No effect of cold pressor test-induced arousal on attentional benefits and costs in an endogenous spatial orienting paradigm

Duecker, Felix; Mayrhofer, Helen C.; Jacobs, Heidi I.L.; Sack, Alexander T.

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107250

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“…In fact, to the best of our knowledge, only one published study has tested stress effects on attention within an endogenous cueing paradigm. In line with our findings, no behavioral effects of CPT induced stress could be observed; however, neither EEG nor cortisol data were acquired (Duecker et al, 2019 ). Other studies reporting stress effects on attentional processes employed a range of different conflict paradigms, such as the Stroop (Chajut & Algom, 2003 ; Kofman et al, 2006 ), Flanker (Qi & Gao, 2020 ) or Bar task (Sanger et al, 2014 ), but evidence has been mixed.…”

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Stress effects on the top-down control of visuospatial attention: Evidence from cue-dependent alpha oscillations

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Finke

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Stress is assumed to inhibit the top-down control of attention and to facilitate bottom-up processing. Evidence from human experiments, however, remains scarce. Previous studies have addressed how stress affects the interplay of bottom-up and top-down mechanisms of attention. A key open question is in how far such effects can actually be attributed to a stress-induced modulation of top-down attention control. We sought to isolate top-down from bottom-up effects by assessing stress effects on anticipatory changes in alpha oscillations that precede stimulus processing. Participants performed in a cued target detection task in which a cue prompted them to covertly shift their attention to left or right screen positions, 20 min after being exposed to the bilateral feet cold pressor test or a warm water control procedure. The stressor led to a substantial increase in cortisol, peaking 20 min post stressor, along with rises in heart rate, blood pressure, and subjective ratings of stress and arousal. As expected, cued attention deployment led to higher alpha power over posterior electrodes contralateral versus ipsilateral to the attended hemifield during the cue-target interval. Importantly, this purely endogenous effect was potentiated by stress, however, significant differences were restricted to the middle of the cue-target interval and thus temporally separated from the appearance of the target. These results indicate that stress does not impair top-down attentional control per se but may introduce a qualitative change modulating the way attention is deployed to meet action goals.

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confidence: 89%

Stress effects on the top-down control of visuospatial attention: Evidence from cue-dependent alpha oscillations

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Finke

et al. 2022

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“…Our paradigm was essentially based on the classic Posner task, while incorporating multiple target locations and a new type of central symbolic cue . Importantly, we found better performance in valid as compared to neutral trials on all three dependent variables, thus replicating the often reported attention benefits e ect Duecker et al, 2019;. This indicates that participants could e ectively make use of the cue to shift their attention to the indicated location.…”

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“…As originally proposed by Franciscus Cornelis Donders in 1869, contrasting reaction times in di erent task conditions can be informative about the duration of cognitive processes . For instance, performance in valid versus neutral cue trials quantifies the advantage of having spatially predictive information on top of temporally predictive information, and informs us about the time it takes to orient attention to the "correct" location (this behavioral performance enhancement is also known as attention benefits; see Figure 1.5d) (Duecker et al, 2019). Instead, performance in invalid versus neutral cue trials quantifies the disadvantage of having to re-orient attention towards the opposite hemifield, after having attended to the "false" location (attention costs; see Figure 1.5d) .…”

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No effect of cold pressor test-induced arousal on attentional benefits and costs in an endogenous spatial orienting paradigm

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Stress effects on the top-down control of visuospatial attention: Evidence from cue-dependent alpha oscillations

Stress effects on the top-down control of visuospatial attention: Evidence from cue-dependent alpha oscillations

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