The Development of Control Processes Supporting Source Memory Discrimination as Revealed by Event-related Potentials

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1286-1301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne de Chastelaine ◽  
David Friedman ◽  
Yael M. Cycowicz
Keyword(s):  
Source Memory ◽  
Response Selection ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Control Processes ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Adults And Children

Improvement in source memory performance throughout childhood is thought to be mediated by the development of executive control. As postretrieval control processes may be better time-locked to the recognition response rather than the retrieval cue, the development of processes underlying source memory was investigated with both stimulus- and response-locked event-related potentials (ERPs). These were recorded in children, adolescents, and adults during a recognition memory exclusion task. Green- and red-outlined pictures were studied, but were tested in black outline. The test requirement was to endorse old items shown in one study color (“targets”) and to reject new items along with old items shown in the alternative study color (“nontargets”). Source memory improved with age. All age groups retrieved target and nontarget memories as reflected by reliable parietal episodic memory (EM) effects, a stimulus-locked ERP correlate of recollection. Response-locked ERPs to targets and nontargets diverged in all groups prior to the response, although this occurred at an increasingly earlier time point with age. We suggest these findings reflect the implementation of attentional control mechanisms to enhance target memories and facilitate response selection with the greatest and least success, respectively, in adults and children. In adults only, response-locked ERPs revealed an early-onsetting parietal negativity for nontargets, but not for targets. This was suggested to reflect adults' ability to consistently inhibit prepotent target responses for nontargets. The findings support the notion that the development of source memory relies on the maturation of control processes that serve to enhance accurate selection of task-relevant memories.

scholarly journals Sustained inhibition of the native language in bilingual language production: A virtual reality approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1035-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID PEETERS ◽  
TON DIJKSTRA
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Language Background ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Mixing Costs ◽  
Sustained Inhibition

Bilinguals often switch languages as a function of the language background of their addressee. The control mechanisms supporting bilinguals' ability to select the contextually appropriate language are heavily debated. Here we present four experiments in which unbalanced bilinguals named pictures in their first language Dutch and their second language English in mixed and blocked contexts. Immersive virtual reality technology was used to increase the ecological validity of the cued language-switching paradigm. Behaviorally, we consistently observed symmetrical switch costs, reversed language dominance, and asymmetrical mixing costs. These findings indicate that unbalanced bilinguals apply sustained inhibition to their dominant L1 in mixed language settings. Consequent enhanced processing costs for the L1 in a mixed versus a blocked context were reflected by a sustained positive component in event-related potentials. Methodologically, the use of virtual reality opens up a wide range of possibilities to study language and communication in bilingual and other communicative settings.

scholarly journals Variations in Pupil Size Related to Memory for Recently Presented Words and Event Related Potentials

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-09
Author(s):  
Jan Rouke Kuipers ◽  
William A. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Pupil Size ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Study Phase ◽  
Attention And Memory ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Brain Responses ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Initial List

Pupillometry has been found to be correlated with activity of cholinergic and noradrenergic neuromodulator systems. These systems regulate the level of cortical arousal and therefore perception, attention, and memory. Here, we tested how different types of pupil size variance (prestimulus baseline and prestimulus hippus power) may correlate with behavioral and electrophysiological brain responses (ERPs). We recorded pupil size and ERPs while participants were presented with a series of words and then asked whether they had been in the initial list when they were later presented intermixed with unpresented words. We found that a smaller prestimulus baseline pupil size during the study phase was associated with better memory performance. Study items also evoked a larger P3 response at presentation and a greater old/new memory ERP effect at test when prestimulus pupil size was small rather than large. Prestimulus hippus power was found to be a between-subjects factor affecting the robustness of memory encoding with less power being associated with a greater old/new memory ERP effect. These results provide evidence relating memory and ERPs to variables defined on pupil size that are thought to reflect varying states of parasympathetic and sympathetic arousal.

scholarly journals Not Just a Pot: Visual Episodic Memory in Cannabis Users and Polydrug Cannabis Users: ROC and ERP Preliminary Investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Anna Binkowska ◽  
Natalia Jakubowska ◽  
Maciej Gaca ◽  
Natalia Galant ◽  
Agnieszka Piotrowska-Cyplik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Receiver Operating Characteristic ◽  
Operating Characteristic ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Visual Learning ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Receiver Operating

Background While research has consistently identified an association between long-term cannabis use and memory impairments, few studies have examined this relationship in a polydrug context (i.e., when combining cannabis with other substances).Aims: In this preliminary study, we used event-related potentials to examine the recognition process in a visual episodic memory task in cannabis users (CU) and cannabis polydrug users (PU). We hypothesized that CU and PU will have both–behavioral and psychophysiological–indicators of memory processes affected, compared to matched non-using controls with the PU expressing more severe changes.Methods 29 non-using controls (CG), 24 CU and 27 PU were enrolled into the study. All participants completed a visual learning recognition task while brain electrical activity was recorded. Event-related potentials were calculated for familiar (old) and new images from a signal recorded during a subsequent recognition test. We used receiver operating characteristic curves for behavioral data analysis.Results The groups did not differ in memory performance based on receiver operating characteristic method in accuracy and discriminability indicators nor mean reaction times for old/new images. The frontal old/new effect expected from prior research was observed for all participants, while a parietal old/new effect was not observed. While, the significant differences in the late parietal component (LPC) amplitude was observed between CG and PU but not between CG and CU nor CU and PU. Linear regression analysis was used to examine the mean amplitude of the LPC component as a predictor of memory performance accuracy indicator. LPC amplitude predicts recognition accuracy only in the CG.Conclusion The results showed alterations in recognition memory processing in CU and PU groups compared to CG, which were not manifested on the behavioral level, and were the most prominent in cannabis polydrug users. We interpret it as a manifestation of the cumulative effect of multiple drug usage in the PU group.

scholarly journals Dietary intake and food sources of added sugar in the Australian population

2016 ◽  
Vol 115 (5) ◽  
pp. 868-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linggang Lei ◽  
Anna Rangan ◽  
Victoria M. Flood ◽  
Jimmy Chun Yu Louie
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Added Sugar ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Sweetened Beverages ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Adults And Children

AbstractPrevious studies in Australian children/adolescents and adults examining added sugar (AS) intake were based on now out-of-date national surveys. We aimed to examine the AS and free sugar (FS) intakes and the main food sources of AS among Australians, using plausible dietary data collected by a multiple-pass, 24-h recall, from the 2011–12 Australian Health Survey respondents (n 8202). AS and FS intakes were estimated using a previously published method, and as defined by the WHO, respectively. Food groups contributing to the AS intake were described and compared by age group and sex by one-way ANOVA. Linear regression was used to test for trends across age groups. Usual intake of FS (as percentage energy (%EFS)) was computed using a published method and compared with the WHO cut-off of <10 %EFS. The mean AS intake of the participants was 60·3 (sd 52·6) g/d. Sugar-sweetened beverages accounted for the greatest proportion of the AS intake of the Australian population (21·4 (sd 30·1) %), followed by sugar and sweet spreads (16·3 (sd 24·5) %) and cakes, biscuits, pastries and batter-based products (15·7 (sd 24·4) %). More than half of the study population exceeded the WHO’s cut-off for FS, especially children and adolescents. Overall, 80–90 % of the daily AS intake came from high-sugar energy-dense and/or nutrient-poor foods. To conclude, the majority of Australian adults and children exceed the WHO recommendation for FS intake. Efforts to reduce AS intake should focus on energy-dense and/or nutrient-poor foods.

Event-Related Potentials, Reaction Time, and Response Selection of Skilled and Less-Skilled Cricket Batsmen

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p5620 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Sharhidd Taliep ◽  
A St Clair Gibson ◽  
J Gray ◽  
L van der Merwe ◽  
C L Vaughan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Response Selection ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Selection Of

Different Frequency Bands of Electromagnetic Wave on Age-Related Developmental Changes

2013 ◽  
Vol 479-480 ◽  
pp. 480-485
Author(s):  
Ming Chung Ho ◽  
Chin Fei Huang ◽  
Chia Yi Chou ◽  
Ming Chi Lu ◽  
Chen Hsieh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Power ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Phase Locking ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Brain Dynamics ◽  
Alpha Power ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials

Brain dynamics is an important issue in understanding child development. However, very little research of the event-related responses has been used to explore changes during childhood. The aim of this study was to investigate mature changes in spatiotemporal organization of brain dynamics. We hypothesized that oscillatory event-related brain activity were affected by age-related changes. The sample include three age groups, namely 7 years (N = 18), 11 years (N = 18), and adults (N = 18). The event-related spectral power (ERPSP), and inter-trial phase locking (ITPL) of the event-related potentials (ERPs) were obtained from the time-frequency analysis of the auditory oddball task. Results revealed that: (a) decreased theta power, but alpha power increased with age; (b) the values of ITPL in the theta and alpha bands increased with age. These suggest that ERPSP, and ITPL provide useful indicators of cognitive maturation processes in children aged 7 and 11 years.

scholarly journals Differences in strategic abilities but not associative processes explain memory development

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.C.J. Müller ◽  
N. Kohn ◽  
M. van Buuren ◽  
N. Klijn ◽  
H. Emmen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Development ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Angular Gyrus ◽  
Memory Representation ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Learning Capabilities ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Evaluation And Monitoring

AbstractChildren’s learning capabilities change while growing up. One framework that describes the cognitive and neural development of children’s growing learning abilities is the two-component model. It distinguishes processes that integrate separate features into a coherent memory representation (associative component) and executive abilities, such as elaboration, evaluation and monitoring, that support memory processing (strategic component). In an fMRI study using an object-location association paradigm, we investigated how the two components influence memory performance across development. We tested children (10-12 yrs., n=31), late adolescents (18 yrs., n=29) and adults (25+ yrs., n=30) of either sex. For studying the associative component, we also probed how the utilisation of prior knowledge (schemas) facilitates memory across age groups. Children had overall lower retrieval performance, while adolescents and adults did not differ from each other. All groups benefitted from schemas, but this effect did not differ between groups. Performance differences between groups were associated with deactivation of the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), which in turn was linked to executive functioning. These patterns were stronger in adolescents and adults and seemed absent in children. This pattern of results suggests the children’s executive system, the strategic component, is not as mature and thus cannot facilitate memory performance in the same way as in adolescents/adults. In contrast, we did not find age-related differences in the associative component; with activity in the angular gyrus predicting memory performance systematically across groups. Overall our results suggest that differences of executive rather than associative abilities explain memory differences between children, adolescents and adults.

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