Proactive and Reactive Processes in the Medial Frontal Cortex: An Electrophysiological Study

Autor: Clayton Hickey, Flavio T.P. Oliveira, John J. McDonald
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Cingulate cortex
Male
Anatomy and Physiology
lcsh:Medicine
Electroencephalography
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Brain mapping
Task (project management)
0302 clinical medicine
Adaptation
Psychological
Human Performance
Psychology
lcsh:Science
Evoked Potentials
Adaptive behavior
Brain Mapping
Multidisciplinary
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Frontal Lobe
Mental Health
Frontal lobe
Medicine
Female
psychological phenomena and processes
Research Article
Adult
Adolescent
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neurophysiology
Neuroimaging
Biology
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
Neurological System
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Event-related potential
medicine
Reaction Time
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Maze Learning
Behavior
lcsh:R
Cognitive Psychology
Electrophysiological Phenomena
Electrophysiology
lcsh:Q
Neuroscience
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Psychomotor Performance
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 1, p e84351 (2014)
Popis: The posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC) is known to be involved in adaptive goal-directed behavior, but its specific function is not yet clear. Most theories have proposed that the pMFC monitors performance in a reactive manner only, but it is possible that the pMFC also contributes to performance monitoring in a proactive manner. To date, the evidence for proactive pMFC activity is equivocal. Here, we investigated pMFC activity before, during and after the performance of a challenging motor task. Participants navigated a cursor through narrow and wide mazes in randomly intermixed trials. On each trial, participants saw previews of the actual maze display prior to gaining control of the cursor. Event-related potentials (ERPs) to the preview displays were compared to ERPs elicited by no-go signals and errors. Compared to the wider maze, the preview display for the more challenging narrow maze elicited a medial-frontal negativity (MFN) similar to the ERP components elicited by no-go signals and errors. Like these known ERP components, the preview-elicited MFN appeared to be generated from a source in pMFC. This is consistent with the hypothesis that the pMFC participates in adaptive behavior whenever there is a need for increased effort to maintain successful task performance.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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