Integration of Advance Information about a Forthcoming Task Switch – Evidence from Eye Blink Rates

Kleinsorge, Thomas; Scheil, Juliane

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00290

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“…Our other hypotheses regarding a positive relationship with switch cost and a negative correlation with inhibition were not confirmed. This implies that despite previous findings in young adults-demonstrating prediction of these functions using EBR (Colzato, Huizinga, et al, 2009;Colzato, van den Wildenberg, et al, 2009;Dreisbach et al, 2005;Kleinsorge & Scheil, 2017)-a similar relationship was not found in older adults.…”

Section: Ebr As a Predictor Of Cognitive Control Performancecontrasting

confidence: 63%

“…As novelty was not present as an element in our own switch task, perseveration and distractibility were balanced. In Kleinsorge and Scheil (2017), the appearance of a pre-cue or a task cue allowed participants to prepare for a switch on certain trials but not on others, which introduced an extra element into the paradigm which was not present in ours. Accordingly, the tasks used in these studies differed from ours in such a way that they possibly tapped into different subfunctions.…”

Section: Ebr As a Predictor Of Cognitive Control Performancementioning

confidence: 95%

“…Moreover, EBR has been used to demonstrate functional differences in various tasks relying on dopamine activity, such as the attentional blink (Colzato, Slagter, et al, 2008;Colzato, van den Wildenberg, et al, 2008), creative thinking (Akbari Chermahini & Hommel, 2010), probabilistic learning (Slagter et al, 2015), and cognitive control. For instance, in task switching, high blink rates are seen to correlate with improved accuracy (Kleinsorge & Scheil, 2017;Zhang et al, 2015) and increased flexibility (Dreisbach et al, 2005). Using a switch task with multiple conditions, the latter authors showed that in individuals with high EBR, switch costs are decreased when responding to novel targets, but increased when novel items posed as distractors, suggesting that increased flexibility comes at a cost of reduced stability, or distractibility.…”

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confidence: 98%

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As the world’s population is aging rapidly, cognitive training is an extensively used approach to attempt improvement of age-related cognitive functioning. With increasing numbers of older adults required to remain in the workforce, it is important to be able to reliably predict future functional decline, as well as the individual advantages of cognitive training. Given the correlation between age-related decline and striatal dopaminergic function, we investigated whether eye blink rate (EBR), a non-invasive, indirect indicator of dopaminergic activity, could predict executive functioning (response inhibition, switching and working memory updating) as well as trainability of executive functioning in older adults. EBR was collected before and after a cognitive flexibility training, cognitive training without flexibility, or a mock training. EBR predicted working memory updating performance on two measures of updating, as well as trainability of working memory updating, whereas performance and trainability in inhibition and switching tasks could not be predicted by EBR. Our findings tentatively indicate that EBR permits prediction of working memory performance in older adults. To fully interpret the relationship with executive functioning, we suggest future research should assess both EBR and dopamine receptor availability among seniors.

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