Neural dissociation of automatic and controlled temporal preparation by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Correa, Ángel; Cona, Giorgia; Arbula, Sandra; Vallesi, Antonino; Bisiacchi, Patrizia

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.10.023

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“…Taken together, these results suggest a strong resistance of the entrainment effect to the simultaneous performance of a secondary task, pointing once again to a high degree of automaticity. These results are in line with those of previous studies showing that top-down attention does not play an important role in rhythmic entrainment (Bégel et al, 2017;Correa et al, 2014;Rohenkohl, Coull, & Nobre, 2011). In this same context, recent research on auditory predictive processing suggests that attentional control is not required to generate predictions (see Bendixen, SanMiguel, & Schröger, 2012, for a review).…”

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Cognitive entrainment to isochronous rhythms is independent of both sensory modality and top-down attention

Cutanda

Sanabria

Correa

2019

Psicológica Journal

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The anisochrony of a stimulus sequence was manipulated parametrically to investigate whether rhythmic entrainment is stronger in the auditory modality than in the visual modality (Experiment 1), and whether it relies on top-down attention (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, participants had to respond as quickly as possible to a target presented after a sequence of either visual or auditory stimuli. The anisochrony of this sequence was manipulated parametrically, rather than in an all or none fashion; that is, it could range from smaller to larger deviations of the isochrony (0, 10, 20, 50, 100, 150 and 200 ms). We compared rhythmic entrainment patterns for auditory and visual modalities. Results showed a peak of entrainment for both isochrony and deviations of isochrony up to 50 ms (i.e., participants were equally fast both after the isochronous sequences and after 10, 20 and 50 ms deviations), suggesting that anisochronous sequences can also produce entrainment. Beyond this entrainment window, the reaction times became progressively slower. Surprisingly, no differences were found between the entrainment patterns for auditory and visual rhythms. In Experiment 2, we used a dual-task methodology by adding a working memory n-back task to the procedure of Experiment 1. Results did not show interference of the secondary task in either auditory or visual modalities, with participants showing the same entrainment pattern as in Experiment 1. These results suggest that rhythmic entrainment constitutes a cognitive process that occurs by default (automatically), regardless of the modality in which the stimuli are presented, and independent of top-down attention, to generate behavioural benefits.

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Cognitive entrainment to isochronous rhythms is independent of both sensory modality and top-down attention

Cutanda

Sanabria

Correa

2019

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“…Altogether, these results suggest that subcortical structures like the basal ganglia might not be essential for the temporal preparation effects studied here, as in the study performed by Mioni et al (2018) with Parkinson's disease. This finding contrasts with a recent study showing that temporal preparation based on rhythms (i.e., a process of temporal preparation that is highly automatic, similarly to sequential effects; Correa et al, 2014;Cutanda, Correa & Sanabria, 2015;Triviño et al, 2011) was impaired in Parkinson's disease, which can be considered a model of basal ganglia dysfunction (Breska & Ivry, 2018). Breska and Ivry (2018) further found that patients with cerebellar degeneration showed impaired temporal orienting.…”

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Temporal preparation in patients with Neglect syndrome

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Correa

2020

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The right parietal cortex has been widely associated with a spatial orienting network. Its damage frequently produces the Neglect syndrome consisting in deficits in spatial attention to the left hemifield. Neglect has also been related to temporal deficits (such as the estimation of the duration of a stimulus or the discrimination of two stimuli that occur at the same spatial location but at different time intervals). Such attentional deficits have been much less studied in the temporal as compared to the spatial domain. The current research focused on the study of temporal attention processes in patients with Neglect syndrome, specifically, on temporal preparation. We recruited 10 patients with Neglect syndrome, 10 patients without Neglect syndrome, as well as 11 healthy individuals. Each participant completed an experimental task which measures three main temporal preparation effects described in the literature: Temporal orienting and Foreperiod effects (both related to control mechanisms and prefrontal areas) and Sequential effects (automatic in nature and related to parietal and subcortical structures). The results showed a deficit in the sequential effects only in those patients who suffered from Neglect syndrome. The results suggest a causal relation between Neglect syndrome and the automatic mechanisms of temporal preparation. Since our sample of Neglect patients had suffered lesions mainly in the parietal cortex, the results are discussed taking into account the role of the parietal lobe in the processing of time and the models explaining sequential effects.

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“…Finally, more implicit measures of temporal expectation indexed by variable FP (FP) and sequential effects were unaffected by response compatibility in the Simon task. These results indicate that temporal expectations formed implicitly by FP and sequential effects are more resistant to response conflict than those formed explicitly by temporal cues (Capizzi, Sanabria, & Correa, 2012;Correa, Cona, Arbula, Vallesi, & Bisiacchi, 2014). Moreover, the lack of compatibility effect suggests that FP and sequential effects influence sensorimotor processing after the response selection stage that is measured by response compatibility effects.…”

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The costs and benefits of temporal predictability: impaired inhibition of prepotent responses accompanies increased activation of task-relevant responses

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While the benefit of temporal predictability on sensorimotor processing is well established, it is still unknown whether this is due to efficient execution of an appropriate response and/or inhibition of an inappropriate one. To answer this question, we examined the effects of temporal predictability in tasks that required selective (Simon task) or global (Stop-signal task) inhibitory control of prepotent responses. We manipulated temporal expectation by presenting cues that either predicted (temporal cues) or not (neutral cues) when the target would appear. In the Simon task, performance was better when target location (left/right) was compatible with the hand of response and performance was improved further still if targets were temporally cued. However, Conditional Accuracy Functions revealed that temporal predictability selectively increased the number of fast, impulsive errors. Temporal cueing had no effect on selective response inhibition, as measured by the dynamics of the interference effect (delta plots) in the Simon task. By contrast, in the Stop-signal task, Stop-signal reaction time, a covert measure of a more global form of response inhibition, was significantly longer in temporally predictive trials. Therefore, when the time of target onset could be predicted in advance, it was harder to stop the impulse to respond to the target. Collectively, our results indicate that temporal cueing compounded the interfering effects of a prepotent response on task performance. We suggest that although temporal predictability enhances activation of task-relevant responses, it impairs inhibition of prepotent responses.

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Neural dissociation of automatic and controlled temporal preparation by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Cited by 31 publications

References 57 publications

Cognitive entrainment to isochronous rhythms is independent of both sensory modality and top-down attention

Cognitive entrainment to isochronous rhythms is independent of both sensory modality and top-down attention

Temporal preparation in patients with Neglect syndrome

The costs and benefits of temporal predictability: impaired inhibition of prepotent responses accompanies increased activation of task-relevant responses

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