CNV Rebound and Aging. I. Attention Functions

Tecce, Joseph J.; Yrchik, Debra A.; Meinbresse, Debbie; Dessonville, Connie L.; Cole, Jonathan O.

doi:10.1016/s0079-6123(08)61676-3

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“…The difference between our two groups in respect of CNV activity, which is known to be a veritable mosaic of components related to different neur~psychophysiological functions, was more consistent. All these findings, especially the amplitude reduction of the CNV P-wave only at the Fz recording site [40], the CNV rebound effect significantly and selectively diminished in fronto-central regions [25,27] and the decrement of other types of ERPs (P3, SW) elicited in frontal areas by a variety of tasks [5,13,49], induced Smith et al [5,49], Michalewski et al [401 and Tecce et al [25,27] to put forward the hypothesis that the reduced frontal activity in healthy elderly persons may be caused by an enhanced selective aging process in the frontal premotor and association cortices linked to performance deft-cits observable in these subjects. The early component, measured with the WA1, was significantly larger in the young than in the presenile subjects at the electrode sites C3 and especially Cz, and in all parietal leads.…”

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“…physiological measure for the objective evaluation of variations in mental status associated with aging, dementia and other neurocognitive disorders. Amplitude reduction, espedally in centre-parietal areas, and higher mean latency of P3 to visual SI were found by Tecce et al [25,27] both in their eldec and oldest groups, tested with a simple con-220 stant foreperiod CNV-RT task. Lack of age differences in I"3 latency and significant reduction of P3 amplitude with increasing age were reported by Marsh [22] utilizing signaled tasks and speed instructions.…”

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“…The amplitude and scalp distribution of P3 did not differ in the two groups. In this context of conflicting results, however, an interesting line of research has been followed by Tecce and his colleagues [25,27], based on the relationship between CNV amplitude and distraction and divided attention situations (short-term memory tasks) during ISI, that interfere with the selection of the relevant information processing and result in a marked decrement of CNV ampfitude and prolonged RT. Using signaled simple and choice RT tasks Podlesny and Dustman [24] recorded an age-related reduction in P3 amplitude but no effects of age on P3 latency.…”

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Age differences in contingent negative variation activity of healthy young adults and presenile subjects

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20 selected right-handed very healthy subjects (10 young adults and 10 presenile subjects mean age 28.3 and 59.6) were tested for CNV activity with a simple warned reaction time (RT) paradigm. EEG and CNV components (post-S1, N1, P2, P3; early CNV; N1200; late CNV; CNV resolution) were recorded from Fz, C3, Cz, C4, P3, Pz, and P4 referenced to linked mastoid electrodes. EOG, RT and stimuli were also recorded. The presenile group differed significantly from the younger group in the auditory post-S1 N1 and P3, and in the early (O-wave) and late (P-wave) CNV complex components. A progressive amplitude reduction only in frontal leads between O-wave and P-wave with the lowest point being reached in the P-wave was characteristic in the presenile group. Further, presenile subjects showed relatively flat CNV waveshapes of low amplitude and, as a whole, performed a little less well than young persons. This finding suggests that the statistically significant changes in post-S1 EPRs and CNV activity recorded in our presenile subjects, without appreciable deficits in behavioral and mental performance, could be alerting signs of early brain involutional processes related to minimal and subclinical decrement of orienting, attentiveness and response preparation capabilities. If such is the case and it could be confirmed in a larger sample of very healthy subjects, these age-related changes in the presenium could be of considerable practical importance for clinical and research applications.

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“…Different R-R compatibility levels in a choice RT condition are believed to produce response competition or interference effects (Marteniuk & MacKenzie, 1981). Because older subjects appear to have generally weakened abilities to switch attention (Tecce, Yrchik, Meinbresse, Dessonville, & Cole, 1980), to divide attention (Craik, 1977), or to parallel process information for preprogramming (Burke & Light, 1981;McDowd, Vercruyssen, & Birren, 1991), R-R incompatibility probably prolongs response determination and response programming time. Considering the difficulties that older individuals have with these cognitive processes, Heuer's studies on R-R compatibility in choice (1982a, 1982b) and simultaneous responses (1985) of younger age groups are relevant.…”

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Age Factors Influencing Response–Response Compatibility in Reaction Time Tasks

Light¹,

Spirduso²

1996

Journal of Aging and Physical Activity

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Unlike stimulus–response compatibility, which has been explored for aging effects, the motor behavior issue of response–response (R–R) compatibility has not been addressed in the gerontological literature. R–R compatibility refers to the ease with which two responses can be prepared together either simultaneously or as choice alternatives. In the present study, young, middle-aged, and elderly adult female subjects were tested in a two-choice reaction-time (RT) paradigm involving four types of finger movements paired in every possible choice combination, creating different levels of R–R compatibility. Significant age differences increased as R–R compatibility decreased. The practical significance of this study is to establish R–R compatibility as an important factor influencing task difficulty to which older adults are particularly sensitive and to encourage recognition of this factor when prescribing progressive motor-skill training in elderly clients.

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“…It represents the physiological correlate of anticipation in a mental and in particular in a motor performance [6,9]. Tecce [10], Tecce et al [11,12] and Tecce and Cattanach [13] presented a two-process model of CNV development subsuming attention as well as arousal processes by postulating a positive linear relationship between CNV and attention and by an inverse U-shaped function with regard to arousal.…”

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Contingent Negative Variation and Attention in Schizophrenic and Depressed Patients

Heimberg¹,

Naber²,

Hemmeter³

et al. 1999

Neuropsychobiology

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Contingent negative variation (CNV) is supposed to be a psychophysiological indicator of attention and arousal. Both have been reported to be deteriorated in schizophrenic and depressed patients. Thirty-four patients with major depression, 43 patients with schizophrenia and 49 healthy subjects were investigated during acute illness with a complex three-stimulus go/no-go task which requires different states of attention: trials consisted of three complex figures that were tachistoscopically presented. Three identical figures had to be confirmed by pressing a button (target condition). CNV was measured: (1) after the first figure waiting for the second (baseline condition), (2) after two identical figures waiting for the third (response-relevant condition), (3) after two different figures waiting for the third (response-irrelevant condition). The response-relevant condition compared to baseline significantly intensified CNV in healthy controls and to a minor extent in depressed patients but not in schizophrenics. In the response-relevant conditions in healthy controls, CNV was significantly reduced compared to the response-relevant condition. This clear discrimination between response-relevant and response-irrelevant conditions was not observed in either group of patients. Thus, the applied CNV paradigm was able to discriminate schizophrenic and depressed patients from healthy controls. Furthermore, subtle differences between schizophrenic and depressed patients were detected, reflected by the different CNV development across experimental conditions.

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CNV Rebound and Aging. I. Attention Functions

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Age differences in contingent negative variation activity of healthy young adults and presenile subjects

Age differences in contingent negative variation activity of healthy young adults and presenile subjects

Age Factors Influencing Response–Response Compatibility in Reaction Time Tasks

Contingent Negative Variation and Attention in Schizophrenic and Depressed Patients

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