an averaging over dozens or hundreds of stimuli, i.e. over many instantiations of the deviant per participant. The present study addresses this research gap. We used a two-tone oddball paradigm implementing only a small number of (deviant) stimuli per participant, but applying it to a large number of participants (n > 230). Our data show that the mismatch negativity amplitude exhibits no decrease as a function of the deviant's position in a series of (standard and) deviant stimuli. Importantly, only after the very first deviant stimulus, a distinct P3a could be detected, indicative of an orienting reaction and an attention shift, and thus documenting a dissociation of mismatch negativity and P3a.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
- Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
- Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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Chen YY, Fang WN, Bao HF, Guo BY. The Effect of Task Interruption on Working Memory Performance. HUMAN FACTORS 2024; 66:1132-1151. [PMID: 36451347 DOI: 10.1177/00187208221139017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study used electroencephalography to explore the behavioral and electrophysiological effects of task interruption on performance. BACKGROUND Task interruption is known to harm work performance, especially on working memory-related tasks. However, most studies pay little attention to cognitive processes by exploring brain activity and ignore the cumulative effect of sequential interruptions. METHOD Thirty-four healthy participants performed a spatial 2-back in three conditions: (1) interruptions with simple math questions, (2) suspensions with prolonged fixation cross, and (3) a pure 2-back. The measured outcomes comprise performance data, ERP amplitudes, EEG power, and subjective workload. RESULTS Work performance decreased in the resumption trials, and cumulative interruptions had a more destructive effect on performance. EEG results showed that the P2 and P3 amplitudes induced by the 2-back task significantly increased after interruptions; theta and alpha power increased after interruptions. The P3 amplitude and alpha power induced by interruptions were significantly higher than that induced by suspensions. CONCLUSION Behavioral data revealed the disruptive effect of interruptions on postinterruption performance and the cumulative effect of interruptions on accuracy. Changes in ERP amplitudes and EEG power indicate the mechanisms of attention reallocation and working memory during interruptions. Larger P3 amplitudes and alpha power after interruptions than after suspensions suggested the inhibition of irrelevant information. These results may support the memory for goals model and improve the understanding of the effects of interruption on working memory. APPLICATION Focusing upon the mechanisms at play during the interruption process can support interruption management to ensure work safety and efficiency.
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- Yue-Yuan Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
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Song L, Zhang G, Wang X, Ma L, Silvennoinen J, Cong F. Does artistic training affect color perception? A study of ERPs and EROs in experiencing colors of different brightness. Biol Psychol 2024; 188:108787. [PMID: 38552832 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Revised: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/24/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Color is a visual cue that can convey emotions and attract attention, and there is no doubt that brightness is an important element of color differentiation. To examine the impact of art training on color perception, 44 participants were assigned to two groups-one for those with and one for those without art training-in an EEG experiment. While the participants had their electroencephalographic data recorded, they scored their emotional responses to color stimuli of different brightness levels based on the Munsell color system. The behavioral results revealed that in both groups, high-brightness colors were rated more positively than low-brightness colors. Furthermore, event-related potential results for the artist group showed that high-brightness colors enhanced P2 and P3 amplitudes. Moreover, non-artists had longer N2 latency than artists, and there was a significant Group × Brightness interaction separately for the N2 and P3 components. Simple effect analysis showed that N2 and P3 amplitudes were substantially higher for high-brightness stimuli than for lower-brightness stimuli in the artistic group, but this was not the case in the non-artist group. Additionally, evoked event-related oscillation results showed that in both groups, high-brightness stimuli also elicited large delta, theta, and alpha as well as low gamma responses. These results indicate that high-brightness color stimuli elicit more positive emotions and stronger neurological reactions and that artistic training may have a positive effect on top-down visual perception.
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- Liting Song
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning Province, China; Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
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- Center for Mind and Brain, University of California-Davis, Davis 95618, CA, USA.
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning Province, China
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- Department of Industrial Design, School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116014, Liaoning Province, China
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- Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning Province, China; Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland; School of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116014, Liaoning Province, China; Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuit and Biomedical Electronic System, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning Province, China
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Knežević M. Differences in the Efficiency of Cognitive Control across Young Adulthood: An ERP Perspective. Brain Sci 2024; 14:347. [PMID: 38671999 PMCID: PMC11047994 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14040347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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Young adulthood is a period of major life changes when everyday life becomes much more complex compared to adolescence. Such changes require highly efficient cognitive control. Developmental studies show that structural changes in the brain areas that support complex behavior continue into the early 20s. However, despite the fact that at the beginning of young adulthood, important behavioral and brain restructuring still occurs, most studies use broad age ranges for young adults (from 18 to 40 years of age) as a reference point for "adult" behavior. The aim of this study was to investigate age-related differences in the efficiency of cognitive control across young adulthood. In total, 107 individuals participated in this study and were divided into three age groups: 19-21, 23-26, and 28-44. We used a visual word categorization task to assess cognitive efficiency and event-related potentials (ERPs) to track events that take place from the stimulus onset until the actual behavioral response. We found age differences in both performance and amplitudes of the ERP components during the early stages of processing - P2 and N2. Our findings provide important evidence for the continuation of age-related changes in brain dynamics that underlie the efficiency of cognitive control even in the early 20s.
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- Martina Knežević
- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Ilica 242, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Grammatikopoulou M, Lazarou I, Alepopoulos V, Mpaltadoros L, Oikonomou VP, Stavropoulos TG, Nikolopoulos S, Kompatsiaris I, Tsolaki M. Assessing the cognitive decline of people in the spectrum of AD by monitoring their activities of daily living in an IoT-enabled smart home environment: a cross-sectional pilot study. Front Aging Neurosci 2024; 16:1375131. [PMID: 38605862 PMCID: PMC11007144 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1375131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024] Open
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Introduction Assessing functional decline related to activities of daily living (ADLs) is deemed significant for the early diagnosis of dementia. As current assessment methods for ADLs often lack the ability to capture subtle changes, technology-based approaches are perceived as advantageous. Specifically, digital biomarkers are emerging, offering a promising avenue for research, as they allow unobtrusive and objective monitoring. Methods A study was conducted with the involvement of 36 participants assigned to three known groups (Healthy Controls, participants with Subjective Cognitive Decline and participants with Mild Cognitive Impairment). Participants visited the CERTH-IT Smart Home, an environment that simulates a fully functional residence, and were asked to follow a protocol describing different ADL Tasks (namely Task 1 - Meal, Task 2 - Beverage and Task 3 - Snack Preparation). By utilizing data from fixed in-home sensors installed in the Smart Home, the identification of the performed Tasks and their derived features was explored through the developed CARL platform. Furthermore, differences between groups were investigated. Finally, overall feasibility and study satisfaction were evaluated. Results The composition of the ADLs was attainable, and differentiation among the HC group compared to the SCD and the MCI groups considering the feature "Activity Duration" in Task 1 - Meal Preparation was possible, while no difference could be noted between the SCD and the MCI groups. Discussion This ecologically valid study was determined as feasible, with participants expressing positive feedback. The findings additionally reinforce the interest and need to include people in preclinical stages of dementia in research to further evolve and develop clinically relevant digital biomarkers.
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- Margarita Grammatikopoulou
- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 1st Department of Neurology, G.H. “AHEPA”, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece
- Greek Association of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders (GAADRD), Thessaloniki, Greece
- Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation (CIRI - AUTh), Balkan Center, Buildings A & B, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Etemadpour R, Shintree S, Shereen AD. Brain Activity is Influenced by How High Dimensional Data are Represented: An EEG Study of Scatterplot Diagnostic (Scagnostics) Measures. JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS RESEARCH 2024; 8:19-49. [PMID: 38273981 PMCID: PMC10805893 DOI: 10.1007/s41666-023-00145-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Visualization and visual analytic tools amplify one's perception of data, facilitating deeper and faster insights that can improve decision making. For multidimensional data sets, one of the most common approaches of visualization methods is to map the data into lower dimensions. Scatterplot matrices (SPLOM) are often used to visualize bivariate relationships between combinations of variables in a multidimensional dataset. However, the number of scatterplots increases quadratically with respect to the number of variables. For high dimensional data, the corresponding enormous number of scatterplots makes data exploration overwhelmingly complex, thereby hindering the usefulness of SPLOM in human decision making processes. One approach to address this difficulty utilizes Graph-theoretic Scatterplot Diagnostic (Scagnostics) to automatically extract a subset of scatterplots with salient features and of manageable size with the hope that the data will be sufficient for improving human decisions. In this paper, we use Electroencephalogram (EEG) to observe brain activity while participants make decisions informed by scatterplots created using different visual measures. We focused on 4 categories of Scagnostics measures: Clumpy, Monotonic, Striated, and Stringy. Our findings demonstrate that by adjusting the level of difficulty in discriminating between data sets based on the Scagnostics measures, different parts of the brain are activated: easier visual discrimination choices involve brain activity mostly in visual sensory cortices located in the occipital lobe, while more difficult discrimination choices tend to recruit more parietal and frontal regions as they are known to be involved in resolving ambiguities. Our results imply that patterns of neural activity are predictive markers of which specific Scagnostics measures most assist human decision making based on visual stimuli such as ours.
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- Ronak Etemadpour
- Verus Research, 6100 Uptown Blvd NE, Suite 260, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 USA
- Radiology Department, UNM Health Sciences Center (UNM), Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
- The City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031 USA
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- The City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031 USA
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- CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Neuroscience Initiative, Graduate Center, New York, NY USA
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Che J, Cheng N, Jiang B, Liu Y, Liu H, Li Y, Liu H. Executive function measures of participants with mild cognitive impairment: Systematic review and meta-analysis of event-related potential studies. Int J Psychophysiol 2024; 197:112295. [PMID: 38266685 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.112295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Objective measurements of executive functions using event-related potential (ERP) may be used as markers for differentiating healthy controls (HC) from patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). ERP is non-invasive, cost-effective, and affordable. Older adults with MCI demonstrate deteriorated executive function, serving as a potentially valid neurophysiological marker for identifying MCI. We aimed to review published ERP studies on executive function in older adults with MCI and summarize the performance differences by component between healthy older adults and older adults with MCI. METHODS Eight electronic databases (Web of Science, PubMed, ScienceDirect, American Psychological Association PsycNet, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Embase, and Ovid) were searched for the study. Articles published from January 1 to December 31, 2022, were considered for this review. A random-effects meta-analysis and between-study heterogeneity analysis were conducted using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis V3.0 software. RESULTS We identified 7829 articles of which 28 met the full inclusion criteria and were included in the systematic review and analyses. Our pooled analysis suggested that participants with MCI can be differentiated from HC by significant P200, P300, and N200 latencies. The P100 and P300 amplitudes were significantly smaller in participants with MCI when compared with those in the HCs, and the patients with MCI showed increased N200 amplitudes. Our findings provide new insights into potential electrophysiological biomarkers for diagnosing MCI.
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- Jiajun Che
- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China; Natural University of Malaysia, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Centre for Psychology and Human Welfare, Bangui, Malaysia
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China; Hebei Key Laboratory of Nerve Injury and Repair, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China.
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Shin JE, Lee YS, Park SY, Jeong MY, Choi JK, Cha JH, Lee YJ. The Relationship between Depression Severity and Prefrontal Hemodynamic Changes in Adolescents with Major Depression Disorder: A Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study. CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE : THE OFFICIAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN COLLEGE OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 2024; 22:118-128. [PMID: 38247418 PMCID: PMC10811388 DOI: 10.9758/cpn.23.1073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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Objective : Numerous studies have identified hemodynamic changes in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) by using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). However, studies on adolescents with MDD are limited. As adolescence is a stage of rapid brain development, differences may occur depending on age. This study used fNIRS as an objective tool to investigate hemodynamic changes in the frontal lobe according to depression severity and age in adolescents with MDD. Methods : Thirty adolescents (12 aged 12-15 years and 18 aged 16-18 years) were retrospectively investigated. The Children's Depression Inventory was used as a psychiatric evaluation scale, fNIRS was used as an objective brain function evaluation tool, and the Verbal Fluency Test was performed. Results : During the Verbal Fluency Test, in the younger MDD group, oxygenated-hemoglobin concentration increased in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex region as the severity of depression increased. In the older MDD group, the oxygenated-hemoglobin concentration decreased in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex region as the severity of depression increased. Conclusion : These results suggest that fNIRS may be an objective tool for identifying age differences among adolescents with MDD. To generalize the results and verify fNIRS as a potential biomarker tool, follow-up studies with a larger sample group should be conducted.
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- Jeong Eun Shin
- Department of Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Korea
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- Sejong Special Self-Governing City Mental Health Welfare Center, Sejong, Korea
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- Sejong Special Self-Governing City Mental Health Welfare Center, Sejong, Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Ravipati Y, Pouratian N, Arnold C, Speier W. Evaluating Deep Learning Performance for P300 Neural Signal Classification. AMIA ... ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS. AMIA SYMPOSIUM 2024; 2023:1218-1225. [PMID: 38222383 PMCID: PMC10785884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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P300 event-related potential (ERP) signals are useful neurological biomarkers, and their accurate classification is important when studying the cognitive functions in patients with neurological disorders. While many studies have proposed models for classifying these signals, results have been inconsistent. As a result, a consensus has not yet been reached on the optimal model for this classification. In this study, we evaluated the performance of classic machine learning and novel deep learning methods for P300 signal classification in both within and across subject training scenarios across a dataset of 75 subjects. Although the deep learning models attained high attended event classification F1 scores, they did not outperform Stepwise Linear Discriminant Analysis (SWLDA) in the within-subject paradigm. In the across-subject paradigm, however, EEG-Inception was able to significantly outperform SWLDA. These results suggest that deep learning models may provide a general model that do not require subject-specific training and calibration in clinical settings.
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- Yashwanth Ravipati
- UCLA Computational Diagnostics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Neurosurgery, University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA
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- UCLA Computational Diagnostics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- UCLA Computational Diagnostics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Fazel S, Vahabie AH, Navi FFT, Heysieattalab S. Unraveling the social hierarchy: Exploring behavioral and neural dynamics in shaping inhibitory control. Behav Brain Res 2024; 456:114686. [PMID: 37775080 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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Inhibitory control is crucial for regulating emotions, suppressing biases, and inhibiting inappropriate responses in social interactions. Social rank, or perceived position in the hierarchy, can influence inhibitory control, with high-rank individuals requiring it to regulate dominant behavior and low-rank individuals requiring it to regulate emotional reactions or avoid submissive behaviors. Furthermore, research suggests that social status can affect the neural mechanisms underlying inhibitory control, leading to differences in abilities and strategies based on perceived rank. In this study, we investigated the effects of social rank on inhibitory control using a dot estimation task to prime social hierarchy. Subsequently, we assessed the inhibitory control of the participants using a Go/Nogo task with photos of individuals in different social ranks. The study recruited a total of 43 students (22 males and 21 females), with a mean age of 26.8 years (SD=4.08). We measured both behavioral (reaction time and response accuracy) and electrophysiological (N200 and P300 event-related potentials) responses to investigate the neural correlates of inhibitory control. Results showed that participants responded slower to lower-rank individuals but had higher accuracy when inhibiting their response to them. The N200 amplitude was greater when presented with higher ranks stimuli in Go trials, indicating greater conflict monitoring, while the P300 amplitude was significantly higher in Nogo trials compared to Go trials. These findings suggest that social rank can influence inhibitory control and highlight the importance of considering the impact of social hierarchy in social interactions.
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- Soroush Fazel
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
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- Cognitive Systems Laboratory, Control, and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Bouwer FL, Háden GP, Honing H. Probing Beat Perception with Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) in Human Adults, Newborns, and Nonhuman Primates. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2024; 1455:227-256. [PMID: 38918355 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-60183-5_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/27/2024]
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The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of how the perception of rhythmic temporal regularity such as a regular beat in music can be studied in human adults, human newborns, and nonhuman primates using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). First, we discuss different aspects of temporal structure in general, and musical rhythm in particular, and we discuss the possible mechanisms underlying the perception of regularity (e.g., a beat) in rhythm. Additionally, we highlight the importance of dissociating beat perception from the perception of other types of structure in rhythm, such as predictable sequences of temporal intervals, ordinal structure, and rhythmic grouping. In the second section of the chapter, we start with a discussion of auditory ERPs elicited by infrequent and frequent sounds: ERP responses to regularity violations, such as mismatch negativity (MMN), N2b, and P3, as well as early sensory responses to sounds, such as P1 and N1, have been shown to be instrumental in probing beat perception. Subsequently, we discuss how beat perception can be probed by comparing ERP responses to sounds in regular and irregular sequences, and by comparing ERP responses to sounds in different metrical positions in a rhythm, such as on and off the beat or on strong and weak beats. Finally, we will discuss previous research that has used the aforementioned ERPs and paradigms to study beat perception in human adults, human newborns, and nonhuman primates. In doing so, we consider the possible pitfalls and prospects of the technique, as well as future perspectives.
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- Fleur L Bouwer
- Cognitive Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Department of Psychology, Brain & Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Music Cognition group (MCG), Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kanthi A, Singh D, Manjunath NK, Nagarathna R. Changes in Electrical Activities of the Brain Associated with Cognitive Functions in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review. Clin EEG Neurosci 2024; 55:130-142. [PMID: 35343277 DOI: 10.1177/15500594221089106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Introduction: Electroencephalogram (EEG) has the potentials to decipher the neural underpinnings of cognitive processes in clinical and healthy populations. Objective: The current systematic review is intended to examine the functional brain changes underlying cognitive dysfunctions in T2DM patients. Methods: The review was conducted on studies published in the PubMed, WebofScience, Cochrane, PsycInfo database till June 2021. The keywords used were electroencephalogram, T2DM, cognitive impairment/dysfunction. We considered studies using resting-state EEG and ERP. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines were followed to compile the studies. Results: The search yielded a total of 2384 studies. Finally, 16 independent studies were included. There was a pattern of a shift in EEG power observed from higher to lower frequencies in T2DM patients, though to a lesser degree than Alzheimer's disease patients. P300 latency was increased in T2DM patients mainly over frontal, parietal, and posterior regions. P300 and N100 amplitudes were decreased in T2DM patients than in healthy controls. Conclusion: The results indicate that T2DM has consequences for cognitive functions, and it finds a place in the continuum of healthy cognition to dementia.
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- Amit Kanthi
- Department of Yoga and Life Sciences, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA), Bangalore, India
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- Department of Yoga and Life Sciences, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA), Bangalore, India
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- Department of Yoga and Life Sciences, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA), Bangalore, India
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- Arogyadhama, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA), Bangalore, India
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Mortier S, Turkeš R, De Winne J, Van Ransbeeck W, Botteldooren D, Devos P, Latré S, Leman M, Verdonck T. Classification of Targets and Distractors in an Audiovisual Attention Task Based on Electroencephalography. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:9588. [PMID: 38067961 PMCID: PMC10708631 DOI: 10.3390/s23239588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Within the broader context of improving interactions between artificial intelligence and humans, the question has arisen regarding whether auditory and rhythmic support could increase attention for visual stimuli that do not stand out clearly from an information stream. To this end, we designed an experiment inspired by pip-and-pop but more appropriate for eliciting attention and P3a-event-related potentials (ERPs). In this study, the aim was to distinguish between targets and distractors based on the subject's electroencephalography (EEG) data. We achieved this objective by employing different machine learning (ML) methods for both individual-subject (IS) and cross-subject (CS) models. Finally, we investigated which EEG channels and time points were used by the model to make its predictions using saliency maps. We were able to successfully perform the aforementioned classification task for both the IS and CS scenarios, reaching classification accuracies up to 76%. In accordance with the literature, the model primarily used the parietal-occipital electrodes between 200 ms and 300 ms after the stimulus to make its prediction. The findings from this research contribute to the development of more effective P300-based brain-computer interfaces. Furthermore, they validate the EEG data collected in our experiment.
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- Steven Mortier
- IDLab—Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp—imec, Sint-Pietersvliet 7, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium; (R.T.); (S.L.)
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- IDLab—Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp—imec, Sint-Pietersvliet 7, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium; (R.T.); (S.L.)
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- WAVES Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, 4 Technologiepark 126, Zwijnaarde, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; (J.D.W.); (W.V.R.); (D.B.); (P.D.)
- Department of Art, Music and Theater Studies, Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;
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- WAVES Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, 4 Technologiepark 126, Zwijnaarde, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; (J.D.W.); (W.V.R.); (D.B.); (P.D.)
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- WAVES Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, 4 Technologiepark 126, Zwijnaarde, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; (J.D.W.); (W.V.R.); (D.B.); (P.D.)
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- WAVES Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, 4 Technologiepark 126, Zwijnaarde, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; (J.D.W.); (W.V.R.); (D.B.); (P.D.)
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- IDLab—Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp—imec, Sint-Pietersvliet 7, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium; (R.T.); (S.L.)
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- Department of Art, Music and Theater Studies, Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Antwerp—imec, Middelheimlaan 1, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium;
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Paitel ER, Nielson KA. Cerebellar EEG source localization reveals age-related compensatory activity moderated by genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease. Psychophysiology 2023; 60:e14395. [PMID: 37493042 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Revised: 06/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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The apolipoprotein-E (APOE) ε4 allele is the greatest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), but alone it is not sufficiently predictive. Because neuropathological changes associated with AD begin decades before cognitive symptoms, neuroimaging of healthy, cognitively intact ε4 carriers (ε4+) may enable early characterization of patterns associated with risk for future decline. Research in the cerebral cortex highlights a period of compensatory recruitment in elders and ε4+, which serves to maintain cognitive functioning. Yet, AD-related changes may occur even earlier in the cerebellum. Advances in electroencephalography (EEG) source localization now allow effective modeling of cerebellar activity. Importantly, healthy aging and AD are associated with declines in both cerebellar functions and executive functioning (EF). However, it is not known whether cerebellar activity can detect pre-symptomatic AD risk. Thus, the current study analyzed cerebellar EEG source localization during an EF-dependent stop-signal task (i.e., inhibitory control) in healthy, intact older adults (Mage = 80 years; 20 ε4+, 25 ε4-). Task performance was comparable between groups. Older age predicted greater activity in left crus II and lobule VIIb during the P300 window (i.e., performance evaluation), consistent with age-related compensation. Age*ε4 moderations specifically showed that compensatory patterns were evident only in ε4-, suggesting that cerebellar compensatory resources may already be depleted in healthy ε4+ elders. Thus, the posterolateral cerebellum is sensitive to AD-related neural deficits in healthy elders. Characterization of these patterns may be essential for the earliest possible detection of AD risk, which would enable critical early intervention prior to symptom onset.
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- Elizabeth R Paitel
- Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Department of Neurology, Center for Imaging Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Wang S, Gu H, Yao Q, Yang C, Li X, Ouyang G. Task-independent auditory probes reveal changes in mental workload during simulated quadrotor UAV training. Health Inf Sci Syst 2023; 11:12. [PMID: 36910421 PMCID: PMC9992679 DOI: 10.1007/s13755-023-00213-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023] Open
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Objective The event-related potential (ERP) methods based on laboratory control scenes have been widely used to measure the level of mental workload during operational tasks. In this study, both task difficulty and test time were considered. Auditory probes (ignored task-irrelevant background sounds) were used to explore the changes in mental workload of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators during task execution and their ERP representations. Approach 51 students participated in a 10-day training and test of simulated quadrotor UAV. During the experiment, background sound was played to induce ERP according to the requirements of oddball paradigm, and the relationship between mental workload and the amplitudes of N200 and P300 in ERP was explored. Main results Our study shows that the mental workload during operational task training is multi-dimensional, and its changes are affected by bottom-up perception and top-down cognition. The N200 component of the ERP evoked by the auditory probe corresponds to the bottom-up perceptual part; while the P300 component corresponds to the top-down cognitive part, which is positively correlated with the improvement of skill level. Significance This paper describes the relationship between ERP induced by auditory probes and mental workload from the perspective of multi-resource theory and human information processing. This suggests that the auditory probe can be used to reveal the mental workload during the training of operational tasks, which not only provides a possible reference for measuring the mental workload, but also provides a possibility for identifying the development of the operator's skill level and evaluating the training effect.
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- Shaodi Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 People’s Republic of China
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Chang M, Ibaraki T, Naruse Y, Imamura Y. A study on neural changes induced by sauna bathing: Neural basis of the "totonou" state. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0294137. [PMID: 38011189 PMCID: PMC10681252 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023] Open
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Saunas are becoming increasingly popular worldwide, being an activity that promotes relaxation and health. Intense feelings of happiness have been reported shortly after enjoying a hot sauna and cold water, what is known in Japan as the "totonou" state. However, no research has investigated what occurs in the brain during the "totonou" state. In the present study, participants underwent a sauna phase, consisting of three sets of alternating hot sauna, cold water, and rest. We elucidated changes in brain activity and mood in the "totonou" state by measuring and comparing brain activity and emotional scales before and after the sauna phase and during the rest phase in each set. We found significant increases in theta and alpha power during rest and after the sauna phase compared to before the sauna phase. Moreover, in an auditory oddball task, the p300 amplitude decreased significantly and MMN amplitude increased significantly after the sauna phase. The increase in MMN indicates higher activation of the pre-attentional auditory process, leading to a decrease in attention-related brain activity P300. Hence, the brain reaches in a more efficient state. Further, the response time in behavioral tasks decreased significantly. In addition, the participants' subjective responses to the questionnaire showed significant changes in physical relaxation and other indicators after being in the sauna. Finally, we developed an artificial intelligence classifier, obtaining an average accuracy of brain state classification of 88.34%. The results have potential for future application.
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- Ming Chang
- Vie Style, Inc., Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
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Kiani MM, Heidari Beni MH, Aghajan H. Aberrations in temporal dynamics of cognitive processing induced by Parkinson's disease and Levodopa. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20195. [PMID: 37980451 PMCID: PMC10657430 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47410-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/20/2023] Open
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The motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) have been shown to significantly improve by Levodopa. However, despite the widespread adoption of Levodopa as a standard pharmaceutical drug for the treatment of PD, cognitive impairments linked to PD do not show visible improvement with Levodopa treatment. Furthermore, the neuronal and network mechanisms behind the PD-induced cognitive impairments are not clearly understood. In this work, we aim to explain these cognitive impairments, as well as the ones exacerbated by Levodopa, through examining the differential dynamic patterns of the phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) during cognitive functions. EEG data recorded in an auditory oddball task performed by a cohort consisting of controls and a group of PD patients during both on and off periods of Levodopa treatment were analyzed to derive the temporal dynamics of the PAC across the brain. We observed distinguishing patterns in the PAC dynamics, as an indicator of information binding, which can explain the slower cognitive processing associated with PD in the form of a latency in the PAC peak time. Thus, considering the high-level connections between the hippocampus, the posterior and prefrontal cortices established through the dorsal and ventral striatum acting as a modulatory system, we posit that the primary issue with cognitive impairments of PD, as well as Levodopa's cognitive deficit side effects, can be attributed to the changes in temporal dynamics of dopamine release influencing the modulatory function of the striatum.
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- Mohammad Mahdi Kiani
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
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Chan HL, Ouyang Y, Lai CC, Lin MA, Chang YJ, Chen SW, Liaw JW, Meng LF. Event-related brain potentials reveal enhancing and compensatory mechanisms during dual neurocognitive and cycling tasks. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil 2023; 15:133. [PMID: 37845733 PMCID: PMC10580529 DOI: 10.1186/s13102-023-00749-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Various neurocognitive tests have shown that cycling enhances cognitive performance compared to resting. Event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by an oddball or flanker task have clarified the impact of dual-task cycling on perception and attention. In this study, we investigate the effect of cycling on cognitive recruitment during tasks that involve not only stimulus identification but also semantic processing and memory retention. METHODS We recruited 24 healthy young adults (12 males, 12 females; mean age = 22.71, SD = 1.97 years) to perform three neurocognitive tasks (namely color-word matching, arithmetic calculation, and spatial working memory) at rest and while cycling, employing a within-subject design with rest/cycling counterbalancing. RESULTS The reaction time on the spatial working memory task was faster while cycling than at rest at a level approaching statistical significance. The commission error percentage on the color-word matching task was significantly lower at rest than while cycling. Dual-task cycling while responding to neurocognitive tests elicited the following results: (a) a greater ERP P1 amplitude, delayed P3a latency, less negative N4, and less positivity in the late slow wave (LSW) during color-word matching; (b) a greater P1 amplitude during memory encoding and smaller posterior negativity during memory retention on the spatial working memory task; and (c) a smaller P3 amplitude, followed by a more negative N4 and less LSW positivity during arithmetic calculation. CONCLUSION The encoding of color-word and spatial information while cycling may have resulted in compensatory visual processing and attention allocation to cope with the additional cycling task load. The dual-task cycling and cognitive performance reduced the demands of semantic processing for color-word matching and the cognitive load associated with temporarily suspending spatial information. While dual-tasking may have required enhanced semantic processing to initiate mental arithmetic, a compensatory decrement was noted during arithmetic calculation. These significant neurocognitive findings demonstrate the effect of cycling on semantic-demand and memory retention-demand tasks.
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- Hsiao-Lung Chan
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Neuroscience Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Computer and Software Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, Taiwan, Jiang-Su
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan
- School of Physical Therapy and Graduate Institute of Rehabilitation Science, College of Medicine, and Health Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging and Translation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan
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- Department of Occupational Therapy and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, No.259, Wenhua 1st Rd., Guishan Dist, Taoyuan, 33302, Taiwan.
- Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation, Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan.
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Shkury E, Danziger-Schragenheim S, Katzir Z, Ezra Y, Giladi N, Mirelman A, Maidan I. Differences in EEG Event-Related Potentials during Dual Task in Parkinson's Disease Carriers and Non-Carriers of the G2019S-LRRK2 Mutation. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:8266. [PMID: 37837096 PMCID: PMC10575245 DOI: 10.3390/s23198266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND The G2019S-LRRK2 gene mutation is a common cause of hereditary Parkinson's disease (PD), associated with a higher frequency of the postural instability gait difficulty (PIGD) motor phenotype yet with preserved cognition. This study investigated neurophysiological changes during motor and cognitive tasks in PD patients with and without the G2019S-LRRK2 mutation. METHODS 33 iPD patients and 22 LRRK2-PD patients performed the visual Go/NoGo task (VGNG) during sitting (single-task) and walking (dual-task) while wearing a 64-channel EEG cap. Event-related potentials (ERP) from Fz and Pz, specifically N200 and P300, were extracted and analyzed to quantify brain activity patterns. RESULTS The LRRK2-PD group performed better in the VGNG than the iPD group (group*task; p = 0.05). During Go, the iPD group showed reduced N2 amplitude and prolonged N2 latency during walking, whereas the LRRK2-PD group showed only shorter latency (group*task p = 0.027). During NoGo, opposite patterns emerged; the iPD group showed reduced N2 and increased P3 amplitudes during walking while the LRRK2-PD group demonstrated increased N2 and reduced P3 (N2: group*task, p = 0.010, P3: group*task, p = 0.012). CONCLUSIONS The LRRK2-PD group showed efficient early cognitive processes, reflected by N2, resulting in greater neural synchronization and prominent ERPs. These processes are possibly the underlying mechanisms for the observed better cognitive performance as compared to the iPD group. As such, future applications of intelligent medical sensing should be capable of capturing these electrophysiological patterns in order to enhance motor-cognitive functions.
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- Eden Shkury
- Laboratory of Early Markers of Neurodegeneration, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 6423906, Israel; (E.S.); (S.D.-S.); (Z.K.); (Y.E.); (N.G.); (A.M.)
- School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Laboratory of Early Markers of Neurodegeneration, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 6423906, Israel; (E.S.); (S.D.-S.); (Z.K.); (Y.E.); (N.G.); (A.M.)
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Laboratory of Early Markers of Neurodegeneration, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 6423906, Israel; (E.S.); (S.D.-S.); (Z.K.); (Y.E.); (N.G.); (A.M.)
- School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Laboratory of Early Markers of Neurodegeneration, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 6423906, Israel; (E.S.); (S.D.-S.); (Z.K.); (Y.E.); (N.G.); (A.M.)
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Laboratory of Early Markers of Neurodegeneration, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 6423906, Israel; (E.S.); (S.D.-S.); (Z.K.); (Y.E.); (N.G.); (A.M.)
- School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Laboratory of Early Markers of Neurodegeneration, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 6423906, Israel; (E.S.); (S.D.-S.); (Z.K.); (Y.E.); (N.G.); (A.M.)
- School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Laboratory of Early Markers of Neurodegeneration, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv 6423906, Israel; (E.S.); (S.D.-S.); (Z.K.); (Y.E.); (N.G.); (A.M.)
- School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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Badalì C, Wollseiffen P, Schneider S. Under pressure-the influence of hypergravity on electrocortical activity and neurocognitive performance. Exp Brain Res 2023; 241:2249-2259. [PMID: 37542004 PMCID: PMC10471660 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06677-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023]
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The effects of hypergravity and the associated increased pressure on the human body have not yet been studied in detail, but are of great importance for the safety of astronauts on space missions and could have a long-term impact on rehabilitation strategies for neurological patients. Considering the plans of international space agencies with the exploration of Mars and Moon, it is important to explore the effects of both extremes, weightlessness and hypergravity. During parabolic flights, a flight manoeuvre that artificially creates weightlessness and hypergravity, electrocortical activity as well as behavioural parameters (error rate and reaction time) and neuronal parameters (event-related potentials P300 and N200) were examined with an electroencephalogram. Thirteen participants solved a neurocognitive task (mental arithmetic task as a primary task and oddball paradigm as a secondary task) within normal as well as hypergravity condition in fifteen consecutive parabolas for 22 s each. No changes between the different gravity levels could be observed for the behavioural parameters and cortical current density. A significantly lower P300 amplitude was observed in 1 G, triggered by the primary task and the target sound of the oddball paradigm. The N200, provoked by the sounds of the oddball paradigm, revealed a higher amplitude in 1.8 G. A model established by Kohn et al. (2018) describing changes in neural communication with decreasing gravity can be used here as an explanatory approach. The fluid shift increases the intracranial pressure, decreases membrane viscosity and influences the open state probability of ion channels. This leads to an increase in the resting membrane potential, and the threshold for triggering an action potential can be reached more easily. The question now arises whether the observed changes are linear or whether they depend on a specific threshold.
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- Constance Badalì
- Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, 50933, Cologne, Germany.
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- Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, 50933, Cologne, Germany
- Centre for Health and Integrative Physiology in Space (CHIPS), German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, 50933, Cologne, Germany
- Centre for Health and Integrative Physiology in Space (CHIPS), German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Kovács P, Szalárdy O, Winkler I, Tóth B. Two effects of perceived speaker similarity in resolving the cocktail party situation - ERPs and functional connectivity. Biol Psychol 2023; 182:108651. [PMID: 37517603 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 07/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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Following a speaker in multi-talker environments requires the listener to separate the speakers' voices and continuously focus attention on one speech stream. While the dissimilarity of voices may make speaker separation easier, it may also affect maintaining the focus of attention. To assess these effects, electrophysiological (EEG) and behavioral data were collected from healthy young adults while they listened to two concurrent speech streams performing an online lexical detection task and an offline recognition memory task. Perceptual speaker similarity was manipulated on four levels: identical, similar, dissimilar, and opposite-gender speakers. Behavioral and electrophysiological data suggested that, while speaker similarity hinders auditory stream segregation, dissimilarity hinders maintaining the focus of attention by making the to-be-ignored speech stream more distracting. Thus, resolving the cocktail party situation poses different problems at different levels of perceived speaker similarity, resulting in different listening strategies.
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- Petra Kovács
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- 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.
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Tanaka Y, Ito Y, Terasawa Y, Umeda S. Modulation of heartbeat-evoked potential and cardiac cycle effect by auditory stimuli. Biol Psychol 2023; 182:108637. [PMID: 37490801 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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Interoception has been proposed as a factor that influences various psychological processes (Khalsa et al., 2018). Afferent signals from the cardiovascular system vary across cardiac cycle phases. Heartbeat-evoked potentials (HEP) and event-related potentials (ERP) were measured to examine whether interoceptive signals differed between cardiac cycle phases. Simultaneously, participants performed an auditory oddball task in which the timing of the presenting stimulus was synchronized with the heartbeat. Pure tones were presented at 10 ms (late diastole condition), 200 ms (systole condition), or 500 ms after the R wave (diastole condition). Greater HEP amplitudes were observed when the tone was presented during diastole than during systole or late diastole. ERP showed the same tendency: a greater amplitude was observed during diastole than systole or late diastole. These results suggest that the processing of interoception reflected by HEP and exteroception reflected by ERP share attentional resources when both stimuli coincide. When the tone was presented during systole, attention to the internal state decreased compared with when the tone was presented during diastole, and attention was distributed to both exteroception and interoception. Our study suggests that HEP may be considered an indication of a relative amount of resources to process the interoception.
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- Yuto Tanaka
- Global Research Institute, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan.
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University, 1-155 Uegahara Ichibancho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 662-8501, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan
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Hsu YF, Tu CA, Bekinschtein TA, Hämäläinen JA. Longitudinal Evidence for Attenuated Local-Global Deviance Detection as a Precursor of Working Memory Decline. eNeuro 2023; 10:ENEURO.0156-23.2023. [PMID: 37500495 PMCID: PMC10431235 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0156-23.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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From the perspective of predictive coding, normal aging is accompanied by decreased weighting of sensory inputs and increased reliance on predictions, resulting in the attenuation of prediction errors in older age. Recent electroencephalography (EEG) research further revealed that the age-related shift from sensorium to predictions is hierarchy-selective, as older brains show little reduction in lower-level but significant suppression in higher-level prediction errors. Moreover, the disrupted propagation of prediction errors from the lower-level to the higher-level seems to be linked to deficient maintenance of information in working memory. However, it is unclear whether the hierarchical predictive processing continues to decline with advancing age as working memory. Here, we longitudinally followed a sample of 78 participants from three age groups (including seniors, adults, and adolescents) over three years' time. Seniors exhibited largely preserved local processing [consisting of comparable mismatch negativity (MMN), delayed P3a, and comparable reorienting negativity (RON)] but significantly compromised global processing (consisting of suppressed frontocentral negativity and suppressed P3b) in the auditory local-global paradigm. These electrophysiological responses did not change with the passing of time, unlike working memory which deteriorated with advancing age. Correlation analysis further showed that these electrophysiological responses signaling prediction errors are indicative of concurrent working memory. Moreover, there was a correlation between earlier predictive processing and later working memory but not between earlier working memory and later predictive processing. The temporal asymmetry suggested that the hierarchy-selective attenuation of prediction errors is likely a precursor of working memory decline.
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- Yi-Fang Hsu
- Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106308, Taiwan
- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106308, Taiwan
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- Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106308, Taiwan
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- Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
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Stolz LA, Liu S, Asamoa E, Appelbaum LG. Neurobehavioral measures of coincidence anticipation timing. J Vis 2023; 23:16. [PMID: 37610734 PMCID: PMC10461693 DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.8.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/24/2023] Open
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Coincidence anticipation (CA) refers to the ability to coordinate responses to the arrival of a moving object. This study investigates the neurobehavioral processes that underlie CA through the measurement of electroencephalography (EEG) recorded during a CA task on a 17-foot plastic rail with evenly spaced LED lights. Participants responded at the anticipated moment a sequence of successively lit LEDs coincided with a stationary target. Healthy young adult participants (Mage = 21) performed six blocks with movement at 20, 30, or 40 mph and the direction either inbound or outbound relative to the participant. Behavioral results demonstrated a main effect of speed and an interaction between speed and direction, with outbound motion producing early responses and inbound motion producing delayed responses that increased at greater speeds. EEG demonstrated characteristic P1, N2, and P3-like visual evoked potentials (VEPs). VEP amplitudes revealed a significant direction by channel interaction for the P1, indicative of more medial responses for inbound motion. Significant laterality differences were present in the N2, whereas the P3 component produced significant main effects and interactions of speed and direction. This novel combination of three-dimensional CA with EEG demonstrates systematic brain responses that are tuned for motion speed and sensitive to different egocentric motion patterns thereby shedding new light on the mechanism of human visual-motor control.
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- Louise A Stolz
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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Ehrlich SK, Dean-Leon E, Tacca N, Armleder S, Dimova-Edeleva V, Cheng G. Human-robot collaborative task planning using anticipatory brain responses. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0287958. [PMID: 37432954 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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Human-robot interaction (HRI) describes scenarios in which both human and robot work as partners, sharing the same environment or complementing each other on a joint task. HRI is characterized by the need for high adaptability and flexibility of robotic systems toward their human interaction partners. One of the major challenges in HRI is task planning with dynamic subtask assignment, which is particularly challenging when subtask choices of the human are not readily accessible by the robot. In the present work, we explore the feasibility of using electroencephalogram (EEG) based neuro-cognitive measures for online robot learning of dynamic subtask assignment. To this end, we demonstrate in an experimental human subject study, featuring a joint HRI task with a UR10 robotic manipulator, the presence of EEG measures indicative of a human partner anticipating a takeover situation from human to robot or vice-versa. The present work further proposes a reinforcement learning based algorithm employing these measures as a neuronal feedback signal from the human to the robot for dynamic learning of subtask-assignment. The efficacy of this algorithm is validated in a simulation-based study. The simulation results reveal that even with relatively low decoding accuracies, successful robot learning of subtask-assignment is feasible, with around 80% choice accuracy among four subtasks within 17 minutes of collaboration. The simulation results further reveal that scalability to more subtasks is feasible and mainly accompanied with longer robot learning times. These findings demonstrate the usability of EEG-based neuro-cognitive measures to mediate the complex and largely unsolved problem of human-robot collaborative task planning.
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- Stefan K Ehrlich
- Chair for Cognitive Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Automation, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH, United States of America
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- Chair for Cognitive Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- MIRMI - Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, formerly MSRM, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Chair for Cognitive Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Center of Competence NeuroEngineering, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany
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