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Humphreys MS, Hockley WE, Chalmers KA. Recognition memory: The probe, the returned signal, and the decision. Psychon Bull Rev 2024; 31:568-598. [PMID: 37803230 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01955-4] [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] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 10/08/2023]
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In an attempt to better understand recognition memory we look at how three approaches (dual processing, signal detection, and global matching) have addressed the probe, the returned signal and the decision in four recognition paradigms. These are single-item recognition (including the remember/know paradigm), recognition in relational context, associative recognition, and source monitoring. The contrast, with regards to the double-miss rate (the probability of recognizing neither item in intact and rearranged pairs) and the effect of the oldness of the other member of the test pair, between identifying the old words in test pairs (the relational context paradigm) and first identifying the intact test pairs and then identifying the old words (adding associative recognition to the relational context paradigm) suggests that the retrieval of associative information in the relational context paradigm is unintentional, unlike the retrieval of associative information in associative recognition. It also seems possible that the information that is spontaneously retrieved in single-item recognition, possibly including the remember/know paradigm, is also unintentional, unlike the retrieval of information in source monitoring. Probable differences between intentional and unintentional retrieval, together with the pattern of effects with regards to the double-miss rate and the effect of the other member of the test pair, are used to evaluate the three approaches. Our conclusion is that all three approaches have something valid to say about recognition, but none is equally applicable across all four paradigms.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael S Humphreys
- Department of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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Bedi A, Russell PN, Helton WS. Response uncertainty influences response bias in the sustained attention to response task: a signal detection theory perspective. Psychol Res 2024; 88:81-90. [PMID: 37318596 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-023-01847-3] [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: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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In the current investigation, we modified the high Go, low No-Go Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) by replacing the single response on Go trials with a dual response to increase response uncertainty. In three experiments, a total of 80 participants completed either the original SART with no response uncertainty regarding the Go stimuli, or versions of the dual response SART in which response probabilities for the two possible responses to the Go stimuli varied from 0.9-0.1, 0.7-0.3, to 0.5-0.5. This resulted in a scale of increasing response uncertainty based on information theory to the Go stimuli. The probability of No-Go withhold stimuli was kept.11 in all experiments. Using the Signal Detection Theory perspective proposed by Bedi et al. (Psychological Research: 1-10, 2022), we predicted that increasing response uncertainty would result in a conservative response bias shift, noted by decreased errors of commission and slower response times to both Go and No-Go stimuli. These predictions were verified. The errors of commission in the SART may not be a measures of conscious awareness per se, but instead indicative of the level of participant trigger happiness-the willingness to respond quickly.
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- Aman Bedi
- University of Canterbury, Chirstchurch, New Zealand
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- University of Canterbury, Chirstchurch, New Zealand.
- Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, 3F5, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA.
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Cho SJ, Brown-Schmidt S, Boeck PD, Naveiras M, Yoon SO, Benjamin A. Incorporating Functional Response Time Effects into a Signal Detection Theory Model. Psychometrika 2023; 88:1056-1086. [PMID: 36988755 DOI: 10.1007/s11336-023-09906-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Signal detection theory (SDT; Tanner & Swets in Psychological Review 61:401-409, 1954) is a dominant modeling framework used for evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic systems that seek to distinguish signal from noise in psychology. Although the use of response time data in psychometric models has increased in recent years, the incorporation of response time data into SDT models remains a relatively underexplored approach to distinguishing signal from noise. Functional response time effects are hypothesized in SDT models, based on findings from other related psychometric models with response time data. In this study, an SDT model is extended to incorporate functional response time effects using smooth functions and to include all sources of variability in SDT model parameters across trials, participants, and items in the experimental data. The extended SDT model with smooth functions is formulated as a generalized linear mixed-effects model and implemented in the gamm4 R package. The extended model is illustrated using recognition memory data to understand how conversational language is remembered. Accuracy of parameter estimates and the importance of modeling variability in detecting the experimental condition effects and functional response time effects are shown in conditions similar to the empirical data set via a simulation study. In addition, the type 1 error rate of the test for a smooth function of response time is evaluated.
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- The Ohio State University and KU Leuven, Columbus, USA
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Müller P, Hartmann M. Linking paranormal and conspiracy beliefs to illusory pattern perception through signal detection theory. Sci Rep 2023; 13:9739. [PMID: 37328598 PMCID: PMC10275861 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36230-0] [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: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023] Open
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Previous research indicates that irrational beliefs (Paranormal beliefs & conspiracy theory endorsement) are associated with the perception of patterns in noise, but the previous findings do not conclusively describe this relationship. This study aims to disentangle the underlying parameters of this association by applying a signal detection theory approach, thus allowing to distinguish illusory pattern perception (false alarms) from perceptual sensitivity and response tendencies-while also taking base rate information into account. Results from a large sample (N = 723) indicate that paranormal beliefs relate to a more liberal response bias and a lower perceptual sensitivity, and that this relationship is driven by illusory pattern perception. Such a clear pattern could not be observed for conspiracy beliefs, for which the increase in false alarm rates was moderated by the base rate. The associations between irrational beliefs and illusory pattern perception were however less substantial compared to other sources of variance. Implications are discussed.
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- Petra Müller
- Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, 3900, Brig, Switzerland.
- Institute of Psychology, Universität Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, 3900, Brig, Switzerland
- Institute of Psychology, Universität Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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Bedi A, Russell PN, Helton WS. Go-stimuli probability influences response bias in the sustained attention to response task: a signal detection theory perspective. Psychol Res 2023; 87:509-518. [PMID: 35403969 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-022-01679-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The sustained attention to response task (SART) is a popular measure in the psychology and neuroscience of attention. The underlying psychological cause for errors, in particular errors of commission, in the SART is actively disputed. Some researchers have suggested task-disengagement due to mind-wandering or mindlessness, and others have proposed strategic choices. In this study we explored an alternative perspective based on Signal Detection Theory, in which the high rate of commission errors in the SART reflects simply a shift in response bias (criterion) due to the high prevalence of Go-stimuli. We randomly assigned 406 participants to one of ten Go-stimuli prevalence rates (50%, 64%, 74%, 78%, 82%, 86%, 90%, 94%, 98% and 100%). As Go-stimuli prevalence increased reaction times to both Go and No-Go stimuli decreased, omission errors decreased and commission errors increased. These all were predicted from a hypothesized bias shift, but the findings were not compatible with some alternative theories of SART performance. These findings may have implications for similar tasks.
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- Aman Bedi
- University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand
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- University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand.
- Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, 3F5, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA.
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Carrier Emond F, Nolet K, Rochat L, Rouleau JL, Gagnon J. Inhibitory Control in Sexually Coercive Men: Behavioral Insights Using a Stop-Signal Task With Neutral, Emotional, and Erotic Stimuli. Sex Abuse 2020; 32:301-319. [PMID: 30694102 DOI: 10.1177/1079063219825866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Response inhibition is defined as one's ability to voluntarily override an automatic or already initiated action when that action is inappropriate. Although a core mechanism of self-control, its association with sexual coercion perpetration and the impact of erotic cues on its exertion remain unknown. According to a domain-specific perspective on impulsivity, response inhibition performances should be disproportionately hindered by sexual cues in sexual coercion perpetrators. In total, 94 male college students completed a stop-signal task that included neutral, emotional, and erotic distracters. Results showed that men who reported past use of sexual coercion obtained overall poorer stop-signal task (SST) performances. Highly arousing sexual stimuli equally hindered the performances of perpetrators and non-perpetrators, whereas moderately arousing sexual and nonsexual positive stimuli did not significantly affect performances. Results do not support a domain-specific perspective on the link between response inhibition and sexual coercion, but rather suggest generally poorer inhibitory control among sexual coercion perpetrators.
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- Fannie Carrier Emond
- University of Montréal, Canada
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal, Canada
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- University of Montréal, Canada
- University of Québec in Outaouais, Canada
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- University of Montréal, Canada
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal, Canada
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Ye T, Fleming SM, Hamilton AF. Spontaneous attribution of false beliefs in adults examined using a signal detection approach. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2020; 73:555-567. [PMID: 31590607 DOI: 10.1177/1747021819884677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Understanding other people have beliefs different from ours or different from reality is critical to social interaction. Previous studies suggest that healthy adults possess an implicit mentalising system, but alternative explanations for data from reaction time false belief tasks have also been given. In this study, we combined signal detection theory (SDT) with a false belief task. As application of SDT allows us to separate perceptual sensitivity from criteria, we are able to investigate how another person's beliefs change the participant's perception of near-threshold stimuli. Participants (n = 55) watched four different videos in which an actor saw (or did not see) a Gabor cube hidden (or not hidden) behind an occluder. At the end of each video, the occluder vanished revealing a cube either with or without Gabor pattern, and participants needed to report whether they saw the Gabor pattern or not. A pre-registered analysis with classical statistics weakly suggests an effect of the actor's belief on participant's perceptions. An exploratory Bayesian analysis supports the idea that when the actor believed the cube was present, participants made slower and more liberal judgements. Although these data are not definitive, these current results indicate the value of new measures for understanding implicit false belief processing.
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- Tian Ye
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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Chin BM, Burge J. Predicting the Partition of Behavioral Variability in Speed Perception with Naturalistic Stimuli. J Neurosci 2020; 40:864-879. [PMID: 31772139 PMCID: PMC6975300 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1904-19.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Revised: 11/12/2019] [Accepted: 11/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A core goal of visual neuroscience is to predict human perceptual performance from natural signals. Performance in any natural task can be limited by at least three sources of uncertainty: stimulus variability, internal noise, and suboptimal computations. Determining the relative importance of these factors has been a focus of interest for decades but requires methods for predicting the fundamental limits imposed by stimulus variability on sensory-perceptual precision. Most successes have been limited to simple stimuli and simple tasks. But perception science ultimately aims to understand how vision works with natural stimuli. Successes in this domain have proven elusive. Here, we develop a model of humans based on an image-computable (images in, estimates out) Bayesian ideal observer. Given biological constraints, the ideal optimally uses the statistics relating local intensity patterns in moving images to speed, specifying the fundamental limits imposed by natural stimuli. Next, we propose a theoretical link between two key decision-theoretic quantities that suggests how to experimentally disentangle the impacts of internal noise and deterministic suboptimal computations. In several interlocking discrimination experiments with three male observers, we confirm this link and determine the quantitative impact of each candidate performance-limiting factor. Human performance is near-exclusively limited by natural stimulus variability and internal noise, and humans use near-optimal computations to estimate speed from naturalistic image movies. The findings indicate that the partition of behavioral variability can be predicted from a principled analysis of natural images and scenes. The approach should be extendable to studies of neural variability with natural signals.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Accurate estimation of speed is critical for determining motion in the environment, but humans cannot perform this task without error. Different objects moving at the same speed cast different images on the eyes. This stimulus variability imposes fundamental external limits on the human ability to estimate speed. Predicting these limits has proven difficult. Here, by analyzing natural signals, we predict the quantitative impact of natural stimulus variability on human performance given biological constraints. With integrated experiments, we compare its impact to well-studied performance-limiting factors internal to the visual system. The results suggest that the deterministic computations humans perform are near optimal, and that behavioral responses to natural stimuli can be studied with the rigor and interpretability defining work with simpler stimuli.
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- Department of Psychology,
- Neuroscience Graduate Group, and
- Bioengineering Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Sheridan TB. Extending Three Existing Models to Analysis of Trust in Automation: Signal Detection, Statistical Parameter Estimation, and Model-Based Control. Hum Factors 2019; 61:1162-1170. [PMID: 30811950 DOI: 10.1177/0018720819829951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The objective is to propose three quantitative models of trust in automation. BACKGROUND Current trust-in-automation literature includes various definitions and frameworks, which are reviewed. METHOD This research shows how three existing models, namely those for signal detection, statistical parameter estimation calibration, and internal model-based control, can be revised and reinterpreted to apply to trust in automation useful for human-system interaction design. RESULTS The resulting reinterpretation is presented quantitatively and graphically, and the measures for trust and trust calibration are discussed, along with examples of application. CONCLUSION The resulting models can be applied to provide quantitative trust measures in future experiments or system designs. APPLICATIONS Simple examples are provided to explain how model application works for the three trust contexts that correspond to signal detection, parameter estimation calibration, and model-based open-loop control.
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Dopkins S, Galyer D. Probability of target recollection varies with target-lure relatedness under the dual process signal detection model. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2019; 201:102933. [PMID: 31739089 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2018] [Revised: 09/07/2019] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The ROC function plots hit and false alarm rates against one another. For item recognition the z-transformed ROC (Z-ROC) function is typically linear with slope less than one. The Dual Process Signal Detection (DPSD) and Unequal Variance Signal Detection (UVSD) models see the slope as reflecting the ratio of the lure and target evidence standard deviations. The DPSD model in addition sees the slope as co-varying with estimates of target recollection probability (R). This follows because the slope decreases with increases in the target evidence standard deviation which in turn increases with increases in the numbers of high evidence recollection items. However our results suggest that the lure evidence standard deviation, and thus the Z-ROC slope, can vary with factors seemingly unrelated to target recollection, posing problems for DPSD estimates of R. In word recognition the standard deviation of lure confidence ratings and the slope of the z-ROC function were larger with semantically related than unrelated lures. When the data for related and unrelated lures were fit separately, the standard two-parameter DPSD model, implausibly, set R lower for related than unrelated lures. The UVSD model, more plausibly, set the lure evidence standard deviation larger for related than unrelated lures.
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- Stephen Dopkins
- Psychology Department, The George Washington University, 2125 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, United States.
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- Psychology Department, The George Washington University, 2125 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, United States
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OBJECTIVE The present experiment sought to examine the effects of event rate on a cognitive vigilance task. BACKGROUND Vigilance, or the ability to sustain attention, is an integral component of human factors research. Vigilance task difficulty has previously been manipulated through increasing event rate. However, most research in this paradigm has utilized a sensory-based task, whereas little work has focused on these effects in relation to a cognitive-based task. METHOD In sum, 84 participants completed a cognitive vigilance task that contained either 24 events per minute (low event rate condition) or 40 events per minute (high event rate condition). Performance was measured through the proportion of hits, false alarms, mean response time, and signal detection analyses (i.e., sensitivity and response bias). Additionally, measures of perceived workload and stress were collected. RESULTS The results indicated that event rate significantly affected performance, such that participants who completed the low event rate task achieved significantly better performance in terms of correction detections and false alarms. Furthermore, the cognitive vigil utilized in the present study produced performance decrements comparable to traditional sensory vigilance tasks. CONCLUSION Event rate affects cognitive vigilance tasks in a similar manner as traditional sensory vigilance tasks, such that a direct relation between performance and level of event rate was established. APPLICATION Cognitive researchers wishing to manipulate task difficulty in their experiments may use event rate presentation as one avenue to achieve this result.
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Tanga N, Kuboyama K, Kishimoto A, Kiyonari H, Shiraishi A, Suzuki R, Watanabe T, Fujikawa A, Noda M. The PTN-PTPRZ signal activates the AFAP1L2-dependent PI3K-AKT pathway for oligodendrocyte differentiation: Targeted inactivation of PTPRZ activity in mice. Glia 2019; 67:967-984. [PMID: 30667096 DOI: 10.1002/glia.23583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [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: 06/26/2018] [Revised: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type Z (PTPRZ) maintains oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) in an undifferentiated state. The inhibition of PTPase by its ligand pleiotrophin (PTN) promotes OPC differentiation; however, the substrate molecules of PTPRZ involved in the differentiation have not yet been elucidated in detail. We herein demonstrated that the tyrosine phosphorylation of AFAP1L2, paxillin, ERBB4, GIT1, p190RhoGAP, and NYAP2 was enhanced in OPC-like OL1 cells by a treatment with PTN. AFAP1L2, an adaptor protein involved in the PI3K-AKT pathway, exhibited the strongest response to PTN. PTPRZ dephosphorylated AFAP1L2 at tyrosine residues in vitro and in HEK293T cells. In OL1 cells, the knockdown of AFAP1L2 or application of a PI3K inhibitor suppressed cell differentiation as well as the PTN-induced phosphorylation of AKT and mTOR. We generated a knock-in mouse harboring a catalytically inactive Cys to Ser (CS) mutation in the PTPase domain. The phosphorylation levels of AFAP1L2, AKT, and mTOR were higher, and the expression of oligodendrocyte markers, including myelin basic protein (MBP) and myelin regulatory factor (MYRF), was stronger in CS knock-in brains than in wild-type brains on postnatal day 10; however, these differences mostly disappeared in the adult stage. Adult CS knock-in mice exhibited earlier remyelination after cuprizone-induced demyelination through the accelerated differentiation of OPCs. These phenotypes in CS knock-in mice were similar to those in Ptprz-deficient mice. Therefore, we conclude that the PTN-PTPRZ signal stimulates OPC differentiation partly by enhancing the tyrosine phosphorylation of AFAP1L2 in order to activate the PI3K-AKT pathway.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism
- Animals
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation/drug effects
- Cell Differentiation/physiology
- Cuprizone/toxicity
- Cytokines/metabolism
- Demyelinating Diseases/chemically induced
- Demyelinating Diseases/diagnostic imaging
- Disease Models, Animal
- HEK293 Cells
- Humans
- Immunoprecipitation
- In Situ Nick-End Labeling
- Luminescent Proteins/genetics
- Luminescent Proteins/metabolism
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Microfilament Proteins/metabolism
- Myelin Proteins/metabolism
- Oligodendroglia/physiology
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
- RNA, Small Interfering/genetics
- RNA, Small Interfering/metabolism
- Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 5/genetics
- Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 5/metabolism
- Signal Detection, Psychological/drug effects
- Signal Detection, Psychological/physiology
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Transfection
- X-Ray Microtomography
- Red Fluorescent Protein
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- Naomi Tanga
- Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan
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- Laboratory for Animal Resource Development, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
- Laboratory for Genetic Engineering, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
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- Laboratory for Genetic Engineering, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- Research Center for Cell Biology, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Visual-vestibular mismatch is a common occurrence, with causes ranging from vehicular travel, to vestibular dysfunction, to virtual reality displays. Behavioral and physiological consequences of this mismatch include adaptation of reflexive eye movements, oscillopsia, vertigo, and nausea. Despite this significance, we still do not have a good understanding of how the nervous system evaluates visual-vestibular conflict. Here we review research that quantifies perceptual sensitivity to visual-vestibular conflict and factors that mediate this sensitivity, such as noise on visual and vestibular sensory estimates. We emphasize that dynamic modeling methods are necessary to investigate how the nervous system monitors conflict between time-varying visual and vestibular signals, and we present a simple example of a drift-diffusion model for visual-vestibular conflict detection. The model makes predictions for detection of conflict arising from changes in both visual gain and latency. We conclude with discussion of topics for future research.
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- Isabelle T Garzorz
- German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, University Hospital of Munich, Munich, Germany; Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States
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Discrimination can occur when people fail to focus on outcome-relevant information and incorporate irrelevant demographic information into decision-making. The magnitude of discrimination then depends on (a) how many errors are made in judgment and (b) the degree to which errors disproportionately favor one group over another. As a result, discrimination can be reduced through two routes: reducing noise-lessening the total number of errors but not changing the proportion of remaining errors that favor one group-or reducing bias-lessening the proportion of errors that favor one group but not changing the total number of errors made. Eight studies (N = 7,921) investigate how noise and bias rely on distinct psychological mechanisms and are influenced by different interventions. Interventions that removed demographic information not only eliminated bias, but also reduced noise (Studies 1a and 1b). Interventions that either decreased (Studies 2a-2c) or increased (Study 3) the time available to evaluators impacted noise but not bias, as did interventions altering motivation to process outcome-relevant information (Study 4). Conversely, an intervention asking participants to avoid favoring a certain group impacted bias but not noise (Study 5). Finally, a novel intervention that both asked participants to avoid favoring a certain group and required them to take more time when making judgments impacted bias and noise simultaneously (Study 5). Efforts to reduce discrimination will be well-served by understanding how interventions impact bias, noise, or both. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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OBJECTIVE To investigate whether manipulating the format of an automated decision aid's cues can improve participants' information integration strategies in a signal detection task. BACKGROUND Automation-aided decision making is often suboptimal, falling well short of statistically ideal levels. The choice of format in which the cues from the aid are displayed may help users to better understand and integrate the aid's judgments with their own. METHOD Participants performed a signal detection task that asked them to classify random dot images as either blue or orange dominant. They made their judgments either unaided or with assistance from a 93% reliable automated decision aid. The aid provided a binary judgment, along with an estimate of signal strength in the form of either a raw value, a likelihood ratio, or a confidence rating (Experiments 1 and 2) or a binary judgment along with either a verbal or verbal-visuospatial expression of confidence (Experiment 3). Aided sensitivity was benchmarked to the predictions of various statistical models of collaborative decision making. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Aided performance was suboptimal, matching the predictions of some of the least efficient models. Most importantly, performance was similar across cue formats. APPLICATION Results indicate that changes to the format in which cues from a signal detection aid are rendered are unlikely to dramatically improve the efficiency of automation-aided decision making.
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Dillard MB, Warm JS, Funke GJ, Nelson WT, Finomore VS, McClernon CK, Eggemeier FT, Tripp LD, Funke ME. Vigilance Tasks: Unpleasant, Mentally Demanding, and Stressful Even When Time Flies. Hum Factors 2019; 61:225-242. [PMID: 30216088 DOI: 10.1177/0018720818796015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether perceived time progression (PTP) moderates participants' negative reactions to vigilance tasks. BACKGROUND Vigilance tasks are rated by participants to be unenjoyable and as having high levels of workload and stress. Based on the adage, "You are having fun when time flies," we tested the possibility that accelerating PTP might reduce these negative experiences. METHOD Two studies were performed, involving a long 30-min and a short 12-min vigil. We manipulated participants' PTP by creating a mismatch between their expectations about how long they would perform the task and the actual time that they were engaged. RESULTS PTP was significantly faster for participants who were led to expect that the vigilance task would last longer than it did relative to those led to expect that task duration would be shorter than it actually was and for controls for whom task duration was equal to the expected duration. However, accelerating PTP had no effect in either experiment on undesirable reactions to the vigilance tasks. Participants uniformly rated both tasks as unenjoyable, as having a high level of workload, and as stressful. Apparently, vigilance isn't fun even when time flies. CONCLUSION Our findings greatly underscore the depth to which negative subjective reactions are embedded in the nature of vigilance tasks and therefore that these tasks can have potentially serious costs to participants in terms of health, safety, and productivity. APPLICATION These costs must be considered at the operational level.
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- Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
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- Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
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- Naval Medical Research Unit, Dayton, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
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Stefanou ME, Dundon NM, Bestelmeyer PEG, Koldewyn K, Saville CWN, Fleischhaker C, Feige B, Biscaldi M, Smyrnis N, Klein C. Electro-cortical correlates of multisensory integration using ecologically valid emotional stimuli: Differential effects for fear and disgust. Biol Psychol 2019; 142:132-139. [PMID: 30685414 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 08/30/2018] [Revised: 01/16/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Multisensory integration (MSI) is crucial for human communication and social interaction and has been investigated in healthy populations and neurodevelopmental disorders. However, the use of stimuli with high ecological validity is sparse, especially in event-related potential (ERP) studies. The present study examined the ERP correlates of MSI in healthy adults using short (500 ms) ecologically valid professional actor-produced emotions of fear or disgust as vocal exclamation or facial expression (unimodal conditions) or both (bimodal condition). Behaviourally, our results show a general visual dominance effect (similarly fast responses following bimodal and visual stimuli) and an MSI-related speedup of responses only for fear. Electrophysiologically, both P100 and N170 showed MSI-related amplitude increases only following fear, but not disgust stimuli. Our results show for the first time that the known differential neural processing of fear and disgust also holds for the integration of dynamic auditory and visual information.
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- M E Stefanou
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany; Brain Imaging Center, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Germany.
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Starzynski C, Gutschalk A. Context-dependent role of selective attention for change detection in multi-speaker scenes. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:4623-4632. [PMID: 29999565 PMCID: PMC6866511 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2017] [Revised: 06/25/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Disappearance of a voice or other sound source may often go unnoticed when the auditory scene is crowded. We explored the role of selective attention for this change deafness with magnetoencephalography in multi-speaker scenes. Each scene was presented two times in direct succession, and one target speaker was frequently omitted in Scene 2. When listeners were previously cued to the target speaker, activity in auditory cortex time locked to the target speaker's sound envelope was selectively enhanced in Scene 1, as was determined by a cross-correlation analysis. Moreover, the response was stronger for hit trials than for miss trials, confirming that selective attention played a role for subsequent change detection. If selective attention to the streams where the change occurred was generally required for successful change detection, neural enhancement of this stream would also be expected without cue in hit compared to miss trials. However, when listeners were not previously cued to the target, no enhanced activity for the target speaker was observed for hit trials, and there was no significant difference between hit and miss trials. These results, first, confirm a role for attention in change detection for situations where the target source is known. Second, they suggest that the omission of a speaker, or more generally an auditory stream, can alternatively be detected without selective attentional enhancement of the target stream. Several models and strategies could be envisaged for change detection in this case, including global comparison of the subsequent scenes.
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- Department of NeurologyRuprecht‐Karls‐Universität HeidelbergHeidelbergGermany
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Schwartz JC, Whyte AT, Al-Nuaimi M, Donai JJ. Effects of signal bandwidth and noise on individual speaker identification. J Acoust Soc Am 2018; 144:EL447. [PMID: 30522302 DOI: 10.1121/1.5078770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 10/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of increasing spectral bandwidth from 3 to 10 kHz on individual speaker recognition in noisy conditions (+5, 0, and -5 dB signal-to-noise ratio). Experiment 1 utilized h(Vowel)d (hVd) signals, while experiment 2 utilized sentences from the Rainbow Passage. Both experiments showed significant improvements in individual speaker identification in the 10 kHz bandwidth condition (6% for hVds; 10% for sentences). These results coincide with the extant machine recognition literature demonstrating significant amounts of individual speaker information present in the speech signal above approximately 3-4 kHz. Cues from the high-frequency region for speaker identity warrant further study.
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- Jeremy C Schwartz
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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Animals successfully thrive in noisy environments with finite resources. The necessity to function with resource constraints has led evolution to design animal brains (and bodies) to be optimal in their use of computational power while being adaptable to their environmental niche. A key process undergirding this ability to adapt is the process of learning. Although a complete characterization of the neural basis of learning remains ongoing, scientists for nearly a century have used the brain as inspiration to design artificial neural networks capable of learning, a case in point being deep learning. In this viewpoint, we advocate that deep learning can be further enhanced by incorporating and tightly integrating five fundamental principles of neural circuit design and function: optimizing the system to environmental need and making it robust to environmental noise, customizing learning to context, modularizing the system, learning without supervision, and learning using reinforcement strategies. We illustrate how animals integrate these learning principles using the fruit fly olfactory learning circuit, one of nature's best-characterized and highly optimized schemes for learning. Incorporating these principles may not just improve deep learning but also expose common computational constraints. With judicious use, deep learning can become yet another effective tool to understand how and why brains are designed the way they are.
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- Shyam Srinivasan
- Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
- Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, and
- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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- Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093,
- Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093,
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The biasing role of stereotypes is a central theme in social cognition research. For example, to understand the role of race in police officers' decisions to shoot, participants have been shown images of Black and White males and instructed to shoot only if the target is holding a gun. Findings show that Black targets are shot more frequently and more quickly than Whites. The decision to shoot has typically been modeled and understood as a signal detection process in which a sample of information is compared against a criterion, with the criterion set for Black targets being lower. We take a different approach, modeling the decision to shoot as a dynamic process in which evidence is accumulated over time until a threshold is reached. The model accounts for both the choice and response time data for both correct and incorrect decisions using a single set of parameters. Across four studies, this dynamic perspective revealed that the target's race did not create an initial bias to shoot Black targets. Instead, race impacted the rate of evidence accumulation with evidence accumulating faster to shoot for Black targets. Some participants also tended to be more cautious with Black targets, setting higher decision thresholds. Besides providing a more cohesive and richer account of the decision to shoot or not, the dynamic model suggests interventions that may address the use of race information in decisions to shoot and a means to measure their effectiveness.
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- Timothy J. Pleskac
- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Psychology Building, Michigan State University, 316 Physics Road, Room 255, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Psychology Building, Michigan State University, 316 Physics Road, Room 255, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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Stojmenova K, Sodnik J. Validation of auditory detection response task method for assessing the attentional effects of cognitive load. Traffic Inj Prev 2018; 19:495-500. [PMID: 29461865 DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2018.1439164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVES There are 3 standardized versions of the Detection Response Task (DRT), 2 using visual stimuli (remote DRT and head-mounted DRT) and one using tactile stimuli. In this article, we present a study that proposes and validates a type of auditory signal to be used as DRT stimulus and evaluate the proposed auditory version of this method by comparing it with the standardized visual and tactile version. METHODS This was a within-subject design study performed in a driving simulator with 24 participants. Each participant performed 8 2-min-long driving sessions in which they had to perform 3 different tasks: driving, answering to DRT stimuli, and performing a cognitive task (n-back task). Presence of additional cognitive load and type of DRT stimuli were defined as independent variables. DRT response times and hit rates, n-back task performance, and pupil size were observed as dependent variables. RESULTS Significant changes in pupil size for trials with a cognitive task compared to trials without showed that cognitive load was induced properly. Each DRT version showed a significant increase in response times and a decrease in hit rates for trials with a secondary cognitive task compared to trials without. Similar and significantly better results in differences in response times and hit rates were obtained for the auditory and tactile version compared to the visual version. There were no significant differences in performance rate between the trials without DRT stimuli compared to trials with and among the trials with different DRT stimuli modalities. CONCLUSIONS The results from this study show that the auditory DRT version, using the signal implementation suggested in this article, is sensitive to the effects of cognitive load on driver's attention and is significantly better than the remote visual and tactile version for auditory-vocal cognitive (n-back) secondary tasks.
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- Kristina Stojmenova
- a Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana , Ljubljana , Slovenia
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- a Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana , Ljubljana , Slovenia
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Waiblinger C, Whitmire CJ, Sederberg A, Stanley GB, Schwarz C. Primary Tactile Thalamus Spiking Reflects Cognitive Signals. J Neurosci 2018; 38:4870-4885. [PMID: 29703788 PMCID: PMC6596129 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2403-17.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 08/24/2017] [Revised: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 04/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Little is known about whether information transfer at primary sensory thalamic nuclei is modified by behavioral context. Here we studied the influence of previous decisions/rewards on current choices and preceding spike responses of ventroposterior medial thalamus (VPm; the primary sensory thalamus in the rat whisker-related tactile system). We trained head-fixed rats to detect a ramp-like deflection of one whisker interspersed within ongoing white noise stimulation. Using generative modeling of behavior, we identify two task-related variables that are predictive of actual decisions. The first reflects task engagement on a local scale ("trial history": defined as the decisions and outcomes of a small number of past trials), whereas the other captures behavioral dynamics on a global scale ("satiation": slow dynamics of the response pattern along an entire session). Although satiation brought about a slow drift from Go to NoGo decisions during the session, trial history was related to local (trial-by-trial) patterning of Go and NoGo decisions. A second model that related the same predictors first to VPm spike responses, and from there to decisions, indicated that spiking, in contrast to behavior, is sensitive to trial history but relatively insensitive to satiation. Trial history influences VPm spike rates and regularity such that a history of Go decisions would predict fewer noise-driven spikes (but more regular ones), and more ramp-driven spikes. Neuronal activity in VPm, thus, is sensitive to local behavioral history, and may play an important role in higher-order cognitive signaling.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT It is an important question for perceptual and brain functions to find out whether cognitive signals modulate the sensory signal stream and if so, where in the brain this happens. This study provides evidence that decision and reward history can already be reflected in the ascending sensory pathway, on the level of first-order sensory thalamus. Cognitive signals are relayed very selectively such that only local trial history (spanning a few trials) but not global history (spanning an entire session) are reflected.
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- Christian Waiblinger
- Systems Neurophysiology, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
- Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany, and
- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- Systems Neurophysiology, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience,
- Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany, and
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Jiang Y, Wu X, Saab R, Xiao Y, Gao X. Time course of influence on the allocation of attentional resources caused by unconscious fearful faces. Neuropsychologia 2018; 113:104-110. [PMID: 29626497 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2017] [Revised: 03/19/2018] [Accepted: 04/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Emotionally affective stimuli have priority in our visual processing even in the absence of conscious processing. However, the influence of unconscious emotional stimuli on our attentional resources remains unclear. Using the continuous flash suppression (CFS) paradigm, we concurrently recorded and analyzed visual event-related potential (ERP) components evoked by the images of suppressed fearful and neutral faces, and the steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) elicited by dynamic Mondrian pictures. Fearful faces, relative to neutral faces, elicited larger late ERP components on parietal electrodes, indicating emotional expression processing without consciousness. More importantly, the presentation of a suppressed fearful face in the CFS resulted in a significantly greater decrease in SSVEP amplitude which started about 1-1.2 s after the face images first appeared. This suggests that the time course of the attentional bias occurs at about 1 s after the appearance of the fearful face and demonstrates that unconscious fearful faces may influence attentional resource allocation. Moreover, we proposed a new method that could eliminate the interaction of ERPs and SSVEPs when recorded concurrently.
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- Yunpeng Jiang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering, Astronaut Research and Training Center, Beijing 100094, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Gruntman E, Romani S, Reiser MB. Simple integration of fast excitation and offset, delayed inhibition computes directional selectivity in Drosophila. Nat Neurosci 2018; 21:250-257. [PMID: 29311742 PMCID: PMC5967973 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-017-0046-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [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: 04/11/2017] [Accepted: 11/06/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A neuron that extracts directionally selective motion information from upstream signals lacking this selectivity must compare visual responses from spatially offset inputs. Distinguishing among prevailing algorithmic models for this computation requires measuring fast neuronal activity and inhibition. In the Drosophila melanogaster visual system, a fourth-order neuron-T4-is the first cell type in the ON pathway to exhibit directionally selective signals. Here we use in vivo whole-cell recordings of T4 to show that directional selectivity originates from simple integration of spatially offset fast excitatory and slow inhibitory inputs, resulting in a suppression of responses to the nonpreferred motion direction. We constructed a passive, conductance-based model of a T4 cell that accurately predicts the neuron's response to moving stimuli. These results connect the known circuit anatomy of the motion pathway to the algorithmic mechanism by which the direction of motion is computed.
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- Eyal Gruntman
- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.
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Kam JWY, Szczepanski SM, Canolty RT, Flinker A, Auguste KI, Crone NE, Kirsch HE, Kuperman RA, Lin JJ, Parvizi J, Knight RT. Differential Sources for 2 Neural Signatures of Target Detection: An Electrocorticography Study. Cereb Cortex 2018; 28:9-20. [PMID: 29253249 PMCID: PMC6454481 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 03/13/2016] [Revised: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 10/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Electrophysiology and neuroimaging provide conflicting evidence for the neural contributions to target detection. Scalp electroencephalography (EEG) studies localize the P3b event-related potential component mainly to parietal cortex, whereas neuroimaging studies report activations in both frontal and parietal cortices. We addressed this discrepancy by examining the sources that generate the target-detection process using electrocorticography (ECoG). We recorded ECoG activity from cortex in 14 patients undergoing epilepsy monitoring, as they performed an auditory or visual target-detection task. We examined target-related responses in 2 domains: high frequency band (HFB) activity and the P3b. Across tasks, we observed a greater proportion of electrodes that showed target-specific HFB power relative to P3b over frontal cortex, but their proportions over parietal cortex were comparable. Notably, there was minimal overlap in the electrodes that showed target-specific HFB and P3b activity. These results revealed that the target-detection process is characterized by at least 2 different neural markers with distinct cortical distributions. Our findings suggest that separate neural mechanisms are driving the differential patterns of activity observed in scalp EEG and neuroimaging studies, with the P3b reflecting EEG findings and HFB activity reflecting neuroimaging findings, highlighting the notion that target detection is not a unitary phenomenon.
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- J W Y Kam
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurological Surgery, Children's Hospital and Research Center, Oakland, CA 94609, USA
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Division of Epilepsy and Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital and Research Center, Oakland, CA 94609, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Laboratory of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program (SHICEP), Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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A change in subtask order in the psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm increases the effect of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) on the second response. We used a paradigm with cued, randomly determined subtask order to test the hypothesis that this SOA by order switch overadditivity reflects order control, via “copying” stimulus order. In Experiments 1a and 1b, overadditivity was evident only with insufficient opportunity for cue-based order control. In Experiment 2, overadditivity was decreased by using the same set of stimuli in the two subtasks, presumably by removing the opportunity to rely on stimulus order. In Experiment 3, removing the order cue increased the overadditivity, presumably because control was based solely upon copying stimulus order. The results indicate interactive top-down and bottom-up order control. Implications to theories of the PRP paradigm are discussed.
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- Roy Luria
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
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The present research was conducted to establish the validity of a novel procedure for measuring human contingency judgements aimed at shortening the length of conventional procedures. Cues and outcomes were simple geometric shapes that were presented in a rapid streaming fashion, reducing the length of a block of trials from several minutes to a few seconds. We establish the reliability of the procedure by replicating two central findings in the contingency judgement literature, and we elaborate on the importance of this method for future research.
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Visual perceptual learning through practice or training can significantly improve performance on visual tasks. Originally seen as a manifestation of plasticity in the primary visual cortex, perceptual learning is more readily understood as improvements in the function of brain networks that integrate processes, including sensory representations, decision, attention, and reward, and balance plasticity with system stability. This review considers the primary phenomena of perceptual learning, theories of perceptual learning, and perceptual learning's effect on signal and noise in visual processing and decision. Models, especially computational models, play a key role in behavioral and physiological investigations of the mechanisms of perceptual learning and for understanding, predicting, and optimizing human perceptual processes, learning, and performance. Performance improvements resulting from reweighting or readout of sensory inputs to decision provide a strong theoretical framework for interpreting perceptual learning and transfer that may prove useful in optimizing learning in real-world applications.
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- Barbara Dosher
- Department of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, and Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California 92617;
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210;
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OBJECTIVE A series of experiments examined human operators' strategies for interacting with highly (93%) reliable automated decision aids in a binary signal detection task. BACKGROUND Operators often interact with automated decision aids in a suboptimal way, achieving performance levels lower than predicted by a statistically ideal model of information integration. To better understand operators' inefficient use of decision aids, we compared participants' automation-aided performance levels with the predictions of seven statistical models of collaborative decision making. METHOD Participants performed a binary signal detection task that asked them to classify random dot images as either blue or orange dominant. They made their judgments either unaided or with assistance from a 93% reliable automated decision aid that provided either graded (Experiments 1 and 3) or binary (Experiment 2) cues. We compared automation-aided performance with the predictions of seven statistical models of collaborative decision making, including a statistically optimal model and Robinson and Sorkin's contingent criterion model. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Automation-aided sensitivity hewed closest to the predictions of the two least efficient collaborative models, well short of statistically ideal levels. Performance was similar whether the aid provided graded or binary judgments. Model comparisons identified potential strategies by which participants integrated their judgments with the aid's. APPLICATION Results lend insight into participants' automation-aided decision strategies and provide benchmarks for predicting automation-aided performance levels.
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Batista-Brito R, Vinck M, Ferguson KA, Chang JT, Laubender D, Lur G, Mossner JM, Hernandez VG, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Higley MJ, Cardin JA. Developmental Dysfunction of VIP Interneurons Impairs Cortical Circuits. Neuron 2017; 95:884-895.e9. [PMID: 28817803 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.07.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [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: 07/25/2016] [Revised: 07/08/2017] [Accepted: 07/27/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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GABAergic interneurons play important roles in cortical circuit development. However, there are multiple populations of interneurons and their respective developmental contributions remain poorly explored. Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) and its interneuron-specific receptor ERBB4 are critical genes for interneuron maturation. Using a conditional ErbB4 deletion, we tested the role of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-expressing interneurons in the postnatal maturation of cortical circuits in vivo. ErbB4 removal from VIP interneurons during development leads to changes in their activity, along with severe dysregulation of cortical temporal organization and state dependence. These alterations emerge during adolescence, and mature animals in which VIP interneurons lack ErbB4 exhibit reduced cortical responses to sensory stimuli and impaired sensory learning. Our data support a key role for VIP interneurons in cortical circuit development and suggest a possible contribution to pathophysiology in neurodevelopmental disorders. These findings provide a new perspective on the role of GABAergic interneuron diversity in cortical development. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
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- Renata Batista-Brito
- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA; Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Deutschordenstraße 46, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; HHMI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar St., New Haven CT, 06520, USA.
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Vernet M, Japee S, Lokey S, Ahmed S, Zachariou V, Ungerleider LG. Endogenous visuospatial attention increases visual awareness independent of visual discrimination sensitivity. Neuropsychologia 2017; 128:297-304. [PMID: 28807647 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 08/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Visuospatial attention often improves task performance by increasing signal gain at attended locations and decreasing noise at unattended locations. Attention is also believed to be the mechanism that allows information to enter awareness. In this experiment, we assessed whether orienting endogenous visuospatial attention with cues differentially affects visual discrimination sensitivity (an objective task performance) and visual awareness (the subjective feeling of perceiving) during the same discrimination task. Gabor patch targets were presented laterally, either at low contrast (contrast stimuli) or at high contrast embedded in noise (noise stimuli). Participants reported their orientation either in a 3-alternative choice task (clockwise, counterclockwise, unknown) that allowed for both objective and subjective reports, or in a 2-alternative choice task (clockwise, counterclockwise) that provided a control for objective reports. Signal detection theory models were fit to the experimental data: estimated perceptual sensitivity reflected objective performance; decision criteria, or subjective biases, were a proxy for visual awareness. Attention increased sensitivity (i.e., improved objective performance) for the contrast, but not for the noise stimuli. Indeed, with the latter, attention did not further enhance the already high target signal or reduce the already low uncertainty on its position. Interestingly, for both contrast and noise stimuli, attention resulted in more liberal criteria, i.e., awareness increased. The noise condition is thus an experimental configuration where people think they see the targets they attend to better, even if they do not. This could be explained by an internal representation of their attentional state, which influences awareness independent of objective visual signals.
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- Marine Vernet
- Section on Neurocircuitry, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Section on Neurocircuitry, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section on Neurocircuitry, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section on Neurocircuitry, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section on Neurocircuitry, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section on Neurocircuitry, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Hahn B, Harvey AN, Gold JM, Ross TJ, Stein EA. Load-dependent hyperdeactivation of the default mode network in people with schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2017; 185:190-196. [PMID: 28073606 PMCID: PMC6104387 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Revised: 12/28/2016] [Accepted: 01/01/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Schizophrenia is associated with impairment in a range of cognitive functions. Neuroimaging studies have reported lower, but also higher, task-induced activation accompanying impaired performance. Differences in task-load and the ability of people with schizophrenia (PSZ) to stay engaged in the cognitive operations probed appear to underlie such discrepancies. Similarly, task-induced deactivation of the default mode network (DMN) was weaker in PSZ relative to healthy control subjects (HCS) in most studies, but some reported greater deactivation. An inability to stay engaged in the cognitive operations could account for these discrepancies, too, as it would lead to more time off-task and consequently less deactivation of DMN functions. The present study employed a change detection paradigm with small to moderate set sizes (SSs) of 1, 2, and 4 items. Task training prior to fMRI scanning abolished the group difference in no-response trials. Task-positive regions of interest (ROIs) displayed greater activation with increasing SS in both groups. PSZ showed greater activation relative to HCS at SSs 1 and 2. DMN ROIs displayed greater deactivation with increasing SS in PSZ, but not in HCS, and PSZ tended to hyperdeactivate DMN regions at SS 4. No hypodeactivation was observed in PSZ. In conclusion, when minimizing differences in task-engagement, PSZ tend to over-recruit task-positive regions during low-load operations, and hyperdeactivate DMN functions at higher load, perhaps reflecting heightened non-specific vigilance or effort when dealing with cognitive challenges. This speaks against an inability to down-regulate task-independent thought processes as a primary mechanism underlying cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.
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- Britta Hahn
- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, P.O. Box 21247, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA.
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, P.O. Box 21247, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA.
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, P.O. Box 21247, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA.
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse - Intramural Research Program, Neuroimaging Research Branch, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse - Intramural Research Program, Neuroimaging Research Branch, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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Hamamouche KA, Niemi L, Cordes S. Quantifying a threat: Evidence of a numeric processing bias. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2017; 177:1-9. [PMID: 28411438 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [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: 06/10/2015] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Humans prioritize the processing of threats over neutral stimuli; thus, not surprisingly, the presence of threats has been shown to alter performance on both perceptual and cognitive tasks. Yet whether the quantification process is disrupted in the presence of threat is unknown. In three experiments, we examined numerical estimation and discrimination abilities in adults in the context of threatening (spiders) and non-threatening (e.g., flowers) stimuli. Results of the numerical estimation task (Experiment 1) showed that participants underestimated the number of threatening relative to neutral stimuli. Additionally, numerical discrimination data reveal that participants' abilities to discriminate between the number of entities in two arrays were worsened when the arrays consisted of threatening entities versus neutral entities (Experiment 2). However, discrimination abilities were enhanced when threatening content was presented immediately before neutral dot arrays (Experiment 3). Together, these studies suggest that threats impact our processing of visual numerosity via changes in attention to numerical stimuli, and that the nature of the threat (intrinsic or extrinsic to the stimulus) is vital in determining the direction of this impact. Intrinsic threat content in stimuli impedes its own quantification; yet threat that is extrinsic to the sets to be enumerated enhances numerical processing for subsequently presented neutral stimuli.
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- Karina A Hamamouche
- Boston College, Department of Psychology, 140 Commonwealth Ave, 300 McGuinn Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
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- Harvard University, Department of Psychology, 33 Kirkland Street, William James Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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- Boston College, Department of Psychology, 140 Commonwealth Ave, 300 McGuinn Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
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Heldmann M, Münte TF, Paracka L, Beyer F, Brüggemann N, Saryyeva A, Rasche D, Krauss JK, Tronnier VM. Human subthalamic nucleus - Automatic auditory change detection as a basis for action selection. Neuroscience 2017; 355:141-148. [PMID: 28504196 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 01/05/2017] [Revised: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The subthalamic nucleus (STN) shapes motor behavior and is important for the initiation and termination of movements. Here we ask whether the STN takes aggregated sensory information into account, in order to exert this function. To this end, local field potentials (LFP) were recorded in eight patients suffering from Parkinson's disease and receiving deep-brain stimulation of the STN bilaterally. Bipolar recordings were obtained postoperatively from the externalized electrode leads. Patients were passively exposed to trains of auditory stimuli containing global deviants, local deviants or combined global/local deviants. The surface event-related potentials of the Parkinson's patients as well as those of 19 age-matched healthy controls were characterized by a mismatch negativity (MMN) that was most pronounced for the global/local double deviants and less prominent for the other deviant conditions. The left and right STN LFPs similarly were modulated by stimulus deviance starting at about 100ms post-stimulus onset. The MMN has been viewed as an index of an automatic auditory change detection system, more recently phrased in terms of predictive coding theory, which prepares the organism for attention shifts and for action. The LFP-data from the STN clearly demonstrate that the STN receives information on stimulus deviance, possibly as a means to bias the system to interrupt ongoing and to allow alternative actions.
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- Marcus Heldmann
- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
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- Department of Neurology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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Thomson DR, Hasher L. On the preservation of vigilant attention to semantic information in healthy aging. Exp Brain Res 2017; 235:2287-2300. [PMID: 28477041 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-017-4969-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Despite decades of research on younger adults, little is known about the way in which vigilant attention is affected by healthy aging, and the small body of work that does exist has yielded mixed findings. Prior examinations of aging and vigilant attention have focused almost exclusively on sensory/perceptual tasks despite the fact that many real-world vigilance tasks are semantic in nature and it has been shown that older adults exhibit memory and attention deficits in semantic tasks in other domains. Here, we present the first empirical investigation of vigilant attention to verbal stimuli in healthy normal aging. In Experiment 1 we find that older adults are just as able as younger adults to identify critical targets defined by category membership (both overall and over time). In Experiment 2, we increase the difficulty of the task by changing the target category from one block to the next, but again find no age-group effects in accuracy. Response time data, however, show that older adults respond more slowly and subjective ratings indicate that older adults experience higher workload and arousal compared to their younger counterparts. The practical as well as theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
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- David R Thomson
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3GS, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3GS, Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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Heikoop DD, de Winter JCF, van Arem B, Stanton NA. Effects of platooning on signal-detection performance, workload, and stress: A driving simulator study. Appl Ergon 2017; 60:116-127. [PMID: 28166869 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2016.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2016] [Revised: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/31/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Platooning, whereby automated vehicles travel closely together in a group, is attractive in terms of safety and efficiency. However, concerns exist about the psychological state of the platooning driver, who is exempted from direct control, yet remains responsible for monitoring the outside environment to detect potential threats. By means of a driving simulator experiment, we investigated the effects on recorded and self-reported measures of workload and stress for three task-instruction conditions: (1) No Task, in which participants had to monitor the road, (2) Voluntary Task, in which participants could do whatever they wanted, and (3) Detection Task, in which participants had to detect red cars. Twenty-two participants performed three 40-min runs in a constant-speed platoon, one condition per run in counterbalanced order. Contrary to some classic literature suggesting that humans are poor monitors, in the Detection Task condition participants attained a high mean detection rate (94.7%) and a low mean false alarm rate (0.8%). Results of the Dundee Stress State Questionnaire indicated that automated platooning was less distressing in the Voluntary Task than in the Detection Task and No Task conditions. In terms of heart rate variability, the Voluntary Task condition yielded a lower power in the low-frequency range relative to the high-frequency range (LF/HF ratio) than the Detection Task condition. Moreover, a strong time-on-task effect was found, whereby the mean heart rate dropped from the first to the third run. In conclusion, participants are able to remain attentive for a prolonged platooning drive, and the type of monitoring task has effects on the driver's psychological state.
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- Daniël D Heikoop
- Transportation Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Boldrewood Innovation Campus, University of Southampton, Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 7QF, UK.
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- Department of BioMechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- Department of Transport & Planning, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- Transportation Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Boldrewood Innovation Campus, University of Southampton, Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 7QF, UK
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OBJECTIVE We investigated the effects of automatic target detection (ATD) on the detection and identification performance of soldiers. BACKGROUND Prior studies have shown that highlighting targets can aid their detection. We provided soldiers with ATD that was more likely to detect one target identity than another, potentially acting as an implicit identification aid. METHOD Twenty-eight soldiers detected and identified simulated human targets in an immersive virtual environment with and without ATD. Task difficulty was manipulated by varying scene illumination (day, night). The ATD identification bias was also manipulated (hostile bias, no bias, and friendly bias). We used signal detection measures to treat the identification results. RESULTS ATD presence improved detection performance, especially under high task difficulty (night illumination). Identification sensitivity was greater for cued than uncued targets. The identification decision criterion for cued targets varied with the ATD identification bias but showed a "sluggish beta" effect. CONCLUSION ATD helps soldiers detect and identify targets. The effects of biased ATD on identification should be considered with respect to the operational context. APPLICATION Less-than-perfectly-reliable ATD is a useful detection aid for dismounted soldiers. Disclosure of known ATD identification bias to the operator may aid the identification process.
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the effects of uncertainty about where in the field of view critical signals for detection appear during a vigilance task (spatial uncertainty) on cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) and oculomotor fatigue. BACKGROUND Neuroergonomics is a dimension of human factors founded by Raja Parasuraman that studies brain functions underlying performance at work. Neuroergonomic studies have shown that observers in vigilance tasks lose information-processing resources over time and experience oculomotor fatigue as indexed by a temporal decline in CBFV and elevation in eye closure as reflected in the PERCLOS metric. Because spatial uncertainty increases an observer's need for visual scanning relative to a spatial certainty condition, it was anticipated that spatial uncertainty would result in a greater temporal decline in CBFV and increased eye closure in a vigilance session. METHOD Observers performed a simulated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control task wherein collision flight paths were the events to be detected. UAV images could appear at random in any one of five locations on the controller's display (spatial uncertainty) or only in a fixed location (spatial certainty). RESULTS Signal detection was poorer in the spatial-uncertain relative to the certain condition, and predictions regarding CBFV and eye closure were confirmed. CONCLUSION Vigilance tasks involving spatial uncertainty are more neurophysiologically taxing than those in which spatial uncertainty is not a factor. APPLICATION The neuroergonomic approach helps in understanding the effects of psychophysical factors in vigilance and to signify when performance aiding is needed.
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- Matthew E Funke
- Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
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- Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
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- Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
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OBJECTIVE We examined the impact task interruptions of differing qualitative and quantitative load have on visuospatial vigilance sensitivity. BACKGROUND The vigilance decrement and attempts to develop countermeasures to the decrement is one of the most important human factors issues. There is an ongoing debate between those who interpret the increase in the rate of failures to detect signals over time as being due to objective task monotony or task underload and those who interpret this increased failure proneness as being predominately due to cognitive-resource depletion and task overload. METHOD Participants were assigned at random to one of six interruptions: Participants were given a complete rest (rest); participants completed a 1-back verbal working-memory (WM) task, a 3-back verbal WM task, a 1-back spatial WM task, or a 3-back spatial WM task; or participants performed the primary vigilance task (continuous). RESULTS Postinterruption performance was best for rest and worst for continuous. A resource theory perspective led us to make two possible predictions of relative interruption effect orders of the six conditions out of 720 possible orderings. We found one of the two orders. CONCLUSION Overall, the vigilance sensitivity decrement appears to be due to the recurring use of particular cognitive resources, and resource theorists should explore this more extensively in the future. APPLICATION Countermeasures for the vigilance decrement should be based on clear cognitive-resource considerations. Rest is the best countermeasure. Intervening tasks should be chosen that minimize resource-demand overlap with the vigilance task.
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BACKGROUND Laboratory tasks to delineate anxiety disorder features are used to refine classification and inform our understanding of etiological mechanisms. The present study examines laboratory measures of response inhibition, specifically the inhibition of a pre-potent motor response, in clinical anxiety. Data on associations between anxiety and response inhibition remain inconsistent, perhaps because of dissociable effects of clinical anxiety and experimentally manipulated state anxiety. Few studies directly assess the independent and interacting effects of these two anxiety types (state v. disorder) on response inhibition. The current study accomplished this goal, by manipulating state anxiety in healthy and clinically anxious individuals while they complete a response inhibition task. METHOD The study employs the threat-of-shock paradigm, one of the best-established manipulations for robustly increasing state anxiety. Participants included 82 adults (41 healthy; 41 patients with an anxiety disorder). A go/nogo task with highly frequent go trials was administered during alternating periods of safety and shock threat. Signal detection theory was used to quantify response bias and signal-detection sensitivity. RESULTS There were independent effects of anxiety and clinical anxiety on response inhibition. In both groups, heightened anxiety facilitated response inhibition, leading to reduced nogo commission errors. Compared with the healthy group, clinical anxiety was associated with excessive response inhibition and increased go omission errors in both the safe and threat conditions. CONCLUSIONS Response inhibition and its impact on go omission errors appear to be a promising behavioral marker of clinical anxiety. These results have implications for a dimensional view of clinical anxiety.
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- Section on Neurobiology of Fear and Anxiety, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
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- Section on Neurobiology of Fear and Anxiety, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section on Neurobiology of Fear and Anxiety, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section on Neurobiology of Fear and Anxiety, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section on Neurobiology of Fear and Anxiety, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Canfield CI, Fischhoff B, Davis A. Quantifying Phishing Susceptibility for Detection and Behavior Decisions. Hum Factors 2016; 58:1158-1172. [PMID: 27562565 DOI: 10.1177/0018720816665025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/23/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE We use signal detection theory to measure vulnerability to phishing attacks, including variation in performance across task conditions. BACKGROUND Phishing attacks are difficult to prevent with technology alone, as long as technology is operated by people. Those responsible for managing security risks must understand user decision making in order to create and evaluate potential solutions. METHOD Using a scenario-based online task, we performed two experiments comparing performance on two tasks: detection, deciding whether an e-mail is phishing, and behavior, deciding what to do with an e-mail. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the order of the tasks and notification of the phishing base rate. In Experiment 2, we varied which task participants performed. RESULTS In both experiments, despite exhibiting cautious behavior, participants' limited detection ability left them vulnerable to phishing attacks. Greater sensitivity was positively correlated with confidence. Greater willingness to treat e-mails as legitimate was negatively correlated with perceived consequences from their actions and positively correlated with confidence. These patterns were robust across experimental conditions. CONCLUSION Phishing-related decisions are sensitive to individuals' detection ability, response bias, confidence, and perception of consequences. Performance differs when people evaluate messages or respond to them but not when their task varies in other ways. APPLICATION Based on these results, potential interventions include providing users with feedback on their abilities and information about the consequences of phishing, perhaps targeting those with the worst performance. Signal detection methods offer system operators quantitative assessments of the impacts of interventions and their residual vulnerability.
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Ionescu MR. Subliminal perception of complex visual stimuli. Rom J Ophthalmol 2016; 60:226-230. [PMID: 29450354 PMCID: PMC5711286] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/17/2016] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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Rationale: Unconscious perception of various sensory modalities is an active subject of research though its function and effect on behavior is uncertain. Objective: The present study tried to assess if unconscious visual perception could occur with more complex visual stimuli than previously utilized. Methods and Results: Videos containing slideshows of indifferent complex images with interspersed frames of interest of various durations were presented to 24 healthy volunteers. The perception of the stimulus was evaluated with a forced-choice questionnaire while awareness was quantified by self-assessment with a modified awareness scale annexed to each question with 4 categories of awareness. At values of 16.66 ms of stimulus duration, conscious awareness was not possible and answers regarding the stimulus were random. At 50 ms, nonrandom answers were coupled with no self-reported awareness suggesting unconscious perception of the stimulus. At larger durations of stimulus presentation, significantly correct answers were coupled with a certain conscious awareness. Discussion: At values of 50 ms, unconscious perception is possible even with complex visual stimuli. Further studies are recommended with a focus on a range of interest of stimulus duration between 50 to 16.66 ms.
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Ferrè ER, Sahani M, Haggard P. Subliminal stimulation and somatosensory signal detection. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2016; 170:103-11. [PMID: 27387873 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 06/29/2015] [Revised: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 06/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Only a small fraction of sensory signals is consciously perceived. The brain's perceptual systems may include mechanisms of feedforward inhibition that protect the cortex from subliminal noise, thus reserving cortical capacity and conscious awareness for significant stimuli. Here we provide a new view of these mechanisms based on signal detection theory, and gain control. We demonstrated that subliminal somatosensory stimulation decreased sensitivity for the detection of a subsequent somatosensory input, largely due to increased false alarm rates. By delivering the subliminal somatosensory stimulus and the to-be-detected somatosensory stimulus to different digits of the same hand, we show that this effect spreads across the sensory surface. In addition, subliminal somatosensory stimulation tended to produce an increased probability of responding "yes", whether the somatosensory stimulus was present or not. Our results suggest that subliminal stimuli temporarily reduce input gain, avoiding excessive responses to further small inputs. This gain control may be automatic, and may precede discriminative classification of inputs into signals or noise. Crucially, we found that subliminal inputs influenced false alarm rates only on blocks where the to-be-detected stimuli were present, and not on pre-test control blocks where they were absent. Participants appeared to adjust their perceptual criterion according to a statistical distribution of stimuli in the current context, with the presence of supraliminal stimuli having an important role in the criterion-setting process. These findings clarify the cognitive mechanisms that reserve conscious perception for salient and important signals.
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- Elisa Raffaella Ferrè
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK; Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.
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- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, 25 Howland Street, London, W1T4JG, UK
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK.
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Fitzpatrick CJ, Creeden JF, Perrine SA, Morrow JD. Lesions of the ventral hippocampus attenuate the acquisition but not expression of sign-tracking behavior in rats. Hippocampus 2016; 26:1424-1434. [PMID: 27438780 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Individual variation in the attribution of motivational salience to reward-related cues is believed to underlie addiction vulnerability. Pavlovian conditioned approach measures individual variation in motivational salience by identifying rats that are attracted to and motivated by reward cues (sign-trackers) or motivationally fixed on the reward itself (goal-trackers). Previously, it has been demonstrated that sign-trackers are more vulnerable to addiction-like behavior. Moreover, sign-trackers release more dopamine in the nucleus accumbens than goal-trackers in response to reward-related cues, and sign- but not goal-tracking behavior is dopamine-dependent. In the present study, we investigated whether the ventral hippocampus, a potent driver of dopaminergic activity in the nucleus accumbens, modulates the acquisition and expression of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior. In Experiment 1, lesions of the ventral, but not dorsal or total hippocampus, decreased sign-tracking behavior. In Experiment 2, lesions of the ventral hippocampus did not affect the expression of sign- or goal-tracking behaviors nor conditioned reinforcement. In addition, temporary inactivation of the ventral subiculum, the main output pathway of the ventral hippocampus, did not affect the expression of sign- or goal-tracking behaviors. High-pressure liquid chromatography of nucleus accumbens tissue punches revealed that ventral hippocampal lesions decreased levels of homovanillic acid and the homovanillic acid/dopamine ratio (a marker of dopamine release and metabolism) in only sign-trackers, and decreased accumbal norepinephrine levels in both sign- and goal-trackers. These results suggest that the ventral hippocampus is important for the acquisition but not expression of sign-tracking behavior, possibly as a result of altered dopamine and norepinephrine in the nucleus accumbens. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Irsik VC, Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden CM, Snyder JS. Broad attention to multiple individual objects may facilitate change detection with complex auditory scenes. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 2016; 42:1806-1817. [PMID: 27399831 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Attention and other processing constraints limit the perception of objects in complex scenes, which has been studied extensively in the visual sense. We used a change deafness paradigm to examine how attention to particular objects helps and hurts the ability to notice changes within complex auditory scenes. In a counterbalanced design, we examined how cueing attention to particular objects affected performance in an auditory change-detection task through the use of valid or invalid cues and trials without cues (Experiment 1). We further examined how successful encoding predicted change-detection performance using an object-encoding task and we addressed whether performing the object-encoding task along with the change-detection task affected performance overall (Experiment 2). Participants had more error for invalid compared to valid and uncued trials, but this effect was reduced in Experiment 2 compared to Experiment 1. When the object-encoding task was present, listeners who completed the uncued condition first had less overall error than those who completed the cued condition first. All participants showed less change deafness when they successfully encoded change-relevant compared to irrelevant objects during valid and uncued trials. However, only participants who completed the uncued condition first also showed this effect during invalid cue trials, suggesting a broader scope of attention. These findings provide converging evidence that attention to change-relevant objects is crucial for successful detection of acoustic changes and that encouraging broad attention to multiple objects is the best way to reduce change deafness. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Horowitz-Kraus T. Improvement of the Error-detection Mechanism in Adults with Dyslexia Following Reading Acceleration Training. Dyslexia 2016; 22:173-189. [PMID: 27072047 DOI: 10.1002/dys.1523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2014] [Revised: 12/19/2015] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The error-detection mechanism aids in preventing error repetition during a given task. Electroencephalography demonstrates that error detection involves two event-related potential components: error-related and correct-response negativities (ERN and CRN, respectively). Dyslexia is characterized by slow, inaccurate reading. In particular, individuals with dyslexia have a less active error-detection mechanism during reading than typical readers. In the current study, we examined whether a reading training programme could improve the ability to recognize words automatically (lexical representations) in adults with dyslexia, thereby resulting in more efficient error detection during reading. Behavioural and electrophysiological measures were obtained using a lexical decision task before and after participants trained with the reading acceleration programme. ERN amplitudes were smaller in individuals with dyslexia than in typical readers before training but increased following training, as did behavioural reading scores. Differences between the pre-training and post-training ERN and CRN components were larger in individuals with dyslexia than in typical readers. Also, the error-detection mechanism as represented by the ERN/CRN complex might serve as a biomarker for dyslexia and be used to evaluate the effectiveness of reading intervention programmes. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
- Educational Neuroimaging Center, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion - Israel institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Av., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Emge DK, Vialatte FB, Dreyfus G, Adalı T. Independent Vector Analysis for SSVEP Signal Enhancement, Detection, and Topographical Mapping. Brain Topogr 2016; 31:117-124. [PMID: 26936596 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-016-0478-2] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2015] [Accepted: 02/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Steady state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) have been identified as an effective solution for brain computer interface (BCI) systems as well as for neurocognitive investigations. SSVEPs can be observed in the scalp-based recordings of electroencephalogram signals, and are one component buried amongst the normal brain signals and complex noise. We present a novel method for enhancing and improving detection of SSVEPs by leveraging the rich joint blind source separation framework using independent vector analysis (IVA). IVA exploits the diversity within each dataset while preserving dependence across all the datasets. This approach is shown to enhance the detection of SSVEP signals across a range of frequencies and subjects for BCI systems. Furthermore, we show that IVA enables improved topographic mapping of the SSVEP propagation providing a promising new tool for neuroscience and neurocognitive research.
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- Darren K Emge
- Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA.
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- SIGnal processing and MAchine learning (SIGMA) lab, ESPCI ParisTech, 10, rue Vauquelin, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France
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- SIGnal processing and MAchine learning (SIGMA) lab, ESPCI ParisTech, 10, rue Vauquelin, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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Two key questions concerning change detection in crowded acoustic environments are the extent to which cortical processing is specialized for different forms of acoustic change and when in the time-course of cortical processing neural activity becomes predictive of behavioral outcomes. Here, we address these issues by using magnetoencephalography (MEG) to probe the cortical dynamics of change detection in ongoing acoustic scenes containing as many as ten concurrent sources. Each source was formed of a sequence of tone pips with a unique carrier frequency and temporal modulation pattern, designed to mimic the spectrotemporal structure of natural sounds. Our results show that listeners are more accurate and quicker to detect the appearance (than disappearance) of an auditory source in the ongoing scene. Underpinning this behavioral asymmetry are change-evoked responses differing not only in magnitude and latency, but also in their spatial patterns. We find that even the earliest (~50 ms) cortical response to change is predictive of behavioral outcomes (detection times), consistent with the hypothesized role of local neural transients in supporting change detection.
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- Ediz Sohoglu
- UCL Ear Institute, 332 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8EE, UK.
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- UCL Ear Institute, 332 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8EE, UK.
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Roverud E, Strickland EA. The effects of ipsilateral, contralateral, and bilateral broadband noise on the mid-level hump in intensity discrimination. J Acoust Soc Am 2015; 138:3245-3261. [PMID: 26627798 PMCID: PMC4662679 DOI: 10.1121/1.4935515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2015] [Revised: 10/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/28/2015] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Previous psychoacoustical and physiological studies indicate that the medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR), a bilateral, sound-evoked reflex, may lead to improved sound intensity discrimination in background noise. The MOCR can decrease the range of basilar-membrane compression and can counteract effects of neural adaptation from background noise. However, the contribution of these processes to intensity discrimination is not well understood. This study examined the effect of ipsilateral, contralateral, and bilateral noise on the "mid-level hump." The mid-level hump refers to intensity discrimination Weber fractions (WFs) measured for short-duration, high-frequency tones which are poorer at mid levels than at lower or higher levels. The mid-level hump WFs may reflect a limitation due to basilar-membrane compression, and thus may be decreased by the MOCR. The noise was either short (50 ms) or long (150 ms), with the long noise intended to elicit the sluggish MOCR. For a tone in quiet, mid-level hump WFs improved with ipsilateral noise for most listeners, but not with contralateral noise. For a tone in ipsilateral noise, WFs improved with contralateral noise for most listeners, but only when both noises were long. These results are consistent with MOCR-induced WF improvements, possibly via decreases in effects of compression and neural adaptation.
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- Elin Roverud
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, 715 Clinic Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, 715 Clinic Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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