Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nicole Wetzel, Dunja Kunke, Andreas Widmann
Summary: The study found that children show increased early processing of task-irrelevant information and higher attention to sounds when interacting with a tablet PC compared to a human partner. This indicates potential direct effects of digital media on children's perception and attention. Further research is needed to develop specific recommendations for digital interactive learning programs based on these findings.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Sara de la Salle, Dhrasti Shah, Joelle Choueiry, Hayley Bowers, Judy McIntosh, Brooke Carroll, Vadim Ilivitsky, Verner Knott
Summary: This study demonstrated that ketamine administration affected P300 in healthy volunteers, with reductions in novelty processing P300 and negative correlations with dissociation symptoms. These findings suggest a potential role of NMDAR dysfunction in disrupted auditory attention in schizophrenia.
PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
John J. McDonald, Daniel Tay, David J. Prime, Steven A. Hillyard
Summary: This study demonstrates the early neural activity associated with visually guided orienting of attention and distinguishes it from purely sensory processes using event-related potentials.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Chengwei Shen, Qi Jiang, Yan Luo, Ji Long, Xiujuan Tai, Shuqing Liu
Summary: Previous studies have found inhibitory deficits in dyslexic children, with differences in brain activation patterns between dyslexic and non-dyslexic children during the Stroop color-word test. Dyslexic children have poorer inhibitory function which may be related to their abnormal brain activation patterns.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Daniele A. Gubler, Stephan Zeiss, Niklaus Egloff, Frank Frickmann, Benjamin Goetze, Martin grosse Holtforth, Michael Harnik, Konrad Streitberger, Stefan J. Troche
Summary: This study found that patients with chronic pain showed reduced involuntary and voluntary attentional capture compared to healthy controls, indicating a detrimental effect of chronic pain on attention.
BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Ewa Wiwatowska, Magdalena Pietruch, Przemyslaw Katafoni, Jaroslaw M. Michalowski
Summary: The study found a connection between procrastination and susceptibility to distraction, with high procrastinators being more easily distracted and having difficulty maintaining attention during tasks, possibly due to other sources of distraction such as mind-wandering.
LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Vesa Putkinen, Katri Saarikivi, Tsz Man Vanessa Chan, Mari Tervaniemi
Summary: The study found that children and adolescents with musical training performed better in categorization tasks, were more efficient in processing distracting sounds, and showed faster inhibition and set shifting abilities compared to their untrained peers.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Claire Warren, Charlotte F. Kroll, Bruno Kopp
Summary: Event-related potentials (ERPs) reflect the cortical processing of sensory, motor, or cognitive functions in response to specific events or stimuli. The neurotransmitters dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE) are believed to modulate various ERPs in different cognitive processes. This study evaluates the neurotransmitter hypothesis by conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of pharmacological manipulation of DA and NE on specific ERPs in healthy individuals during executive function. The results suggest that the relationship between these neurotransmitters and ERPs is more complex than previously thought, with genetic factors, cognitive processes, and study design playing important roles.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Haoyue Ji, Tian Yuan, Yiwen Yu, Li Wang, Yi Jiang
Summary: Previous research has shown that internally maintained social cues in working memory can induce attentional orienting, which cannot be solely explained by perceptual-attentional processes. Non-social cues, such as arrows, do not elicit a similar attentional-orienting effect as social cues when held in working memory.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Vasco Ribeiro Ferreira, Ana Rita Pereira, Joana Vieira, Frederico Pereira, Rui Marques, Guilherme Campos, Adriana Sampaio, Alberto Crego
Summary: Clinical auditory alarms in hospital environments need to be designed to convey priority without compromising other features. This study found that the Medium Priority pulse of the updated IEC60601-1-8 standard is more easily detected and attended at the neural level compared to the High Priority pulse. Behavioral experiments also showed shorter reaction times for the Medium Priority pulse. The study highlights the need for intervention in hospital soundscapes and auditory alarm design settings.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Annekathrin Weise, Thomas Hartmann, Fabrice Parmentier, Nathan Weisz, Philipp Ruhnau
Summary: The study found that the sudden siren of an ambulance can interfere with people's attention and performance. The experiment showed that when the target and the distracting sound occurred on the same side, individuals responded faster, indicating a spatial shift of attention. The results of the brainwave data also supported this finding, suggesting that spatial attention bias influences the impact of distracting sounds.
Article
Neurosciences
Shuochen Wang, Zhenghao Fu, Yuanyi Sun, Meng Zhang, Aobo Chen, Chenglong Cao, Jian Song
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impairment of lateralized attention networks in patients with pituitary adenoma. The results showed that pituitary adenoma patients had slower reaction times and increased executive control network efficiency. Additionally, they exhibited reduced P3 amplitude in the right central parietal area and altered hemispheric asymmetry under high conflict load. These findings suggest that the P3 component and hemispheric asymmetry in lateralized attention networks may serve as potential biomarkers of attentional dysfunction in patients with pituitary adenoma.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Hiran Perera-W.A, Khazriyati Salehuddin, Rozainee Khairudin, Alexandre Schaefer
Summary: This systematic review examines the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and scalp event-related brain potentials (ERPs), identifying amplitude variations in various ERPs that suggest impaired neural activity in low-SES individuals compared to high-SES individuals. The findings also suggest that the relationship between SES and certain ERP components may be influenced by the developmental stage of the study participants. The results highlight the sensitivity of distinct neural processes to SES differences and raise considerations for future research in this field.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Gordon Dodwell, Heinrich R. Liesefeld, Markus Conci, Hermann J. Mueller, Thomas Toellner
Summary: This study found that engaging in moderate-intensity aerobic exercise can eliminate distractor interference and induce an unexpected distractor-elicited response. These results demonstrate workload-specific and object-selective influences of aerobic exercise on attentional processing.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Brent Pitchford, Karen M. Arnell
Summary: The study found that while interindividual differences in ERPs at Time 1 did not predict attentional breadth differences across individuals at Time 1, individual differences in changes to P1, N1, and P3 ERPs to hierarchical stimuli from Time 1 to Time 2 were associated with individual differences in changes in attentional breadth from Time 1 to Time 2.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Erich Schroeger, Urte Roeber
Summary: The study found that the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) system is powerful in establishing deterministic regularities but fails with a simple stochastic regularity. When a sound deviates from the predicted ones by the model, MMN is elicited, reflecting a prediction error. The research highlights the difference in the brain's ability to encode deterministic and non-deterministic regularities through auditory processing.
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Betina Korka, Andreas Widmann, Florian Waszak, Alvaro Darriba, Erich Schroeger
Summary: According to the ideomotor theory, action can produce desired sensory outcomes, with action intentions resulting in reliable top-down predictions that modulate auditory brain responses. The extended auditory event representation system explains the effects of action intention on auditory processing and allows for studying the differences and commonalities with regularity-based predictions, guiding future research on action and perception.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Alessandro Tavano, Burkhard Maess, David Poeppel, Erich Schroeger
Summary: The study suggests that both spectral predictability and temporal regularity play a role in entrainment, governed by neural phase control.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Gloria G. Parras, Lorena Casado-Roman, Erich Schroeger, Manuel S. Malmierca
Summary: The study found functional specialization in different fields of the rat auditory cortex, with the posterior auditory field showing the largest prediction error effects and other fields dominantly affected by repetition suppression effects. Results suggest that different AC fields have varying roles in context-dependent processing and being sensitive to stimulus-dependent effects in deviance detection.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Tjerk T. Dercksen, Andreas Widmann, Florian Scharf, Nicole Wetzel
Summary: Action is an important way for children to learn about the world. Recent theories suggest that action is accompanied by sensory prediction of its effects, which can be revealed by omission responses. This study investigated omission-related brain responses in children and found that although there were developmental differences, children were able to implement specific and unspecific predictions as flexibly as adults.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Paula Rios-Lopez, Andreas Widmann, Aurelie Bidet-Caulet, Nicole Wetzel
Summary: Listening to task-irrelevant speech can disrupt attention and performance. In this study, participants were exposed to meaningful and non-meaningful speech while performing a non-linguistic attention task. Results showed that semantic processing of the native language consumed attentional resources, resulting in reduced processing of the task sounds.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Andreas Maedebach, Andreas Widmann, Melina Posch, Erich Schroeger, Joerg D. Jescheniak
Summary: This study investigated the ERP signature of phonological coactivation in the picture-word interference task. The results revealed differential brain responses to related and unrelated distractors, with an early effect indicating phonological processing and a later effect whose functional significance remains unclear.
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Florian Scharf, Andreas Widmann, Carolina Bonmassar, Nicole Wetzel
Summary: This article introduces how to conduct an amplitude difference analysis of event-related potentials (ERPs) based on temporal principal component analysis (PCA), with a focus on developmental research. It demonstrates how separate PCAs can be used to address the measurement non-invariance issue between different age groups, and provides a method to rescale the results to original units for inferential statistics. The article also discusses typical challenges and potential limitations in the analysis process.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Sindram Volkmer, Nicole Wetzel, Andreas Widmann, Florian Scharf
Summary: This study investigates the short-term dynamics of distraction control in children and adults and finds age differences in distraction control. The analysis of short-term dynamics provides valuable insights into the development of attention control and may explain inconsistent findings regarding attention deficit disorders in children.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Wai Ying Chung, Alvaro Darriba, Betina Korka, Andreas Widmann, Erich Schroger, Florian Waszak
Summary: This study compared the differences in action-effect prediction among three types of intentional actions: selecting what to do, selecting when to act, and selecting whether to perform the action or not. Results showed that regardless of the decision made, there were significant P2 differences between standard and deviant tones reflecting the formation of action-effect predictions. Furthermore, the prediction effect was not observable in non-action trials within the "whether" condition, suggesting an action-specific prediction process.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Hanna Ringer, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: It is remarkable how human listeners can perceive periodicity in noise, which lacks obvious physical cues. Previous research suggested that listeners rely on short temporally local and idiosyncratic features to perceptually segment periodic noise sequences. The present study aimed to examine the consistency of perceptual segmentation within and between listeners. Results showed that the consistency was stronger for interleaved periodic sequences, likely due to reduced temporal jitter. Additionally, the finding that certain noise sequences were segmented consistently across listeners challenges the assumption that the features are necessarily idiosyncratic.
Article
Neurosciences
Andreas Widmann, Erich Schroeger
Summary: This study investigated how the human brain responds to sounds produced by listeners themselves and found that different types of sounds trigger different brain responses.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Hanna Ringer, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: Perceptual learning is a powerful mechanism for enhancing perceptual abilities and forming memory representations of unfamiliar sounds. The current study examined how the learning of random acoustic patterns is influenced by pattern repetition regularity and listener attention. The findings demonstrate that memory-related effects are observed even during the first occurrence of patterns, especially when listeners pay attention to the sounds.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Tjerk T. T. Dercksen, Andreas Widmann, Nicole Wetzel
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the pupil's response to unexpected stimulus omissions in order to better understand surprise and orienting of attention resulting from prediction violation. The results revealed that omission responses were observed in both auditory and somatosensory modalities in the 88%-condition compared to motor-control. The discussion suggests that these findings demonstrate predictive models in brain processing and point to the involvement of subcortical structures in the omission response.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
