Pre-trial fronto-occipital electrophysiological connectivity affects perception–action integration in response inhibition

Prochnow, Astrid; Wendiggensen, Paul; Eggert, Elena; Münchau, Alexander; Beste, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2022.04.008

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“…Thus, the cognitive system already predicts future action outcomes based on perceptual stimuli processing, which is exactly what we observe in the posterior delta/theta power modulation by response conflict. Of note, and in line with the previous arguments, event file coding was mediated via theta band activity independent from the specific task that was used to examine event file formation (Takacs et al, 2020;Prochnow et al, 2022;Yu et al, 2022). This underlines that theta-related activation identified in the current study may be of general importance for feature integration and retrieval.…”

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Posterior delta/theta EEG activity as an early signal of Stroop conflict detection

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The conflict monitoring theory postulates that conflict detection is initiated in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), indexed by midfrontal theta oscillations in the electroencephalogram (EEG). Recent research suggested that distractor detection (in the Eriksen flanker task) can be initiated relatively early by attentional control processes in the occipital lobe. Whether attentional control is also involved in the detection of stimulus-response overlapping conflict in the Stroop task is yet unclear. In the present study, we analysed EEG time-frequency data (N = 47) to investigate the contribution of early attentional control processes to the detection of response conflict and semantic conflict in a lateralized version of the colour-word Stroop task.The behavioural results showed significant conflict effects in response times (RT). The EEG results showed a prominent midfrontal response conflict effect in total theta power (4-8 Hz).Importantly, detection of response conflict and semantic conflict was observed in posterior delta/theta power (2-8 Hz), which was lateralized depending on the presentation side of the irrelevant Stroop words. In explorative regression analysis, both the midfrontal and the posterior response conflict effects predicted the size of response conflict errors. These results suggest that attentional control processes in posterior areas contribute to the initiation of response-conflict detection in the Stroop task. The findings are consistent with the idea of a representational link between stimulus and response features, known as the common coding principle.

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“…is more contentious, even though some studies have provided evidence that inferior and superior parietal structures are involved in alpha band activity during event file coding 68,140 . From the evidence outlined above it appears that a fronto-parietal network is involved in the dynamics central to assumptions of BRAC.…”

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“…Therefore, knowledge accumulated so far about the neurophysiological processes underlying action control via the traditional data analysis focus in experiments is systematically biased and that accumulated knowledge based on these procedures must be re-evaluated. Indeed, there is ample evidence that neurophysiological activity in theta 146 , alpha 140,147 , beta 148 and also delta frequency bands 149 . Relatedly, second, it is common practice to use the neurophysiological signal (e.g., in the EEG) during inter-trial intervals as "reference" for the quantification of neurophysiological activity during specific cognitive processes for which the experiment was designed.…”

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Towards a systematization of brain oscillatory activity in actions

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Information processing in the brain is governed by oscillatory activity. Activity oscillations in specific frequency bands (theta, alpha, beta and gamma) have been associated with various cognitive functions. A drawback of this is that the plethora of findings led to considerable uncertainty as to the functional relevance of activity in different frequency bands and their interrelation. Here, we use a novel cognitive-science theoretical framework to better understand and conceptually harmonize neurophysiological research on human action control. We outline how this validated starting point can systematize and probably reframe the functional relevance of oscillatory activity relevant for action control and beyond.

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“…Previous studies on event file coding processes in inhibition were able to validate the predictions regarding behavioral performance of TEC in this cognitive domain, i.e., the worse performance of Go and Nogo stimuli shared features than if they were completely distinct 11 – 15 . Further, these previous findings demonstrated the relevance of the theta and alpha frequency bands to event file coding in inhibition on the one hand by showing a seesaw-like relationship between both frequency bands 12 , 13 , and underlined the assumption that an event file can be understood as a mental representation of specific stimulus and response features 11 , 15 . Yet, the role of oscillatory brain activity in the management of event file representations remains elusive.…”

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“…TBA is relevant because the biophysical principles of low-frequency/high-amplitude oscillations are optimally suited to enable long-range integration processes 17 , 18 . In fact, they have already been shown to be involved in perception-action integration as conceptualized by TEC 9 , 13 . Yet, as regards the inhibition of responses, not only TBA 19 but also ABA is relevant 20 .…”

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Interplay between alpha and theta band activity enables management of perception-action representations for goal-directed behavior

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Goal-directed behavior requires integrated mental representations of perceptions and actions. The neurophysiological underpinnings of these processes, however, are not yet understood. It is particularly undetermined, which oscillatory activities in which brain regions are involved in the management of perception-action representations. We examine this question with a focus on response inhibition processes and show that the dynamics of perception-action representations reflected in theta band activity (TBA) are particularly evident in the supplementary motor area and the occipito-temporal cortex. Mental representations coded in alpha band activity (ABA) during perception-action integration are associated with the occipito-temporal cortex. Crucially, perception-action representations are exchanged between theta and alpha frequency bands. The results imply that ABA functions as dynamic top-down control over binding, retrieval and reconfiguration processes during response inhibition, which in turn are reflected by TBA. Our study thus highlights how the interplay of oscillatory activity enables the management of perception-action representations for goal-directed behavior.

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Pre-trial fronto-occipital electrophysiological connectivity affects perception–action integration in response inhibition

Cited by 16 publications

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Posterior delta/theta EEG activity as an early signal of Stroop conflict detection

Posterior delta/theta EEG activity as an early signal of Stroop conflict detection

Towards a systematization of brain oscillatory activity in actions

Interplay between alpha and theta band activity enables management of perception-action representations for goal-directed behavior

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