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Neural Signatures of Performance Feedback in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): An ERP Study

Research on cognitive control has sparked increasing interest in recent years, as it is an important prerequisite for goal oriented human behavior. The paced auditory serial addition task (PASAT) has been used to test and train cognitive control functions. This adaptive, challenging task includes co...

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Autores principales: Sommer, Anja, Ecker, Lukas, Plewnia, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33679350
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.630468
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description Research on cognitive control has sparked increasing interest in recent years, as it is an important prerequisite for goal oriented human behavior. The paced auditory serial addition task (PASAT) has been used to test and train cognitive control functions. This adaptive, challenging task includes continuous performance feedback. Therefore, additional cognitive control capacities are required to process this information along with the already high task-load. The underlying neural mechanisms, however, are still unclear. To explore the neural signatures of the PASAT and particularly the processing of distractive feedback information, feedback locked event-related potentials were derived from 24 healthy participants during an adaptive 2-back version of the PASAT. Larger neural activation after negative feedback was found for feedback related negativity (FRN), P300, and late positive potential (LPP). In early stages of feedback processing (i.e., FRN), a larger difference between positive and negative feedback responses was associated with poorer overall performance. This association was inverted in later stages (i.e., P300 and LPP). Together, our findings indicate stage-dependent associations between neural activation after negative information and cognitive functioning. Conceivably, increased early responses to negative feedback signify distraction, whereas higher activity at later stages reflects cognitive control processes to preserve ongoing performance.
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spelling pubmed-79303792021-03-05 Neural Signatures of Performance Feedback in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): An ERP Study Sommer, Anja Ecker, Lukas Plewnia, Christian Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Research on cognitive control has sparked increasing interest in recent years, as it is an important prerequisite for goal oriented human behavior. The paced auditory serial addition task (PASAT) has been used to test and train cognitive control functions. This adaptive, challenging task includes continuous performance feedback. Therefore, additional cognitive control capacities are required to process this information along with the already high task-load. The underlying neural mechanisms, however, are still unclear. To explore the neural signatures of the PASAT and particularly the processing of distractive feedback information, feedback locked event-related potentials were derived from 24 healthy participants during an adaptive 2-back version of the PASAT. Larger neural activation after negative feedback was found for feedback related negativity (FRN), P300, and late positive potential (LPP). In early stages of feedback processing (i.e., FRN), a larger difference between positive and negative feedback responses was associated with poorer overall performance. This association was inverted in later stages (i.e., P300 and LPP). Together, our findings indicate stage-dependent associations between neural activation after negative information and cognitive functioning. Conceivably, increased early responses to negative feedback signify distraction, whereas higher activity at later stages reflects cognitive control processes to preserve ongoing performance. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7930379/ /pubmed/33679350 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.630468 Text en Copyright © 2021 Sommer, Ecker and Plewnia. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Neural Signatures of Performance Feedback in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): An ERP Study
title Neural Signatures of Performance Feedback in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): An ERP Study
title_full Neural Signatures of Performance Feedback in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): An ERP Study
title_fullStr Neural Signatures of Performance Feedback in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): An ERP Study
title_full_unstemmed Neural Signatures of Performance Feedback in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): An ERP Study
title_short Neural Signatures of Performance Feedback in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): An ERP Study
title_sort neural signatures of performance feedback in the paced auditory serial addition task (pasat): an erp study
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33679350
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.630468
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