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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Elena Gherri, Felicity White, Elisabetta Ambron
Summary: Recent evidence has shown that the N140cc lateralized component of event-related potentials is a reliable index of attention to task-relevant items in touch. The study finds that distractor interference effects occur when a tactile search array is presented to body parts that are less lateralized and peripheral compared to the hands. The research suggests that attentional processing is influenced by the location and presence of singleton distractors relative to the target, and similar mechanisms guide attentional selectivity across different body parts.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Sanjay Kumar, M. Jane Riddoch, Glyn W. Humphreys
Summary: Study shows that the possibility of action to an object facilitates attentional deployment, making target selection easier when action information is congruent with an object's use.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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
Neurosciences
Ming Lei, Yu Ding, Qingxin Meng
Summary: The study found that directing attention to the prepulse can enhance prepulse inhibition (PPI) and early cortical representations. Directed attention increases the N1 component and is positively correlated with the attentional enhancement of PPI.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Catherine L. Reed, John P. Garza, William S. Bush, Natasha Parikh, Niti Nagar, Shaun P. Vecera
Summary: Previous research has found that attention is biased towards targets near the hand that require action. This study used EEG/ERP to investigate whether hand position affects visual orienting to non-targets by manipulating attention distribution. The results showed that hand position increased overall N1 amplitudes but did not selectively enhance stimuli near the hand. However, when attention was focused on one location, amplitudes were affected by attentional focus and the stimulus, but not by hand position. Thus, hand position contributes a non-location-specific input to visual orienting only when attention is distributed across stimulus locations.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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, Applied
Motohiro Kimura, Kenta Kimura, Yuji Takeda
Summary: Driving a vehicle involves allocating attentional resources to different tasks, and this study proposes objective estimation of the allocation based on physiological measures. The findings suggest that resource allocation differs based on driving conditions, with fast driving leading to increased overall resource allocation and decreased visual processing, while narrow paths result in increased visual processing and decreased cognitive processing.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART F-TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Aobo Chen, Chenglong Cao, Bangxin Liu, Shuochen Wang, Shukai Wu, Guozheng Xu, Jian Song
Summary: This study identified cognitive impairment in patients with pituitary adenomas, potentially related to oversecreted PRL levels, indicating deficits in attentional processing and conflict monitoring. The research also found a correlation between P3 amplitudes and incongruent condition RTs, as well as PRL levels.
Article
Neurosciences
Marlene Derner, Thomas P. Reber, Jennifer Faber, Rainer Surges, Florian Mormann, Juergen Fell
Summary: The attentional blink (AB) is impaired identification of T2 stimuli presented shortly after T1 within a RSVP stream. The hippocampal P3 elicited by T1 plays a central role in the AB, as indicated by the larger amplitudes and increased peak latencies of T1-related P3 for unseen compared to seen T2 stimuli in HC/EC. These findings support inhibition models of the AB and highlight the importance of hippocampal involvement.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Steven L. Bistricky, Christine Walther, Jessica Balderas, Jasmin Prudon, Christopher P. Ward, Rick E. Ingram, Ruth Ann Atchley
Summary: This study explored the impact of sleep problems on the processing of others' facial affect by assessing college students' sleep quality and attention responses. The results suggest that sleep deficiency may lead to decreased attention towards positive facial expressions of others.
SLEEP AND BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Nathan Han, Bradley N. Jack, Gethin Hughes, Ruth B. Elijah, Thomas J. Whitford
Summary: The study disambiguated the effects of motor-actions and sense of agency on sensory attenuation, showing that they have differential effects on the perception of sounds as indexed with different ERP components.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Manasi Jayakumar, Chinmayi Balusu, Mariam Aly
Summary: Event boundaries and temporal context shape episodic memory organization. Attentional fluctuations during encoding affect temporal context representations and recall organization. However, our studies found no evidence supporting the hypotheses that in-zone attentional states are more conducive to maintaining temporal context representations and enabling recall leaps across items. Temporal context serves as a strong scaffold for episodic memory, even for items encoded during poor attentional states. Striking a balance between sustained attention and memory recall tasks remains a challenge for researchers interested in integrating these fields.
Article
Biology
Wenjun Niu, Di Shen, Ruolei Sun, Yanzhu Fan, Jing Yang, Baowei Zhang, Guangzhan Fang
Summary: The study reveals the existence of human-like ERP components related to voluntary attention and reflexive attention in lower vertebrates, specifically in Emei music frogs. Results indicate that both voluntary attention and reflexive attention may be simultaneously engaged in auditory perception in this species, with different brain areas showing distinct responses to predicted and unpredicted acoustic stimuli.
Article
Psychiatry
Bo-Mi Kim, Jiyoon Lee, A. Ruem Choi, Sun Ju Chung, Minkyung Park, Ja Wook Koo, Ung Gu Kang, Jung-Seok Choi
Summary: This study investigated attentional bias towards game-related cues in Internet gaming disorder (IGD) using LPP as a neurophysiological marker and explored the relationship between LPP and decision-making ability. The findings revealed that individuals with IGD exhibit higher LPP amplitudes when exposed to game-related cues, indicating deficits in decision-making ability.
TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Qingfei Chen, Feng Xiao, Yan Liu, Mengqing Li, Xiuling Liang
Summary: This study investigated the time course of temporal proximity using event-related potentials (ERPs) and an associative judgment task. The results showed shorter response time and higher accuracy for image pairs with high temporal proximity. ERP results revealed a larger N2 for unrelated pairs and a larger P3 and positive slow wave for pairs with high temporal proximity. These findings indicate that different temporal proximities affect cognitive processing differently.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Ruifang Cui, Jinliang Jiang, Lu Zeng, Lijun Jiang, Zeling Xia, Li Dong, Diankun Gong, Guojian Yan, Weiyi Ma, Dezhong Yao
Summary: This study found that action video gaming experience has adaptive effects on brain development, with differences in resting-state EEG activities between experts and non-experts. Furthermore, there are also complexity changes specific to different AVG subgenres, suggesting that AVG classification should be based on the gaming mechanics of specific games.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Yuening Yan, Yi Li, Xinyu Lou, Senqi Li, Yutong Yao, Diankun Gong, Weiyi Ma, Guojian Yan
Summary: The study found that action video gaming (AVG) experience is related to emotional perception difficulties, with both short-term and long-term AVG players experiencing increased emotional perception challenges. Behavioral and ERP measures showed more pronounced changes in brain waves in expert AVG players. However, further research is needed to fully understand the impact of AVG experience on emotional perception skills.
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Biological
Huizhen Cui, Ruifang Cui, Diankun Gong, Wei yi, Dezhong Yao
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Biological
Ling Quan, Ruifang Cui, Lijun Jiang, Xinyang Hao, Li Dong, Diankun Gong, Weiyi Ma, Guojian Yan
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Biological
Lijun Jiang, Ruifang Cui, Diankun Gong, Weiyi Ma, Dezhong Yao
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Biological
Ruifang Cui, Diankun Gong, Weiyi Ma, Dezhong Yao
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Biological
Ling Quan, Lijun Jiang, Ruifang Cui, Zeling Xia, Li Dong, Diankun Gong, Weiyi Ma
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Weiyi Ma, Peng Zhou, William Forde Thompson
Summary: It is well established that adults and children can interpret emotional speech prosody independent of word meaning comprehension. Children as young as 3 years old can decode the emotional meaning of speech prosody in both familiar and unfamiliar languages, and their decoding skills improve with age.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Weiyi Ma, Rufan Luo, Roberta Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Summary: Verbs play a crucial role in sentence structure and are essential for language acquisition. Verb learning involves mapping between verbs and actions and abstracting relationships between objects and actions. Two competing views explain verb learning: one suggests that observing a wide range of examples helps children detect commonalities across actions, while the other argues that observing less varied examples enables children to focus on and abstract action invariants. This study investigated the influence of manner variability on the ability to fast-map new verbs and extend them to novel exemplars in English-speaking children of different ages. The results show that high manner variability hinders fast-mapping but facilitates extension to manner variations in younger children. Additionally, manner variability does not affect the fast-mapping or extension abilities of 4-year-olds and adults, suggesting that the impact of exemplar variability on verb learning diminishes with age. Furthermore, manner variability does not affect agent or object extension, indicating a component-specific effect of exemplar variability on verb extension.
LANGUAGE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Jiaxin Xie, Ruifang Cui, Weiyi Ma, Jingqing Lu, Lin Wang, Shaofei Ying, Dezhong Yao, Diankun Gong, Guojian Yan, Tiejun Liu
Summary: The study explores the relationship between action real-time strategy gaming (ARSG) experience and auditory information transmission, finding that experts and amateurs exhibit differences in information transmission patterns, with experts using a more efficient pattern. These results support the relationship between ARSG experience and the development of information processing patterns.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Yixue Quan, Weiyi Ma, Hui Li, William Forde Thompson
Summary: Past research has shown that listening to slow- or fast-tempo music can affect adults' executive attention performance. This study examined the immediate impact of brief exposure to slow- or fast-tempo music on EA performance in 4- to 6-year-old children. The findings revealed that reaction time was significantly faster in the slow-tempo block than in the fast-tempo block, indicating that listening to slow-tempo music preserves processing efficiency.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Weiyi Ma, Lisa Bowers, Douglas Behrend, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, William Forde Thompson
Summary: Listening to sung words can enhance word learning and memory in adults and school-aged children. This study aimed to investigate the development of this effect in young children by examining word learning and long-term memory in different age groups. The results showed that sung words led to better word learning performance in all age groups, and the reliance on music features decreased with age. Additionally, song facilitated the word mapping-recognition processes and the long-term memory of sung words was more reliable compared to spoken words in 4- to 5-year olds.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Weiyi Ma, Peng Zhou, Xinya Liang, William Forde Thompson
Summary: Research shows that 3- to 6-year-old American and Chinese children emotionally respond to environmental sounds, including sounds of human actions, animal calls, machinery, and natural phenomena. These emotional responses develop with age, similar to the ability to decode emotional prosody in language and music.
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Weiyi Ma, Peng Zhou, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Summary: The accompanying classifier is an important clue to the meaning of a new noun. This study investigates Chinese children's semantic knowledge of different types of classifiers. The results show that children have better comprehension of animacy, object shape, and vehicle function classifiers, but struggle with configuration classifiers. Furthermore, the study does not find conclusive evidence for an age-dependent improvement in children's performance.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Weiyi Ma, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Lulu Song, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Summary: Research on verb extension in young English-speaking children found that they tend to show conservative extension. However, a study testing 3-year-old Chinese children's extension of familiar verbs showed that their extensions were mostly limited to typical examples, suggesting a universal early conservative extension phenomenon. Additionally, the breadth of extension was found to be related to the onset of verb production, with verbs acquired earlier eliciting more extension judgments.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
