The dynamic monitoring and control mechanism in problem solving: Evidence from theta and alpha oscillations

Tang, Shuang; Jia, Lujia; Liu, Mingzhu; Ren, Jingyuan; Li, Fuhong; Luo, Jing; Huang, Furong

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.10.010

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“…We observed that post-probe oscillatory power in the theta and beta frequency bands was related to reported awareness of motor preparation. Interestingly, oscillations in those frequency bands have been observed during metacognition in other contexts [46][47][48][49] . But our paradigm differs from metacognition paradigms where participants reported confidence about a perceptual stimulus 35 or the quality of a value-based decision 50 .…”

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Probing for Intentions: The Early Readiness Potential Does Not Reflect Awareness of Motor Preparation

Gavenas,

Schurger,

Maoz

2023

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Voluntary actions are typically preceded by the Readiness Potential (RP), a negative midfrontal EEG deflection that begins ~2 seconds before movement. What cognitive and neural process the RP reflects and how it relates to conscious intention remain unclear due to conflicting findings. We investigated the neural basis and cognitive significance of the RP in a novel probe-based paradigm. Contrary to prior reports, we found that pre-probe RP buildups were not related to reported awareness of motor preparation. Computational modeling suggested that the best explanation for these results is via metacognitive access to stochastic accumulation. Reported preparation was also related to beta desynchronization over contralateral motor cortex shortly before probe onset. We conclude that the RP may be metacognitively accessible in response to external task demands, but does not reflect the onset of a conscious intention. We discuss implications of these findings for voluntary action initiation and intention awareness.

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Probing for Intentions: The Early Readiness Potential Does Not Reflect Awareness of Motor Preparation

Gavenas,

Schurger,

Maoz

2023

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“…However, a previous study showed that there was both negative and positive cognitive control toward conflicting information, in which weaker activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was related to a greater likelihood of unfavorable judgments and greater activation was related to more favorable judgments (Hannah Jana, 2019). Regarding creative generation or appreciation, studies have displayed the inertia of psychological and physiological activities when people make negative judgments (Huang et al, 2019;Tang et al, 2021Tang et al, , 2022. Similar to creative discovery, novel and appropriate associations will be lost if insufficient cognitive effort is used to not fully resolve conflicts.…”

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When and why will creative discovery succeed or fail? The role of reactive control in resolving conflicts

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The process of creative discovery refers to discovering additional values of existing objects by identifying novel associations between seemingly unrelated things; however, this process is not always successful. To reveal the dynamic process of creative discovery, particularly when and why people made right or wrong judgments, the daily life scenario was described, and a possible tool was presented for judging whether it is usable to solve problems. Electrophysiological activity was recorded when people identified novel tools and then retrospectively analyzed the differences among three responses: correctly identified novel and usable (C‐NU) options, falsely identified novel and usable (F‐NU) options, and correctly identified novel but unusable (C‐NUU) options. The results showed that, compared with ordinary tools, novel tools evoked greater N2, N400 and LSP amplitudes; the differences in these components were likely associated with the monitoring and resolution of cognitive conflicts in the process of discovering novel associations. Regarding novel tools, smaller N400 and greater LSP amplitudes were evoked by the C‐NU option than by the F‐NU option, and no differences in these components were found between the F‐NU and C‐NUU options. The findings revealed that the success or failure of discovering novel associations depended on reactive control in resolving conflicts. Only when sufficient cognitive effort is used to resolve a conflict to a great degree can the appropriately novel association be successfully discovered; otherwise, the novel and appropriate association is lost.

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Evaluation standards regulate the generation and selection of novel ideas in creative behaviors: insights from individual differences in event-related potentials

Jia,

Ren,

et al. 2024

Cerebral Cortex

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Evaluation is generally considered to occur after the generation of novel ideas to select truly creative ideas; however, evaluation may occur concurrently with the generation and regulate its efficiency. To test this hypothesis, 120 participants who held strict, moderate, or loose evaluation standards were grouped, and neural responses related to novel idea generation were compared retrospectively. The results showed that lower N400 amplitudes and greater LSP amplitudes were simultaneously elicited by objectively defined novel and usable options than by novel but unusable options among participants with moderate standards but not among participants with strict or loose standards. Evaluation standards influence the efficiency of novel idea generation; neither strict nor loose evaluation standards are conducive to fully resolving cognitive conflicts and generating novel ideas. Moreover, lower N400 amplitudes and greater LSP amplitudes were simultaneously elicited by the subjectively rated novel and usable option than by the novel but unusable option among participants with strict and moderate standards but not among participants with loose standards. Evaluation standards influence the selection among the generated ideas; participants in the strict and moderate groups made a wise choice based on the degree of conflict resolution, whereas participants in the loose group did not.

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The dynamic monitoring and control mechanism in problem solving: Evidence from theta and alpha oscillations

Cited by 3 publications

References 109 publications

Probing for Intentions: The Early Readiness Potential Does Not Reflect Awareness of Motor Preparation

Probing for Intentions: The Early Readiness Potential Does Not Reflect Awareness of Motor Preparation

When and why will creative discovery succeed or fail? The role of reactive control in resolving conflicts

Evaluation standards regulate the generation and selection of novel ideas in creative behaviors: insights from individual differences in event-related potentials

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