Spontaneous eyeblinks are sensitive to sequential learning

Anton, Estibaliz San; Cleeremans, Axel; Destrebecqz, Arnaud; Peigneux, Philippe; Schmitz, Rémy

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.09.007

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“…Dopamine may influence episodic memory formation and retrieval through interactions with the hippocampus before, during, and after events, and it may expand the scope of what an individual attends to and encodes (Shohamy and Adcock, 2010;Clewett and Murty, 2019;Thorp et al, 2020). Higher spontaneous EBR has been related to greater learning in a variety of simple learning paradigms (e.g., visuomotor sequence learning, infant reward learning, and learned patterns of attention shifts; Tharp and Pickering, 2011;Slagter et al, 2015;San Anton et al, 2018;Tummeltshammer et al, 2019). Here we explored whether adolescents' EBR as they described their feelings to a series of stories in an interview predicts their long-term memory for the stories, and investigated the predictive power of EBR relative to a neural measure known to be associated with memory.…”

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Measuring Learning in the Blink of an Eye: Adolescents' Neurophysiological Reactions Predict Long-Term Memory for Stories

2021

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Anticipating what adolescents will remember is a common goal in education research, but what tools allow us to predict adolescents' memory without interrupting the learning process as it naturally occurs? To attempt to identify neurophysiological markers of deep processing that may predict long-term retention, here we conducted an exploratory study by adding a cued recall probe to the last wave of data collection in a longitudinal psychosocial and neuroimaging study of 65 urban adolescents. Five years prior, and again 3 years prior, participants had reacted to the same emotionally evocative true stories during a videotaped interview that allowed us to measure eye-blink rate (EBR), and again during fMRI scanning. We analyzed EBR and neural data from the initial story exposure. We found that memory for a story was predicted by both EBR (a proxy for striatal dopamine) and default mode network neural activity to that story (involved in integrative memory and processing of emotional feelings). EBR and default mode network activity were uncorrelated and explained additive variance. Though more work is needed, our study contributes preliminary supportive evidence linking EBR and neural activity trial-by-trial to long-term memory in a naturalistic task. The analyses suggest that including EBR, a non-invasive, portable, and inexpensive measure that can be coded from high-quality video recording, could be useful in future studies of adolescents' learning.

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Measuring Learning in the Blink of an Eye: Adolescents' Neurophysiological Reactions Predict Long-Term Memory for Stories

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“…Similarly, between-person differences in resting EBR predict performance on cognitive tasks that rely on DA transmission, such as attention (Maffei & Angrilli, 2018), inhibitory control (Den Daas, Häfner, & de Wit, 2013;Zhang et al, 2015), serial reaction time task learning (San Anton, Cleeremans, Destrebecqz, Peigneux, & Schmitz, 2018), and cognitive flexibility (Dreisbach et al, 2005;Müller et al, 2007;Tharp & Pickering, 2011;Zhang et al, 2015).…”

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Ocular measures during associative learning predict recall accuracy

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Diwadkar

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

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The ability to form associations between stimuli and commit those associations to memory is a cornerstone of human cognition. Dopamine and noradrenaline are neuromodulators that are critically implicated in a range of cognitive functions, including learning and memory. Eye blink rate (EBR) and pupil diameter have been shown to index dopaminergic and noradrenergic activity. Here, we examined how these ocular measures relate to accuracy during a pairedassociate learning task where participants learned consistent object-location associations over eight trials. We recorded EBR, pupil diameter, and visual scanning behavior in a largely young adult sample (N=73). We examined these ocular metrics in terms of between and within participant mean centered effects using linear mixed effects modeling. In the encoding and delay epochs, we found that increased accuracy was related to increased EBR relative to the individual's own average rate within the respective epoch across the eight trials. Additionally, increased between participant mean centered EBR showed decreased accuracy in pre-trial fixation, encoding, and retrieval epochs, indicating that blinking more relative to others during these epochs was related to poorer recall. These effects of EBR on accuracy were observed even after controlling for the extent of visual scanning, which, during the delay epoch, also conferred a beneficial effect on recall accuracy. Finally, we found no effect of pupil diameter on accuracy. These results provide novel evidence supporting the utility of ocular metrics in illuminating cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of paired associate learning.

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Spontaneous eyeblinks are sensitive to sequential learning

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Measuring Learning in the Blink of an Eye: Adolescents' Neurophysiological Reactions Predict Long-Term Memory for Stories

Measuring Learning in the Blink of an Eye: Adolescents' Neurophysiological Reactions Predict Long-Term Memory for Stories

Ocular measures during associative learning predict recall accuracy

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