Different oscillatory rhythms anticipate failures in executive and arousal vigilance

Luna, Fernando Gabriel; Aguirre, María Julieta; Martín-Arévalo, Elisa; Ibáñez, Agustín; Lupiáñez, Juan; Barttfeld, Pablo

doi:10.3389/fcogn.2023.1128442

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“…In short, while the executive vigilance decrement was associated with increased amplitude in late ERPs (i.e., P3 and SP), arousal vigilance loss was associated with reduced amplitude in early ERPs (i.e., N1 and P2). Importantly, the present outcomes further support different neural changes for executive and arousal vigilance (Luna et al, 2020; Luna et al, 2022) as part of attentional networks (Petersen & Posner, 2012; Posner & Petersen, 1990).…”

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Event‐related potentials associated with attentional networks evidence changes in executive and arousal vigilance

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Attention is regulated by three independent but interacting networks, that is, alerting, comprising phasic alertness and vigilance, orienting, and executive control. Previous studies analyzing event‐related potentials (ERPs) associated with attentional networks have focused on phasic alertness, orienting, and executive control, without an independent measure of vigilance. ERPs associated with vigilance have been instead measured in separate studies and via different tasks. The present study aimed to differentiate ERPs associated with attentional networks by simultaneously measuring vigilance along with phasic alertness, orienting, and executive control. Forty participants (34 women, age: M = 25.96; SD = 4.96) completed two sessions wherein the electroencephalogram was recorded while they completed the Attentional Networks Test for Interactions and Vigilance—executive and arousal components, a task that measures phasic alertness, orienting, and executive control along with executive (i.e., detection of infrequent critical signals) and arousal (i.e., sustaining a fast reaction to environmental stimuli) vigilance. ERPs previously associated with attentional networks were replicated here: (a) N1, P2, and contingent negative variation for phasic alertness; (b) P1, N1, and P3 for orienting; and (c) N2 and slow positivity for executive control. Importantly, different ERPs were associated with vigilance: while the executive vigilance decrement was associated with an increase in P3 and slow positivity across time‐on‐task, arousal vigilance loss was associated with reduced N1 and P2 amplitude. The present study shows that attentional networks can be described by different ERPs simultaneously observed in a single session, including independent measures of executive and arousal vigilance on its assessment.

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“…Vigilance was measured via the ANTI-Vea, a sensitive task that has proved to be effective in simultaneously measuring the decrement in two vigilance components (i.e., EV and AV) along with other attentional networks' functions in several lab and online behavioral studies (for a review, see Coll-Martín et al, 2023) as well as in psychophysiological research (Hemmerich et al, 2023;Huertas et al, 2019;Luna et al, 2023bLuna et al, , 2023aSanchis et al, 2020). Previous studies have shown acceptable reliability (i.e., Spearman-Brown splithalf correlations > .80) on the EV and AV scores of the ANTI-Vea, and at least a similar reliability on phasic alertness, orienting, and executive control scores as other versions of the ANT (Cásedas et al, 2022;Coll-Martin et al, 2021;Luna, Roca, et al, 2021).…”

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“…Dissociable patterns at the behavioral (Luna, Barttfeld, et al, 2022;Luna, Tortajada, et al, 2022;Román-Caballero et al, 2021), physiological (Feltmate et al, 2020;Sanchis et al, 2020;Sanchis-Navarro et al, 2024), and neural (Hemmerich et al, 2023(Hemmerich et al, , 2024Luna et al, 2020Luna et al, , 2023bLuna et al, , 2023a levels were observed for EV and AV when measuring vigilance components via the ANTI-Vea task. Most importantly, the EV and AV decrements were independently mitigated by stimulating different mechanisms of sustained attention.…”

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Can transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation mitigate vigilance loss? Examining the effects of stimulation at individualized vs. constant current intensity

Luna,

Lupianez,

König

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According to the arousal model of vigilance, the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system modulates sustained attention over long periods by regulating physiological arousal. Recent research has proposed that transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) modulates indirect physiological markers of LC-NE activity, although its effects on vigilance have not yet been examined. Aiming to develop a safe and non-invasive procedure to prevent vigilance failures in prolonged tasks, the present study examined the possibility to mitigate vigilance loss by stimulating the LC-NE system via taVNS. Following a pre-registered protocol (https://osf.io/tu2xy/), 50 participants completed three repeated-sessions in a randomized order in which either active taVNS at individualized intensity set by participant, active taVNS set at 0.5 mA for all participants, or sham taVNS, was delivered while performing an attentional and vigilance task (i.e., ANTI-Vea). Changes in salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol concentrations were measured as markers of LC-NE activity. Self-reports of feelings associated with stimulation and guessing rate of active/sham conditions supported the efficacy of the single-blind procedure. Contrary to our predictions, the observed vigilance decrement was not modulated by active taVNS. Pairwise comparisons showed a mitigation by active taVNS on cortisol reduction across time. Interestingly, Spearman’s correlational analyses showed some inter-individual effects of taVNS on indirect markers of LC-NE, evidenced by positive associations between changes in salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol in active but not sham taVNS. We highlight the relevance of replicating and extending the present outcomes, investigating further parameters of stimulation and its effects on other indirect markers of LC-NE activity.

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“…In the past few years, it has been proposed that vigilance can be considered as two dissociated components, which modulate different behavioral responses of sustained attention [7][8][9][10] . On the one hand, executive vigilance (EV) can be de ned as the ability to sustain attention for monitoring and detecting rare but critical events over an extended period.…”

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Effect of an acute bout of high- vs. low-intensity physical exercise on attentional networks.

Sanchis-Navarro,

Luna,

Lupiañez

et al. 2024

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The effects of physical exercise on attentional performance have received considerable interest in recent years. Most of previous studies that assessed the effect of an acute bout of exercise on attentional performance have generally been approached by analysing single attentional functions in isolation, thus ignoring the functioning of other attentional functions, which characterizes the real perception-action environmental conditions. Here, we investigated the effect of two different intensities (low vs. high) of acute exercise on attentional performance by using the ANTI-Vea, a behavioral task that simultaneously measures three attentional functions (phasic alertness, orienting, and cognitive control) and the executive and arousal components of vigilance. 30 participants completed three experimental sessions: the first one to assess their physical fitness and baseline performance in the ANTI-Vea, and the other two sessions to assess changes in attentional and vigilance performance after an acute bout of high- vs. low-intensity physical exercise (in a counterbalanced order between participants). Beneficial effects on some accuracy scores (i.e., overall higher accuracy in the attentional sub-task and fewer false alarms in the executive vigilance sub-task) were observed in the low-intensity exercise condition compared to baseline and high-intensity. Additionally, the RT score of phasic alertness was increased after the low-intensity exercise in comparison with baseline. The present findings suggest that a bout of acute exercise at low-intensity might induce some short-term beneficial effects on some aspects of attention and vigilance.

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Different oscillatory rhythms anticipate failures in executive and arousal vigilance

Cited by 4 publications

References 73 publications

Event‐related potentials associated with attentional networks evidence changes in executive and arousal vigilance

Event‐related potentials associated with attentional networks evidence changes in executive and arousal vigilance

Can transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation mitigate vigilance loss? Examining the effects of stimulation at individualized vs. constant current intensity

Effect of an acute bout of high- vs. low-intensity physical exercise on attentional networks.

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