Article
Neurosciences
Ritva Torppa, Soila Kuuluvainen, Jari Lipsanen
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate speech processing development in children with normal hearing and cochlear implants using a multifeature event-related potential paradigm. The results showed differences in the responses to easy and difficult to detect changes between the two groups, with the cortical speech discrimination of children with cochlear implants developing late. The study also found that multisensory activities such as parental singing can improve the discrimination and attention shifting toward speech changes in children with cochlear implants.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Giulia M. Giordano, Luigi Giuliani, Andrea Perrottelli, Paola Bucci, Giorgio Di Lorenzo, Alberto Siracusano, Francesco Brando, Pasquale Pezzella, Michele Fabrazzo, Mario Altamura, Antonello Bellomo, Giammarco Cascino, Anna Comparelli, Palmiero Monteleone, Maurizio Pompili, Silvana Galderisi, Mario Maj
Summary: Impairment in functioning over time is a key aspect of subjects with schizophrenia. MMN and P3a, indices of early attention processing often impaired in schizophrenia, may represent optimal electrophysiological candidate biomarkers. Our results suggest that MMN amplitude reduction might serve as a biomarker for poor functioning in schizophrenia.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Jamie A. O'Reilly, Thanate Angsuwatanakul
Summary: A novel method of difference waveform computation has revealed long-latency mismatch responses to oddball stimuli in anaesthetised rodents, which was not previously observed. The results showed that oddball-induced mismatch responses displayed significantly greater long-latency potentials compared to identical stimuli in an equal-probability context, suggesting a more extensive time dynamics of mismatch responses in anaesthetised rodents.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ana B. Lao-Rodriguez, Karol Przewrocki, David Perez-Gonzalez, Artoghrul Alishbayli, Evrim Yilmaz, Manuel S. Malmierca, Bernhard Englitz
Summary: Prediction is crucial for survival, and cognitive studies indicate that the brain can make multilevel predictions. However, neuronal evidence for predictions has been difficult to find due to the challenge of separating neural activity related to predictions from stimulus responses. In this study, we recorded single-neuron activity from auditory regions in both anesthetized and awake animals and observed reliable responses to omitted tones, providing empirical evidence for the implementation of predictive processes.
Article
Neurosciences
Satu Pakarinen, Jonne Lohilahti, Laura Sokka, Jussi Korpela, Minna Huotilainen, Kiti Muller
Summary: The study found that the prolongation of burnout is associated with changes in attentional control, which may exacerbate with the extension of the condition. Individuals with burnout showed intact processing of acoustical changes in speech sounds.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Junjie Yang, Xiaochen Tang, Shaohui Lin, Lijuan Jiang, Kai Wei, Xinyi Cao, Lingshan Wan, Jijun Wang, Hansheng Ding, Chunbo Li
Summary: Cohort studies have shown that older adults with hearing impairment are at higher risk of developing dementia. A fine-grained examination of auditory processing holds promise for more effective screening of older adults at risk of cognitive decline. The auditory mismatch negativity measure can provide insights into the neurobiological substrate of central auditory processing and predict cognitive decline in older adults.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Julie M. Schneider, Yi-Lun Weng, Anqi Hu, Zhenghan Qi
Summary: Statistical learning is the process of tracking distributional information and discovering embedded patterns. Recent studies have shown that both implicit and explicit learning systems are involved in statistical learning. This study investigates the role of attention in statistical learning by examining the cortical processing of distributional patterns in speech.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Namgyun Kim, Laurent Gregoire, Moein Razavi, Niya Yan, Changbum R. Ahn, Brian A. Anderson
Summary: In high-risk work environments, workers often become desensitized to hazards they regularly encounter, leading them to underestimate risks and engage in unsafe behaviors. This phenomenon, known as risk habituation, is identified as a major cause of workplace fatalities and injuries. Although there is currently no empirically supported intervention to curb risk habituation, this study explored the effect of experiencing a virtual accident on workers' perception of workplace hazards using electroencephalography (EEG). The findings suggest that the virtual accident intervention effectively reduces risk habituation both behaviorally and at the sensory level, offering new possibilities for occupational safety training.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ekaterina Yukhnovich, Kai Alter, William Sedley
Summary: We attempted to replicate a potential tinnitus biomarker called the Intensity Mismatch Asymmetry in humans based on the Sensory Precision Integrative Model of Tinnitus. The design included improvements such as tighter matching of participants for gender and using a control stimulus frequency to investigate differences specific to tinnitus. However, no significant group differences were found, though there were differences in response amplitude and deviant direction effects between tinnitus and control groups at different frequencies.
Article
Neurosciences
Cuicui Wang, Krystal Flemming, Zhen Yang, Giulia Cortiana, Jessica Lammert, Yasaman Rafat, Sha Tao, Marc F. Joanisse
Summary: The native language background affects the individual's brain response while learning a second language. Immersive second language learning can help native Chinese speakers improve their speech perception and integrate English letter-sound like native English speakers.
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(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
Xin He, Weilin Liu, Nan Qin, Lili Lyu, Xue Dong, Min Bao
Summary: Selective attention is crucial when facing sensory inputs with distractions. Lavie's load theory delineates distractor suppression under different attentional control load. This study explores how reward modulates the load effect and reveals new findings under extended attentional load.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Paniz Tavakoli, Anthony Murkar, Meggan Porteous, Julie Carrier, Rebecca Robillard
Summary: This study investigated the effects of sleep deprivation on attention capture in young and older adults. The results showed that sleep deprivation attenuated the differences in reaction times between standard and deviant stimuli in young adults, but not in older adults. Older adults exhibited a reduced P3a and larger RON amplitude compared to young adults. These findings suggest that older adults may adopt different neural processing strategies to compensate for age-related declines in attention capture.
EXPERIMENTAL AGING RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Ming H. Hsieh, Yi-Ling Chien, Susan Shur-Fen Gau
Summary: This study aimed to compare the MMN and P3a between drug-naive adults with ADHD and control adults. The results showed that adults with ADHD demonstrated smaller MMN amplitude, more severe ADHD symptoms, poorer attention profiles, and a wide range of executive dysfunctions. The MMN amplitude correlated with inattention symptoms, executive dysfunctions, attentional vigilance, and decision-making in ADHD adults, providing evidence for a potential electrophysiological biomarker for adult ADHD.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Natalie Ball, Matthew Wisniewski, Brian Simpson, Eduardo Mercado
Summary: Performance on auditory change detection tasks can be improved by training, and the training effects are stimulus-specific, as demonstrated by the study examining behavior and ERPs.
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Stefan Berti, Bruce Haycock, Julia Adler, Behrang Keshavarz
Editorial Material
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Behrang Keshavarz, Jennifer L. Campos, Stefan Berti
Review
Biophysics
Stefan Berti, Behrang Keshavarz
Summary: Recent attention has been given to the neuro-cognitive processes underlying vection, with various neuropsychological techniques used to identify different neuro-cognitive correlates of vection. This research offers insight into the neural basis of vection and how it can be applied in other research areas, but there is a large methodological variability within this research domain, which limits result integration.
MULTISENSORY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Psychology
Sarah D'Amour, Laurence R. Harris, Stefan Berti, Behrang Keshavarz
Summary: The study found that cognitive manipulations such as expectation and plausibility can alter the intensity of vection, while individual traits such as field dependence and depersonalization are also related to vection. Additionally, the configuration of the chair can affect the perception of vection.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Ann-Kathrin Beck, Stefan Berti, Daniela Czernochowski, Thomas Lachmann
Summary: This study found that the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) in the categorization of visual stimuli showed no significant difference in amplitude between between-category and within-category deviants. This suggests that abstract categorical representations may not always be automatically processed at early visual stages, demonstrating limitations in generalizing findings from the auditory domain to the visual domain.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Alena Michel-Kroehler, Sabrina Krys, Stefan Berti
Summary: The SCRS is a reliable questionnaire for measuring rumination about competition-related problems in athletes, with good construct validity and internal consistency. It is supported within a nomological network and shows low to moderate relations with general and sports-specific anxiety measures.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED SPORT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alena Michel-Kroehler, Stefan Berti
Summary: Athletes' behavior, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by whether they achieve their personal goals or not. This experiment aimed to assess the application of using unresolved goals to induce state rumination in athletes. Results showed that cueing unresolved goals significantly increased state rumination in athletes compared to a control condition. The study also found temporal changes in athletes' mood and affect, with no significant group differences.
Article
Neurosciences
Polina Andrievskaia, Stefan Berti, Julia Spaniol, Behrang Keshavarz
Summary: This study aimed to explore the neuro-cognitive processes underlying visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) by analyzing EEG data. The results indicated a potential increase in delta power in the centro-parietal regions and a decrease in alpha power in the central regions for participants experiencing mild-moderate VIMS compared to those with minimal VIMS. Furthermore, the differences in EEG activity between the two groups became more pronounced with increasing duration of a trial. These findings suggest that EEG may be sensitive to differences in information processing in VIMS and minimal VIMS contexts, and may serve as a neurophysiological correlate of VIMS.
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Lars Kooijman, Stefan Berti, Houshyar Asadi, Saeid Nahavandi, Behrang Keshavarz
Summary: The phenomenon of vection, which refers to the sensation of self-motion in the absence of physical motion, has been studied by researchers for over a century. Due to the lack of objective measures or physiological correlates, subjective methods have been commonly used to quantify vection. These measures can be classified into vection occurrence, temporal characteristics, vection quality, and indirect measures. This review provides an overview and critical evaluation of the most commonly used vection measures, and offers recommendations for selecting appropriate measures to improve the comparability of vection research findings.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Ophthalmology
Ann-Kathrin Beck, Stefan Berti, Daniela Czernochowski, Thomas Lachmann
Article
Neurosciences
Ann-Kathrin Beck, Daniela Czernochowski, Thomas Lachmann, Stefan Berti
Summary: This study aimed to assess the influence of categorical information on both early perceptual and later cognitive processing. Results showed that abstract categorical information was encoded during early perceptual processing, but there was no additional encoding of categorical information in later cognitive stages of processing.
BRAIN AND COGNITION
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alena Michel-Kroehler, Aleksandra Kaurin, Lutz Felix Heil, Stefan Berti
Summary: This study examined the effect of a self-distancing strategy on athletes' performance in an aggression-inducing experimental task, finding that self-distancing decreased athletes' aggressive behavior and negative affect compared to a self-immersed perspective.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
I. Boutet, D. K. Shah, C. A. Collin, S. Berti, M. Persike, B. Meinhardt-Injac
Summary: Healthy aging is associated with impairments in face recognition, which may arise from difficulties in the earliest perceptual stages of visual information processing. Older adults show less selective and less lateralized N170 responses to faces, indicating age-related de-differentiation of specialized face networks can be detected by ERPs.
AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Ophthalmology
Behrang Keshavarz, Stefan Berti
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alena Kroehler, Stefan Berti
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2019)
