A High-Definition tDCS and EEG study on attention and vigilance: Brain stimulation mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement

Luna, Fernando Gabriel; Román-Caballero, Rafael; Barttfeld, Pablo; Lupiáñez, Juan; Martín-Arévalo, Elisa

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107447

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“…Moreover, the AV decrement was observed as a linear increment in the mean and variability of RT, as usually observed with the PVT (Basner & Dinges, 2011). It is important to highlight that the ANTI-Vea has shown to be useful to dissociate the two components of vigilance, as they seem to be differently modulated by caffeine intake and exercise intensity (Sanchis, Blasco, Luna, & Lupiáñez, 2020) and by transcranial direct current stimulation (Luna, Román-Caballero, Barttfeld, Lupiáñez, & Martín-Arévalo, 2020).…”

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The ANTI-Vea task: analyzing the executive and arousal vigilance decrements while measuring the three attentional networks

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Martín-Arévalo

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Psicológica Journal

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The vigilance decrement phenomenon has been traditionally studied by simple and monotonous behavioral tasks. Nowadays, however, there is considerable interest in measuring vigilance with more complex tasks, including independent measures of other attentional functions. In the present study, we provide evidence supporting the suitability of the Attentional Networks Test for Interactions and Vigilance – executive and arousal components (ANTI-Vea) as an appropriate method to simultaneously assess multiple attentional and vigilance components. Vigilance was examined as two dissociated components: executive vigilance –as the detection of infrequent signals– and arousal vigilance–as the sustenance of a fast reaction to stimuli without response selection–. Importantly, the executive vigilance decrement was analyzed with a novel methodological approach to particularly determine whether the sensitivity loss effect is influenced by a floor level on the false alarms. As expected, the ANTI-Vea proved to be a task suitable to assess: (a) the main effects and interactions of phasic alertness, orienting, and executive control; (b) the executive vigilance decrement as a progressive change in the response bias; and (c) the arousal vigilance decrement as a progressive slowness and variability in reaction time. We discuss some critical theoretical and empirical implications of measuring vigilance components with the ANTI-Vea task. We expect the present study to provide a suitable method to analyze the vigilance decrement phenomenon when measuring multiple attentional and vigilance functions.

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The ANTI-Vea task: analyzing the executive and arousal vigilance decrements while measuring the three attentional networks

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Martín-Arévalo

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“…Our findings of reduced interference from angry distractor-faces indicate the other side of the coin: namely, that performance enhancement due to task repetition is potentiated by anodal stimulation of the lDLPFC/cathodal rPPC. Furthermore, Nord, Forster, Halahakoon, Penton-Voak, Munafo, and Roiser [79] also reported order of stimulation effects on a task requiring emotion recognition from faces. Their findings showed that anodal stimulation over the lDLPFC affected emotional deliberation.…”

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“…The selected stimulation protocol was online, covering the whole duration of the task, including practice trials as it takes about 2-3 min for the tDCS to affect the stimulated area [76], so overall active stimulation lasted 20 min. Although there is a debate in the literature regarding online vs. offline stimulation application, studies that compared directly the two options show that online protocols are more effective [77,78], particularly for attention tasks [79].…”

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Asymmetric Contributions of the Fronto-Parietal Network to Emotional Conflict in the Word–Face Interference Task

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The fronto-parietal network is involved in top-down and bottom-up processes necessary to achieve cognitive control. We investigated the role of asymmetric enhancement of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC) and right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC) in cognitive control under conditions of emotional conflict arising from emotional distractors. The effects of anodal tDCS over the lDLPFC/cathodal over the rPPC and the effects of anodal tDCS over the rPPC/cathodal over the lDLPFC were compared to sham tDCS in a double-blind design. The findings showed that anodal stimulation over the lDLPFC reduced interference from emotional distractors, but only when participants had already gained experience with the task. In contrast, having already performed the task only eliminated facilitation effects for positive stimuli. Importantly, anodal stimulation of the rPPC did not affect distractors’ interference. Therefore, the present findings indicate that the lDLPFC plays a crucial role in implementing top-down control to resolve emotional conflict, but that experience with the task is necessary to reveal this role.

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“…Research on the ANTI-Vea has focused on providing empirical dissociation of and task sensitivity to both vigilance components. In this vein, EV decrement-but not AV-is mitigated by high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation over the right frontal and parietal cortices (Luna, Román-Caballero, et al, 2020) or acute moderate exercise (Sanchís et al, 2020), and modulated by the cognitive task load (Luna, 2019). Conversely, AV decrement-but not EV-is reduced by acute caffeine intake (Sanchís et al, 2020) and increased with fatigue across 8 hr of testing (Feltmate et al, 2019).…”

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Attentional networks, vigilance, and distraction as a function of ADHD symptoms

Coll-Martín¹,

Carretero‐Dios²,

Lupiáñez³

2020

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Attentional difficulties are a core axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, establishing a consistent and detailed pattern of these neurocognitive alterations has not been an easy endeavor. The present study aimed at thoroughly characterizing three key attentional domains, namely, the three attentional networks (alerting, orienting, and executive attention), two components of vigilance (executive and arousal vigilance), and distraction. To do so, we modified a single, fine-grained task (the ANTI-Vea) by adding irrelevant distractors. One hundred and twenty undergraduates completed three questionnaires of ADHD symptoms in childhood and adulthood and performed the ANTI-Vea. Despite the low reliability of some ANTI-Vea indexes, the task worked successfully. While ADHD symptoms in childhood were related to alerting network and arousal vigilance, ADHD in adulthood were linked to executive vigilance. No association between ADHD symptoms and executive attention and distraction was found. In general, our hypotheses about the relationships between ADHD symptoms and attentional processes, were supported only partially at most. We discuss our findings according to ADHD theories and attention measurement.

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A High-Definition tDCS and EEG study on attention and vigilance: Brain stimulation mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement

Cited by 48 publications

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The ANTI-Vea task: analyzing the executive and arousal vigilance decrements while measuring the three attentional networks

The ANTI-Vea task: analyzing the executive and arousal vigilance decrements while measuring the three attentional networks

Asymmetric Contributions of the Fronto-Parietal Network to Emotional Conflict in the Word–Face Interference Task

Attentional networks, vigilance, and distraction as a function of ADHD symptoms

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