Neural correlates of executive control training

Behavioral and neural correlates of cross-linguistic transfer (CLT) effects were studied at the word level, in a pair of linguistically distant languages. Twelve adult Persian speakers were tested on an overt picture-naming task in L2, during event-related fMRI scanning after an intensive computerized French lexical-learning program including cognates, clangs and non-cognate-non-clangs.In distant language pairs, naming in L2 is effortful and demanding. Thus, it is less automatic, and must recruit more neural resources for lexical retrieval, and articulatory processing; it also requires more attention and cognitive control, even in cases where there is phonological overlap. Activation observed with different word types reflects the interaction of language and other cognitive systems including executive control and working memory circuits, even with phonologically similar and highly consolidated words. Moreover, phonologically similar words (cognates and clangs) seem to involve the implicit memory processing, whereas phonologically distant words (non-cognate-non-clangs) seem to require explicit memory.

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Neural correlates of executive control functions in the monkey

Trends in Cognitive Sciences ◽

10.1016/j.tics.2009.02.002 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 228-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Gijsbert Stoet ◽

Lawrence H. Snyder

Keyword(s):

Executive Control ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Control Functions

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Neuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ◽

10.3389/fnhum.2021.767208 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 ◽

Author(s):

Alexander Maÿe ◽

Tiezhi Wang ◽

Andreas K. Engel

Keyword(s):

Executive Control ◽

Emotional Processing ◽

Subjective Experience ◽

Phase Synchronization ◽

Specific Activity ◽

Brain Activity ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Brain Regions ◽

Music Making ◽

The Brain

Hyper-brain studies analyze the brain activity of two or more individuals during some form of interaction. Several studies found signs of inter-subject brain activity coordination, such as power and phase synchronization or information flow. This hyper-brain coordination is frequently studied in paradigms which induce rhythms or even synchronization, e.g., by mirroring movements, turn-based activity in card or economic games, or joint music making. It is therefore interesting to figure out in how far coordinated brain activity may be induced by a rhythmicity in the task and/or the sensory feedback that the partners receive. We therefore studied the EEG brain activity of dyads in a task that required the smooth pursuit of a target and did not involve any extrinsic rhythms. Partners controlled orthogonal axes of the two-dimensional motion of an object that had to be kept on the target. Using several methods for analyzing hyper-brain coupling, we could not detect signs of coordinated brain activity. However, we found several brain regions in which the frequency-specific activity significantly correlated with the objective task performance, the subjective experience thereof, and of the collaboration. Activity in these regions has been linked to motor control, sensorimotor integration, executive control and emotional processing. Our results suggest that neural correlates of intersubjectivity encompass large parts of brain areas that are considered to be involved in sensorimotor control without necessarily coordinating their activity across agents.

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To act or not to act. Neural correlates of executive control of learned motor behavior

NeuroImage ◽

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.07.070 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 1391-1401 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Friedhelm Hummel ◽

Ralf Saur ◽

Simone Lasogga ◽

Christian Plewnia ◽

Michael Erb ◽

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Keyword(s):

Executive Control ◽

Motor Behavior ◽

Neural Correlates

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Mindfulness Meditation Improves Musical Aesthetic Emotion Processing in Young Adults

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph182413045 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (24) ◽

pp. 13045

Author(s):

Xiaolin Liu ◽

Huijuan Shi ◽

Yong Liu ◽

Hong Yuan ◽

Maoping Zheng

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Executive Control ◽

Mindfulness Meditation ◽

Facial Recognition ◽

Emotion Processing ◽

Emotional Arousal ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Priming Paradigm ◽

Related Potentials ◽

Trait Group

This study explored the behavioral and neural correlates of mindfulness meditation improvement in musical aesthetic emotion processing (MAEP) in young adults, using the revised across-modal priming paradigm. Sixty-two participants were selected from 652 college students who assessed their mindfulness traits using the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). According to the 27% ratio of the high and low total scores, participants were divided into two subgroups: high trait group (n =31) and low trait group (n =31). Participants underwent facial recognition and emotional arousal tasks while listening to music, and simultaneously recorded event-related potentials (ERPs). The N400, P3, and late positive component (LPC) were investigated. The behavioral results showed that mindfulness meditation improved executive control abilities in emotional face processing and effectively regulated the emotional arousal of repeated listening to familiar music among young adults. These improvements were associated with positive changes in key neural signatures of facial recognition (smaller P3 and larger LPC effects) and emotional arousal (smaller N400 and larger LPC effects). Our results show that P3, N400, and LPC are important neural markers for the improvement of executive control and regulating emotional arousal in musical aesthetic emotion processing, providing new evidence for exploring attention training and emotional processing. We revised the affecting priming paradigm and E-prime 3.0 procedure to fulfill the simultaneous measurement of music listening and experimental tasks and provide a new experimental paradigm to simultaneously detect the behavioral and neural correlates of mindfulness-based musical aesthetic processing.

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Neural Correlates of Executive Control in the Avian Brain

PLoS Biology ◽

10.1371/journal.pbio.0030190 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 3 (6) ◽

pp. e190 ◽

Cited By ~ 56

Author(s):

Jonas Rose ◽

Michael Colombo

Keyword(s):

Executive Control ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Avian Brain

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Neural correlates of grammatical inflection in older native and second-language speakers

Bilingualism Language and Cognition ◽

10.1017/s1366728916001206 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

KRISTIN PREHN ◽

BENEDIKT TAUD ◽

JANA REIFEGERSTE ◽

HARALD CLAHSEN ◽

AGNES FLÖEL

Keyword(s):

Second Language ◽

Language Processing ◽

Executive Control ◽

Memory Systems ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Procedural Memory ◽

Judgment Task ◽

Error Rates ◽

Control Mechanisms ◽

Imaging Data

Speaking a late-acquired second language (L2) involves increased cognitive demands, as has been shown mainly in young and middle-aged adults. To investigate grammatical inflection in older L2 speakers, we acquired behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging data, while L1 and L2 speakers performed a grammaticality judgment task. L2 speakers showed higher error rates than native speakers, specifically when incorrect forms had to be rejected. Poorer performance in L2 speakers was accompanied by increased activity in the medial superior frontal gyrus (SFG), indicating the additional recruitment of executive control mechanisms. In addition, post-hoc within-group comparisons of behavioral and neural correlates provide evidence for dual-mechanism models in older adults, suggesting that language processing involves both procedural and declarative memory systems. Moreover, we demonstrated that speaking an L2 requires more executive control and relies to a lesser extent on the procedural memory system than speaking one's own native language.

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