Does ventrolateral prefrontal cortex help in searching for the lost key? Evidence from an fNIRS study

Carrieri, Marika; Lancia, Stefania; Bocchi, Alessia; Ferrari, Marco; Piccardi, Laura; Quaresima, Valentina

doi:10.1007/s11682-017-9734-7

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“…The Key Search Task (Wilson et al, 1996) is an easy-toadminister and ecological test. It is one of the subtests of the 'Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome' (BADS: Wilson et al, 1996), and it has been recently adopted to assess travel planning (Bocchi et al, 2017(Bocchi et al, , 2019(Bocchi et al, , 2020Carrieri et al, 2018). It consists of an A4-sized piece of paper with the drawing of a 10 × 10 cm empty black square in the middle and a small black dot placed 5 cm below the centre of the base of the square (see Fig.…”

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Travel planning in men and women. Who is better?

2021

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Gender differences are often reported in spatial abilities, most of the times favouring men. Even during wayfinding, which requires planning and decision-making, such as choosing roads to take or shortcuts, men are in general better and faster than women. Although different interpretations have been proposed to explain men’s advantage in navigation, no study has explored the possibility that it could be due to men’s better travel planning ability. This latter has been recently identified as a distinct kind of planning that allows implementing an efficient navigational strategy in accordance with the environmental features. Therefore, the present study was aimed at investigating gender differences in travel planning ability. We compared men and women in performing the Key Search Task that requires to implement a strategy to search for a lost object in a wide imagined space. Results showed that men outperform women in both the overall performance and in some specific indexes of the total score. Men had a better travel planning ability with respect to women, outperforming women in configuring the planned strategy and choosing the best point to enter the imagined field. Therefore, men seem to plan the best navigational strategy and appear more cognitively flexible than women in adapting the strategy at the environmental features. The two genders did not differ in the time spent to solve the task. This finding suggests that differences in travel planning skills can contribute in explaining gender differences in wayfinding and spatial orientation.

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“…At date, TP and VP have been considered two aspects of the same planning, sub-served by the same neurocognitive processes. Indeed, both of them may require the correct functioning of PFC (Martinet et al, 2011;Carrieri et al, 2018;Choi et al, 2018) to put together the right sequence of actions to reach a goal; however, TP could be considered a specific planning that shares with VP common processes but also differences. Indeed, Patient 2 who showed a deficit of TP but intact capabilities of VP did not show any lesion of PFC, suggesting that TP involves a network that mostly relies on other brain areas.…”

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“…Several studies suggested the existence of a specific planning ability devoted to solving navigational tasks (Basso et al, 2006;Cazzato et al, 2010;Martinet et al, 2011;Boccia et al, 2014a;Schacter et al, 2017). This ability has been called in several ways: visuospatial planning (VP; Basso et al, 2006;Cazzato et al, 2010), spatial navigational planning (Martinet et al, 2011;Schacter et al, 2017;Carrieri et al, 2018: Bocchi et al, 2017 or, even, travel planning (TP; Bocchi et al, 2019) that is the term we will adopt thereafter. Martinet et al (2011) defined TP as the mental evaluation of alternative action-sequences to infer optimal trajectories for reaching a goal, suggesting the dynamic nature of this kind of planning.…”

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Travel Planning Ability in Right Brain-Damaged Patients: Two Case Reports

Bocchi

Palmiero

Boccia

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Planning ability is fundamental for goal-directed spatial navigation. Preliminary findings from patients and healthy individuals suggest that travel planning (TP)-namely, navigational planning-can be considered a distinct process from visuospatial planning (VP) ability. To shed light on this distinction, two right brain-damaged patients without hemineglect were compared with a control group on two tasks aimed at testing VP (i.e., Tower of London-16, ToL-16) and TP (i.e., Minefield Task, MFT). The former requires planning the moves to reach the right configuration of three colored beads on three pegs, whereas the latter was opportunely developed to assess TP in the navigational environment when obstacles are present. Specifically, the MFT requires participants to plan a route on a large carpet avoiding some hidden obstacles previously observed. Patient 1 showed lesions encompassing the temporoparietal region and the insula; she performed poorer than the control group on the ToL-16 but showed no deficit on the MFT. Conversely, Patient 2 showed lesions mainly located in the occipitoparietal network of spatial navigation; she performed worse than the control group on the MFT but not on the ToL-16. In both cases performances satisfied the criteria for a classical dissociation, meeting criteria for a double dissociation. These results support the idea that TP is a distinct ability and that it is dissociated from VP skills.

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“…VLPFC is involved in integration of multisensory stimuli, processing visual‐object signals, spatial navigation and associating the results from these processes to motor responses and/or action control . In addition, VLPFC is also a part of the ventral attentional network responsible for reorienting attention in a bottom‐up manner when salient stimuli occur in the external environment .…”

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Real‐time monitoring prefrontal activities during online video game playing by functional near‐infrared spectroscopy

Zhang

Long

et al. 2018

Journal of Biophotonics

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A growing body of literature has suggested that video game playing can induce functional and structural plasticity of the brain. The underlying mechanisms, however, remain poorly understood. In this study, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to record prefrontal activities in 24 experienced game players when they played a massively multiplayer online battle arena video game, League of Legends (LOL), under naturalistic conditions. It was observed that game onset was associated with significant activations in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and concomitant deactivations in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and frontal pole area (FPA). Game events, such as slaying an enemy and being slain by an enemy evoked region-specific time-locked hemodynamic/oxygenation responses in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). It was proposed that the VLPFC activities during LOL playing are likely responses to visuo-motor task load of the game, while the DLPFC/FPA activities may be involved in the constant shifts of attentional states and allocation of cognitive resources required by game playing. The present study demonstrated that it is feasible to use fNIRS to monitor real-time prefrontal activity during online video game playing.

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Does ventrolateral prefrontal cortex help in searching for the lost key? Evidence from an fNIRS study

Cited by 15 publications

References 59 publications

Travel planning in men and women. Who is better?

Travel planning in men and women. Who is better?

Travel Planning Ability in Right Brain-Damaged Patients: Two Case Reports

Real‐time monitoring prefrontal activities during online video game playing by functional near‐infrared spectroscopy

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