Differences in brain activity between fast and slow responses on psychomotor vigilance task: an fNIRS study

Mateus G. Nogueira; Mateus Silvestrin; Cândida S.F. Barreto; João Ricardo Sato; Rickson C. Mesquita; Claudinei Biazoli; Abrahão F. Baptista

doi:10.1007/s11682-021-00611-8

Differences in brain activity between fast and slow responses on psychomotor vigilance task: an fNIRS study

Mateus G. Nogueira, Mateus Silvestrin, Cândida S.F. Barreto, João Ricardo Sato, Rickson C. Mesquita, Claudinei Biazoli, Abrahão F. Baptista^*

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Abstract

Attention is a basic human function underlying every other cognitive process. It is demonstrated in the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging literature that frontoparietal networks are involved with attentive performance while default mode networks are involved with inattentive performance. Yet, it is still not clear whether similar results would be found with functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. The goal of our study was to investigate differences in hemodynamic activity measured by functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy between fast and slow responses on a simple sustained attention task both before and after stimulus onset. Thirty healthy adults took part in the study. Our results have shown differences between fast and slow responses only on channels over medial frontal cortex and inferior parietal cortex (p < 0,05). These differences were observed both before and after stimulus presentation. It is discussed that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy is a good tool to investigate the frontoparietal network and its relationship with performance in attention tasks; it could be used to further investigate other approaches on attention, such as the dual network model of cognitive control and brain states views based on complex systems analysis; and finally, it could be used to investigate attention in naturalistic settings.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1563-1574
Number of pages	12
Journal	Brain imaging and behavior
Volume	16
Issue number	4
Early online date	29 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-021-00611-8
Publication status	Published - Aug 2022

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Funding Information:
The first author of this publication received funding from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001.

The second author of this publication thanks thanks the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) for the funding on the project number 2016/24951–2. And the fourth author of this publication thanks the same institution for the funding on the project number 2018/21934–5. AFB is supported by CNPq, grant number 314149/2018-0, and by BRAINN CEPID, FAPESP, Brazil.

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© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

fNIRS
Psychomotor vigilance task
Sustained attention

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Neurology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Clinical Neurology
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Psychiatry and Mental health
Behavioral Neuroscience

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Differences in brain activity between fast and slow responses on psychomotor vigilance task: an fNIRS study

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