Oscillatory correlates of controlled speed‐accuracy tradeoff in a response‐conflict task

Pastötter, Bernhard; Berchtold, Franziska; Bäuml, Karl‐Heinz T.

doi:10.1002/hbm.21322

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“…Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. ** p < .01 beta power decreases over (pre) motor sites are related to the preparation of motor responses (e.g., Pastötter, Berchtold, & Bäuml, 2012;Tzagarakis, Ince, Leuthold, & Pellizzer, 2010). Specifically, it has been shown that response preparation involves a decrease of beta activities that is typically more pronounced contralateral than ipsilateral to the responding hand, reflecting response activation or release of response inhibition (e.g., Doyle, Yarrow, & Brown, 2005;Stancák & Pfurtscheller, 1996).…”

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Reversing the testing effect by feedback: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Pastötter

Bäuml

2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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The testing effect refers to the finding that retrieval practice of previously studied information enhances its longterm retention more than restudy practice does. Recent work showed that the testing effect can be dramatically reversed when feedback is provided to participants during final recall testing (Storm, Friedman, Murayama, & Bjork, 2014). Following this prior work, in this study, we examined the reversal of the testing effect by investigating oscillatory brain activity during final recall testing. Twenty-six healthy participants learned cue-target word pairs and underwent a practice phase in which half of the items were retrieval practiced and half were restudy practiced. Two days later, two cued recall tests were administered, and immediate feedback was provided to participants in Test 1. Behavioral results replicated the prior work by showing a testing effect in Test 1, but a reversed testing effect in Test 2. Extending the prior work, EEG results revealed a feedback-related effect in alpha/lower-beta and retrieval-related effects in slow and fast theta power, with practice condition modulating the fast theta power effect for items that were not recalled in Test 1. The results indicate that the reversed testing effect can arise without differential strengthening of restudied and retrieval-practiced items via feedback learning. Theoretical implications of the findings, in particular with respect to the distribution-based bifurcation model of testing effects (Kornell, Bjork, & Garcia, 2011), are discussed.

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Section: Implications From Eeg Results: Retrieval Successmentioning

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Reversing the testing effect by feedback: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Pastötter

Bäuml

2016

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“…Movement-related beta oscillations over bilateral motor cortex exhibit a sharp decrease in spectral power at the beginning of movement (Cruikshank et al, 2012; Gwin and Ferris 2012; Kilavik et al, 2013; Pastotter et al, 2012). In the current study, we did observe this classic bilateral reduction in beta band activity, with greater reductions evidenced in the contralateral hemisphere.…”

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“…In the contralateral motor area, beta band activity did not change with movement acceleration at the beginning of movement, but did increase with the task condition during the deceleration phase of the movement. Beta band activity preceding a choice-reaction time task has been shown to vary as participants focus on accelerating the limb rather than accuracy (Pastotter et al, 2012). Pastotter and colleagues did not find any changes in peak beta band power after the beginning of movement.…”

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3D Cortical electrophysiology of ballistic upper limb movement in humans

2015

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Precise motor control requires the ability to scale the parameters of movement. Theta oscillations across the cortex have been associated with changes in memory, attention, and sensorimotor processing. What has proven more elusive is pinpointing the region-specific frequency band oscillations that are associated with specific parameters of movement during the acceleration and deceleration phases. We report a study using 3D analytic techniques for high density electroencephalography that examines electrocortical dynamics while participants produce upper limb movements to different distances at varying rates. During fast ballistic movements, we observed increased theta band activity in the left motor area contralateral to the moving limb during the acceleration phase of the movement, and theta power correlated with the acceleration of movement. In contrast, beta band activity scaled with the type of movement during the deceleration phase near the end of the movement and correlated with movement time. In the ipsilateral motor and somatosensory area, alpha band activity decreased with the type of movement near the end of the movement, and gamma band activity in visual cortex increased with the type of movement near the end of the movement. Our results suggest that humans use distinct lateralized cortical activity for distance and speed dependent arm movements. We provide new evidence that a temporary increase in theta band power relates to movement acceleration and is important during movement execution. Further, the theta power increase is coupled with desychronization of beta and alpha band power which are modulated by the task near the end of movement.

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“…Understanding this, at least one study has examined the effect of SAT on the EEG frequency spectra (Pastötter et al, 2012). Using a two-choice discrimination task, subjects were cued trial-by-trial to emphasize speed or accuracy.…”

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The speed-accuracy tradeoff: history, physiology, methodology, and behavior

2014

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There are few behavioral effects as ubiquitous as the speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT). From insects to rodents to primates, the tendency for decision speed to covary with decision accuracy seems an inescapable property of choice behavior. Recently, the SAT has received renewed interest, as neuroscience approaches begin to uncover its neural underpinnings and computational models are compelled to incorporate it as a necessary benchmark. The present work provides a comprehensive overview of SAT. First, I trace its history as a tractable behavioral phenomenon and the role it has played in shaping mathematical descriptions of the decision process. Second, I present a “users guide” of SAT methodology, including a critical review of common experimental manipulations and analysis techniques and a treatment of the typical behavioral patterns that emerge when SAT is manipulated directly. Finally, I review applications of this methodology in several domains.

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Oscillatory correlates of controlled speed‐accuracy tradeoff in a response‐conflict task

Cited by 46 publications

References 60 publications

Reversing the testing effect by feedback: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Reversing the testing effect by feedback: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

3D Cortical electrophysiology of ballistic upper limb movement in humans

The speed-accuracy tradeoff: history, physiology, methodology, and behavior

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