EEG in motion: Using an oddball task to explore motor interference in active skateboarding

Robles, Daniel; Kuziek, Jonathan W. P.; Wlasitz, Nicole A; Bartlett, Nathan T.; Hurd, Pete; Mathewson, Kyle E.

doi:10.1111/ejn.15163

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“…Overall, a decrease in power was found both in the MF condition and generally over time. These reductions in power are consistent with EEG in motion literature, where these decreases reflect an overload of incoming stimuli and a general state of cortical desynchronization during complex movements [ 55 ]. This further reduction between tasks might indicate that MF increases this desynchronization between brain regions.…”

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Mental Fatigue-Associated Decrease in Table Tennis Performance: Is There an Electrophysiological Signature?

Habay

Proost

Wachter

et al. 2021

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Mental fatigue (MF) is a psychobiological state negatively impacting both cognitive and physical performance. Although recent research implies that some table tennis (TT) performance outcomes are impaired by MF, open skill sports such as TT require a more detailed overview of MF-related performance decrements. Moreover, research into MF and sport-specific psychomotor performance lacks the inclusion of brain-related measurements to identify MF mechanisms. Eleven experienced TT players participated in this randomized counterbalanced crossover trial. Participants were either required to perform an individualized Stroop task (MF condition) or watch a documentary (control condition). The primary outcomes were reaction time on a sport-specific visuomotor task and EEG activity throughout the trial. The subjective feeling of MF was significantly different between both conditions and confirmed that the MF condition induced the mentally fatigue state of participants (p < 0.001), though no behavioral indicators (i.e., decrease in performance on Stroop and flanker task) of MF. MF worsened reaction time on the visuomotor task, while other secondary measurements remained largely ambiguous. Spectral power (i.e., decreases in upper α band and θ band) was influenced by MF, while ERPs measured during the visuomotor task remained unaltered. The present study confirms that MF negatively impacts table tennis performance, specifically inhibitory stimuli during the visuomotor task. These findings also further augment our understanding of the effects of MF on human performance.

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Mental Fatigue-Associated Decrease in Table Tennis Performance: Is There an Electrophysiological Signature?

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Wachter

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…In the current project, accuracies did not differ significantly between types of movement. These results are in line with a previous study assessing CMI whilst skateboarding ( Robles et al, 2021 ). Our findings, however, deviate from other findings where accuracy was found to be reduced as movement complexity increased ( Reiser et al, 2019 , 2021 ).…”

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Investigating cognitive-motor effects during slacklining using mobile EEG

Papin,

Esche,

Scanlon

et al. 2024

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Balancing is a very important skill, supporting many daily life activities. Cognitive-motor interference (CMI) dual-tasking paradigms have been established to identify the cognitive load of complex natural motor tasks, such as running and cycling. Here we used wireless, smartphone-recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and motion sensors while participants were either standing on firm ground or on a slackline, either performing an auditory oddball task (dual-task condition) or no task simultaneously (single-task condition). We expected a reduced amplitude and increased latency of the P3 event-related potential (ERP) component to target sounds for the complex balancing compared to the standing on ground condition, and a further decrease in the dual-task compared to the single-task balancing condition. Further, we expected greater postural sway during slacklining while performing the concurrent auditory attention task. Twenty young, experienced slackliners performed an auditory oddball task, silently counting rare target tones presented in a series of frequently occurring standard tones. Results revealed similar P3 topographies and morphologies during both movement conditions. Contrary to our predictions we observed neither significantly reduced P3 amplitudes, nor significantly increased latencies during slacklining. Unexpectedly, we found greater postural sway during slacklining with no additional task compared to dual-tasking. Further, we found a significant correlation between the participant’s skill level and P3 latency, but not between skill level and P3 amplitude or postural sway. This pattern of results indicates an interference effect for less skilled individuals, whereas individuals with a high skill level may have shown a facilitation effect. Our study adds to the growing field of research demonstrating that ERPs obtained in uncontrolled, daily-life situations can provide meaningful results. We argue that the individual CMI effects on the P3 ERP reflects how demanding the balancing task is for untrained individuals, which draws on limited resources that are otherwise available for auditory attention processing. In future work, the analysis of concurrently recorded motion-sensor signals will help to identify the cognitive demands of motor tasks executed in natural, uncontrolled environments.

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“…Finally, we did not test the EV of reinforcement learning models in this proof of concept study. Future studies should test whether conventional computational models of cognition can make quantitative predictions about observable behavior in both simplistic lab-based experiments and in complex real-world tasks (Robles et al, 2021).…”

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Recording neural reward signals in the real-world using mobile-EEG and augmented reality

Stringfellow,

Liran,

Lin

et al. 2023

Preprint

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The electrophysiological response to rewards recorded during laboratory-based tasks has been well documented over the past two decades, yet little is known about the neural response patterns in ‘real-world’ settings. To address this issue, we combined a mobile-EEG system with an augmented reality headset (which blends high definition “holograms” within the real-world) to record event-related brain potentials (ERP) while participants navigated an operant chamber to find rewards. 25 participants (age = 18-43, Male=6, Female=19) were asked to choose between two floating holograms marking a west or east goal-location in a large room, and once participants reached the goal location, the hologram would turn into a reward (5 cents) or no-reward (0 cents) cue. Following the feedback cue, participants were required to return to a hologram marking the start location, and once standing in it, a 3 second counter hologram would initiate the next trial. This sequence was repeated until participants completed 200 trials. Consistent with previous research, reward feedback evoked the reward positivity, an ERP component believed to index the sensitivity of the anterior cingulate cortex to reward prediction error signals. The reward positivity peaked around 235ms post-feedback with a maximal at channel FCz (M=-2.60μV, SD=1.73μV) and was significantly different than zero (p < 0.01). At a behavioral level, participants took approximately 3.38 seconds to reach the goal-location and exhibited a general lose-shift (68.3% ± 3.5) response strategy and were slightly slower to return to the start location following negative feedback (2.43 sec) compared to positive feedback (2.38 sec), evidence of post-error slowing. Overall, these findings provide the first evidence that combining mobile-EEG with augmented reality technology is a feasible solution to enhance the ecological validity of human electrophysiological studies of goal-directed behavior and a step towards a new era of human cognitive neuroscience research that blurs the line between laboratory and reality.

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EEG in motion: Using an oddball task to explore motor interference in active skateboarding

Cited by 15 publications

References 64 publications

Mental Fatigue-Associated Decrease in Table Tennis Performance: Is There an Electrophysiological Signature?

Mental Fatigue-Associated Decrease in Table Tennis Performance: Is There an Electrophysiological Signature?

Investigating cognitive-motor effects during slacklining using mobile EEG

Recording neural reward signals in the real-world using mobile-EEG and augmented reality

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