Effects of Stimulus Type and Strategy on Mental Rotation Network: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis

Tomasino, Barbara; Gremese, Michele

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00693

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“…All of the presently included updating tasks incorporated button-press responses, consistent with involvement of post-error motor response processes. Thus, it is possible that the present involvement of cerebellar activity reflects a task specific process, as have been highlighted as important factors to consider in this kind of functional neuroimaging analysis (Chein et al, 2011; Tomasino and Gremese, 2016). Considering such processes, it is interesting to note that a particular role for cross-modal integration of information for WM has been highlighted (Prabhakaran et al, 2000; Zhang et al, 2004; Repovs and Baddeley, 2006).…”

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Informing the Structure of Executive Function in Children: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Data

McKenna

Rushe

Woodcock

2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The structure of executive function (EF) has been the focus of much debate for decades. What is more, the complexity and diversity provided by the developmental period only adds to this contention. The development of executive function plays an integral part in the expression of children's behavioral, cognitive, social, and emotional capabilities. Understanding how these processes are constructed during development allows for effective measurement of EF in this population. This meta-analysis aims to contribute to a better understanding of the structure of executive function in children. A coordinate-based meta-analysis was conducted (using BrainMap GingerALE 2.3), which incorporated studies administering functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during inhibition, switching, and working memory updating tasks in typical children (aged 6–18 years). The neural activation common across all executive tasks was compared to that shared by tasks pertaining only to inhibition, switching or updating, which are commonly considered to be fundamental executive processes. Results support the existence of partially separable but partially overlapping inhibition, switching, and updating executive processes at a neural level, in children over 6 years. Further, the shared neural activation across all tasks (associated with a proposed “unitary” component of executive function) overlapped to different degrees with the activation associated with each individual executive process. These findings provide evidence to support the suggestion that one of the most influential structural models of executive functioning in adults can also be applied to children of this age. However, the findings also call for careful consideration and measurement of both specific executive processes, and unitary executive function in this population. Furthermore, a need is highlighted for a new systematic developmental model, which captures the integrative nature of executive function in children.

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Informing the Structure of Executive Function in Children: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Data

McKenna

Rushe

Woodcock

2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Although not significant, higher AVP was trending towards relating to worse performance on verbal abilities in men. However, in women higher AVP was associated with lower efficiency in the left parietal cortex, which is important for visuospatial abilities (Tomasino and Gremese 2015). Consequently, AVP levels may in part explain why women on average perform worse than men on visuospatial abilities.…”

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Sex differences in associations of arginine vasopressin and oxytocin with resting‐state functional brain connectivity

Rubin

Yao

Keedy

et al. 2016

J of Neuroscience Research

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Oxytocin (OT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) exert robust and sexually dimorphic influences on cognition and emotion. How these hormones regulate relevant functional brain systems is not well understood. OT and AVP serum concentrations were assayed in 60 healthy individuals (36 women). Brain functional networks assessed with resting state fMRI (rs-fMRI) were constructed using graph theory-based approaches that characterize brain networks as connected nodes. Sex differences were demonstrated in rs-fMRI. Men showed higher nodal degree (connectedness) and efficiency (information propagation capacity) in left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) and higher nodal degree in left rolandic operculum. Women showed higher nodal betweenness (being part of paths between nodes) in right putamen and left inferior parietal gyrus (IPG). Higher hormone levels were associated with less intrinsic connectivity. In men, higher AV P was associated with lower nodal degree and efficiency in left IFG (pars orbitalis) and left STG, and less efficiency in left IFG (pars triangularis). In women, higher AVP was associated with lower betweenness in left IPG and higher OT was associated with lower nodal degree in left IFG (pars orbitalis). Hormones differentially correlate with brain networks important for emotion processing and cognition in men and women. AVP in men and OT in women may regulate orbital frontal cortex connectivity, which is important in emotion processing. Hormone associations with STG and pars triangularis in men and parietal cortex in women may account respectively for well-established sex differences in verbal and visuospatial abilities.

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“…For instance it is required in mentally transforming spatial configurations through mental rotation; for a meta-analysis [22]. Interestingly, the incidence of broken rules in a visuo-spatial task such as the maze-learning test was also related to the right parieto-temporal cortex [23].…”

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Recovering and Worsening at Design Fluency in 22 Neurosurgical Patients: Preimmediately Post-surgery and Follow-up Testing

Tomasino

Marin

Madotto

et al. 2017

Int J Phys Med Rehabil

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The five-point test (FPT) measures the ability to voluntarily generate non-verbal novel patterns. We investigated how this ability can be impaired or improved before immediately after brain surgery, and at follow-up. Twenty-two patients undergoing neurosurgery in the right hemisphere performed the FPT at T0 (pre-), T1 (1 week post-), and T2 (follow-up at 5 months after surgery). Significant improvements at T1 (in patients who had a deficit at T0) measured recovering (N=3/22); in addition there were patients who become pathological (8/22) and subjects who presented with the same degree of impairment as observed at T0 (stable, 1/22). Similarly, at T2 (4-5 months after surgery) we measured the effect of post-op reorganization: there were patients (5/22) who had been pathological at T1 and recovered at T2. Lesions overlapped in the right body of the corpus callosum/anterior cingulum reflecting the overcome of the deficit. Amelioration can be an effect of edema reduction. In addition, there were those who become pathological (4/22). Lesions overlapped in the right supramarginal gyrus. Lastly, there were subjects who presented with the same degree of impairment as observed at T1 (stable, 4/22) and those who remained spared (9/22). Multiple regression analysis was used to test if the number of strategies (CSs) used to solve the task or the perseverative behaviour (ErrI) significantly predicted participants' stratification, namely patients who worsened those who improved and patients who remained spared. It was found that the use of strategies significantly predicted participants' stratification, whereas perseverative behaviour was not a significant predictor.

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Effects of Stimulus Type and Strategy on Mental Rotation Network: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis

Cited by 91 publications

References 111 publications

Informing the Structure of Executive Function in Children: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Data

Informing the Structure of Executive Function in Children: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Data

Sex differences in associations of arginine vasopressin and oxytocin with resting‐state functional brain connectivity

Recovering and Worsening at Design Fluency in 22 Neurosurgical Patients: Preimmediately Post-surgery and Follow-up Testing

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