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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Matthew F. Panichello, Timothy J. Buschman
Summary: Cognitive control guides behavior by controlling what, when, and how information is represented in the brain. Prefrontal cortex acts as a domain-general controller for both selection and attention, while parietal and visual cortex represent attention and selection independently. Selection and attention facilitate behavior by enhancing and transforming the representation of selected memory or attended stimulus.
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Psychology, Biological
Gangqiang Ding, Weidong Ye, Bihua Cao, Fuhong Li
Summary: In this study, the researchers investigated the effect of set size on object switching in working memory. The results showed that the switch cost was greater in the large-size condition compared to the small-size condition. They also found an interaction between set size and transition in both the N2 and P3 components of the event-related potentials, indicating that the effort to inhibit irrelevant items increases with set size.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gaoxing Mei, Mofen Cen, Xu Luo, Shiming Qiu, Yun Pan
Summary: Previous studies have shown that high-level cognitive functions such as attention can modulate the tilt aftereffect (TAE), but it is unclear whether working memory load has an effect on TAE. Two experiments were conducted, with one showing a reduction in TAE magnitude under high working memory load when digits were used as load stimuli, while the other experiment did not replicate this finding when color-shape conjunctions were used as load stimuli. Further replications are needed to clarify the effects of working memory load on TAE.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Donel M. Martin, Jacqueline A. Rushby, Frances M. De Blasio, Travis Wearne, Katherine Osborne-Crowley, Heather Francis, Mei Xu, Colleen Loo, Skye McDonald
Summary: This study aimed to examine the effects of using three different montages for improving attention and working memory performance. The results showed that different montages had an impact on working memory reaction time, but not on accuracy. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with the Broad-frontal montage may be beneficial for improving working memory.
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Davide Zambrano, Pieter R. Roelfsema, Sander Bohte
Summary: The article introduces a model named CT-AuGMEnT based on continuous-time reinforcement learning to study animals' ability to make decisions based on sensory evidence, demonstrating its effectiveness in learning tasks and accumulating relevant evidence.
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Ergonomics
Azam Esmaily, Sara Jambarsang, Farough Mohammadian, Amir Houshang Mehrparvar
Summary: Shift work can affect cognitive function in nurses, particularly working memory and attention, with a more prominent impact after a night shift.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Biology
Rose De Kock, Weiwei Zhou, Wilsaan M. Joiner, Martin Wiener
Summary: The study found that external movement environment factors can influence temporal perception during interval timing tasks, with higher viscosity environments leading to shorter perceived durations. These biasing effects are caused by perceptual mechanisms, rather than biases in decision making.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Davide Momi, Giulia Prete, Adolfo Di Crosta, Pasquale La Malva, Rocco Palumbo, Irene Ceccato, Emanuela Bartolini, Riccardo Palumbo, Nicola Mammarella, Mirco Fasolo, Alberto Di Domenico
Summary: Time perception can be influenced by internal and external factors, and the existence of an internal clock plays a crucial role in subjective estimation of time intervals. This study found that participants were able to accurately reproduce time intervals (internal clock), but overestimated them during bisection and underestimated them during doubling. Personality traits were found to predict bisection accuracy, but the best predictor for both bisection and doubling was the accuracy in reproducing time intervals, confirming the importance of the internal clock in time estimation.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Ying Zhou, Clayton E. Curtis, Kartik K. Sreenivasan, Daryl Fougnie
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between working memory and attention using fMRI and machine learning. The results demonstrate that selecting items in working memory and shifting attention utilize similar neural mechanisms. These shared mechanisms control the relative gains of neural populations and encode behaviorally relevant information.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Fang-Wen Chen, Chun-Hui Li, Bo-Cheng Kuo
Summary: This study investigated the effects of temporal expectations on neural responses and subsequent performance during the retention interval of working memory (WM). The results showed that smaller duration variability and predictable experimental tasks led to greater alpha-power attenuation over the left frontal and parietal regions during WM retention. Moreover, there was a positive relationship between alpha-power attenuation in the left posterior parietal regions and the variability difference in the response benefit. Overall, these findings suggest the importance of temporal expectations in WM maintenance.
Article
Psychiatry
Vahid Nejati, Zahra Derakhshan, Ahdiyeh Mohtasham
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of working memory training on executive functions and behavioral symptoms in children with ADHD. Thirty children with ADHD were randomly assigned to active control or Active Memory Intervention (AMIN) group. Executive functions and rating scales were used for assessment in three baseline, post-intervention, and 1-month follow-up sessions. The results show that AMIN improves working memory and inhibitory control as well as ameliorates ADHD symptoms at home and school. Working memory training is a beneficial and transferable intervention in children with ADHD.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ronald van den Berg, Qijia Zou, Yuhang Li, Wei Ji Ma
Summary: Previous research has shown that humans allocate their visual working memory (VWM) resources flexibly based on item importance. However, it is less known whether people can also control the total amount of VWM resources allocated to a task. This study tested whether increasing monetary incentives would improve overall VWM performance, and found no evidence to support this hypothesis.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Bingbing Lin, Youzhen Chen, Tantan Zhou
Summary: Time pressure has a negative effect on event-based prospective memory (EBPM) performance, with performance decreasing as time pressure increases. However, improving cue salience can enhance EBPM performance under time pressure.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mitchell R. P. LaPointe, Tamara M. Rosner, Javier Ortiz-Tudela, Lisa Lorentz, Bruce Milliken
Summary: This study examines the combined influence of attentional boost and perceptual degradation on recognition memory and finds no redundancy in memory performance. This suggests that these two manipulations may lead to different memory effects in different situations.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gesa Fee Komar, Laura Mieth, Axel Buchner, Raoul Bell
Summary: The cognitive mechanisms underlying the animacy effect on free recall have not been determined. According to the attentional-prioritization account, animate words are better recalled because they receive more attention during encoding. This study aimed to investigate whether list composition or pair composition can modulate the animacy effect. The results showed that the animacy effect was equally large in mixed and pure lists or pairs, contradicting the attentional-prioritization account.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Sophie K. Herbst, Jonas Obleser, Virginie van Wassenhove
Summary: Time has both implicit and explicit influences on cognition. The brain may use similar mechanisms for implicit and explicit timing, but evidence suggests that there are both shared and separate neural signatures for these processes.
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Virginie van Wassenhove
Summary: Understanding how the brain maps time is crucial in neuroscience, behavior, psychology, and cognition. The perception of time depends on various factors, both internal and external. Research has shown that the lack of external temporal landmarks can decrease people's ability to navigate time and form accurate internal representations of it. However, there is a scarcity of empirical data in this field of study. Evaluating the impact of isolation on human temporalities can provide valuable insights into the temporal distortions and disorientations reported during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tadeusz Wladyslaw Kononowicz, Virginie van Wassenhove, Valerie Doyere
Summary: A fundamental question in neuroscience is what type of internal representation leads to complex, adaptive behavior. Research has found that rodents have error-monitoring abilities when producing timing behavior, suggesting an explicit representation of produced duration and the possibility to evaluate its relation to the desired target duration.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau, Cesare Parise, Marc O. Ernst, Virginie van Wassenhove
Summary: In this study, the authors demonstrate the existence of neural mechanisms in the human brain that mediate the integration and segregation of multisensory information. The Multisensory Correlation Detector model explains well the behavioral judgments of causal inference and temporal order. The results suggest the presence of multisensory correlation detectors in the brain, which strongly influence causal inference based on temporal correlation of multisensory signals.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Maximilien Chaumon, Pier-Alexandre Rioux, Sophie K. Herbst, Ignacio Spiousas, Sebastian L. Kuebel, Elisa M. Gallego Hiroyasu, Serife Leman Runyun, Luigi Micillo, Vassilis Thanopoulos, Esteban Mendoza-Duran, Anna Wagelmans, Ramya Mudumba, Ourania Tachmatzidou, Nicola Cellini, Arnaud D'Argembeau, Anne Giersch, Simon Grondin, Claude Gronfier, Federico Alvarez Igarzabal, Andre Klarsfeld, Ljubica Jovanovic, Rodrigo Laje, Elisa Lannelongue, Giovanna Mioni, Cyril Nicolai, Narayanan Srinivasan, Shogo Sugiyama, Marc Wittmann, Yuko Yotsumoto, Argiro Vatakis, Fuat Balci, Virginie van Wassenhove
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have resulted in global changes in daily routines. The Blursday database offers repeated measurements of subjective time and related processes, providing researchers with valuable insights into the effects of social isolation on various aspects such as time perception and decision-making.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Luigi Micillo, Pier-Alexandre Rioux, Esteban Mendoza, Sebastian L. Kuebel, Nicola Cellini, Virginie Van Wassenhove, Simon Grondin, Giovanna Mioni
Summary: This study examined the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on anxiety, depression, and time perspectives in six countries. The results showed that Turkish participants had the highest levels of anxiety, while Japanese and Greek participants had the lowest levels. Negative attitudes towards the past predicted anxiety and depression in most countries.
Article
Biology
Ignacio Polti, Matthias Nau, Raphael Kaplan, Virginie van Wassenhove, Christian F. Doeller
Summary: By combining fMRI with a TTC estimation task, this study found that the hippocampus plays a central role in encoding the statistical regularities of the environment and supports behavior improvements in sensorimotor timing and cognitive mapping.
Article
Neurosciences
Pier-Alexandre Rioux, Maximilien Chaumon, Antoine Demers, Hugo Fitzback-Fortin, Sebastian L. Kuebel, Catherine Lebrun, Esteban Mendoza-Duran, Luigi Micillo, Charles Racine, Nicola Thibault, Virginie van Wassenhove, Simon Grondin
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic and associated measures have had an impact on people's routines and mental well-being worldwide. Research has shown that time perception can be distorted during lockdowns, which is partly due to compromised well-being. This study investigates the temporal experience and mental well-being of Canadians during two periods of national lockdown, finding associations between anxiety, depression, confinement indicators, and time perception.
TIMING & TIME PERCEPTION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Patrik Polgari, Ljubica Jovanovic, Virginie van Wassenhove, Anne Giersch
Summary: This study investigates the possibility of automatic order processing in a difficult visual task involving subthreshold asynchronies. The results suggest that processing the temporal order of subthreshold asynchronies is possible, but fragile and likely dependent on task requirements.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nikos Chalas, Diana Omigie, David Poeppel, Virginie van Wassenhove
Summary: Using magnetoencephalography, researchers examined how the frequency-specific dynamics of human brain activity adapt to audiovisual speech delays. They found that the amplitude of phase-locked responses decreases with natural audiovisual speech synchrony, consistent with predictive coding. The temporal statistics of audiovisual speech also affect large-scale oscillatory networks in the brain, with high-frequency activity contingent on the phase response of low-frequency networks.
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Fuat Balci, Huseyin Unubol, Simon Grondin, Gokben Hizli Sayar, Virginie van Wassenhove, Marc Wittmann
Summary: Most interval timing research has focused on prospective timing, but real-life temporal judgments are often made retrospectively. This study investigated the retrospective timing performance of a large sample of participants with varying intervals. The results showed systematic biases in retrospective temporal judgments, with overestimation for shorter durations and underestimation for longer durations.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Harish Gunasekaran, Leila Azizi, Virginie van Wassenhove, Sophie K. Herbst
Summary: This study used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate the brain oscillations in humans during rest. The researchers found that only the resting state condition showed spectral peaks in the delta frequency range that could be interpreted as endogenously periodic neural dynamics.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Sloane Paulcan, Anne Giersch, Virginie van Wassenhove, Valerie Doyere
Summary: By investigating the perceptual signatures of audiovisual temporal order in rats, we demonstrate the importance of the protocol design for reliable order processing. Rats trained with both reinforced audiovisual trials and non-reinforced unisensory trials learned the task surprisingly faster than rats trained with reinforced multisensory trials only. An experimental protocol requiring individuals to process all stimuli in a sequence is compulsory to ensure temporal order processing.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL LEARNING AND COGNITION
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Yuri De Pra, Vincenzo Catrambone, Virginie van Wassenhove, Gaetano Valenza, Matteo Bianchi
Summary: This work discusses the preliminary outcomes of the first investigation in the visual-tactile domain regarding perceptual illusions. The results show that multi-modal stimulation affects Tau and Kappa effects, and the perceptual bias differs based on the modality used for stimulus delivery.
2022 31ST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION (IEEE RO-MAN 2022)
(2022)
