Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’

Stangl, Matthias; Maoz, Sabrina L; Suthana, Nanthia

doi:10.1038/s41583-023-00692-y

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“…In addition, point-light displays, while effective in capturing crucial aspects of biological motion, could be complemented by more naturalistic videos depicting human actions or even real human actors in naturalistic settings. This avenue of research aligns with the growing adoption of real-time EEG methodologies, offering the opportunity to enhance ecological validity (Stangl et al, 2023; Pekçetin et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 89%

Biological motion perception in the theoretical framework of perceptual decision-making: An event-related potential study

Oğuz,

Aydın,

Urgen

2023

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Biological motion perception plays a critical role in various decisions in daily life for humans. Failure to decide accordingly in such a perceptual task could have life-threatening consequences. Neurophysiological studies on non-human primates and computational modeling studies suggest two processes that mediate perceptual decision-making. One of these signals is associated with the accumulation of sensory evidence and the other with response selection. Recent EEG studies with human participants have introduced an event-related potential called Centroparietal Positive Potential (CPP) as a neural marker aligned with the sensory evidence accumulation while effectively distinguishing it from motor-related event-related potential, namely lateralized readiness potential (LRP). The present study aims to investigate the neural mechanisms of biological motion perception in the theoretical framework of perceptual decision-making, which has been overlooked before. More specifically, we examine whether CPP would track the coherence of the biological motion stimuli and could be distinguished from the LRP signal. We recorded EEG from human participants while they were engaged in a direction discrimination task of a point-light walker whose coherence was manipulated by embedding it in various levels of noise. Our behavioral findings revealed shorter reaction times and reduced miss rates as the coherence of the target stimuli increased. In addition, CPP tracked the coherence of the biological motion stimuli with a tendency to reach a common level during the response, albeit with a later onset than the previously reported results in random-dot motion paradigms. Furthermore, CPP was distinguished from the LRP signal based on its temporal profile. Overall, our results suggest that the mechanisms underlying perceptual decision-making generalize to more complex and socially significant stimuli like biological motion. We discuss the implications of these findings for advancing computational models of biological motion perception and perceptual decision-making.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Biological motion perception in the theoretical framework of perceptual decision-making: An event-related potential study

Oğuz,

Aydın,

Urgen

2023

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“…1 It can employ EEG for brain activity (Ahn et al, 2018;Czeszumski et al, 2020;Dumas et al, 2011;Gramann et al, 2014;Ladouce et al, 2016;Makeig et al, 2009;Shamay-Tsoory & Mendelsohn, 2019), electrocardiography (ECG) for heart activity (i.e., electrical activity from the heart, Al Rasyid et al, 2016;Ehnesh et al, 2020;Iskandar et al, 2019;Lázaro et al, 2020), and electrodermal activity (EDA) for skin conductance (Hernandez et al, 2014;Poh et al, 2010;Posada-Quintero & Chon, 2020). These techniques can be used individually or in combination, depending on the research objectives (Stangl et al, 2023).…”

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“…The 4 E/MoBI framework, coupled with the SED heuristic, offers a transformative approach to studying mental phenomena beyond traditional lab settings (Parada, 2018;Stangl et al, 2023). SED allows for the adaptation of structured lab experiments to real or virtual environments, fostering the emergence of new research questions (Chang et al, 2022;Malcolm et al, 2019;Parada, 2018;Pizzamiglio et al, 2017;Stangl et al, 2023). The goal is to apply robust neurobehavioral markers from lab studies to everyday situations, thereby complementing, not replacing, classical paradigms (Bleichner & Debener, 2018;Debener, 2018;Debener et al, 2015;Herrera-Arcos et al, 2017;Ladouce et al, 2016).…”

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The Future of Psychotherapy Research and Neuroscience: Introducing the 4E/MoBI Approach to the Study of Patient–Therapist Interaction

Costa-Cordella,

Grasso-Cladera,

Parada

2024

Review of General Psychology

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The integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy research has long been a topic of interest in the field of mental health. A significant challenge in psychotherapy research is understanding the dyadic interaction between patient and therapist. This interaction is complex, emerging from a myriad of multi-level factors such as gestures, verbal communication, mentalization, and environmental influences. This article aims to present a roadmap for the future integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy research, addressing the complexities of human interaction. We introduce the 4E/MoBI approach, a framework that combines theoretical and methodological tools to study the dynamics of the brain, body, and environment in real-world settings. This approach emphasizes the use of physiological systems (e.g., heart and brain), behavioral interactions (e.g., conversations and eye-tracking), and environmental video recordings. Additionally, the scalable experimental design (SED) heuristic is discussed as a method to blend controlled experiments with real-world scenarios, allowing for the parametric testing of neurobehavioral markers. As a practical demonstration of the SED heuristic within the 4E/MoBI framework, a concrete experimental example using the N170 event-related potential (ERP) component is presented. While the N170 ERP component is not posited as the foundational marker in the field, it serves to illustrate the application of hypothesis-driven designs and analyses. The 4E/MoBI approach offers a promising avenue for the integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy research. By addressing existing gaps, such as the physiology and phenomenology of expertise in psychotherapy, this framework can foster a virtuous relationship between the two disciplines, paving the way for more comprehensive and nuanced understandings of therapeutic interactions.

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“…The stakes are too low, the tasks too simple, participants are often bored (Jangraw et al, 2023), and the equipment, such as MRI scanners, too cumbersome, making lab-based experiments a poor reflection of real-world cognition (Enkavi & Poldrack, 2021). As a result, there is a renewed push in psychology and cognitive neuroscience to investigate behavior-and its physiological correlates-in the real world (Matusz et al, 2019;Shamay-Tsoory & Mendelsohn, 2019;Stangl et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

The psychophysiology of Mastermind: Characterizing response times and blinking in a high‐stakes television game show

Wyly,

Jinon,

Francis

et al. 2023

Psychophysiology

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Television game shows have proven to be a valuable resource for studying human behavior under conditions of high stress and high stakes. However, previous work has focused mostly on choices—ignoring much of the rich visual information that is available on screen. Here, we take a first step to extracting more of this information by investigating the response times and blinking of contestants in the BBC show Mastermind. In Mastermind, contestants answer rapid‐fire quiz questions while a camera slowly zooms in on their faces. By labeling contestants' behavior and blinks from 25 episodes, we asked how accuracy, response times, and blinking varied over the course of the game. For accuracy and response times, we tested whether contestants responded more accurately and more slowly after an error—exhibiting the “post‐error increase in accuracy” and “post‐error slowing” which has been repeatedly observed in the lab. For blinking, we tested whether blink rates varied according to the cognitive demands of the game—decreasing during periods of cognitive load, such as when pondering a response, and increasing at event boundaries in the task, such as the start of a question. In contrast to the lab, evidence for post‐error changes in accuracy and response time was weak, with only marginal effects observed. In line with the lab, blinking varied over the course of the game much as we predicted. Overall, our findings demonstrate the potential of extracting dynamic signals from game shows to study the psychophysiology of behavior in the real world.

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Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’

Cited by 81 publications

References 172 publications

Biological motion perception in the theoretical framework of perceptual decision-making: An event-related potential study

Biological motion perception in the theoretical framework of perceptual decision-making: An event-related potential study

The Future of Psychotherapy Research and Neuroscience: Introducing the 4E/MoBI Approach to the Study of Patient–Therapist Interaction

The psychophysiology of Mastermind: Characterizing response times and blinking in a high‐stakes television game show

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