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Romeo Z, Dolfi S, D'Amelio M, Mioni G. Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson's disease. Eur J Ageing 2024; 21:14. [PMID: 38656628 PMCID: PMC11043296 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00807-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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People constantly process temporal, numerical, and length information in everyday activities and interactions with the environment. However, it is unclear whether quantity perception changes during ageing. Previous studies have provided heterogeneous results, sometimes showing an age-related effect on a particular quantity, and other times reporting no differences between young and elderly samples. However, three dimensions were never compared within the same study. Here, we conducted two experiments with the aim of investigating the processing of duration, numerosity and length in both healthy and pathological ageing. The experimental paradigm consisted of three bisection tasks in which participants were asked to judge whether the presented stimulus (i.e. a time interval, a group of dots, or a line) was more similar to the short/few or long/many standards. The first study recruited healthy young and elderly participants, while the second recruited healthy elderly participants and patients with Parkinson's disease, a clinical condition commonly associated with temporal impairments. The results of both experiments showed that discrimination precision differed between domains in all groups, with higher precision in the numerosity task and lower sensitivity in judging duration. Furthermore, while discrimination abilities were affected in healthy elderly and, even more so, in Parkinson's disease group, no domain-specific impairments emerged. According to our research, reduced discrimination precision might be explained by an alteration of a single system for all quantities or by an age-related general cognitive decline.
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- Z Romeo
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy.
- Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council (CNR), Padua, Italy.
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- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy.
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Honma M, Terao Y. Modulation of time in Parkinson's disease: a review and perspective on cognitive rehabilitation. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1379496. [PMID: 38686125 PMCID: PMC11056500 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1379496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024] Open
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Time cognition is an essential function of human life, and the impairment affects a variety of behavioral patterns. Neuropsychological approaches have been widely demonstrated that Parkinson's disease (PD) impairs time cognitive processing. Many researchers believe that time cognitive deficits are due to the basal ganglia, including the striatum or subthalamic nucleus, which is the pathomechanism of PD, and are considered to produce only transient recovery due to medication effects. In this perspective, we focus on a compensatory property of brain function based on the improved time cognition independent of basal ganglia recovery and an overlapping structure on the neural network based on an improved inhibitory system by time cognitive training, in patients with PD. This perspective may lead to restoring multiple functions through single function training.
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- Motoyasu Honma
- Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Medical Physiology, Kyorin University of School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Guo Y, Gan J, Wang Z, Li Y. The promotional effect of prosocial motivation on time-based prospective memory. Psych J 2024. [PMID: 38450581 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Time-based prospective memory (TBPM) is the ability to remember to do a planned task at the right time. In social interactions, people are often motivated to do things for others, which reflects an important factor that influences prospective memory, namely prosocial motivation. According to the motivational cognitive model, prosocial motivation promotes TBPM by paying more attention or adopting more effective strategies. This study explored the effect of prosocial motivation on TBPM under different time-monitoring conditions within the motivational cognitive model framework. One hundred and thirty-one university students participated in this experiment that adopted a 2 (groups: control, prosocial motivation) × 2 (viewing time conditions: limited, unlimited) between-subjects design. The results revealed that the prosocial motivation group had better TBPM performance than the control group under both limited and unlimited viewing time conditions. At the same time, compared with the control group, the prosocial motivation group consumed more internal attention and utilized more strategies under both viewing time conditions, and their external attention was more effective. In addition, the external attention of the prosocial motivation group was higher only when time-monitoring was unlimited. The results of this study further extend knowledge of the motivational cognitive model and expand its scope of application, which has theoretical significance.
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- Yunfei Guo
- Faculty of Education, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- Faculty of Education, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- Faculty of Education, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- Faculty of Education, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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Heldmann M, Rinckens C, Brüggemann N, Al-Khaled M, Münte TF. Creative thinking and cognitive estimation in Parkinson's disease. Neurol Res Pract 2024; 6:9. [PMID: 38355739 PMCID: PMC10868033 DOI: 10.1186/s42466-023-00304-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been reported to exhibit unusual bouts of creativity (e.g., painting, writing), in particular in the context of treatment with dopaminergic agents. Here we investigated divergent and convergent thinking thought to underlie creativity. In addition we assessed cognitive estimation. METHOD Twenty PD patients and 20 matched healthy control participants were subjected to the Guilford Alternate Uses task (divergent thinking), the remote associates task (convergent thinking) and two tests of cognitive estimation. RESULTS No group differences were found for the convergent thinking task, while the Guilford Alternate Uses task revealed a decreased number of correct responses and a reduced originality for PD patients. Originality in PD was correlated to total daily dose of dopaminergic medication. Moreover, both tasks of cognitive estimation showed an impairment in PD. CONCLUSION Only minor effects were found for psychometric indices of subprocesses of creative thinking, while estimation, relying on executive functioning, is impaired in PD. We suggest to take a product oriented view of creativity in further research on altered creative processes in PD.
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- Marcus Heldmann
- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany
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- Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany.
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Jovanovic L, Chassignolle M, Schmidt-Mutter C, Behr G, Coull JT, Giersch A. Dopamine precursor depletion affects performance and confidence judgements when events are timed from an explicit, but not an implicit onset. Sci Rep 2023; 13:21933. [PMID: 38081860 PMCID: PMC10713647 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47843-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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Dopamine affects processing of temporal information, but most previous work has tested its role in prospective tasks, where participants know in advance when the event to be timed starts. However, we are often exposed to events whose onset we do not know in advance. We can evaluate their duration after they have elapsed, but mechanisms underlying this ability are still elusive. Here we contrasted effects of acute phenylalanine and tyrosine depletion (APTD) on both forms of timing in healthy volunteers, in a within-subject, placebo-controlled design. Participants were presented with a disc moving around a circular path and asked to reproduce the duration of one full revolution and to judge their confidence in performance. The onset of the revolution was either known in advance (explicit onset) or revealed only at the end of the trial (implicit onset). We found that APTD shortened reproduced durations in the explicit onset task but had no effect on temporal performance in the implicit onset task. This dissociation is corroborated by effects of APTD on confidence judgements in the explicit task only. Our findings suggest that dopamine has a specific role in prospective encoding of temporal intervals, rather than the processing of temporal information in general.
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- Ljubica Jovanovic
- Inserm 1114, Centre for Psychiatry, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France.
- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, École Normale Supérieure, PSL University & CNRS, Paris, France.
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- Laboratoire des Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC), Aix-Marseille University & CNRS, Marseille, France
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- Inserm 1114, Centre for Psychiatry, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire des Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC), Aix-Marseille University & CNRS, Marseille, France
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- Inserm 1114, Centre for Psychiatry, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France.
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Hinault T, D'Argembeau A, Bowler DM, La Corte V, Desaunay P, Provasi J, Platel H, Tran The J, Charretier L, Giersch A, Droit-Volet S. Time processing in neurological and psychiatric conditions. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023; 154:105430. [PMID: 37871780 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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A central question in understanding cognition and pathology-related cognitive changes is how we process time. However, time processing difficulties across several neurological and psychiatric conditions remain seldom investigated. The aim of this review is to develop a unifying taxonomy of time processing, and a neuropsychological perspective on temporal difficulties. Four main temporal judgments are discussed: duration processing, simultaneity and synchrony, passage of time, and mental time travel. We present an integrated theoretical framework of timing difficulties across psychiatric and neurological conditions based on selected patient populations. This framework provides new mechanistic insights on both (a) the processes involved in each temporal judgement, and (b) temporal difficulties across pathologies. By identifying underlying transdiagnostic time-processing mechanisms, this framework opens fruitful avenues for future research.
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- Thomas Hinault
- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France.
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- Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, F.R.S-FNRS, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Autism Research Group, City, University of London, EC1V 0HB London, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire Mémoire, Cerveau et Cognition (MC2Lab), UR 7536, Université de Paris cité, 92774 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France; Service de Psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, CHU de Caen, 14000 Caen, France
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- CHArt laboratory (Human and Artificial Cognition), EPHE-PSL, 75014 Paris, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, Neuropsychologie et Imagerie de la Mémoire Humaine, 14032 Caen, France
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- Cognitive Neuropsychology and Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia Laboratory, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, University of Strasbourg, 67081 Strasbourg, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, LAPSCO, CNRS, UMR 6024, 60032 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Honma M, Sasaki F, Kamo H, Nuermaimaiti M, Kujirai H, Atsumi T, Umemura A, Iwamuro H, Shimo Y, Oyama G, Hattori N, Terao Y. Role of the subthalamic nucleus in perceiving and estimating the passage of time. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1090052. [PMID: 36936495 PMCID: PMC10017994 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1090052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Sense of time (temporal sense) is believed to be processed by various brain regions in a complex manner, among which the basal ganglia, including the striatum and subthalamic nucleus (STN), play central roles. However, the precise mechanism for processing sense of time has not been clarified. To examine the role of the STN in temporal processing of the sense of time by directly manipulating STN function by switching a deep brain stimulation (DBS) device On/Off in 28 patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing STN-DBS therapy. The test session was performed approximately 20 min after switching the DBS device from On to Off or from Off to On. Temporal sense processing was assessed in three different tasks (time reproduction, time production, and bisection). In the three temporal cognitive tasks, switching STN-DBS to Off caused shorter durations to be produced compared with the switching to the On condition in the time production task. In contrast, no effect of STN-DBS was observed in the time bisection or time reproduction tasks. These findings suggest that the STN is involved in the representation process of time duration and that the role of the STN in the sense of time may be limited to the exteriorization of memories formed by experience.
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- Motoyasu Honma
- Department of Medical Physiology, Kyorin University of School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- *Correspondence: Motoyasu Honma,
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- Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Medical Physiology, Kyorin University of School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Medical Physiology, Kyorin University of School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Yasuo Terao,
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Degos B, Pouget P, Missal M. From anticipation to impulsivity in Parkinson's disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2022; 8:125. [PMID: 36184657 DOI: 10.1038/s41531-022-00393-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Anticipatory actions require to keep track of elapsed time and inhibitory control. These cognitive functions could be impacted in Parkinson's disease (iPD). To test this hypothesis, a saccadic reaction time task was used where a visual warning stimulus (WS) predicted the occurrence of an imperative one (IS) appearing after a short delay. In the implicit condition, subjects were not informed about the duration of the delay, disfavoring anticipatory behavior but leaving inhibitory control unaltered. In the explicit condition, delay duration was cued. This should favor anticipatory behavior and perhaps alter inhibitory control. This hypothesis was tested in controls (N = 18) and age-matched iPD patients (N = 20; ON and OFF L-DOPA). We found that the latency distribution of saccades before the IS was bimodal. The 1st mode weakly depended on temporal information and was more prominent in iPD. Saccades in this mode were premature and could result of a lack of inhibition. The 2nd mode covaried with cued duration suggesting that these movements were genuine anticipatory saccades. The explicit condition increased the probability of anticipatory saccades before the IS in controls and iPDON but not iPDOFF patients. Furthermore, in iPD patients the probability of sequences of 1st mode premature responses increased. In conclusion, the triggering of a premature saccade or the initiation of a controlled anticipatory one could be conceptualized as the output of two independent stochastic processes. Altered time perception and increased motor impulsivity could alter the balance between these two processes in favor of the latter in iPD, particularly OFF L-Dopa.
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Miyawaki EK. Review: Subjective Time Perception, Dopamine Signaling, and Parkinsonian Slowness. Front Neurol 2022; 13:927160. [PMID: 35899266 PMCID: PMC9311331 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.927160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The association between idiopathic Parkinson's disease, a paradigmatic dopamine-deficiency syndrome, and problems in the estimation of time has been studied experimentally for decades. I review that literature, which raises a question about whether and if dopamine deficiency relates not only to the motor slowness that is an objective and cardinal parkinsonian sign, but also to a compromised neural substrate for time perception. Why does a clinically (motorically) significant deficiency in dopamine play a role in the subjective perception of time's passage? After a discussion of a classical conception of basal ganglionic control of movement under the influence of dopamine, I describe recent work in healthy mice using optogenetics; the methodology visualizes dopaminergic neuronal firing in very short time intervals, then allows for correlation with motor behaviors in trained tasks. Moment-to-moment neuronal activity is both highly dynamic and variable, as assessed by photometry of genetically defined dopaminergic neurons. I use those animal data as context to review a large experimental experience in humans, spanning decades, that has examined subjective time perception mainly in Parkinson's disease, but also in other movement disorders. Although the human data are mixed in their findings, I argue that loss of dynamic variability in dopaminergic neuronal activity over very short intervals may be a fundamental sensory aspect in the pathophysiology of parkinsonism. An important implication is that therapeutic response in Parkinson's disease needs to be understood in terms of short-term alterations in dynamic neuronal firing, as has already been examined in novel ways—for example, in the study of real-time changes in neuronal network oscillations across very short time intervals. A finer analysis of a treatment's network effects might aid in any effort to augment clinical response to either medications or functional neurosurgical interventions in Parkinson's disease.
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- Edison K. Miyawaki
- Department of Neurology, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- *Correspondence: Edison K. Miyawaki
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Rösch AD, Taub E, Gschwandtner U, Fuhr P. Evaluating a Speech-Specific and a Computerized Step-Training-Specific Rhythmic Intervention in Parkinson's Disease: A Cross-Over, Multi-Arms Parallel Study. Front Rehabilit Sci 2022; 2:783259. [PMID: 36188780 PMCID: PMC9397933 DOI: 10.3389/fresc.2021.783259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Background: Recent studies suggest movements of speech and gait in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) are impaired by a common underlying rhythmic dysfunction. If this being the case, motor deficits in speech and gait should equally benefit from rhythmic interventions regardless of whether it is a speech-specific or step-training-specific approach. Objective: In this intervention trial, we studied the effects of two rhythmic interventions on speech and gait. These rhythmic intervention programs are similar in terms of intensity and frequency (i.e., 3x per week, 45 min-long sessions for 4 weeks in total), but differ regarding therapeutic approach (rhythmic speech vs. rhythmic balance-mobility training). Methods: This study is a cross-over, parallel multi-arms, single blind intervention trial, in which PD patients treated with rhythmic speech-language therapy (rSLT; N = 16), rhythmic balance-mobility training (rBMT; N = 10), or no therapy (NT; N = 18) were compared to healthy controls (HC; N = 17; matched by age, sex, and education: p > 0.82). Velocity and cadence in speech and gait were evaluated at baseline (BL), 4 weeks (4W-T1), and 6 months (6M-T2) and correlated. Results: Parameters in speech and gait (i.e., speaking and walking velocity, as well as speech rhythm with gait cadence) were positively correlated across groups (p < 0.01). Statistical analyses involved repeated measures ANOVA across groups and time, as well as independent and one-samples t-tests for within groups analyses. Statistical analyses were amplified using Reliable Change (RC) and Reliable Change Indexes (RCI) to calculate true clinically significant changes due to the treatment on a patient individual level. Rhythmic intervention groups improved across variables and time (total Mean Difference: 3.07 [SD 1.8]; 95% CI 0.2–11.36]) compared to the NT group, whose performance declined significantly at 6 months (p < 0.01). HC outperformed rBMT and NT groups across variables and time (p < 0.001); the rSLT performed similarly to HC at 4 weeks and 6 months in speech rhythm and respiration. Conclusions: Speech and gait deficits in PD may share a common mechanism in the underlying cortical circuits. Further, rSLT was more beneficial to dysrhythmic PD patients than rBMT, likely because of the nature of the rhythmic cue.
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- Anne Dorothée Rösch
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology/Neurology, Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology/Neurology, Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- *Correspondence: Ute Gschwandtner
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology/Neurology, Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Terao Y, Honma M, Asahara Y, Tokushige SI, Furubayashi T, Miyazaki T, Inomata-Terada S, Uchibori A, Miyagawa S, Ichikawa Y, Chiba A, Ugawa Y, Suzuki M. Time Distortion in Parkinsonism. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:648814. [PMID: 33815049 PMCID: PMC8017233 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.648814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Although animal studies and studies on Parkinson’s disease (PD) suggest that dopamine deficiency slows the pace of the internal clock, which is corrected by dopaminergic medication, timing deficits in parkinsonism remain to be characterized with diverse findings. Here we studied patients with PD and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), 3–4 h after drug intake, and normal age-matched subjects. We contrasted perceptual (temporal bisection, duration comparison) and motor timing tasks (time production/reproduction) in supra- and sub-second time domains, and automatic versus cognitive/short-term memory–related tasks. Subjects were allowed to count during supra-second production and reproduction tasks. In the time production task, linearly correlating the produced time with the instructed time showed that the “subjective sense” of 1 s is slightly longer in PD and shorter in PSP than in normals. This was superposed on a prominent trend of underestimation of longer (supra-second) durations, common to all groups, suggesting that the pace of the internal clock changed from fast to slow as time went by. In the time reproduction task, PD and, more prominently, PSP patients over-reproduced shorter durations and under-reproduced longer durations at extremes of the time range studied, with intermediate durations reproduced veridically, with a shallower slope of linear correlation between the presented and produced time. In the duration comparison task, PD patients overestimated the second presented duration relative to the first with shorter but not longer standard durations. In the bisection task, PD and PSP patients estimated the bisection point (BP50) between the two supra-second but not sub-second standards to be longer than normal subjects. Thus, perceptual timing tasks showed changes in opposite directions to motor timing tasks: underestimating shorter durations and overestimating longer durations. In PD, correlation of the mini-mental state examination score with supra-second BP50 and the slope of linear correlation in the reproduction task suggested involvement of short-term memory in these tasks. Dopamine deficiency didn’t correlate significantly with timing performances, suggesting that the slowed clock hypothesis cannot explain the entire results. Timing performance in PD may be determined by complex interactions among time scales on the motor and sensory sides, and by their distortion in memory.
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- Yasuo Terao
- Department of Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, The Jikei University Katsushika Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Health and Environment Science, Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kyorin University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kyorin University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, The Jikei University Katsushika Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kyorin University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kyorin University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Human Neurophysiology, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, The Jikei University Katsushika Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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Fung BJ, Sutlief E, Hussain Shuler MG. Dopamine and the interdependency of time perception and reward. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 125:380-391. [PMID: 33652021 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Time is a fundamental dimension of our perception of the world and is therefore of critical importance to the organization of human behavior. A corpus of work - including recent optogenetic evidence - implicates striatal dopamine as a crucial factor influencing the perception of time. Another stream of literature implicates dopamine in reward and motivation processes. However, these two domains of research have remained largely separated, despite neurobiological overlap and the apothegmatic notion that "time flies when you're having fun". This article constitutes a review of the literature linking time perception and reward, including neurobiological and behavioral studies. Together, these provide compelling support for the idea that time perception and reward processing interact via a common dopaminergic mechanism.
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- Bowen J Fung
- The Behavioural Insights Team, Suite 3, Level 13/9 Hunter St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.
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- The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Woods Basic Science Building Rm914, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Woods Basic Science Building Rm914, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Honma M, Murakami H, Yabe Y, Kuroda T, Futamura A, Sugimoto A, Terao Y, Masaoka Y, Izumizaki M, Kawamura M, Ono K. Stopwatch training improves cognitive functions in patients with Parkinson's disease. J Neurosci Res 2021; 99:1325-1336. [PMID: 33594677 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Revised: 01/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) impairs various cognitive functions, including time perception. Dysfunctional time perception in PD is poorly understood, and no study has investigated the rehabilitation of time perception in patients with PD. We aimed to induce the recovery of time perception in PD patients and investigated the potential relationship between recovery and cognitive functions/domains other than time perception. Sixty patients with PD (27 females) and 20 healthy controls (10 females) were recruited. The participants underwent a feedback training protocol for 4 weeks to improve the accuracy of subjective spatial distance or time duration using a ruler or stopwatch, respectively. They participated in three tests at weekly intervals, each comprising 10 types of cognitive tasks and assessments. After duration feedback training for 1 month, performance on the Go/No-go task, Stroop task, and impulsivity assessment improved in patients with PD, while no effect was observed after distance feedback training. Additionally, the effect of training on duration production correlated with extended reaction time and improved accuracy in the Go/No-go and Stroop tasks. These findings suggest that time perception is functionally linked to inhibitory systems. If the feedback training protocol can modulate and maintain time perception, it may improve various cognitive/psychiatric functions in patients with PD. It may also be useful in the treatment of diseases other than PD that cause dysfunctions in temporal processing.
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- Motoyasu Honma
- Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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- Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi-Shi, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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- Department of Medical Physiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka-Shi, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
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Çarıkcı S, Ünlüer NÖ, Torun Ş. Effects of cadence-compatible melodic rhythmic auditory stimulation implementation on gait in patients with Parkinson's disease. Somatosens Mot Res 2020; 38:108-116. [PMID: 33371768 DOI: 10.1080/08990220.2020.1864314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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PURPOSE Progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in basal ganglia is blamed as the main source of gait disturbance in Parkinson's disease (PD). It is known that the normal step pattern does not disappear in PD, but there is a problem in activating the correct step response. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS), which is an external stimulus, on gait in individuals with PD. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-six individuals, 13 in the PD group and 13 in the control group, participated in the study. All individuals were asked to walk under four different RAS conditions configured with beat frequency and melodic variations. Time-distance parameters and gait performance of the individuals were evaluated. RESULTS RAS significantly increased the gait speed of the individuals with PD compared to the control group. RAS set to 10% increase in the cadence of the patient with melody (10 M+) was found to be more effective than the RAS set to normal cadence of the patient without melody (0 M-) (p < 0.05). While all RAS implementations increased the stride length of the individuals with PD (p < 0.05), there was no change in the control group. RAS did not affect the return time in both groups. CONCLUSIONS Our study has shown that RAS implementation improves gait in individuals with PD both in terms of time-distance parameters and performance, especially when set to 10% more than the patient's gait cadence. It was concluded that cadence-compatible melodic RAS can be safely included in PD rehabilitation programs.
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- Sena Çarıkcı
- Gönül Yolu Special Education and Rehabilitation Center, Physiotherapy, Ankara, Turkey
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- Faculty of Health Science, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Faculty of Health Science, Speech and Language Therapy, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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Jafari Z, Kolb BE, Mohajerani MH. Auditory Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease. Mov Disord 2020; 35:537-550. [PMID: 32052894 DOI: 10.1002/mds.28000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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PD is a progressive and complex neurological disorder with heterogeneous symptomatology. PD is characterized by classical motor features of parkinsonism and nonmotor symptoms and involves extensive regions of the nervous system, various neurotransmitters, and protein aggregates. Extensive evidence supports auditory dysfunction as an additional nonmotor feature of PD. Studies indicate a broad range of auditory impairments in PD, from the peripheral hearing system to the auditory brainstem and cortical areas. For instance, research demonstrates a higher occurrence of hearing loss in early-onset PD and evidence of abnormal auditory evoked potentials, event-related potentials, and habituation to novel stimuli. Electrophysiological data, such as auditory P3a, also is suggested as a sensitive measure of illness duration and severity. Improvement in auditory responses following dopaminergic therapies also indicates the presence of similar neurotransmitters (i.e., glutamate and dopamine) in the auditory system and basal ganglia. Nonetheless, hearing impairments in PD have received little attention in clinical practice so far. This review summarizes evidence of peripheral and central auditory impairments in PD and provides conclusions and directions for future empirical and clinical research. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Zahra Jafari
- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.,Department of Basic Sciences in Rehabilitation, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Science (IUMS), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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Scurry AN, Vercillo T, Nicholson A, Webster M, Jiang F. Aging Impairs Temporal Sensitivity, but not Perceptual Synchrony, Across Modalities. Multisens Res 2019; 32:671-692. [PMID: 31059487 DOI: 10.1163/22134808-20191343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Encoding the temporal properties of external signals that comprise multimodal events is a major factor guiding everyday experience. However, during the natural aging process, impairments to sensory processing can profoundly affect multimodal temporal perception. Various mechanisms can contribute to temporal perception, and thus it is imperative to understand how each can be affected by age. In the current study, using three different temporal order judgement tasks (unisensory, multisensory, and sensorimotor), we investigated the effects of age on two separate temporal processes: synchronization and integration of multiple signals. These two processes rely on different aspects of temporal information, either the temporal alignment of processed signals or the integration/segregation of signals arising from different modalities, respectively. Results showed that the ability to integrate/segregate multiple signals decreased with age regardless of the task, and that the magnitude of such impairment correlated across tasks, suggesting a widespread mechanism affected by age. In contrast, perceptual synchrony remained stable with age, revealing a distinct intact mechanism. Overall, results from this study suggest that aging has differential effects on temporal processing, and general impairments with aging may impact global temporal sensitivity while context-dependent processes remain unaffected.
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- 2Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- 1Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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- 1Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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- 1Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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Hamamouche K, Cordes S. A divergence of sub- and supra-second timing abilities in childhood and its relation to academic achievement. J Exp Child Psychol 2018; 178:137-154. [PMID: 30380454 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Revised: 09/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Work with adult humans and nonhuman animals provides evidence that the processing of sub-second (<1 s) and supra-second (>1 s) durations are modulated via distinct cognitive and neural systems; however, few studies have explored the development of these separate systems. Moreover, recent research has identified a link between basic timing abilities and academic achievement, yet it is unclear whether sub-second and supra-second temporal processing may play independent roles in this relation. In the current study, we assessed the development of sub- and supra-second timing across middle childhood and examined how each ability may relate to academic achievement. Child participants (6- to 8-year-olds, n = 111) completed reading and math assessments and a temporal discrimination task that included comparisons in both the sub- and supra-second ranges. Results revealed that younger children performed comparably across the sub- and supra-second ranges, whereas 8-year-olds and adults (n = 72) were relatively better at discriminating durations in the supra-second range. Although discrimination performance in these distinct duration ranges did not uniquely predict math or reading achievement, overall timing abilities were related to math, but not reading, when controlling for age. Together, these data provide evidence for a divergence in timing abilities across sub- and supra-second durations emerging around 8 years of age; however, at least during this stage of development, the relation between children's timing and math achievement is unrelated to this divergence.
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- Karina Hamamouche
- Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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Scarpina F, Mauro A, D'Aniello GE, Albani G, Castelnuovo G, Ambiel E, MacPherson SE. Cognitive Estimation in Non-demented Parkinson's Disease. Arch Clin Neuropsychol 2018; 32:381-390. [PMID: 28334403 DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acx019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Accepted: 02/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective The Cognitive Estimation Test (CET) is widely used in clinical and research settings to assess the ability to produce reasonable estimates to items that individuals would not know that the exact answer (e.g., "How fast do race horses run?"). We examined the performance of non-demented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients on the CET, because previous studies reported heterogeneous results about possible cognitive estimation impairments in PD. We also examined whether PD patients improve their performance if given the chance to reconsider their initial CET responses. Methods Thirty non-demented idiopathic PD patients and 30 healthy controls matched in age, gender and years of education performed the two parallel forms of Italian CET. The estimation scores for initial and final responses as well as the number of times individuals changed their answers were examined. Additional neuropsychological tests, evaluating intellectual, frontal executive, speed of processing, naming and arithmetical abilities, were also administered. Results The PD group were not significantly poorer than healthy controls at estimating the answers to items on either CET versions. Moreover, PD patients did not significantly differ in their initial and final responses or number of response changes. Performance on the CET was significantly related to performance on a global measure of executive function, processing speed and arithmetic. However, PD patients were impaired compared to controls on the component involving mainly, but not exclusively, length-related estimations. Conclusions Non-demented PD patients have mild impairments in cognitive estimation ability, which may depend on the estimations they are required to provide.
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- Federica Scarpina
- "Rita Levi Montalcini" Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy.,Psychology Research Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Piancavallo (VCO), Italy
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- "Rita Levi Montalcini" Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy.,Division of Neurology and Neuro-Rehabilitation, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Piancavallo (VCO), Italy
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Piancavallo (VCO), Italy
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- Division of Neurology and Neuro-Rehabilitation, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Piancavallo (VCO), Italy
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Piancavallo (VCO), Italy.,Department of Psychology,Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Research Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Piancavallo (VCO), Italy
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, UK.,Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Mioni G, Capizzi M, Vallesi A, Correa Á, Di Giacopo R, Stablum F. Dissociating Explicit and Implicit Timing in Parkinson's Disease Patients: Evidence from Bisection and Foreperiod Tasks. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:17. [PMID: 29467632 PMCID: PMC5808217 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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A consistent body of literature reported that Parkinson's disease (PD) is marked by severe deficits in temporal processing. However, the exact nature of timing problems in PD patients is still elusive. In particular, what remains unclear is whether the temporal dysfunction observed in PD patients regards explicit and/or implicit timing. Explicit timing tasks require participants to attend to the duration of the stimulus, whereas in implicit timing tasks no explicit instruction to process time is received but time still affects performance. In the present study, we investigated temporal ability in PD by comparing 20 PD participants and 20 control participants in both explicit and implicit timing tasks. Specifically, we used a time bisection task to investigate explicit timing and a foreperiod task for implicit timing. Moreover, this is the first study investigating sequential effects in PD participants. Results showed preserved temporal ability in PD participants in the implicit timing task only (i.e., normal foreperiod and sequential effects). By contrast, PD participants failed in the explicit timing task as they displayed shorter perceived durations and higher variability compared to controls. Overall, the dissociation reported here supports the idea that timing can be differentiated according to whether it is explicitly or implicitly processed, and that PD participants are selectively impaired in the explicit processing of time.
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- Giovanna Mioni
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
- San Camillo Hospital IRCCS, Venice, Italy
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- Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología Experimental, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Institute of Neurology, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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Bezdicek O, Nikolai T, Nepožitek J, Peřinová P, Kemlink D, Dušek P, Příhodová I, Dostálová S, Ibarburu V, Trnka J, Kupka K, Mecková Z, Keller J, Vymazal J, Růžička E, Šonka K, Dušek P. Prospective memory impairment in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. Clin Neuropsychol 2017; 32:1019-1037. [DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2017.1394493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Ondrej Bezdicek
- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Physics, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Radiology, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Radiology, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
- First Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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Honma M, Murai Y, Shima S, Yotsumoto Y, Kuroda T, Futamura A, Shiromaru A, Murakami I, Kawamura M. Spatial distortion related to time compression during spatiotemporal production in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2017; 102:61-69. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Revised: 06/03/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Mioni G, Grondin S, Meligrana L, Perini F, Bartolomei L, Stablum F. Effects of happy and sad facial expressions on the perception of time in Parkinson's disease patients with mild cognitive impairment. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2017; 40:123-138. [PMID: 28532288 DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2017.1324021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder caused by deterioration of the dopaminergic system. Previous studies have demonstrated temporal as well as emotional facial recognition impairment in PD patients. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that emotional facial expressions alter temporal judgments. In the present study, we investigate the magnitude of temporal distortions caused by the presentation of emotional facial expressions (happiness, sadness, and neutral) in PD patients with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) and controls. METHOD Seventeen older adults with PD-MCI and 22 healthy older adults took part in the present study. Participants were tested with a time bisection task with standard intervals lasting 400 ms and 1600 ms. Moreover, a complete neuropsychological evaluation was conducted to characterize the sample. RESULTS Differences between groups were observed indicating a general underestimation of time in PD-MCI patients. Temporal impairments in PD-MCI patients seem to be caused mainly by a dysfunction at the level of reference memory. The effect of emotional facial expressions on time perception was evident in both PD patients and controls, with an overestimation of perceived duration when happiness was presented and an underestimation when sadness was presented. CONCLUSION Overall, our results indicate that reduced cognitive abilities might be responsible for the lower temporal ability observed in PD-MCI patients. Moreover, similar effects of emotional stimuli were observed in both PD-MCI patients and controls.
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- Giovanna Mioni
- a Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale , Università di Padova , Padova , Italy
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- b École de Psychologie , Université Laval , Québec , Canada
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- c U.O. Neurologia , Ospedale San Bortolo , Vicenza , Italy.,d U.O. Psicologia Ospedaliera , Ospedale San Bortolo , Vicenza , Italy
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- a Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale , Università di Padova , Padova , Italy
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Conradi N, Abel C, Frisch S, Kell CA, Kaiser J, Schmidt-Kassow M. Actively but not passively synchronized motor activity amplifies predictive timing. Neuroimage 2016; 139:211-217. [PMID: 27329809 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Revised: 03/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/17/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Previous studies have shown that the effect of temporal predictability of presented stimuli on attention allocation is enhanced by auditory-motor synchronization (AMS). The present P300 event-related potential study (N=20) investigated whether this enhancement depends on the process of actively synchronizing one's motor output with the acoustic input or whether a passive state of auditory-motor synchrony elicits the same effect. Participants silently counted frequency deviants in sequences of pure tones either during a physically inactive control condition or while pedaling on a cycling ergometer. Tones were presented either at fixed or variable intervals. In addition to the pedaling conditions with fixed or variable stimulation, there was a third condition in which stimuli were adaptively presented in sync with the participants' spontaneous pedaling. We replicated the P300 enhancement for fixed versus variable stimulation and the amplification of this effect by AMS. Synchronization performance correlated positively with P300 amplitude in the fixed stimulation condition. Most interestingly, P300 amplitude was significantly reduced for the passive synchronization condition by adaptive stimulus presentation as compared to the fixed stimulation condition. For the first time we thus provide evidence that it is not the passive state of (even perfect) auditory-motor synchrony that facilitates attention allocation during AMS but rather the active process of synchronizing one's movements with external stimuli.
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- Nadine Conradi
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Department of Neurology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Mioni G, Meligrana L, Grondin S, Perini F, Bartolomei L, Stablum F. Effects of Emotional Facial Expression on Time Perception in Patients with Parkinson's Disease. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2016; 22:890-9. [PMID: 26250885 DOI: 10.1017/S1355617715000612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Previous studies have demonstrated that emotional facial expressions alter temporal judgments. Moreover, while some studies conducted with Parkinson's disease (PD) patients suggest dysfunction in the recognition of emotional facial expression, others have shown a dysfunction in time perception. In the present study, we investigate the magnitude of temporal distortions caused by the presentation of emotional facial expressions (anger, shame, and neutral) in PD patients and controls. Twenty-five older adults with PD and 17 healthy older adults took part in the present study. PD patients were divided into two sub-groups, with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI), based on their neuropsychological performance. Participants were tested with a time bisection task with standard intervals lasting 400 ms and 1600 ms. The effect of facial emotional stimuli on time perception was evident in all participants, yet the effect was greater for PD-MCI patients. Furthermore, PD-MCI patients were more likely to underestimate long and overestimate short temporal intervals than PD-non-MCI patients and controls. Temporal impairment in PD-MCI patients seem to be mainly caused by a memory dysfunction. (JINS, 2016, 22, 890-899).
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Previous studies have found that psychological and behavioural functions of the colour red vary according to context. In this research, we used the verbal estimation paradigm to determine if the colour red affects individuals' perception of interval duration. In our results, perceived duration was shorter in a red condition than in a blue one; additionally, only in the red condition, perceived duration was shorter in an online dating context than in an online interviewing context. The contribution and limitations of this study and future research directions are discussed.
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- Jiaxin Shi
- School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Zhang J, Nombela C, Wolpe N, Barker RA, Rowe JB. Time on timing: Dissociating premature responding from interval sensitivity in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord 2016; 31:1163-72. [PMID: 27091513 PMCID: PMC4988382 DOI: 10.1002/mds.26631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2015] [Revised: 02/25/2016] [Accepted: 03/06/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Parkinson's disease (PD) can cause impulsivity with premature responses, but there are several potential mechanisms. We proposed a distinction between poor decision-making and the distortion of temporal perception. Both effects may be present and interact, but with different clinical and pharmacological correlates. OBJECTIVES This study assessed premature responding during time perception in PD. METHODS In this study, 18 PD patients and 19 age-matched controls completed 2 temporal discrimination tasks (bisection and trisection) and a baseline reaction-time task. Timing sensitivity and decision-making processes were quantified by response and response time. An extended version of the modified difference model was used to examine the precision of time representation and the modulation of response time by stimulus ambiguity. RESULTS In the bisection task, patients had a lower bisection point (P < .05) and reduced timing sensitivity when compared with controls (P < .001). In the trisection task, patients showed lower sensitivity in discriminating between short and medium standards (P < .05). The impairment in timing sensitivity correlated positively with patients' levodopa dose equivalent (P < .05). Critically, patients had disproportionately faster response times when compared with controls in more ambiguous conditions, and the degree of acceleration of response time increased with disease severity (P < .05). Computational modeling indicated that patients had poorer precision in time representation and stronger modulation of response time by task ambiguity, leading to smaller scaling of the decision latency (P < .05). CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that timing deficits in PD cannot be solely attributed to perceptual distortions, but are also associated with impulsive decision strategies that bias patients toward premature responses. © 2016 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Jiaxiang Zhang
- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging CentreSchool of PsychologyCardiff UniversityCardiffUK
- Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitMedical Research CouncilCambridgeUK
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- Department of Clinical NeurosciencesUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitMedical Research CouncilCambridgeUK
- Department of Clinical NeurosciencesUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Department of Clinical NeurosciencesUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitMedical Research CouncilCambridgeUK
- Department of Clinical NeurosciencesUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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Honma M, Kuroda T, Futamura A, Shiromaru A, Kawamura M. Dysfunctional counting of mental time in Parkinson's disease. Sci Rep 2016; 6:25421. [PMID: 27146904 PMCID: PMC4857080 DOI: 10.1038/srep25421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Accepted: 04/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) often underestimate time intervals, however it remains unclear why they underestimate rather than overestimate them. The current study examined time underestimation and counting in patients with PD, in relation to dopamine transporter (DaT) located on presynaptic nerve endings in the striatum. Nineteen non-dementia patients with PD and 20 age- and sex-matched healthy controls performed two time estimation tasks to produce or reproduce time intervals with counting in the head, to examine dysfunctional time counting processing. They also performed tapping tasks to measure cycles of counting with 1 s interval with time estimation. Compared to controls, patients underestimated time intervals above 10 s on time production not reproduction tasks, and the underestimation correlated with fast counting on the tapping task. Furthermore, striatal DaT protein levels strongly correlated with underestimation of time intervals. These findings suggest that distortion of time intervals is guided by cumulative output of fast cycle counting and that this is linked with striatal DaT protein deficit.
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- Motoyasu Honma
- Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8666, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8666, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8666, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8666, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8666, Japan
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Fontes R, Ribeiro J, Gupta DS, Machado D, Lopes-Júnior F, Magalhães F, Bastos VH, Rocha K, Marinho V, Lima G, Velasques B, Ribeiro P, Orsini M, Pessoa B, Leite MAA, Teixeira S. Time Perception Mechanisms at Central Nervous System. Neurol Int 2016; 8:5939. [PMID: 27127597 PMCID: PMC4830363 DOI: 10.4081/ni.2016.5939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2015] [Revised: 11/24/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The five senses have specific ways to receive environmental information and lead to central nervous system. The perception of time is the sum of stimuli associated with cognitive processes and environmental changes. Thus, the perception of time requires a complex neural mechanism and may be changed by emotional state, level of attention, memory and diseases. Despite this knowledge, the neural mechanisms of time perception are not yet fully understood. The objective is to relate the mechanisms involved the neurofunctional aspects, theories, executive functions and pathologies that contribute the understanding of temporal perception. Articles form 1980 to 2015 were searched by using the key themes: neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, theories, time cells, memory, schizophrenia, depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and Parkinson’s disease combined with the term perception of time. We evaluated 158 articles within the inclusion criteria for the purpose of the study. We conclude that research about the holdings of the frontal cortex, parietal, basal ganglia, cerebellum and hippocampus have provided advances in the understanding of the regions related to the perception of time. In neurological and psychiatric disorders, the understanding of time depends on the severity of the diseases and the type of tasks.
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- Rhailana Fontes
- Brain Mapping and Plasticity Laboratory, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba, Brazil
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- Brain Mapping and Plasticity Laboratory, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Camden County College , Blackwood, NJ, USA
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- Laboratory of Brain Mapping and Functionality, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba
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- Brain Mapping and Plasticity Laboratory, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba, Brazil
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- Brain Mapping and Plasticity Laboratory, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Brain Mapping and Functionality, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba
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- Brain Mapping and Plasticity Laboratory, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba, Brazil
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- Brain Mapping and Plasticity Laboratory, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba, Brazil
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- Neurophisic Applied Laboratory, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba
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- Brain Mapping and and Sensory-Motor Integration Laboratory, Psychiatry Institute of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro
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- Brain Mapping and and Sensory-Motor Integration Laboratory, Psychiatry Institute of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro
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- Neurology Department, Federal Fluminense University , Niterói, Brazil
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- Brain Mapping and Plasticity Laboratory, Federal University of Piauí , Parnaíba, Brazil
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The temporal preparation of motor responses to external events (temporal preparation) relies on internal representations of the accumulated elapsed time (temporal representations) before an event occurs and on estimates about its most likely time of occurrence (temporal expectations). The precision (inverse of uncertainty) of temporal preparation, however, is limited by two sources of uncertainty. One is intrinsic to the nervous system and scales with the length of elapsed time such that temporal representations are least precise for longest time durations. The other is external and arises from temporal variability of events in the outside world. The precision of temporal expectations thus decreases if events become more variable in time. It has long been recognized that the processing of time durations within the range of hundreds of milliseconds (interval timing) strongly depends on dopaminergic (DA) transmission. The role of DA for the precision of temporal preparation in humans, however, remains unclear. This study therefore directly assesses the role of DA in the precision of temporal preparation of motor responses in healthy humans. In a placebo-controlled double-blind design using a selective D2-receptor antagonist (sulpiride) and D1/D2 receptor antagonist (haloperidol), participants performed a variable foreperiod reaching task, under different conditions of internal and external temporal uncertainty. DA blockade produced a striking impairment in the ability of extracting temporal expectations across trials and on the precision of temporal representations within a trial. Large Weber fractions for interval timing, estimated by fitting subjective hazard functions, confirmed that this effect was driven by an increased uncertainty in the way participants were experiencing time. This provides novel evidence that DA regulates the precision with which we process time when preparing for an action.
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Ashoori A, Eagleman DM, Jankovic J. Effects of Auditory Rhythm and Music on Gait Disturbances in Parkinson's Disease. Front Neurol 2015; 6:234. [PMID: 26617566 PMCID: PMC4641247 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2015] [Accepted: 10/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Gait abnormalities, such as shuffling steps, start hesitation, and freezing, are common and often incapacitating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other parkinsonian disorders. Pharmacological and surgical approaches have only limited efficacy in treating these gait disorders. Rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS), such as playing marching music and dance therapy, has been shown to be a safe, inexpensive, and an effective method in improving gait in PD patients. However, RAS that adapts to patients’ movements may be more effective than rigid, fixed-tempo RAS used in most studies. In addition to auditory cueing, immersive virtual reality technologies that utilize interactive computer-generated systems through wearable devices are increasingly used for improving brain–body interaction and sensory–motor integration. Using multisensory cues, these therapies may be particularly suitable for the treatment of parkinsonian freezing and other gait disorders. In this review, we examine the affected neurological circuits underlying gait and temporal processing in PD patients and summarize the current studies demonstrating the effects of RAS on improving these gait deficits.
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- Aidin Ashoori
- Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons , New York, NY , USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine , Houston, TX , USA
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- Department of Neurology, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine , Houston, TX , USA
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Righi S, Galli L, Paganini M, Bertini E, Viggiano MP, Piacentini S. Time perception impairment in early-to-moderate stages of Huntington's disease is related to memory deficits. Neurol Sci 2016; 37:97-104. [PMID: 26298827 DOI: 10.1007/s10072-015-2369-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2015] [Accepted: 08/14/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Huntington's disease (HD) primarily affects striatum and prefrontal dopaminergic circuits which are fundamental neural correlates of the timekeeping mechanism. The few studies on HD mainly investigated motor timing performance in second durations. The present work explored time perception in early-to-moderate symptomatic HD patients for seconds and milliseconds with the aim to clarify which component of the scalar expectancy theory (SET) is mainly responsible for HD timing defect. Eleven HD patients were compared to 11 controls employing two separate temporal bisection tasks in second and millisecond ranges. Our results revealed the same time perception deficits for seconds and milliseconds in HD patients. Time perception impairment in early-to-moderate stages of Huntington's disease is related to memory deficits. Furthermore, both the non-systematical defect of temporal sensitivity and the main impairment of timing performance in the extreme value of the psychophysical curves suggested an HD deficit in the memory component of the SET. This result was further confirmed by the significant correlations between time perception performance and long-term memory test scores. Our findings added important preliminary data for both a deeper comprehension of HD time-keeping deficits and possible implications on neuro-rehabilitation practices.
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Individuals regularly experience fluctuations in the ability to perform cognitive operations. Although previous research has focused on predicting cognitive flexibility from persistent individual traits, as well as from spontaneous fluctuations in neural activity, the role of learning in shaping preparatory attentional control remains poorly understood. Across 3 experiments, we manipulated the statistical regularities of an attentional orienting paradigm to examine whether individuals modulated attentional flexibility, the readiness to perform a spatial shift of attention, across learned contexts. We found evidence of learning-based modulations in preparatory attentional control settings when the probability of shifting the focus of attention differed based on temporally or color-defined contexts. Furthermore, in the case of color-defined contexts, these modulations in preparatory control persisted even after a change in the underlying statistical properties. Our results indicate that dynamic adjustments in preparatory attentional control are sensitive to the underlying statistical regularities of an environment. This finding has implications for understanding disordered patterns of attentional control and how these patterns might be modified with training.
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- Anthony W Sali
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
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Petzschner FH, Glasauer S, Stephan KE. A Bayesian perspective on magnitude estimation. Trends Cogn Sci 2015; 19:285-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2015] [Revised: 03/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Bella SD, Benoit CE, Farrugia N, Schwartze M, Kotz SA. Effects of musically cued gait training in Parkinson's disease: beyond a motor benefit. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2015; 1337:77-85. [DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Simone Dalla Bella
- Movement to Health Laboratory; EuroMov; University of Montpellier-1; Montpellier France
- Institut Universitaire de France; France
- Department of Cognitive Psychology; WSFiZ; Warsaw Poland
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- Movement to Health Laboratory; EuroMov; University of Montpellier-1; Montpellier France
- Department of Cognitive Psychology; WSFiZ; Warsaw Poland
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- Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology (CNEP); School of Psychological Sciences; University of Manchester; Manchester United Kingdom
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- Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology (CNEP); School of Psychological Sciences; University of Manchester; Manchester United Kingdom
- Department of Neuropsychology; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences; Leipzig Germany
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Shibasaki M, Masataka N. The color red distorts time perception for men, but not for women. Sci Rep 2014; 4:5899. [PMID: 25077928 DOI: 10.1038/srep05899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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We investigated the effect of the color red on time perception using a temporal bisection task with human adults. The results showed that the perceived duration of a red screen was longer than was that of a blue screen. However, the results reflected sex differences; men, but not women, overestimated the duration of the red screen. Additionally, the reaction times to a red screen were faster than those to a blue screen, and we found a significant correlation between reaction time and the tendency to overestimate the duration of a red screen. Participants who reacted quickly to a red screen overestimated its duration. These results are discussed within the context of recent studies indicating that the color red exerts certain special psychological effects on human behavior.
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Benoit CE, Dalla Bella S, Farrugia N, Obrig H, Mainka S, Kotz SA. Musically cued gait-training improves both perceptual and motor timing in Parkinson's disease. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:494. [PMID: 25071522 PMCID: PMC4083221 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 06/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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It is well established that auditory cueing improves gait in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD). Disease-related reductions in speed and step length can be improved by providing rhythmical auditory cues via a metronome or music. However, effects on cognitive aspects of motor control have yet to be thoroughly investigated. If synchronization of movement to an auditory cue relies on a supramodal timing system involved in perceptual, motor, and sensorimotor integration, auditory cueing can be expected to affect both motor and perceptual timing. Here, we tested this hypothesis by assessing perceptual and motor timing in 15 IPD patients before and after a 4-week music training program with rhythmic auditory cueing. Long-term effects were assessed 1 month after the end of the training. Perceptual and motor timing was evaluated with a battery for the assessment of auditory sensorimotor and timing abilities and compared to that of age-, gender-, and education-matched healthy controls. Prior to training, IPD patients exhibited impaired perceptual and motor timing. Training improved patients' performance in tasks requiring synchronization with isochronous sequences, and enhanced their ability to adapt to durational changes in a sequence in hand tapping tasks. Benefits of cueing extended to time perception (duration discrimination and detection of misaligned beats in musical excerpts). The current results demonstrate that auditory cueing leads to benefits beyond gait and support the idea that coupling gait to rhythmic auditory cues in IPD patients relies on a neuronal network engaged in both perceptual and motor timing.
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- Charles-Etienne Benoit
- Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of Finance and Management in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Movement to Health Laboratory (M2H), EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of Finance and Management in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Movement to Health Laboratory (M2H), EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, University Hospital, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Neurologisches Fachkrankenhaus für Bewegungsstörungen/Parkinson, Beelitz-Heilstätten, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Piras F, Piras F, Ciullo V, Danese E, Caltagirone C, Spalletta G. Time dysperception perspective for acquired brain injury. Front Neurol 2014; 4:217. [PMID: 24454304 PMCID: PMC3888944 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2013] [Accepted: 12/27/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Distortions of time perception are presented by a number of neuropsychiatric illnesses. Here we survey timing abilities in clinical populations with focal lesions in key brain structures recently implicated in human studies of timing. We also review timing performance in amnesic and traumatic brain injured patients in order to identify the nature of specific timing disorders in different brain damaged populations. We purposely analyzed the complex relationship between both cognitive and contextual factors involved in time estimation, as to characterize the correlation between timed and other cognitive behaviors in each group. We assume that interval timing is a solid construct to study cognitive dysfunctions following brain injury, as timing performance is a sensitive metric of information processing, while temporal cognition has the potential of influencing a wide range of cognitive processes. Moreover, temporal performance is a sensitive assay of damage to the underlying neural substrate after a brain insult. Further research in neurological and psychiatric patients will clarify whether time distortions are a manifestation of, or a mechanism for, cognitive and behavioral symptoms of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- Federica Piras
- Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy
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- Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy
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- Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy
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- NESMOS Department, University "Sapienza," Second Faculty of Medicine at Sant'Andrea Hospital , Rome , Italy
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- Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy
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- Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy
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- Melissa J. Allman
- Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823;
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- Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG United Kingdom;
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- Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG United Kingdom;
- Institute of Neuroscience, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH United Kingdom;
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27701;
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The motor and perceptual timing deficits documented in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have heavily influenced the theory that the basal ganglia play an important role in temporal processing. This review is a systematic exploration of the findings from behavioural and neuroimaging studies of motor and perceptual timing in PD. In particular, we consider the influence of a variety of task factors and of patient heterogeneity in explaining the mixed results. We also consider the effect of basal ganglia dysfunction on the non-temporal cognitive factors that contribute to successful motor and perceptual timing. Although there is convincing evidence from PD that the basal ganglia are critical to motor and perceptual timing, further work is needed to characterize the precise contribution of this complex structure to temporal processing.
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- Catherine R. G. Jones
- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
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- Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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Neuroimaging has been a powerful tool for understanding the neural architecture of interval timing. However, identifying the critical brain regions engaged in timing was initially driven by investigation of human patients and animals. This chapter draws on the important contribution that the study of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) has made in identifying the basal ganglia as a key component of motor and perceptual timing. The chapter initially describes the experimental tasks that have been critical in PD (and non-PD) timing research before systematically discussing the results from behavioural studies. This is followed by a critique of neuroimaging studies that have given insight into the pattern of neural activity during motor and perceptual timing in PD. Finally, discussion of the effects of medical and surgical treatment on timing in PD enables further evaluation of the role of dopamine in interval timing.
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Beudel M, de Geus CM, Leenders KL, de Jong BM. Acceleration bias in visually perceived velocity change and effects of Parkinson's bradykinesia. Neuroreport 2013; 24:773-8. [PMID: 23979256 DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328363f739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In Parkinson's disease (PD), basal ganglia dysfunction leads to disturbed sensorimotor integration and associated timing. Previous functional MRI and behavioural PD studies on timing indicated a specific striatal contribution to assessing spatial displacement in velocity estimation. In this computation, cerebral processing time implies demarcating discrete intervals of spatial change. To quantify these putative intervals, the threshold of perceived velocity change of a moving ball was assessed in healthy volunteers and PD patients. After rebound from the upper side of a monitor screen, the ball's velocity increased or decreased with variable magnitudes while participants indicated whether they noticed this velocity change. The threshold for detecting velocity change was around 0.014 rad/s in both groups. Moreover, velocity was perceived as equal when the ball decelerated; unchanged velocity was perceived as acceleration. This shift was 0.009 rad/s for healthy volunteers and 0.007 rad/s for PD patients, and was negatively correlated with the severity of bradykinesia. As the trajectory length before and after velocity change was the same, velocity change was also expressed as a change in stimulus duration (relative to 1 s initial duration). The temporal equivalent of a threshold for perceived velocity change was around 75 ms in both groups. The perceptual 'acceleration bias' is in line with the 'flash-lag' effect: the position of a moving stimulus is projected ahead compared with a stationary landmark. Such an extrapolation over adjacent past and predicted locations enables 'real-time' visuomotor control, notwithstanding delays because of intrinsic cerebral processing time. In PD, such impaired perceptual feed-forward processing may result in slow movements.
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Miller NS, Kwak Y, Bohnen NI, Müller MLTM, Dayalu P, Seidler RD. The pattern of striatal dopaminergic denervation explains sensorimotor synchronization accuracy in Parkinson's disease. Behav Brain Res 2013; 257:100-10. [PMID: 24076152 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.09.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2013] [Revised: 09/09/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The basal ganglia are thought to play a critical role in duration perception and production. However, experimental evidence for impaired temporal processing in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients is mixed. This study examined the association between striatal dopaminergic denervation in PD patients and sensorimotor synchronization. Twenty-eight mild-to-moderate stage PD patients synchronized finger taps to tone sequences of either 500 ms, 1000 ms or 1500 ms time intervals while ON levodopa (l-DOPA) or placebo pill (on separate test days) with the index finger of their more and less affected hands. We measured the accuracy and variability of synchronization. In a separate session, patients underwent (11)C-dihydrotetrabenazine ((11)C-DTBZ) PET scanning to measure in vivo striatal dopaminergic denervation. Patients were less accurate synchronizing to the 500 ms target time interval, compared to the 1000 ms and 1500 ms time intervals, but neither medication state nor hand affected accuracy; medication state, hand nor the target time interval affected synchronization variability. Regression analyses revealed no strong relationships between synchronization accuracy or variability and striatal dopaminergic denervation. We performed a cluster analysis on the degree of dopaminergic denervation to determine whether patient subgroup differences underlie our results. Three patient subgroups showed behavioral differences in synchronization accuracy, but not variability, paralleling their pattern of denervation. These findings provide further evidence for the role of the basal ganglia and dopamine in duration production and suggest that the degree of striatal dopaminergic denervation may explain the heterogeneity of performance between PD patients on the sensorimotor synchronization task.
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- Nathaniel S Miller
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Michigan, 325 East Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109, United States; School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, 1402 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2013, United States.
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Poryazova R, Mensen A, Bislimi F, Huegli G, Baumann CR, Khatami R. Time perception in narcolepsy in comparison to patients with Parkinson's disease and healthy controls - an exploratory study. J Sleep Res 2013; 22:625-33. [PMID: 23879404 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2013] [Accepted: 06/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The striatum and the prefrontal cortex play an important role in cognitive time processing, and time perception depends on sustained attention. Narcolepsy patients are unable to maintain sustained attention, due probably to deficient hypocretin signalling. Impaired time perception has been found in Parkinson's disease (PD) and attributed to a dysfunctional dopaminergic striatal pacemaker. We aimed to assess time perception in patients with narcolepsy and PD and to compare the outcome to healthy control participants. Seventeen narcolepsy patients, 12 PD patients and 15 healthy controls performed a short time production task, where they had to produce an interval of 1, 2 or 5 s. The accuracy of time production differed significantly according to task target duration, and there was a trend towards a group difference with narcolepsy patients tending to overproduce all target durations. Absolute variability was significantly different between groups, with narcolepsy patients showing higher absolute variability in comparison to controls and PD patients. The analysis of the temporal course of time estimation showed more pronounced overproduction of each target duration at the end of each trial in narcolepsy patients, whereas performance was more or less stable in controls and PD patients. Overproduction and higher variability of all time durations in narcolepsy indicate impaired short interval timing in the seconds range, while the scalar property of timing was preserved. The time-course of accuracy and variability of time production within sessions indicate an attention-related mechanism of impaired interval timing.
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- Hugo Merchant
- Instituto de Neurobiología, UNAM, Campus Juriquilla, México;
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- VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California 92161;
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27701;
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Standage D, You H, Wang DH, Dorris MC. Trading speed and accuracy by coding time: a coupled-circuit cortical model. PLoS Comput Biol 2013; 9:e1003021. [PMID: 23592967 PMCID: PMC3617027 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2011] [Accepted: 02/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Our actions take place in space and time, but despite the role of time in decision theory and the growing acknowledgement that the encoding of time is crucial to behaviour, few studies have considered the interactions between neural codes for objects in space and for elapsed time during perceptual decisions. The speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT) provides a window into spatiotemporal interactions. Our hypothesis is that temporal coding determines the rate at which spatial evidence is integrated, controlling the SAT by gain modulation. Here, we propose that local cortical circuits are inherently suited to the relevant spatial and temporal coding. In simulations of an interval estimation task, we use a generic local-circuit model to encode time by ‘climbing’ activity, seen in cortex during tasks with a timing requirement. The model is a network of simulated pyramidal cells and inhibitory interneurons, connected by conductance synapses. A simple learning rule enables the network to quickly produce new interval estimates, which show signature characteristics of estimates by experimental subjects. Analysis of network dynamics formally characterizes this generic, local-circuit timing mechanism. In simulations of a perceptual decision task, we couple two such networks. Network function is determined only by spatial selectivity and NMDA receptor conductance strength; all other parameters are identical. To trade speed and accuracy, the timing network simply learns longer or shorter intervals, driving the rate of downstream decision processing by spatially non-selective input, an established form of gain modulation. Like the timing network's interval estimates, decision times show signature characteristics of those by experimental subjects. Overall, we propose, demonstrate and analyse a generic mechanism for timing, a generic mechanism for modulation of decision processing by temporal codes, and we make predictions for experimental verification. Studies in neuroscience have characterized how the brain represents objects in space and how these objects are selected for detailed perceptual processing. The selection process entails a decision about which object is favoured by the available evidence over time. This period of time is typically in the range of hundreds of milliseconds and is widely believed to be crucial for decisions, allowing neurons to filter noise in the evidence. Despite the widespread belief that time plays this role in decisions and the growing recognition that the brain estimates elapsed time during perceptual tasks, few studies have considered how the encoding of time effects decision making. We propose that neurons encode time in this range by the same general mechanisms used to select objects for detailed processing, and that these temporal representations determine how long evidence is filtered. To this end, we simulate a perceptual decision by coupling two instances of a neural network widely used to simulate localized regions of the cerebral cortex. One network encodes the passage of time and the other makes decisions based on noisy evidence. The former influences the performance of the latter, reproducing signature characteristics of temporal estimates and perceptual decisions.
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- Dominic Standage
- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Center for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- * E-mail: (DS); (DHW)
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- Department of Systems Science and National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Systems Science and National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (DS); (DHW)
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Center for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Wearden JH. The cognitive neuroscience of time perception: How psychological studies might help to dissect the timing system. Neuropsychologia 2013; 51:187-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2012] [Revised: 09/18/2012] [Accepted: 09/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The article discusses interpretation of between-group differences in performance on timing tasks. First, it is shown that differences in internal clock “pacemaker speed” cannot normally be used as a coherent explanation of obtained effects, even if such differences in pacemaker speed exist. Secondly, it is shown how, in theory, modelling of performance on commonly used timing tasks like bisection and temporal generalization can illuminate between-group effects. Thirdly, the article discusses some examples of such modelling from published work and shows how some between-group differences—for example, between children of different ages, or between patients and controls—have been explained. Finally, some ambiguities in modelling are discussed—for example, the fact that different explanations of differences in performance on timing tasks between groups may be difficult or impossible to distinguish in practice.
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- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Crizzle AM, Myers AM, Almeida QJ. Self-regulatory practices of drivers with Parkinson's disease: accuracy of patient reports. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2013; 19:176-80. [PMID: 23102617 DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2012.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2012] [Revised: 08/09/2012] [Accepted: 09/10/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Studies suggest that drivers with Parkinson's disease (PD) are more likely than controls to restrict their exposure and avoid challenging situations possibly to compensate for declining abilities; however it is questionable whether patient reports should be taken at face value. To address this issue, this study examined agreement between self-reported and actual driving practices in drivers with and without PD. METHODS Two electronic devices (one with GPS) were installed in the vehicles of 26 drivers with PD (mean age 71.5 ± 6.8, 77% men) and 20 controls (mean age 70.6 ± 7.9, 80% men) for two weeks. Participants completed a questionnaire on usual driving patterns, scales on Situational Driving Frequency (SDF) and Avoidance (SDA), the MoCA and an interview. RESULTS Self-estimates of distance driven (km) over the two weeks were inaccurate in both groups; however the tendency to under-estimate was more pronounced in PD drivers. Drivers with PD reported more self-restrictions (higher SDA scores, p < .01; lower SDF scores, p < .05), yet drove more at night, in bad weather, in rush hour and on highways than they reported. Drivers with PD had significantly lower MoCA scores overall (p < .01) and on the memory subtest (p < .05), however, MoCA scores were not correlated with self-reported restrictions, or actual driving distance in either group. CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that patient reports of driving behavior should not be taken at face value by researchers or clinicians. Patients with PD may be more likely than drivers in general to have problems with recall and possibly less awareness of their driving practices.
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Troche J, Troche MS, Berkowitz R, Grossman M, Reilly J. Tone discrimination as a window into acoustic perceptual deficits in Parkinson's disease. Am J Speech Lang Pathol 2012; 21:258-63. [PMID: 22442285 PMCID: PMC3592977 DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2012/11-0007)] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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PURPOSE Deficits in auditory perception compromise a range of linguistic processes in persons with Parkinson's disease (PD), including speech perception and sensitivity to affective and linguistic prosody. An unanswered question is whether this deficit exists not only at the level of speech perception, but also at a more pervasive level of auditory perception. It is possible that PD produces a selective impairment in the perception of a salient acoustic feature such as frequency, amplitude, or duration. METHOD Auditory perception in persons with PD was investigated using a tone discrimination task where clients ( N = 12) and age-matched controls ( N = 15) made same/different judgments for pairs of pure tones that were factorially varied by acoustic feature (i.e., frequency, amplitude, or duration) crossed with perceptual distance (i.e., close vs. far). RESULTS Relative to healthy age-matched controls, persons with PD showed marked impairment in tone discrimination. Persons with PD showed an acoustic feature by perceptual distance interaction that was characterized by deficits in detecting frequency and amplitude differences for perceptually near tones. CONCLUSION These results suggest that persons with PD show a reduced ability to notice change in frequency and amplitude as compared to normal older adults. More generally, these findings implicate a frontal-striatal contribution to auditory perception.
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Dormal V, Grade S, Mormont E, Pesenti M. Dissociation between numerosity and duration processing in aging and early Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2012; 50:2365-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2012] [Revised: 06/06/2012] [Accepted: 06/11/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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