Cue Validitity Effects in Response Preparation: A Pupillometric Study

Moresi, Sofie; Adam, Jos J.; Rijcken, Jons; Gerven, Pascal W. M. Van

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“…Since the P3 oddball effect requires engagement in the task, all studies on the relationship between the pupillary response and P3 have used active paradigms, meaning that participants respond to stimuli and that these responses are systematically confounded with condition (either only one or a different button press for oddball targets). Thus, increased pupil size for oddballs compared to standards at the later stages of the epoch as observed here might have been caused by an additional effect of increased response preparation for the oddball or inhibition of the standard response (Hupé et al, 2009;Moresi et al, 2008). There was an effect of oddballs not just on the pupil but also on response (preparation) in that reaction times were P600 AND P3 ARE LINKED TO THE PUPILLARY RESPONSE 30 longer for oddballs than standards.…”

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The P600 and P3 ERP components are linked to the task-evoked pupillary response as a correlate of norepinephrine activity

Contier,

Wartenburger,

Weymar

et al. 2023

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During language comprehension, anomalies and ambiguities in the input typically elicit the P600 event-related potential component. Although traditionally interpreted as a specific signal of combinatorial operations in sentence processing, the component has alternatively been proposed to be a variant of the oddball-sensitive, domain-general P3 component. In particular, both components might reflect phasic norepinephrine release from the locus coeruleus (LC/NE) to motivationally significant stimuli. In this preregistered study, we tested this hypothesis by relating both components to the task-evoked pupillary response, a putative biomarker of LC/NE activity. 36 participants completed a sentence comprehension task (containing 25% morphosyntactic violations) and a non-linguistic oddball task (containing 20% oddballs), while the EEG and pupil size were co-registered. Our results showed that the task-evoked pupillary response and the ERP amplitudes of both components were similarly affected by both experimental tasks. Crucially, the size of the pupillary response – both pupil size and its temporal derivative – predicted the amplitude of both ERP components on a trial- by-trial basis. This pattern of results supports the idea that both, the P3 and the P600, might rely on a shared neural generator and, more specifically, that they may both be linked to phasic NE release. Generally, our findings further stimulate the debate on whether language- related ERPs are indeed specific to linguistic processes or shared across cognitive domains. In the case of the P600, the present results indicate that anomalies during language comprehension might rather initiate transient NE activity in response to rare and motivationally significant stimuli more generally.

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confidence: 63%

The P600 and P3 ERP components are linked to the task-evoked pupillary response as a correlate of norepinephrine activity

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Wartenburger,

Weymar

et al. 2023

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“…This is supported by a lack of the PDR in response to standard sounds in studies presenting a very similar sound sequence as in the present study but participants watched a video clip and did not perform a categorization task (Bonmassar et al, 2020). In addition, repercussions of the motor responses' preparation to the target, may have influenced the dilation of the pupil to standard sounds as well and this would also explain the absence of a correlation between distraction effects and PDR specific for sound type on a trial level (see examples for the influence of motor response and response preparation on pupil dilation, McCloy et al, 2016;Moresi et al, 2008;Simpson, 1969).…”

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On the relationship of arousal and attentional distraction by emotional novel sounds

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Scharf²,

Widmann³

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Effects of attentional distraction by unexpected and task-irrelevant sounds on task performance are discussed to comprise costs due to orienting of attention toward a distracting event and benefits due to enhanced level of arousal evoked by the processing of such events. Highly arousing distractor sounds may facilitate information and task processing resulting in reduced distraction effects compared to moderately arousing distractor sounds. By measuring pupil dilation responses as a marker of arousal and task performance as a marker of distraction, we disentangled orienting costs and arousal level changes through variations of the emotional content of distractor sounds. While participants (N=60) performed a visual categorization task, an auditory oddball sequence including standard sounds, highly arousing emotional and moderately arousing neutral novel sounds was presented. Multilevel analyses revealed prolonged reaction times to novel sounds compared to standard sounds. Distraction effects decreased when emotional novel sounds were presented compared to neutral novel sounds. Pupil dilation responses were increased in response to novel sounds compared to standard sounds. This increase was larger for emotional than for neutral novel sounds. None of the considered models supported a correlation at trial level between reduced distraction effects and arousal increase reflected by the pupil in response to emotional novel sounds, indicating at least partly independent underlying mechanisms. An exploratory analysis revealed an impact of the baseline pupil size, that indicates tonic level of arousal, on performance and distraction effects. Moreover, a positive correlation between the negative affect scale in the Adult Temperament Questionnaire and RTs was observed.

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Cue Validitity Effects in Response Preparation: A Pupillometric Study

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The P600 and P3 ERP components are linked to the task-evoked pupillary response as a correlate of norepinephrine activity

The P600 and P3 ERP components are linked to the task-evoked pupillary response as a correlate of norepinephrine activity

On the relationship of arousal and attentional distraction by emotional novel sounds

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