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Heuer H, Wühr P. The Impact of Speed-Accuracy Instructions on Spatial Congruency Effects. J Cogn 2023; 6:49. [PMID: 37636012 PMCID: PMC10453986 DOI: 10.5334/joc.318] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 08/13/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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In many tasks humans can trade speed against accuracy. This variation of strategy has different consequences for congruency effects in different conflict tasks. Recently, Mittelstädt et al. (2022) suggested that these differences are related to the dynamics of congruency effects as assessed by delta plots. With increasing delta plots in the Eriksen flanker task congruency effects were larger under accuracy set, and with decreasing delta plots in the Simon task they were smaller. Here we tested the hypothesis for a single task, making use of the observation that for the Simon task delta plots decline when the irrelevant feature is presented first, but increase when the relevant feature leads. The differences between congruency effects under speed and accuracy instructions confirmed the hypothesized relation to the slope of delta plots. In fact, for similar delta plots in the compared speed-accuracy conditions, the relation should be a straightforward consequence of the shorter and longer reaction times with speed and accuracy set, respectively. However, when relevant and irrelevant features were presented simultaneously, congruency effects were stronger under speed set at all reaction times. For this condition, a supplementary model-based analysis with an extended leaky, competing accumulator model suggested a stronger and longer-lasting influence of the irrelevant stimulus feature. The congruency effects for reaction times were accompanied by congruency effects for error rates when delta plots were decreasing, but not when they were increasing.
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- Herbert Heuer
- Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), DE
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Shiino S, van Wouwe NC, Wylie SA, Claassen DO, McDonell KE. Huntington disease exacerbates action impulses. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1186465. [PMID: 37397312 PMCID: PMC10312388 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1186465] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023] Open
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Background Impulsivity is a common clinical feature of Huntington disease (HD), but the underlying cognitive dynamics of impulse control in this population have not been well-studied. Objective To investigate the temporal dynamics of action impulse control in HD patients using an inhibitory action control task. Methods Sixteen motor manifest HD patients and seventeen age-matched healthy controls (HC) completed the action control task. We applied the activation-suppression theoretical model and distributional analytic techniques to differentiate the strength of fast impulses from their top-down suppression. Results Overall, HD patients produced slower and less accurate reactions than HCs. HD patients also exhibited an exacerbated interference effect, as evidenced by a greater slowing of RT on non-corresponding compared to corresponding trials. HD patients made more fast, impulsive errors than HC, evidenced by significantly lower accuracy on their fastest reaction time trials. The slope reduction of interference effects as reactions slowed was similar between HD and controls, indicating preserved impulse suppression. Conclusion Our results indicate that patients with HD show a greater susceptibility to act rapidly on incorrect motor impulses but preserved proficiency of top-down suppression. Further research is needed to determine how these findings relate to clinical behavioral symptoms.
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- Shuhei Shiino
- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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Duprez J, Tabbal J, Hassan M, Modolo J, Kabbara A, Mheich A, Drapier S, Vérin M, Sauleau P, Wendling F, Benquet P, Houvenaghel JF. Spatio-temporal dynamics of large-scale electrophysiological networks during cognitive action control in healthy controls and Parkinson's disease patients. Neuroimage 2022; 258:119331. [PMID: 35660459 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119331] [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: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Among the cognitive symptoms that are associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), alterations in cognitive action control (CAC) are commonly reported in patients. CAC enables the suppression of an automatic action, in favor of a goal-directed one. The implementation of CAC is time-resolved and arguably associated with dynamic changes in functional brain networks. However, the electrophysiological functional networks involved, their dynamic changes, and how these changes are affected by PD, still remain unknown. In this study, to address this gap of knowledge, 10 PD patients and 10 healthy controls (HC) underwent a Simon task while high-density electroencephalography (HD-EEG) was recorded. Source-level dynamic connectivity matrices were estimated using the phase-locking value in the beta (12-25 Hz) and gamma (30-45 Hz) frequency bands. Temporal independent component analyses were used as a dimension reduction tool to isolate the task-related brain network states. Typical microstate metrics were quantified to investigate the presence of these states at the subject-level. Our results first confirmed that PD patients experienced difficulties in inhibiting automatic responses during the task. At the group-level, we found three functional network states in the beta band that involved fronto-temporal, temporo-cingulate and fronto-frontal connections with typical CAC-related prefrontal and cingulate nodes (e.g., inferior frontal cortex). The presence of these networks did not differ between PD patients and HC when analyzing microstates metrics, and no robust correlations with behavior were found. In the gamma band, five networks were found, including one fronto-temporal network that was identical to the one found in the beta band. These networks also included CAC-related nodes previously identified in different neuroimaging modalities. Similarly to the beta networks, no subject-level differences were found between PD patients and HC. Interestingly, in both frequency bands, the dominant network at the subject-level was never the one that was the most durably modulated by the task. Altogether, this study identified the dynamic functional brain networks observed during CAC, but did not highlight PD-related changes in these networks that might explain behavioral changes. Although other new methods might be needed to investigate the presence of task-related networks at the subject-level, this study still highlights that task-based dynamic functional connectivity is a promising approach in understanding the cognitive dysfunctions observed in PD and beyond.
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Key Words
- Cognitive control
- DIFFIT, Difference in data fitting
- DLPFC, Dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex
- EEG, Electroencephalography
- FC, Functional connectivity
- Functional connectivity
- HC, Healthy controls
- HD-EEG, High-density EEG
- ICA, Independent component analysis
- IFC, Inferior frontal cortex
- MEG, Magnetoencephalography
- Networks, Dynamics
- PD, Parkinson's disease
- PLV, Phase locking value
- Parkinson's disease Abbreviations CAC, Cognitive action control
- ROIS, Regions of interest
- RT, Reaction time
- Simon task
- dBNS, Dynamic brain network state
- dFC, Dynamic functional connectivity
- fMRI, Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- high density EEG
- pre-SMA, Pre-supplementary motor area
- tICA, Temporal ICA
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- Joan Duprez
- Univ Rennes, LTSI - U1099, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, LTSI - U1099, F-35000 Rennes, France; Azm Center for Research in Biotechnology and Its Applications, EDST, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
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- MINDig, F-35000 Rennes, France; School of Engineering, Reykjavik University, Iceland
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- CIC INSERM 1414, Rennes, France; Neurology Department, Pontchaillou Hospital, Rennes University Hospital, France
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- Neurology Department, Pontchaillou Hospital, Rennes University Hospital, France; Behavioral and Basal Ganglia' Research Unit, University of Rennes 1-Rennes University Hospital, France
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- Behavioral and Basal Ganglia' Research Unit, University of Rennes 1-Rennes University Hospital, France; Neurophysiology department, Rennes University Hospital, France
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- Neurology Department, Pontchaillou Hospital, Rennes University Hospital, France; Behavioral and Basal Ganglia' Research Unit, University of Rennes 1-Rennes University Hospital, France
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Kane JM, McDonnell JL, Neimat JS, Hedera P, van den Wildenberg WPM, Phibbs FT, Bradley EB, Wylie SA, van Wouwe NC. Essential tremor impairs the ability to suppress involuntary action impulses. Exp Brain Res 2022. [PMID: 35562536 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-022-06373-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Essential tremor (ET) is a movement disorder characterized primarily by action tremor which affects the regulation of movements. Disruptions in cerebello-thalamocortical networks could interfere with cognitive control over actions in ET, for example, the ability to suppress a strong automatic impulse over a more appropriate action (conflict control). The current study investigated whether ET impacts conflict control proficiency. Forty-one ET patients and 29 age-matched healthy controls (HCs) performed a conflict control task (Simon task). Participants were instructed to give a left or right response to a spatially lateralized arrow (direction of the arrow). When the action signaled by the spatial location and direction of the arrow were non-corresponding (induced conflict), the inappropriate action impulse required suppression. Overall, ET patients responded slower and less accurately compared to HCs. ET patients were especially less accurate on non-corresponding conflict (Nc) versus corresponding (Cs) trials. A focused analysis on fast impulsive response rates (based on the accuracy rate at the fastest reaction times on Nc trials) showed that ET patients made more fast errors compared to HCs. Results suggest impaired conflict control in ET compared to HCs. The increased impulsive errors seen in the ET population may be a symptom of deficiencies in the cerebello-thalamocortical networks, or, be caused by indirect effects on the cortico-striatal pathways. Future studies into the functional networks impacted by ET (cortico-striatal and cerebello-thalamocortical pathways) could advance our understanding of inhibitory control in general and the cognitive deficits in ET.
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Rodriguez-Raecke R, Schrader C, Tacik P, Dressler D, Lanfermann H, Wittfoth M. Conflict adaptation and related neuronal processing in Parkinson's disease. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 16:455-463. [PMID: 34449035 PMCID: PMC8825575 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-021-00520-w] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Non-motor symptoms like cognitive impairment are a huge burden for patients with Parkinson's disease. We examined conflict adaptation by using the congruency sequence effect as an index of adaptation in 17 patients with Parkinson's disease and 18 healthy controls with an Eriksen flanker task using functional magnet resonance imaging to reveal possible differences in executive function performance. We observed overall increased response times in patients with Parkinson's disease compared to healthy controls. A flanker interference effect and congruency sequence effect occurred in both groups. A significant interaction of current and previous trial type was revealed, but no effect of response sequence concerning left or right motor responses. Therefore, top-down conflict monitoring processes are likely the main contributors leading to the congruency sequence effect in our paradigm. In both groups incongruent flanker events elicited activation in the middle temporal gyrus, inferior parietal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the insula in contrast to congruent flanker events. A psychophysiological interactions analysis revealed increased functional connectivity of inferior parietal cortex as a seed to the left prefrontal thalamus during incongruent vs. congruent and neutral stimuli in patients with Parkinson's disease that may reflect compensatory facilitating action selection processes. We conclude that patients with Parkinson's disease exhibit conflict adaptation comparable to healthy controls when investigated while receiving their usual medication.
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- Rea Rodriguez-Raecke
- Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstraße 30, 52074, Aachen, Germany. .,Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
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- Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.,Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Wang Q, Meng L, Pang J, Zhu X, Ming D. Characterization of EEG Data Revealing Relationships With Cognitive and Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review. Front Aging Neurosci 2020; 12:587396. [PMID: 33240076 PMCID: PMC7683572 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.587396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Recent research regards the electroencephalogram (EEG) as a promising method to study real-time brain dynamic changes in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), but a deeper understanding is needed to discern coincident pathophysiology, patterns of changes, and diagnosis. This review summarized recent research on EEG characterization related to the cognitive and motor functions in PD patients and discussed its potential to be used as diagnostic biomarkers. Thirty papers out of 220 published from 2010 to 2020 were reviewed. Movement abnormalities and cognitive decline are related to changes in EEG spectrum and event-related potentials (ERPs) during typical oddball paradigms and/or combined motor tasks. Abnormalities in β and δ frequency bands are, respectively the main manifestation of dyskinesia and cognitive decline in PD. The review showed that PD patients have noteworthy changes in specific EEG characterizations, however, the underlying mechanism of the interrelation between gait and cognitive is still unclear. Understanding the specific nature of the relationship is essential for development of novel invasive clinical diagnostic and therapeutic methods.
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- Qing Wang
- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Aumann MA, Stark AJ, Hughes SB, Lin Y, Kang H, Bradley E, Zald DH, Claassen DO. Self-reported rates of impulsivity in Parkinson's Disease. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2020; 7:437-448. [PMID: 32227451 PMCID: PMC7187703 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.51016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 09/12/2019] [Revised: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Impulsive decision-making is characterized by actions taken without considering consequences. Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) who receive dopaminergic treatment, especially dopamine agonists, are at risk of developing impulsive-compulsive behaviors (ICBs). We assessed impulse-related changes across a large heterogeneous PD population using the Barratt impulsivity scale (BIS-11) by evaluating BIS-11 first- and second-order factors. METHODS We assessed a total of 204 subjects: 93 healthy controls (HCs), and 68 ICB- and 43 ICB + PD patients who completed the BIS-11. Using a general linear model and a least absolute shrinkage and selection operation regression, we compared BIS-11 scores between the HC, ICB- PD, and ICB + PD groups. RESULTS Patients with PD rated themselves as more impulsive than HCs in the BIS-11 total score, second-order attention domain, and first-order attention and self-control domains. ICB + patients recorded higher total scores as well as higher scores in the second-order non-planning domain and in self-control and cognitive complexity than ICB- patients. INTERPRETATION These results indicate that the patients with PD show particular problems with attentional control, whereas ICB + patients show a distinct problem in cognitive control and complexity. Additionally, it appears that all patients with PD are more impulsive than their age- and sex-matched healthy peers. Increased impulsivity may be a result of the disease course, or attributed to dopaminergic medication use, but these results emphasize the importance of the cognitive components of impulsivity in patients with PD.
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- Megan A. Aumann
- Vanderbilt Brain InstituteDepartment of PsychologyVanderbilt UniversityNashvilleTennessee
- Department of NeurologyVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTennessee
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- Department of NeurologyVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTennessee
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- Department of NeurologyVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTennessee
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- Department of BiostatisticsVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTennessee
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- Department of BiostatisticsVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTennessee
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- Department of NeurologyVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTennessee
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- Department of PsychiatryVanderbilt University Medical SchoolNashvilleTennessee
- Department of PsychologyVanderbilt UniversityNashvilleTennessee
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- Department of NeurologyVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTennessee
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Hughes S, Claassen DO, van den Wildenberg WPM, Phibbs FT, Bradley EB, Wylie SA, van Wouwe NC. Action Control Deficits in Patients With Essential Tremor. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2019; 25:156-64. [PMID: 30501660 DOI: 10.1017/S1355617718001054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Essential tremor (ET) is a movement disorder characterized by action tremor which impacts motor execution. Given the disrupted cerebellar-thalamo-cortical networks in ET, we hypothesized that ET could interfere with the control mechanisms involved in regulating motor performance. The ability to inhibit or stop actions is critical for navigating many daily life situations such as driving or social interactions. The current study investigated the speed of action initiation and two forms of action control, response stopping and proactive slowing in ET. METHODS Thirty-three ET patients and 25 healthy controls (HCs) completed a choice reaction task and a stop-signal task, and measures of going speed, proactive slowing and stop latencies were assessed. RESULTS Going speed was significantly slower in ET patients (649 ms) compared to HCs (526 ms; F(1,56) = 42.37; p <.001; η 2 = .43), whereas proactive slowing did not differ between groups. ET patients exhibited slower stop signal reaction times (320 ms) compared to HCs (258 ms, F(1,56) = 15.3; p <.00; η 2 = .22) and more severe motor symptoms of ET were associated with longer stopping latencies in a subset of patients (Spearman rho = .48; p <.05). CONCLUSIONS In line with previous studies, ET patients showed slower action initiation. Additionally, inhibitory control was impaired whereas proactive slowing remained intact relative to HCs. More severe motor symptoms of ET were associated with slower stopping speed, and may reflect more progressive changes to the cerebellar-thalamo-cortical network. Future imaging studies should specify which structural and functional changes in ET can explain changes in inhibitory action control. (JINS, 2019, 25, 156-164).
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Struys E, Duyck W, Woumans E. The Role of Cognitive Development and Strategic Task Tendencies in the Bilingual Advantage Controversy. Front Psychol 2018; 9:1790. [PMID: 30319495 PMCID: PMC6167540 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [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: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recent meta-analyses have indicated that the bilingual advantage in cognitive control is not clear-cut. So far, the literature has mainly focussed on behavioral differences and potential differences in strategic task tendencies between monolinguals and bilinguals have been left unexplored. In the present study, two groups of younger and older bilingual Dutch-French children were compared to monolingual controls on a Simon and flanker task. Beside the classical between-group comparison, we also investigated potential differences in strategy choices as indexed by the speed-accuracy trade-off. Whereas we did not find any evidence for an advantage for bilingual over monolingual children, only the bilinguals showed a significant speed-accuracy trade-off across tasks and age groups. Furthermore, in the younger bilingual group, the trade-off effect was only found in the Simon and not the flanker task. These findings suggest that differences in strategy choices can mask variations in performance between bilinguals and monolinguals, and therefore also provide inconsistent findings on the bilingual cognitive control advantage.
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- Esli Struys
- Centre for Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.,Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.,Center for Neurosciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Bashore TR, Ally B, van Wouwe NC, Neimat JS, van den Wildenberg WPM, Wylie SA. Exposing an "Intangible" Cognitive Skill Among Collegiate Football Players: II. Enhanced Response Impulse Control. Front Psychol 2018; 9:1496. [PMID: 30186200 PMCID: PMC6113713 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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American football is played in a dynamic environment that places considerable demands on a player’s ability to make fast, precise reactions while controlling premature, impulsive reactions to spatial misinformation. We investigated the hypothesis that collegiate football players are more proficient than their non-athlete counterparts at controlling impulsive motor actions. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I football players (n = 280) and non-athlete controls (n = 32) completed a variant of the Simon conflict task, which quantifies choice reaction speed and the proficiency of controlling spatially driven response impulses. Overall, the choice reaction times (RTs) and accuracy rates of football players and controls were equivalent. Similarly, football players and controls were equally susceptible to producing incorrect impulsive motor responses. However, the slowing of RT attributed to the activation and successful inhibition of these impulses (i.e., the Simon effect) was reduced significantly among football players compared to controls. Moreover, differences in impulse control varied by position among the players, with the reduction being greater for offensive than for defensive players. Among offensive players, running backs, wide receivers, and offensive linemen had greater impulse control than did controls, whereas among defensive players only linebackers had greater control. Notably, the Simon effect was reduced by 60% in running backs compared to controls. These results contribute to emerging evidence that elite football players possess more proficient executive control over their motor systems than their age counterparts and suggest that the speed of controlling impulsive motor reactions may represent an enhanced cognitive “intangible” among football players.
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- Theodore R Bashore
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States.,Department of Psychology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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Servant M, van Wouwe N, Wylie SA, Logan GD. A model-based quantification of action control deficits in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2018; 111:26-35. [PMID: 29360609 PMCID: PMC5916758 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2017] [Revised: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Basal ganglia dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD) is thought to generate deficits in action control, but the characterization of these deficits have been qualitative rather than quantitative. Patients with PD typically show prolonged response times on tasks that instantiate a conflict between goal-directed processing and automatic response tendencies. In the Simon task, for example, the irrelevant location of the stimulus automatically activates a corresponding lateralized response, generating a potential conflict with goal-directed choices. We applied a new computational model of conflict processing to two sets of behavioral data from the Simon task to quantify the effects of PD and dopaminergic (DA) medication on action control mechanisms. Compared to healthy controls (HC) matched in age gender and education, patients with PD showed a deficit in goal-directed processing, and the magnitude of this deficit positively correlated with cognitive symptoms. Analyses of the time-course of the location-based automatic activation yielded mixed findings. In both datasets, we found that the peak amplitude of the automatic activation was similar between PD and HC, demonstrating a similar degree of response capture. However, PD patients showed a prolonged automatic activation in only one dataset. This discrepancy was resolved by theoretical analyses of conflict resolution in the Simon task. The reduction of interference generated by the automatic activation appears to be driven by a mixture of passive decay and top-down inhibitory control, the contribution of each component being modulated by task demands. Our results suggest that PD selectively impairs the inhibitory control component, a deficit likely remediated by DA medication. This work advances our understanding of action control deficits in PD, and illustrates the benefit of using computational models to quantitatively measure cognitive processes in clinical populations.
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- Mathieu Servant
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, United States.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, United States
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, United States
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Wylie SA, Bashore TR, Van Wouwe NC, Mason EJ, John KD, Neimat JS, Ally BA. Exposing an "Intangible" Cognitive Skill among Collegiate Football Players: Enhanced Interference Control. Front Psychol 2018; 9:49. [PMID: 29479325 PMCID: PMC5811505 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 10/09/2017] [Accepted: 01/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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American football is played in a chaotic visual environment filled with relevant and distracting information. We investigated the hypothesis that collegiate football players show exceptional skill at shielding their response execution from the interfering effects of distraction (interference control). The performances of 280 football players from National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I football programs were compared to age-matched controls in a variant of the Eriksen flanker task (Eriksen and Eriksen, 1974). This task quantifies the magnitude of interference produced by visual distraction on split-second response execution. Overall, football athletes and age controls showed similar mean reaction times (RTs) and accuracy rates. However, football athletes were more proficient at shielding their response execution speed from the interfering effects of distraction (i.e., smaller flanker effect costs on RT). Offensive and defensive players showed smaller interference costs compared to controls, but defensive players showed the smallest costs. All defensive positions and one offensive position showed statistically smaller interference effects when compared directly to age controls. These data reveal a clear cognitive advantage among football athletes at executing motor responses in the face of distraction, the existence and magnitude of which vary by position. Individual differences in cognitive control may have important implications for both player selection and development to improve interference control capabilities during play.
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- Scott A. Wylie
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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Laurent R, van Wouwe NC, Turchan M, Tolleson C, Phibbs F, Bradley E, van den Wildenberg W, Wylie SA. Motivational Sensitivities Linked to Impulsive Motor Errors in Parkinson's Disease. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2018; 24:128-38. [PMID: 28828997 DOI: 10.1017/S1355617717000741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 11/07/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We investigated how broad motivational tendencies are related to the expression and suppression of action impulses in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS Sixty-nine participants with PD completed a Simon response conflict task and Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) and Behavioral Activation System (BAS) scales based on Gray's (1987) reinforcement sensitivity theory. Analyses determined relationships between BIS, BAS, and the susceptibility to making impulsive action errors and the proficiency of inhibiting interference from action impulses. RESULTS BIS scores correlated positively with rates of impulsive action errors, indicating that participants endorsing low BIS tendencies were much more susceptible to acting on strong motor impulses. Analyses of subgroups with high versus low BIS scores confirmed this pattern and ruled out alternative explanations in terms of group differences in speed-accuracy tradeoffs. None of the scores on the BIS or BAS scales correlated with reactive inhibitory control. CONCLUSIONS PD participants who endorse diminished predilection toward monitoring and avoiding aversive experiences (low BIS) show much greater difficulty restraining fast, impulsive motor errors. Establishing relationships between motivational sensitivities and cognitive control processes may have important implications for treatment strategies and positive health outcomes in participants with PD, particularly those at risk for falling and driving difficulties related to impulsive reactions. (JINS, 2018, 24, 128-138).
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Wylie SA, van Wouwe NC, Godfrey SG, Bissett PG, Logan GD, Kanoff KE, Claassen DO, Neimat JS, van den Wildenberg WP. Dopaminergic medication shifts the balance between going and stopping in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2018; 109:262-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Revised: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 12/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Tolleson C, Turchan M, van Wouwe N, Isaacs D, Phibbs F, Wylie S. Parkinson's Disease Subtypes Show Distinct Tradeoffs Between Response Initiation and Inhibition Latencies. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2017; 23:665-74. [PMID: 28850018 DOI: 10.1017/S1355617717000467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 11/07/2022]
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OBJECTIVES In unpredictable situations, individuals often show tradeoffs between response initiation and inhibition speeds. We tested the hypothesis that Parkinson's disease (PD) motor subtypes differentially impact tradeoffs between these two action-oriented processes. We predicted that, compared to tremor dominant (TD) patients, predominant postural instability and gait dysfunction (PIGD) patients would show exacerbated tradeoffs between response initiation and inhibition in situations requiring the sudden potential need to interrupt an action. METHODS Fifty-one PD patients (subdivided into PIGD [n=27] and TD [n=24]) and 21 healthy controls (HCs) completed a choice reaction task to establish baseline response initiation speed between groups. Subsequently, participants completed a stop-signal task which introduced an occasional, unpredictable stop stimulus. We measured changes in initiation speed in preparation of an unpredictable stop (i.e., proactive slowing) and inhibition latency (i.e., stop-signal reaction time). RESULTS Compared to HCs, PD patients showed slower response initiation speeds in the choice reaction task. All groups showed proactive slowing in the stop-signal task but the magnitude was considerably larger in PIGD patients, almost twice as large as TD patients. PD patients, irrespective of motor subtype, showed longer inhibition latencies than HCs. CONCLUSIONS PIGD and TD subtypes both showed exacerbated response inhibition deficits. However, PIGD patients showed much more pronounced proactive slowing in situations with an expected yet unpredictable need to stop action abruptly. This suggests that PIGD is accompanied by exaggerated tradeoffs between response initiation and inhibition processes to meet situational action demands. We discuss putative neural mechanisms and clinical implications of these findings. (JINS, 2017, 23, 665-674).
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van Wouwe NC, Pallavaram S, Phibbs FT, Martinez-Ramirez D, Neimat JS, Dawant BM, D'Haese PF, Kanoff KE, van den Wildenberg WPM, Okun MS, Wylie SA. Focused stimulation of dorsal subthalamic nucleus improves reactive inhibitory control of action impulses. Neuropsychologia 2017; 99:37-47. [PMID: 28237741 PMCID: PMC5493526 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2016] [Revised: 02/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Frontal-basal ganglia circuitry dysfunction caused by Parkinson's disease impairs important executive cognitive processes, such as the ability to inhibit impulsive action tendencies. Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's disease improves the reactive inhibition of impulsive actions that interfere with goal-directed behavior. An unresolved question is whether this effect depends on stimulation of a particular Subthalamic Nucleus subregion. The current study aimed to 1) replicate previous findings and additionally investigate the effect of chronic versus acute Subthalamic Nucleus stimulation on inhibitory control in Parkinson's disease patients off dopaminergic medication 2) test whether stimulating Subthalamic Nucleus subregions differentially modulate proactive response control and the proficiency of reactive inhibitory control. In the first experiment, twelve Parkinson's disease patients completed three sessions of the Simon task, Off Deep brain stimulation and medication, on acute Deep Brain Stimulation and on chronic Deep Brain Stimulation. Experiment 2 consisted of 11 Parkinson's disease patients with Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation (off medication) who completed two testing sessions involving of a Simon task either with stimulation of the dorsal or the ventral contact in the Subthalamic Nucleus. Our findings show that Deep Brain Stimulation improves reactive inhibitory control, regardless of medication and regardless of whether it concerns chronic or acute Subthalamic Nucleus stimulation. More importantly, selective stimulation of dorsal and ventral subregions of the Subthalamic Nucleus indicates that especially the dorsal Subthalamic Nucleus circuitries are crucial for modulating the reactive inhibitory control of motor actions.
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- N C van Wouwe
- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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- Department of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Florida Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville Medical Center, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam and Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University of Florida Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville Medical Center, Louisville, KY, USA
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Butler JS, Fearon C, Killane I, Waechter SM, Reilly RB, Lynch T. Motor preparation rather than decision-making differentiates Parkinson’s disease patients with and without freezing of gait. Clin Neurophysiol 2017; 128:463-471. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2016.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2016] [Revised: 12/04/2016] [Accepted: 12/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Duprez J, Houvenaghel JF, Argaud S, Naudet F, Robert G, Drapier D, Vérin M, Sauleau P. Impulsive oculomotor action selection in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2016; 95:250-258. [PMID: 28039058 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [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: 08/01/2016] [Revised: 12/23/2016] [Accepted: 12/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The effects of Parkinson's disease (PD) on the dynamics of impulsive action selection and suppression have recently been studied using distributional analyses, but with mixed results, especially for selection. Furthermore, some authors have suggested that impulsivity, regarded as a personality trait, shares common features with behavioral tasks' measures. The current study was designed to clarify the impact of PD on impulsive action selection and suppression, and investigate the link between cognitive action control and self-reported impulsivity. We administered an oculomotor version of the Simon task to 32 patients with PD and 32 matched healthy controls (HC), and conducted distributional analyses in accordance with the activation-suppression model. Patients and HC also filled out the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) questionnaire. Results showed that patients with PD were faster overall and exhibited a greater congruence effect than HC. They also displayed enhanced impulsive action selection. By contrast, the suppression of impulsive responses was similar across both groups. Furthermore, patients had higher impulsivity scores, which were correlated with higher impulsive action selection and higher suppression. Our study yielded two interesting findings. First, PD resulted in a higher number of fast errors. The activation-suppression model suggests that patients with PD are more susceptible to the impulsive action selection induced by the irrelevant stimulus dimension. Second, impulsive action selection and suppression were both associated with trait impulsivity, as measured by the BIS, indicating that these two aspects of impulsivity share common features.
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- Joan Duprez
- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" research unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 35000 Rennes, France.
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" research unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 35000 Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, Rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" research unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 35000 Rennes, France; "Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics" Lab, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, 40 boulevard du Pont d'Arve, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" research unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 35000 Rennes, France; Department of Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, 108 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35703 Rennes, France; Clinical Investigation Center (INSERM 0203), Department of Pharmacology, Rennes University Hospital, Rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" research unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 35000 Rennes, France; Department of Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, 108 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35703 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" research unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 35000 Rennes, France; Department of Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, 108 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35703 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" research unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 35000 Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, Rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" research unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, 35000 Rennes, France; Department of Neurophysiology, Rennes University Hospital, Rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes, France
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Houvenaghel JF, Duprez J, Argaud S, Naudet F, Dondaine T, Robert GH, Drapier S, Haegelen C, Jannin P, Drapier D, Vérin M, Sauleau P. Influence of subthalamic deep-brain stimulation on cognitive action control in incentive context. Neuropsychologia 2016; 91:519-530. [PMID: 27664297 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [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: 04/20/2016] [Revised: 08/23/2016] [Accepted: 09/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Subthalamic nucleus deep-brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is an effective treatment in Parkinson's disease (PD), but can have cognitive side effects, such as increasing the difficulty of producing appropriate responses when a habitual but inappropriate responses represent strong alternatives. STN-DBS also appears to modulate representations of incentives such as monetary rewards. Furthermore, conflict resolution can be modulated by incentive context. We therefore used a rewarded Simon Task to assess the influence of promised rewards on cognitive action control in 50 patients with PD, half of whom were being treated with STN-DBS. Results were analyzed according to the activation-suppression model. We showed that STN-DBS (i) favored the expression of motor impulsivity, as measured with the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, (ii) facilitated the expression of incentive actions as observed with a greater increase in speed according to promised reward in patients with versus without DBS and (iii) may increase impulsive action selection in an incentive context. In addition, analysis of subgroups of implanted patients suggested that those who exhibited the most impulsive action selection had the least severe disease. This may indicate that patients with less marked disease are more at risk of developing impulsivity postoperatively. Finally, in these patients, incentive context increased the difficulty of resolving conflict situations. As a whole, the current study revealed that in patients with PD, STN-DBS affects the cognitive processes involved in conflict resolution, reward processing and the influence of promised rewards on conflict resolution.
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- Jean-François Houvenaghel
- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France.
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; "Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics" Laboratory, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences/Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Campus Biotech, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Clinical Investigation Center (INSERM 0203), Department of Pharmacology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France; Department of Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Department of Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France; "MediCIS" laboratory (UMR 1099 LTSI), INSERM/University of Rennes, Rennes, France
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- "MediCIS" laboratory (UMR 1099 LTSI), INSERM/University of Rennes, Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Department of Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Department of Neurophysiology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
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Houvenaghel JF, Duprez J, Naudet F, Argaud S, Dondaine T, Drapier S, Robert GH, Drapier D, Vérin M, Sauleau P. Influence of promised rewards on conflict resolution in healthy participants and patients with Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Sci 2016; 367:38-45. [PMID: 27423562 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.05.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2016] [Revised: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Jean-François Houvenaghel
- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France.
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; Clinical Investigation Center (INSERM 0203), Department of Pharmacology, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France; Department of Adult Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; "Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics" Laboratory, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, 40 boulevard du Pont d'Arve, 1205 Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; Department of Adult Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; Department of Adult Psychiatry, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; Department of Neurology, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France
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- "Behavior and Basal Ganglia" Research Unit (EA 4712), University of Rennes 1, F-35033 Rennes, France; Department of Neurophysiology, Rennes University Hospital, F-35033 Rennes, France
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van Wouwe NC, Kanoff KE, Claassen DO, Spears CA, Neimat J, van den Wildenberg WPM, Wylie SA. Dissociable Effects of Dopamine on the Initial Capture and the Reactive Inhibition of Impulsive Actions in Parkinson's Disease. J Cogn Neurosci 2016; 28:710-23. [PMID: 26836515 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Dopamine plays a key role in a range of action control processes. Here, we investigate how dopamine depletion caused by Parkinson disease (PD) and how dopamine restoring medication modulate the expression and suppression of unintended action impulses. Fifty-five PD patients and 56 healthy controls (HCs) performed an action control task (Simon task). PD patients completed the task twice, once withdrawn from dopamine medications and once while taking their medications. PD patients experienced similar susceptibility to making fast errors in conflict trials as HCs, but PD patients were less proficient compared with HCs at suppressing incorrect responses. Administration of dopaminergic medications had no effect on impulsive error rates but significantly improved the proficiency of inhibitory control in PD patients. We found no evidence that dopamine precursors and agonists affected action control in PD differently. Additionally, there was no clear evidence that individual differences in baseline action control (off dopamine medications) differentially responded to dopamine medications (i.e., no evidence for an inverted U-shaped performance curve). Together, these results indicate that dopamine depletion and restoration therapies directly modulate the reactive inhibitory control processes engaged to suppress interference from the spontaneously activated response impulses but exert no effect on an individual's susceptibility to act on impulses.
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Bissett PG, Logan GD, van Wouwe NC, Tolleson CM, Phibbs FT, Claassen DO, Wylie SA. Generalized motor inhibitory deficit in Parkinson's disease patients who freeze. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2015; 122:1693-701. [PMID: 26354102 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-015-1454-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Freezing of gait is a disabling symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) that involves failure to initiate and continue motor activity appropriately. PD disrupts fronto-basal ganglia circuitries that also implement the inhibition of responses, leading to the hypothesis that freezing of gait may involve fundamental changes in both initiation and inhibition of motor actions. We asked whether PD patients who show freezing of gait show selective deficits in their ability to inhibit upper and lower extremity reactions. We compared older healthy controls, older PD controls without freezing of gait, and older PD participants with freezing of gait, in stop-signal tasks that measured the initiation (go trials) and inhibition (stop trials) of both hand and foot responses. When only go trials were presented, all three groups showed similar initiation speeds across lower and upper extremity responses. When stop-signal trials were introduced, both PD groups slowed their reactions nearly twice as much as healthy controls. While this adjustment helped PD controls stop their actions as quickly as healthy controls, PD patients with freezing showed significantly delayed inhibitory control of both upper and lower extremities. When anticipating the need to stop their actions urgently, PD patients show greater adjustments (i.e., slowing) to reaction speed than healthy controls. Despite these proactive adjustments, PD patients who freeze show marked impairments in inhibiting both upper and lower extremity responses, suggesting that freezing may involve a fundamental disruption to the brain's inhibitory control system.
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Huang YT, Georgiev D, Foltynie T, Limousin P, Speekenbrink M, Jahanshahi M. Different effects of dopaminergic medication on perceptual decision-making in Parkinson's disease as a function of task difficulty and speed–accuracy instructions. Neuropsychologia 2015; 75:577-87. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2015] [Revised: 07/09/2015] [Accepted: 07/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dharmadhikari S, Ma R, Yeh CL, Stock AK, Snyder S, Zauber SE, Dydak U, Beste C. Striatal and thalamic GABA level concentrations play differential roles for the modulation of response selection processes by proprioceptive information. Neuroimage 2015; 120:36-42. [PMID: 26142275 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2015] [Revised: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The selection of appropriate responses is a complex endeavor requiring the integration of many different sources of information in fronto-striatal-thalamic circuits. An often neglected but relevant piece of information is provided by proprioceptive inputs about the current position of our limbs. This study examines the importance of striatal and thalamic GABA levels in these processes using GABA-edited magnetic resonance spectroscopy (GABA-MRS) and a Simon task featuring proprioception-induced interference in healthy subjects. As a possible model of deficits in the processing of proprioceptive information, we also included Parkinson's disease (PD) patients in this study. The results show that proprioceptive information about unusual postures complicates response selection processes in controls, but not in PD patients. The well-known deficits of PD patients in processing proprioceptive information can turn into a benefit when altered proprioceptive information would normally complicate response selection processes. Striatal and thalamic GABA levels play dissociable roles in the modulation of response selection processes by proprioceptive information: Striatal GABA levels seem to be important for the general speed of responding, most likely because striatal GABA promotes response selection. In contrast, the modulation of response conflict by proprioceptive information is closely related to thalamic GABA concentrations with higher concentration being related to a smaller response conflict effect. The most likely explanation for this finding is that the thalamus is involved in the integration of sensorimotor, attentional, and cognitive information for the purpose of response formation. Yet, this effect in the thalamus vanishes when controls and PD patients were analyzed separately.
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- Shalmali Dharmadhikari
- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the TU Dresden, Germany
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the TU Dresden, Germany
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