EEG Correlates of Involuntary Cognitions in the Reflexive Imagery Task

Dou, Wei; Allen, Allison K.; Cho, Hyein; Bhangal, Sabrina; Cook, Alexander J.; Morsella, Ezequiel; Geisler, Mark W.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00482

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“…These sites overlap with the 10/20 electrode system's F3 (GSN electrode 25) and F4 (GSN electrode 124). These sites were chosen following previous studies on maternal samples (Killeen & Teti, 2012; Wilbanks et al., 2016), and activity from these sites being able to sufficiently differentiate frontal brain activity from other brain regions (e.g., Dou et al., 2020). The spectral data were normalized with a log‐transformation (raw data are presented in Table 1 in the Appendix).…”

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Exploring resting frontal EEG and reflective functioning in maternal substance use

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Maternal substance use is associated with altered neural activity and poor offspring outcomes, which may be facilitated by suboptimal caregiving in the form of impaired parental reflective functioning (PRF). To investigate these associations, the resting‐state frontal electroencephalography (EEG) power of 48 substance‐using mothers and 37 non‐substance‐using mothers were examined, specifying seven frequency bands: delta, theta, alpha, alpha1, alpha2, beta, and gamma. Substance‐using mothers exhibited enhanced beta and gamma spectral power compared to non‐substance‐using mothers, potentially reflecting higher arousal states in substance‐using mothers. There were no between‐group differences in any component of PRF (i.e., levels of pre‐mentalizing, certainty, and interest and curiosity). Whole‐sample analyses revealed significant positive correlations between pre‐mentalizing and delta spectral power. Taken together, these findings suggest potential neural correlates of maternal substance use and PRF, providing an important next step into examining associations between maternal substance use and poor child outcomes.

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Exploring resting frontal EEG and reflective functioning in maternal substance use

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“…It is worth noting that this effect requires symbol manipulation, which is an operation associated with the frontal cortex ( Miller and Cummings, 2007 ). For discussion of the neural correlates of the basic RIT effect, see Dou et al (2020) .…”

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Insuppressible cognitions in the reflexive imagery task: Insights and future directions

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In 1959, Neal Miller made the bold claim that the Stimulus–Response, Behaviorist models of that era were describing the way in which stimuli lead to the entry of contents into consciousness (“entry,” for short). Today, researchers have begun to investigate the link between external stimuli and involuntary entry, using paradigms such as the reflexive imagery task (RIT), the focus of our review. The RIT has revealed that stimuli can elicit insuppressible entry of high-level cognitions. Knowledge of the boundary conditions of the RIT effect illuminates the limitations of involuntary processes and the role of consciousness in the regulation of behavior. We review the boundary conditions of this paradigm as well as its systematic effects. Systematic effects are unlikely to be due to experimental demand. While reviewing each effect, we consider its theoretical implications. In addition, throughout our review, we discuss future directions for the study of insuppressible entry using the RIT. Last, we discuss a theoretical development (passive frame theory) that stems from the RIT and illuminates how involuntary entry and encapsulation, though at times disadvantageous for the actor, are essential for adaptive action selection during the course of ontogeny.

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“…Participants oftentimes fail to suppress the subvocalizations, which indicates that high-level conscious content can be elicited involuntarily and unintentionally (Allen et al, 2013). An EEG study of the RIT revealed significant results on alpha activity, beta coherence, and theta coherence, suggesting inhibitory mental processes (Dou et al, 2020). Based on our existing results for the current experiment, we can infer that instead of the flanker paradigm of the current study, the RIT task might be a more promising experiment to investigate these involuntary effects.…”

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Measuring Neural Response of Imagery Effect Elicited by Distractors in the Flanker Task

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Research involving the flanker task reveals that distractors presented aside a target can activate response codes and thereby interfere with responding to the target. Other research has shown that mental imagery, a higher-level cognitive phenomenon, can be influenced involuntarily by such distractors. What remains unknown is the neural correlate of the involuntary mental imagery elicited by the distractors. In the current study, involving attention, mental imagery, and electroencephalography (EEG), we investigated the neural response signal for incongruent trials that elicited verbal mental imagery. We hypothesized that such trials should be associated with higher alpha and beta activity than incongruent trials that did not elicit verbal mental imagery. We found that, for each individual electrode site, there was no significant difference between the alpha and beta activity between incongruent trials that elicited mental imagery and incongruent trials that did not elicit mental imagery. However, there was a significant difference among the four electrodes on alpha and beta signals for the situations in which mental imagery was not elicited. Since neural data associated with high eye movements were excluded from the data analysis, it is unlikely that the neural activity results were due to excessive noise in the data. The current study is a first step that, not only measures the behavioral result of the subjective experience but strives to detect the neural correlates of the subjective experience of a high-level consciousness phenomena elicited during the flanker task. v Acknowledgements I am really grateful for all the inspiration and mentorship of Dr. Mark W. Geisler and Dr. Ezequiel Morsella during my time in the Cognitive Psychophysiology Lab and the Action and Consciousness Lab. I also wish to thank my fellow lab members for all their help and support. I would like to thank Sean Chandler, the lab manager of the Cognitive Psychophysiology Lab, for all his help and support during the programming of the experiment and data collection. viTable of Contents List of Tables .

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EEG Correlates of Involuntary Cognitions in the Reflexive Imagery Task

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Exploring resting frontal EEG and reflective functioning in maternal substance use

Exploring resting frontal EEG and reflective functioning in maternal substance use

Insuppressible cognitions in the reflexive imagery task: Insights and future directions

Measuring Neural Response of Imagery Effect Elicited by Distractors in the Flanker Task

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