scholarly journals Saccade countermanding reflects automatic inhibition as well as top-down cognitive control

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Bompas ◽  
Anne Eileen Campbell ◽  
Petroc Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Visual Signals ◽  
Behavioral Measure ◽  
Visually Guided ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Oculomotor Behavior ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Signal Features ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Stop Signal Reaction Time

AbstractCountermanding behavior has long been seen as a cornerstone of executive control – the human ability to selectively inhibit undesirable responses and change plans. In recent years, however, scattered evidence has emerged that stopping behavior is entangled with simpler automatic stimulus-response mechanisms. Here we give flesh to this idea by merging the latest conceptualization of saccadic countermanding with a versatile neural network model of visuo-oculomotor behavior that integrates bottom-up and top-down drives. This model accounts for all fundamental qualitative and quantitative features of saccadic countermanding, including neuronal activity. Importantly, it does so by using the same architecture and parameters as basic visually guided behavior and automatic stimulus-driven interference. Using simulations and new data, we compare the temporal dynamics of saccade countermanding with that of saccadic inhibition (SI), a hallmark effect thought to reflect automatic competition within saccade planning areas. We demonstrate how SI accounts for a large proportion of the saccade countermanding process when using visual signals. We conclude that top-down inhibition acts later, piggy-backing on the quicker automatic inhibition. This conceptualization fully accounts for the known effects of signal features and response modalities traditionally used across the countermanding literature. Moreover, it casts different light on the concept of top-down inhibition, its timing and neural underpinning, as well as the interpretation of stop-signal reaction time, the main behavioral measure in the countermanding literature.

Visually Guided, Aimed Movements Are Unaffected by Stimulus- Response Uncertainty

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane A. Belovsky ◽  
Charles E. Wright ◽  
Valerie F. Marino ◽  
Charles Chubb
Keyword(s):  
Visually Guided ◽  
Response Uncertainty ◽  
Stimulus Response

Temporal Brokering: A Measure of Brokerage as a Behavioral Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 109442812110029
Author(s):  
Eric Quintane ◽  
Martin Wood ◽  
John Dunn ◽  
Lucia Falzon
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Temporal Information ◽  
Behavioral Measure ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Message Boards ◽  
Behavioral Process ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
The Way

Extant research in organizational networks has provided critical insights into understanding the benefits of occupying a brokerage position. More recently, researchers have moved beyond the brokerage position to consider the brokering processes (arbitration and collaboration) brokers engage in and their implications for performance. However, brokering processes are typically measured using scales that reflect individuals’ orientation toward engaging in a behavior, rather than the behavior itself. In this article, we propose a measure that captures the behavioral process of brokering. The measure indicates the extent to which actors engage in arbitration versus collaboration based on sequences of time stamped relational events, such as emails, message boards, and recordings of meetings. We demonstrate the validity of our measure as well as its predictive ability. By leveraging the temporal information inherent in sequences of relational events, our behavioral measure of brokering creates opportunities for researchers to explore the dynamics of brokerage and their impact on individuals, and also paves the way for a systematic examination of the temporal dynamics of networks.

scholarly journals Collicular Vision Guides Nonconscious Behavior

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 888-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Tamietto ◽  
Franco Cauda ◽  
Luca Latini Corazzini ◽  
Silvia Savazzi ◽  
Carlo A. Marzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Striate Cortex ◽  
Visual Signals ◽  
Visually Guided ◽  
Visuomotor Integration ◽  
Motor Processing ◽  
Pupillary Responses ◽  
Cortex Area ◽  
Extrastriate Areas

Following destruction or deafferentation of primary visual cortex (area V1, striate cortex), clinical blindness ensues, but residual visual functions may, nevertheless, persist without perceptual consciousness (a condition termed blindsight). The study of patients with such lesions thus offers a unique opportunity to investigate what visual capacities are mediated by the extrastriate pathways that bypass V1. Here we provide evidence for a crucial role of the collicular–extrastriate pathway in nonconscious visuomotor integration by showing that, in the absence of V1, the superior colliculus (SC) is essential to translate visual signals that cannot be consciously perceived into motor outputs. We found that a gray stimulus presented in the blind field of a patient with unilateral V1 loss, although not consciously seen, can influence his behavioral and pupillary responses to consciously perceived stimuli in the intact field (implicit bilateral summation). Notably, this effect was accompanied by selective activations in the SC and in occipito-temporal extrastriate areas. However, when instead of gray stimuli we presented purple stimuli, which predominantly draw on S-cones and are thus invisible to the SC, any evidence of implicit visuomotor integration disappeared and activations in the SC dropped significantly. The present findings show that the SC acts as an interface between sensory and motor processing in the human brain, thereby providing a contribution to visually guided behavior that may remain functionally and anatomically segregated from the geniculo-striate pathway and entirely outside conscious visual experience.

scholarly journals Using the past to estimate sensory uncertainty

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrik Beierholm ◽  
Tim Rohe ◽  
Ambra Ferrari ◽  
Oliver Stegle ◽  
Uta Noppeney
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Visual Signals ◽  
Perceptual Inference ◽  
Reliability Estimates ◽  
Uncertainty Estimates ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Combine Information ◽  
Sensory Uncertainty ◽  
The Brain

AbstractTo form the most reliable percept of the environment, the brain needs to represent sensory uncertainty. Current theories of perceptual inference assume that the brain computes sensory uncertainty instantaneously and independently for each stimulus.In a series of psychophysics experiments human observers localized auditory signals that were presented in synchrony with spatially disparate visual signals. Critically, the visual noise changed dynamically over time with or without intermittent jumps. Our results show that observers integrate audiovisual inputs weighted by sensory reliability estimates that combine information from past and current signals as predicted by an optimal Bayesian learner or approximate strategies of exponential discountingOur results challenge classical models of perceptual inference where sensory uncertainty estimates depend only on the current stimulus. They demonstrate that the brain capitalizes on the temporal dynamics of the external world and estimates sensory uncertainty by combining past experiences with new incoming sensory signals.

scholarly journals Early Top–Down Control of Visual Processing Predicts Working Memory Performance

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1224-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron M. Rutman ◽  
Wesley C. Clapp ◽  
James Z. Chadick ◽  
Adam Gazzaley
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Natural Scenes ◽  
Attention And Memory ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Sensory Neural

Selective attention confers a behavioral benefit on both perceptual and working memory (WM) performance, often attributed to top–down modulation of sensory neural processing. However, the direct relationship between early activity modulation in sensory cortices during selective encoding and subsequent WM performance has not been established. To explore the influence of selective attention on WM recognition, we used electroencephalography to study the temporal dynamics of top–down modulation in a selective, delayed-recognition paradigm. Participants were presented with overlapped, “double-exposed” images of faces and natural scenes, and were instructed to either remember the face or the scene while simultaneously ignoring the other stimulus. Here, we present evidence that the degree to which participants modulate the early P100 (97–129 msec) event-related potential during selective stimulus encoding significantly correlates with their subsequent WM recognition. These results contribute to our evolving understanding of the mechanistic overlap between attention and memory.

scholarly journals Multidimensional assessment of impulsivity in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder: testing for shared endophenotypes

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 1497-1507 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Fortgang ◽  
C. M. Hultman ◽  
T. G. M. van Erp ◽  
T. D. Cannon
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Behavioral Measure ◽  
Clinical Feature ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Genetic Overlap ◽  
Stop Signal Reaction Time ◽  
Genetic Loading

BackgroundImpulsivity is associated with bipolar disorder as a clinical feature during and between manic episodes and is considered a potential endophenotype for the disorder. Schizophrenia and major depressive disorder share substantial genetic overlap with bipolar disorder, and these two disorders have also been associated with elevations in impulsivity. However, little is known about the degree of overlap among these disorders in discrete subfacets of impulsivity and whether any overlap is purely phenotypic or due to shared genetic diathesis.MethodWe focused on five subfacets of impulsivity: self-reported attentional, motor, and non-planning impulsivity, self-reported sensation seeking, and a behavioral measure of motor inhibition (stop signal reaction time; SSRT). We examined these facets within and across disorder proband and co-twin groups, modeled heritability, and tested for endophenotypic patterning in a sample of twin pairs recruited from the Swedish Twin Registry (N = 420).ResultsWe found evidence of moderate to high levels of heritability for all five subfacets. All three proband groups and their unaffected co-twins showed elevations on attentional, motor, and non-planning impulsivity. Schizophrenia probands (but not their co-twins) showed significantly lower sensation seeking, and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder probands (but not in their co-twins) had significantly longer SSRTs, compared with healthy controls and the other groups.ConclusionsAttentional, motor, and non-planning impulsivity emerged as potential shared endophenotypes for the three disorders, whereas sensation seeking and SSRT were associated with phenotypic affection but not genetic loading for these disorders.

Spatio-temporal dynamics of top-down control: directing attention to location and/or color as revealed by ERPs and source modeling

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heleen A. Slagter ◽  
Albert Kok ◽  
Nisan Mol ◽  
J. Leon Kenemans
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Source Modeling ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Directing Attention

Sensorimotor Locus of the Buildup Activity in Monkey Lateral Intraparietal Area Neurons

2010 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 2664-2674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joonkoo Park ◽  
Jun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Activity ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Neuronal Firing ◽  
Firing Activity ◽  
Motor Representation ◽  
Lateral Intraparietal Area ◽  
Response Mapping ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Dot Motion

A study in 2002 using a random-dot motion-discrimination paradigm showed that an information accumulation model with a threshold-crossing mechanism can account for activity of the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) neurons. Here, mathematical techniques were applied to the same dataset to quantitatively address the sensory versus motor representation of the neuronal activity during the time course of a trial. A technique based on Signal Detection Theory was applied to provide indices to quantify how neuronal firing activity is responsible for encoding the stimulus or selecting the response at the behavioral level. Additionally, a statistical model based on Poisson regression was used to provide an orthogonal decomposition of the neural activity into stimulus, response, and stimulus-response mapping components. The temporal dynamics of the sensorimotor locus of the LIP activity indicated that there is no stimulus-response mapping-specific neuronal firing activity throughout a trial; the neural activity toward the saccadic onset reflects the development of the motor representation, and the neural activity in the beginning of a trial contains little, if any, information about the sensory representation. Sensorimotor analysis on individual neurons also showed that the neuronal activation, as a population, represent pending saccadic direction and carry little information about the direction of the motion stimulus.

Visually guided, aimed movements can be unaffected by stimulus–response uncertainty

2007 ◽  
Vol 179 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Wright ◽  
Valerie F. Marino ◽  
Shane A. Belovsky ◽  
Charles Chubb
Keyword(s):  
Visually Guided ◽  
Response Uncertainty ◽  
Stimulus Response

scholarly journals Bodily action penetrates affective perception

PeerJ ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. e1677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Fantoni ◽  
Sara Rigutti ◽  
Walter Gerbino
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Mood Induction ◽  
Detection Threshold ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Visually Guided ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Induced Mood ◽  
Internal States ◽  
Affective Perception ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion

Fantoni & Gerbino (2014) showed that subtle postural shifts associated with reaching can have a strong hedonic impact and affect how actors experience facial expressions of emotion. Using a novel Motor Action Mood Induction Procedure (MAMIP), they found consistent congruency effects in participants who performed a facial emotionidentificationtask after a sequence of visually-guided reaches: a face perceived as neutral in a baseline condition appeared slightly happy after comfortable actions and slightly angry after uncomfortable actions. However, skeptics about the penetrability of perception (Zeimbekis & Raftopoulos, 2015) would consider such evidence insufficient to demonstrate that observer’s internal states induced by action comfort/discomfort affect perception in a top-down fashion. The action-modulated mood might have produced a back-end memory effect capable of affecting post-perceptual and decision processing, but not front-end perception.Here, we present evidence that performing a facial emotiondetection(not identification) task after MAMIP exhibits systematic mood-congruentsensitivitychanges, rather than responsebiaschanges attributable to cognitive set shifts; i.e., we show that observer’s internal states induced by bodily action can modulate affective perception. The detection threshold forhappinesswas lower after fifty comfortable than uncomfortable reaches; while the detection threshold forangerwas lower after fifty uncomfortable than comfortable reaches. Action valence induced an overall sensitivity improvement in detecting subtle variations of congruent facial expressions (happiness afterpositivecomfortable actions, anger afternegativeuncomfortable actions), in the absence of significant response bias shifts. Notably, both comfortable and uncomfortable reaches impact sensitivity in an approximately symmetric way relative to a baseline inaction condition. All of these constitute compelling evidence of a genuine top-down effect on perception: specifically, facial expressions of emotion arepenetrableby action-induced mood. Affective priming by action valence is a candidate mechanism for the influence of observer’s internal states on properties experienced as phenomenally objective and yet loaded with meaning.

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